Release the kraken by user7564018

Format: Commander

Commander: Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Simic sea-monster tribal deck helmed by Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep, built around ramping hard, casting huge Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents, and using Kiora's trigger to chain free spells off the top of the library. The deck layers three overlapping value engines - Kiora's dig-and-cast trigger, a dense landfall package (Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait, Grappling Kraken, Glacier Godmaw), and a cascade/discover subtheme (Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty, Monstrous Vortex) - to bury opponents in card advantage before closing with trampling giants and token swarms from Spawning Kraken and Koma, World-Eater. The primary win is straightforward combat damage from an ever-growing board of 6/6-to-12/12 beaters, accelerated by token multiplication and Garruk's Uprising trample. There are no infinite combos; this is a pure value-and-beatdown deck that wins by sheer inevitability.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
• 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
• 1 Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway
• 1 Beast Whisperer
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Benthic Anomaly
• 1 Bonders' Enclave
• 1 Breaching Leviathan
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 1 Brinelin, the Moon Kraken
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Crush of Tentacles
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Demolition Field
• 1 Dreamroot Cascade
• 1 Elder Deep-Fiend
• 1 Elemental Bond
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Flooded Grove
• 12 Forest
• 1 Garruk's Uprising
• 1 Glacier Godmaw
• 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
• 1 Grappling Kraken
• 1 Greater Good
• 1 Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Hullbreaker Horror
• 1 Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty
• 10 Island
• 1 Kenessos, Priest of Thassa
• 1 Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner
• 1 Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep
• 1 Kodama's Reach
• 1 Koma, Cosmos Serpent
• 1 Koma, World-Eater
• 1 Kozilek's Unsealing
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Monstrous Vortex
• 1 Nature's Claim
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 Negate
• 1 Pongify
• 1 Rampant Growth
• 1 Rapid Hybridization
• 1 Reality Shift
• 1 Regrowth
• 1 Rejuvenating Springs
• 1 Resculpt
• 1 Reservoir Kraken
• 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
• 1 Rishkar's Expertise
• 1 Scourge of Fleets
• 1 Serpent of Yawning Depths
• 1 Simic Charm
• 1 Simic Signet
• 1 Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soul's Majesty
• 1 Spawning Kraken
• 1 Starwinder
• 1 Stormsurge Kraken
• 1 Strip Mine
• 1 Surrak and Goreclaw
• 1 Talisman of Curiosity
• 1 The Great Henge
• 1 The Unagi of Kyoshi Island
• 1 Three Visits
• 1 Trench Behemoth
• 1 Up the Beanstalk
• 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
• 1 Waterlogged Grove
• 1 Whelming Wave
• 1 Yavimaya Coast