Evolving Simic

Standard GU (Simic)

Vanguard Dragon

Creature (23)

• 2x Fathom Mage
• 3x Gyre Sage
• 2x Master Biomancer
• 2x Renegade Krasis
• 3x Shambleshark
• 2x Simic Manipulator
• 4x Skylasher
• 3x Vastwood Hydra
• 2x Vorel of the Hull Clade

Land (22)

• 4x Breeding Pool
• 7x Forest
• 4x Hinterland Harbor
• 7x Island

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Bred for the Hunt

Instant (8)

• 3x Burst of Strength
• 3x Cyclonic Rift
• 2x Savage Summoning

Sorcery (5)

• 2x Blessings of Nature
• 3x Give / Take

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Sideboard

Creature (3)

• 1x Colossal Whale
• 1x Giant Adephage
• 1x Prime Speaker Zegana

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Jace, Memory Adept

Instant (10)

• 3x Bioshift
• 2x Plasm Capture
• 2x Psychic Spiral
• 3x Redirect

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I've been wanting to build just a straight-forward Simic deck for a while now and now that I have pretty much finished my Slivers of Naya deck, I can now put in my idea of a Simic deck that revolves around the Evolve mechanic. I know that this deck is without the newest Kalonian Hydra but I really don't feel like dropping $30 worth of cards or even the money itself for them. I'll just add them as I come into possession of them.

As I said, the deck is mostly meant to revolve around the evolve mechanic. Vastwood Hydra is the one that made me wanna build this so I run a play set of him, but that may end up dropping down to around 2 - 3 considering he is an X-cost creature. Mainly the reason I have 3 Gyre Sage in the deck to hopefully give me a little added boost in dropping a hydra for a decent creature.

Bred for the Hunt is in mostly for a trial run to see if it is any good in the current meta. I should be able to deal at least some damage with my creatures and since the majority of them will most likely have +1/+1 counters (Sorry Skylasher ) then I should be able to keep a decent number of cards in hand.

Skylasher and Shambleshark are in here due to my unyielding love for them. Skylasher basically just says "Here I am and you can't stop me from entering." It would be possible for him to get counters from either a Vastwood Hydra or maybe even Blessings of Nature if there is no other viable target, like Vastwood Hydra, Simic Manipulator, or Master Biomancer.

Date added	11 years
Last updated	11 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 3 Mythic Rares 31 - 7 Rares 7 - 2 Uncommons 6 - 3 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.76
Tokens	Copy Clone