Zimone Counters by user7265606

Format: Commander

Commander: Zimone, Paradox Sculptor

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This deck is a dedicated Simic counter-manipulation engine led by Zimone, Paradox Sculptor. The strategy focuses on accelerating mana in the early turns to deploy Zimone on turn 3 or 4, immediately generating and exponentially doubling counters on creatures and artifacts. The list leverages powerful synergy pieces such as Kami of Whispered Hopes, Fathom Mage, and Danny Pink to convert counter growth into overwhelming mana velocity and card draw. Win conditions are diverse and resilient, ranging from alternate victory permanents like Simic Ascendancy, The Millennium Calendar, and Darksteel Reactor to explosive combat steps powered by Goldvein Hydra, Ouroboroid, and asymmetric board wipes like Wave Goodbye. A compact suite of high-efficiency counterspells and protective phasing cards like Ripples of Potential safeguards key pieces during crucial doubling turns.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetheric Amplifier
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Astral Cornucopia
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Cold-Eyed Selkie
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Danny Pink
  • 1 Darksteel Reactor
  • 1 Deepglow Skate
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Dreamtide Whale
  • 1 Eternity Vessel
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Evolution Sage
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Experimental Augury
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Fathom Mage
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 1 Flux Channeler
  • 13 Forest
  • 1 Freed from the Real
  • 1 Goldvein Hydra
  • 1 Gyre Sage
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Helix Pinnacle
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Illusionist's Bracers
  • 1 Inexorable Tide
  • 1 Insight Engine
  • 1 Ioreth of the Healing House
  • 11 Island
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Kiora's Follower
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Loading Zone
  • 1 Magistrate's Scepter
  • 1 Marvin, Murderous Mimic
  • 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Murkfiend Liege
  • 1 Mutational Advantage
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nesting Grounds
  • 1 Ouroboroid
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Pollywog Prodigy
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Replicating Ring
  • 1 Ripples of Potential
  • 1 Sage of Hours
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Simic Ascendancy
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 Tezzeret's Gambit
  • 1 The Millennium Calendar
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Twenty-Toed Toad
  • 1 Twitching Doll
  • 1 Vorel of the Hull Clade
  • 1 Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider
  • 1 Wave Goodbye
  • 1 Zimone, Paradox Sculptor