Got Them Countered

Commander / EDH Casual Counters GU (Simic) Multiplayer Tokens

NV_1980

Creature (31)

• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Champion of Lambholt
• 1x Chasm Skulker
• 1x Coiling Oracle
• 1x Deepglow Skate
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fathom Mage
• 1x Fertilid
• 1x Forgotten Ancient
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Gyre Sage
• 1x Kalonian Hydra
• 1x Managorger Hydra
• 1x Master Biomancer
• 1x Mycoloth
• 1x Ohran Frostfang
• 1x Pir, Imaginative Rascal
• 1x Primordial Hydra
• 1x Sage of Hours
• 1x Scute Mob
• 1x Simic Manipulator
• 1x Spike Weaver
• 1x Thassa, God of the Sea
• 1x Thrummingbird
• 1x Toothy, Imaginary Friend
• 1x Trygon Predator
• 1x Vedalken Mastermind
• 1x Vigor
• 1x Vorel of the Hull Clade

Land (36)

• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 10x Forest
• 1x Homeward Path
• 10x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Novijen, Heart of Progress
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Simic Guildgate
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Artifact (10)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Contagion Clasp
• 1x Contagion Engine
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Thought Vessel

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Rite of Replication

Commander (1)

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Awakening Zone
• 1x Bred for the Hunt
• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Fable of Wolf and Owl
• 1x Hardened Scales
• 1x Inexorable Tide
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Simic Ascendancy

Instant (8)

• 1x Arachnogenesis
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Second Harvest
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Nissa, Steward of Elements

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Welcome to Got Them Countered !

You are looking at a Simic token-, counter and proliferation deck. Its commander, Ezuri, Claw of Progress, is a 3/3 legendary elf warrior with 'Whenever a creature with power 2 or less enters the battlefield under your control, you get an experience counter. At the beginning of combat on your turn, put X +1/+1 counters on another target creature you control, where X is the number of experience counters you have.’.

Ezuri's boosting ability is amazing and can be amplified easily with the help of other creatures and enchantments. Aside from the fact that +1/+1 counters make our creatures more powerful, they can also be used as fuel to power interesting abilities. This deck contains a plethora of small creatures whose entering the battlefield (in Ezuri’s presence) will provide us with lots of experience points. It also includes many opportunities to use proliferate-like effects, designed to explode our counter-count. We have tried to make this deck easy-to-use and a source of unrestrained hilarity. We hope you enjoy it.

We greatly appreciate feedback to any of our decks, including this one. Before you give any however, please take note of the following:

1. Having fun at MTG, is more important to us than winning games. We want our opponents to have a fun time playing against us too. That makes it more likely people will want to play against us again. This attitude is reflected in the way in which we build decks. They do not need to be invincible; not even competitive. We are ok with decks containing infinite combos though, as they can produce some hilarious results. So well done if you can pull one off; especially if it is original.
2. We no longer buy cards, but in cases that we feel a card really adds to our collection, we still trade them. This means that whenever you are suggesting a card we do not own, chances are slim it is going to end up in our deck. Please do not take this personally. Also, please do not let this stop you from making suggestions. Suggestions that do not make it into this deck, will still be mentioned on this page and might be used by others.
3. Please do not forget to include the card(s) you would remove to make room for your recommended card(s).
4. Please do not recommend any cards with infect or cards whose sole purpose is to destroy basic lands (non-basic lands are fair game). Our playgroup has banned them.

With that being said, thank you for all your support and if you should decide to use our ideas, have lots of fun with them.

How to use this deck

This deck’s main strategy involves its commander; Ezuri, Claw of Progress. His ability to make any one of our creatures more powerful permanently every turn, is one worth exploiting. In order to let him do his thing, we need to ensure that Ezuri can be summoned quickly. We need him around to gather XP counters, the amount of which determines how much of an edge Ezuri will be able to provide us with.

So start with some ramp if possible. An ideal starting-hand would include either creatures like Birds of Paradise, Fyndhorn Elves and Gyre Sage or fuel-providing permanents like Burgeoning, Arcane Signet, Sol Ring or Thought Vessel. An early Nissa, Steward of Elements can be incredibly valuable too.

Now Ezuri should be summoned, followed by as much small-time critters as we can muster; preferably critters that are cheap/free to cast that react extremely well to being boosted. Aside from some of the creatures already mentioned, great examples immediately coming to mind would be Chasm Skulker, Fathom Mage, Fertilid, Managorger Hydra, Sage of Hours and Simic Manipulator. Then there’s other ways to conjure up some runts, by using cards like Arachnogenesis, Awakening Zone and Fable of Wolf and Owl. All this will allow your available XP to rise rather quickly; presuming no-one gets rid of Ezuri.

Should the gaining of XP be made hard for us, this deck contains back-up methods to keep the +1/+1 counters coming at our minions. Amongst the greatest of these are Contagion Clasp, Contagion Engine, Deepglow Skate, Doubling Season, Kalonian Hydra, Master Biomancer and Vorel of the Hull Clade.

With enough XP and Ezuri on the field, we can combo-off or just make some/all of our creatures ridiculously strong and win by pure strength.

Card choices

Mana/Ramp

Arcane Signet, Birds of Paradise, Burgeoning, Chromatic Lantern, Fertilid, Fyndhorn Elves, Gyre Sage, Rampant Growth, Sol Ring and Thought Vessel.

Counter/Destruction

Counterspell, Curse of the Swine, Cyclonic Rift, Glen Elendra Archmage, Heroic Intervention, Krosan Grip, Reality Shift and Trygon Predator.

Scry/Draw/Tutors

Bred for the Hunt, Coiling Oracle, Fathom Mage, Ohran Frostfang, Rhystic Study, Sensei's Divining Top, Thassa, God of the Sea, Toothy, Imaginary Friend and Worldly Tutor.

Tokens/Counters

Arachnogenesis, Avenger of Zendikar, Awakening Zone, Chasm Skulker, Contagion Clasp, Contagion Engine, Deepglow Skate, Doubling Season, Fable of Wolf and Owl, Forgotten Ancient, Hardened Scales, Kalonian Hydra, Managorger Hydra, Master Biomancer, Mycoloth, Nissa, Steward of Elements, Panharmonicon, Parallel Lives, Pir, Imaginative Rascal, Primordial Hydra, Rite of Replication, Scute Mob, Second Harvest, Thrummingbird, Vigor and Vorel of the Hull Clade.

Utility

Champion of Lambholt, Eternal Witness, Sage of Hours, Simic Ascendancy, Simic Manipulator, Spike Weaver, Strionic Resonator, Swiftfoot Boots and Vedalken Mastermind.

Notable exceptions

• Cold-Eyed Selkie; great draw enabler in this deck, but we prefer Fathom Mage as she does not need to attack in order for draw to be enabled.
• Prime Speaker Zegana; if we could blink her consistently, we would definitely add her, but alas …
• Hornet Queen; too expensive to cast for its power in this particular deck; we prefer using Avenger of Zendikar instead.
• Walking Ballista; would be funny in this deck, a combo-piece even. Unfortunately we do not own one and getting a copy is too expensive.
• Inspiring Call; used to be in here but was replaced by Heroic Intervention.
• Sword of Truth and Justice; we like the Contagion artifacts better, they have more uses.

Synergy/Combos

This deck contains nice synergy/combos in terms of creating/using tokens and counters.

• Ezuri, Claw of Progress + Sage of Hours; infinite turns (we usually only use this when noticing someone else is setting up for an infinite combo).
• Ezuri, Claw of Progress + Simic Ascendancy; win (requires 20 XP for an out-of-the-blue win).
• Ezuri, Claw of Progress + Mycoloth; during upkeep spawn token Saprolings (get XP through Ezuri for each token), use Ezuri to add +1/+1 counters to Mycoloth at beginning of combat, Mycoloth spawns double amount of Saproling tokens at next upkeep.
• Ezuri, Claw of Progress + Panharmonicon; whenever a creature with max power 2 enters the battlefield, gain 2 experience counters instead of one.
• Ezuri, Claw of Progress/Forgotten Ancient + Glen Elendra Archmage; recursive counter engine. Sac Glen to counter a spell, have her reenter the battlefield (thereby fueling Ezuri with more XP) through persist, add a/lots of +1/+1 counters on her.
• Deepglow Skate + Vedalken Mastermind; double your counters again and again.
• Eternal Witness + Vedalken Mastermind; keep returning whatever you want from your GY.
• Rite of Replication + Doubling Season/Parallel Lives; let's make ten copies of a powerful creature (and yes we know, counters are not copied, but imagine the giggles when one clones Deepglow Skate, Kalonian Hydra or Master Biomancer ten times).

Date added	6 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	15 - 0 Mythic Rares 43 - 0 Rares 13 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.02
Tokens	Bird 1/1 U, Boar 2/2 G, Copy Clone, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Experience Token, Manifest 2/2 C, Plant 0/1 G, Saproling 1/1 G, Spider 1/2 G, Squid 1/1 U, Wolf 2/2 G
Folders	EDH, liked, Test, Deck Inspiration, 1 simic tokens, Commander