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Zimone, Mystery Unraveler
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard · {2}{G}{U} · Green/Blue commander
What Zimone, Mystery Unraveler actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Triggered ability · etbWhenever a land you control enters, manifest dread if this is the first time this ability has resolved this turn. Otherwise, you may turn a permanent you control face up.
What a Zimone, Mystery Unraveler deck needs
Plays as lands. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- land drops (landfall manifests dread, then turns permanents face up)
- creatures with strong face-up value
The Zimone, Mystery Unraveler deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 20× Put a land onto the battlefield — for a landfall commander this triggers where a normal land drop does not
- 8× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 4× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 3× Answer a whole board at once
- 9× Refill your hand
- 4× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 6× Get ahead on mana
- 10× A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
Best cards for Zimone, Mystery Unraveler
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
Put a land onto the battlefield — for a landfall commander this triggers where a normal land drop does not
- Exploration1 mana
- Explore2 mana
- Dryad of the Ilysian Grove3 mana
- Exploration Broodship1 mana
- Azusa, Lost but Seeking3 mana
- Loot, Exuberant Explorer3 mana
- Wayward Swordtooth3 mana
- Druid Class2 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- Beast Within3 mana
- Nature's Claim1 mana
- Emerald Charm1 mana
- Naturalize2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Neoform2 mana
- Worldly Tutor1 mana
- Reshape2 mana
- March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
- Mask of the Mimic1 mana
- Long-Term Plans3 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Mindbreak Trap4 mana
- Fierce Guardianship3 mana
- Force of Negation3 mana
- Force of Will5 mana
- Flare of Denial3 mana
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
- Arcane Denial2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Desynchronization4 mana
- Wave Goodbye4 mana
- Whelming Wave4 mana
- Consuming Tide4 mana
- Oversimplify5 mana
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Needle Storm3 mana
- Evacuation5 mana
Refill your hand
- Mystic Remora1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Curiosity1 mana
- Wizard Class1 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Rhystic Study3 mana
- Faerie Mastermind2 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
- Lost in the Maze2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Asceticism5 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Incubation Druid2 mana
- Simic Signet2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
- Heritage Druid1 mana
- Llanowar Tribe3 mana
A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
- Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
- Ozolith, the Shattered Spire2 mana
- Bontu's Monument3 mana
- Enduring Vitality3 mana
- Kami of Whispered Hopes3 mana
- Oketra's Monument3 mana
- Assault Formation2 mana
- Jolrael, Mwonvuli Recluse2 mana
Combos with Zimone, Mystery Unraveler
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Zimone, Mystery Unraveler is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Zimone, Mystery Unraveler + Yedora, Grave Gardener + Whisperwood Elemental12,796 decks
- Zimone, Mystery Unraveler + Yedora, Grave Gardener + Sakura-Tribe Elder12,359 decks
- Zimone, Mystery Unraveler + Yedora, Grave Gardener + Yavimaya Elder + Retreat To Coralhelm2,508 decks
- Zimone, Mystery Unraveler + Yedora, Grave Gardener + Altar Of Dementia487 decks
- Zimone, Mystery Unraveler + Yedora, Grave Gardener + Yavimaya Elder + Lotus Cobra452 decks
- Zimone, Mystery Unraveler + Yedora, Grave Gardener + Ashnod's Altar436 decks
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