Monday, September 16, 2013

Commander Mondays (9/16/13): Prime Speaker Zegana

So with this deck, the ultimate goal is to pull heavily from the Evolve mechanic as well as include a pretty good amount of green pump spells and blue counter spells. There will probably be some overlap with the Golgari Commander deck from two weeks ago, because ther were some pretty good green spells included that I plan to use in this deck.

So without further ado, let's check out Prime Speaker Zegana.

Prime Speaker Zegana

Legendary Creatures

x1 Prime Speaker Zegana (Commander)
x1 Vorel of the Hull Clade

Creatures

x1 Adaptive Snapjaw
x1 Archaeomancer
x1 Battering Krasis
x1 Beetleform Mage
x1 Bond Beetle
x1 Champion of Lambholt
x1 Chronomaton
x1 Clinging Anemones
x1 Cloudfin Raptor
x1 Craterhoof Behemoth
x1 Crocanura
x1 Crowned Ceratok
x1 Drakewing Krasis
x1 Elgaud Shieldmate
x1 Elusive Krasis
x1 Experiment One
x1 Fathom Mage
x1 Fog Bank
x1 Frilled Oculus
x1 Geist Trappers
x1 Gyre Sage
x1 Ivy Lane Denizen
x1 Kalonian Hydra
x1 Lumberknot
x1 Master Biomancer
x1 Nimbus Swimmer
x1 Predator Ooze
x1 Primordial Hydra
x1 Progenitor Mimic
x1 Renegade Krasis
x1 Scavenging Ooze
x1 Shambleshark
x1 Simic Fluxmage
x1 Vastwood Hydra
x1 Zameck Guildmage

Instants

x1 Biomass Mutation
x1 Bioshift
x1 Burst of Strength
x1 Giant Growth
x1 Hindervines
x1 Hunger of the Howlpack
x1 Hydroform
x1 Mystic Genesis
x1 Predator's Rapport
x1 Simic Charm
x1 Titanic Growth

Sorceries

x1 Amass the Components
x1 Blessings of Nature
x1 Enlarge
x1 Give // Take
x1 Increasing Savagery
x1 Phytoburst
x1 Predatory Rampage
x1 Revenge of the Hunted
x1 Urban Evolution

Enchantments

x1 Bred for the Hunt
x1 Forced Adaptation
x1 Ooze Flux
x1 Primeval Bounty
x1 Rancor

Artifacts

x1 Ring of Evos Isle
x1 Ring of Kalonia
x1 Ring of Three Wishes
x1 Simic Cluestone
x1 Simic Keyrune
x1 Table of the Guilds

Lands

x1 Breeding Pool
x1 Hinterland Harbor
x1 Rogue's Passage
x1 Shimmering Grotto
x1 Simic Guildgate
x1 Transguild Promenade
x13 Island
x13 Forest

With this deck, I actually had trouble narrowing down what I wanted to drop into the deck. I wound up sacrificing having Alchemist's Refuge (which I didn't find much I felt would be better played during your opponents' turns) and a small tokens theme I was trying to drop in. Instead, we have a lot of the hybrid/multicolored spells and cards with Simic watermarks.

Firstly, we have a small Ooze theme.

Ooze Flux Predator Ooze Scavenging Ooze

The Oozes get counters which can then be removed to add Ooze tokens. We can also use Chronomaton to give counters to use for Ooze Flux.

Then we have a Hydra theme for even more counters.

Kalonian Hydra Primordial Hydra Vastwood Hydra

Kalonian Hydra is especially important in this deck. I mean, it doubles the number of counters on your creatures each time it attacks. That is very important for Simic's keyword Evolve (which adds counters to creatures). So this Hydra theme is kind of important as it can help boost the other cards or be a huge creature to throw at your opponents.

Most of this deck revolves around pumping creatures and adding counters. I feel this definitely embodies what Simic is all about.

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