A Growth Market

Commander / EDH Bracket 2 Casual Counters Evolve GU (Simic) Theme/Gimmick

gildan_bladeborn

Creature (48)

• 1x Battering Krasis
• 1x Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
• 1x Cloudfin Raptor
• 1x Crocanura
• 1x Defiler of Vigor
• 1x Dinosaur Egg
• 1x Elusive Krasis
• 1x Experiment Kraj *f-etch*
• 1x Experiment One
• 1x Fathom Mage
• 1x Frilled Mystic
• 1x Gilder Bairn
• 1x Gyre Sage
• 1x Hydroid Krasis
• 1x Incubation Druid
• 1x Kellan, Inquisitive Prodigy
• 1x Kodama of the West Tree
• 1x Leatherhead, Iron Gator
• 1x Lonis, Genetics Expert
• 1x Master Biomancer *f-etch*
• 1x Murkfiend Liege *f-etch*
• 1x Ouroboroid
• 1x Pollywog Prodigy
• 1x Prime Speaker Vannifar
• 1x Prime Speaker Zegana
• 1x Quilled Greatwurm
• 1x Ray Fillet, Wave Warrior
• 1x Renegade Krasis
• 1x Rishkar, Peema Renegade *f-etch*
• 1x Roalesk, Apex Hybrid
• 1x Scurry Oak
• 1x Shambleshark
• 1x Sharp-Eyed Rookie
• 1x Simic Fluxmage
• 1x Simic Manipulator
• 1x Sphinx of Magosi
• 1x Sun Quan, Lord of Wu *f-etch*
• 1x Tanazir Quandrix
• 1x Thassa, God of the Sea
• 1x The Pride of Hull Clade
• 1x Thrasios, Triton Hero
• 1x Tomorrow, Azami's Familiar
• 1x Tyranid Prime
• 1x Vorel of the Hull Clade
• 1x Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider
• 1x Watchful Radstag
• 1x Zameck Guildmage
• 1x Zimone, Paradox Sculptor

Land (37)

• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dreamroot Cascade
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Forest
• 1x Forest
• 1x Forest
• 1x Forest
• 1x Forest
• 1x Forest
• 1x Forest
• 1x Forest
• 1x Hedge Maze
• 1x Island
• 1x Island
• 1x Island
• 1x Island
• 1x Island
• 1x Island
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
• 1x Overflowing Basin
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Rain-Slicked Copse
• 1x Rejuvenating Springs
• 1x Sodden Verdure
• 1x Soldevi Excavations
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Turbulent Wilderness
• 1x Willowrush Verge
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Commander (1)

Artifact (5)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Cauldron of Souls
• 1x The Earth Crystal
• 1x The Great Henge
• 1x The Ozolith

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Court of Garenbrig
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Simic Ascendancy

Instant (3)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Plasm Capture
• 1x Quandrix Command

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Kiora, the Crashing Wave
• 1x Nissa, Steward of Elements

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Germination Practicum

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If "evolve" was a tribe, this would be a "tribal evolve deck". But it's not, so instead it's just a silly one.

When I saw Kruphix, God of Horizons spoiled, I knew I wanted to build a commander deck with him at the helm. Not so much because of what the card actually does (although his abilities are certainly useful), but because when it comes to legendary creatures to helm a Simic-colored EDH deck, at the time there were only 6 possible choices and the other 5 all screamed "I am going to do degenerate things, please kill me quickly", while Kruphix doesn't really do much of anything by himself. A general that's unobtrusive is exactly what I needed you see, because the terrible idea I'd been contemplating for a while prior to that spoiler was "Tribal Evolve" (not a real tribe), and his release was what prompted me to actually build it.

Essentially, I play (the vast majority of) evolve creatures (in Simic colors and don't have the keyword "defender" on them). Good, bad? Doesn't matter - because almost all of them are quite, quite bad - get in the deck evolve creatures! But there weren't enough of those plus the various Simic support creatures that interact with +1/+1 counters to be a deck all by itself (when I built it anyway, there's enough now that I can be the tiniest bit selective and not just run ALL of them), so I originally threw in a sub-theme of taking other people's stuff, when I'm not fastidiously growing mine (hence the deck name), though at this point all but one of those cards have been swapped out for for more directly "on brand" stuff. Folks examining this list might notice a conspicuous shortage of counterspells and ramp staples of other U/G decks, but I have an explanation for that: Those are boring.

If I was being smart about it, there really should be a whole lot more big {X}-costed spells or effects that care about cards in hand on the list, instead of almost none of those at all (of course if I was actually being smart I just wouldn't be playing "tribal evolve" in the first place), but the point was never to make a GOOD Kruphix deck, just an entertaining one that happened to have him at the helm for reasons I've already mentioned, and durdling around evolving all the things is endlessly amusing to me. So while I might change elements of the deck around from time to time, it's never not going to be about making small stuff get bigger and caring entirely too much about how my deck interacts with itself from turn to turn to bother trying to win most of the time. The fact that it can and has won quite often anyways just makes the durdling that much more amusing.

Date added	12 years
Last updated	5 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	25 - 0 Mythic Rares 48 - 0 Rares 8 - 0 Uncommons 5 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.67
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Clue, Copy Clone, Emblem Kiora, the Crashing Wave, Kraken 9/9 U, On an Adventure, Spirit 1/1 C, Squirrel 1/1 G, Monarch Emblem
Folders	Commander decks that exist