Arixmethes by user7044971

Format: Commander

Commander: Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This Simic deck commands the depths with Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle, combining big-mana ramp with crushing Sea Monster stompy aggression. The primary game plan accelerates early using land-drop creatures like Sakura-Tribe Scout and Skyshroud Ranger to deploy Arixmethes on Turn 3. Untapping on Turn 4 with six or more mana, the deck casts utility spells to remove slumber counters while developing massive Leviathans and Krakens. Once awakened, Arixmethes becomes a lethal 12/12 threat that demands immediate answers. The deck breaks parity through asymmetric board resets like Whelming Wave, Scourge of Fleets, and Summon: Leviathan, which clear opposing boards while leaving your colossal sea creatures untouched. Massive card draw spells like Return of the Wildspeaker and Rishkar's Expertise refill the hand instantly by keying off your 12-power commander. Low-cost protection spells like Gaea's Gift and Dive Down shield high-value threats from targeted removal, allowing the deck to close games through overwhelming combat damage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aether Vial
  • 1 Aethersquall Ancient
  • 1 Aim High
  • 1 Arbor Armament
  • 1 Archetype of Imagination
  • 1 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
  • 1 Bane's Contingency
  • 1 Baral's Expertise
  • 1 Botanical Sanctum
  • 1 Breaching Leviathan
  • 1 Brinelin, the Moon Kraken
  • 1 Buster Sword
  • 1 Cancel
  • 1 Coiling Oracle
  • 1 Collective Resistance
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Confidence from Strength
  • 1 Dive Down
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Enlarge
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 13 Forest
  • 1 Gaea's Gift
  • 1 Glacier Godmaw
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Grappling Kraken
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Hunter's Prowess
  • 1 Inkwell Leviathan
  • 1 Irresistible Prey
  • 14 Island
  • 1 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
  • 1 Larger Than Life
  • 1 Lessons from Life
  • 1 Massive Might
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nature's Way
  • 1 Nightshade Dryad
  • 1 Nimbus Swimmer
  • 1 Octopus Form
  • 1 Ominous Seas
  • 1 Polar Kraken
  • 1 Predator's Strike
  • 1 Quest for Ula's Temple
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Roar of Challenge
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Scout
  • 1 Scale the Heights
  • 1 Scaled Herbalist
  • 1 Scourge of Fleets
  • 1 Sheltering Word
  • 1 Simic Sky Swallower
  • 1 Sin, Unending Cataclysm
  • 1 Skyserpent Seeker
  • 1 Skyshroud Ranger
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spawning Kraken
  • 1 Starwinder
  • 1 Stormsurge Kraken
  • 1 Summer Bloom
  • 1 Summon: Leviathan
  • 1 Thassa's Intervention
  • 1 Thrasios, Triton Hero
  • 1 Track Down
  • 1 Tromokratis
  • 1 Unsummon
  • 1 Urban Evolution
  • 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
  • 1 Whelming Wave
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast