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Format: Commander

Commander: Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Simic sea-monster ramp deck built around Arixmethes as an early {G}{U} land that wakes into a 12/12 finisher. The core plan is to cast ramp and draw spells to strip the five slumber counters, then deploy large Krakens/Leviathans/Serpents and win with a single trample overrun. Secondary paths include Freed from the Real on an awakened Arixmethes for effectively infinite green mana, and Kenessos, Priest of Thassa acting as a hidden commander to cheat sea monsters into play. Aesi, Tatyova, Kiora, and Garruk's Uprising turn every land drop into cards, making the deck highly consistent. It is more of a mid-speed combat deck than a combo deck; the kill usually comes from commander damage plus Coil-token trample.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crush of Tentacles
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Engulf the Shore
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fertile Ground
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Freed from the Real
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Herd Heirloom
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Inkwell Leviathan
  • 15 Island
  • 1 Kenessos, Priest of Thassa
  • 1 Kiora Bests the Sea God
  • 1 Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner
  • 1 Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Koma, Cosmos Serpent
  • 1 Koma, World-Eater
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mind into Matter
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 1 Naturalize
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Ominous Seas
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Pathbreaker Ibex
  • 1 Planar Genesis
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Prime Speaker Zegana
  • 1 Quest for Ula's Temple
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Scourge of Fleets
  • 1 Serpent of Yawning Depths
  • 1 Shared Roots
  • 1 Shared Summons
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Simic Signet
  • 1 Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spawning Kraken
  • 1 Stormtide Leviathan
  • 1 Stubborn Denial
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tromokratis
  • 1 Up the Beanstalk
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Whelming Wave
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast