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{"ops":[{"insert":"Welcome to "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Advanced R&D"},{"insert":", where we take the scientific method and apply it to cloning giant, terrifying monsters twice. If your opponents thought a casual Simic value deck meant polite ramp spells and mild card draw, they are about to become test subjects in a very chaotic laboratory experiment.\nThe Scientific Thesis"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Our lead scientist, Volo, Guide to Monsters, has strict laboratory rules: no two test subjects can share a creature type. Every time you deploy a unique species—whether it's a slithering snake, an intellectual wizard, or an apex dinosaur—Volo’s strict peer review process duplicates the spell on the spot. Suddenly, dropping one payoff means you get two, turning standard creature drops into an overwhelming chain reaction.\nExperiment Methodology"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"The Grant Funding (Ramp):"},{"insert":" We fund our research early and often. Classic mana dorks and land-fetching sorceries let you push Volo out on turn two or three so your experiments can start immediately."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"The Data Collection (Card Advantage):"},{"insert":" Drawing cards is how we publish our findings. Engines like Beast Whisperer, Guardian Project, and Tatyova, Benthic Druid reward you exponentially for adding diverse specimens to the board."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"The Mutant Hybridization (Clones & Control):"},{"insert":" Need more copies of your best discoveries? Clever Impersonator and Phyrexian Metamorph step into the lab to replicate whatever your opponents brought to the table. Meanwhile, a suite of flexible removal and counterspells ensures nobody pulls the fire alarm on our lab."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Conclusion"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Advanced R&D isn’t about playing fair; it’s about pushing Simic evolution to its absolute limit. Pack your lab coat, protect your unique creature types, and let the cloning begin!\n"}]}

Commander

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Volo, Guide to Monsters
Whenever you cast a creature spell that doesn't share a creature type with a creature you control or a creature card in your graveyard, copy that spell. (A copy of a creature spell becomes a token.)
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Volo, Guide to Monsters (afr) 238

Commander

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Clones

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Clever Impersonator
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any nonland permanent on the battlefield.
Creature - Shapeshifter
Clever Impersonator (plst) KTK-34
Phyrexian Metamorph
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any artifact or creature on the battlefield, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.
Creature Artifact - Shapeshifter Phyrexian
Phyrexian Metamorph (eoc) 75

Clones

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Draw

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Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Serpent
Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait (dsc) 210
Beast Whisperer
Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.
Creature - Elf Druid
Beast Whisperer (fdc) 189
Guardian Project
Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, if it doesn't have the same name as another creature you control or a creature card in your graveyard, draw a card.
Enchantment
Guardian Project (pip) 199
Mulldrifter
Flying
When this creature enters, draw two cards.
Evoke
(You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)
Creature - Elemental
Mulldrifter (ecc) 67
Nezahal, Primal Tide
This spell can't be countered.
You have no maximum hand size.
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, draw a card.
Discard three cards: Exile Nezahal. Return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
Legendary Creature - Elder Dinosaur
Nezahal, Primal Tide (cmr) 401
Rhystic Study
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays
.
Enchantment
Rhystic Study (j22) 114
Shardless Agent
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Creature Artifact - Human Rogue
Shardless Agent (mh2) 423
Tatyova, Benthic Druid
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life and draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Druid Merfolk
Tatyova, Benthic Druid (fdn) 247
Urban Evolution
Draw three cards. You may play an additional land this turn.
Sorcery
Urban Evolution (m3c) 276

Draw

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Land

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Barkchannel Pathway
: Add
.
Land
Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway (khm) 251Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway (khm) 251
Botanical Sanctum
This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Botanical Sanctum (otj) 267
Breeding Pool
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Island Forest
Breeding Pool (trk) 279
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (frc) 22
Dreamroot Cascade
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Dreamroot Cascade (sos) 254
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (frc) 70
Fabled Passage
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.
Land
Fabled Passage (frc) 71
Flooded Grove
: Add
.
,
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Flooded Grove (soc) 373
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (mdd) 301
Hinterland Harbor
This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island.
: Add
or
.
Land
Hinterland Harbor (msc) 250
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (mdd) 294
Lumbering Falls
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 3/3 green and blue Elemental creature with hexproof. It's still a land.
Land
Lumbering Falls (m3c) 355
Rejuvenating Springs
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Rejuvenating Springs (msc) 260
Simic Growth Chamber
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
: Add
.
Land
Simic Growth Chamber (dsc) 298
Temple of Mystery
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
: Add
or
.
Land
Temple of Mystery (soc) 414
Vineglimmer Snarl
As this land enters, you may reveal a Forest or Island card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land
Vineglimmer Snarl (soc) 420
Waterlogged Grove
, Pay 1 life: Add
or
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.
Land
Waterlogged Grove (who) 331
Yavimaya Coast
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Yavimaya Coast (soc) 425

Land

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Protection

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Archetype of Endurance
Creatures you control have hexproof.
Creatures your opponents control lose hexproof and can't have or gain hexproof.
Creature Enchantment - Boar
Archetype of Endurance (plst) BNG-116
Lightning Greaves
Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Lightning Greaves (msc) 202
Swiftfoot Boots
Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and
no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Swiftfoot Boots (msc) 216

Protection

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (frc) 20
Birds of Paradise
Flying
: Add one mana of any color.
Creature - Bird
Birds of Paradise (msc) 170
Coiling Oracle
When this creature enters, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put that card into your hand.
Creature - Elf Druid Snake
Coiling Oracle (blc) 250
Cultivate
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Cultivate (msc) 172
Elvish Mystic
: Add
.
Creature - Elf Druid
Elvish Mystic (hoc) 205
Farhaven Elf
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Creature - Elf Druid
Farhaven Elf (ltc) 243
Farseek
Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Farseek (msc) 173
Fyndhorn Elves
: Add
.
Creature - Elf Druid
Fyndhorn Elves (fdc) 204
Kodama's Reach
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery - Arcane
Kodama's Reach (ecc) 113
Llanowar Elves
: Add
.
Creature - Elf Druid
Llanowar Elves (fdn) 227
Nature's Lore
Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Nature's Lore (msc) 177
Peregrine Drake
Flying
When this creature enters, untap up to five lands.
Creature - Drake
Peregrine Drake (dmr) 292
Sakura-Tribe Elder
Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Creature - Shaman Snake
Sakura-Tribe Elder (soc) 285
Simic Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Simic Signet (dsc) 252
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (frc) 21
Talisman of Curiosity
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Curiosity (drc) 140
Thought Vessel
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Artifact
Thought Vessel (msc) 222
Three Visits
Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Three Visits (msc) 181

Ramp

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Recursion

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Eternal Witness
When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Human Shaman
Eternal Witness (m3c) 227
Ramunap Excavator
You may play lands from your graveyard.
Creature - Cleric Snake
Ramunap Excavator (m3c) 241

Recursion

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Removal

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Acidic Slime
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
When this creature enters, destroy target artifact, enchantment, or land.
Creature - Ooze
Acidic Slime (tmc) 48
An Offer You Can't Refuse
Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Instant
An Offer You Can't Refuse (fic) 267
Bane of Progress
When this creature enters, destroy all artifacts and enchantments. Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature for each permanent destroyed this way.
Creature - Elemental
Bane of Progress (ecc) 99
Beast Within
Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.
Instant
Beast Within (msc) 169
Counterspell
Counter target spell.
Instant
Counterspell (fdc) 61
Flood of Tears
Return all nonland permanents to their owners' hands. If you return four or more nontoken permanents you control this way, you may put a permanent card from your hand onto the battlefield.
Sorcery
Flood of Tears (voc) 104
Kogla, the Titan Ape
When Kogla enters, it fights up to one target creature you don't control.
Whenever Kogla attacks, destroy target artifact or enchantment defending player controls.
: Return target Human you control to its owner's hand. Kogla gains indestructible until end of turn.
Legendary Creature - Ape
Kogla, the Titan Ape (iko) 162
Manglehorn
When this creature enters, you may destroy target artifact.
Artifacts your opponents control enter tapped.
Creature - Beast
Manglehorn (plst) AKH-175
Nature's Claim
Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller gains 4 life.
Instant
Nature's Claim (plst) IMA-177
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Instant
Negate (tmt) 47
Pongify
Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.
Instant
Pongify (tdc) 160
Rapid Hybridization
Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller creates a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token.
Instant
Rapid Hybridization (soc) 198
Reclamation Sage
When this creature enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Creature - Elf Shaman
Reclamation Sage (fdn) 231
Renet, Temporal Apprentice
Flash
When Renet enters, return each other nonland permanent that entered this turn to its owner's hand.
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Renet, Temporal Apprentice (tmt) 50
Scavenging Ooze
: Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Ooze
Scavenging Ooze (fdn) 232
Swan Song
Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.
Instant
Swan Song (eoc) 46
Terastodon
When this creature enters, you may destroy up to three target noncreature permanents. For each permanent put into a graveyard this way, its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.
Creature - Elephant
Terastodon (m3c) 249

Removal

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Tokens

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Hornet Queen
Flying, deathtouch
When this creature enters, create four 1/1 green Insect creature tokens with flying and deathtouch.
Creature - Insect
Hornet Queen (dsc) 184

Tokens

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Tutor

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Spellseeker
When this creature enters, you may search your library for an instant or sorcery card with mana value 2 or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Creature - Human Wizard
Spellseeker (cmm) 120
Whir of Invention
Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for
.)
Search your library for an artifact card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Instant
Whir of Invention (plst) AER-49

Tutor

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Untap

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Quirion Ranger
Return a Forest you control to its owner's hand: Untap target creature. Activate only once each turn.
Creature - Elf Ranger
Quirion Ranger (mh2) 285
Vizier of Tumbling Sands
: Untap another target permanent.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, untap target permanent.
Creature - Human Cleric
Vizier of Tumbling Sands (cmm) 131

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Deck Info

Deck stats

0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 5 cards
30 pips - 23 cards
35 mana - 33 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 5 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 5 cards
43 pips - 33 cards
38 mana - 36 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
6 mana - 5 cards
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Description

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