Simic Mutate’s Last Hurrah in Magic: the Gathering Standard | Deathmarked: Magic: the Gathering Iloilo and Other Stuff to Think About

Here we thought that old Magic: the Gathering set mechanics in Standard aside from Eldraine’s Adventures is already out of the picture on the metagame. Today’s Standard deck feature proved that wrong. The archetype is mentioned in the blog article’s title. Yes, that is Simic Mutate, a more straightforward deck build than the previously known Jeskai Mutate deck.

The list is about 80% composed of Ikoria cards (all creatures) while mainly having Snow-covered basics for its lands. Looks pretty budgeted right? The strategy is just Mutate and Mutate for the win so why the need for dual lands?

See the full Simic Mutate decklist below. This was referenced from the recent MTGO Standard League where the other top decks are composed of the usual metagame archetypes i.e. Mono-Green Aggro, White Weenie, Red Deck Wins, and Dimir Mill.

Maindeck

20 LANDS

9 Snow-Covered Forest

9 Snow-Covered Island

1 Temple of Mystery

1 Vineglimmer Snarl

40 CREATURES

4 Auspicious Starrix

1 Brokkos, Apex of Forever

4 Essence Symbiote

2 Gemrazer

2 Glowstone Recluse

1 Illuna, Apex of Wishes

4 Ilysian Caryatid

4 Migratory Greathorn

3 Parcelbeast

4 Pollywog Symbiote

3 Pouncing Shoreshark

4 Sea-Dasher Octopus

4 Umori, the Collector

SIDEBOARD

1 Arasta of the Endless Web

1 Kogla, the Titan Ape

2 Ram Through

4 Reject

4 Snakeskin Veil

2 Test of Talents

1 Thorn Mammoth

Reference decklist.