Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle (Copy)

Format: Commander

Commander: Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a mid-power combo deck built around the weird Arixmethes, the Slumbering Isle as an early mana engine and finisher to turn on the Kraken line. The plan is to turn Arixmethes into a land that taps for {G}{U}, while slowly removing its sleep counters to transform into the 12/12 island-walk kill. The deck plays a land-ramp game, powered by Lotus artifacts and "landfall" synergies, then uses tutors like Bramble Familiar // Grab the Quest and Dryad's Revival to chain an early Arixmethes and go find the best endgame. Despite being a creature deck, it runs very few creatures - waiting to use spells like Deep-Sea Kraken and Stormsurge Kraken as primary beaters, and Kiora, the Crashing Wave for card selection/extra spell. The end game can be enormous "win the game" Simic Ascendancy gaining counters and a Tromokratis beat. Protection suite is a set of cheap instants and hexproof effects: hund. Protection suite includes [[Spell Pierce, Miscast, Veil of Summer, Heroic Intervention etc. It can also generate unexpected speed via Cyclone Sire638. ## Mulligan: - **Keep:** Arixmethes + ramp, 2-3 lands, cheap interaction. - **Avoid:** Cars of specific critical "Mantle of the Ancients"…

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abundant Harvest
• 1 Adventurous Impulse
• 1 Ageless Entity
• 1 Arboretum Elemental
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
• 1 Biblioplex Kraken
• 1 Blanchwood Prowler
• 1 Blighted Cataract
• 1 Bramble Familiar // Fetch Quest
• 1 Cavalier of Thorns
• 1 Chromatic Lantern
• 1 Cloudkin Seer
• 1 Cloudpost
• 1 Commune with Beavers
• 1 Cycle of Renewal
• 1 Cyclone Sire
• 1 Deep-Sea Kraken
• 1 Diamond Weapon
• 1 Dispel
• 1 Dryad's Revival
• 1 Embodiment of Spring
• 1 Enter the Unknown
• 1 Essence Scatter
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Explore
• 1 Explosive Vegetation
• 1 Floodhound
• 7 Forest
• 1 Gift of the Viper
• 1 Glade Watcher
• 1 Glimmerpost
• 1 Grappling Kraken
• 1 Healer of the Glade
• 1 Hidden Cataract
• 1 Honest Work
• 1 Hydro-Man, Fluid Felon
• 1 Icebreaker Kraken
• 1 Interdisciplinary Mascot
• 1 Invasion of Zendikar // Awakened Skyclave
• 7 Island
• 1 Ivy Elemental
• 1 Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
• 1 Kiora, the Crashing Wave
• 1 Kraken Hatchling
• 1 Leafkin Druid
• 1 Leaves from the Vine
• 1 Mana Leak
• 1 Meditation Pools
• 1 Monstrosity of the Lake
• 1 Nadir Kraken
• 1 Nature's Way
• 1 Negate
• 1 Prey Upon
• 1 Rabid Bite
• 1 Regrowth
• 1 Reservoir Kraken
• 1 Risen Reef
• 1 Rocky Rebuke
• 1 Shipbreaker Kraken
• 1 Shoal Kraken
• 1 Simic Ascendancy
• 3 Snow-Covered Forest
• 3 Snow-Covered Island
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Song of Eärendil
• 1 Song of Freyalise
• 1 Soul's Majesty
• 1 Spectral Flight
• 1 Spell Pierce
• 1 Spirit Water Revival
• 1 Stormsurge Kraken
• 1 Tangled Florahedron // Tangled Vale
• 1 Temple of Mystery
• 1 Thornwood Falls
• 1 Thriving Grove
• 1 Thriving Isle
• 1 Tolarian Kraken
• 1 Trenchpost
• 1 Tromokratis
• 1 Urban Evolution
• 1 Watery Grasp
• 1 Zanarkand, Ancient Metropolis // Lasting Fayth
• 1 Zephyr Winder