comm-ant-er by koconn

Format: Commander

Commander: The Astonishing Ant-Man

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Simic deck focuses on converting card draw into +1/+1 counters and wide token boards using The Astonishing Ant-Man. By deploying your commander early, every extra card drawn inflates Ant-Man's power, which you then convert into swarms of 1/1 Insect tokens. Counter multipliers like Doubling Season, Branching Evolution, and Ozolith, the Shattered Spire rapidly amplify this growth. The deck transitions into lethal combat damage using mass evasion or overwhelming power via Craterhoof Behemoth, Overwhelming Stampede, and Champion of Lambholt. Alternate paths to victory include direct card-draw burn from Psychosis Crawler and an alternate win condition via Simic Ascendancy.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adrix and Nev, Twincasters
  • 1 Arcade Cabinet
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Beastmaster Ascension
  • 1 Biomancer's Familiar
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Brainsurge
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Champion of Lambholt
  • 1 Chasm Skulker
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Enduring Curiosity
  • 1 Enduring Vitality
  • 1 Eureka Moment
  • 1 Evolution Sage
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Ezuri, Claw of Progress
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 13 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Growth Curve
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Harmonized Trio // Brainstorm
  • 1 Innkeeper's Talent
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 1 Iron Man, Armored Avenger
  • 14 Island
  • 1 Ivy Lane Denizen
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Kid Loki
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Lakeside Shack
  • 1 Lush Oasis
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
  • 1 Parallel Lives
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Proft's Eidetic Memory
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Simic Ascendancy
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 Tezzeret's Gambit
  • 1 The Astonishing Ant-Man
  • 1 The Wondrous Wasp
  • 1 Thornwood Falls
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Three Steps Ahead
  • 1 Training Grounds
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Wizard Class
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Zimone, Paradox Sculptor