Ant-man by user8091127

Format: Commander

Commander: The Astonishing Ant-Man

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Simic +1/+1 counters deck built around a massive draw engine, helmed by The Astonishing Ant-Man. The commander converts every card drawn into a +1/+1 counter, then spends those counters to flood the board with 1/1 Insect tokens. The deck layers a dense suite of draw doublers - Teferi's Ageless Insight, Alhammarret's Archive, Vnwxt, Verbose Host, and Reed Richards, Smartest Man - on top of counter doublers like Branching Evolution and Primal Vigor to explode in value. It wins through a web of alternate conditions: Simic Ascendancy at twenty growth counters, Epic Struggle with twenty creatures, Twenty-Toed Toad attacking with twenty cards in hand, or Laboratory Maniac after drawing out. The plan is slow, value-driven, and entirely dependent on its draw engines rather than tutors or fast mana.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alhammarret's Archive
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ant-Man, Reformed Rogue
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Benthic Biomancer
  • 1 Biomancer's Familiar
  • 1 Boon of the Wish-Giver
  • 1 Botanical Sanctum
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Bred for the Hunt
  • 1 Coastal Piracy
  • 1 Combine Chrysalis
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curiosity Crafter
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Enter the Enigma
  • 1 Epic Struggle
  • 1 Essence Scatter
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Explosive Vegetation
  • 1 Ezuri, Claw of Progress
  • 1 Fathom Mage
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Fractal Harness
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Growth Curve
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Harmonized Trio // Brainstorm
  • 1 High Score
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Ivy Lane Denizen
  • 1 Kid Loki
  • 1 Krang, the All-Powerful
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Level Up
  • 1 Mathemagics
  • 1 Mind into Matter
  • 1 Nexus Mentality
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Pensive Professor
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Primal Vigor
  • 1 Proft's Eidetic Memory
  • 1 Pull from Tomorrow
  • 1 Quench
  • 1 Quick Study
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reed Richards, Smartest Man
  • 1 Refute
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Simic Ascendancy
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Stark's Ingenuity
  • 1 Strength of Will
  • 1 Super Intelligence
  • 1 Tanazir Quandrix
  • 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
  • 1 Temple of Mystery
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Astonishing Ant-Man
  • 1 The Ten Rings
  • 1 Thornwood Falls
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Training Grounds
  • 1 Training Regimen
  • 1 Twenty-Toed Toad
  • 1 Vibrant Cityscape
  • 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
  • 1 Vnwxt, Verbose Host
  • 1 Vorel of the Hull Clade
  • 1 Wash Away
  • 1 Wizard Class
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Zimone, Paradox Sculptor