Umm, ackshually by user6263894

Format: Commander

Commander: Zimone, Infinite Analyst

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

Zimone, Infinite Analyst turns every X-spell draw into a growing discount. The deck's primary plan is to play one X spell each turn, build up +1/+1 counters on Zimone, then use that free mana reduction to cast successively larger hydras, draw spells, or land-ramp spells. A second Zimone, Paradox Sculptor, acts as the hidden commander and helps double the counter engine. Secondary paths use copies from Doppelgang, Mockingbird, and Owlin Spiralmancer, or mass land acceleration from Open the Way to make one giant unblockable turn. The deck is not built around the card's quality; it is built around X-mana mana discounts, counter multiplication, and one decisive attack or value explosion.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alchemist's Refuge
  • 1 Altered Ego
  • 1 Animist's Awakening
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Awaken the Woods
  • 1 Benevolent Hydra
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blitzball Stadium
  • 1 Blue Sun's Twilight
  • 1 Brass Infiniscope
  • 1 Broodguard Elite
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Condescend
  • 1 Curse of the Swine
  • 1 Decisive Denial
  • 1 Doppelgang
  • 1 Drown in Dreams
  • 1 Duskshell Crawler
  • 1 Elementalist's Palette
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expansion Algorithm
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Geometer's Arthropod
  • 1 Goldvein Hydra
  • 1 Guardian Augmenter
  • 1 Gyre Sage
  • 1 High Fae Trickster
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hydroid Krasis
  • 1 Innkeeper's Talent
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Kalonian Hydra
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Kinetic Ooze
  • 1 Lifeblood Hydra
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Loading Zone
  • 1 March of Swirling Mist
  • 1 Mockingbird
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nev, the Practical Dean
  • 1 Nexos
  • 1 Nyxborn Hydra
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Open the Way
  • 1 Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
  • 1 Overflowing Basin
  • 1 Owlin Spiralmancer
  • 1 Paradox Gardens
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Perplexing Test
  • 1 Primal Might
  • 1 Primo, the Unbounded
  • 1 Primordial Hydra
  • 1 Pull from Tomorrow
  • 1 Quandrix Campus
  • 1 Rain-Slicked Copse
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Repeal
  • 1 Repulsive Mutation
  • 1 Ripples of Potential
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Silkguard
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sporocyst
  • 1 Stonecoil Serpent
  • 1 Stroke of Genius
  • 1 Study Hall
  • 1 Tangled Islet
  • 1 Temple of Mystery
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Turbulent Wilderness
  • 1 Tyvar's Stand
  • 1 Unbound Flourishing
  • 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
  • 1 Wilderness Reclamation
  • 1 Wildest Dreams
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Zimone's Hypothesis
  • 1 Zimone, Infinite Analyst
  • 1 Zimone, Paradox Sculptor