two eggs in a basket by Handset

Format: Commander

Creator: Handset

Commander: Momir Vig, Simic Visionary

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck is a green-blue creature toolbox centered on Momir Vig, Simic Visionary. By playing dense 1- and 2-drop mana dorks, the deck accelerates into Momir Vig on Turn 4. On Turn 5, casting multicolored green-blue creatures triggers both of Vig's abilities simultaneously, tutoring any creature in the library directly into hand. The primary payoff is Essence of the Wild, deployed on Turn 6. Once Essence of the Wild is on the battlefield, all subsequent cheap creatures and token-generating spells enter as 6/6 copies of Essence of the Wild. Supporting engines like Garruk's Uprising and Beast Whisperer provide massive card draw as 6/6s enter, while pump spells like Overwhelming Stampede and Triumph of the Hordes close out the game on Turn 8 through overwhelming trample combat damage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Denied
  • 1 Applied Biomancy
  • 1 Arachnogenesis
  • 1 Awakening Zone
  • 1 Bane's Contingency
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Blinding Fog
  • 1 Call Damage Control
  • 1 Civic Gardener
  • 1 Coiling Oracle
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crash the Party
  • 1 Creeping Renaissance
  • 1 Defend the Rider
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Dress Down
  • 1 Dryad Arbor
  • 1 Echocasting Symposium
  • 1 Elven Chorus
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Essence of the Wild
  • 1 Feed the Pack
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 17 Forest
  • 1 Fungal Rebirth
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Glen Elendra's Answer
  • 1 Glimpse of Nature
  • 1 Gravity Well
  • 1 Great Forest Druid
  • 1 Gretchen Titchwillow
  • 1 Guadosalam, Farplane Gateway
  • 1 Here Comes a New Hero!
  • 1 Hermitic Herbalist
  • 1 Hydroid Krasis
  • 1 Icefeather Aven
  • 1 Impostor Syndrome
  • 9 Island
  • 1 Jackal, Genius Geneticist
  • 1 Kiora's Follower
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Loamspeaker
  • 1 Maraleaf Pixie
  • 1 Memory's Journey
  • 1 Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
  • 1 Naga Vitalist
  • 1 Needlethorn Drake
  • 1 Nightshade Dryad
  • 1 Oblivious Bookworm
  • 1 Overflowing Basin
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Paradise Druid
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Poison Dart Frog
  • 1 Pond Prophet
  • 1 Portent Tracker
  • 1 Pterafractyl
  • 1 Quest for Renewal
  • 1 Release to the Wind
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rootcoil Creeper
  • 1 Saproling Symbiosis
  • 1 Shambleshark
  • 1 Shorecrasher Mimic
  • 1 Tam, Mindful First-Year
  • 1 Temple of Mystery
  • 1 The Astonishing Ant-Man
  • 1 Triumph of the Hordes
  • 1 Vivien Reid
  • 1 Voyaging Satyr
  • 1 Waterbender's Restoration
  • 1 Wose Pathfinder
  • 1 Zameck Guildmage
  • 1 Zimone, Quandrix Prodigy