SOOBNOOTICA by user4635957

Format: Commander

Commander: Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This deck is a Simic sea monster stompy strategy commanded by Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep. The deck accelerates its mana during the opening turns using land ramp, artifacts, and cost reducers before casting Kiora on turn 4. Once Kiora is active, casting large Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents triggers her ability to dig through the library and cast additional spells for free. This pseudo-cascade engine rapidly floods the battlefield with massive high-power creatures like Koma, Cosmos Serpent, Hullbreaker Horror, and Spawning Kraken. The deck bypasses opposing defenses through asymmetric board bounces such as Whelming Wave and Scourge of Fleets, or evasion enablers like Archetype of Imagination and Serpent of Yawning Depths. Opponents face an overwhelming board presence by turn 5 and are eliminated through combat damage by turn 7. While native ward, shroud, and hexproof protect several key threats, the strategy relies primarily on proactive board dominance rather than cheap instant-speed protection.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archetype of Imagination
  • 1 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
  • 1 Benthic Anomaly
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Breaching Leviathan
  • 1 Brinelin, the Moon Kraken
  • 1 Charix, the Raging Isle
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crush of Tentacles
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deep-Sea Kraken
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Elder Deep-Fiend
  • 1 Entish Restoration
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explosive Vegetation
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 12 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Glacier Godmaw
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Grappling Kraken
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty
  • 1 In Search of Greatness
  • 1 Inkwell Leviathan
  • 13 Island
  • 1 Kefnet's Monument
  • 1 Kenessos, Priest of Thassa
  • 1 Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep
  • 1 Koma, Cosmos Serpent
  • 1 Koma, World-Eater
  • 1 Kozilek's Unsealing
  • 1 Levitation
  • 1 Lorthos, the Tidemaker
  • 1 Migration Path
  • 1 Monstrosity of the Lake
  • 1 Monstrous Vortex
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 1 Nadir Kraken
  • 1 Omniscience
  • 1 Overflowing Basin
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Quest for Ula's Temple
  • 1 Quicksilver Amulet
  • 1 Reservoir Kraken
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Scourge of Fleets
  • 1 Serpent of Yawning Depths
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Shipbreaker Kraken
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Simic Sky Swallower
  • 1 Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spawning Kraken
  • 1 Starwinder
  • 1 Stormsurge Kraken
  • 1 Stormtide Leviathan
  • 1 Summon: Leviathan
  • 1 The Unagi of Kyoshi Island
  • 1 Traverse the Outlands
  • 1 Trench Behemoth
  • 1 Tromokratis
  • 1 Up the Beanstalk
  • 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
  • 1 Whelming Wave
  • 1 Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Zendikar Resurgent