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Commander / EDH Counters GU (Simic)

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Creature (36)

• 1x Champion of Lambholt
• 1x Chasm Skulker
• 1x Clone
• 1x Coiling Oracle
• 1x Elusive Krasis
• 1x Experiment One
• 1x Fathom Mage
• 1x Genesis Hydra
• 1x Gyre Sage
• 1x Heroes' Bane
• 1x Horizon Chimera
• 1x Kiora's Follower
• 1x Kruphix, God of Horizons
• 1x Lighthouse Chronologist
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Ludevic's Test Subject  ^Flip
• 1x Master Biomancer
• 1x Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
• 1x Nessian Wilds Ravager
• 1x Nylea, God of the Hunt
• 1x Overbeing of Myth
• 1x Plaxcaster Frogling
• 1x Predator Ooze
• 1x Prime Speaker Zegana
• 1x Primordial Hydra
• 1x Protean Hydra
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Simic Manipulator
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid
• 1x Thassa, God of the Sea
• 1x Thrummingbird
• 1x Vastwood Hydra
• 1x Voyaging Satyr
• 1x Winged Coatl
• 1x Zameck Guildmage

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Kiora, the Crashing Wave

Land (28)

• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 6x Forest
• 8x Island
• 1x Llanowar Reborn
• 1x Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Transguild Promenade
• 1x Vivid Creek
• 1x Vivid Grove
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Archmage Ascension
• 1x Asceticism
• 1x Dictate of Kruphix
• 1x Hardened Scales
• 1x Pemmin's Aura
• 1x Rhystic Study

Artifact (12)

• 1x Bow of Nylea
• 1x Contagion Engine
• 1x Darksteel Reactor
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Grindclock
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Magistrate's Scepter
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Otherworld Atlas
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir

Instant (7)

• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Cackling Counterpart
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Polymorphist's Jest
• 1x Simic Charm
• 1x Steady Progress

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Give / Take
• 1x Lay of the Land
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Temporal Mastery
• 1x Unexpected Results
• 1x Urban Evolution

Commander (1)

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Enchantment (3)

• 1x Freed from the Real
• 1x Helix Pinnacle
• 1x Mana Reflection

Artifact (1)

• 1x Pentad Prism

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Triumph of the Hordes

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Introduction

A twist on We're gonna need more dice. by LegitAstroBoy. Simic is my absolute favorite guild and I absolutely adore the evolve and graft abilities. Counters make my day. They're so fun to distribute and ramp up! It gets insane. So of course Vorel of the Hull Clade was a natural choice for my commander. I just love watching the growing sense of urgency and despair on my opponent's face when I tap him and sigh while getting out my box of D6's.

My natural affinity for Simic counter decks of course led me to get the idea for a Simic EDH deck. My friends have been pestering me to make a commander deck so I can play them (almost everyone in my playgroup had one but me). Which then led me to search for a good base from which I could start (I'm pretty noob at deck-building, unfortunately. Dx). I found LegitAstroBoy's deck and I said to myself, "this is a deck I could follow."

Eeeeeexcept not really. Because that deck has a lot of hard to find cards and a lot of expensive cards. Since I'm in between paychecks I was limited to what I had on me, what I could mooch from my friends, and what I could trade for. Before you lies my efforts at making my own simic counters deck. Please be gentle, my buttocks are sore.

Mana Production

This deck does many things well, one of which is producing mana. With Vorel out, Astral Cornucopia and Gyre Sage become mana-producing MONSTERS. There have been so many games where I've gotten one or the other up to the point where my opponent and I have just agreed to call it infinite.

What do you do with that much mana?

So many things. The various X cards like Ivy Elemental, Vastwood Hydra all come out as game-ending monsters that need to be answered or they end the game. You can spam Zameck Guildmage's ability (assuming you have enough of both colours) to give yourself massive draw power. You could also Swing with an innocuous Winged Coatl or 0/1 Cloudfin Raptor and pump it to game winning power with Nylea, God of the Hunt's active. With that much mana the possibilities are endless, given the right circumstances.

Stemming from that fact are these doubts: Sol Ring has actually been good to me and as has been pointed out it has a spot in every edh deck ever.

Win Conditions

These vary so much between games. Here are just a few that I've personally experienced

• Unblockable damage from Elusive Krasis
• Milling them out with Blue Sun's Zenith or Grindclock + Vorel of the Hull Clade .
• Infinite turns with Magistrate's Scepter + Vorel of the Hull Clade
• Polymorphist's Jest or Curse of the Swine everything on their side and then swing for trample/unblockable/ something absurdly strong like 50 cards in hand and an Overbeing of Myth on the board.
• If I'm going to lose, it's always fun to make everyone draw their entire decks with Otherworld Atlas + Vorel of the Hull Clade . If we all lose I win! At least, that's what I like to tell myself.
• I don't like winning this way, but if all else fails then Darksteel Reactor gets to 20 counters in roughly 2-3 turns from its' drop when the conditions are right.

Date added	10 years
Last updated	1 year
Key combos	Magistrate's Scepter + Vorel of the Hull Clade Otherworld Atlas + Vorel of the Hull Clade Grindclock + Vorel of the Hull Clade
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 46 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.01
Tokens	Boar 2/2 G, Copy Clone, Emblem Kiora, the Crashing Wave, Kraken 9/9 U, Squid 1/1 U
Folders	Decks I Like, neat decks, fav decks