Cat cannon by Rabbit82

Format: Commander

Commander: The Lion-Turtle

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Simic deck functions as a resilient landfall combo and value engine, using The Lion-Turtle primarily as early mana acceleration and life stabilization rather than a build-around win condition. The primary strategy focuses on assembling landfall draw engines such as Tatyova, Benthic Druid and Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait alongside multiple land plays from Azusa, Lost but Seeking or Exploration. The deck wins by generating infinite landfall triggers through Retreat to Coralhelm and Walking Atlas with a bounce land to produce infinite mana or burn via Sunscorched Desert, by locking out turns with Walk the Aeons and graveyard land recursion, or by overwhelming tables with Scute Swarm.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Ancient Greenwarden
  • 1 Arid Archway
  • 1 Awaken the Woods
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Chrome Cat
  • 1 Chrome Prowler
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Courser of Kruphix
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Deprive
  • 1 Disorienting Choice
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Druid Class
  • 1 Dryad Arbor
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Elvish Reclaimer
  • 1 Enduring Curiosity
  • 1 Eternity Vessel
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Feline Sovereign
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Frost Lynx
  • 1 Generous Stray
  • 1 Glacial Chasm
  • 1 Guardian of Tazeem
  • 1 Horizon of Progress
  • 1 Hunting Cheetah
  • 1 Infirmary Healer // Stream of Life
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Jaddi Offshoot
  • 1 Kazandu Nectarpot
  • 1 Keeper of Fables
  • 1 Kimahri, Valiant Guardian
  • 1 Loot, Exuberant Explorer
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Mischievous Catgeist // Catlike Curiosity
  • 1 Mole Man, Moloid Master
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nissa, Resurgent Animist
  • 1 Oboro Breezecaller
  • 1 Once Upon a Time
  • 1 Origin of Metalbending
  • 1 Phyrexian Processor
  • 1 PuPu UFO
  • 1 Qasali Slingers
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Retreat to Coralhelm
  • 1 Retreat to Kazandu
  • 1 Roil Elemental
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Scythecat Cub
  • 1 Silverback Elder
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Soratami Savant
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Summer Bloom
  • 1 Sunscorched Desert
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Teachings of the Archaics
  • 1 Temple of Mystery
  • 1 Temur Sabertooth
  • 1 Terrain Generator
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Territorial Scythecat
  • 1 The Lion-Turtle
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Vesuva
  • 1 Walk the Aeons
  • 1 Walking Atlas
  • 1 Watchers of the Dead
  • 1 Waterbending Lesson
  • 1 Waterlogged Grove
  • 1 Y'shtola Rhul
  • 1 Zimone, Quandrix Prodigy
  • 1 Zuran Orb