mine (duplicated from vinnyfishbone) by user2364161

Format: Commander

Commander: Marvo, Deep Operative

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Marvo, Deep Operative is the free-cast engine of a blue-black sea monster deck. The primary plan is to deploy Marvo early, keep him alive with cheap evasion, win clashes using a high-mana-value top card, and cheat in 7-9 mana Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents without paying their costs. Secondary paths include graveyard reanimation through Victimize, Gyruda, Ashiok, and Lochmere Serpent, plus a top-deck 'hidden commander' subtheme around Runo Stromkirk // Krothuss. The deck has no deterministic combo; it wins by amassing unblockable sea creatures (Stormtide, Inkwell, Tromokratis) and using Baneful Omen and Marvo's repeated triggers to end the game.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adventurer's Inn
  • 1 Aminatou's Augury
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashiok, Sculptor of Fears
  • 1 Baneful Omen
  • 1 Benthic Anomaly
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainsurge
  • 1 Brinelin, the Moon Kraken
  • 1 Broken Ambitions
  • 1 Captivating Glance
  • 1 Cephalid Illusionist
  • 1 Charix, the Raging Isle
  • 1 Cloak of the Bat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Connive // Concoct
  • 1 Contaminated Aquifer
  • 1 Counterpoint
  • 1 Deep-Sea Kraken
  • 1 Dimir Guildgate
  • 1 Dispersal Shield
  • 1 Dream Harvest
  • 1 Ephara's Dispersal
  • 1 Finale of Eternity
  • 1 Fortune Teller's Talent
  • 1 Grappling Kraken
  • 1 Gravepurge
  • 1 Grozoth
  • 1 Gyruda, Doom of Depths
  • 1 Halimar Depths
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Inkwell Leviathan
  • 14 Island
  • 1 Kraken Hatchling
  • 1 Lantern of Insight
  • 1 Levitation
  • 1 Lochmere Serpent
  • 1 Lorthos, the Tidemaker
  • 1 Marvo, Deep Operative
  • 1 Mission Briefing
  • 1 Moonring Island
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nadir Kraken
  • 1 Nemesis of Reason
  • 1 Omen Hawker
  • 1 One with the Multiverse
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Perplex
  • 1 Price of Fame
  • 1 Pull from the Grave
  • 1 Quantum Misalignment
  • 1 Research the Deep
  • 1 Revive the Fallen
  • 1 Ringskipper
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Runo Stromkirk // Krothuss, Lord of the Deep
  • 1 Scattering Stroke
  • 1 Serpent of Yawning Depths
  • 1 Shark Typhoon
  • 1 Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Starwinder
  • 1 Stormtide Leviathan
  • 1 Summon: Leviathan
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 The Reality Chip
  • 1 Thieves' Tools
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Treno, Dark City
  • 1 Tromokratis
  • 1 Ultros, Obnoxious Octopus
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Wander Off
  • 1 Whelming Wave
  • 1 Whirlpool Whelm
  • 1 Wisdom of Ages
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Worn Powerstone