Aminatou and Her Giant Death Ray

Commander / EDH* WUB (Esper)

Mecha-Tech

Land (30)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cephalid Coliseum
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Gemstone Mine
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Snow-Covered Island
• 1x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Massacre
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Windfall

Instant (29)

• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Angel's Grace
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Delay
• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Dovin's Veto
• 1x Drown in the Loch
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mystical Dispute
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Negate
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Silence
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Tainted Pact
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x Humility
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Smothering Tithe

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Ashiok, Dream Render
• 1x Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
• 1x Narset, Parter of Veils

Commander (1)

Artifact (13)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1x Talisman of Progress

Creature (10)

• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Gilded Drake
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Serra Ascendant
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Thassa's Oracle
• 1x Trinket Mage

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With some help from Discord and /r/EDH on Reddit, I've come up with this.

The difficulty I have with EDH decks is focusing them properly, and with a commander like Aminatou, there are so many routes you can go that it's easy to try and do everything. While technically it would be possible, it's highly improbably to consistently get infinite turns, set up a flicker engine, have the Superfriends arrive, draw your entire deck and win with Lab Maniac, and burn the table down with Aetherflux Reservoir when you're trying to do all those things at once. Taking a hatchet to Aminatou and the deck with a billion options has led me to this.

I'm calling this deck Aminatou and her Giant Death Ray.

Sounds like a twisted Ghibli movie, doesn't it?

The goal of the deck is to get Aminatou's death ray operational. This is one of the larger combos in the deck and requires three parts to be on board - Sensei's Divining Top, Bolas's Citadel, and Aetherflux Reservoir - to go off. These three cards enable an infinite combo and allows us to laser the entire table to death. Fun, right?

In the event that this is prevented from happening, either through counterspells or exiling of important combo pieces, another route is to win with Jace or Lab Maniac.

The Combos:

Aminatou's Death Ray: Sensei's Divining Top + Bolas's Citadel + Aetherflux Reservoir

I win by not having cards: Lab Maniac + Demonic Consultation/Tainted Pact to empty my library, then draw a card. T3feri allows me to do this during an opponent's end step.

• 3 Jan 2020: Trying to find spots for Tithe, Mana Crypt, Imperial Seal, Whispering Madness, and Alms Collector.

• 6 Jan 2020: Still waiting for these cards to arrive, but played a few games to see how things worked. My local meta is lots of graveyards and swarms of creatures. Just a Bojuka Bog and a Cyclonic Rift aren't going to cut it. Trinket Mage is not very good either, and I need a way to get stuff back from my graveyard.

• 10 Jan 2020: Adjustment of the deck to eliminate a creature-based game plan to the Demonic Consultation/Lab Maniac plan to win in a single turn. More counterspells and board wipes, too.

• 14 Feb 2020: A suggestion was made that Copy Artifact might be fun, as well as Chain of Vapor/Return to Dust for some anti-artifact hate in order to get Null Rod or Stony Silence off the board. Also Codex Shredder or Argivian Find. I like both, but i'll probably try the Argivian Find to start with, since it's instant. -Whispering Madness, -Alms Collector, -Yahenni's Expertise, +Copy Artifact, +Chain of Vapor, +Argivian Find.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 54 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.10
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Treasure
Folders	Aminatou