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Broodguard Elite
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, put its counters on target creature you control.
Warp (You may cast this card from your hand for its warp cost. Exile this creature at the beginning of the next end step, then you may cast it from exile on a later turn.)
When this creature leaves the battlefield, put its counters on target creature you control.
Warp (You may cast this card from your hand for its warp cost. Exile this creature at the beginning of the next end step, then you may cast it from exile on a later turn.)
Creature - Knight Insect
Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on an artifact or creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.
, : Put a +1/+1 counter on target artifact or creature you control. Activate only as a sorcery.
Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
, : Put a +1/+1 counter on target artifact or creature you control. Activate only as a sorcery.
Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Legendary Artifact
The Earth Crystal
Green spells you cast cost less to cast.
If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, twice that many +1/+1 counters are put on that creature instead.
, : Distribute two +1/+1 counters among one or two target creatures you control.
If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, twice that many +1/+1 counters are put on that creature instead.
, : Distribute two +1/+1 counters among one or two target creatures you control.
Legendary Artifact
The Ozolith
Whenever a creature you control leaves the battlefield, if it had counters on it, put those counters on The Ozolith.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, if The Ozolith has counters on it, you may move all counters from The Ozolith onto target creature.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, if The Ozolith has counters on it, you may move all counters from The Ozolith onto target creature.
Legendary Artifact
Counters
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Kinetic Ooze
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
When this creature enters, destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment with mana value X or less. If X is 5 or more, you draw a card. If X is 10 or more, double the number of +1/+1 counters on any number of other target creatures.
When this creature enters, destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment with mana value X or less. If X is 5 or more, you draw a card. If X is 10 or more, double the number of +1/+1 counters on any number of other target creatures.
Creature - Ooze
Primo, the Unbounded
Trample
Primo enters with twice X +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever one or more creatures you control with base power 0 deal combat damage to a player, create a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token. Put a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the damage dealt.
Primo enters with twice X +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever one or more creatures you control with base power 0 deal combat damage to a player, create a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token. Put a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the damage dealt.
Legendary Creature - Wolf Fractal
Creature
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Draw
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Lattice Library
This enchantment enters with X study counters on it.
When this enchantment enters and whenever you cast your first spell with in its mana cost each turn, create a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token. Put a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the number of study counters on this enchantment.
When this enchantment enters and whenever you cast your first spell with in its mana cost each turn, create a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token. Put a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the number of study counters on this enchantment.
Enchantment
Enchantment
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Path of Ancestry
This land enters tapped.
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Land
Land
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March of Swirling Mist
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of blue cards from your hand. This spell costs less to cast for each card exiled this way.
Up to X target creatures phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. Each one phases in before its controller untaps during their next untap step.)
Up to X target creatures phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. Each one phases in before its controller untaps during their next untap step.)
Instant
Protection
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Animist's Awakening
Reveal the top X cards of your library. Put all land cards from among them onto the battlefield tapped and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, untap those lands.
Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, untap those lands.
Sorcery
Sporocyst
Ravenous (This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.)
Defender
Spore Chimney — When this creature enters, search your library for up to X basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Defender
Spore Chimney — When this creature enters, search your library for up to X basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Creature - Tyranid
Unbound Flourishing
Whenever you cast a permanent spell with a mana cost that contains , double the value of X.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell or activate an ability, if that spell's mana cost or that ability's activation cost contains , copy that spell or ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell or activate an ability, if that spell's mana cost or that ability's activation cost contains , copy that spell or ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Enchantment
Ramp
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Removal
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Tokens
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Tutor
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{"ops":[{"insert":"# Quandrix Unlimited — $300 Baller Upgrade\n\nTurn the table's turns into resources. This Zimone, Infinite Analyst build adds repeated untaps, broader flash access, counter preservation and decisive finishes while keeping Quandrix's X-spell-and-counter identity. The upgrades aim to make the engine more capable without turning the deck into a cEDH list.\n\n**Upgrade package:** 37 additions / $299.53 at September 24, 2026 selected nonfoil reference prices. This is the cost of additions to an owned precon, excluding the precon, tax and shipping. The complete deck has 100 cards, including Zimone, and 37 lands.\n\n## Opening hands\n\nPrioritize mana and colors over expensive engines. Look for three lands, early ramp, and either a useful X spell or protection. Birds of Paradise, Llanowar Elves, Wild Growth, Utopia Sprawl and land ramp help get started. Breeding Pool supports both colors and Forest-based ramp; it is not a reason to keep a hand that otherwise does nothing early.\n\n## Game plan\n\n1. Establish Zimone and a counter base while developing mana.\n2. Add Seedborn Muse to untap your permanents during each other player's untap step. High Fae Trickster lets that mana support your whole hand at instant speed.\n3. Use one worthwhile X spell on each turn when the opportunity is useful. Keep interaction available instead of spending mana just because it untapped.\n4. Refill, preserve your counters through disruption, and choose a finishing window.\n\n## Important packages\n\n- **Seedborn Muse + High Fae Trickster:** repeated mana access and flexible casting across the turn cycle. Protect these pieces before planning around all three opponents' turns.\n- **Branching Evolution + The Earth Crystal:** amplify counter placement. Terrasymbiosis can turn a large counter event into cards once each turn; you may decline a small event to save that draw opportunity.\n- **The Ozolith + Broodguard Elite:** when Elite leaves, its trigger can put a matching set of counters on a creature, while Ozolith also receives a set. Ozolith can redistribute its counters at the beginning of your combat. This is counter value and recovery, not an automatic infinite combo.\n- **Wan Shi Tong / Sporocyst:** turn X into cards or basic lands. Wan Shi Tong already has flash; Sporocyst's searched basics enter tapped.\n- **March of Swirling Mist / Heroic Intervention / Tyrant Guard:** complementary protection. Indestructible does not answer every kind of removal; phasing covers important cases it cannot.\n\n## Closing the game\n\nFinale of Devastation at X=10 or more gives your creatures a major power boost and haste. Nev supplies trample to your creatures with counters. An overloaded Cyclonic Rift can open the attack by returning opponents' nonland permanents.\n\nMathemagics can refill your hand or force an opponent to draw more cards than remain in their library, unless another effect changes that outcome. Agree on that finishing plan with your table. When drawing for yourself, count your library first: X=5 means 32 cards.\n\n## Rules and sequencing\n\n- Zimone discounts the first X spell each turn; she does not grant flash or reduce colored requirements.\n- Her cast-trigger counters do not pay for the spell that triggered them.\n- Count all X symbols in Mathemagics and Sporocyst before applying discounts.\n- A creature found by Finale of Devastation does not inherit Finale's chosen X.\n- The Ozolith preserves counter value when a creature leaves; it does not save that creature. Phasing does not make a creature leave the battlefield.\n\n## If you already own Budget\n\nKeep 16 Budget additions. Syncopate, Final-Word Phantom and Arbor Elf leave; the Baller list adds 21 different purchases totaling $282.45 at the reference prices.\n\nBuying the $19.70 Budget package first and those 21 cards later costs $302.15 across both stages, before tax and shipping. The finished Baller package itself totals $299.53 because three earlier purchases are no longer in the deck. No resale proceeds are assumed.\n\n## Table fit and weaknesses\n\nExpect explosive turns and substantial interaction. Tell your group about the repeated-untap engine, overloaded Rift, large Finale turns and optional draw-out finish. Repeated commander removal and loss of the untap/flash package can still interrupt the plan. This primer makes no claim of recorded multiplayer win rates or a certified power bracket.\n\n## References\n\n- [Official stock decklists](https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/secrets-of-strixhaven-commander-decklists)\n- [Zimone rules](https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/feature/secrets-of-strixhaven-release-notes)\n- [Broodguard Elite and The Ozolith interaction](https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/feature/edge-of-eternities-release-notes)\n\nBuilt for Arcane Arena's Budget vs Baller upgrade series.\n\n"}]}