The Deep

Standard WUB (Esper)

Gingervitis

Instant (16)

• 1x Devious Cover-Up
• 2x March of Wretched Sorrow
• 2x Memory Deluge
• 2x Negate
• 2x Power Word Kill
• 2x Saw it Coming
• 1x Test of Talents
• 2x Thirst for Discovery
• 2x Void Rend

Enchantment (2)

• 2x The Meathook Massacre

Artifact (2)

• 2x The Celestus

Land (24)

• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 2x Field of Ruin
• 2x Glacial Floodplain
• 2x Hall of Storm Giants
• 3x Ice Tunnel
• 5x Snow-Covered Island
• 3x Snow-Covered Plains
• 5x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Professor Onyx

Creature (7)

• 2x Burning-Rune Demon
• 1x Cemetery Desecrator
• 1x Hullbreaker Horror
• 1x Kairi, the Swirling Sky
• 2x Runo Stromkirk  ^Flip

Sorcery (8)

• 2x Blood on the Snow
• 3x Path of Peril
• 1x Shadows' Verdict
• 2x Witness the Future

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I've been wanting to create a deck with the very awesome card of Krothuss, Lord of the Deep, and let me tell ya, this deck has been quite fun to play on Arena. I mean, who doesn't love just playing huge sea creature horrors whilst also spawning more of them? This deck right here is a Dimir Snow Control Deck that focuses on huge Krakens and Krothuss, Lord of the Deep's ability.

Our main win condition is to get Krothuss, Lord of the Deep and Hullbreaker Horror onto the battlefield at the same time. How can we do that?

Strategy

Well, we try to control the early game with counters and board wipes, like Jwari Disruption  , Meathook Massacre, and Negate. Once we reach a higher land count, we can count on draw/discard effects, such as Thirst for Discoveryand The Celestus should we need to loot a high CMC card.

Burning-Rune Demon is an absolute solid card in the list as we can search for both Runo and the Hullbreaker. Now the opponent has a choice: either straight give me the hullbreaker or give me Runo to transform him in the following turns. Either way, it tends to work out in my favor.

Win Cons

1. Copy Hullbreaker Horror with Krothuss, Lord of the Deep and completely shut down the opponent's board until they are dead.
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2. Control the board until we can safely cast a Hullbreaker Horror with instant backup.

Substitutions

Since there really aren't any good krakens, serpents, octopi, or leviathans in Standard, these are really the best choices.

Since there is a lack of those cards, a considerable option is Maskwood Nexus, which will give us the option of copying any creature twice. Currently, it's only Burning-Rune Demon that we would be able to copy but adding more creatures might be a good idea if we add the Nexus.

Top Ranked	Achieved #67 position overall 2 years ago Achieved #3 position in Standard 2 years ago
Date added	2 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 20 - 0 Rares 13 - 0 Uncommons 2 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.53
Tokens	Copy Clone
Folders	MTG Decks