Ah makes sense, I can definitely see why they run her in place. I was fortunate enough to get ahold of an authentic one of her recently at a pretty reasonably price. And ahhh good old Bitterblossom, how could I forget about that. Thank you for reminding me!
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Really like what you did here. Been looking around at a few different Varina decks since I'm working on my own and this seems to be the closest one using cards with what I also already have in my collection. So, my deck's going to be partially inspired by this one, and I'm going to throw some stuff in like God-Eternal Bontu & God-Eternal Oketra, Rooftop Storm, a Liliana planeswalker or two, and a few other things I have laying around
Might want to find a replacement for Emrakul, the Aeon's Torn, she's banned in EDH. Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger wouldn't be a bad replacement if you're still after an Eldrazi Titan
I just preordered The First Sliver. Wish I had the money for a Sliver Queen though, that thing jumped up to about $180 very fast. I'm new to working with slivers, finally decided to take the plunge into them after I built my Elf EDH
I have a variant of this deck and made Yennett the commander instead of Aminatou for even more fun deck stacking. I do like what you did here with the deck, might incorporate some of your edits into mine. Here's what I did with the deck if you'd want to check it out https://www.mtgvault.com/juniperblkwood/decks/yennett-cryptic-sovereign-edh/
All nice budget options, and I have over half of them. I'll definitely take them into consideration and the next few times I play it I'll see where a few can fit in. Thank you for the feedback!