You've Activated My Trap Card! by legobumb

Format: Commander

Commander: Vannifar, Evolved Enigma

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 76

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Simic cheat-into-play engine centered on Vannifar, Evolved Enigma. The strategy uses format-ceiling fast mana to deploy Vannifar on Turn 2, cloak massive nonland permanents such as Omniscience, Portal to Phyrexia, or Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur on Turn 3, and immediately blink them face up using efficient single-mana and two-mana flicker spells. Once these permanents enter face up, they generate overwhelming card advantage, strip opponent hands, or wipe opposing boards. The deck supports this game plan with a premier counterspell suite, resilient protection lands, and massive flying finishers like Astral Dragon and Ancient Silver Dragon to close out the game by Turn 5.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Alchemist's Refuge
  • 1 Ancient Silver Dragon
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Astral Dragon
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blur
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dawnglade Regent
  • 1 Delay
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Displace
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Dour Port-Mage
  • 1 Eldrazi Confluence
  • 1 Essence Flux
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hide on the Ceiling
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Illusionist's Stratagem
  • 1 Imposter Mech
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jeweled Lotus
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
  • 1 Ledger Shredder
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Crypt
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Oblivious Bookworm
  • 1 Omega, Heartless Evolution
  • 1 Omniscience
  • 1 One with the Multiverse
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Planar Incision
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Portal to Phyrexia
  • 1 Prime Speaker Zegana
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Release to the Wind
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scroll of Fate
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Siren's Ruse
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spaceshift
  • 1 Splash Portal
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Temporal Manipulation
  • 1 Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Turbulent Wilderness
  • 1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
  • 1 Vannifar, Evolved Enigma
  • 1 Venser, Shaper Savant
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Volatile Stormdrake
  • 1 Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands
  • 1 Willowrush Verge
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Y'shtola Rhul
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Yavimaya Hollow