Into the Vault: Vannifar Deck Tech
Written by Christian Gil Portugalisa Hi All. Welcome to Into the Vault . This will be our official deck tech article. This is to show aspiring commander players how I build decks and with the hopes of helping them become a better deck builder, ultimately become a better overall Magic the Gathering player. Now that Ravnica Allegiance is out, I’d like to do a deck tech on one of best legendary commander of the set. Let me introduce the Simic Commander: Prime Speaker Vannifar. The Commander Let’s get the obvious thing out first. It is basically Birthing Pod on a stick. Just like Birthing Pod, Vannifar needs to sacrifice a creature to ‘cheat’ out another creature whose CMC is 1 more than the sacrificed creatures CMC. Cheating creatures out is a very powerful effect. This is the reason why Birthing Pod is banned in Modern. It’s just an all powerful card. However, there ar...