Jump Scare! by Baro

Format: Commander

Commander: Zimone, Mystery Unraveler

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Simic landfall-manifest midrange deck helmed by Zimone, Mystery Unraveler. The core plan uses heavy ramp and extra land drops to trigger Zimone repeatedly: the first landfall each turn manifests dread (a face-down 2/2 plus a card in the graveyard), while subsequent landfalls flip face-down permanents up for value. The deck floods the board with manifested creatures, landfall tokens from Scute Swarm, and high-power beaters such as Hydra Omnivore, Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar, and Worldspine Wurm, then closes with combat anthems like Overwhelming Stampede or Biomass Mutation. Secondary engines include Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait and Tatyova, Benthic Druid for card advantage plus a light morph/manifest package (Whisperwood Elemental, Primordial Mist, Deathmist Raptor). Wins come primarily through overwhelming combat rather than pure combo speed.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 Aether Gale
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
  • 1 Augur of Autumn
  • 1 Beanstalk Giant // Fertile Footsteps
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Biomass Mutation
  • 1 Body of Knowledge
  • 1 Cackling Counterpart
  • 1 Castle Vantress
  • 1 Citanul Hierophants
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Curator Beastie
  • 1 Deathmist Raptor
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Disorienting Choice
  • 1 Drownyard Temple
  • 1 Eureka Moment
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Experimental Lab // Staff Room
  • 1 Explosive Vegetation
  • 1 Ezuri's Predation
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 9 Forest
  • 1 Giggling Skitterspike
  • 1 Glitch Interpreter
  • 1 Greater Tanuki
  • 1 Growing Dread
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hydra Omnivore
  • 9 Island
  • 1 Kefnet the Mindful
  • 1 Kheru Spellsnatcher
  • 1 Kianne, Corrupted Memory
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 1 Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Overflowing Basin
  • 1 Overgrown Zealot
  • 1 Oversimplify
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Primordial Mist
  • 1 Quandrix Campus
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Rashmi, Eternities Crafter
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Retreat to Coralhelm
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sandwurm Convergence
  • 1 Scroll of Fate
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
  • 1 Shriekwood Devourer
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Simic Signet
  • 1 Skaab Ruinator
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Tangled Islet
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Temple of Mystery
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Temur War Shaman
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 They Came from the Pipes
  • 1 Thornwood Falls
  • 1 Thunderfoot Baloth
  • 1 Trail of Mystery
  • 1 Trygon Predator
  • 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
  • 1 Whisperwood Elemental
  • 1 Wilderness Reclamation
  • 1 Worldspine Wurm
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Yavimaya Elder
  • 1 Yedora, Grave Gardener
  • 1 Zimone's Hypothesis
  • 1 Zimone, Mystery Unraveler