Updated Arix by user7911051

Format: Commander

Commander: Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Simic sea-monster stompy deck using Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle as a ramp land that awakens into a 12/12. The main plan is to build a large mana base, cast or cheat out huge Krakens/Leviathans/Serpents, then make them unblockable and trample over with Overwhelming Stampede. Secondary paths include a soft lock through Hullbreaker Horror plus cheap spells, and a token flood from Koma. Arixmethes serves as early ramp and the primary commander-damage beater; Kenessos, Priest of Thassa acts as a hidden commander for cheating sea monsters from the top. The list is battlecruiser-paced and resilient to spot removal thanks to hexproof/ward, but lacks a fast combo, so games typically go long.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
• 1 Alchemist's Refuge
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
• 1 Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Bident of Thassa
• 1 Bonders' Enclave
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 1 Colossal Majesty
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Eluge, the Shoreless Sea
• 1 Engulf the Shore
• 1 Explore
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Fertile Ground
• 1 Flooded Grove
• 10 Forest
• 1 Garruk's Uprising
• 1 Growth Spiral
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Hullbreaker Horror
• 1 Inkwell Leviathan
• 12 Island
• 1 Kenessos, Priest of Thassa
• 1 Kiora Bests the Sea God
• 1 Kiora's Follower
• 1 Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner
• 1 Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep
• 1 Kodama's Reach
• 1 Koma, Cosmos Serpent
• 1 Koma, World-Eater
• 1 Misty Rainforest
• 1 Monster Manual // Zoological Study
• 1 Mystic Remora
• 1 Mystic Sanctuary
• 1 Nadir Kraken
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 Negate
• 1 Nezahal, Primal Tide
• 1 Overwhelming Stampede
• 1 Planar Genesis
• 1 Pongify
• 1 Prime Speaker Zegana
• 1 Quest for Ula's Temple
• 1 Quicksilver Amulet
• 1 Rampant Growth
• 1 Rejuvenating Springs
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
• 1 Rishkar's Expertise
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Scourge of Fleets
• 1 Serpent of Yawning Depths
• 1 Simic Growth Chamber
• 1 Simic Signet
• 1 Simic Sky Swallower
• 1 Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep
• 1 Sodden Verdure
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spawning Kraken
• 1 Stormsurge Kraken
• 1 Stormtide Leviathan
• 1 Talisman of Curiosity
• 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Three Visits
• 1 Tooth and Nail
• 1 Tromokratis
• 1 Up the Beanstalk
• 1 War Room
• 1 Waterlogged Grove
• 1 Whelming Wave
• 1 Wild Growth
• 1 Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood
• 1 Yavimaya Coast