Lonis - It feels so lonely, let me steal your stuff! by ClyDeft

Format: Commander

Commander: Lonis, Cryptozoologist

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Simic Clue-token engine deck built to maximize Lonis, Cryptozoologist's investigate trigger and convert a flood of Clues into raw board presence. The plan is straightforward: deploy cheap nontoken creatures so every ETB creates a Clue, multiply that production with Academy Manufactor, Parallel Lives, Adrix and Nev, Twincasters, and Peregrin Took, then sacrifice the Clues to Lonis to cheat permanents directly out of opponents' libraries - chaining activations as each cheated-in creature triggers another investigate. Untap outlets like Thousand-Year Elixir, Wirewood Lodge, and Kiora's Follower allow multiple activations per turn. The primary finisher is Cyberdrive Awakener, animating a dozen-plus Clues/Foods/Treasures into 4/4 flyers for a one-shot alpha strike, with a secondary infinite loop via Temur Sabertooth plus Shrieking Drake. The deck favors grinding value and redundancy over raw tutor density or fast mana.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Adrix and Nev, Twincasters
  • 1 Amphibian Downpour
  • 1 Amphin Mutineer
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arbor Elf
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Botanical Sanctum
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curse of the Swine
  • 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Displace
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Dour Port-Mage
  • 1 Dream Stalker
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Erdwal Illuminator
  • 1 Essence Flux
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Forensic Gadgeteer
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Gala Greeters
  • 1 Gene Pollinator
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
  • 1 Idol of Oblivion
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Jaheira, Friend of the Forest
  • 1 Junk Winder
  • 1 Kenrith's Transformation
  • 1 Kiora's Follower
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Lonis, Cryptozoologist
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Parallel Lives
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Peregrin Took
  • 1 Priest of Titania
  • 1 Quirion Ranger
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Sanctum Weaver
  • 1 Scryb Ranger
  • 1 Shimmer Dragon
  • 1 Shrieking Drake
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Starfield Vocalist
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Summoner's Pact
  • 1 Temur Sabertooth
  • 1 The Shire
  • 1 Thought Monitor
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Tireless Tracker
  • 1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
  • 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
  • 1 Willowrush Verge
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Wirewood Lodge
  • 1 Wirewood Symbiote
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast