clue by user9886183

Format: Commander

Commander: Lonis, Genetics Expert

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Simic Clue/artifact-sacrifice value engine built around Lonis, Genetics Expert, who turns +1/+1 counters into a flood of Clues and converts sacrificed Clues into counters on the team. The deck's real finish is a compact artifact-sacrifice combo - Krark-Clan Ironworks plus Grinding Station plus an infinite-token generator such as Basking Broodscale or Academy Manufactor - that mills every opponent out, with Doubling Season, Parallel Lives, and Lonis, Cryptozoologist as force multipliers. Short of the combo, the deck drowns opponents in card advantage from Tireless Tracker, Tamiyo's Journal, and Forensic Gadgeteer, then closes with a heavily counter-boosted board featuring Maester Seymour, Duggan, Private Detective, and Undercover Crocodelf. It is a classic value-midrange pile that can pivot to a deterministic kill when the right three artifacts line up.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Academy Manufactor
• 1 Aether Spike
• 1 Basking Broodscale
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 1 Briarbridge Tracker
• 1 Cephalid Coliseum
• 1 Clan Crafter
• 1 Collective Resistance
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Confront the Unknown
• 1 Contagion Engine
• 1 Daring Sleuth // Bearer of Overwhelming Truths
• 1 Deduce
• 1 Doubling Season
• 1 Duggan, Private Detective
• 1 Emerald Medallion
• 1 Emrakul's Messenger
• 1 Erdwal Illuminator
• 1 Ethereal Investigator
• 1 Evolution Witness
• 1 Extruder
• 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
• 1 Fangs of Kalonia
• 1 Five Hundred Year Diary
• 1 Flare of Cultivation
• 1 Flare of Denial
• 1 Fleeting Memories
• 1 Forensic Gadgeteer
• 16 Forest
• 1 Grinding Station
• 1 Hard Evidence
• 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
• 14 Island
• 1 Jace's Scrutiny
• 1 James, Wandering Dad // Follow Him
• 1 Kellan, Inquisitive Prodigy // Tail the Suspect
• 1 Kitchen
• 1 Krark-Clan Ironworks
• 1 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Lonis, Cryptozoologist
• 1 Lonis, Genetics Expert
• 1 Maester Seymour
• 1 Magnetic Snuffler
• 1 Martha Jones
• 1 Nyx Lotus
• 1 Ongoing Investigation
• 1 Osgood, Operation Double
• 1 Parallel Lives
• 1 Piper Wright, Publick Reporter
• 1 Root Out
• 1 Sage of Lat-Nam
• 1 Secrets of the Key
• 1 Sharp-Eyed Rookie
• 1 Simic Cluestone
• 1 Simic Growth Chamber
• 1 Simic Guildmage
• 1 Simic Keyrune
• 1 Simic Locket
• 1 Simic Signet
• 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Tamiyo's Journal
• 1 Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student // Tamiyo, Seasoned Scholar
• 1 They Went This Way
• 1 Throne of Geth
• 1 Tireless Tracker
• 1 Trail of Evidence
• 1 Undercover Crocodelf
• 1 Utter Insignificance
• 1 Wavesifter
• 1 Weirding Wood