Don't player hate, proliferate. by T4nkerss

Format: Commander

Commander: Experiment Kraj

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This Simic deck focuses on +1/+1 counter synergy, creature scaling, and utility borrowing led by Experiment Kraj. The early game focuses on ramping with cards like Incubation Druid and Growth Spiral while establishing early counter foundations. During the midgame, counter multipliers like Branching Evolution, Michelangelo, Weirdness to 11, and Vorel of the Hull Clade exponentially grow the board. Experiment Kraj ties the strategy together by gaining every activated ability across all modified creatures, enabling massive mana generation and repeatable counter distribution. The deck finishes games through overwhelming combat damage powered by trample providers like Duskshell Crawler and Zegana, Utopian Speaker, or through an alternate victory condition with Simic Ascendancy. A solid suite of low-cost hexproof and flicker protection spells safeguards key threats from opposing spot removal.

Decklist (105 cards)

  • 1 Alchemist's Refuge
  • 1 Archetype of Endurance
  • 1 Benthic Biomancer
  • 1 Biogenic Upgrade
  • 1 Bioshift
  • 1 Bloom Hulk
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Bred for the Hunt
  • 1 Combine Guildmage
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Contagion Clasp
  • 1 Contagion Engine
  • 1 Dormant Grove // Gnarled Grovestrider
  • 1 Durable Handicraft
  • 1 Duskshell Crawler
  • 1 Experiment Kraj
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Ezuri, Stalker of Spheres
  • 1 Fangs of Kalonia
  • 1 Fertilid
  • 15 Forest
  • 1 Frilled Mystic
  • 1 Froghemoth
  • 1 Fuel for the Cause
  • 1 Ghost Quarter
  • 1 Gift of the Viper
  • 1 Give // Take
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Gyre Engineer
  • 1 Incubation // Incongruity
  • 1 Incubation Druid
  • 14 Island
  • 1 Jackal, Genius Geneticist
  • 1 Lakeside Shack
  • 1 Littjara Mirrorlake
  • 1 Llanowar Reborn
  • 1 Lorescale Coatl
  • 1 Michelangelo, Weirdness to 11
  • 1 Mizzium Skin
  • 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
  • 1 Naturalize
  • 1 New Horizons
  • 1 Novijen, Heart of Progress
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Oran-Rief Ooze
  • 1 Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
  • 1 Origin of Metalbending
  • 1 Planar Incision
  • 1 Plasm Capture
  • 1 Pollenbright Druid
  • 1 Primal Empathy
  • 1 Prime Speaker Zegana
  • 1 Prishe's Wanderings
  • 1 Quandrix Charm
  • 1 Quandrix Command
  • 1 Quirion Beastcaller
  • 1 Reject Imperfection
  • 1 Royal Treatment
  • 1 Sazh Katzroy
  • 1 Shapers of Nature
  • 1 Simic Ascendancy
  • 1 Simic Signet
  • 1 Snakeskin Veil
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul's Might
  • 1 Steady Progress
  • 1 Stocking the Pantry
  • 1 Stony Strength
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Teferi's Time Twist
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Troyan, Gutsy Explorer
  • 1 Urban Evolution
  • 1 Vorel of the Hull Clade
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Zegana, Utopian Speaker