Ant Man by Zygart

Format: Commander

Commander: The Astonishing Ant-Man

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is a Simic draw-trigger engine commanded by The Astonishing Ant-Man. It converts every drawn card into +1/+1 counters on the commander, which are then cashed in for wide swarms of 1/1 Insect creature tokens. The deck features a dense package of low-cost cantrips, draw spells, and repeatable draw engines such as The Theorist, Jace Beleren, Coastal Piracy, and Archmage Emeritus. It leverages these draws to continually fuel token production and buff supporting creatures like Iron Man, Armored Avenger and Graviton, Fundamental Force. The primary win route relies on overwhelming opponents through combat damage, utilizing overrun and evasion effects from Garruk, Curse Breaker and Pym Particles across multiple combat turns. While the deck generates massive card advantage and wide boards, it is vulnerable to board sweepers and lacks instant-speed protection.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agna Qel'a
  • 1 Ant-Man, Reformed Rogue
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Arni, Humble Scribe
  • 1 Assassin Gauntlet
  • 1 Atlantean Cavalry
  • 1 Bilbo Baggins, Burglar // Take a Glance
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Coastal Piracy
  • 1 Combat Tutorial
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Confusticate and Bebother
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Consuming Tide
  • 1 Curate
  • 1 Deduce
  • 1 Deny Entry
  • 1 Disrupt
  • 1 Dreams of Laguna
  • 1 Embrace the Paradox
  • 1 Esper Origins // Summon: Esper Maduin
  • 1 Eureka Moment
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fblthp, Impossibly Lost
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Garruk, Curse Breaker
  • 1 Ghostly Pilferer
  • 1 Graviton, Fundamental Force
  • 1 Guadosalam, Farplane Gateway
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Heritage Reclamation
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hobbit Hole
  • 1 Iron Man, Armored Avenger
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Kid Loki
  • 1 Knowledge Seeker
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Leader, Super-Genius
  • 1 Lessons from Life
  • 1 Loki, God of Mischief
  • 1 Matoya, Archon Elder
  • 1 Mechan Navigator
  • 1 Meditation Pools
  • 1 Merfolk Looter
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
  • 1 Mutant Town
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Overflowing Basin
  • 1 Paradox Gardens
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Plunder the Trollshaws
  • 1 Prishe's Wanderings
  • 1 Proft, Consulting Detective
  • 1 Protege's Awakening
  • 1 Pym Particles
  • 1 Pym Technologies
  • 1 Quick Study
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Ray Fillet, Man Ray
  • 1 Shared Roots
  • 1 Simulacrum Shaper
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Studious First-Year // Rampant Growth
  • 1 Super Intelligence
  • 1 Tangled Islet
  • 1 Temple of Mystery
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Astonishing Ant-Man
  • 1 The Clone Saga
  • 1 The Legend of Kuruk // Avatar Kuruk
  • 1 The Ten Rings
  • 1 The Theorist, Jace Beleren
  • 1 Thriving Grove
  • 1 Thriving Isle
  • 1 Tireless Tracker
  • 1 Transformative Commons
  • 1 Tui and La, Moon and Ocean
  • 1 Unstable Experiment
  • 1 Vibrant Cityscape
  • 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
  • 1 Way of the Mind Sculptor
  • 1 Yuriko, Hope from the Shadows