Budget Zimone Counters by Buddadragon

Format: Commander

Commander: Zimone, Paradox Sculptor

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is a synergistic Simic midrange strategy centered on Zimone, Paradox Sculptor. The primary game plan revolves around accelerating mana in the opening turns, deploying efficient counter-scaling creatures, and casting Zimone to compound board presence through automatic combat counter distribution and exponential tap doubling. High-synergy mana generators like Gyre Sage and Incubation Druid produce massive mana reserves, allowing the deck to deploy large threats, cast card-drawing payoffs like Fathom Mage and Armorcraft Judge, and maintain counterspell backup. The deck closes games through overwhelming combat damage aided by trample enablers like Garruk's Uprising and Duskshell Crawler, evasive threats like Blighted Agent, or alternate win conditions like Simic Ascendancy. Dense single-mana protection spells safeguard the commander and key threats from opposing interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arbor Elf
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Armorcraft Judge
  • 1 Astral Cornucopia
  • 1 Autumn's Veil
  • 1 Basking Broodscale
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Biosynthic Burst
  • 1 Blighted Agent
  • 1 Blossoming Defense
  • 1 Cankerbloom
  • 1 Cold-Eyed Selkie
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crystalline Crawler
  • 1 Curse of the Swine
  • 1 Darksteel Reactor
  • 1 Decisive Denial
  • 1 Deepglow Skate
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Duskshell Crawler
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Evolution Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fathom Mage
  • 1 Field of Ruin
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 13 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Gnarlid Colony
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Gyre Sage
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hydroid Krasis
  • 1 Incubation Druid
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 13 Island
  • 1 Kiora's Follower
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Managorger Hydra
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Ornery Tumblewagg
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Regrowth
  • 1 Repulsive Mutation
  • 1 Rishkar, Peema Renegade
  • 1 Royal Treatment
  • 1 Simic Ascendancy
  • 1 Simic Signet
  • 1 Snakeskin Veil
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Spell Rupture
  • 1 Stocking the Pantry
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Curiosity
  • 1 Tanazir Quandrix
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Tezzeret's Gambit
  • 1 Thrummingbird
  • 1 Tyvar's Stand
  • 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
  • 1 Vorel of the Hull Clade
  • 1 Wash Away
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Wildwood Scourge
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Zameck Guildmage
  • 1 Zimone, Paradox Sculptor