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Format: Commander

Commander: Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle leads a sea-monster Simic ramp deck that turns a sleeping land-commander into a 12/12 finisher. The deck accelerates with land ramp and untappers, then drops high-end Krakens, Leviathans, and Serpents that draw cards, control the board, or end games. Card draw is abundant off big bodies and enchantments, and protection comes from counterspells, phasing effects, and ward/shroud. The hidden commander is Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep, whose cast trigger can cheat out additional monsters. The deck wins through overwhelming combat damage, with Unnatural Growth, Fireshrieker, and Spawning Kraken multiplying threat count and size. Interaction keeps opponents from racing while the board develops.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Aggressive Biomancy
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Blue Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Breaching Leviathan
  • 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Desynchronization
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 Eluge, the Shoreless Sea
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fireshrieker
  • 15 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Gyre Engineer
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Hydroid Krasis
  • 1 Inkwell Leviathan
  • 16 Island
  • 1 Kederekt Leviathan
  • 1 Kiora's Follower
  • 1 Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner
  • 1 Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep
  • 1 Kiora, the Rising Tide
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Koma, Cosmos Serpent
  • 1 Koma, World-Eater
  • 1 Mirrorshell Crab
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nezahal, Primal Tide
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Pull from Tomorrow
  • 1 Quest for Ula's Temple
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Scourge of Fleets
  • 1 Serpent of Yawning Depths
  • 1 Silent Arbiter
  • 1 Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spawning Kraken
  • 1 Stormtide Leviathan
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Teferi's Veil
  • 1 Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tolarian Terror
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Up the Beanstalk
  • 1 Urban Evolution
  • 1 Wild Growth