MTG Salvation

Prime Speaker Vannifar 2GU
Legendary Creature - Elf Ooze Wizard
t, sacrifice another creature: Search your library for a creature card with converted mana cost equal to 1 plus the sacrificed creature's converted mana cost, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.
2/4

Now that's a legendary creature

Edit: https://youtu.be/rB6veHAqR08

Birthing Pod on a stick. Interesting.

Eldritch Evolution on le... Wait, jellyfishes don't have any.

Holy ****.

Good card is good!

I am definitely building this deck.

That's certainly an interesting effect. And creature type.

They really just reprint the same cards over and over again ...

Incredible lazy job.

Quote from Raptorchan »

Eldritch Evolution on le... Wait, jellyfishes don't have any.

Well, I'm not sure she does, either.

Who doesn't love an ooze wizard?

Looks made for commander. I expect it'll end up being pretty breakable though.

Legendary Elf Ooze, delightful.

Holy Birthing Pod, Batman!

Birthing Pod on a stick eh.

No mana cost either...wonder how to break this by untapping her.

I'm really happy with my Elf-Ooze-Wizard-Pod tribal deck.

It also makes sense why Zegana lost the Speaker election to Vannifar.

"I made an ooze."
"I AM the ooze."

Quote from Marquisd »

It's not just birthing pod on a stick it's birthing pod as your Commander, that's saying something

I foresee this being super powerful, especially in the colors of Murkfiend Liege and Kiora's Follower. (Not that Murkfiend works with it but still.)

Whoa. That seems busted for commander. I don't even...whoa.

She survives bolt. Wonder if UG elves in modern could be a thing. She turns your dorks into elvish clancaller, dwynen's elite or coiling oracle and then digs up finishers after that. That's pretty busted. I think one of Rashmi, eternities crafter's biggest flaws was her toughness. This isn't bad for a potential t3 play.

For standard, im not sure. Seems busted in merfolk because she lets you get the best creature for the job whenever you need it. tempest caller on demand seems legit, but no tribal synergies and you're tapping a guy, sacing a guy, and the new guy has sickness. Hard to set up an alpha strike that way. She can turn silvergill adept into a kumena, tyrant of orazca though.

Splash is too hard, but she's nuts with afterlife.

Maybe a sultai creature control deck. Being able to fetch up a chupacabra, plaguecrafter, or finisher seems realllllly good. With enough recurring bodies via gruesome menagerie and eldest reborn she can do a lot of work and just bury someone in CA. Eating a merfolk branchwaker to get a jadelight ranger with wildgrowth walker out isn't even magical Christmas land late in the game. muldrotha, the grave tide deck maybe? @_@. Menagerie works really well with stitcher's supplier and llanowar elves.

With Intruder Alarm she spams ETB/death triggers and gets every creature up to the greatest CMC you can manage.

HELL yeah.

I mean, it's just "pre-existing effect on a stick" and a part of me wishes she hard a more unique ability. But as a commander player and Simic fan since the first Ravnica block - damn, this is very nice. Gatecrash was a bit of a disappointment, but overall I'm very satisfied with the Simic designs this time around (at least so far).

Quote from TheOnlyOne652089 »

They really just reprint the same cards over and over again ...

Incredible lazy job.

While I usually would agree with you here, there's nothing wrong with printing a fixed version of a very popular card. Birthing Pod deserved the hammer and players deserve a replacement.

Quote from mapccu »

Whoa. That seems busted for commander. I don't even...whoa.

She survives bolt. Wonder if UG elves in modern could be a thing. She turns your dorks into elvish clancaller, dwynen's elite or coiling oracle

I like when these casting cost based abilities get around casting restrictions and get things that are lower-CMC-than-sensible because of restrictions this doesn't care about. This can turn 1s into Myr Superions and Talara's Battalions.

This is the bomb I have been waiting for in my secret modern deck I'm building. And it's about time simic got some power houses for modern.

Thornbite Staff says hello. And Intruder Alarm as mentioned earlier.

Now people are going to be seeking out the creature cards at every cmc which have the best "enters the battlefield" effect, regardless of the colors on that creature.

Quote from lookashiny »

Quote from Raptorchan »

Eldritch Evolution on le... Wait, jellyfishes don't have any.

Well, I'm not sure she does, either.

She does not.

https://i.redd.it/8uky4yril3821.jpg

And the sole reason she is not Elf Jellyfish Wizard is probably that it would not fit the box.

Birthing Pod on a Simic, very easy to break. With no cost in the ability I wouldn't be surprised if this ends up more broken then pod.