Updated Zimone by xXWINDXx

Format: Commander

Commander: Zimone, Infinite Analyst

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 24

Deck overview

The deck uses Zimone, Infinite Analyst to reduce its first X spell each turn and grow through +1/+1 counters. Its strongest supported engine is Unbound Flourishing with Springleaf Parade. A cast of Springleaf Parade for X=3 becomes X=6, is copied, and creates twelve Shapeshifters. Those tokens then provide a large burst of colored mana for copied draw spells such as Finale of Revelation or large control spells such as Mass Manipulation. The engine is powerful once assembled, but Unbound Flourishing has no direct tutor, so the ordinary setup is around turn 7. The first must-answer state is usually around turn 8, when the token mana enables a decisive draw or theft turn. The deck lacks a deterministic win condition: large creatures and stolen boards still need combat, and there is no guaranteed table-kill outlet. It is therefore a strong value engine with interaction, not a cEDH combo deck.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altered Ego
  • 1 Animist's Awakening
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Astral Cornucopia
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Benevolent Hydra
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Brass Infiniscope
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Clash of Wills
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Insight
  • 1 Condescend
  • 1 Curse of the Swine
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drown in Dreams
  • 1 Elementalist's Palette
  • 1 Elusive Otter // Grove's Bounty
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expansion Algorithm
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fangs of Kalonia
  • 1 Finale of Revelation
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 9 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Fractal Harness
  • 1 Goldvein Hydra
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Guardian Augmenter
  • 1 Hangarback Walker
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hydroid Krasis
  • 1 Ingenious Prodigy
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Kalonian Hydra
  • 1 Kinetic Ooze
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Lattice Library
  • 1 Lifeblood Hydra
  • 1 March of Swirling Mist
  • 1 Mass Manipulation
  • 1 Mathemagics
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nev, the Practical Dean
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Open the Way
  • 1 Overflowing Basin
  • 1 Owlin Spiralmancer
  • 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
  • 1 Primo, the Unbounded
  • 1 Primordial Hydra
  • 1 Pull from Tomorrow
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Repulsive Mutation
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Silkguard
  • 1 Snakeskin Veil
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectral Denial
  • 1 Springleaf Parade
  • 1 Stonecoil Serpent
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 The Goose Mother
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Turbulent Wilderness
  • 1 Tyvar's Stand
  • 1 Unbound Flourishing
  • 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
  • 1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
  • 1 Wave Goodbye
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zimone, Infinite Analyst