Zimone: Manifest Dread by user1695420

Format: Commander

Creator: user1695420

Commander: Zimone, Mystery Unraveler

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This Simic deck is led by Zimone, Mystery Unraveler, combining classic landfall ramp with the manifest dread mechanic to cheat massive threats into play. The primary plan uses early ramp spells like Cultivate, Rampant Growth, and Sakura-Tribe Elder to cast Zimone on turn 3 or 4. Once Zimone is on the battlefield, triggering landfall twice in a single turn allows the first trigger to manifest dread—putting a card face down as a 2/2 creature—and the second trigger to turn that permanent face up for free. This enables the deck to cheat game-ending permanents such as Worldspine Wurm, Hullbreaker Horror, and Hydra Omnivore into play as early as turns 4 to 5. The deck scales into the late game through overwhelming combat damage, boosted by Overwhelming Stampede and Scute Swarm. While vulnerable to targeted removal on its commander and lacking cheap countermagic, its high density of ramp, value engines, and backup beaters provides dependable mid-game momentum.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 Aether Gale
  • 1 Altanak, the Thrice-Called
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
  • 1 Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
  • 1 Augur of Autumn
  • 1 Beanstalk Giant // Fertile Footsteps
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Castle Vantress
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deathmist Raptor
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drownyard Temple
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Eureka Moment
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explosive Vegetation
  • 1 Ezuri's Predation
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fear of Impostors
  • 13 Forest
  • 1 Greater Tanuki
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Hauntwoods Shrieker
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Hydra Omnivore
  • 11 Island
  • 1 Kheru Spellsnatcher
  • 1 Master Symmetrist
  • 1 Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nephalia Smuggler
  • 1 Oblivious Bookworm
  • 1 Oversimplify
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Paranormal Analyst
  • 1 Primordial Mist
  • 1 Quandrix Campus
  • 1 Quandrix Command
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Retreat to Coralhelm
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Scroll of Fate
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
  • 1 Shriekwood Devourer
  • 1 Silent Hallcreeper
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Temple of Mystery
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 They Came from the Pipes
  • 1 Threats Around Every Corner
  • 1 Thunderfoot Baloth
  • 1 Trail of Mystery
  • 1 Trygon Predator
  • 1 Under the Skin
  • 1 Valgavoth's Onslaught
  • 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
  • 1 Voidwalk
  • 1 Walking Atlas
  • 1 Whisperwood Elemental
  • 1 Wilderness Reclamation
  • 1 Worldspine Wurm
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Yavimaya Elder
  • 1 Yedora, Grave Gardener
  • 1 Zimone, Mystery Unraveler
  • 1 Zimone, Quandrix Prodigy