Sultai Vannifar Combo

Historic Arena BUG (Sultai) Combo Midrange Toolbox Value Engine

Dat_Control

1-drop (8)

• 4x Gilded Goose
• 4x Llanowar Elves

2-drop (7)

• 3x Corridor Monitor
• 2x Malevolent Hermit  ^Flip
• 2x Scavenging Ooze

3-drop (6)

• 3x Hyrax Tower Scout
• 2x Murderous Rider
• 1x Woe Strider

4-drop (8)

• 1x Atris, Oracle of Half-Truths
• 1x Hostage Taker
• 2x Nightmare Shepherd
• 4x Prime Speaker Vannifar

5-drop (3)

• 2x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x The Scarab God

Lands (24)

• 4x Blooming Marsh
• 3x Botanical Sanctum
• 4x Breeding Pool
• 2x Darkbore Pathway  ^Flip
• 2x Drowned Catacomb
• 4x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Swamp
• 4x Watery Grave

Spells (4)

• 4x Thoughtseize

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Sideboard

Other (15)

• 2x Bloodchief's Thirst
• 2x Duress
• 3x Miscast
• 2x Soul-Guide Lantern
• 2x Maelstrom Pulse
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 3x Shifting Ceratops

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Maybeboard

Creature (14)

• 1x Brain Maggot
• 1x Cerulean Drake
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Masked Vandal
• 1x Glasspool Mimic  ^Flip
• 1x Breaching Hippocamp
• 1x Ebondeath, Dracolich
• 1x Entomber Exarch
• 1x Gonti, Lord of Luxury
• 1x Ravenous Chupacabra
• 1x Spark Double
• 1x Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
• 1x Massacre Girl
• 1x Massacre Wurm

Instant (8)

• 1x Davriel's Withering
• 1x Fatal Push
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Eliminate
• 1x Heartless Act
• 1x Infernal Grasp
• 1x Noxious Grasp
• 1x Mystical Dispute

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 1x Legion's End
• 1x Ritual of Soot
• 1x Shadows' Verdict

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The Deck

The Core

• 4x Prime Speaker Vannifar

Our primary game plan and combo enabler.

• 4x Llanowar Elves
• 4x Gilded Goose

8 mana accelerants to ramp into our game plan and serve as 1-drops for the combo.

• 3x Corridor Monitor
• 3x Hyrax Tower Scout
• 2x Nightmare Shepherd
• 2x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Woe Strider

The combo pieces.

• 4x Thoughtseize

Basically the replacement for Brainstorm.

Flex Slots

• 1x The Scarab God

A good alternate win-condition at the top end for when games go long. Can win games on its own if your opponent can't deal with it.

• 1x Hostage Taker

A piece of interaction that can turn a bad board state into a favorable one, and can be podded intoThe Scarab God

• 1x Atris, Oracle of Half-Truths

Provides good card advantage and a threat in grindy matchups and can be podded intoThe Scarab God

• 2x Murderous Rider

Some interaction and a good body versus aggro.

• 2x Scavenging Ooze

Very good in the meta versus phoenix, gearhulk decks, jund sac, mono black aggro, etc.

• 1x Shifting Ceratops

Also a meta pick that is good against Jeskai/UW control/gearhulk and can block things out of the phoenix deck. Also dumpsters the occasional mono blue opponent.

• 1x Glasspool Mimic  

Usually a land but can copy some of our creatures in a pinch, good with things like Hostage Taker

The Combo

1. Untap with Prime Speaker Vannifar and any 1-drop creature in play with a Corridor Monitor in hand.
2. Pod the 1-drop creature into a Corridor Monitor, untap Vannifar
3. Pod the Monitor into a Hyrax Tower Scout, untap Vannifar
4. Pod the Tower Scout into a Nightmare Shepherd
5. Cast the second Monitor from your hand to untap Vannifar
6. Pod the Monitor into a Woe Strider, the Monitor will come back as a token thanks to Nightmare Shepherd, untap Vannifar
7. Pod the Monitor token into a second Tower Scout, untap Vannifar
8. Pod the goat token from Woe Strider into a Gilded Goose
9. Sacrifice the Tower Scout with the Woe Strider, it will come back as a token, untap Vannifar
10. Pod the Goose into the last Monitor, untap Vannifar
11. Pod the Tower Scout token into a second Nightmare Shepherd
12. Sacrifice the Monitor with Woe Strider, it will come back as a token, untap Vannifar
13. Pod the Monitor token into the last Tower Scout, untap Vannifar
14. Pod a Nightmare Shepherd into a Gray Merchant of Asphodel, draining your opponent for 7 damage. The Nightmare Shepherd will come back as a token.
15. Sacrifice the Tower Scout with Woe Strider, it will come back as a token, untap Vannifar
16. Pod the other Nightmare Shepherd into another Grey Merchant, draining your opponent for 9 damage. The Nightmare Shepherd will come back as a token.
17. Sacrifice a Grey Merchant with Woe Strider, it will come back as a token, draining your opponent for another 9 damage. This will usually be enough to kill your opponent, but if not you can sacrifice the other Grey Merchant with Woe Striderto deal another 9 damage.

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Date added	3 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Historic legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 42 - 5 Rares 2 - 8 Uncommons 10 - 2 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.53
Tokens	Copy Clone, Food, Goat 0/1 W, On an Adventure
Folders	Vannifar, Historic
Based on	Sultai Vannifar Pod Dat_Control HIS