Monster by Gus47

Format: Commander

Commander: Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Simic sea-monster deck helmed by Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle is a classic battle-cruiser strategy that accelerates into oversized Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents. The commander functions as a reusable mana rock (a land that taps for two mana) before eventually awakening into a 12/12 trampler. The deck's primary path to victory is combat damage, leveraging abilities like cascade from Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty and free-cast triggers from Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep to chain huge spells. Finishers include Overwhelming Stampede and Garruk's Uprising for trample, plus bounce effects like Whelming Wave to clear the board of non-sea creatures. The deck has no infinite combos, no tutors, and very little recursion, relying on raw power and redundancy.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Botanical Sanctum
  • 1 Breaching Leviathan
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Brinelin, the Moon Kraken
  • 1 Colossal Majesty
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deep-Sea Kraken
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 Engulf the Shore
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fertile Ground
  • 1 Fireshrieker
  • 13 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hunter's Insight
  • 1 Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 12 Island
  • 1 Kenrith's Transformation
  • 1 Kiora's Follower
  • 1 Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner
  • 1 Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep
  • 1 Kozilek's Unsealing
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lorthos, the Tidemaker
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Pearl Lake Ancient
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Prime Speaker Zegana
  • 1 Pull from Tomorrow
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Scourge of Fleets
  • 1 Serpent of Yawning Depths
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Simic Signet
  • 1 Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep
  • 1 Snakeskin Veil
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spawning Kraken
  • 1 Stormtide Leviathan
  • 1 Stubborn Denial
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Tangled Islet
  • 1 Temple of Mystery
  • 1 Thornwood Falls
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Thryx, the Sudden Storm
  • 1 Trench Behemoth
  • 1 Tromokratis
  • 1 Urban Evolution
  • 1 Voyaging Satyr
  • 1 Whelming Wave
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast