Dread Them by Coyotango

Format: Commander

Commander: Zimone, Mystery Unraveler

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is a Simic landfall and cheat-into-play midrange strategy commanded by Zimone, Mystery Unraveler. It leverages the manifest dread mechanic to place cards face down as 2/2 creatures and exploits multiple land drops per turn to trigger Zimone's second landfall ability, turning massive permanents face up without paying their mana costs. Key cheat targets include Worldspine Wurm, Koma, World-Eater, Koma, Cosmos Serpent, and Liege of the Tangle. Supported by heavy land-ramp sorceries and landfall enablers such as Threats Around Every Corner, Exploration, and Azusa, Lost but Seeking, the deck rapidly ramps into an overwhelming board state. While the deck possesses massive card velocity and recursive pressure through combat damage, it carries minimal reactive interaction and zero stax locks, remaining vulnerable to fast combo strategies and well-timed sweepers that wipe out face-down creatures before they can be flipped.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abhorrent Oculus
  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 Ancient Greenwarden
  • 1 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Break Down the Door
  • 1 Cackling Counterpart
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Curator Beastie
  • 1 Disorienting Choice
  • 1 Drownyard Temple
  • 1 Eureka Moment
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Experiment Twelve
  • 1 Experimental Lab // Staff Room
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Explosive Vegetation
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Glitch Interpreter
  • 1 Growing Dread
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Hauntwoods Shrieker
  • 1 Hedge Shredder
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Insidious Fungus
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Koma, Cosmos Serpent
  • 1 Koma, World-Eater
  • 1 Lakeside Shack
  • 1 Liege of the Tangle
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mirror Room // Fractured Realm
  • 1 Moldering Gym // Weight Room
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 1 Mutational Advantage
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nissa, Vastwood Seer // Nissa, Sage Animist
  • 1 Nissa, Worldwaker
  • 1 Oblivious Bookworm
  • 1 Overflowing Basin
  • 1 Overlord of the Hauntwoods
  • 1 Paranormal Analyst
  • 1 Printlifter Ooze
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Roiling Regrowth
  • 1 Sandwurm Convergence
  • 1 Scroll of Fate
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Silent Hallcreeper
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tangled Islet
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 They Came from the Pipes
  • 1 Thornwood Falls
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Threats Around Every Corner
  • 1 Trail of Mystery
  • 1 Twist Reality
  • 1 Under the Skin
  • 1 Valgavoth's Onslaught
  • 1 Vannifar, Evolved Enigma
  • 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
  • 1 Walk-In Closet // Forgotten Cellar
  • 1 Whisperwood Elemental
  • 1 Worldspine Wurm
  • 1 Wrenn and Seven
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Yedora, Grave Gardener
  • 1 Zendikar's Roil
  • 1 Zimone, Mystery Unraveler