Koma, the other Komas, and their 100K coils

Commander / EDH* GU (Simic)

MrHighscore

Land (37)

• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1x Botanical Sanctum
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Castle Garenbrig
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dreamroot Cascade
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 9x Forest
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 9x Island
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Rejuvenating Springs
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Vineglimmer Snarl
• 1x Waterlogged Grove
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Doublers (8)

• 1x Adrix and Nev, Twincasters
• 1x Double Major
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Estrid's Invocation
• 1x Helm of the Host
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Primal Vigor
• 1x Strionic Resonator

Utility (3)

• 1x Cream of the Crop
• 1x Evolutionary Leap
• 1x Proteus Staff

Control (17)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Kenrith's Transformation
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Oko, Thief of Crowns
• 1x Plasm Capture
• 1x Polymorph
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Spring Cleaning
• 1x Static Orb
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Whelming Wave
• 1x Winter Orb

Card advantage (9)

• 1x Bident of Thassa
• 1x Elemental Bond
• 1x Kindred Discovery
• 1x Ohran Frostfang
• 1x Prime Speaker Zegana
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Tatyova, Benthic Druid
• 1x Toski, Bearer of Secrets
• 1x Tribute to the World Tree

Protection (6)

• 1x Archetype of Endurance
• 1x Asceticism
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Tamiyo's Safekeeping

Commander (1)

Ramp (12)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Awakening Zone
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Three Visits
• 1x Utopia Sprawl
• 1x Wild Growth

Creatures (7)

• 1x Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
• 1x Kruphix, God of Horizons
• 1x Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
• 1x Sakashima the Impostor
• 1x Serpent of Yawning Depths
• 1x Spark Double
• 1x Spawning Kraken

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Maybeboard

Creatures (16)

• 1x Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
• 1x Esix, Fractal Bloom
• 1x Fathom Mage
• 1x Garruk's Packleader
• 1x Hullbreaker Horror
• 1x Hydroid Krasis
• 1x Inkwell Leviathan
• 1x Lorthos, the Tidemaker
• 1x Murkfiend Liege
• 1x Nimbus Swimmer
• 1x Pearl Lake Ancient
• 1x Sharktocrab
• 1x Simic Sky Swallower
• 1x Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep
• 1x Trygon Predator
• 1x Verazol, the Split Current

Control (9)

• 1x An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1x Dismiss into Dream
• 1x Endurance
• 1x Force of Vigor
• 1x Inundate
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Oversimplify
• 1x Sphinx of the Second Sun

Utility (3)

• 1x Archmage Ascension
• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Ring of Three Wishes

Fallback win condition (1)

• 1x Thassa's Oracle

Ramp (1)

• 1x Search for Tomorrow

Planeswalkers (1)

• 1x Nissa, Steward of Elements

Card advantage (6)

• 1x Defense of the Heart
• 1x Edric, Spymaster of Trest
• 1x Garruk's Uprising
• 1x Song of Earendil
• 1x Thrasios, Triton Hero
• 1x Urban Evolution

More tokens (4)

• 1x Paradox Haze
• 1x Scourge of Fleets
• 1x Second Harvest
• 1x Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath

Anthems (2)

• 1x Combine Chrysalis
• 1x Sylvan Anthem

Doublers (1)

• 1x Mirrormade

Protection (1)

• 1x Commander's Plate

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This is my take on Koma, Cosmos Serpent! Clone Koma! Double the tokens! Stop opponents from interacting (tap / no untap / counter / remove). Kill them with serpents! Have fun. Make opponents miserable.

In the silliest of scenarios the deck can have 5+ Komas on the field with 5 token doublers giving you 25.600 tokens per upkeep. Thats 76.800 per round in a 3 player game or 102.400 per round in a 4 player game. Take that!

Ramp

No EDH deck should be created without a decent ramp suite, especially not one that is commandeered by a {3}{G}{G}{U}{U} snake! A few special mentions:

• Awakening Zone plays nice with token doublers, but otherwise not much to note here. It may be a bit on the light side, but time will tell.
• Kruphix, God of Horizons stores excess mana
• Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait nets me some cards, and allows me to play more lands!

Card advantage

No EDH deck without descent amount of draw!

• Bident of Thassa is great with decks that goes wide. Also the trigger is a may trigger, so it won't force us to mill out.
• Elemental Bond is a bit scary with Koma, Cosmos Serpent on the field. It can yield us a lot of cards in a round, since every coil will give force a card draw.
• Kindred Discovery can get even more scary than Elemental Bond since it also triggers on attacks (we're calling Serpents, if you were in doubt)
• Ohran Frostfang is great for refreshing your hand++ when diving in for a kill
• Prime Speaker Zegana is just a one off hand refresher with Koma, Cosmos Serpent on the field
• Rhystic Study because we're in blue
• Tatyova, Benthic Druid preferably net a card every round. Candidate for an upgrade I guess?
• Toski, Bearer of Secrets great for picking a card here and there, and for refreshing your hand when one-shotting an opponent
• Tribute to the World Tree another scary card machine, that can cash in on the Koma Coils.
• Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait will net me a card here and there.

Doublers

Koma makes Coils. Coils keep Koma alive and wins the game. Let's make more Coils and more Komas, yes?

The straight up token doublers, that support Koma, Cosmos Serpent and Awakening Zone. Remeber that doublers double other doublers for quardrupling, octuple, etc.

• Adrix and Nev, Twincasters, Primal Vigor, Doubling Season and Parallel Lives doubles tokens. Doubling Season is also a minor boon for Oko, Thief of Crowns. In addition Estrid's Invocation can copy any of them!
• Strionic Resonator can copy the trigger as well. It can become expensive, but I calculate that it's worth it!

Since we want more doublers, we can luckily also double the source. In some ways better, in some ways worse. Let's spread the risk. The following will make more Komas

• Double Major, Helm of the Host, Sakashima of a Thousand Faces, Sakashima the Impostor, and Spark Double

Protection

As you may have picked up on by now, we need to protect Koma! It is an important source of ... winning the game. Since he's pretty much indestructible, what worries us the most is targetted removal! Hence the goal is to make him untargettable. Hexproof is best. Shroud is the next best thing. For this purpose we run

• Archetype of Endurance, Asceticism, Heroic Intervention, Tamiyo's Safekeeping and the classic boots of protection Swiftfoot Boots and Lightning Greaves

Obviously supported by our Control suite:

Control

This stuff is important! Either we counter important threats or we remove them after they hit the board. All this stuff is here to protect Koma and remove stuff that stops us from winning.

• Creature control are Beast Within, Kenrith's Transformation, Polymorph, Pongify, Rapid Hybridization and Oko, Thief of Crowns
• Straight up counters are Counterspell, Fierce Guardianship, Mana Drain, Muddle the Mixture (that can turn into any CMC {3} spell on demand), Plasm Capture (just because Simic, I know it's not good), and Swan Song
• Enchantments are removed with Spring Cleaning
• Board wipes (with Simic Limitations): Cyclonic Rift, and Whelming Wave

In addition I'm running Winter Orb and Static Orb for maximum grief for my opponets since I can tap them by Sacrificing, hence making the effect asymmetric.

Side note: Polymorph can be used to kill a coil and fetch the next awesome creature from our deck!

Editors Note: Looking at the list, I need to reduce creature control in favor of combined enchantment/artifact removal. Suggestions?

Utility

I could not resist running a few tricks in the deck. This may be silly, but I really like the synergy

• Cream of the Crop will allow me to power-filter my deck, basically picking the top 12 best card each round in a 3 player game.
• Evolutionary Leap and Proteus Staff turns Coils into one of my listed creatures (they are all significantly better than a Coil)

Creatures

Did I mention we're running Koma, Cosmos Serpent as commander? Everything is here to support it, clone it or protect it! Almost all is already covered in previous sections EXCEPT:

• Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait who is mainly here because it's a big Simic serpent, and it's abilites are not that bad.
• Serpent of Yawning Depths and Spawning Kraken that are included for theme, and to win the game a little bit earlier

Land Suite

Just trying not to run ETB tapped lands. Really not a lot to see here, but minor boons. A lot could be saved by running 18 forest, 18 islands, and Reliquary Tower. Would perform almost as good.

Known weaknesses

• Very commander dependent (high risk, high reward)
• Control suite needs adjustments. What would you do?
• Suicide by draw can happen, and can be hard to prevent.

RFC (Request for comments)

• What could be better? What awesome stuff did I miss?
• Regarding the draw, I should probably add Thassa's Oracle as a safety net? Other suggestions? Other (consistent) draw tricks I could use?
• Should I rename the deck to Koma Koma Koma Koma Chameleon?

Top Ranked	Achieved #12 position overall 7 months ago Achieved #8 position in Commander / EDH 7 months ago
Date added	8 months
Last updated	7 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 45 - 0 Rares 14 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.19
Tokens	Ape 3/3 G, Beast 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Elk 3/3 G, Food, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Koma's Coil 3/3 U, Kraken 9/9 U
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