Aminatou upgrade

Commander / EDH Budget Control Infinite Combo Multiplayer Theme/Gimmick WUB (Esper)

Noximeus

Creature (37)

• 1x Angel of Condemnation
• 1x Angel of Despair
• 1x Angel of Serenity
• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Ashen Rider
• 1x Auramancer
• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Brago, King Eternal
• 1x Cataclysmic Gearhulk
• 1x Cloud of Faeries
• 1x Cloudblazer
• 1x Corpse Knight
• 1x Emeria Shepherd
• 1x Felidar Guardian
• 1x Fiend Hunter
• 1x Flickerwisp
• 1x Glimmerpoint Stag
• 1x Hostage Taker
• 1x Ixidron
• 1x Karmic Guide
• 1x Knight of the White Orchid
• 1x Lavinia of the Tenth
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Naru Meha, Master Wizard
• 1x Night Incarnate
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Phyrexian Delver
• 1x Phyrexian Ingester
• 1x Sepulchral Primordial
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Soulherder
• 1x Spark Double
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Vela the Night-Clad
• 1x Watcher for Tomorrow
• 1x Wispweaver Angel
• 1x Yorion, Sky Nomad

Land (35)

• 1x Arcane Sanctum
• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Emergence Zone
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Forge of Heroes
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 5x Island
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x New Benalia
• 1x Orzhov Basilica
• 1x Orzhova, the Church of Deals
• 1x Plains
• 1x Plains
• 1x Plains
• 1x Plains
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Snow-Covered Plains
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Temple of Silence

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Grim Tutor

Commander (1)

Artifact (11)

• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Scroll of Fate
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Spine of Ish Sah
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1x Wishclaw Talisman

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Kiora Bests the Sea God
• 1x Oath of Teferi
• 1x Oblivion Ring
• 1x Omen of the Dead
• 1x Omen of the Sea
• 1x Primordial Mist
• 1x Sacred Mesa

Instant (7)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Displace
• 1x Eerie Interlude
• 1x Ephemerate
• 1x Ghostly Flicker

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Sideboard

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Cloudform
• 1x Flickerform
• 1x Lightform
• 1x Propaganda

Creature (3)

• 1x Gyruda, Doom of Depths
• 1x Perplexing Chimera
• 1x Scholar of the Ages

Land (1)

• 1x Plains

Instant (1)

• 1x Cyclonic Rift

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Maybeboard

Creature (28)

• 1x Atris, Oracle of Half-Truths
• 1x Blight-Breath Catoblepas
• 1x Boreas Charger
• 1x Brine Elemental
• 1x Cavalier of Gales
• 1x Conundrum Sphinx
• 1x Eight-and-a-Half-Tails
• 1x Evil Twin
• 1x Faerie Seer
• 1x Galepowder Mage
• 1x Graveshifter
• 1x Gustcloak Savior
• 1x Impassioned Orator
• 1x Isperia, Supreme Judge
• 1x Kefnet the Mindful
• 1x Kunoros, Hound of Athreos
• 1x Mirror Image
• 1x Ninth Bridge Patrol
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Pilgrim's Eye
• 1x Pondering Mage
• 1x Scholar of the Ages
• 1x Sphinx of Uthuun
• 1x Sunblast Angel
• 1x Vesuvan Shapeshifter
• 1x Vizier of Many Faces
• 1x Vryn Wingmare
• 1x War Priest of Thune

Artifact (7)

• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Crystal Ball
• 2x Mace of the Valiant
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Pendant of Prosperity
• 1x Prophetic Prism

Instant (27)

• 1x AEthermage's Touch
• 1x Acrobatic Maneuver
• 1x Banishing Stroke
• 1x Commit / Memory
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Disdainful Stroke
• 1x Displace
• 1x Drown in the Loch
• 1x Echoing Truth
• 1x Esper Charm
• 1x Flicker of Fate
• 1x Leadership Vacuum
• 1x Mana Leak
• 1x Mortify
• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Negate
• 1x Otherworldly Journey
• 1x Precognitive Perception
• 1x Prohibit
• 1x Render Silent
• 1x Return to Dust
• 1x Shelter
• 1x Sinister Sabotage
• 1x Sudden Substitution
• 1x Telling Time
• 1x Turn to Mist
• 1x Utter End

Land (5)

• 1x Isolated Watchtower
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Secluded Steppe
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Witch's Cottage

Sorcery (17)

• 1x Akroma's Vengeance
• 1x Aminatou's Augury
• 1x Devastation Tide
• 1x Dream Cache
• 1x Entreat the Angels
• 1x Entreat the Dead
• 1x Karn's Temporal Sundering
• 1x Languish
• 1x Part the Waterveil
• 1x Phyrexian Rebirth
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Portent
• 2x Rise to Glory
• 1x Shrewd Negotiation
• 1x Terminus
• 1x Whispering Madness

Enchantment (12)

• 1x Astral Drift
• 1x Cloudform
• 1x Conjured Currency
• 2x Disinformation Campaign
• 1x Eyes Everywhere
• 1x Flight of Fancy
• 1x Future Sight
• 1x Lightform
• 1x Precognition Field
• 1x Seance
• 1x Skybind

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Thoughts: was really lacking in card draw for a large portion of the game; clearly Aminatou's +1 isn't enough. Ended up having to use my Wishclaw Talisman to tutor for Cloudblazer and later Mulldrifter.

Theme: flicker tribal!

Ideal power level: 7~9. Currently would like to be at the fabled 7.5, as I'm not willing to compromise the theme for a higher power level (I'm not interested in heavy control/turns Aminatou). Would like to be able to hit 8.5~9 with an optimised list someday (although I won't be getting the tutors/mana rocks required for a while, or ever), but at that point I'm more likely to swap to Brago (or even Derevi) for a flicker strat.

Goal/wincon: some combination of Altar of the Brood/Vela the Night-Clad/Corpse Knight + Felidar Guardian + any other instant flicker effect (i.e. Aminatou, Wispweaver Angel. might be possible to do something like Strionic Resonator + Felidar Guardian + cycling Ghostly Flicker and Ephemerate with Archaeomancer with Altar out).

Strategy: leveraging flicker effects and impactful etb/ltb effects for value. Eventually assembling an infinite combo to mill/drain everyone out.

Current meta

Jhoira (DOM) artefacts - Elsha Top - Mardu vampire tribal/lifegain.

Other decks played: Ghired populate - Tuvasa enchantments - Estrid enchantments.

Other decks I know people have: C19 Rakdos precon - Kaalia of the Vast (angel tribal) / Sharuum the Hegemon (artefacts) / Sliver tribal / C18 Jund & Esper precons / C17 Grixis & Ur-Dragon precons.

Current infinite loops

• Felidar Guardian + Aminatou, the Fateshifter or Wispweaver Angel - (combos with Altar of the Brood, Vela the Night-Clad, Corpse Knight
• Ghostly Flicker or Displace targetting Archaeomancer (recur Ghostly Flicker/Displace) + Peregrine Drake - (infinite mana can be used to draw my entire library with Kefnet the Mindful; infinitely flicker Hostage Taker to steal and play all artefacts/creatures; use Ghostly Flicker to infinitely flicker Archaeomancer + any other land/artefact/creature for infinite etb triggers from whatever permanent; use any flicker instant or sorcery to infinitely flicker Scholar of the Ages (recurring the flicker spell + any instant/sorcery I want to use an infinite amount of times) and play the recurred non-flicker spell an infinite amount of times)

Current priorities

• find space for Lightform, Cloudform, Scholar of the Ages and Flickerform.
• need to trim down non-creature spells and instead rely on creatures with equivalent etb effects (Utter End -> Ashen Rider, Single Combat -> Cataclysmic Gearhulk etc). in the end most of my interaction should be on my creatures, leaving my non-creature spells to be mostly counterspells, flickers and things that make my flickers better - may have fixed this, need to play a few proper games with it
• get ahold of Sensei's Divining Top, Agent of Treachery, Restoration Angel
• get more/better ramp and/or cheaper creatures. considering Burglar Rat and Yarok's Fenlurker - not sure if this is still an issue as of the most recent version
• fix my mana base probably
• would like to get ahold of a permanent that lets me put a land into play from my hand on ETB (Scaretiller maybe? I do have it. possibly that and/or Walking Atlas + a tapper/untapper [or just flicker it]. maybe Pendant of Prosperity since I can flicker it back to me with Aminatou), to combo with the Kefnet infinite draw combo mentioned above for infinite land ETB triggers (e.g. Mystic Sanctuary)
• possibly Flood of Tears as I could use infinite mana to play out my entire hand, return the entire board to everyone's hands, replay my hand, etc

Current issues to be solved

• need more card draw.
• need either more boardwipes or ways to deal with creature-heavy strategies (tbf my first game with the most recent iteration was a bit janky as a Sorin, Solemn Visitor emblem got resolved very early on)
• mana is pretty bad; a lot of my cards are very expensive (kept having to put Ashen Rider on top of my library with Aminatou's +1 as I needed to hold mana open for interaction and thus could never resolve it; I did manage to resolve Spine of Ish Sah however and flicker it, so that was cool); this might be solved now that I've added lots every viable manifest card to the deck so I can cheat high cmc permanents into play.
• better threat assessment (but that's on me, not the deck)

Interested in getting

• Blasting Station; can easily get infinite untap triggers, and recurring creatures shouldn't be an issue since I can flicker Mortuary Mire

Inspirations/references

• [Haïti chérie](http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/haiti-cherie/)
• [Plunge into the Fateshifter](https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/plunge-into-the-fateshifter/?cb=1570491817)
• [The Fateshifter](http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/the-fateshifter/)
• [Aminatou's Miraculous Blinking Beasts](http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/animatous-miraculous-blinking-beasts/)

Scryfall searches

(for my own reference so I don't have to redo my searches)

• [tap/untap](https://scryfall.com/search?as=gridℴ=name&q=%28oracle%3Amay+oracle%3Atap+oracle%3Auntap+oracle%3Atarget%29+commander%3AWUB+legal%3Acommander)

Past thoughts

as of the most recent game with this list, the flicker strategy works /very/ well, and hitting Mulldrifter, Wishclaw Talisman, some sort of recursion (Mortuary Mire, Archaeomancer, Scholar of the Ages) and any instant flicker effect (i.e. Ghostly Flicker, Eerie Interlude, Flickerwisp, etc) ensures that I can keep digging really deep with Mulldrifter & recur any lost creatures/spells with Archaeomancer/Scholar. In my most recent game, as a response to a Sorin, Solemn Visitor emblem, I kept using Eerie Interlude to flicker Archaeomancer (+ any other creatures I managed to resolve) on upkeep, getting Eerie Interlude back from the yard on my end step. Once I managed to hit and resolve Flickerwisp, Soulherder and Wishclaw Talisman, I had more or less unlimited flickers, card draw, tutoring and recursion. If I'd managed to hit and/or thought to tutor for Strionic Resonator I could probably have comboed into a win with Corpse Knight on the field. In the end I lost to getting overrun by angel tokens, which is partly bc of a lack of boardwipes, and partly bc of poor threat assessment.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 32 - 4 Rares 29 - 4 Uncommons 20 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.72
Tokens	Kraken 8/8 U w/ Hexproof, Manifest 2/2 C, Pegasus 1/1 W
Folders	1 Brews, Commander Decks