Army of One by The_42nd

Format: Commander

Commander: The Astonishing Ant-Man

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This Simic deck is led by The Astonishing Ant-Man, transforming raw card draw into massive +1/+1 counters and wide swarms of 1/1 Insect creature tokens. The deck establishes an efficient engine early by pairing Ant-Man with combat draw enablers like Coastal Piracy, Bred for the Hunt, and Skullclamp. As cards flow into hand, Ant-Man grows rapidly and converts counters into an escalating board of Insects. The deck transitions into a lethal threat by granting trample and unblockability through Sphere Grid, Training Regimen, and Rikku, Resourceful Guardian, or by casting Craterhoof Behemoth to overwhelm the table in a single massive attack. A strong suite of cheap counterspells and hexproof protection spells safeguards the board against targeted removal, while standalone threats like Chasm Skulker and Bonny Pall, Clearcutter ensure the deck can win even if the commander is removed.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Ant-Man, Colony Commander
• 1 Ant-Man, Reformed Rogue
• 1 Behold the Multiverse
• 1 Bender's Waterskin
• 1 Bonny Pall, Clearcutter
• 1 Bred for the Hunt
• 1 Broodguard Elite
• 1 Chasm Skulker
• 1 Coastal Piracy
• 1 Cold-Eyed Selkie
• 1 Combat Tutorial
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Consider
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Cyber Conversion
• 1 Dreamroot Cascade
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Farseek
• 10 Forest
• 1 Forgotten Ancient
• 1 Harmonized Trio // Brainstorm
• 1 Hide on the Ceiling
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Hydro-Man, Fluid Felon
• 10 Island
• 1 Karn's Bastion
• 1 Keep Safe
• 1 Kid Loki
• 1 Logic Knot
• 1 Mana Leak
• 1 Marcus, Mutant Mayor
• 1 Mask of Memory
• 1 Mathemagics
• 1 Maze of Ith
• 1 Mind Stone
• 1 Mind into Matter
• 1 Mister Hyde, Monster Within
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 Negate
• 1 Noxious Revival
• 1 Opt
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Pick Your Poison
• 1 Preordain
• 1 Pym Technologies
• 1 Rain-Slicked Copse
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Restorative Technique
• 1 Rikku, Resourceful Guardian
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Royal Treatment
• 1 Sazh Katzroy
• 1 Search for Tomorrow
• 1 Shire Terrace
• 1 Simic Cluestone
• 1 Simulacrum Shaper
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Snakeskin Veil
• 1 Sodden Verdure
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sphere Grid
• 1 Spider-Sense
• 1 Spry and Mighty
• 1 Strength of Will
• 1 Super Intelligence
• 1 Syncopate
• 1 Tam, Mindful First-Year
• 1 Tangled Islet
• 1 Terrasymbiosis
• 1 The Astonishing Ant-Man
• 1 The Wondrous Wasp
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Throne of the High City
• 1 Training Regimen
• 1 Variable Chaser // Arc of Fortune
• 1 Verdant Kraken
• 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
• 1 Waterbender Ascension
• 1 We Say Thee Nay!
• 1 Whirlwind Denial