Runo: Watery Graves

Commander / EDH Battlecruiser Casual Reanimator Stompy UB (Dimir)

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Creature (22)

• 1x Apprentice Necromancer
• 1x Obsessive Stitcher
• 1x Roaming Throne
• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Injector Crocodile
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Rampaging Spiketail
• 1x River Serpent
• 1x Spawning Kraken
• 1x Tidal Terror
• 1x Troll of Khazad-dum
• 1x Gloomfang Mauler
• 1x Hullbreaker Horror
• 1x Sapphire Dragon
• 1x Scourge of Fleets
• 1x Striped Riverwinder
• 1x Sword Coast Serpent
• 1x Archfiend of Despair
• 1x Archon of Cruelty
• 1x Mindleech Mass
• 1x Deep-Sea Kraken
• 1x Icebreaker Kraken

Artifact (11)

• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Dowsing Dagger  ^Flip
• 1x Sword of the Animist
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Coalition Relic
• 1x Dimir Keyrune
• 1x Whip of Erebos

Land (30)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Clearwater Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkslick Shores
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Mutavault
• 1x Plaza of Heroes
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 9x Snow-Covered Island
• 5x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Urza's Saga
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Watery Grave

Sorcery (14)

• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Chart a Course
• 1x Diabolic Vision
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Persist
• 1x Unmarked Grave
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Syphon Mind
• 1x Whelming Wave
• 1x Rush of Knowledge
• 1x Discovery / Dispersal
• 1x Treasure Cruise

Commander (1)

 ^Flip

Instant (16)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Consider
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Stubborn Denial
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Curate
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dimir Charm
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Resculpt
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Intuition
• 1x Fact or Fiction

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Search for Azcanta  ^Flip
• 1x Teferi's Veil
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Rhystic Study

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Creature (24)

• 1x Crashing Drawbridge
• 1x Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  ^Flip
• 1x Looter il-Kor
• 1x Merfolk Looter
• 1x Nightveil Sprite
• 1x Sinister Starfish
• 1x The Reality Chip
• 1x Thought Courier
• 1x Doomed Necromancer
• 1x Sea-Dasher Octopus
• 1x Auton Soldier
• 1x Demon of Dark Schemes
• 1x Extractor Demon
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Gyruda, Doom of Depths
• 1x Rakshasa Debaser
• 1x Serpent of Yawning Depths
• 1x Sower of Discord
• 1x Agent of Treachery
• 1x Lord of the Void
• 1x Sphinx Ambassador
• 1x Waker of Waves
• 1x Avatar of Woe
• 1x Ancient Stone Idol

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Quest for Ula's Temple
• 1x Chains of Mephistopheles
• 1x Omen of the Sea
• 1x Arcane Adaptation
• 1x Haunted Crossroads

Instant (16)

• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Otherworldly Gaze
• 1x Stifle
• 1x Deliberate
• 1x Jwari Disruption  ^Flip
• 1x Negate
• 1x Tale's End
• 1x Bone Harvest
• 1x Dihada's Ploy
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Footbottom Feast
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Gravepurge
• 1x Behold the Multiverse
• 1x Deadly Rollick
• 1x Force of Will

Artifact (7)

• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mask of Memory
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Quicksilver Amulet

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Ashiok, Dream Render
• 1x Kaito Shizuki

Land (17)

• 1x Castle Vantress
• 1x Creeping Tar Pit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Faceless Haven
• 1x Faerie Conclave
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 1x Ice Tunnel
• 1x Inkmoth Nexus
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Snow-Covered Island
• 4x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 1x Witch's Cottage

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Careful Study
• 1x Scheming Symmetry
• 1x Contingency Plan
• 1x Forever Young
• 1x Stitch Together
• 1x Windfall
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Living Death

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Reanimation Runo  . I feel there's not enough good (big) seamonsters to go for a full tribal deck, so I've elected for something more diverse. Sorry, Leviathan!

The deck has several big creatures which can put themselves into your graveyard from your hand. Notably, it has a bunch of landcyclers... which have replaced several actual lands.

Frantic Search is great for setting up Runo as you can dump a big creature card into your graveyard and then use the three untapped lands to cast your commander on-curve.

As you untap before Runo triggers, you're free to e.g. cast Brainstorm to put a big card on top, even if you had to tap out on the turn before to cast Runo.

If you set up your topdeck with e.g. Imperial Seal or Runo's ETB, do note that Mystic Remora & Rhystic Study draw triggers are "may"'s, so they can't force you to mess up.

Dimir Keyrune + Krothuss, Lord of the Deep & Krothuss, Lord of the Deep + Mutavault is a fun way of getting mana in case your big creatures get stuck in your hand. The copies will enter as noncreatures (but still tapped).

Krothuss, Lord of the Deep + Spawning Kraken can obviously get out of hand fast, and expect people to be aware of that.

Name Kraken with Roaming Throne. Aside from letting Krothuss make more copies of other creatures and boosting Spawning Kraken & Hullbreaker Horror & Icebreaker Kraken, it acts as a kind of mini-Spawning Kraken if is itself copied. On the first turn attcking with it, you can get four copies, each of them a respectable 4/4 even if they're vanilla in combat. If they all survive to attack on the second turn, you'll get a whopping twenty copies.

Everflowing Chalice + Hullbreaker Horror + Sol Ring /Hullbreaker Horror + Mana Crypt + Sol Ring /Everflowing Chalice + Hullbreaker Horror + Mana Crypt gives infinitive colorless mana. Copy the Hullbreaker and you can bounce everyone's stuff too. (If you don't care about the mana, you can do the latter with just Mana Crypt/Sol Ring and Sensei's Divining Top.)

While it's mainly there to dodge sorcery-speed removal, Teferi's Veil also lets your creatures avoid EoT sacrifice/exile effects, e.g. from Whip of Erebos. (Note that new copy tokens that come into play attacking don't phase out, but they also don't inherit e.g. Whip exile from the original.)

If you got a big creature in your opening hand, a crude way of setting up Runo for flippin' is to just skip playing a land on T1 so that you'll be able to discard the big one at your end step. I dunno if it's worth it though. (You could also do a similar thing on T2 with Dimir Aqueduct if you don't cast any spells.)

Top Ranked	Achieved #10 position overall 2 years ago Achieved #6 position in Commander / EDH 2 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Casual 2 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Reanimator 2 years ago
Date added	3 years
Last updated	9 months
Key combos	Dimir Keyrune + Krothuss, Lord of the Deep Krothuss, Lord of the Deep + Mutavault Krothuss, Lord of the Deep + Spawning Kraken Everflowing Chalice + Hullbreaker Horror + Sol Ring Hullbreaker Horror + Mana Crypt + Sol Ring Everflowing Chalice + Hullbreaker Horror + Mana Crypt
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 37 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 20 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.70
Tokens	Construct 0/0 C, Copy Clone, Elemental 4/4 UR, Incubator, Kraken 9/9 U, On an Adventure, Phyrexian 0/0 C, Plant 0/2 G
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