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Here there be Monsters (v2.0)
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Commander

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Kenessos, Priest of Thassa

If you would scry a number of cards, scry that many cards plus one instead. {3}{G/U}: Look at the top card of your library. If it's a Kraken, Leviathan, Octopus, or Serpent creature card, you may put it onto the battlefield. If you don't put the card onto the battlefield, you may put it on the bottom of your library.

Creature
Kenessos, Priest of Thassa (j22) 13

Commander

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Instant

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Artisan's Sorrow

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Instant
Artisan's Sorrow (ths) 151
Bane's Contingency

Counter target spell. If that spell targets a commander you control, instead counter that spell, scry 2, then draw a card.

Instant
Bane's Contingency (clb) 57
Bite Down

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature or planeswalker you don't control.

Instant
Bite Down (dmu) 155
Dissolve

Counter target spell. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Instant
Dissolve (ima) 51
Engulf the Shore

Return to their owners' hands all creatures with toughness less than or equal to the number of Islands you control.

Instant
Engulf the Shore (ddt) 5
Ferocious Charge

Target creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn. Scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Instant
Ferocious Charge (5dn) 88
Memory Drain

Counter target spell. Scry 2.

Instant
Memory Drain (thb) 54
Shower of Arrows

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or creature with flying. Scry 1.

Instant
Shower of Arrows (ltr) 188
Swell of Growth

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Instant
Swell of Growth (bfz) 191
Thassa's Rebuff

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}, where X is your devotion to blue. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)

Instant
Thassa's Rebuff (bng) 54

Instant

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Artifact

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Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (scd) 257
Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Commander's Sphere (dsc) 244
Simic Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {G}{U}.

Artifact
Simic Signet (mkc) 236
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (pip) 239
The Temporal Anchor

At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 2. Whenever you choose to put one or more cards on the bottom of your library while scrying, exile that many cards from the bottom of your library. During your turn, you may play cards exiled with The Temporal Anchor.

Artifact
The Temporal Anchor (bro) 82
Witches' Eye

Equipped creature has "{1}, {T}: Scry 1." (To scry 1, look at the top card of your library, then you may put that card on the bottom.) Equip {1}

Artifact
Witches' Eye (ths) 222

Artifact

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Land

Qty: 38 Price: $14.26
Castle Vantress

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island. {T}: Add {U}. {2}{U}{U}, {T}: Scry 2.

Land
Castle Vantress (m3c) 327
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (moc) 396
Crystal Grotto

When this land enters, scry 1. {T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Crystal Grotto (dmu) 246
Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Evolving Wilds (iko) 247
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (dft) 291
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (j25) 86
Quandrix Campus

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {U}. {4}, {T}: Scry 1.

Land
Quandrix Campus (dsc) 294
Simic Growth Chamber

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {G}{U}.

Land
Simic Growth Chamber (mkc) 293
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.) {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Temple of Mystery (m3c) 390
Thornwood Falls

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Thornwood Falls (dft) 266

Land

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Creature

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Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle

Arixmethes enters tapped with five slumber counters on it. As long as Arixmethes has a slumber counter on it, it's a land. (It's not a creature.) Whenever you cast a spell, you may remove a slumber counter from Arixmethes. {T}: Add {G}{U}.

Creature
Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle (2xm) 189
Biblioplex Kraken

When this creature enters, scry 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.) Whenever this creature attacks, you may return another creature you control to its owner's hand. If you do, this creature can't be blocked this turn.

Creature
Biblioplex Kraken (j22) 10
Charix, the Raging Isle

Spells your opponents cast that target Charix cost {2} more to cast. {3}: Charix gets +X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Islands you control.

Creature
Charix, the Raging Isle (znr) 386
Grappling Kraken

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, tap target creature an opponent controls and put a stun counter on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)

Creature
Grappling Kraken (fdn) 39
Hullbreaker Horror

Flash This spell can't be countered. Whenever you cast a spell, choose up to one — • Return target spell you don't control to its owner's hand. • Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Creature
Hullbreaker Horror (inr) 357
Inkwell Leviathan

Trample Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.) Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Creature Artifact
Inkwell Leviathan (ema) 56
Kederekt Leviathan

When this creature enters, return all other nonland permanents to their owners' hands. Unearth {6}{U} ({6}{U}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Kederekt Leviathan (2x2) 55
Kiora's Follower

{T}: Untap another target permanent.

Creature
Kiora's Follower (lcc) 273
Koma, Cosmos Serpent

This spell can't be countered. At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 3/3 blue Serpent creature token named Koma's Coil. Sacrifice another Serpent: Choose one — • Tap target permanent. Its activated abilities can't be activated this turn. • Koma gains indestructible until end of turn.

Creature
Koma, Cosmos Serpent (mkc) 213
Kraken of the Straits

Creatures with power less than the number of Islands you control can't block this creature.

Creature
Kraken of the Straits (bng) 42
Lorthos, the Tidemaker

Whenever Lorthos attacks, you may pay {8}. If you do, tap up to eight target permanents. Those permanents don't untap during their controllers' next untap steps.

Creature
Lorthos, the Tidemaker (cmm) 103
Mesmerizing Benthid

When this creature enters, create two 0/2 blue Illusion creature tokens with "Whenever this token blocks a creature, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step." This creature has hexproof as long as you control an Illusion.

Creature
Mesmerizing Benthid (rna) 43
Monstrosity of the Lake

When Monstrosity of the Lake enters, you may pay {5}. If you do, tap all creatures your opponents control, then put a stun counter on each of those creatures. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.) Islandcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for an Island card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature
Monstrosity of the Lake (ltc) 22
Nadir Kraken

Whenever you draw a card, you may pay {1}. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and create a 1/1 blue Tentacle creature token.

Creature
Nadir Kraken (mkc) 112
Nimbus Swimmer

Flying This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Nimbus Swimmer (gtc) 181
Octavia, Living Thesis

This spell costs {8} less to cast if you have eight or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard. Ward {8} Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, target creature has base power and toughness 8/8 until end of turn.

Creature
Octavia, Living Thesis (otc) 103
Octoprophet

When this creature enters, scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Creature
Octoprophet (m20) 70
Pearl Lake Ancient

Flash This spell can't be countered. Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Return three lands you control to their owner's hand: Return this creature to its owner's hand.

Creature
Pearl Lake Ancient (ktk) 49
Reef Worm

When this creature dies, create a 3/3 blue Fish creature token with "When this token dies, create a 6/6 blue Whale creature token with 'When this token dies, create a 9/9 blue Kraken creature token.'"

Creature
Reef Worm (mh3) 271
Reservoir Kraken

Trample, ward {2} At the beginning of each combat, if this creature is untapped, any opponent may tap an untapped creature they control. If they do, tap this creature and create a 1/1 blue Fish creature token with "This token can't be blocked."

Creature
Reservoir Kraken (snc) 413
Scourge of Fleets

When this creature enters, return each creature your opponents control with toughness X or less to its owner's hand, where X is the number of Islands you control.

Creature
Scourge of Fleets (jou) 51
Serpent of Yawning Depths

Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents you control can't be blocked except by Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents.

Creature Enchantment
Serpent of Yawning Depths (thb) 291
Sharktocrab

{2}{G}{U}: Adapt 1. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put a +1/+1 counter on it.) Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on this creature, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Creature
Sharktocrab (rvr) 222
Simic Sky Swallower

Flying, trample Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Creature
Simic Sky Swallower (ddo) 56
Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep

Kicker {1}{U} (You may pay an additional {1}{U} as you cast this spell.) When Slinn Voda enters, if it was kicked, return all creatures to their owners' hands except for Merfolk, Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents.

Creature
Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep (cmr) 405
Spawning Kraken

Whenever a Kraken, Leviathan, Octopus, or Serpent you control deals combat damage to a player, create a 9/9 blue Kraken creature token.

Creature
Spawning Kraken (c21) 33
The Watcher in the Water

The Watcher in the Water enters tapped with nine stun counters on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.) Whenever you draw a card during an opponent's turn, create a 1/1 blue Tentacle creature token. Whenever a Tentacle you control dies, untap up to one target Kraken and put a stun counter on up to one target nonland permanent.

Creature
The Watcher in the Water (ltr) 75
Tidal Terror

Whenever this creature attacks, you may tap two other untapped creatures you control. If you do, this creature can't be blocked this turn. Islandcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for an Island card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature
Tidal Terror (mom) 82
Trench Behemoth

Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Untap this creature. It gains hexproof until end of turn. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, target creature an opponent controls attacks during its controller's next combat phase if able.

Creature
Trench Behemoth (cmr) 366
Tromokratis

Tromokratis has hexproof unless it's attacking or blocking. Tromokratis can't be blocked unless all creatures defending player controls block it. (If any creature that player controls doesn't block this creature, it can't be blocked.)

Creature
Tromokratis (cmm) 129

Creature

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Planeswalker

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Kiora, Master of the Depths

+1: Untap up to one target creature and up to one target land. −2: Reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a creature card and/or a land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard. −8: You get an emblem with "Whenever a creature you control enters, you may have it fight target creature." Then create three 8/8 blue Octopus creature tokens.

Planeswalker
Kiora, Master of the Depths (bfz) 213

Planeswalker

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Enchantment

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Aqueous Form

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't be blocked. Whenever enchanted creature attacks, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Enchantment
Aqueous Form (cmr) 56
Gift of Strands

Flash Enchant creature When this Aura enters, scry 2. Enchanted creature gets +3/+3.

Enchantment
Gift of Strands (ltr) 170
Ominous Seas

Whenever you draw a card, put a foreshadow counter on this enchantment. Remove eight foreshadow counters from this enchantment: Create an 8/8 blue Kraken creature token. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Enchantment
Ominous Seas (plst) IKO-61
Quest for Ula's Temple

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, you may reveal it and put a quest counter on this enchantment. At the beginning of each end step, if there are three or more quest counters on this enchantment, you may put a Kraken, Leviathan, Octopus, or Serpent creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Enchantment
Quest for Ula's Temple (wwk) 35
Retreat to Coralhelm

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, choose one — • You may tap or untap target creature. • Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Enchantment
Retreat to Coralhelm (dsc) 126
Tamiyo's Compleation

Flash Enchant artifact, creature, or planeswalker When this Aura enters, tap enchanted permanent. If it's an Equipment, unattach it. Enchanted permanent loses all abilities and doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

Enchantment
Tamiyo's Compleation (neo) 83

Enchantment

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Sorcery

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Abundant Harvest

Choose land or nonland. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card of the chosen kind. Put that card into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Sorcery
Abundant Harvest (mh2) 354
Elven Farsight

Scry 3, then you may reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, draw a card.

Sorcery
Elven Farsight (ltr) 161
Impede Momentum

Tap target creature and put three stun counters on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.) Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Sorcery
Impede Momentum (dmu) 54
Interpret the Signs

Scry 3, then reveal the top card of your library. Draw cards equal to that card's mana value. (To scry 3, look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery
Interpret the Signs (cmr) 75
Nissa's Revelation

Scry 5, then reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, you draw cards equal to its power and you gain life equal to its toughness.

Sorcery
Nissa's Revelation (ori) 191
Tamiyo's Epiphany

Scry 4, then draw two cards.

Sorcery
Tamiyo's Epiphany (war) 71
Track Down

Scry 3, then reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature or land card, draw a card. (To scry 3, look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery
Track Down (m21) 211
Whelming Wave

Return all creatures to their owners' hands except for Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents.

Sorcery
Whelming Wave (ddo) 44

Sorcery

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Brinelin, the Moon Kraken

When Brinelin enters and whenever you cast a spell with mana value 6 or greater, you may return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Brinelin, the Moon Kraken (cmm) 78
Deep-Sea Kraken

This creature can't be blocked. Suspend 9—{2}{U} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {2}{U} and exile it with nine time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.) Whenever an opponent casts a spell, if this card is suspended, remove a time counter from it.

Creature
Deep-Sea Kraken (dds) 3
Deep-Sea Terror

This creature can't attack unless there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.

Creature
Deep-Sea Terror (ori) 52
Denizen of the Deep

When this creature enters, return each other creature you control to its owner's hand.

Creature
Denizen of the Deep (dmr) 47
Hithlain Knots

Tap target creature. Scry 1. Draw a card.

Instant
Hithlain Knots (ltr) 54
Icebreaker Kraken

Affinity for snow lands (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each snow land you control.) When this creature enters, artifacts and creatures target opponent controls don't untap during that player's next untap step. Return three snow lands you control to their owner's hand: Return this creature to its owner's hand.

Creature
Icebreaker Kraken (khm) 63
Omen of the Sea

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) When this enchantment enters, scry 2, then draw a card. {2}{U}, Sacrifice this enchantment: Scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Enchantment
Omen of the Sea (j25) 336
Shipbreaker Kraken

{6}{U}{U}: Monstrosity 4. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put four +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.) When this creature becomes monstrous, tap up to four target creatures. Those creatures don't untap during their controllers' untap steps for as long as you control this creature.

Creature
Shipbreaker Kraken (cmr) 404
Stormsurge Kraken

Hexproof Lieutenant — As long as you control your commander, this creature gets +2/+2 and has "Whenever this creature becomes blocked, you may draw two cards."

Creature
Stormsurge Kraken (cmm) 122
Striped Riverwinder

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Striped Riverwinder (plst) HOU-48
Unruly Krasis

Trample Whenever this creature attacks, you may have the base power and toughness of another target creature you control become X/X until end of turn, where X is this creature's power. {3}{G}{U}: Adapt 3. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put three +1/+1 counters on it.)

Creature
Unruly Krasis (clu) 50
Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood

Whenever Xolatoyac enters or attacks, put a flood counter on target land. That land is an Island in addition to its other types for as long as it has a flood counter on it. At the beginning of your end step, untap each permanent you control with a counter on it.

Creature
Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood (lcc) 8

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Tokens & Extras

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Fish

This creature can't be blocked.

Creature Token
Fish (tsnc) 4
Illusion

Whenever this creature blocks a creature, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Creature Token
Illusion (trna) 2
Kiora, Master of the Depths Emblem

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may have it fight target creature.

Emblem
Kiora, Master of the Depths Emblem (tbfz) 14
Koma's Coil

Creature Token
Koma's Coil (tkhm) 7
Kraken

Creature Token
Kraken (tc14) 9
Octopus

Creature Token
Octopus (tbfz) 7
Tentacle

Creature Token
Tentacle (tthb) 6
Tentacle

Creature Token
Tentacle (tltr) 4

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{"ops":[{"insert":"Version 1.0: my first draft of this deck had about 60 creatures in total, 20 of which hand mana values over 6. My heart was set on Kenessos as commander. \n\nVersion 1.5: I toned it down with the jumbo creatures and balanced out the deck with some itty bitty support creatures and spells. Still have tons of big blue creatures but I also adjusted it to be more green than the initial draft, for more mana support. \n\nVersion 1.7: After March of the Machine came out they released a new Kioria legendary creature which I am considering testing out as commander. Only thing is she’s significantly more expensive, mana wise, than Kenessos, and her ability requires you to actually pay those big mana costs for the bigger creatures.\n\nv2.0: reworking again cause I’m noticing a pattern with my old decks where I was stupid when I made them. \n"}]}
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