SimicLegendary Creature — Human WarriorAloy, Savior of Meridian
Mana value5Rank#10,954
The Commander
Vigilance, reach
In You, All Things Are Possible — Whenever one or more artifact creatures you control attack, discover X, where X is the greatest power among them. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with that mana value or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
Guide
Gameplan
Aloy is a Simic artifact-aggro engine: deploy artifact creatures, swing wide (Aloy has vigilance so she keeps attacking and blocking), and trigger Discover X equal to your biggest attacker's power to chain free spells onto the battlefield. You snowball board presence and card advantage every combat, ramping toward huge artifact creatures and game-ending payoffs.
Strengths
- Repeatable free value: every attack converts board power into cast-for-free spells via Discover
- Vigilance + reach makes Aloy a strong attacker and defender simultaneously
- Green ramp plus blue card flow supports an expensive, high-power artifact curve
- Discover X scales naturally as your creatures get bigger, hitting your best spells
Weaknesses
- Discover only triggers on attack, so it's slow against fast combo and gets blanked by board wipes
- Reliant on having artifact creatures with high power on board to make Discover worthwhile
- Vulnerable to artifact hate (Vandalblast, Bane of Progress) hitting your whole engine
- No built-in evasion or protection for Aloy, who is removal-magnet once value snowballs
- Discover whiffs into lands and can hit low-impact cards if your curve isn't tuned
Key Cards
- Master of Etherium — Pumps all your artifact creatures' power, raising your Discover X for bigger hits.
- Steel Overseer — Grows your artifact team each turn, feeding both board and Discover value.
- Cyberdrive Awakener — Turns your whole board into big artifact creatures and gives evasion to push attacks through.
- Etali, Primal Conqueror — A huge artifact creature that's both a great Discover hit and an attacker that maxes X.
- Forsaken Monument — Doubles colorless mana and pumps colorless creatures, fueling ramp and bigger swings.
- Skullclamp — Cheap artifact draw engine that refills your hand off small artifact creatures.
- Trygon Predator — Evasive artifact creature that pressures opponents while answering their artifacts and enchantments.
Upgrade Path
Tighten your curve so Discover reliably hits impactful nonland cards—cut weak low-power creatures and add high-power artifacts plus anthems like Master of Etherium to inflate X. Add fast ramp (Sol Ring, Signets, mana rocks) and protection like Heroic Intervention to survive wipes, then include a clean finisher such as Craterhoof Behemoth or Cyberdrive Awakener. Top-end interaction (Cyclonic Rift) and artifact recursion keep the engine resilient against hate.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸Overwhelming combat damage from a wide, pumped artifact-creature board
- ▸Snowballing free value off Discover until you out-resource the table
- ▸Casting bombs like Etali or large artifact finishers off Discover for free
- ▸Combat/anthem effects (Cyberdrive Awakener, Master of Etherium) closing games with a single big swing
Archetypes
- Artifact Aggro — Aloy rewards going wide with high-power artifact creatures and attacking every turn for Discover value.
- Big-Mana Ramp — Simic ramp lets you cast heavy artifact creatures whose power maximizes Discover X.
- Value Midrange — Discover provides a constant stream of free spells, grinding out card advantage over time.
- Stompy Combo — Power-boosting effects and free Discover casts can chain into game-ending artifact payoffs.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (GU), by popularity.
