I love the sharktocrab. I dont think its getting the respect its deserved with all the hype that the hydrsfish is taking up. Also this is the first brew I have seen with the verity circle. Good job here, Very interesting and unique. I am going to run some tests with this later because I love hadanas climb here. It seems as though there is zero fat in the deck.

you are splashing red and I am not even sure you really need to. Unless you key your sideboard to go red heavy and change the entire look.

At any rate. I love it. +1 and Ill check back in on this later.

Quadsimotto Thank you for the lovely comment, that the kindest thing I've heard about a brew. I'll continue to look at ways this brew can improve. Thank you for the encouragement!

boguscheesecake i did do some gold fishing and some play testing with this against one of my own. I found that you have too much red mana source in it for the minimal amount of cards in the deck with red mana. I would go minus the 4 rootbound crag minus 2 stomping grounds, plus 3 forest and plus three island. Or you could leave them but I would minus one verity for plus one more growth spiral so you can try to get more land down early game.

It is very interesting some of the synergies you have in it. RoTW bringing in a shark right away to tap down a creature then being able to use a familiar to make it like he doesnt have a counter so you can adapt him again. The tapping drawing you cards is neat too. So maybe ignore that earlier advice of removing a verity.

I will say that I dont think Domri really fits. I would instead advise a way to reliably put counters on the sharktocrab. In my simic build the Simic Ascendancy has been amazing at this little set up but i would not have thought to use verity as a card draw engine without seeing it here first.

Nice! I'd love to play with this deck. I've been trying to build one around similar ideas, but just UG.

One thing that I'm having trouble with is deciding between Hadana's Climb and Simic Ascendancy (or some combo). Simic Ascendancy combos really well with Sharktocrab, since the instant speed allows you to tap opposing creatures during the opponent's turn, and make their creatures unavailable for two combat phases. But obviously the mana cost makes it less useful early-game than Hadana.

Time of Ice and Icy Manipulator also combo really well with Verity, so they're tempting too.

Anyway, really enjoyed looking at this. Agree with @Quadsimotto that it looks very focused. If you're interested in looking at the draft of my deck, I'd love to hear your thoughts: Sharktoramp

tyhaddow I was just looking over a mill brew using verity circle and time of ice, now if you are running the shark with it too when it plays all the way out it will return all those buggers back to their hand. A nice semi board wipe. I will have a look at yours as well.

Quadsimotto and tyhaddow Thanks for the advice, and the playtesting. I unfortunately do not have the means to playtest right now so your comment was very helpful. I'll be looking into the mana base and possible replacements for domri, and hopefully update the deck sometime soon.

The mana base already looks far better.

Simic Ascendancy can provide an added win-con. If you go that way, I would suggest losing Neoform (pod decks really only work well with some nasty ETB effects) and 1 Verity Circle for Simic Ascendancy . Then to maximize the number of counters that you make, I would consider Growth-Chamber Guardian in place of Stony Strength (deck shrinking, search for and draw extra creature, adapt your Guardians into a powerful attacking force).

Murphy77 thanks for the comment! Previous versions of the deck ran Simic Ascendancy , but I found it a bit lackluster. Shapers of Nature and hopefully Merfolk Skydiver can do the same thing, but better. I am extremely hesitant to include Growth-Chamber Guardian , as the decks purpose is to get out sharktocrab and tap creatures, not support mid-range aggro. But I appreciate the feedback!

Evolution Sage can give you extra +1/+1 counters on most turns and could easily replace Stony Strength

Shapers of Nature are just there as pods for Sharktocrab , using Neoform after they have created 1 only +1/+1 counter as an ETB. Growth-Chamber Guardian can gain +1/+1's every turn (with Biomancer's Familiar ) and search for copies of himself, thinning the deck.

Simic Ascendancy could replace Neoform (dropping the pod sub-theme) and provide an alternative win-con. Then, I would rather play something like Shimmer of Possibility over Verity Circle (which could come in from the side-board if your opponent is tapping lots of creatures for effects).

Nice deck!

I use pretty much the same deck but small improvements:
-2x Karn's Bastion
-2x Verity Circle
-4x Stony Strength
-4x Shapers of Nature
+4x Evolution Sage or Contentious Plan
+1x Herald of Secret Streams
+2x Hydroid Krasis
+4x Growth-Chamber Guardian
+2x Biogenic Ooze

I made an account on this site just to show my appreciation to FINALLY finding a Sharktocrab deck.

SuperEmoCookie Thank you for the kind comment! Sharktocrab is an amazing card!

Came for Sharktocrab stayed for the awesome description; god I laughed my ass off to that one.

worth an upvote. 10/10

hey weird thing, your deck is almost rotation proof, there are only three cards in the main deck that would need to be swapped out, even there a few of them have decent replacements. the cards are Hinterland Harbor which is probably the most difficult to replace, Shapers of Nature which could be swapped with Combine Guildmage which has somewhat similar utility but sadly has no draw effect and the final card is Hadana's Climb  ^Flip which could possibly be replaced with something like removal or a spell like Contentious Plan

This is beautiful, all hail SHARKTOCRAB!

It is one of the nicest deck I ever saw. A cute and well builded simic crab deck. Special points for the description !

Would you put some Evolution Sage here?

joaoguaxinim good suggestion! I don't know how effective it would be, considering how much set up it needs to get going. It's something I'll keep in mind when rotation comes around.