A Growth Market

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

gildan_bladeborn

Creature (47)

• 1x Adaptive Snapjaw
• 1x Archetype of Imagination
• 1x Battering Krasis
• 1x Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
• 1x Clinging Anemones
• 1x Cloudfin Raptor
• 1x Crocanura
• 1x Defiler of Vigor
• 1x Edric, Spymaster of Trest
• 1x Elusive Krasis
• 1x Experiment Kraj *f-&*
• 1x Experiment One
• 1x Fathom Mage
• 1x Frilled Mystic
• 1x Gilder Bairn
• 1x Gyre Sage
• 1x Hydra Broodmaster
• 1x Hydroid Krasis
• 1x Incubation Druid
• 1x Kalonian Hydra
• 1x Master Biomancer
• 1x Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
• 1x Murkfiend Liege
• 1x Nylea, God of the Hunt
• 1x Prime Speaker Vannifar
• 1x Prime Speaker Zegana
• 1x Progenitor Mimic
• 1x Rashmi, Eternities Crafter
• 1x Renegade Krasis
• 1x Rishkar, Peema Renegade *f-&*
• 1x Roalesk, Apex Hybrid
• 1x Scurry Oak
• 1x Shambleshark
• 1x Simic Fluxmage
• 1x Simic Manipulator
• 1x Sphinx of Magosi
• 1x Sun Quan, Lord of Wu
• 1x Tanazir Quandrix
• 1x Thassa, God of the Sea
• 1x Thrasios, Triton Hero
• 1x Tomorrow, Azami's Familiar
• 1x Trygon Predator
• 1x Tyranid Prime
• 1x Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
• 1x Vorel of the Hull Clade
• 1x Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider
• 1x Zameck Guildmage

Land (36)

• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 1x Barkchannel Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Botanical Sanctum
• 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 Hedge Maze
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 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 Prismatic Vista
• 1x Rejuvenating Springs
• 1x Rimewood Falls
• 1x Soldevi Excavations
• 1x Tangled Islet
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Vineglimmer Snarl
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Commander (1)

Artifact (4)

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

Instant (4)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Krosan Grip *f-&*
• 1x Plasm Capture
• 1x Quandrix Command

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Kiora, Master of the Depths *f-pre*
• 1x Kiora, the Crashing Wave
• 1x Nissa, Steward of Elements

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Asceticism
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Simic Ascendancy

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Creeping Renaissance
• 1x Expropriate

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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 have all the evolve. Good, bad? Doesn't matter, get in the deck evolve creatures! But there's not enough of those plus the various Simic support creatures that interact with +1/+1 counters to be a deck all by itself, 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 most of those cards have been swapped out over time. 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, 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	10 years
Last updated	3 weeks
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	29 - 0 Mythic Rares 39 - 0 Rares 11 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.89
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Emblem Kiora, Master of the Depths, Emblem Kiora, the Crashing Wave, Hydra X/X G, Kraken 9/9 U, Octopus 8/8 U, Spirit 1/1 C, Squirrel 1/1 G
Folders	Commander decks that exist