Coral Capers -- (Budget Seamonsters)

Commander / EDH Battlecruiser Budget Casual GU (Simic) Mono-Blue Ramp

Optimator

Creature (28)

• 1x Aetherplasm
• 1x Breaching Leviathan
• 1x Chasm Skulker
• 1x Colossal Whale
• 1x Fleet Swallower
• 1x Fog Bank
• 1x Giant Oyster
• 1x Gomazoa
• 1x Guard Gomazoa
• 1x Inkwell Leviathan
• 1x Kederekt Leviathan
• 1x Lorthos, the Tidemaker
• 1x Nezahal, Primal Tide
• 1x Phyrexian Ingester
• 1x Reef Worm
• 1x Sand Squid
• 1x Scourge of Fleets
• 1x Shipbreaker Kraken
• 1x Sigiled Starfish
• 1x Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep
• 1x Spiny Starfish
• 1x Stormsurge Kraken
• 1x Stormtide Leviathan
• 1x Tidal Kraken
• 1x Trench Gorger
• 1x Tromokratis
• 1x Wall of Frost
• 1x Wall of Kelp

Artifact (14)

• 1x Bident of Thassa
• 1x Dreamstone Hedron
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Quicksilver Amulet
• 1x Quicksilver Fountain
• 1x Sapphire Medallion
• 1x Sky Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Instant (9)

• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Engulf the Shore
• 1x Epiphany at the Drownyard
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Spin into Myth MP

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Crush of Tentacles
• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Rush of Knowledge
• 1x Wash Out
• 1x Whelming Wave

Commander (1)

Land (36)

• 1x Coral Atoll
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 1x Haunted Fengraf
• 26x Island
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Remote Isle
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Skyline Cascade

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Encrust
• 1x Homarid Spawning Bed
• 1x Honden of Seeing Winds
• 1x Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1x Levitation
• 1x Sea's Claim
• 1x Tightening Coils

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Maybeboard

Creature (62)

• 1x Aboshan, Cephalid Emperor SL
• 1x Aethertide Whale
• 1x Benthic Behemoth SL
• 1x Brine Elemental SL
• 1x Clinging Anemones SL
• 1x Coral Barrier SL
• 1x Cryptic Serpent
• 1x Dandan SL
• 1x Deep-Sea Kraken SL
• 1x Deepchannel Mentor SL
• 1x Deepfathom Skulker SL
• 1x Draining Whelk
• 1x Drowner of Hope SL
• 1x Dulcet Sirens
• 1x Elder Deep-Fiend
• 1x Frost Titan SL
• 2x Gearseeker Serpent SL
• 1x Giant Octopus SL
• 1x Glowing Anemone SL
• 1x Great Whale SL
• 1x Grozoth SL
• 1x Guile SL
• 1x Gulf Squid SL
• 1x Hammerhead Shark
• 1x Harbor Serpent SL
• 1x Horseshoe Crab SL
• 1x Isleback Spawn SL
• 1x Killer Whale
• 1x King Crab
• 1x Kraken Hatchling
• 1x Kraken of the Straits
• 1x Kukemssa Pirates SL
• 1x Llawan, Cephalid Empress
• 1x Long-Finned Skywhale
• 1x Man-o'-War SL
• 1x Manta Ray
• 1x Marjhan SL
• 2x Mesmerizing Benthid
• 1x Mirror Image
• 1x Narwhal
• 1x Pearl Lake Ancient SL
• 2x Riptide Shapeshifter
• 1x River Serpent
• 1x School of Piranha
• 1x Sea Monster
• 1x Sealock Monster SL
• 1x Shipwreck Moray
• 2x Skittering Crustacean
• 1x Slipstream Eel
• 1x Slipstream Serpent
• 1x Striped Riverwinder
• 1x Thassa's Emissary
• 1x Vortex Elemental SL
• 1x Walking Sponge SL
• 1x Wall of Air SL
• 1x Wall of Tears SL
• 1x Windrider Eel
• 1x Wonder SL

Enchantment (32)

• 1x Archmage Ascension
• 2x Back from the Brink
• 1x Coastal Piracy
• 1x Crab Umbra SL
• 1x Curator's Ward
• 1x Curiosity
• 1x Deep Freeze SL
• 1x Diplomatic Immunity SL
• 1x Eel Umbra SL
• 1x Flood SL
• 2x Font of Fortunes SL
• 1x Fool's Demise SL
• 1x Future Sight SL
• 1x Illusory Wrappings
• 1x Kumena's Awakening
• 1x Mind Unbound
• 1x Monastery Siege SL
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Narcolepsy
• 1x Ophidian Eye
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Psychic Surgery
• 1x Rhystic Deluge SL
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Sigil of Sleep SL
• 2x Spreading Seas
• 1x Thought Reflection
• 1x Tidal Flats SL
• 1x Waterknot

Instant (15)

• 1x Aetherspouts SL
• 1x Dissipate
• 2x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Filigree Fracture
• 1x Grip of the Roil SL
• 1x Gush
• 1x High Tide SL
• 1x Insidious Will SL
• 1x Into the Roil SL
• 1x Polymorphous Rush SL
• 1x Pull from Tomorrow
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Thassa's Rebuff
• 1x Tidal Wave

Land (3)

• 1x Blast Zone
• 2x Mystic Sanctuary

Sorcery (34)

• 1x Ancestral Memories SL
• 1x Baral's Expertise SL
• 2x Braingeyser
• 1x Breaking Wave SL
• 2x Coastal Breach
• 1x Coastal Discovery
• 1x Devastation Tide SL
• 1x Displacement Wave SL
• 1x Distant Memories SL
• 1x Drag Under
• 1x Drawn from Dreams
• 1x Energy Tap SL
• 1x Fathom Trawl SL
• 1x Flood of Tears
• 1x Flow of Ideas
• 1x Inundate
• 1x Mass Polymorph SL
• 2x Mind Spring
• 1x Overflowing Insight
• 1x Part the Waterveil
• 1x Ponder SL
• 1x Recurring Insight
• 1x Research the Deep
• 2x Rite of Replication
• 2x River's Rebuke
• 1x Saheeli's Artistry SL
• 1x Tempt with Reflections SL
• 1x Tidal Surge SL
• 1x Treasure Cruise

Artifact (19)

• 1x Akroma's Memorial
• 1x Avarice Amulet SL
• 3x Caged Sun
• 1x Coldsteel Heart SL
• 1x Dolmen Gate
• 1x Druidic Satchel SL
• 1x Guardian Idol
• 3x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Oblivion Stone
• 1x Skyclave Relic
• 1x Staff of Nin SL
• 2x Thaumatic Compass  ^Flip
• 2x Thought Vessel

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- - - Version 1.8 - - - 05/29/18 - - - RETIRED

Please upvote if you're snackin' what I'm packin'!

(It's krakens)

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My Braids deck, The Braided Siren's Song (Show n' Tell Theft), is no longer quite the seamonster tribal it used to be so I built a budget Thassa deck. I took a lot of inspiration from multiple decks so mine might seem a bit vanilla. That said, I did a lot of research and there truly aren't a lot of ways to deviate when doing a seamonster theme-deck. There are only so many good seamonsters, after all. I wasn't blown away from what I saw in the lower CMCs for blue fishy creatures (not including Merfolk and Wizards) so I have a bunch of defenders and walls--which I know are frowned upon in EDH for being one-dimensional. I think they round out the lower part of my mana curve, will help with devotion, dissuade early pressure in multiplayer games, and potentially could preserve vital HPs for my late-game strategy. It works

I had half the seamonster base and core of the deck--as well as Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx, Cyclonic Rift, and Chasm Skulker--lying around so the deck only cost $35 or so to complete. Quicksilver Amulet was definitely a splurge but I'm glad I purchased it. Many cards have doubled, quadrupled, or more in price since I first built this deck. Wall of Kelp was $1, Thassa, God of the Sea was $7, Cyclonic Rift was $6, Breaching Leviathan was bulk, etc.

I'm keeping the budget tag because I feel the core of the deck is budget and the many expensive utility cards can be easily swapped for cheaper cards.

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Cards to add/consider:

Brine Elemental, Propaganda, Vortex Elemental, Rite of Replication,

I would love to find room for Walking Sponge but it's just not as good as more versatile cards.

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Cards in the Maybeboard with an SL are cards I own.

Audited 1/9/18

Top Ranked	Achieved #42 position overall 7 years ago
Date added	7 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 33 - 0 Rares 26 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.09
Tokens	0/1 U Creature Plant Wall, 0/1 U Creature Starfish, 1/1 U Creature Camarid, Ape 3/3 G, Boar 2/2 G, Fish 3/3 U, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Kraken 9/9 U, Octopus 8/8 U, Squid 1/1 U, Whale 6/6 U
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