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###PLEASE UPVOTE IF YOU LIKE THE DECK
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So this is my Tribal Elves Ramp Combo deck led by Momir Vig, Symic Visionary.
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###PURPOSE
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In the early turns the goal is to play as many mana producing creatures as possible, preferably Elven ones, in order to ramp up the mana production potential. Then play Momir Vig as soon as possible and begin tutoring up combo pieces. Then play out the combo pieces and once the primary combo is done, you just choose how you would like to end the game from the available options.
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###WARNING
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This deck can win the game as early as turn 3, and usually ends the game on turn 5-7. This kind of a consistent early win can very quickly become very unfun to play against, especially in a primarily multiplayer format like Commander. So feel free once you have shown off the absurd power of this deck to your friends, to actively avoid your game ending combos, and instead play the deck as if it were just a aggro Tribal deck, because even without the infinite combos, this deck is still very strong. If you make your friends too frustrated, they won't want to play against you anymore, and then you'll have nobody to play with. After all, winning isn't everything, especially if you no longer have people to play with.
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###COMBO #1 - INFINITE EVERYTHING
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+ 4 elves. No specific ones are necessary.
+ 1 of the following: [[Priest of Titania]], [[Elvish Archdruid]], [[Wirewood Channeler]].
+ [[Staff of Domination]]
What you do then is tap one of the *Tap for X Elves* in order to gain 5 mana, either green, or any color depending on which one of the three you have. Then spend 3 of those mana to tap [[Staff of Domination]] in order to untap the *Tap for x Elf*. Then spend 1 mana to untap [[Staff of Domination]]. Then you can repeat this series of events infinitely, gaining 1 floating mana each time you do. With this infinite mana you can use [[Staff of Domination]] to gain Infinite Creature Tap, Creature Untap, Card Draw, and Life gain. So now you can draw and play your entire deck. There are several other cards that can be used to run variations of this combo.
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###VARIATIONS COMBO #1
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- Instead of having 4 elves and a *Tap for X Elf* on the board, you could use [[Gyre Sage]], [[Viridian Joiner]], or [[Marwyn, the Nurturer]] and play enough elves after playing them to get their mana production up to 5 mana per tap. [[Immaculate Magistrate]] could also help get them up to the 5 mana sweet spot as well.
- You could use [[Karametra's Acolyte]] in place of the all of the elves as long as you have devotion to green of 5 or higher.
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###COMBO #2 - INFINITE TURNS
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+ 4 elves. Any Elves, doesn't matter which.
+ 1 [[Immaculate Magistrate]]
+ 1 [[Sage of Hours]]
The idea here, is that you tap [[Immaculate Magistrate]] to put 5 +1/+1 counters onto [[Sage of Hours]]. Then you take 5 +1/+1 counters off of [[Sage of Hours]] in order to get an extra turn. Then on the next turn you do the same thing, allowing you to take as many turns as you want, or need in order to get one of the kill combos completed. This combo is exceptionally simple because both the [[Immaculate Magistrate]] and the [[Sage of Hours]] are tutorable via [[Momir Vig, Simic Visionary]]
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###COMBO #3 - PLAY DECK FOR FREE
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+ Enough lands and mana producing creatures to be able to generate 10 mana in a single turn.
+ [[Primal Surge]]
This combo is very simple. You build up your mana production. Then you draw into [[Primal Surge]]. When you play [[Primal Surge]] you exile and then play the top card of your deck, and then you repeat this for every card in your entire deck. This is because there is only one non permanent in the entire deck, and that is [[Primal Surge]] itself. The trick with this combo however is that you have to finish the game on the turn you play primal surge, but trust me, it's not even an issue because of how many ways this deck has of ending the game on that same turn. The one potentially serious danger in this combo however, is if you play your whole deck, and then an opponent forces you to draw a card, which mills you out. With that in mind, it is usually much safer and easier, to just use it to play cards until you have one or more of your game ending combos out, and then stop, since even though you exile the card, you can choose whether or not to put it onto the battlefield, and if you don't, the effect doesn't continue repeating.
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###COMBO #4 - THE BACKUP PLAN
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+ A bunch of creatures
+ [[Craterhoof Behemoth]]
So this isn't actually a combo really, more of a way to close out the game quickly if either, your combo's and backups have been destroyed or removed from the deck/board, such as with mill, or if you just need to close out the game immediately for real life reasons. Hell maybe you just don't feel like explaining the series of events that leads to your game ending combo to your opponents. Or maybe you're playing in a tournament and its coming up on the end of the round. There are lot's of reasons. No matter the reasons though, it's a quick way to just end the game right there and then.
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###TUTORS
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So obviously [[Momir Vig, Simic Visionary]] is an amazing creature tutor machine. Every Green Creature you play, lets you tutor up a creature of your choice to the top of your library, every Blue Creature gets you a free draw, and every Blue Green Creature let's you tutor a creature to the top of your deck and immediately draw it. This is of course the core of what makes this deck a fast, and reliable combo tribal deck. Not all the combo pieces are creatures however, which is why we have a [[Trophy Mage]] to find the [[Staff of Domination]] when it's time.
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###COMBO FINAL EFFECTS
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So once you have your Infinite Mana and Draw set up, you have a variety of other combos that can be chosen from in order to end the game.
- With [[Imperious Perfect]] you can create an infinite amount of 1/1 elves.
- With [[Immaculate Magistrate]] you can give all of your creatures infinite power and toughness.
- With [[Prodigal Sorcerer]] you have an Infinite Damage to target creature or player combo so you can just outright kill your opponents, or if they have out something troublesome like a Platinum Angel, you can kill it, before you kill them.
- With [[Nullmage Shepherd]] you can destroy any number of troublesome Artifacts and Enchantments.
- With [[Akroma's Memorial]] on the board all your creatures get Flying, First Strike, Vigilance, Trample, Haste, and protection from Black and Red, which is amazing. The haste is the most important parts of this. The haste allows all the creatures that come into play the turn that you play your deck, to attack or use their tap abilities immediately. Of course [[Akroma's Memorial]] is also just an amazing artifact to have out at any point in time.
- [[Beguiler of Wills]] stealing big or useful creatures for ourselves, or if it's the end of the game, we're comboing out, and we're feeling cheeky, you could use [[Beguiler of Wills]] to steal all the opponents creatures and kill them with their own creatures. As far as ending the game is concerned though, if you wan't to be kind of flashy, what you do is use the infinitely untapping [[Beguiler of Wills]] to steal everyone else's creatures, then you play a [[Shaman of Forgotten Ways]] and pay it's formidable cost to set each opponents life total to 0 since they have no creatures. Mostly this card is for use during the game however, before the end comes, as you can steal their Commander. This of course means they can't recast it, because it hasn't been removed from the board, so until they kill their own commander, which is under your control, their Commander deck, has no commander lol.
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###BIG EFFECTS
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- [[Archetype of Endurance]] gives all of your many many creatures Hexproof, which considering they are the backbone of the deck, is really important.
- [[Eternal Witness]] is here, so that when you go to combo out, if one of your opponents destroys a combo piece, such as [[Staff of Domination]], you can tutor up [[Eternal Witness]] with Momir Vig and immediatly get the Staff back, and your game ending combo is back online.
- [[Gaea’s Herald]] was added in order to provide some protection against decks that play a lot of counterspells.
- [[Gilt-Leaf Archdruid]] can be used to steal all of one of your opponents lands each turn. This deck has 29 druids including [[Gilt Leaf Archdruid]] so I have pulled off this combo several times with far more ease than you would expect.
- [[Lys Alana Huntmaster]] can help you create chump blockers, and can help you grow your elf army at an exceptional rate.
- [[Paradox Engine]] and [[Intruder Alarm]] are amazing, because although they may not be "infinite combo piece" important, with a bunch of mana dorks, you can tap them all, play a creature, untap them all, and then repeat it while you stack up mana. With a [[Soul of the Harvest]], [[Primordial Sage]], [[Beast Whisperer]], or [[Vizier of the Menagerie]] on the board, as well as Momir Vig, you could even play every single creature in the deck, which would lead straight into your game ending combos.
- [[Platinum Angel]] is another circumstantial game saver card. It can be used to prevent a huge amount of different types of losses.
- [[Silent Arbiter]] is a defensive card. This deck is a combo deck, and not really an aggro based deck, so we do not want to be trading creatures with our opponents to keep them from killing us, because our creatures are small, and every one we lose slows down our ability to win. [[Silent Arbiter]] may not stop their attacks completly, but it does limit them to only being able to attack with one creature at a time, so it can severely slow down aggro decks. Decks designed to make their commanders huge and then trample in to kill you are still a problem though for sure.
- [[Wellwisher]] is just outright insane. The amount of life you and get from this amazing little Elf really is astonishing.
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###DRAW/TUTOR EFFECTS
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- [[Regal Force]] can be a great, tutorable way of drawing a crapton of cards all at once, for when you need to refill your hand.
- [[Beast Whisperer]], [[Primoridal Sage]], and [[Soul of the Harvest]], each make it so whenever you play a green creature with Momir Vig on the board, that you don't just tutor a card to the top of your library, you tutor it straight into your hand. This is of course SUPER POWERFUL.
- [[Vizier of the Menagerie]]'s ability to look at the top card of the deck, and play it if it is a creature, also achieve the same effect as the previously mentioned cards. It also allows your some mana fixing which can be useful.
- [[Bloodline Shaman]] is straight forward. Use Momir Vig to put an elf on top the deck, tap Bloodline Shaman to draw it, or if your commander isn't out yet, its just a way to draw more cards which is also an inexpensive elf.
- [[Coiling Oracle]] is essentially a creature tutor card, when paired with [[Momir Vig, Simic Visionary]], since it is both blue and green, plus it draws you and extra card or plays you an extra land, and it remains on the board as an elf when its primary job is done.
- [[Rashmi Eternities Crafter]] is another creature tutor due to it being blue/green, but it also gets your some sweet free to play on each turn, as well as being an elf.
- [[Nissa Revane]] gets you lots of life, and may even let you play all the elves from your deck. Generally with this deck, you don't want to be sacrificing creatures to block your opponent attacks, so you usually just end up taking the hits to your life total. Nissa Revane's first +1 ability may be literally useless, but as our best friend [[Wellwisher Elf]] can tell you, getting life for each elf you have adds up FAST!! Even more so when it's +2 life per Elf. As far as her ultimate goes, it may take 5 turns to go off, but commander does tend to run slower than other formats, and even if it doesn't go off and play most of your deck, you are still getting huge chunks of life to keep you alive long enough to wipe your opponents out. Plus she is THE ELF PLANESWALKER. Its a huge flavor win no matter what, and that matters to me.
- [[Skyshroud Poacher]] is good for a few reasons. With this I can tutor even without Momir Vig, and the creature goes straight to the battlefield. I can even drop a "Tap for X" elf or other combo piece elf during my opponents end step, right before its my turn, so that none of my opponents will see the Elfsplosion coming and therefore wont have the opportunity to use sorceries to mess up my combo.
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###IMPORTANT NOTES
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Some of the elves in this deck that are labeled as just being elves in the types section of their actual cards, were made into Elf Druids, when Wizards of the Coast wen't through their card backlog and edited the subtypes on so many of their cards. If you check them out on gatherer you should be able to see which ones were changed. Currently this list consists of the following as far as I know
[[Fyndhorn Elder]], [[Heart Warden]], [[Fyndhorn Elves]], [[Wirewood Elf]] and [[Wirewood Channeler]].
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###STATISTICAL NOTES
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- Version 10 contains 40 elves and 29 druids.
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