Tidal Trouble

Commander / EDH Aggro GU (Simic) Kraken Leviathan Ramp Serpent Theme/Gimmick Vorthos Zoo

Optimator

Removal (20)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Breaching Leviathan
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Colossal Whale
• 1x Crush of Tentacles
• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Deglamer
• 1x Giant Oyster
• 1x Gomazoa
• 1x Lorthos, the Tidemaker
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Sand Squid
• 1x Scourge of Fleets
• 1x Shipbreaker Kraken
• 1x Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep
• 1x Unravel the Aether
• 1x Wash Out
• 1x Whelming Wave

SmallFish (12)

• 1x Chasm Skulker
• 1x Fog Bank
• 1x Giant Oyster
• 1x Gomazoa
• 1x Guard Gomazoa
• 1x Kiora's Follower
• 1x Nadir Kraken
• 1x Reef Worm
• 1x Sand Squid
• 1x Sigiled Starfish
• 1x Spiny Starfish
• 1x Wall of Kelp

Utility (8)

• 1x Kiora's Follower
• 1x Overwhelming Stampede
• 1x Quicksilver Amulet
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Return of the Wildspeaker
• 1x Serpent of Yawning Depths
• 1x Shared Summons
• 1x Trailblazer's Boots

BigFish (18)

• 1x Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
• 1x Angler Turtle
• 1x Breaching Leviathan
• 1x Charix, the Raging Isle
• 1x Colossal Whale
• 1x Inkwell Leviathan
• 1x Lorthos, the Tidemaker
• 1x Nezahal, Primal Tide
• 1x Pursued Whale
• 1x Scourge of Fleets
• 1x Serpent of Yawning Depths
• 1x Shipbreaker Kraken
• 1x Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep
• 1x Spawning Kraken
• 1x Stormsurge Kraken
• 1x Thassa, God of the Sea
• 1x Trench Gorger
• 1x Tromokratis

Land (36)

• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dreamroot Cascade
• 10x Forest
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 15x Island
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Thornwood Falls
• 1x Woodland Stream
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Protection (1)

• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Commander (1)

Draw (15)

• 1x Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
• 1x Colossal Majesty
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Fathom Trawl
• 1x Harmonize
• 1x Nezahal, Primal Tide
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Return of the Wildspeaker
• 1x Rishkar's Expertise
• 1x Rush of Knowledge
• 1x Sigiled Starfish
• 1x Soul's Majesty
• 1x Thassa, God of the Sea
• 1x Zendikar Resurgent

Ramp (11)

• 1x Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
• 1x Boundless Realms
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Harrow
• 1x Kiora's Follower
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Zendikar Resurgent

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Maybeboard

Draw (51)

• 1x Bident of Thassa SL
• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith SL
• 1x Bounty of the Luxa SL
• 1x Braingeyser SL
• 1x Brainstorm SL
• 1x Coastal Discovery
• 1x Commit / Memory SL
• 2x Curator's Ward
• 1x Drawn from Dreams
• 2x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Fierce Empath
• 1x Foresee SL
• 2x Garruk's Uprising
• 1x Grozoth SL
• 1x Guardian Project
• 2x Hydroid Krasis
• 1x Impulse SL
• 1x Keruga, the Macrosage
• 1x Key to the City SL
• 1x Kiora, Master of the Depths
• 1x Mwonvuli Beast Tracker SL
• 1x Myth Unbound SL
• 2x Nissa's Revelation
• 1x Open Into Wonder
• 1x Opt SL
• 1x Portent SL
• 2x Prime Speaker Zegana
• 1x Pull from Tomorrow SL
• 1x Sea-Dasher Octopus
• 1x Serum Visions
• 1x Sleight of Hand SL
• 1x Snake Umbra SL
• 2x Stroke of Genius
• 1x Tatyova, Benthic Druid SL
• 1x Thought Sponge SL
• 1x Thunderous Snapper
• 1x Tidings SL
• 2x Treasure Cruise
• 1x Treasure Hunt SL
• 1x Ugin's Insight SL
• 1x Urban Evolution SL
• 1x Wavebreak Hippocamp
• 1x Wildest Dreams SL

Removal (26)

• 1x Aethersquall Ancient SL
• 1x Chromeshell Crab SL
• 2x Coastal Breach
• 1x Commit / Memory SL
• 1x Consign to Dust SL
• 1x Deep Freeze SL
• 1x Devastation Tide SL
• 1x Displacement Wave SL
• 1x Drag Under
• 1x Engulf the Shore SL
• 1x Evacuation
• 1x Flood of Tears
• 1x Harmonic Convergence SL
• 1x Inundate
• 1x Kederekt Leviathan SL
• 1x Naturalize SL
• 1x Rain of Thorns SL
• 1x Reality Shift SL
• 1x Reap and Sow SL
• 1x River's Rebuke SL
• 1x Tidespout Tyrant
• 1x Tranquility SL
• 2x Trygon Predator
• 1x Vortex Elemental SL

Land (15)

• 2x Botanical Sanctum
• 1x Centaur Garden SL
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 2x Hinterland Harbor
• 2x Homeward Path
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 2x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Temple of the False God SL
• 2x Thespian's Stage

BigFish (44)

• 1x Aethersquall Ancient SL
• 1x Benthic Behemoth
• 1x Brine Elemental SL
• 2x Colossus of Akros SL
• 1x Deep-Sea Kraken SL
• 1x Elder Deep-Fiend
• 1x Fleet Swallower SL
• 1x Fleet Swallower
• 1x Gearseeker Serpent
• 1x Great Whale SL
• 1x Grozoth SL
• 3x Hullbreaker Horror SL
• 2x Hydroid Krasis
• 1x Island Fish Jasconius SL
• 1x Isleback Spawn SL
• 1x Kederekt Leviathan SL
• 1x Keruga, the Macrosage
• 1x Kiora's Dambreaker
• 1x Kraken of the Straits SL
• 1x Leviathan SL
• 2x Nimbus Swimmer
• 1x Ominous Seas
• 1x Pearl Lake Ancient SL
• 2x Prime Speaker Zegana
• 1x Scrapdiver Serpent
• 1x Scuttlegator SL
• 1x Sealock Monster
• 1x Shoal Kraken
• 1x Simic Sky Swallower SL
• 1x Spined Megalodon SL
• 1x Stormtide Leviathan SL
• 1x Striped Riverwinder
• 1x Tidal Force SL
• 1x Tidal Kraken SL
• 1x Tidespout Tyrant
• 1x Tolarian Kraken SL
• 1x Voracious Greatshark SL
• 1x Waker of Waves SL

Ramp (29)

• 1x Beastcaller Savant SL
• 1x Bounty of the Luxa SL
• 1x Circuitous Route
• 2x Elemental Resonance
• 1x Explore SL
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Grow from the Ashes
• 1x Kruphix, God of Horizons
• 1x Mind Stone SL
• 1x Myth Unbound SL
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Nissa's Pilgrimage SL
• 1x Nissa's Renewal SL
• 3x Rampant Growth
• 1x Reap and Sow SL
• 1x Sapphire Medallion SL
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Sylvan Scrying SL
• 2x Traverse the Outlands
• 2x Unexpected Results SL
• 1x Urban Evolution SL
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble SL
• 1x Whisperer of the Wilds
• 1x Worn Powerstone SL

Protection (15)

• 1x Aspect of Mongoose
• 1x Counterspell SL
• 1x Crab Umbra SL
• 2x Curator's Ward
• 1x Darksteel Plate
• 1x Disdainful Stroke
• 1x Eel Umbra SL
• 1x Heroic Intervention SL
• 1x Lightning Greaves SL
• 1x Mystic Snake SL
• 1x Negate
• 1x Snake Umbra SL
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak SL
• 1x Wrap in Vigor SL

SmallFish (36)

• 1x Aegis Turtle
• 1x Battering Krasis
• 1x Bounding Krasis
• 1x Breaching Hippocamp
• 1x Brine Giant
• 1x Chromeshell Crab SL
• 1x Deepchannel Mentor SL
• 1x Elusive Krasis SL
• 2x Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep
• 1x Kraken Hatchling
• 2x Mesmerizing Benthid SL
• 1x Mistford River Turtle
• 1x Murkfiend Liege
• 1x Mystic Snake SL
• 2x Nimbus Swimmer
• 1x Oneirophage SL
• 1x Phase Dolphin
• 1x Pouncing Shoreshark
• 1x Riptide Turtle
• 1x Sea-Dasher Octopus
• 1x Shambleshark
• 2x Sharktocrab SL
• 1x Skittering Crustacean
• 1x Stinging Barrier
• 1x Stinging Lionfish
• 1x Tatyova, Benthic Druid SL
• 1x Thought Sponge SL
• 1x Thunderous Snapper
• 1x Tidal Barracuda
• 1x Vortex Elemental SL
• 1x Wavebreak Hippocamp
• 1x Wishcoin Crab

Utility (36)

• 1x Aqueous Form SL
• 1x Archetype of Imagination SL
• 1x Artful Dodge
• 1x Berserk
• 1x Creeping Renaissance SL
• 1x Deepchannel Mentor SL
• 2x Dragon Throne of Tarkir SL
• 1x Elvish Piper
• 1x Favor of the Overbeing SL
• 1x Fog SL
• 2x Freed from the Real
• 2x Garruk's Uprising
• 1x Hadana's Climb  ^Flip
• 1x Key to the City SL
• 1x Kiora, Master of the Depths
• 1x Kruphix, God of Horizons
• 1x Levitation SL
• 1x Loxodon Warhammer SL
• 1x Once and Future
• 1x Open Into Wonder
• 3x Pemmin's Aura
• 2x Primal Rage
• 1x Prowler's Helm
• 1x Reclaim SL
• 1x Regrowth
• 2x Selvala's Stampede
• 1x Shark Typhoon
• 1x Wildest Dreams SL
• 1x Wrath of Marit Lage SL

Other (13)

• 1x Archipelagore
• 1x Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip
• 1x Beastmaster Ascension SL
• 1x Biomantic Mastery
• 2x Bonders' Enclave
• 1x Brinelin, the Moon Kraken
• 1x Broken Fall SL
• 1x Crystacean
• 1x Ethereal Forager
• 1x Flood of Recollection
• 1x Glimmerbell
• 1x Trench Behemoth

Counter (4)

• 1x Memory Lapse SL
• 1x Rewind SL
• 1x Unwind
• 1x Voracious Greatshark SL

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- - - Version 1.2 - - - 5/5/21

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Seamonster tribal! I used to have a seamonster deck, Coral Capers -- (Budget Seamonsters), but I thought Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle would be a bit more appropriate than Thassa, God of the Sea so I am converting . The added utility of Green should help a lot. I loved my Thassa deck but I'm switching it up--I can always revert if I don't like this new iteration.

I'm trying to say on-theme for sea stuff but not going 100% Vorthos here. I'd like the deck to win at least occasionally. I'm trying to minimize the number of Merfolk I use too.

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I feel like having a Simic ramp deck would be better suited playing all the awesome under-costed Green creatures that are out there but flavor takes priority in this deck. Compare Terra Stomper to Benthic Behemoth, for instance. I know all about the color pie--I'm just pointing it out. As such, this deck definitely isn't as powerful as it could be. I tried to include some more high-powered utility cards from my collection to help offset this, such as the more powerful cards from the original deck list--like Cyclonic Rift.

I have a good number of cantrips and low-cost removal to get my commander online and some tricks to make creatures unblockable. I figure that's a good path for the Arixmethes.

I am leery of including Pemmin's Aura and Freed from the Real because I feel like Arixmethes gets blown-out every time he becomes a creature regardless, so the combo seems flimsy. I also don't want to include a ton of off-theme payoffs, i.e. Stroke of Genius or Laboratory Maniac, though playing out my hand is always good. I could include counterspells to protect the combo but that's another 5-10 card investment I don't want to make. I also dislike including counterspells in decks that don't utilize instant spells generally, as it can be hard to hold up the mana. With the ramp focus perhaps a few silver-bullet counterspells wouldn't be so bad.

So in the end, I just want to see huge seamonsters turned sideways. I believe my current card selection can do so at a casual table without completely sacrificing playability.

I hope WotC keeps printing decent seamonsters, as they were very conservative with big Blue creatures in Magic's early days. It has certainly gotten better in modern times.

Basic Lands Show

I used mostly Tempest and Theros basics for this deck with a few Mirage, Ixalan, Invasion, and Urza's lands for spice. I like Theros lands due to the high number of seamonsters in the set. Tempest is my favorite set and the name conjures up images of sea squalls and tidal waves.

I haven't blinged out the basics with foils and likely won't, due to the casual nature of the deck--despite being one of my favorites in terms of flavor.

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Cards to likely add: Show

Hullbreaker Horror (owned) - Sharktocrab (owned) - Mesmerizing Benthid o - Pemmin's Aura - Lightning Greaves (owned) - Bonders' Enclave - Garruk's Uprising - - Spined Megalodon o - Dragon Throne of Tarkir (owned) -

better dual lands, Theros Forests

Cards to maybe add: Show

Deep-Sea Kraken (owned) - Deepchannel Mentor (owned) - Primal Rage - Prowler's Helm (owned) - Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner - Prime Speaker Zegana - Nimbus Swimmer - Brine Elemental (owned) - Kraken of the Straits (owned) - Tidal Force (owned) - Unexpected Results (owned) - Elemental Resonance - Vortex Elemental (owned) - Counterspell (owned) - Wrap in Vigor (owned) - Waker of Waves o - Trench Behemoth - Koma, Cosmos Serpent - Brinelin, the Moon Kraken

Newish cards to consider/remember: Show

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Cards with an SL are cards I own. Cards with an MP are potential cuts.

Needs clear inner sleeves

Audited 4/10/19

"Fish Food Frenzy"

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 39 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.31
Tokens	0/1 U Creature Plant Wall, 0/1 U Creature Starfish, Ape 3/3 G, Beast 3/3 G, Boar 2/2 G, Fish 3/3 U, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Kraken 9/9 U, Octopus 8/8 U, Pirate 1/1 R, Squid 1/1 U, Tentacle 1/1 U, Whale 6/6 U
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