Prime Speaker Vannifar by ThRedBullBandit

Format: Commander

Commander: Prime Speaker Vannifar

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is a Simic creature toolbox strategy helmed by Prime Speaker Vannifar. The primary game plan accelerates out the commander on Turn 3 using low-cost mana dorks like Birds of Paradise and Llanowar Elves. On Turn 4, Vannifar activates by sacrificing a 1-drop creature and chains through a series of untap creatures—including Corridor Monitor, Bounding Krasis, and Breaching Hippocamp—to climb directly up the mana curve into Chakram Retriever and dominant top-end threats. The deck closes games through massive combat damage from game-ending creatures such as Blightsteel Colossus, Worldspine Wurm, and Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant, backed by Rumbleweed for trample and team buffs. While the commander ensures flawless creature access, the strategy is vulnerable to well-timed creature removal during its summoning sickness window and runs minimal stack interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Apex Devastator
  • 1 Arboreal Grazer
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Badgermole Cub
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Birthing Pod
  • 1 Blightsteel Colossus
  • 1 Bookwurm
  • 1 Bounding Krasis
  • 1 Breaching Hippocamp
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Chakram Retriever
  • 1 Champion of Wits
  • 1 Civic Gardener
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copperhorn Scout
  • 1 Corridor Monitor
  • 1 Cultivator Colossus
  • 1 Darksteel Angel
  • 1 Deceiver Exarch
  • 1 Delay
  • 1 Divining Duelist
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Druid of Purification
  • 1 Earthbending Student
  • 1 Emeritus of Ideation // Ancestral Recall
  • 1 Emrakul, the Promised End
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fblthp, the Lost
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 21 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
  • 1 Giant-Sized Flying Ant
  • 1 Gilded Goose
  • 1 Glamermite
  • 1 Guardian Augmenter
  • 1 H.E.R.B.I.E. Scout Unit
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Ice-Fang Coatl
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Kodama of the East Tree
  • 1 Legolas's Quick Reflexes
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Lord of Change
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Memnarch, the Warden
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nissa, Vastwood Seer // Nissa, Sage Animist
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prime Speaker Vannifar
  • 1 Qasali Slingers
  • 1 Quirion Ranger
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Rumbleweed
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scryb Ranger
  • 1 Shore Up
  • 1 Simulacrum Shaper
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul of the Harvest
  • 2 Studious First-Year // Rampant Growth
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Teardrop Kami
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tidal Force
  • 1 Tower Winder
  • 1 Treefolk Harbinger
  • 1 Turbulent Wilderness
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Wood Elves
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldspine Wurm
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast