Ant Man by user8398642

Format: Commander

Commander: The Astonishing Ant-Man

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a Simic +1/+1 counters deck helmed by The Astonishing Ant-Man, built around a simple engine: every card drawn puts a counter on the commander, and those counters convert into a wide board of 1/1 Insect tokens. The deck pairs that with a dense package of power-up creatures, counter-doubling enchantments, and self-mill selection to grow a single threat into a lethal clock. The primary win is combat damage - either a tall trampling creature supercharged by Seismic Tutelage and World War Hulk, or a swarm of Insects generated by Ant-Man's activated ability. Secondary lines include Jackal, Genius Geneticist copying big creature spells and Mole Man, Moloid Master's landfall token engine. It is a grindy, value-oriented midrange deck with no fast mana and no infinite combos, relying on incremental advantage and counter synergy to out-muscle the table.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 A.I.M. Scientists
  • 1 Aerial Doombot
  • 1 Amazing Acrobatics
  • 1 Ant-Man's Army
  • 1 April, Reporter of the Weird
  • 1 Atlantean Cavalry
  • 1 Baxter Building
  • 1 Bold Biochemist
  • 1 Bumi, Eclectic Earthbender
  • 1 Call Damage Control
  • 1 Claim the Kingdom
  • 1 Cycle of Renewal
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Flying Octobot
  • 21 Forest
  • 1 Frog Butler
  • 1 Futurist Forge
  • 1 Giant Koi
  • 1 Giant-Sized Flying Ant
  • 1 Guerrilla Gorilla
  • 1 Guy in the Chair
  • 1 H.E.R.B.I.E. Scout Unit
  • 1 Hercules, Prince of Power
  • 1 Hide on the Ceiling
  • 1 Hot Dog Cart
  • 13 Island
  • 1 Jackal, Genius Geneticist
  • 1 Kapow!
  • 1 Knight of Wundagore
  • 1 Michelangelo, Game Master
  • 1 Michelangelo, Mutant BFF
  • 1 Mole Man, Moloid Master
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Omni-Cheese Pizza
  • 1 Pet Avengers
  • 1 Pictures of Spider-Man
  • 1 Powerful Broker
  • 1 Punishing Punch
  • 1 Rapid Rescue
  • 1 Raucous Audience
  • 1 Restorative Technique
  • 1 Retro-Mutation
  • 1 Return to the Sewers
  • 1 S.H.I.E.L.D. Deployment Drone
  • 1 School Daze
  • 1 Scout the City
  • 1 Seismic Tutelage
  • 1 Serpent Specialist
  • 1 Sewer-veillance Cam
  • 1 She-Hulk, Jade Defender
  • 1 Slithering Cryptid
  • 1 Stature, Size Shifter
  • 1 Stockman, Mad Fly-entist
  • 1 Super Intelligence
  • 1 Surveillance Room
  • 1 The Astonishing Ant-Man
  • 1 The Earth King
  • 1 Training Regimen
  • 1 Ultron Drone
  • 1 Undercover Skrull
  • 1 Unlucky Cabbage Merchant
  • 1 Vibrant Cityscape
  • 1 Viv Vision, Teen Synthezoid
  • 1 Wakandan Royal Guard
  • 1 We Say Thee Nay!
  • 1 White Tiger, Ava Ayala
  • 1 Whoosh!
  • 1 World War Hulk