[Momir Vig] Suprise Party

Commander / EDH Combo Competitive Counters GU (Simic) Infinite Combo

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Creature (40)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Biomancer's Familiar
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Boreal Druid
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Cloud of Faeries
• 1x Coiling Oracle
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Gilded Drake
• 1x Groundling Pouncer
• 1x Gyre Engineer
• 1x Hydroid Krasis
• 1x Ice-Fang Coatl
• 1x Incubation Druid
• 1x Kiora's Follower
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Maraleaf Pixie
• 1x Master Biomancer
• 1x Merfolk Skydiver
• 1x Mystic Snake
• 1x Nantuko Tracer
• 1x Palinchron
• 1x Phantasmal Image
• 1x Plaxcaster Frogling
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Riftsweeper
• 1x Sage of Hours
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Shambleshark
• 1x Shardless Agent
• 1x Shorecrasher Mimic
• 1x Simic Guildmage
• 1x Slippery Bogle
• 1x Temur Sabertooth
• 1x Vedalken Heretic
• 1x Vigean Graftmage
• 1x Weaver of Currents
• 1x Zameck Guildmage

Land (36)

• 1x Botanical Sanctum
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cephalid Coliseum
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 9x Forest
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 9x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Pendelhaven
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Artifact (5)

• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Curiosity

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Utopia Sprawl
• 1x Wild Growth

Commander (1)

Instant (13)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Mana Leak
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Negate
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Spell Pierce
• 1x Swan Song

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Farseek
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Timetwister

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Sideboard

Instant (12)

• 1x Blink of an Eye
• 1x Boomerang
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Compelling Deterrence
• 1x Disperse
• 1x Expel from Orazca
• 1x Into the Roil
• 1x Regress
• 1x Rushing River
• 1x Unsubstantiate
• 1x Venser's Diffusion
• 1x Winds of Rebuke

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Maybeboard

Instant (4)

• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Miscalculation
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Concordant Crossroads

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Sylvan Scrying
• 1x Sylvan Tutor

Creature (2)

• 1x Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
• 1x Mirror Image

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A Brief History of this Deck

My first Momir Vig, Simic Visionary deck was a regular toolbox deck. The tutor abilitity was used to fetch a creature as reaction to a board state. As my playgroup evolved the deck became to weak to compete so it needed an upgrade. I rebuilded it +1/+1 counter style with Master Biomancer, copy it and abuse creatures with the ETB counters.

When Sage of Hours was added to the deck and that was an amazing improvement. It was the first infinite in the deck. The Momir-Hackball deck was an inspiration for the 'chain of tutors' strategy but I replaced the hack for small Simic creatures. So here it is right now version 4.0 with many many ways to go infinite.

Recent sets brought some new possibilities with Simic creatures. I am now working on consistancy and more interaction with threats. Maybe some more ramp because playing Momir Vig, Simic Visionary early is essentials. Dropping some Simic tutor creatures and cutting double strategies will determine its future.

Setting up plans with the Tutor-Commander.

This deck is too slow for cEDH, but with proper ramp it can go infinite on mana in turn 5 or 6 which makes it rather competitive. Momir Vig, Simic Visionary is a Commander with a build in tutor. Even if there is no ramp draw in the first five turns the deck can go infinite on mana in turn 7. If you play it and protect it well, your Commander is able to find the different combo pieces in one or two turns.

The deck is loaded with cheap Simic creatures. The best example is Slippery Bogle with the hybrid casting cost this card will trigger both for green and blue entering the battlefield which means you tutor and draw. Playing a mana dork like Birds of Paradise before ending the turn will top-deck a creature card for your next turn. Final option is playing a green creature first, followed by a blue one which is also a tutor and draw.

List of Simic tutors in the deck, which are part of a combo

• Reduce ability costs Biomancer's Familiar
• Draw Coiling Oracle
• Draw Ice-Fang Coatl
• 1+/+1 counter Merfolk Skydiver
• infinite counters Zameck Guildmage
• 1+/+1 counter Plaxcaster Frogling
• Cascade Shardless Agent
• 1+/+1 counter Master Biomancer

Opening hand, and the first three turns.

Your perfect opening hand contains at least three lands, one mana-dork or land-aura, one other ramp card and a Simic creature with a CMC lower then 2. With these cards in your opening hand it might be possible to go off in turn 5. If you have this opening hand, this is how do you play your first three turns:

The first three turns.

Turn 1:

• Play Forest or a Dual Land
• Ramp by playing a dork, enchant land, or artifact

Turn 2:

• Play land
• Ramp again by playing a dork, enchant land, or artifact

Turn 3:

• Play land
• Play Momir Vig, Simic Visionary

Infinite Mana with Incubation Druid

With Momir Vig, Simic Visionary on the battlefield it is time to set up a chain of tutors. One of the infinite mana combos is Incubation Druid + Vigean Graftmage . The Druid will need a +1/+1 counter on it. There are a few options for playing this.

Chain with Shardless Agent

Turn 4

• Play a 2CMC Simic Creature
• Tutor and draw Shardless Agent.
• Play Shardless Agent
• Tutor Incubation Druid Cascade it on the battlefield (draw-trigger not used)
• Tutor and draw Merfolk Skydiver (posponed draw-trigger)

Turn 5

• Play Merfolk Skydiver put a +1/+1 counter on Incubation Druid
• Tutor and draw Vigean Graftmage
• Play Vigean Graftmage
• Tap Incubation Druid for 3 mana
• Untap Incubation Druid with Vigean Graftmage for {1}{U}
• Rinse and Repeat, making one mana each loop

Chain with a Praxcaster Frogling.

Turn 4

• Play a 2CMC Simic Creature
• Tutor and draw Plaxcaster Frogling.
• Play Plaxcaster Frogling
• Tutor and draw Incubation Druid and Graft a +1/+1 counter on it.
• Tutor and topdeck Vigean Graftmage

Turn 5

• Draw Vigean Graftmage
• Play Vigean Graftmage
• Tap Incubation Druid for 3 mana
• Untap Incubation Druid with Vigean Graftmage for {1}{U}
• Rinse and Repeat, making one mana each loop

Note that option I is cheaper on total CMC than option II. Leaving more options for reactions to opponents spells. Instead of Plaxcaster Frogling another option is Master Biomancer but this will cost 1 more mana.

Infinite Mana with Cloud Of Faeries

With Cloud of Faeries there is another option in the deck for going infinite. This card combos with the mana accelerating lands Gaea's Cradle or Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx or other lands enchanted with Wild Growth or Utopia Sprawl. Use the Commander to fetch your missing combo pieces.

Two lands which can tap for 3 mana.

• Have Cloud of Faeries + Deadeye Navigator in play paired with the Soulbond ability
• Tap your two lands for 3 mana
• Exile Cloud of Faeries for {1}{U}
• The ETB of Cloud of Faeries untaps two lands
• Rinse and repeat, making one mana each loop.

Two lands which can tap for 5 mana.

• Have Cloud of Faeries + Temur Sabertooth in play
• Tap your two lands for 5 mana
• Return Cloud of Faeries for {1}{G} to your hand
• Play Cloud of Faeries
• The ETB of Cloud of Faeries untaps two lands
• Rinse and repeat, making one mana each loop.

Note that in both scenarios when playing Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx as one of the lands you need two mana extra for the loop. Having Biomancer's Familiar in play can make the loop cheaper to play.

Infinite Mana with Palinchron

With Palinchron there is a third option in the deck for going infinite. This card also combos with the mana accelerating lands or with some other creatures in the deck. Use the Commander again to fetch your missing combo pieces.

Combo with Deadeye Navigator

• Have Deadeye Navigator in play and some dorks or artifact mana
• Have 3 lands or less in play which can produce 3 mana, tap those lands
• Play Palinchron for {5}{U}{U} and untap the lands
• Pair Deadeye Navigator + Palinchron with the Soulbond ability.
• Tap three lands, exile Palinchron for {1}{U}, Palinchron returns, untapping three lands.
• Rinse and Repeat, making one mana each loop.

Combo with Phantasmal Image

• Have Palinchron in play
• Have 7 lands or less in play which can produce 7 mana, tap these lands
• Play Phantasmal Image for {1}{U} and copy Palinchron and untap the lands
• Send Phantasmal Image back to hand for: {2}{U}{U}
• Rinse and Repeat, making one mana each loop.

Combo with Temur Sabertooth

• Have Temur Sabertooth in play.
• Have 7 lands or less in play which can produce 10 mana
• Play Palinchron for {5}{U}{U} and untap the lands
• Send Palinchron back to hand for: {1}{G}
• Tap the lands, Play Palinchron, return to hand... etc...
• Rinse and Repeat, making one mana each loop.

Combo with Palinchron

• Have 7 lands or less in play which can produce 12 mana
• Tap the lands, play Palinchron
• Send Palinchron back to hand for: {2}{U}{U}
• Rinse and Repeat, making one mana each loop.

Note that in some scenarios when playing Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx as one of the lands you need two mana extra for the loop. Having Biomancer's Familiar in play can make the loops cheaper to play.

Finishing the game with infinite turns

It is important to have one more Simic creature in hand when going infinite on mana. This is because with Momir Vig, Simic Visionary on the table the deck is able to tutor out the wincons in the deck.

Path to victory

• Play a Simic creature or play one green and then one blue creature
• Tutor and draw Coiling Oracle or Ice-Fang Coatl
• Tutor and draw Temur Sabertooth or Deadeye Navigator
• Use the {1}{G} ability of Temur Sabertooth to bounce Coiling Oracle or Ice-Fang Coatl or
• Use the {1}{U} ability of Deadeye Navigator to exile and enter Coiling Oracle or Ice-Fang Coatl
• With infinite draw and infinite tutor look up Zameck Guildmage, Sage of Hours and Cyclonic Rift
• With Zameck Guildmage put infinite counters on all creatures entering the battlefield
• With Sage of Hours with infinite counters take infinite turns
• With Cyclonic Rift bounce all opponents permanents
• Finish with attack

Note that Hydroid Krasis also is an infinite draw option when using Temur Sabertooth and his bounce ability.

Game finishing combo can be played with Temur Sabertooth or Deadeye Navigator allready on the battlefield. If combo pieces are in the graveyard or in exile they can be retrieved with Nantuko Tracer or Riftsweeper. Prevent drawing all cards in deck with Timetwister.

Shortcut to infinite turns

There is an alternative route to infinite turns without infinite mana in this deck. All depending on your opening hand or what is countered or destroyed. This can be played in turn five or six also with proper draw and ramp.

Shortcut to victory

• Play a Simic creature
• Tutor and draw Master Biomancer and play it
• Tutor and draw Phantasmal Image and play it, copying Master Biomancer
• Tutor and draw Sage of Hours and play it.
• Sage of Hours now enters the battlefield with six +1/+1 counters
• Remove the counters to take an extra turn
• Play a Simic creature
• Tutor and draw Temur Sabertooth or Deadeye Navigator
• Bounce for {1}{G} or Exile and enter for {1}{U} Sage of Hours
• Sage of Hours enters the battlefield again with six +1/+1 counters
• Rinse and Repeat

Special thanks for inspiration

As stated earlier the Momir Vig hackball deck was an eye-opener to the real power of Momir Vig, Simic Visionary. The 'chain of tutor' strategy with the small Simic creatures was inspired by the hackball deck and made this deck to what it is today. Special thanks goes to: AverageDragon, sickrobot and OrderlyAnarchist who builded the famous hackball deck. If you want to know more about that decks look them up here: [Primer] Momir Vig Hackball or Momir Hackball. These are the true competitive cEDH versions of this Commander. My deck is slower, but you'll never know what WotC might print in the future.

Top Ranked	Achieved #33 position overall 4 years ago Achieved #25 position in Commander / EDH 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Counters 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH GU (Simic) 4 years ago
Date added	4 years
Last updated	1 year
Exclude colors	WBR
Key combos	Deadeye Navigator + Palinchron Cloud of Faeries + Deadeye Navigator Cloud of Faeries + Temur Sabertooth Incubation Druid + Vigean Graftmage
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 31 - 0 Rares 24 - 3 Uncommons 21 - 9 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.16
Tokens	Ape 3/3 G, Beast 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, City's Blessing, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Manifest 2/2 C
Folders	Inspiration, Cool decks made by others