Simic has been, and is still potentially one of the most powerful color combinations in Standard. It can generate a tonne of mana, draw a lot of cards, and can even steal your opponent’s permanents. This creates for some linear strategies that your opponents cannot keep up with unless they deal damage to you fast enough, or disrupt your game plan along every step. Even then, it is still not easy for them.
We have the most powerful suite of cards available to us even before Throne of Eldraine that is good enough on its own.
Risen Reef: This card does not even need other elementals to make it good. It is combined with cards like Leafkin Druid and sometimes Cavalier of Thorns.
Hydroid Krasis: The problem with this card lies in the fact that you still get to draw cards and gain life even if the creature dies or is countered. Towards the end game, your opponents will be looking at a huge flying creature that cannot even be chump blocked.
Nissa, Who Shakes the World: This is still the best Planeswalker we have – it can go in most decks that has green in its colors. It can defend itself, and when you do end up untapping with it, you can do some absurd things.
Throne of Eldraine even opens up a lot of options in Simic. In fact, we just got a pretty good planeswalker.
Oko, Thief of Crowns does a lot of things for a 3 mana planeswalker. Food Token synergies, making your opponent’s creatures less useful and even stealing them (preferably swapping with the mere Food Token). As we said above, this card does everything a Simic (or its three color variants like Sultai or Bant) deck wants it to do and may be home to many decks similar to Teferi, Time Raveler.
Simic Ramp
Let’s start with the most “basic” build – Simic Ramp / Midrange. The deck is already mostly standardized due to the concentration of powerful cards in these colors. Llanowar Elves is replaced by Gilded Goose, which we won’t say is better or worse but serves a similar function. This gives the deck a mild Food synergy also, along with Oko, Thief of Crowns. There are various finishers we can include as well, such as Agent of Treachery and Mass Manipulation.
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Similar to the ramp deck above, but the main difference is the inclusion of Feasting Troll King. There are options to go more all-in such as including Witch’s Oven and Tamiyo, Collector of Tales to put it into the graveyard. Regardless, the deck’s shell is still mostly the same. In addition, Wicked Wolf is a great card that can act like a Ravenous Chupacabra and will make life tricky for your opponents.
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This deck is based on using the Food token synergy to do all sorts of things – for instance, putting cards into your graveyard to recur things with Emry, Lurker of the Loch as well as bringing back Feasting Troll King.
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Simic Flash is a deck you either love or hate, and the deck has become more of a force to be reckoned with. Brazen Borrower will be a card that will belong to many blue decks for the foreseeable future and is a perfect fit for this deck. Wildborn Preserver can also become quickly out of hand, and can act as a late-game mana sink. Cards like Opt and Once Upon a Time are also decent inclusions if card selection is valued. Unfortunately, once a budget-friendly option for players, these cards have made the deck more expensive to craft.
What better way to test the new cards than to try an alternate win condition? This deck is originally by AliEldrazi, creator unique brews and such as ones based around Golos, Tireless Pilgrim. Leyline of Anticipation is a really interesting inclusion as it allows you to resolve Happily Ever After at end of your opponent’s turn, and if you have a Teferi, Time Raveler on your side then it’s game over (provided you meet the conditions).
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I am dubious about Wildborn Preserver as it does not do too much other than being potentially a bigger creature – but it’s worth trying, at least. Once Upon a Time is a potential inclusion if we cut some counterspells and add another creature suite.
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Simic is definitely one of the strongest colors currently, but it may still be better to splash a third color as mana fixing is easier in green than other colors. Sultai offers cards like Yarok, the Desecrated and Bant has access to cards like Teferi, Time Raveler. We will continue exploring as we find the most optimal builds.
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