The Path of Progress; Now without Maros!

Commander / EDH Combo Competitive GU (Simic) Merfolk Multiplayer Ramp

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Instant (21)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Boomerang
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Harrow
• 1x Hinder
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Mana Leak
• 1x Memory Lapse
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Simic Charm
• 1x Snap
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Unsummon
• 1x Vapor Snag
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Beacon of Tomorrows
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Genesis Wave
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Plow Under
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Time Warp
• 1x Tooth and Nail

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Exploration
• 1x Survival of the Fittest

Artifact (10)

• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Doubling Cube
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Voltaic Key

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker

Creature (22)

• 1x AEther Adept
• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Body Double
• 1x Courser of Kruphix
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Elvish Piper
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Frost Titan
• 1x Kiora's Follower
• 1x Murkfiend Liege
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Palinchron
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Prophet of Kruphix
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Scute Mob
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant
• 1x Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

Land (30)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 9x Forest
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 8x Island
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Tree of Tales

Commander (1)

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Instant (3)

• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Harrow
• 1x Krosan Grip

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Skyshroud Claim

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Nature's Will
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Vernal Bloom

Artifact (2)

• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Simic Signet

Creature (10)

• 1x Bane of Progress
• 1x Fierce Empath
• 1x Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
• 1x Murkfiend Liege
• 1x Palinchron
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Spellskite
• 1x Vendilion Clique

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Time for a revamp!

Previously this deck was designed for a semi-competitive environment with friends, but still playing for money.

Times have changed.

At the date of writing this, at my locals I just got back from, we had our usual tournament. Except I saw my first,eye-openning glimpse at a fully competitive deck. As usual I went undefeated until the last round, and so did he, playing an Arcum mono blue deck. And we played, and it was a glorious fight. Eventually I won 2-0, but I came to a realization.

I should not have won.

Game 1 we both went off, it was a hard-fought battle, with me knocking him down to 1 before he went off. Game 2 and 3 he stumbled by 1 turn on mana, and it was enough for me to get in for lethal.

That game made me realize what I need to make this deck into for it to keep up with the tournaments, as he is likely to become a regular to these. And frankly, I am competitive as hell. A challenge has been laid down and I will stay on top.

The deck was previously a combo-orientated deck, sacrificing control aspects for more ways to find combo peices, and a lot of win-more cards. That is over. I am making this deck into a control-combo deck with the full intention to dismantle any deck it faces against, whether it's aggro artifacts or oloro control.

The first step; cut the fat. High Tide, Fyndhorn Elves, Mana Reflection, Defense of the Heart, Caged Sun, Garruk, Primal Hunter, Sylvan Caryatid, Seahunter, Scavenging Ooze, Progenitor Mimic, Myojin of Life's Web, Master of the Pearl Trident, Master Biomancer, Lord of Atlantis, Kruphix, God of Horizons, Craterhoof Behemoth, and Coralhelm Commander were cut for being too slow, situational, win-more, or just generally ineffective.

Now, in needs to go more control cards. What's more control than counters? No no no. First, ramp. The deck needs to do 2 things; Speed itself up, and slow the opponent down. In is going Harrow, Mana Crypt, and Kodama's Reach.

Next, more counterspells. Games will no longer be expected to be long, drawn out, so mana leak will be a solid addition, as will memory Lapse, my preferance over remand. But that's just me. In addition, I'm adding Hinder, Spell Crumple, and delay.

Another rapid hybridization is definitely useful. Pongify, in. Also, apparently wasn't using rapid. Rapid hybridization, in.

Now for some extra turn bullshittery. Time warp? In. Time Stretch? in. But who likes to just manipulate their own turn? Time stop, in.

A few more delicious pieces of combo food are going in. Peregrine Drake, Venser, Shaper Savant, Phantasmal Image, Palinchron, in.

Now for the last 4 cards. Of those 4, Blue Sun's Zenith will be one. Archaeomancer, another. In. Finally, a card to help tutor all my hey-i-win-now-stuff. Mystical tutor, in. Last one, the most powerful enchantment in the game. Survival of the fittest, in.

Date added	9 years
Last updated	9 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 34 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 26 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.00
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone, Frog Lizard 3/3 G
Folders	simic, Decks I Like, Merfolk