Tolarian Kraken Tapdown & Beatdown

Pauper EDH* Midrange Mono-Blue Pauper Ramp

Scarecrow1779

Creature (24)

• 1x Apprentice Wizard
• 1x Cephalid Looter
• 1x Dreamscape Artist
• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Eldrazi Devastator
• 1x Elgaud Shieldmate
• 1x Facet Reader
• 1x Frontline Sage
• 1x Gearseeker Serpent
• 1x Kozilek's Channeler
• 1x Library Larcenist
• 1x Merfolk Looter
• 1x Myr Enforcer
• 1x Pardic Wanderer
• 1x Reckless Scholar
• 1x Ruin Processor
• 1x Scaretiller
• 1x Silver Myr
• 1x Soldevi Sage
• 1x Teferi's Protege
• 1x Thought Courier
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Ulamog's Crusher
• 1x Zephyr Scribe

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Artful Dodge
• 1x Deep Analysis
• 1x Fade Away
• 1x Silent Departure

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Dragon Wings

Instant (21)

• 1x Behold the Multiverse
• 1x Blink of an Eye
• 1x Bone to Ash
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Circular Logic
• 1x Confound
• 1x Deliberate
• 1x Exclude
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Intervene
• 1x Into the Roil
• 1x Keep Safe
• 1x Mage's Guile
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Negate
• 1x Obsessive Search
• 1x Opt
• 1x Radical Idea
• 1x Repulse
• 1x Scatter Arc
• 1x Think Twice

Land (31)

• 1x Desert
• 1x Desert of the Mindful
• 1x Haunted Fengraf
• 22x Island
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Quicksand
• 1x Remote Isle
• 1x Seat of the Synod

Commander (1)

Artifact (18)

• 1x Bonder's Ornament
• 1x Bonesplitter
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Conjurer's Bauble
• 1x Courier's Capsule
• 1x Darksteel Axe
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Fractured Powerstone
• 1x Guardian Idol
• 1x Magnifying Glass
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Orazca Relic
• 1x Relic of Progenitus
• 1x Sisay's Ring
• 1x Sky Diamond
• 1x Star Compass
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Ur-Golem's Eye

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The game plan of this deck is to ramp and draw until you can play the commander and hold up some counter magic (krakens don't come cheap, ya know). After that, you maintain some kind of protection for your kraken and use instant-speed draw power to tap down your opponents' threats and blockers on their turn before they can attack, also leaving them open to be attacked. Coincidentally, the commander is a pretty good commander damage threat that can kill in 4 attacks.

The big innovation I think I bring with this list is the use of many repeatable looting effects, like Merfolk Looter. These allow you to trigger the Kraken at instant speed with little to no mana cost. They even have some synergy with madness, flashback, and jump-start cards in the deck.

The other experiment is treating this like a delver deck from 60-card formats. We have so many ramp pieces, cantrips, and looting sources at or below 2 CMC that we can play with a much lower land count.

The last thing to note is that Trinket Mage is a great toolbox for this deck. It can get grave hate in the form of Relic, a buff for our commander with Bonesplitter, ramp with Everflowing Chalice, or even just a land with Seat of the Synod. It can even get you a draw trigger with Conjurer's Bauble.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Pauper EDH legal.
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.87
Tokens	City's Blessing, Clue
Folders	Pauper EDH