Bluffing by Jwong

Format: Commander

Creator: Jwong

Commander: Zimone, Mystery Unraveler

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck leverages Zimone, Mystery Unraveler to bridge Simic landfall ramp with the manifest dread mechanic. Early turns establish mana velocity through low-cost land acceleration and mana dorks. Once Zimone is deployed, your first land drop each turn manifests dread, setting up face-down permanents. The critical breakthrough occurs on your second land drop in a single turn, which allows you to flip any face-down permanent face up for zero mana. This cheats high-impact permanents like Worldspine Wurm, Omniscience, and Dark Depths into play well ahead of curve. The deck also includes an infinite landfall interaction between Ashaya, Soul of the Wild and Quirion Ranger. The game concludes via wide, trampling combat damage amplified by Overwhelming Stampede or Finale of Devastation. While the deck has high resilience through its land-heavy base, it depends on board presence and features modest stack interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
• 1 Aether Gale
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
• 1 Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Brine Elemental
• 1 Brokers Hideout
• 1 Castle Vantress
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Dark Depths
• 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
• 1 Entish Restoration
• 1 Escape Tunnel
• 1 Eureka Moment
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Experiment Twelve
• 1 Experimental Lab // Staff Room
• 1 Explore
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Finale of Devastation
• 1 Flooded Grove
• 9 Forest
• 1 Growing Dread
• 1 Growth Spiral
• 1 Harrow
• 1 Hauntwoods Shrieker
• 1 Hedge Shredder
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Hydra Omnivore
• 9 Island
• 1 Loot, Exuberant Explorer
• 1 Lotus Cobra
• 1 Mosswort Bridge
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 1 Negate
• 1 Omniscience
• 1 One with the Multiverse
• 1 Overflowing Basin
• 1 Overlord of the Hauntwoods
• 1 Overwhelming Stampede
• 1 Paranormal Analyst
• 1 Pongify
• 1 Priest of Titania
• 1 Primordial Mist
• 1 Quandrix Campus
• 1 Quirion Ranger
• 1 Rampaging Baloths
• 1 Rampant Growth
• 1 Ramunap Excavator
• 1 Reality Shift
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Retreat to Coralhelm
• 1 Roiling Regrowth
• 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1 Scroll of Fate
• 1 Secret Plans
• 1 Shriekwood Devourer
• 1 Simic Growth Chamber
• 1 Simic Signet
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Temple of Mystery
• 1 Temple of the False God
• 1 Temur War Shaman
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 They Came from the Pipes
• 1 Thousand Winds
• 1 Threats Around Every Corner
• 1 Thunderfoot Baloth
• 1 Tireless Provisioner
• 1 Trail of Mystery
• 1 Twist Reality
• 1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
• 1 Valgavoth's Onslaught
• 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
• 1 Wilderness Reclamation
• 1 Worldspine Wurm
• 1 Yavimaya Coast
• 1 Zimone's Hypothesis
• 1 Zimone, Mystery Unraveler