The Commander
Guide
Gameplan
Cast Annie Flash at flash speed to reanimate a cheap value permanent on arrival, then repeatedly tap her to exile and play the top two cards of your library each turn, generating relentless card advantage. You build a board of impactful permanents and snowball with attacks plus tap-outlets until you overwhelm the table. Recursion of Annie makes the ETB trigger an engine you can abuse over and over.
Strengths
- Strong, repeatable card advantage every time she taps
- Flash lets you hold up interaction and ambush attackers or counter sweepers
- ETB reanimation refunds value and combos with blink/sac recursion
- Naya colors give access to ramp, removal, and big finishers
Weaknesses
- Card advantage is locked away if she's removed or never gets to tap
- Cards exiled must be played the same turn or are lost
- Vulnerable to graveyard hate disrupting the ETB trigger
- Reliance on the commander makes her a removal magnet and command-tax-heavy
Key Cards
- Sword of Feast and Famine — Connecting taps nothing but Annie still triggers on attack, and the untap lets you double-spend mana on the exiled cards.
- Thousand-Year Elixir — Gives a tap ability and untaps Annie, doubling your library-exile triggers each turn.
- Intruder Alarm — Untaps Annie whenever a creature enters, enabling repeated tap triggers for explosive card flow.
- Sun Titan — A premium reanimation target whose own ETB recurs cheap permanents alongside Annie's trigger.
- Conjurer's Closet — Blinks Annie to retrigger her reanimation ETB every end step.
- Skullclamp — Turns your flood of small creatures from exiled cards into even more draws.
Upgrade Path
Add more reliable tap-outlets and untappers (Thousand-Year Elixir, Intruder Alarm, Kiora's Follower) so Annie's trigger fires multiple times per turn. Lean into blink effects (Conjurer's Closet, Ephemerate-style flickers) and strong sub-4 MV reanimation targets to maximize her ETB. Tighten the mana base with fast ramp and dual lands, and include protection like Heroic Intervention and Lightning Greaves to keep your engine commander online.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸Grind out card advantage and win with oversized creatures and combat damage
- ▸Assemble a value engine that buries opponents in resources before alpha striking
- ▸Leverage equipment-laden attackers or a wide token board for lethal swings
- ▸Loop blink/reanimation to flood the board faster than opponents can answer
Archetypes
- Value/Midrange — Annie's repeated card advantage and ETB recursion fuel a grindy, permanent-heavy good-stuff deck.
- Blink — Flickering Annie repeatedly retriggers her reanimation ETB for incremental advantage.
- Reanimator — Her ETB cheats permanents back from the yard, rewarding self-mill and discard outlets.
- Tap-Tempo Tokens — Tap outlets and convoke-style boards turn Annie's tap trigger into an explosive draw engine.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (GRW), by popularity.
