Traditional Historic - [THB] Vanny combo

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Combo Jank

Work in progress. 

Goal of the deck is to bring in play Nightmare Shepherdimage , Gray Merchant of Asphodelimage , a creature sacrify engine like Woe Striderimage, Prime Speaker Vannifarimage, Cavalier of Nightimage and Thassa, Deep-Dwellingimage for blinking Gray Merchant of Asphodelimage doing, in this way some damage to opponent. The combo works with other creatures too but Gray Merchant of Asphodelimage seems the better way. Others ways to play Vanny's decks may be with : End-Raze Forerunnersimage, God-Eternal Rhonasimage,4+ colors versions, sac damage versions, blink versions, elementals etc.

To bring the combo into play we have Prime Speaker Vannifarimage and Enigmatic Incarnationimage.

Enigmatic Incarnationimage works during our end step, that means we are gonna use it to bring in play cards not Hyrax Tower Scoutimage :

Dryad of the Ilysian Groveimage from Wolfwillow Havenimage

Prime Speaker Vannifarimage, Thassa, Deep-Dwellingimage, Nightmare Shepherdimage and Spark Doubleimage from Dryad of the Ilysian Grove or Gift of Paradiseimage

Gravebreaker Lamiaimage, Cavalier of NightimageYarok, the Desecratedimage (if you wanna use it) and Gray Merchant of Asphodelimage from Enigmatic Incarnationimage, Nightmare ShepherdimageThassa, Deep-DwellingimageSpark Doubleimage with right target;

Nyxbloom Ancientimage  from Archon of Falling Starsimage, that comes from sac of Gravebreaker Lamiaimage.

For Vanny's combo bring in play Nightmare Shepherdimage and Prime Speaker Vannifarimage asap; remember Nightmare Shepherdimage's tokens have cmc of dead creatures as they are copies; we sac Nightmare Shepherdimage's tokens to Prime Speaker Vannifarimage, we sac Hyrax Tower Scoutimage and Corridor Monitorimage to Woe Striderimage when Vanny is tapped.

As an exemple:

Prime Speaker Vannifar sac Corridor Monitorimage >> Hyrax Tower Scoutimage >> Nightmare Shepherdimage

play Corridor Monitorimage or Hyrax Tower Scoutimage target Vanny to continue loop 

Prime Speaker Vannifarimage sac Corridor Monitorimage >> Woe Strider  

Prime Speaker Vannifarimage  is untapped from Corridor Monitorimage's copy

sac Woe Striderimage >> Spark Doubleimage copies Corridor Monitorimage

sac Woe Striderimage's goat token with Vanny >> Eidolon of Philosophyimage (or whatever 1 cmc creature) 

play untapper   

sac to Vanny Cauldron Familiarimage >> Corridor Monitorimage >> Hyrax Tower Scoutimage >> Nightmare Shepherdimage or Thassa, Deep-Dwellingimage

sac untapper 

and sac Nightmare Shepherdimage or Thassa, Deep-Dwellingimage with Vanny >> Gray Merchant of Asphodelimage

if you have Thassa, Deep-Dwellingimage in play, wait until the end of the turn for blink Spark Doubleimage copying Gray Merchant of Asphodelimage and after sac Gray Merchant of Asphodelimage

if you have Nightmare Shepherdimage, sac Spark Doubleimage with Woe Striderimage, copy untapper, sac Nightmare Shepherdimage >> Gray Merchant of Asphodelimage, sac both Gray Merchant of Asphodelimage.

If game is taking time you can use Fae of Wishesimage's Granted, Archon of Falling StarsimageNyxbloom Ancientimage.

Consideration :

Gilded Goose or/and Paradise Druid inclusion, but are they really important? Deck based only on Prime Speaker Vannifar and with 0 copies of Enigmatic Incarnation may be more consistent with them.

You can play a more simple version of this having multiple copies of the strict combo's cards.

Sideboard isn't a fixed thing, use your creativity! You can add more Fae of Wishes cutting stuff you feel useless.

Deck was based on sea creatures before, too many control players and board wipe to play them and having fun.

Deck is for fun, even if it does good stuff.

Deck isn't greatly optimized, meta change and so ''how much playable is a deck'', change mana base as you like it, cut useless or ''just cute'' cards.

Suggestions are good things.

Have fun!

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Last Updated: 07 Jun 2021
Created: 16 Jan 2020
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Mainboard - 60 cards (27 distinct)

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