Lonis, Cryptozoologist
Lonis, Cryptozoologist Commander Deck
Lonis, Cryptozoologist sits at the center of a clue-generation and copy-token engine, triggering investigate whenever nontoken creatures enter the battlefield, then cashing in accumulated clues to steal the best permanents from opponents' libraries. The deck floods the board with creature copies and token doublers to maximize both the rate of clue production and the value extracted from Lonis's activated ability, while effects that multiply tokens ensure the clue supply scales exponentially. The primary win conditions are infinite loops built around Kodama of the East Tree bouncing Simic Growth Chamber to generate unbounded clues and mana, and a game-ending Doppelgang combined with Eternal Witness to create infinite copies of all permanents and loop spells from the graveyard.
Decklist
- Phyrexian Metamorph
- Clever Impersonator
- Yavimaya Coast
- Memory Lapse
- Bramble Sovereign
- Second Harvest
- Tireless Tracker
- Repudiate
- Birds of Paradise
- Mystic Snake
- Narset's Reversal
- Spark Double
- Heroic Intervention
- Sublime Epiphany
- Waterlogged Grove
- Priest of Titania
- Mystic Remora
- Simic Growth Chamber
- Reliquary Tower
- Hinterland Harbor
- Kiora's Follower
- Clone
- Parallel Lives
- Mulldrifter
- Flooded Grove
- Wood Elves
- Pongify
- Llanowar Elves
- Rejuvenating Springs
- Command Tower
- Glasspool Mimic
- Lotus Cobra
- Kodama of the East Tree
- Fyndhorn Elves
- Reclamation Sage
- Barkchannel Pathway
- Mystic Reflection
- Littjara Mirrorlake
- Beast Whisperer
- Wandering Archaic
- Rite of Replication
- Shamanic Revelation
- Replication Technique
- Breeding Pool
- Double Major
- Academy Manufactor
- Tireless Provisioner
- Thought Monitor
- Phantasmal Image
- Croaking Counterpart
- Mosswort Bridge
- Irenicus's Vile Duplication
- Jaheira, Friend of the Forest
- Elminster's Simulacrum
- Machine God's Effigy
- Inspiring Statuary
- See Double
- Faerie Artisans
- Mirrorpool
- Eternal Witness
- Theoretical Duplication
- Counterspell
- Quasiduplicate
- Idol of Oblivion
- Adrix and Nev, Twincasters
- Erdwal Illuminator
- Esix, Fractal Bloom
- Doppelgang
- Overflowing Basin
- Three Steps Ahead
- Sink into Stupor
- Copycrook
- Aggressive Biomancy
- For the Common Good
- Khalni Garden
- Mirrormade
- An Offer You Can't Refuse
- Springbloom Druid
- Cackling Counterpart
- Druid of Purification
- Auroral Procession
- Mirrorform
- Dreamroot Cascade
- Rapid Hybridization
- Into the Flood Maw
- 9× Forest
- 9× Island
- Rise and Shine
- Junk Winder
- Sarinth Steelseeker