NO STEP ON SNEK: Koma EDH [PRIMER]

Commander / EDH Aggro GU (Simic) Indestructible Jank Landfall Primer Ramp Tempo Tokens Tokens

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Land (34)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 5x Forest
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 5x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Rejuvenating Springs
• 1x Rimewood Falls
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Snow-Covered Forest
• 1x Snow-Covered Island
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Waterlogged Grove
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Defense of the Heart
• 1x Earthcraft
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip
• 1x Overgrowth
• 1x Reconnaissance Mission
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Utopia Sprawl
• 1x Wild Growth

Sorcery (19)

• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Ezuri's Predation
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Natural Order
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Oversimplify
• 1x Pest Infestation
• 1x Regrowth
• 1x Scapeshift
• 1x Seasons Past
• 1x Shamanic Revelation
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Solve the Equation
• 1x Tempt with Discovery
• 1x Three Visits
• 1x Whelming Wave

Instant (12)

• 1x Arachnogenesis
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Harrow
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mystic Reflection
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Perplexing Test
• 1x Swan Song

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Garruk Wildspeaker
• 1x Oko, Thief of Crowns
• 1x Vivien, Monsters' Advocate

Commander (1)

Creature (18)

• 1x Adrix and Nev, Twincasters
• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Curiosity Crafter
• 1x Deep Forest Hermit
• 1x Faerie Artisans
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Master of Waves
• 1x Nadir Kraken
• 1x Ohran Frostfang
• 1x Scute Swarm
• 1x Spawning Kraken
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Tendershoot Dryad
• 1x Thorn Mammoth
• 1x Toski, Bearer of Secrets
• 1x Wandering Archaic  ^Flip

Artifact (4)

• 1x Bident of Thassa
• 1x Eldrazi Monument
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Sol Ring

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Sideboard

Instant (4)

• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Theoretical Duplication

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Echoing Equation  ^Flip

Creature (4)

• 1x Esix, Fractal Bloom
• 1x Master Biomancer
• 1x Siren Stormtamer
• 1x Spellskite

Artifact (2)

• 1x Geometric Nexus
• 1x Lightning Greaves

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Coastal Piracy

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Maybeboard

Instant (6)

• 1x Arachnogenesis
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Reap
• 1x Return of the Wildspeaker
• 1x Sprout Swarm

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Ezuri's Predation

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Kasmina, Enigmatic Mentor

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Coastal Piracy
• 1x Ominous Seas
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Verdant Embrace
• 1x Wolfcaller's Howl

Artifact (1)

• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk

Land (1)

• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

Creature (5)

• 1x Elder Gargaroth
• 1x Nyxbloom Ancient
• 1x Thada Adel, Acquisitor
• 1x Tishana, Voice of Thunder
• 1x Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath

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This is a token-centric build for Koma, with Koma meant to be a way to rebuild if a board wipe obliterates the rest of our field. Koma also can be a card advantage engine when paired with Greater Good , Elemental Bond , or any variant on Coastal Piracy (of which we run at least five).

Apart from Koma herself, the primary purpose of this deck is to generate hundreds of power using Mystic Reflection , and win in a giant token swarm! :D

I'd usually recommend waiting until you have 8 or 9 mana to cast Koma, so that you'll have a counterspell ready for the inevitable exiling removal (though we do run Force of Will and Pact of Negation to keep our opponents on their toes). And of course, she can also lock down pesky permanents such as planeswalkers using her coils!

The primary goal here is to establish a giant horde and protect it by countermagic, or make it resilient to board wipes by another means. Koma helps with this, as an immediate indestructible threat as soon as she hits battlefield, who only grows in power the longer she remains unanswered.

Normally, this type of deck would fold to a board wipe or two, since we somewhat overextend onto the battlefield. However, even beyond the fact that we run counterspells, there's very few board wipes which touch both an indestructible commander AND a board full of threatening tokens! If they cast Wrath of God , our commander survives and rebuilds our army for free. If they use spot removal on Koma, Cosmos Serpent , we still have giant token hoards ready to swing in! ;)

A particularly good hand can accelerate Koma out by turn 3-4, but in many situations we never cast her in a game (instead winning via Mystic Reflection or some other army-in-a-can).

ALTERNATE COMBOS AND WINCONS

• Mystic Reflection + Avenger of Zendikar / Master of Waves / Deep Forest Hermit (can also be fetched with Defense of the Heart or Vivien, Monsters' Advocate into Spellseeker ) = HUGE number of tokens, because each token copy generates its own new tokens on ETB. Deep Forest Hermit creates 16 squirrels which are each 6/6, et cetera.
• Scute Swarm + Parcelbeast = Generate an exponential horde each turn (feels just like playing on Arena!)
• Opposition + Koma, Cosmos Serpent / Tendershoot Dryad (or a large token army) = Hard stax lock!
• Glen Elendra Archmage + The Great Henge = Infinite countermagic for only per spell countered.
• Greater Good + Ominous Seas = Draw our deck immediately!
• Mystic Reflection + Tendershoot Dryad = Generate 40 power per turn cycle!
• Nadir Kraken + Greater Good + Earthcraft = "Mill" 60 cards, then draw 20 (by iteratively sacrificing Tentacles, then sacrificing the Nadir Kraken at the end)!
• Earthcraft + Squirrel Nest = infinite tokens which automatically return after a board wipe (currently removed)
• Winter Orb / Static Orb + Opposition / Koma, Cosmos Serpent / Earthcraft = *one sided* hard stax lock (currently removed)
• Doubling Season + Jace, Cunning Castaway = infinite tokens/looting (currently removed)

OTHER IMPORTANT SYNERGIES

Mystic Reflection is an ALL-STAR in this list (it's the reason this got built in the first place). Most of our token generators have been chosen so that they make tokens in large bursts, and moreover we run a lot of creatures which create tokens on ETB (which then gain power exponentially when used with Reflection). This particular choice of token-generators was intentional, to best synergize with Reflection. Accordingly, we have a LOT of cards which can tutor for Reflection -- Mystical Tutor , Merchant Scroll , Spellseeker , Muddle the Mixture ...

Moreover, if we Mystic Reflection a set of tokens into Eternal Witness es, we can recur basically our whole graveyard, including Reflection itself -- think of it as Praetor's Council for 1U.

The deck runs a mix of snow-covered and normal basic lands, to better interact with Field of the Dead . I generally tutor for snow-covered basics with my ramp spells when able, just in case Field of the Dead comes in later. But otherwise, there are no snow synergies.

Speaking of Field of the Dead and Gaea's Cradle -- they're most easily tutored by Tempt with Discovery or Crop Rotation , and either is a massive threat that takes a land slot. Bonus points if you get them on battlefield together!

Beyond the "normal" token draw effects -- Coastal Piracy and friends, Shamanic Revelation , et cetera -- we can also Natural Order / Chord of Calling into Tishana, Voice of Thunder or Toski, Bearer of Secrets .

Flood of Tears is designed to be a bounce spell which lets us drop Koma back onto battlefield to generate an army while our opponents have lost everything. Still, it might get cut for Cyclonic Rift ...

You want to cast Overgrowth / Wild Growth on a basic Island whenever possible. Beyond just making the mana distribution easier, it also works much better with Earthcraft that way.

Nevinyrral's Disk is important tech with an indestructible commander -- when we blow up the rest of the board, Koma will remain on field... and she is a host unto herself. There's no feeling like being the only player with permanents remaining... and the main permanent generates an additional twelve power per turn cycle!

Abundance + Sylvan Library = get three cards during draw step every turn, with no downside of life payment -- and they'll even be the card type you want!

Green Sun's Zenith is a great turn-one ramp spell into Dryad Arbor , and it even gets shuffled in to be reused ;)

...Finally, on a personal note. This deck is very important to me because it finally lets me use the very first card I put in a deck of my own, which I designed: my Garruk Wildspeaker from Lorwyn. It's been water damaged, torn, and lost over the years, but he finally has a deck to call his own! (And he's awesome here, leads naturally into a turn 5 Koma!)

JÖRMUNGANDR SIGHTINGS!

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If you like this deck, I'd love +1s and comments! It's my first Simic deck (green/blue is the one color combo I just could never get to work right), and honestly it's a lot of fun in mid-power pods so far! :D

Top Ranked	Achieved #1 position overall 3 years ago
Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	16 - 2 Mythic Rares 52 - 5 Rares 10 - 4 Uncommons 9 - 1 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.36
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, Boar 2/2 G, City's Blessing, Copy Clone, Elemental 1/0 U, Elk 3/3 G, Food, Fractal 0/0 GU, Insect 1/1 G, Koma's Coil 3/3 U, Kraken 9/9 U, Pest 1/1 BG, Phyrexian Beast 4/4 G, Plant 0/1 G, Saproling 1/1 G, Spider 1/2 G, Squirrel 1/1 G, Tentacle 1/1 U, Zombie 2/2 B
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