Mind Games by user4645016

Format: Commander

Commander: Círdan the Shipwright

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Simic deck helmed by Cirdan the Shipwright leans heavily into the political vote mechanic, using secret-council triggers on entry and attack to draw cards and, crucially, allow players who receive no votes to cheat permanents into play from their hand. The primary game plan is to ramp aggressively in the early turns, deploy Cirdan as a repeatable card-draw and value engine, then use voting spells like Selvala's Stampede, Tempt with Discovery, and Sail into the West to generate overwhelming board presence. Win conditions include combat damage from large threats (Koma, World-Eater, Terastodon, Hornet Queen) boosted by Overwhelming Stampede, or the alternate win of Simic Ascendancy by accumulating +1/+1 counters. The deck also packs clone effects to copy the best creatures on the battlefield and a modest countermagic suite to protect key spells. It is a slow, value-oriented strategy that relies on political negotiation and incremental advantage rather than fast combos.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Aetherize
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archetype of Endurance
• 1 Asceticism
• 1 Autumn's Veil
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Clever Impersonator
• 1 Coiling Oracle
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Conjurer's Closet
• 1 Consuming Tide
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Círdan the Shipwright
• 1 Dawnglade Regent
• 1 Druid of Purification
• 1 Edric, Spymaster of Trest
• 1 Elrond of the White Council
• 1 Elvish Mystic
• 1 Embrace the Paradox
• 1 Emissary Green
• 1 End-Raze Forerunners
• 1 Erestor of the Council
• 1 Eternal Witness
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fact or Fiction
• 1 Farhaven Elf
• 14 Forest
• 1 Galadriel, Elven-Queen
• 1 Gandalf, Westward Voyager
• 1 Ghostly Flicker
• 1 Growth Spiral
• 1 Hornet Queen
• 1 Illusion of Choice
• 16 Island
• 1 Koma, World-Eater
• 1 Lilysplash Mentor
• 1 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Long River's Pull
• 1 Mind into Matter
• 1 Mirror Image
• 1 Mirrorhall Mimic // Ghastly Mimicry
• 1 Negate
• 1 Overwhelming Stampede
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Plea for Power
• 1 Pongify
• 1 Progenitor Mimic
• 1 Rampant Growth
• 1 Rapid Hybridization
• 1 Reclamation Sage
• 1 Reconnaissance Mission
• 1 Regrowth
• 1 Release to the Wind
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Sail into the West
• 1 Sandwurm Convergence
• 1 Saw It Coming
• 1 Scavenging Ooze
• 1 Selvala's Stampede
• 1 Shared Summons
• 1 Simic Ascendancy
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Split Decision
• 1 Tempt with Discovery
• 1 Terastodon
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Trap the Trespassers
• 1 Undercover Operative
• 1 Vizier of Many Faces
• 1 Wood Elves
• 1 Wrap in Vigor