Zimone, Paradox Sculptor by giorgiounreal

Format: Commander

Commander: Zimone, Paradox Sculptor

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This Simic deck is led by Zimone, Paradox Sculptor and focuses on exponential +1/+1 counter growth, mana acceleration, and trampling combat finishes. The early game establishes acceleration through mana dorks like Birds of Paradise and Incubation Druid alongside counter enhancers such as Hardened Scales and Ozolith, the Shattered Spire. By turn 4, Zimone enters to distribute and double counters on key beaters. Turn 5 presents an overwhelming board state featuring explosive threats like Kalonian Hydra, Mossborn Hydra, or Defiler of Vigor. The deck converts this size into victory on turn 6 through trample enablers, Wave Goodbye asymmetric board clears, or alternate win conditions like Simic Ascendancy. A lean suite of 1-mana counterspells and dedicated phasing/indestructible protection safeguards the board against opposing disruption.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Aetherize
• 1 Alchemist's Refuge
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archdruid's Charm
• 1 Astral Cornucopia
• 1 Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Benevolent Hydra
• 1 Biophagus
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Botanical Sanctum
• 1 Branching Evolution
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 1 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
• 1 Champion of Lambholt
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Court of Garenbrig
• 1 Crystalline Crawler
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Defiler of Vigor
• 1 Doubling Season
• 1 Dreamroot Cascade
• 1 Evolution Sage
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Fathom Mage
• 1 Flooded Grove
• 1 Flusterstorm
• 5 Forest
• 1 Forgotten Ancient
• 1 Garruk's Uprising
• 1 Goldvein Hydra
• 1 Hadana's Climb // Winged Temple of Orazca
• 1 Hall of Oracles
• 1 Hardened Scales
• 1 Hedge Maze
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Incubation Druid
• 1 Innkeeper's Talent
• 1 Inspiring Call
• 4 Island
• 1 Kalonian Hydra
• 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
• 1 Karn's Bastion
• 1 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
• 1 Kodama of the West Tree
• 1 Managorger Hydra
• 1 Miscast
• 1 Misty Rainforest
• 1 Mossborn Hydra
• 1 Mutational Advantage
• 1 Mystic Remora
• 1 Negate
• 1 Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
• 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
• 1 Pathbreaker Ibex
• 1 Pir, Imaginative Rascal
• 1 Plaza of Heroes
• 1 Pongify
• 1 Quilled Greatwurm
• 1 Railway Brawler
• 1 Rapid Hybridization
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 1 Rejuvenating Springs
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Ripples of Potential
• 1 Rishkar, Peema Renegade
• 1 Sage of Hours
• 1 Scythecat Cub
• 1 Simic Ascendancy
• 1 Simic Growth Chamber
• 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 The Great Henge
• 1 The Ozolith
• 1 Thrummingbird
• 1 Tribute to the World Tree
• 1 Twenty-Toed Toad
• 1 Vigor
• 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
• 1 Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider
• 1 Walking Ballista
• 1 Waterlogged Grove
• 1 Wave Goodbye
• 1 Worldly Tutor
• 1 Yavimaya Coast
• 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
• 1 Zimone, Paradox Sculptor