SimicLegendary Creature — Human WizardZimone, All-Questioning
Mana value3Rank#11,867
The Commander
At the beginning of your end step, if a land entered the battlefield under your control this turn and you control a prime number of lands, create Primo, the Indivisible, a legendary 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token, then put that many +1/+1 counters on it. (2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, and 31 are prime numbers.)
Guide
Gameplan
Zimone rewards hitting land drops: each turn you put a land into play and reach a prime number of lands, you create Primo, a Fractal that grows to match your land count. You ramp aggressively with extra land drops and recursion, fueling a massive Primo while drawing cards and developing a value-oriented Simic board, then close with an enormous trampling/unblockable threat.
Strengths
- Cheap 3-mana commander that immediately generates a scaling board threat
- Naturally synergizes with the strongest GU staples: ramp, card draw, extra land drops
- Primo scales to lethal sizes very quickly and remaps to your highest land count
- Blue gives access to protection, counterspells, and card advantage to defend the plan
Weaknesses
- Reliant on a single token (Primo) that's vulnerable to removal and board wipes
- Counting prime lands can be disrupted by land destruction or tax effects on landfall
- Lacks innate evasion—Primo needs trample or unblockable enablers to connect
- Wants extra land drops and consistent landfall, which can be inconsistent without setup
Key Cards
- Exploration — Extra land drops let you cross prime thresholds and trigger Zimone reliably each turn.
- Burgeoning — Free land drops off opponents' turns help you hit prime counts and ramp explosively.
- Azusa, Lost but Seeking — Two extra land drops per turn make hitting and re-hitting prime land totals trivial.
- Crucible of Worlds — Replays lands from your graveyard to guarantee a landfall every turn for Zimone.
- Rampant Growth — Cheap ramp that can be your land-for-turn substitute to reach prime numbers.
- Rogue's Passage — Pushes a giant Primo through for one-shot kills.
- Cyclonic Rift — Premier blue interaction that protects your board and clears blockers for a Primo swing.
Upgrade Path
Add more uncounted extra-land-drop enablers (Oracle of Mul Daya, Mina and Denn, Wayward Swordtooth) and fetchlands plus Crucible-style recursion to guarantee prime triggers. Lean into protection (Heroic Intervention, Lightning Greaves) and evasion (Whispersilk Cloak, trample sources) so Primo reliably closes, and include proliferate effects like Doubling Season or Hardened Scales to amplify it. Tighten the mana with fast ramp (Three Visits, Nature's Lore) to deploy Zimone turn three and start the engine early.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸Swing with a massive Primo, often via trample or unblockable evasion for a one-shot kill
- ▸Proliferate Primo's counters and go wide with multiple combat steps
- ▸Use big-mana payoffs like Craterhoof Behemoth or overrun effects to alpha strike
- ▸Grind value with card draw and superior land-based ramp into an unbeatable board
Archetypes
- Lands / Ramp — Zimone turns extra land drops and landfall into a recurring game-ending threat.
- Big Mana Voltron — Primo becomes a singular huge creature you buff and protect to swing for lethal.
- Simic Value/Control — Blue card draw and counters keep the engine online while you out-resource the table.
- +1/+1 Counters — Primo enters loaded with counters, enabling proliferate and counter-synergy payoffs.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (GU), by popularity.
