eˣponential wizardry-Ectar edit by Ectar

Format: Commander

Commander: Zimone, Infinite Analyst

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Simic X-spell value deck helmed by Zimone, Infinite Analyst. The entire game plan revolves around casting spells with {X} in their mana cost: each first X-spell per turn puts two +1/+1 counters on Zimone, and her discount grows with those counters, making subsequent X-spells nearly free. The deck generates overwhelming card advantage through Finale of Revelation, Mathemagics, and Hydroid Krasis, then closes with massive Hydra creatures amplified by Unbound Flourishing and Benevolent Hydra. The primary win is combat - a huge trampling Hydra boosted by Exponential Growth and protected by Tyvar's Stand - with Doppelgang and Mass Manipulation as alternate board-dominating lines. It is a midrange value engine that out-draws and out-muscles opponents rather than assembling a fast combo.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Alchemist's Refuge
  • 1 Animist's Awakening
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Benevolent Hydra
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Botanical Sanctum
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Broodguard Elite
  • 1 Clash of Wills
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Insight
  • 1 Condescend
  • 1 Distorting Wake
  • 1 Doppelgang
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drown in Dreams
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Epiphany at the Drownyard
  • 1 Even the Score
  • 1 Exponential Growth
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Finale of Revelation
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 9 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Geometer's Arthropod
  • 1 Goldvein Hydra
  • 1 Green Sun's Twilight
  • 1 Hide on the Ceiling
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
  • 1 Hydroid Krasis
  • 1 Icy Blast
  • 1 Ingenious Prodigy
  • 9 Island
  • 1 Kinetic Ooze
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Lost in the Maze
  • 1 Mana Bloom
  • 1 March of Swirling Mist
  • 1 Mass Manipulation
  • 1 Mathemagics
  • 1 Mind into Matter
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Occult Epiphany
  • 1 Open the Way
  • 1 Overflowing Basin
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Power Sink
  • 1 Primo, the Unbounded
  • 1 Pull from Tomorrow
  • 1 Ravener
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Repulsive Mutation
  • 1 Ripples of Potential
  • 1 Riptide Laboratory
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Silkguard
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectral Denial
  • 1 Spell Burst
  • 1 Sporocyst
  • 1 Stonecoil Serpent
  • 1 Stroke of Genius
  • 1 Syncopate
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 Thassa's Intervention
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Turbulent Wilderness
  • 1 Tyrant Guard
  • 1 Tyvar's Stand
  • 1 Unbound Flourishing
  • 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
  • 1 Voracious Hydra
  • 1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Willowrush Verge
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Zimone, Infinite Analyst