I really like the idea of the Evolve mechanic and decided, what the heck, why not? I was wondering if you guys had any advice as to what kinds of cards I NEED in this deck. Some Non-evolve creatures I'm putting in includes: Altered Ego Progenitor Mimic Trygon Predator Prime Speaker Zegana
In my experience, evolve is not a good mechanic for edh. It requires a lot of set-up and is very easily disrupted by commonly played cards. It's also very narrow. Maybe consider u/g proliferate instead? It would use a lot of similar cards but it is inherently more powerful and versatile
The only evolve card worth playing is Fathom Mage. Of all the things you can do with blue and green, this is one of the weakest and most limited. That being said, the obvious answer is to run plenty of bigger creatures to trigger evolve consistently. And I'd go with Vorel as commander and play up the +1/+1 counter theme.
The only evolve card worth playing is Fathom Mage. Of all the things you can do with blue and green, this is one of the weakest and most limited. That being said, the obvious answer is to run plenty of bigger creatures to trigger evolve consistently. And I'd go with Vorel as commander and play up the +1/+1 counter theme.
And the only thing I can think of is repeatedly blinking Prime Speaker Zegana, and if you can do that, you can just bury your opponent in card advantage.
Card advantage is not the same thing as card draw. Something for 2B cannot be strictly worse than something for BBB or 3BB. If you're taking out Swords to Plowshares for Plummet, you're a fool. Stop doing these things!
If people are sick of reading about stuff just stop taking part. You have 100% control over what you read. Simic Ascendancy isn't going to get banned just because you didn't tell someone to shut up on the internet.
If you just ran with +1/+1 counters as your theme, then your game could be upped considerably. The original simic mechanic was graft, and there were a lot of playable creatures there just for the whole counter theme. It's unlike evolve in that you give way counters, but that allows creatures like the spikes, etc. gets nuts with hardened scales just as easily as evolve does (more so, really)
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Altered Ego
Progenitor Mimic
Trygon Predator
Prime Speaker Zegana
As for my commander I'm between Ezuri Claw of Progress and Vorel of the Hull Clade.
(U/B)(U/B)(U/B) JUMP IN THE LINE, ROCK YOUR BODY IN TIME
(R/W)(R/W)(R/W) RISING FROM THE NEON GLOOM, SHINING LIKE A CRAZY MOON
(U/R)(R/G)(G/U) STEALIN' WHEN I SHOULD HAVE BEEN BUYIN'
There's also Gyre Sage, though Viridian Joiner is better.
And the only thing I can think of is repeatedly blinking Prime Speaker Zegana, and if you can do that, you can just bury your opponent in card advantage.
EDIT: Also Simic Manipulator and I guess Simic Fluxmage.
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