pre kirk by salemander

Format: Commander

Commander: Runo Stromkirk // Krothuss, Lord of the Deep

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir Sea Monster Reanimator strategy commanded by Runo Stromkirk // Krothuss, Lord of the Deep. The game plan revolves around discarding or milling high-cost sea creatures—Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents—via cycling, looters, or tutors like Buried Alive. Casting Runo on Turn 3 allows you to place a 6+ mana value sea monster on top of your library, reliably triggering Runo's transformation into Krothuss, Lord of the Deep on Turn 4's upkeep. On Turn 5, reanimating a massive sea monster and attacking with Krothuss triggers Krothuss to create two attacking token copies. When paired with payoffs like Spawning Kraken, Scourge of Fleets, or Junk Winder, this attack generates overwhelming board presence, bounces all opposing blockers, or floods the battlefield with 9/9 Krakens. The deck closes the game on Turn 6 by swinging for over 100 combat damage across all three opponents, backed by asymmetric board wipes like Whelming Wave and flash disruption from Hullbreaker Horror.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Afterlife from the Loam
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Benthic Anomaly
  • 1 Brinelin, the Moon Kraken
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cemetery Tampering
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cryptic Command
  • 1 Deranged Assistant
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Elder Deep-Fiend
  • 1 Entreat the Dead
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Feed the Cycle
  • 1 Fetid Pools
  • 1 Final Parting
  • 1 Grappling Kraken
  • 1 Gyruda, Doom of Depths
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Ice Tunnel
  • 15 Island
  • 1 Junk Winder
  • 1 Lochmere Serpent
  • 1 Lorthos, the Tidemaker
  • 1 Marvo, Deep Operative
  • 1 Merfolk Looter
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nadir Kraken
  • 1 Necromantic Selection
  • 1 Nightmare Unmaking
  • 1 Notion Rain
  • 1 Obsessive Stitcher
  • 1 Overseer of the Damned
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Phyrexian Delver
  • 1 Port of Karfell
  • 1 Pull from Tomorrow
  • 1 Rakshasa Debaser
  • 1 Reservoir Kraken
  • 1 River Serpent
  • 1 Rot-Tide Gargantua
  • 1 Runo Stromkirk // Krothuss, Lord of the Deep
  • 1 Scourge of Fleets
  • 1 Shipbreaker Kraken
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spawning Kraken
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Stormsurge Kraken
  • 1 Stormtide Leviathan
  • 1 Striped Riverwinder
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Palace
  • 1 Surveillance Room
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tainted Indulgence
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 The Creation of Avacyn
  • 1 The Eldest Reborn
  • 1 Tidal Terror
  • 1 Tolarian Kraken
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Trench Behemoth
  • 1 Unstoppable Slasher
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator
  • 1 Waker of Waves
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Whelming Wave
  • 1 Wrexial, the Risen Deep