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The Sea of the Damned (Theme Skel Ship/Gyruda EDH)

Commander / EDH Kraken Pirate Spirits UB (Dimir)

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Sorcery (49)

Artifact (25)

Land (20)


Desperate attempt to make Skeleton ship work with a sea monsters / cursed crew themed deck. Focus on untapping skeleton ship with numerous creature effects to rack up -1/-1 tokens, which can be multiplied by proliferate. Deck kind of crippled by omitting proliferate instants/monsters that don't fit with the theme, so it has some filler creatures that are mostly there as blockers. Currently lacks a clear win condition, so its quite low power.

Original idea was to include mono-black pirates & treasure generating spells so that Revel in Riches could be included as secondary win-con. However, it spreaded the gameplan out a bit too thin and it seems like it cripples the deck further.

Open to suggestions, as long it sticks to the sea monster / skeleton & spirits crew theme.

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Deck functions pretty decent in casual games. Falls off hard once the meta cards appear on the table.

Issues as per previous deck composition: -Profilerate is useless as Skeleton ship is the only card that benefits from it, thus is an obvious removal target. -While several pet cards functioned as decent blockers (wall of mist & Ghost ship), Carrionette, Giant Oyster and Giant Whale were dead pulls 100% of the time. Deck wasnt strong to start with so removed for Vortex Elemental/Shipbreaker Kraken/Ring of Evos. Thousand Year Elixer was only applicable for 2 cards in the deck, not worth the inclusion. While skeleton ship goes hard when it combo's, elixer was never part of it. -Deck would improve SIGNIFICANTLY if commander was replaced with Gyruda, Rexial or Ghost of DePietro + Partner. Trying to stick to the original theme tho. DePietro does alot of the work in current games providing significant card draw with the cycling/transmutation/draw+discard cards. Might test swapping Gyruda with Skeleton Ship for a while. -DeadEye Nagivator seems like a strong inclusion, especially with Gyruda, but want to avoid going into powergame territory. Considering it. -Stormsurge Kraken removed because commander is hardly on the field. Might try him again with Gyruda. -Lots of black cards require 2 black mana which was hardly available. Switched back to more swamps instead of unique lands & islands. -Nearly all lands entered tapped. Switched to more basic lands (losing flavor, alas. Unique spooky island arts tho).

Theme over everything. Already got a faggy Gitrog & Karn Deck, so its vital I stick to the flavor with this one.

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98% Casual

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Date added 3 years
Last updated 3 years
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

5 - 0 Mythic Rares

36 - 8 Rares

28 - 2 Uncommons

15 - 5 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 3.24
Tokens Copy Clone, Eldrazi Horror 3/2 C, Kraken 8/8 U, Kraken 9/9 U, Octopus 8/8 U, Squid 1/1 U, Tentacle 1/1 U, Treasure
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