SimicLegendary Creature — Human WizardZimone, Quandrix Prodigy
Mana value2Rank#6,667
The Commander
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: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.
, : Draw a card. If you control eight or more lands, draw two cards instead.
Guide
Gameplan
Zimone is a cheap GU value engine: drop extra lands to ramp toward eight, then tap her each turn to refill your hand. You build a self-sustaining lands/ramp shell that out-cards the table before pivoting to a big payoff—lands-matter synergies, landfall, or a mana-fueled finisher.
Strengths
- Cheap, repeatable card advantage that snowballs once you hit eight lands
- Accelerates ahead on mana with free extra land drops from hand
- Hard to punish—low investment and easy to recast
- Fits flexible value/midrange shells without needing combo pieces
Weaknesses
- Activations are slow and mana-hungry ( to draw) early
- No built-in protection; dies to any removal and stalls the engine
- Doesn't ramp the extra land for you—land must come from hand
- Lacks an inherent win condition, so games can drag
Key Cards
- Exploration — Extra land drops let you cheat lands down faster than Zimone's tap and rush to eight.
- Azusa, Lost but Seeking — More land plays per turn accelerate the eight-land threshold and feed landfall payoffs.
- Cultivate — Refills your hand with lands so Zimone always has a card to deploy and ramps simultaneously.
- The Great Henge — Cheap with a big creature out and gives explosive card draw plus mana to chain Zimone activations.
- Sword of the Animist — Generates extra lands to keep Zimone fed and pushes you toward eight.
- Tatyova, Benthic Druid — Turns every land drop into a card and life, multiplying Zimone's lands-matter engine.
Upgrade Path
Add fast mana and more free land-drop engines (Exploration, Burgeoning, Oracle of Mul Daya) to spike eight lands quickly, and protect Zimone with Heroic Intervention or Lightning Greaves. Then commit to a focused payoff—Scapeshift/Field of the Dead, a Craterhoof-style finish, or a tight combo like Glacial Chasm-Thespian's Stage loops—so your card advantage actually closes games.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸Overwhelming card advantage into a few large threats that grind out the table
- ▸Landfall/big-mana finishers like Scapeshift, Genesis Wave, or a giant X-spell
- ▸Hydra or top-end beaters fueled by abundant mana
- ▸Value combos enabled by surplus lands and untap effects
Archetypes
- Lands / Ramp — Her extra land drops and draw reward a deck built around hitting land drops and landfall triggers.
- Simic Value / Midrange — Repeatable card draw fuels a goodstuff pile of efficient threats and answers.
- Big Mana Combo — Eight-plus lands plus card draw can enable mana sinks and X-spell or untap-based combos.
- Control — Card advantage and ramp let you counter and remove while burying the table in resources.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (GU), by popularity.
