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Arixmethes Sea Creatures/Theros Theme ft. Kiora
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Commander

Quantity: 1Price: $7.99
Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle

Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle enters the battlefield 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 (mul) 162
1

Artifact

Quantity: 6Price: $107.74
Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (afc) 197
1
Bident of Thassa

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. {1}{U}, {T}: Creatures your opponents control attack this turn if able.

Artifact Enchantment
Bident of Thassa (pths) 42★
1
Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (c15) 257
1
Nyx Lotus

Nyx Lotus enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Artifact
Nyx Lotus (pthb) 235s
1
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (cc1) 7
1
The Great Henge

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control. {T}: Add {G}{G}. You gain 2 life. Whenever a nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on it and draw a card.

Artifact
The Great Henge (cmm) 294
1

Creature

Quantity: 29Price: $193.23
Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait

You may play an additional land on each of your turns. Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may draw a card.

Creature
Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait (cmr) 365
1
Archetype of Imagination

Creatures you control have flying. Creatures your opponents control lose flying and can't have or gain flying.

Creature Enchantment
Archetype of Imagination (bng) 32
1
Birds of Paradise

Flying {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Birds of Paradise (ltc) 235
1
Charix, the Raging Isle

Spells your opponents cast that target Charix, the Raging Isle 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) 325
1
Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma

Creature spells you cast with power 4 or greater cost {2} less to cast. Whenever Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma attacks, each creature you control with power 4 or greater gets +1/+1 and gains trample until end of turn.

Creature
Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma (mul) 27
1
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 (woc) 95
1
Ilysian Caryatid

{T}: Add one mana of any color. If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, add two mana of any one color instead.

Creature
Ilysian Caryatid (thb) 174
1
Kiora's Follower

{T}: Untap another target permanent.

Creature
Kiora's Follower (bng) 150
1
Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep

Vigilance, ward {3} Whenever you cast a Kraken, Leviathan, Octopus, or Serpent spell from your hand, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is that spell's mana value. You may cast a spell with mana value less than X from among them without paying its mana cost. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Creature
Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep (mat) 35
1
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, Cosmos Serpent gains indestructible until end of turn.

Creature
Koma, Cosmos Serpent (khm) 221
1
Mesmerizing Benthid

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

Creature
Mesmerizing Benthid (rna) 43
1
Nadir Kraken

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

Creature
Nadir Kraken (pthb) 55p
1
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, Primal Tide. Return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
Nezahal, Primal Tide (rix) 45
1
Nylea, God of the Hunt

Indestructible As long as your devotion to green is less than five, Nylea isn't a creature. (Each {G} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to green.) Other creatures you control have trample. {3}{G}: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Creature Enchantment
Nylea, God of the Hunt (sld) 80
1
Nylea, Keen-Eyed

Indestructible As long as your devotion to green is less than five, Nylea isn't a creature. Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. {2}{G}: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, put it into your hand. Otherwise, you may put it into your graveyard.

Creature Enchantment
Nylea, Keen-Eyed (thb) 266
1
Ohran Frostfang

Attacking creatures you control have deathtouch. Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature
Ohran Frostfang (c19) 33
1
Poison Dart Frog

Reach {T}: Add one mana of any color. {2}: Poison Dart Frog gains deathtouch until end of turn.

Creature
Poison Dart Frog (lci) 207
1
Reef Worm

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

Creature
Reef Worm (c14) 16
1
Regal Behemoth

Trample When Regal Behemoth enters the battlefield, you become the monarch. Whenever you tap a land for mana while you're the monarch, add an additional one mana of any color.

Creature
Regal Behemoth (cn2) 69
1
Scourge of Fleets

When Scourge of Fleets enters the battlefield, 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 (ddo) 41
1
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
1
Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep

Kicker {1}{U} (You may pay an additional {1}{U} as you cast this spell.) When Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep enters the battlefield, 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 (dom) 66
1
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
1
Stormsurge Kraken

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

Creature
Stormsurge Kraken (c14) 18
1
Stormtide Leviathan

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.) All lands are Islands in addition to their other types. Creatures without flying or islandwalk can't attack.

Creature
Stormtide Leviathan (m15) 80
1
Tatyova, Benthic Druid

Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Creature
Tatyova, Benthic Druid (dom) 206
1
Thassa, Deep-Dwelling

Indestructible As long as your devotion to blue is less than five, Thassa isn't a creature. At the beginning of your end step, exile up to one other target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control. {3}{U}: Tap another target creature.

Creature Enchantment
Thassa, Deep-Dwelling (thb) 261
1
Thassa, God of the Sea

Indestructible As long as your devotion to blue is less than five, Thassa isn't a creature. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.) At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1. {1}{U}: Target creature you control can't be blocked this turn.

Creature Enchantment
Thassa, God of the Sea (sld) 71
1
Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood

Whenever Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood enters the battlefield 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) 34
1

Enchantment

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Garruk's Uprising

When Garruk's Uprising enters the battlefield, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw a card. Creatures you control have trample. (They can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker they're attacking.) Whenever a creature with power 4 or greater enters the battlefield under your control, draw a card.

Enchantment
Garruk's Uprising (m21) 308
1
Kiora Bests the Sea God

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Create an 8/8 blue Kraken creature token with hexproof. II — Tap all nonland permanents target opponent controls. They don't untap during their controller's next untap step. III — Gain control of target permanent an opponent controls. Untap it.

Enchantment
Kiora Bests the Sea God (thb) 52
1
Pemmin's Aura

Enchant creature {U}: Untap enchanted creature. {U}: Enchanted creature gains flying until end of turn. {U}: Enchanted creature gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) {1}: Enchanted creature gets +1/-1 or -1/+1 until end of turn.

Enchantment
Pemmin's Aura (scg) 45
1
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 Quest for Ula's Temple. At the beginning of each end step, if there are three or more quest counters on Quest for Ula's Temple, 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
1
Song of the Dryads

Enchant permanent Enchanted permanent is a colorless Forest land.

Enchantment
Song of the Dryads (c14) 47
1

Instant

Quantity: 11Price: $101.69
Beast Within

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Instant
Beast Within (afc) 152
1
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (mh2) 267
1
Fierce Guardianship

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Fierce Guardianship (cmm) 94
1
Growth Spiral

Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Instant
Growth Spiral (sta) 61
1
Heroic Intervention

Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Heroic Intervention (m21) 188
1
Krosan Grip

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Instant
Krosan Grip (c21) 198
1
Naturalize

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Instant
Naturalize (m15) 185
1
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (sta) 18
1
Pongify

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Instant
Pongify (2xm) 62
1
Return of the Wildspeaker

Choose one — • Draw cards equal to the greatest power among non-Human creatures you control. • Non-Human creatures you control get +3/+3 until end of turn.

Instant
Return of the Wildspeaker (peld) 172p
1
Swan Song

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Instant
Swan Song (ths) 65
1

Land

Quantity: 35Price: $180.25
Botanical Sanctum

Botanical Sanctum enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Botanical Sanctum (kld) 244
1
Breeding Pool

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.) As Breeding Pool enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Breeding Pool (gtc) 240
1
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (cc1) 8
1
Dreamroot Cascade

Dreamroot Cascade enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Dreamroot Cascade (vow) 262
1
Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Land
Exotic Orchard (c16) 295
1
Flooded Grove

{T}: Add {C}. {G/U}, {T}: Add {G}{G}, {G}{U}, or {U}{U}.

Land
Flooded Grove (2xm) 318
1
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (thb) 254
7
Hinterland Harbor

Hinterland Harbor enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Hinterland Harbor (lcc) 336
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (thb) 251
13
Minamo, School at Water's Edge

{T}: Add {U}. {U}, {T}: Untap target legendary permanent.

Land
Minamo, School at Water's Edge (ltc) 399
1
Mosswort Bridge

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters the battlefield, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) Mosswort Bridge enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {G}. {G}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if creatures you control have total power 10 or greater.

Land
Mosswort Bridge (c17) 261
1
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Land
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx (ths) 223
1
Rejuvenating Springs

Rejuvenating Springs enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Rejuvenating Springs (ltc) 325
1
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (plg20) 1
1
Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Rogue's Passage (znc) 138
1
Vineglimmer Snarl

As Vineglimmer Snarl enters the battlefield, you may reveal a Forest or Island card from your hand. If you don't, Vineglimmer Snarl enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Vineglimmer Snarl (ltc) 343
1
Yavimaya Coast

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {G} or {U}. Yavimaya Coast deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Yavimaya Coast (c19) 287
1

Planeswalker

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Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner

Whenever a creature with power 4 or greater enters the battlefield under your control, draw a card. −1: Untap target permanent.

Planeswalker
Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner (war) 232
1
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 enters the battlefield under your control, you may have it fight target creature." Then create three 8/8 blue Octopus creature tokens.

Planeswalker
Kiora, Master of the Depths (bfz) 213
1

Sorcery

Quantity: 11Price: $27.49
Broken Bond

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Sorcery
Broken Bond (plst) DOM-157
1
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 (c19) 159
1
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
Kodama's Reach (c21) 197
1
Nature's Lore

Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Nature's Lore (clb) 244
1
Overwhelming Stampede

Until end of turn, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

Sorcery
Overwhelming Stampede (c19) 175
1
Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (To 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.)

Sorcery
Preordain (ltc) 196
1
Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (tmp) 245
1
Rishkar's Expertise

Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control. You may cast a spell with mana value 5 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Sorcery
Rishkar's Expertise (afc) 170
1
Shamanic Revelation

Draw a card for each creature you control. Ferocious — You gain 4 life for each creature you control with power 4 or greater.

Sorcery
Shamanic Revelation (frf) 138
1
Three Visits

Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Three Visits (cmr) 261
1
Whelming Wave

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

Sorcery
Whelming Wave (bng) 57
1

Tokens & Extras

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Ape

Creature Token
Ape (t2xm) 12
1
Beast

Creature Token
Beast (tltc) 10
1
Bird

Flying

Creature Token
Bird (tths) 4
1
Fish

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

Creature Token
Fish (tc21) 3
1
Illusion

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

Creature Token
Illusion (trna) 2
1
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
1
Koma's Coil

Creature Token
Koma's Coil (tkhm) 7
1
Kraken

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Creature Token
Kraken (tthb) 4
1
Kraken

Creature Token
Kraken (tc21) 4
1
Octopus

Creature Token
Octopus (tbfz) 7
3
Tentacle

Creature Token
Tentacle (tmoc) 15
1
Whale

When this creature dies, create a 9/9 blue Kraken creature token.

Creature Token
Whale (tc21) 5
1

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Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"First deck I've built that didn't start as a precon, a lot of the initial idea came from the cards I pulled from the Theros: Beyond Death booster box /prerelease kit I opened. Further additions came from previous sets I unboxed that felt on-theme before I stopped updating the deck in mid 2021. This is the second version, rebuilt towards the end of 2023 with a handful of new cards that have come out since 2021 such as Koma, Spawning Kraken, etc. Some cards (such as Regal Behemoth, Naturalize, and Shamanic Revelation) are nostalgic to me from when I got them/the sets they came from, and I imagine creatures like Goreclaw and Ohran live on Arixmethes' back, which is why they're all included. :) Probably around half of the deck is stuff I have pulled/from a precon I used to use. \n\nOverall, this is a pretty straightforward battlecruiser deck with one infinite combo: Pemmin's Aura attached to Arixmethes when it's a creature for infinite green mana. \n\nUpdate 1/17/24 - put in some better lands/ swapped a few creatures along with a little more protection and more efficient ramp\nUpdate 1/28/24 - added a little more ramp and draw plus a couple extra counter/removal spells.\n"}]}
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