Shirishama, Queen Anaconda

Commander / EDH GU (Simic)

Bullmatthews

Creature (24)

• 1x Cragplate Baloth
• 1x Elfhame Druid
• 1x Fathom Mage
• 1x Forgotten Ancient
• 1x Gnarlid Colony
• 1x Herald of Secret Streams
• 1x Hydroid Krasis
• 1x Kodama of the West Tree
• 1x Lullmage's Familiar
• 1x Master Biomancer
• 1x Mold Shambler
• 1x Murasa Sproutling
• 1x Myriad Construct
• 1x Plaxcaster Frogling
• 1x Rishkar, Peema Renegade
• 1x Sphinx of Lost Truths
• 1x Tanazir Quandrix
• 1x Tangled Florahedron  ^Flip
• 1x Tazeem Roilmage
• 1x Territorial Allosaurus
• 1x Thieving Skydiver
• 1x Vine Gecko
• 1x Vorel of the Hull Clade
• 1x Wolfbriar Elemental

Artifact (7)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Skyclave Relic
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x The Ozolith
• 1x Twinning Staff

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Jace, Mirror Mage

Sorcery (18)

• 1x Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip
• 1x Biogenic Upgrade
• 1x Contentious Plan
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Displacement Wave
• 1x Field Research
• 1x Grow from the Ashes
• 1x Hunting Wilds
• 1x Inscription of Insight
• 1x Maddening Cacophony
• 1x Migration Path
• 1x Overwhelming Stampede
• 1x Primal Growth
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Tezzeret's Gambit
• 1x Urban Evolution
• 1x Vastwood Surge

Instant (12)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Blink of an Eye
• 1x Growth Spiral
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Inscription of Abundance
• 1x Into the Roil
• 1x Invigorating Surge
• 1x Khalni Ambush  ^Flip
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Return of the Wildspeaker
• 1x Slip Out the Back

Commander (1)

Land (31)

• 1x Barkchannel Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 10x Forest
• 9x Island
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
• 1x Rejuvenating Springs
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Throne of Makindi
• 1x Vineglimmer Snarl
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Hadana's Climb  ^Flip
• 1x Hydra's Growth
• 1x Military Intelligence
• 1x Primal Empathy
• 1x Roost of Drakes
• 1x Simic Ascendancy

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The barge moves slowly down the river, surrounded by the vast, hot jungle.

Danny, Gary, and Denise stand with their equipment at the ready. Cale is excited, ·tense, checking his field notes and charts. Terri checks her notebook, scans the riverbank.

SARONE: It's just around this bend.

The barge drifts-quietly around a bend to where two tributaries fork.

DENISE: Wow. Gary! Look at this.

She points to a large totem carved in the shape of a snake planted in a small clearing directly at the fork. The totem, and it's relationship to the river, looks almost devotional Danny gets a shot of it. Westridge steps out of his cabin

WESTRIDGE: Am I on?

DANNY: Not unless you're a big 'ol creepy lookin' · wooden snake.

Westridge looks towards the totem, even he is impressed. Terri's eyes are on Sarone as he surveys the river. Sarene points to the right.

SARONE: We will find them down this fork.

Cale pulls out his map.

CALE: According to the lunar charts they would be on that side.

Cale points to the left.

SARONE: This marker would indicate the Shirishama are this way.

Cale looks at the totem.

CALE: What makes you sure it's Shirishama?

SARONE: The snake. The Shirishama worship giant snakes-- anacondas-- as gods, protectors. This marker. shows the Queen Anaconda. The mother of all snakes. They've handed down the legend of their ancestors making a trek to a sacred lake, the first part of the passage is a waterfall protected by warrior snakes. If you made it past the guardians you would travel through the land of the anaconda Until you came upon a wall so high it blotted out the sun--

CALE: --and follow the wall for five days, finally reaching the end: the head of a giant anaconda. There to guard the lake for them, to keep the innocent from its poisoned waters.

SARONE: You know the story?

CALE: Yes. But snake myths don't tell us where the tribe is.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 33 - 0 Rares 26 - 0 Uncommons 17 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.99
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Construct 1/1 C, Copy Clone, Drake 2/2 U, Human 2/2 G, Illusion X/X U, Wolf 2/2 G