Zimone gon' give it to ya 🙅‍♂️ [Video Guide] by Heromaf

Format: Commander

Commander: Zimone, Infinite Analyst

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Simic X-spell and +1/+1 counter deck built around Zimone, Infinite Analyst. The commander acts as a scaling discount engine: each first X spell a turn puts two counters on her, making the next X spells cheaper and letting every hydra, draw spell, or counter be larger. The primary plan is to chain one X spell per turn, growing Zimone and a board of trample/flying hydras, then close with an overwhelming combat step. Secondary plans use Unbound Flourishing, Lattice Library, and Owlin Spiralmancer to double or copy X spells, plus X ramp spells to jump mana. There is no hidden commander or infinite combo; wins are large creature turns.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alchemist's Refuge
  • 1 Altered Ego
  • 1 Animist's Awakening
  • 1 Astral Cornucopia
  • 1 Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway
  • 1 Benevolent Hydra
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blitzball Stadium
  • 1 Blue Sun's Twilight
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Botanical Sanctum
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Broodguard Elite
  • 1 Burgeoning
  • 1 Change of Plans
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clash of Wills
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Condescend
  • 1 Curse of the Swine
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Distorting Wake
  • 1 Dominate
  • 1 Doppelgang
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drown in Dreams
  • 1 Dryad Arbor
  • 1 Elusive Otter // Grove's Bounty
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Engineered Explosives
  • 1 Final-Word Phantom
  • 1 Finale of Revelation
  • 1 Flash of Insight
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Goldvein Hydra
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hydroid Krasis
  • 1 Ingenious Prodigy
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Kalonian Hydra
  • 1 Kinetic Ooze
  • 1 Lattice Library
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Mana Bloom
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 March of Swirling Mist
  • 1 Mind into Matter
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mutagen Man, Living Ooze
  • 1 Nev, the Practical Dean
  • 1 Open the Way
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Owlin Spiralmancer
  • 1 Plaza of Heroes
  • 1 Power Sink
  • 1 Primordial Hydra
  • 1 Pull from Tomorrow
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Repeal
  • 1 Repulsive Mutation
  • 1 Ride the Avalanche
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectral Denial
  • 1 Spell Burst
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Sporocyst
  • 1 Stonecoil Serpent
  • 1 Strength of the Tajuru
  • 1 Stroke of Genius
  • 1 Syncopate
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 Tervigon
  • 1 Thassa's Intervention
  • 1 Tyvar's Stand
  • 1 Unbound Flourishing
  • 1 Voracious Hydra
  • 1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
  • 1 Waterlogged Grove
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Wildest Dreams
  • 1 Willowrush Verge
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zimone, Infinite Analyst