Kenessos N Kiddos: The King of Killer Krakens

Commander / EDH GU (Simic) Kraken Leviathan Scry

Tsukimi

Creature (31)

• 1x Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
• 1x Aethersquall Ancient
• 1x Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
• 1x Biblioplex Kraken
• 1x Biomancer's Familiar
• 1x Brinelin, the Moon Kraken
• 1x Charix, the Raging Isle
• 1x Hullbreaker Horror
• 1x Icebreaker Kraken
• 1x Inkwell Leviathan
• 1x Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep
• 1x Kodama of the East Tree
• 1x Koma, Cosmos Serpent
• 1x Lorthos, the Tidemaker
• 1x Mesmerizing Benthid
• 1x Nadir Kraken
• 1x Octavia, Living Thesis
• 1x Reservoir Kraken
• 1x Scourge of Fleets
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Serpent of Yawning Depths
• 1x Shipbreaker Kraken
• 1x Simic Sky Swallower
• 1x Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep
• 1x Spawning Kraken
• 1x Stormsurge Kraken
• 1x Stormtide Leviathan
• 1x Thassa, God of the Sea
• 1x Thrasios, Triton Hero *f-etch*
• 1x Trench Behemoth
• 1x Tromokratis

Land (36)

• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 1x Bala Ged Sanctuary  ^Flip
• 1x Barkchannel Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Castle Vantress
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Emergence Zone
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 1x Glasspool Shore  ^Flip
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Rejuvenating Springs
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rimewood Falls
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 3x Snow-Covered Forest
• 14x Snow-Covered Island

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Aqueous Form
• 1x Cream of the Crop
• 1x Garruk's Uprising
• 1x In Search of Greatness
• 1x Mirri's Guile
• 1x Quest for Ula's Temple
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Training Grounds

Artifact (5)

• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Monster Manual
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x The Great Henge

Commander (1)

Instant (11)

• 1x An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cryptic Command
• 1x Dissolve
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Joint Exploration
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Rewind

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Into the North
• 1x Inundate
• 1x Mystic Speculation
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Overwhelming Stampede
• 1x Three Visits
• 1x Whelming Wave

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Maybeboard

Creature (7)

• 1x Breaching Leviathan
• 1x Deep-Sea Kraken
• 1x Elvish Piper
• 1x Kederekt Leviathan
• 1x Kruphix, God of Horizons
• 1x Surrak and Goreclaw
• 1x The Reality Chip

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Flood of Tears
• 1x Preordain

Instant (5)

• 1x Bane's Contingency
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Tyvar's Stand
• 1x Unwind

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner
• 1x Nissa, Steward of Elements

Land (1)

• 1x Arena

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Defense of the Heart
• 1x Lurking Predators
• 1x Netherese Puzzle-Ward
• 1x Season of Growth

Artifact (2)

• 1x Lifecrafter's Bestiary
• 1x Quicksilver Amulet

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Come for the alliteration, stay for the upvote and some fun Sea Monster shenanigans!

Green loves to play big creatures and blue loves to.... play big creatures? Am I reading this right? Finally a new Simic commander that looks fun to build around in Kenessos, Priest of Thassa, someone who isn't just about ramp and card draw. Kenessos provides a fun gameplan centered around scrying and cheating out big fatties. And who doesn't love casting giant creatures for free? As always, my playgroup avoids infinite combos, and I really love feedback of any kind!

This deck is Scry heavy, so I chose to focus on that instead of including multiple other instances of cheating out cards like Elvish Piper or Quicksilver Amulet Instead we have cheap tools like Sensei's Divining Top, Mirri's Guile, Sylvan Library, Scroll Rack, In Search Of Greatness, Cream of the Crop and more that will let us scry regularly, and in some cases put cards from our hand back on top of the library.

To protect our our lil Kraken King we have pieces like Lightning Greaves and a decent number of counterspells.

Training Grounds and Biomancer's Familiar help to reduce Kenessos's ability cost, they also help with some other cards like Thassa, God of the Sea or Thrasios, Triton Hero.

The ramp is limited to about 5 cards since we have so much topdeck manipulation, I might not even need that much but I'll have to playtest more to see.

For the Sea Beasties themselves, narrowing down the list was tricky, but this is what I ended up with. If you see any I'm missing or that might work better here, let me know!

Top Ranked	Achieved #16 position overall 1 year ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH GU (Simic) 1 year ago
Date added	1 year
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 46 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.27
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Energy Reserve, Fish 1/1 U, Illusion 0/2 U, Koma's Coil 3/3 U, Kraken 9/9 U, Manifest 2/2 C, On an Adventure, Tentacle 1/1 U, Treasure