Slimer | The Mimeoplasm [PRIMER]

Commander / EDH BUG (Sultai) Mill Multiplayer Primer Reanimator Theme/Gimmick Voltron

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Creature (34)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Aftermath Analyst
• 1x Angel of Suffering
• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Cragplate Baloth
• 1x Damia, Sage of Stone
• 1x Death's Shadow
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Gaea's Revenge
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Impervious Greatwurm
• 1x Krosan Cloudscraper
• 1x Likeness Looter
• 1x Lord of Extinction
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Old Stickfingers
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Satyr Wayfinder
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Skull Prophet
• 1x Spirit of the Night
• 1x Stitcher's Supplier
• 1x The Ancient One
• 1x The Tarrasque
• 1x Titanoth Rex
• 1x Tyrranax Rex
• 1x Underrealm Lich
• 1x Urborg Lhurgoyf
• 1x Vile Entomber
• 1x Wonder
• 1x World Shaper
• 1x Yargle and Multani

Land (37)

• 1x Blooming Marsh
• 1x Botanical Sanctum
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dreamroot Cascade
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Fell Mire  ^Flip
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 1x Foreboding Landscape
• 4x Forest
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 2x Island
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Opulent Palace
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Shipwreck Marsh
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 5x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Viridescent Bog
• 1x Waterlogged Grove
• 1x Woodland Cemetery
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Monastery Siege
• 1x Out of the Tombs
• 1x Pernicious Deed
• 1x Ripples of Undeath

Commander (1)

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Careful Study
• 1x Commune with Evil
• 1x Convert to Slime
• 1x Culling Ritual
• 1x Incarnation Technique
• 1x Life / Death
• 1x Persist
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Stitch Together
• 1x Unmarked Grave
• 1x Windfall

Instant (10)

• 1x An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Dimir Charm
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Revitalizing Repast  ^Flip
• 1x Smuggler's Surprise
• 1x Stubborn Denial
• 1x Tamiyo's Safekeeping
• 1x Trickbind

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Intro

Fill your graveyard and use The Mimeoplasm to combine creatures with haste and massive power! Or reanimate big beaters and win through fast combat damage while using your graveyard as a toolbox to disrupt opponents.

"You are what you eat!" - Slimer.

No infect. No infinite combos.

Budget: $200.

Why play this deck

• You enjoy playing big fat powerful creatures without paying their high mana costs.
• You prefer taking advantage of all zones of play, especially the graveyard.
• You want an unusual commander that can also serve as a win condition.
• You like the flavor of playing a D&D ooze that eats its prey, absorbs it's power to grow monstrously large, and delivers a one-punch knockout blow to opponents.

Why not play this deck

• Your playgroup is filled with graveyard hate.
• You don’t like voltron or reanimator styles of play.
• You don't want to play your commander in every game.
• You hate slime?

How to Win

1. Reanimator Beatdown - Combat damage from huge, reanimated monsters.

2. Suckerpunch - Commander damage, usually with haste and flying so it can knock an opponent out in one shot from out of nowhere.

Reanimator Beatdown

1. Use one of 7 Reanimate spells to put a threat like Impervious Greatwurm and Titanoth Rex onto the battlefield in the early game.

2. Attack with these bruisers and draw out removal from opponents. Games can be won by reanimating a few high power creatures repeatedly and letting them rack up damage. And because of the efficiently costed reanimation spells, this line plays out like a faster midrange deck.

3. This is also the toolbox plan. As you are choosing which monsters to put in the graveyard to reanimate for their impressive combat damage, you are also choosing them for their abilities like commander damage with The Tarrasque, card advantage with Damia, Sage of Stone, protection with Glen Elendra Archmage or Angel of Suffering, removal with Massacre Wurm, and evasion with Wonder etc.

Suckerpunch

Use The Mimeoplasm in voltron style to suckerpunch an opponent out of nowhere for lethal commander damage by filling your graveyard and combining one of five haste creatures like Gaea's Revenge, Tyrranax Rex, or The Tarrasque with a massive creature like Death's Shadow, Yargle and Multani, Impervious Greatwurm, or Titanoth Rex.

An example would be The Mimeoplasm entering as a copy of The Tarrasque which is a 10/10 dinosaur but then add the +11/+11 boost from Titanoth Rex as The Mimeoplasm's second target making it a 21/21 with haste and ward {10}. If Wonder is in the graveyard too that's a flying Frankenstein punch to the face for lethal commander damage. These are my go-to targets for Buried Alive but the fun is in randomly building lethal combinations:

A. The Tarrasque 10/10 haste, ward {10} +
- Death's Shadow 13/13 = 23
- Krosan Cloudscraper 13/13 = 23. - Titanoth Rex 11/11 = 21
- Impervious Greatwurm 16/16 = 26
- Yargle and Multani 18/6 = 28

B. Gaea's Revenge 8/5 haste, can't be countered, can't be the target of non-green spells +
- Death's Shadow 13/13 = 21
- Krosan Cloudscraper 13/13 = 21. - Impervious Greatwurm 16/16 = 24
- Yargle and Multani 18/6 = 24

C. Tyrranax Rex 8/8 haste, trample, can't be countered, ward {4} +
- Death's Shadow 13/13 = 21
- Krosan Cloudscraper 13/13 = 21. - Impervious Greatwurm 16/16 = 24
- Yargle and Multani 18/6 = 26

D. Cragplate Baloth 6/6 haste, can't be countered, hexproof +
- Impervious Greatwurm 16/16 = 22
- Yargle and Multani 18/6 = 24

E. Spirit of the Night 6/5 haste, flying, trample, first strike, protection from black +
- Impervious Greatwurm 16/16 = 22
- Yargle and Multani 18/6 = 24

Pro Tip: Resist the urge to play this line as soon as you have 5 mana for The Mimeoplasm with perfect targets in the graveyard to combine for lethal damage! It's better to have a Counterspell in hand, or a Glen Elendra Archmage on the battlefield so you can defend your voltron threat. So many games are won once you can get a card advantage effect online, keep the board under control, and counterspells live to cover your lethal threat for a few turns. You'll know when to pull the trigger for exceptions.

How to Play

Reanimator Beatdown Toolbox
Start with the Reanimator Beatdown line because it has more sustainable damage over time and it's less risky than being focused by the remaining players after you suckerpunch one of them out of the game early on. The general plan is to make the graveyard a toolbox by filling it with gigantic monsters that we can reanimate for combat damage, commander damage, removal, and card advantage.

vs Aggro
If you are up against aggro, use removal on key threats until you can reanimate a control creature like Massacre Wurm, Angel of Suffering or Damia, Sage of Stone. If they are close to taking you out, you can always go into the suckerpunch line but having big monsters on the battlefield is usually incentive enough for aggro players to attack another opponent.

vs Control
If you are playing against control, fill your graveyard with card advantage creatures to reanimate like Consecrated Sphinx or Damia, Sage of Stone that will keep your threats coming through control players' disruption. You can apply early pressure with the damage from these creatures until you can protect a lethal suckerpunch from The Mimeoplasm with your own counterspells or Glen Elendra Archmage. The Tarrasque has Ward {10} and shines as The Mimeoplasms primary target in this scenario. Gaea's Revenge is also great here for it's pseudo-hexproof. The best part of this plan is that even if a few counterspells slow down our monsters, we have a reusable reanimation spell in the command zone.

vs Combo
Against combo players, go right into the suckerpunch line and race them with lethal commander damage before they go off. The other players should thank you for this service because though you might be considered the threat at the table afterward, it's usually only for one opponent at a time which is better than everyone losing on the spot.

Card Choices

The Salt Pile
Excluded cards that make the playgroup salty or feel bad:

• Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
• Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
• Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
• Sage of Hours
• Rhystic Study

Ooze Targets
Popular Mimeoplasm targets in other decks:

Inkwell Leviathan & Simic Sky Swallower - Love the built-in protection from shroud but I want haste as the primary feature of the commander damage plan in this deck.

Tutors
I have run this deck with many tutors and though consistent and powerful it restricted playing the deck as often I would like because it needed high powered playgroups. For that reason I've mostly limited the tutors to putting monsters in the graveyard like Entomb and Buried Alive because they are essential to the strategy.

Graveyard Hate
The counterspells in this deck aren't just for protecting our commander. They also prevent opposing graveyard and combo decks from going off before we do. So we aren't running much graveyard hate because if we can't counter them or remove their threats, we can race them with our own lethal commander damage.

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Top Ranked	Achieved #14 position overall 9 months ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH BUG (Sultai) 9 months ago
Date added	1 year
Last updated	2 days
Exclude colors	WR
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 50 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.56
Tokens	Morph 2/2 C, Ooze X/X G, Treasure
Folders	Decks to Play, to play, Decks, Carini
Based on	The Wizard of Ooze | The Mimeoplasm [Powered] Icaruskid EDH