The Deep

Commander / EDH

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Creature (23)

• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Chancellor of the Spires
• 1x Chasm Skulker
• 1x Consuming Aberration
• 1x Deepfathom Skulker
• 1x Diluvian Primordial
• 1x Fleet Swallower
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Guard Gomazoa
• 1x Guiltfeeder
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Man-o'-War
• 1x Manic Scribe
• 1x Nemesis of Reason
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Oracle of Dust
• 1x Phenax, God of Deception
• 1x Sepulchral Primordial
• 1x Stormtide Leviathan
• 1x Thassa, God of the Sea
• 1x Thing in the Ice  ^Flip
• 1x Wonder

Instant (6)

• 1x Ancient Excavation
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Epiphany at the Drownyard
• 1x Insidious Will
• 1x Memory Plunder
• 1x Swan Song

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Fraying Sanity
• 1x Sphinx's Tutelage
• 1x Waste Not

Sorcery (19)

• 1x Beacon of Unrest
• 1x Crush of Tentacles
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Dark Deal
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Duress
• 1x Extract from Darkness
• 1x In Garruk's Wake
• 1x Mind Grind
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Sever the Bloodline
• 1x Sins of the Past
• 1x Spelltwine
• 1x Temporal Trespass
• 1x Traumatize
• 1x Whelming Wave
• 1x Whispering Madness
• 1x Windfall

Artifact (11)

• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Sapphire Medallion
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Commander (1)

Land (37)

• 1x Choked Estuary
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Drownyard Temple
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 12x Island
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Nephalia Drownyard
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Remote Isle
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 8x Swamp
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Underground River

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Sam's beloved Wrexial the Risen Deep as discussed on episode 5 of the Pass the Jam podcast.

The gameplan is to gradually fill all graveyards for juicy instants and sorceries for Wrexial to swim over and cast for free, but also keeping an eye out for beefy creatures as we also have a fair share of reanimation spells that importantly can target all graveyards.

Wheel effects are an important way to fill the graves whilst also abusing effects of cards such as Notion Thief and Waste Not.

When it's time to win and the graveyards are ripe for the picking, a well timed Rise of the dark realms (even better if cast for 'free' with spelltwine or Sins of the past) will net you with more Creatures than you could ever know what to do with. You can get crafty here and often tailor a win con together with the synergy that the other players spent time and money crafting into their decks!

That of course highlights the primary motivation of this spicy deck, playing everyone elses stuff from their graveyards, the more expensive the better. Due to this, variance in games is fantastic as you'll almost certainly see a new set of attractive cards in graveyards to cast.

Enjoy, and fear the deep.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Exclude colors	WRG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 43 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.13
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone, Octopus 8/8 U, Squid 1/1 U, Zombie 2/2 B