Ant-onio by renegade0169

Format: Commander

Commander: The Astonishing Ant-Man

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Simic deck builds around The Astonishing Ant-Man as a draw-triggered counter engine. Every card drawn grows Ant-Man, and his activated ability turns those counters into 1/1 Insects for a wide combat finish. Doublers like Branching Evolution, Hardened Scales, and Bristly Bill accelerate the clock, while The Great Henge, Aesi, and Tatyova provide sustained draw and landfall value. Psychosis Crawler offers a secondary drain win that also scales with hand size. Ant-Man is the central payoff and token outlet, but the deck functions without him through independent threats. No infinite combo is present, so wins require incremental combat or prolonged Crawler pings.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 Agna Qel'a
  • 1 Atomic Microsizer
  • 1 Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Botanical Sanctum
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Brainsurge
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Bred for the Hunt
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Embrace the Paradox
  • 1 Emeritus of Ideation // Ancestral Recall
  • 1 Eureka Moment
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force Spike
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Give // Take
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Herd Heirloom
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Horizon Chimera
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
  • 1 Kianne, Corrupted Memory
  • 1 Kodama of the West Tree
  • 1 Lessons from Life
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Magic Damper
  • 1 Michelangelo, Weirdness to 11
  • 1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mole Man, Moloid Master
  • 1 Mossborn Hydra
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Ouroboroid
  • 1 Peek
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Primal Empathy
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Proft's Eidetic Memory
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Pym Particles
  • 1 Rancor
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Sab-Sunen, Luxa Embodied
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scythecat Cub
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Shore Up
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Slip Out the Back
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Song of Eärendil
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Tam, Observant Sequencer // Deep Sight
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student // Tamiyo, Seasoned Scholar
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 The Astonishing Ant-Man
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Ooze
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 Three Steps Ahead
  • 1 Unable to Scream
  • 1 Urban Evolution
  • 1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
  • 1 Willowrush Verge
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wizard Class
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zameck Guildmage