Ant man optimiert? by g0ddy

Format: Commander

Commander: The Astonishing Ant-Man

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

This Simic deck centers on The Astonishing Ant-Man, converting card draw into +1/+1 counters and converting those counters into a massive army of 1/1 Insect tokens. The deck accelerates in the opening turns with low-cost mana dorks and rocks before establishing engines such as Danny Pink, Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards, and Branching Evolution. These engines create a self-reinforcing feedback loop: drawing cards places counters on Ant-Man, and creating tokens triggers further card draw. Once a wide token board is assembled, the deck closes the game rapidly using game-ending overruns like Craterhoof Behemoth and Overwhelming Stampede, or through unblockable combat via Herald of Secret Streams. While the deck possesses explosive draw power and strong board-building velocity, its reliance on permanent-based board presence makes it vulnerable to mass exile and bounce sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ant-Man, Colony Commander
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Boomerang
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
  • 1 Chord of Calling
  • 1 Circle of Dreams Druid
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Danny Pink
  • 1 Deepglow Skate
  • 1 Deepwood Denizen
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolution Sage
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fierce Empath
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Herald of Secret Streams
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Incubation Druid
  • 1 Innkeeper's Talent
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Kalonian Hydra
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Kid Loki
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Noxious Revival
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
  • 1 Ouroboroid
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Proft's Eidetic Memory
  • 1 Pym Particles
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Remove Soul
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Scythecat Cub
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Snakeskin Veil
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 The Astonishing Ant-Man
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 Tireless Tracker
  • 1 Training Regimen
  • 1 Turbulent Wilderness
  • 1 Vigor
  • 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
  • 1 Willowrush Verge
  • 1 Wizard Class
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast