Astonishing Ant Man by user6586698

Format: Commander

Commander: The Astonishing Ant-Man

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Simic +1/+1 counter deck that plays a long game of incremental card advantage, ramp, and token generation before finishing through overwhelming combat damage. The Astonishing Ant-Man is a repeatable factory: it grows whenever you draw a card, and its activated ability converts stored +1/+1 counters into an army of 1/1 Insect tokens. The deck does not rely on a single combo line; instead, it layers counter-doubling effects, token amplifiers like Primal Vigor and Ant-Man, Colony Commander, and draw engines such as Tatyova and Tishana to build an unstoppable board. The hidden commander is Tanazir Quandrix, the actual card the deck is built to use. Cosmetically, Ant-Man is the logo, but Tanazir is the engine that doubles counters and sets your whole board's base stats to its power, and the deck's best plays involve resolving Tanazir and then winning with a single massive attack.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Absorbing Man
• 1 Agna Qel'a
• 1 Alchemist's Refuge
• 1 Amphibian Downpour
• 1 Ant-Man, Colony Commander
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archway of Innovation
• 1 Baxter Building
• 1 Beorn's Hospitality
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Blossombind
• 1 Brainsurge
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Cosmic Crucible
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Daily Bugle Building
• 1 Eladamri, Korvecdal
• 1 Elder Gargaroth
• 1 Elvish Mystic
• 1 Explosive Vegetation
• 1 Farseek
• 15 Forest
• 1 Herald of Secret Streams
• 1 High Market
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Hit-Monkey
• 1 Hulk, Strongest There Is
• 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1 Inspiring Call
• 9 Island
• 1 Jumbo Cactuar
• 1 Kodama's Reach
• 1 Krosan Grip
• 1 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Loot, Exuberant Explorer
• 1 Mithril Coat
• 1 Nasty Little Rabbit
• 1 Nightshade Dryad
• 1 Nyxborn Hydra
• 1 Plaza of Heroes
• 1 Primal Vigor
• 1 Prime Speaker Zegana
• 1 Primordial Hydra
• 1 Pym Technologies
• 1 Rampant Growth
• 1 Reclamation Sage
• 1 Restorative Technique
• 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
• 1 Rite of Replication
• 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1 Sandman, Shifting Scoundrel
• 1 Shamanic Revelation
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Skyshroud Claim
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sphere Grid
• 1 Surveillance Room
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Tanazir Quandrix
• 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
• 1 The Astonishing Ant-Man
• 1 The Goose Mother
• 1 The Great Henge
• 1 The Thing, Ben Grimm
• 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
• 1 Three Steps Ahead
• 1 Tishana, Voice of Thunder
• 1 Ultimecia, Temporal Threat
• 1 Uncover the Moon-Letters
• 1 Unnatural Growth
• 1 Utter Insignificance
• 1 Vibrant Cityscape
• 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
• 1 Wildwood Scourge
• 1 Wood Elves
• 1 Yavimaya Coast
• 1 Zegana, Utopian Speaker