Primo - Fractals and Hydras by Deelaun

Format: Commander

Commander: Primo, the Unbounded

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is a Simic +1/+1 counters and X-spell strategy led by Primo, the Unbounded. The game plan accelerates mana in the early turns using cost-reducers like Nexos and charge-based artifacts like Elementalist's Palette. It then casts Primo or large base-power 0 Hydras. When Primo or other 0-power creatures deal combat damage to an opponent, Primo creates a new Fractal token with power equal to the damage dealt, doubling the board's offensive presence every combat step. Permanent multipliers like Garruk's Uprising, Doubling Season, and Unbound Flourishing convert this growth into overwhelming trampling attacks. The deck aims to close out games through scaling combat damage across turns 5 to 7. While it features strong redundancy and alternative finishers like Body of Research, it relies heavily on successful combat connections and has limited cheap instant interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Additive Evolution
  • 1 Animist's Awakening
  • 1 Applied Geometry
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bear Umbra
  • 1 Biomass Mutation
  • 1 Body of Research
  • 1 Brass Infiniscope
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Curse of the Swine
  • 1 Decisive Denial
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Elementalist's Palette
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Feral Hydra
  • 1 Finale of Revelation
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Fractal Harness
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Genesis Hydra
  • 1 Goldvein Hydra
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hydroid Krasis
  • 1 Ingenious Prodigy
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Kinetic Ooze
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Lattice Library
  • 1 Lifeblood Hydra
  • 1 Mind Spring
  • 1 Mistcutter Hydra
  • 1 Moonsilver Key
  • 1 Mwonvuli Beast Tracker
  • 1 Nev, the Practical Dean
  • 1 Nexos
  • 1 Nimbus Swimmer
  • 1 Nyxbloom Ancient
  • 1 Nyxborn Hydra
  • 1 Open the Way
  • 1 Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
  • 1 Overflowing Basin
  • 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
  • 1 Paradox Gardens
  • 1 Paradox Zone
  • 1 Primo, the Unbounded
  • 1 Primordial Hydra
  • 1 Quandrix Campus
  • 1 Quandrix Command
  • 1 Rain-Slicked Copse
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Silkguard
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphere Grid
  • 1 Sporocyst
  • 1 Steelbane Hydra
  • 1 Stocking the Pantry
  • 1 Stonecoil Serpent
  • 1 Tangled Islet
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 Thassa's Intervention
  • 1 The Eternity Elevator
  • 1 The Goose Mother
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Troyan, Gutsy Explorer
  • 1 Ultros, Obnoxious Octopus
  • 1 Unbound Flourishing
  • 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
  • 1 Vorel of the Hull Clade
  • 1 Wave Goodbye
  • 1 Wren's Run Hydra
  • 1 Zimone, Infinite Analyst