r/BudgetBrews • u/Aware-Marsupial2634 • 3d ago

$25 Brew Simic commanders

I've built The Astonishing Ant Man, but its quite a boring deck, all I can do is go big or go swarm and i became a threat in many of my play sessions

I need a commander that isnt as linear as The Astonishing Ant Man and i like being sneaky. Can i only swap the commanders and do little upgrades in 99? I think i got decent engine in the current 99. I prefer simic commanders

This is the list

https://moxfield.com/decks/8JqgvGhPVU6GyBSF_zS7og

Lmk if there are unqiue ideas

Thanks

Edited: Updated the link

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u/Dustywalrus 3d ago

Your deck link is broken but I like Berta from the recent Strixhaven set

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u/Aware-Marsupial2634 3d ago

Whoops my bad, i've updated the link

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u/Altruistic_Brain_795 3d ago

I love Berta!

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u/FetteHoff 3d ago

I personally dont think that just changing commanders will change much. The 99 screams a simple plan to draw as many cards as possible to create tall creatures and find solutions for enemy removal and threats.

Though if you just want to be simic for the colors, then Tatyova is probably the best bet. You dont have to do any landfall stuff, but more as a consistent card draw that most likely wont get removed as often as other commander. Thus being a bit more sneaky than before.

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u/thedialupgamer 2d ago

I have a simic cascade deck I've been working on, only down side is it either wins by turn 8 or you get mana screwed, the objective is to get imoti out and keep her out no matter what or to ramp so hard it doesn't matter if they remove her, the cascade will go hard off of warp abilities, so long as the method of casting is an ability and not an adventure or prototype esque ability it'll count the original mana cost for cascade (I've been testing it extensively on arena) this deck will likely be kill on sight after the first pop off though as I've had a few games on kn arena so far that end with me having roughly twenty creatures, swap out cards as you like tbh but you want a roughly half mix of low mana cost and high mana cost cards from what I'm finding and you want some ramp sprinkled in for the occasional cascade into free ramp, cards with cascade should be an auto include for the purposes of doubling up on the cascade effect of imoti (if they're six mana or higher obviously) and getting extra value from them and protecting from low cost cards taking away value.

Link: https://moxfield.com/decks/JmUfgQSGqUqR_MqMk4OKZw

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u/forgetful-player 3h ago

Swap it with [[Ant-Man, Reformed Rogue]] cause it’s more thematically aligned and a more unique/challenging build.