Arixmethes Kraken Sniper

Commander / EDH Battlecruiser Casual Control GU (Simic) Infinite Combo Midrange

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Creature (21)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Boreal Druid
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Cloud of Faeries
• 1x Kiora's Follower
• 1x Maraleaf Pixie
• 1x Prismite
• 1x Voyaging Satyr
• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Gyre Engineer
• 1x Frilled Mystic
• 1x Mystic Snake
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Tidewater Minion
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Great Whale
• 1x Kederekt Leviathan
• 1x Lorthos, the Tidemaker
• 1x Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep

Artifact (7)

• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Talisman of Curiosity
• 1x Chaos Wand
• 1x Fireshrieker
• 1x Loxodon Warhammer
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak
• 1x Teferi's Puzzle Box

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner
• 1x Kiora, Master of the Depths

Instant (18)

• 1x Berserk
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x High Tide
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Worldly Tutor
• 1x Growth Spiral
• 1x Snap
• 1x Trickbind
• 1x Weather the Storm
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Stroke of Genius
• 1x Unwind
• 1x Voidslime
• 1x Rewind
• 1x Turnabout

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Hurricane
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Displacement Wave
• 1x Unexpected Results
• 1x Whelming Wave
• 1x Primal Command
• 1x Rude Awakening
• 1x Tidings
• 1x Time Warp
• 1x Urban Evolution
• 1x Crush of Tentacles
• 1x Rishkar's Expertise
• 1x Temporal Cascade

Commander (1)

Land (34)

• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 1x Botanical Sanctum
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 10x Forest
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 12x Island
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Exploration
• 1x Helix Pinnacle
• 1x Freed from the Real
• 1x Pemmin's Aura

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Sorcery (6)

• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Sleep
• 1x Spelltwine
• 1x Time Spiral
• 1x Beacon of Tomorrows

Creature (2)

• 1x Stormtide Leviathan
• 1x Inkwell Leviathan

Artifact (1)

• 1x Gilded Lotus

Instant (2)

• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Ensnare

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This is the most fun I've had piloting a commander deck in a long time. It doesn't feel like work, everything I do seems to have an impact and I tend to win in a very entertaining way if I don't get ejected from the game early enough to make it through.

The major fun factors here are Chaos Wand , Unexpected Results and Teferi's Puzzle Box . Mass bounce effects like Whelming Wave and Displacement Wave allow for fairly one-sided temporary boardwipe/resets to snipe someone with commander damage relatively early on, and continue to do so with Lorthos, the Tidemaker and Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep or Kederekt Leviathan to control the board state until I can beat the table into submission or combo out via Freed from the Real or Pemmin's Aura on Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle (or Gyre Engineer , Tidewater Minion , Kiora's Follower .) into a really big Hurricane if absolutely necessary... Weather the Storm helps.

I'm currently reconstructing this for 1v1 Duel Commander using the current banned list. In multiplayer, having to essentially reload after sniping a player out of the game with Berserk can be extremely difficult, but in Duel the game would be over at that point. Hopefully this Kraken Sniper build will hold up, as focusing on one player at a time seems to be what this build exceeds at. More notes in the future.

x sickfreed

Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 30 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 24 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.23
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Emblem Kiora, Master of the Depths, Octopus 8/8 U
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