Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep

Legendary Creature — Merfolk Noble

Vigilance, ward {3} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {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 converted mana cost/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.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Brawl	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Standard	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (3)

NV_1980 on Sisay's Horny Spaceship

9 months ago

Ok, I would start by cutting the cards of which the abilities are too specific to ever really work in a game. Here are first ones I would choose and why:

• Blood Hypnotist: your list only contains three other cards that generate blood-tokens. The likelihood of her ability ever being used is therefore rather slim.
• Cascade Seer: bit of an expensive-to-cast scry opportunity when at most you can get Scry 2 (your party thus far cannot include anything else than 1 of 10 wizards and 1 of 5 clerics).
• Dragonsguard Elite: with so few non-permanents in the deck (thus far), this one may not be worth it.
• Gluttonous Guest: would not include this for similar reason as Blood Hypnotist.
• Goldberry, River-Daughter: though I love the beauty of this card, her abilities aren't of much use to you because your deck barely creates counters.
• Guardians of Oboro: would not use this for similar reason as for Goldberry (you have a few auras, but so few that this ability will probably never trigger).
• Kasla, the Broken Halo: good combatant but since there's nothing else with convoke in here, her ability is pretty useless.
• Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep: there are no krakens, serpents, etc. in this deck, so aside from being a decent combatant, she's not doing much.
• Mesa Enchantress: almost no enchantments?
• Rime Tender: no snow permanents?
• Setessan Petitioner: with so few green permanents in the deck, not sure if this is worth it.
• Spellstutter Sprite: having doubts about this one. Not many faeries in this deck, but then again it's quite common these days to cast spells with CMC0, so ...
• Sublime Archangel: lovely card but in a deck with this many creatures, I would assume you're going wide, right? That would mean 'Exalted' mechanic is not all that great. Or am I missing something?

Angels, Elves, Faeries and Vampires seem to be the main creature-types you're using. Maybe just focus on these types and make it easier to create some synergies? Or is this too functional?

ModelCitizenVlad on Looking for win conditions for …

9 months ago

Hello, I need a bit of help finding a win condition with Aquaman, Lord of the Fishies. The general strategy is to ramp up to a big mana base, summon Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep, then build up a big board of scary sea monsters. I've only had a few games so far, where i've ramped up to having a big board but couldn't really do much with it. I just sorta swung at people until my opponents found a way to get around them and took me out. How could I add an alternative win condition to the deck? Should I?

Thanks.

Housegheist on Kenessos N Kiddos: The King of Killer Krakens

11 months ago

I have to admit, that i do not like Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep in this list. Even though i like her ability and… oh my, is that an awesome artwork… but i think, we won‘t hard-cast that many big fishys to abuse her effect to the point, it‘s worth to run her.

I would say she needs her own build.