budget 0 by Funnymoney13

Format: Commander

Commander: Zimone, Paradox Sculptor

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is a Simic midrange strategy centered on +1/+1 and charge counter multiplication led by Zimone, Paradox Sculptor. The early game focuses on deploying fast mana and scaling mana dorks like Gyre Sage and Kami of Whispered Hopes. Once Zimone enters, her combat trigger and tap ability rapidly double counters across creatures and utility artifacts. This fuels card draw engines like Insight Engine and Etched Oracle while expanding massive threats such as Primordial Hydra and Primo, the Unbounded. The deck can also execute an infinite mana loop using Kami of Whispered Hopes and Vigean Graftmage. Because the deck lacks defensive countermagic and relies heavily on creature combat without haste, it is vulnerable to well-timed sweepers and fast opposing combos.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetheric Amplifier
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ascendant Acolyte
  • 1 Astral Cornucopia
  • 1 Bioshift
  • 1 Blitzball Stadium
  • 1 Bugenhagen, Wise Elder
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Cradle Clearcutter
  • 1 Crystalline Crawler
  • 1 Doc Samson, Super Psychiatrist
  • 1 Drix Fatemaker
  • 1 Elvenking's Halls
  • 1 Empowered Autogenerator
  • 1 Etched Oracle
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Evolution Witness
  • 1 Fangs of Kalonia
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 18 Forest
  • 1 Fractal Harness
  • 1 Growth Curve
  • 1 Gyre Sage
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hydra Trainer
  • 1 Hydroid Krasis
  • 1 Insight Engine
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Lifeblood Hydra
  • 1 Loading Zone
  • 1 Marketback Walker
  • 1 Mindless Automaton
  • 1 Mona Lisa, Science Geek
  • 1 Ochre Jelly
  • 1 Overflowing Basin
  • 1 Paradox Gardens
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pensive Professor
  • 1 Pentad Prism
  • 1 Primo, the Unbounded
  • 1 Primordial Hydra
  • 1 Puca's Covenant
  • 1 Quilled Greatwurm
  • 1 Rainveil Rejuvenator
  • 1 Rampaging Aetherhood
  • 1 Rampant Rejuvenator
  • 1 Ray Fillet, Man Ray
  • 1 Ray Fillet, Wave Warrior
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Simic Ascendancy
  • 1 Simic Manipulator
  • 1 Simic Signet
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solidarity of Heroes
  • 1 Steelbane Hydra
  • 1 Stocking the Pantry
  • 1 Study the Classics
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Curiosity
  • 1 Thickest in the Thicket
  • 1 Threefold Thunderhulk
  • 1 Thriving Grove
  • 1 Topiary Lecturer
  • 1 Trailtracker Scout
  • 1 Transformative Commons
  • 1 Triskelion
  • 1 Vigean Graftmage
  • 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
  • 1 Viridian Joiner
  • 1 Vorel of the Hull Clade
  • 1 Zameck Guildmage
  • 1 Zimone, Paradox Sculptor