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Zimone, Quandrix Prodigy

Zimone, Quandrix Prodigy

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard · {G}{U} · Green/Blue commander

{1}, {T}: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped. {4}, {T}: Draw a card. If you control eight or more lands, draw two cards instead.
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What Zimone, Quandrix Prodigy actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

What a Zimone, Quandrix Prodigy deck needs

Plays as lands. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

The Zimone, Quandrix Prodigy deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

Best cards for Zimone, Quandrix Prodigy

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 haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise

  1. Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  5. Ulvenwald Oddity // Ulvenwald Behemoth4 mana
  6. Lavaspur Boots1 mana
  7. Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu2 mana
  8. Ellywick Tumblestrum4 mana

Put a land onto the battlefield — for a landfall commander this triggers where a normal land drop does not

  1. Exploration1 mana
  2. Explore2 mana
  3. Dryad of the Ilysian Grove3 mana
  4. Exploration Broodship1 mana
  5. Azusa, Lost but Seeking3 mana
  6. Loot, Exuberant Explorer3 mana
  7. Wayward Swordtooth3 mana
  8. Druid Class2 mana

Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot

  1. Bear Umbra4 mana
  2. Freed from the Real3 mana
  3. Pemmin's Aura3 mana
  4. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  5. Umbral Mantle3 mana
  6. Unstoppable Plan3 mana
  7. Genji Glove5 mana
  8. Copperhorn Scout1 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Reality Shift2 mana
  2. Pongify1 mana
  3. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  4. Resculpt2 mana
  5. Beast Within3 mana
  6. Nature's Claim1 mana
  7. Emerald Charm1 mana
  8. Naturalize2 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  2. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  3. Neoform2 mana
  4. Worldly Tutor1 mana
  5. Reshape2 mana
  6. March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
  7. Mask of the Mimic1 mana
  8. Long-Term Plans3 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Mindbreak Trap4 mana
  2. Fierce Guardianship3 mana
  3. Force of Negation3 mana
  4. Force of Will5 mana
  5. Flare of Denial3 mana
  6. Pact of Negation0 mana
  7. An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
  8. Arcane Denial2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Desynchronization4 mana
  2. Wave Goodbye4 mana
  3. Whelming Wave4 mana
  4. Consuming Tide4 mana
  5. Oversimplify5 mana
  6. Selective Obliteration5 mana
  7. Needle Storm3 mana
  8. Evacuation5 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Mystic Remora1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Sylvan Library2 mana
  4. Curiosity1 mana
  5. Wizard Class1 mana
  6. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  7. Rhystic Study3 mana
  8. Faerie Mastermind2 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  2. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  3. Lost in the Maze2 mana
  4. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  5. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  6. Asceticism5 mana
  7. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  8. Commander's Plate1 mana

Combos with Zimone, Quandrix Prodigy

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Zimone, Quandrix Prodigy is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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