Vampires Of The Sea: A Guide To Runo Stromkirk / Krothuss Commander Decks | Magic: The Gathering

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[@StormDunakin]

Everyone: I want Vampire Commanders that boost vampires. We classy Lads: I want the Vampire Commander that turns into Cthulhu.

[@Pullituz]

He just summons, not turn.

[@StormDunakin]

@@Pullituz Turns the card over. Never said transforms.

[@matthew_thefallen]

YES.

[@firstandlast.1254]

@@StormDunakin the card never said 'transform'? The card that says 'transform' right on it? That card? Or do you mean that you never said 'transform'?

[@StormDunakin]

@@firstandlast.1254 I never said transform, was what I was getting at.

[@TheReaperGriefer]

Dear professor, i've been a loyal viewer for about 8 years now and there's something i'd like to personally ask. Would you mind showing your audience all your amazing suits and clothes? They're so catchy and stunning i'd love to "steal" your look sometimes at conventions. Many MtG players ask the question, what does the professor's wardrobe look like?

[@leveticus5721]

I’m fascinated with the coat he’s wearing and would love to know where he got it!

[@nik700]

Runo is certainly a puzzle, there's a lot to take into consideration. Seems like a fun deck building excercise

[@evanlightner]

The graveyard tech is the weird part

[@allenyates3469]

I've been play testing and re testing my Runo deck. It certainly is a quandary if you want it to be effective.

[@MTGJosh]

I love when Legendary Creatures are made with hoops to jump through to get a pay off, it just makes piloting the deck that much more rewarding when you go off.

[@drewburke97]

I just ordered a lot of the singles for the deck, its a creature heavy deck with a slight re animator package as a fall back plan with draw and mill to take advantage of runos ability to put a creature on top from the yard

[@collinkrause9177]

I built mine in a similar way, focusing on milling and reanimating everyone's stuff, with Runo being a value engine. I also put in Maskwood Nexus and Arcane Adaptation to turn everything into a Kraken to clone.

[@animalheadskullx3362]

I did the same, all I'm waiting on is my commander. I might make some changes according if I find anything in cv to throw in it

[@anthonyfinnimore7394]

A budget reanimator card that has built in top deck manipulation is Haunted Crossroads. Feels very good in this deck

[@leemiller6977]

@@anthonyfinnimore7394 Thanks for the great idea!

[@casketbase7750]

No *Spawning Kraken?* It spawns Krakens. 9/9 Kraken tokens to be precise, and it does this whenever a Kraken/Serpent/Leviathan/Octopus deals damage. Exponential value in this deck. EDIT: It’s also a 6 cost to flip the Commander.

[@bloodfest8510]

Considering you get three spawning krakens that instantly can trigger their effects, i dont see why you wouldnt Especially considering after combat that youd have about 7 creatures on board

[@EmperorPylades]

Sweet Merciful Raptor Jesus...I'd like to say that's just "win more", but this is Commander. This deck is full of nothing but Fatties, and Commander is about excess and expression as much as anything else. And going wide with Fatties is exactly my kind of excess.

[@StuBBaDuBB92]

Absolutely! I've won a number of games with the spawning kraken and Krothuss! It gets out of control real fast

[@cnelson1025]

I love runo! So happy to see you building a commander deck based on cthulu

[@777CrimsonChaos]

I feel like Strionic Resonator could be a strong addition for this. Making two extra sea monsters is cool, but making four is a real party

[@firkinfright5168]

Spark double, helm of the host and sakashima... even more token fun

[@inajar7947]

@@firkinfright5168 if you do Helm of the Host, your commander can start making token copies of his token copies.

[@User5770]

Lithoform Engine could be spicy for the same reason

[@kristiandahl1310]

Why stop there, rite of replication

[@bloodfest8510]

@@kristiandahl1310 why stop there, phenax mill them

[@Zacharadus]

A few cards to consider: River Serpent and Striped Riverwinder are 6 cmc serpents with cycling that allow you to easily flip Runo on schedule and running Sakashima of a Thousand Faces can allow copies of Krothuss, exponentially creating more copies every subsequent combat. Ghostly Pilferer is also one of the all stars in my deck, giving a decent card to copy with Krothuss and handedly allowing you trigger Runo's transformation. If you wanted to go a different route with the deck, Arcane Adaptation and Conspiracy are great ways get double the tokens on creatures that aren't already one of those sea monsters. Since we already have snow lands, Frostwalk Bastion, Avalanche Caller and ESPECIALLY Faceless Haven are great ways of ramping into your big fish. Finally, try to avoid Legendary creatures, because they die to the legend rule, but cards such as Gyruda, Doom of Depths still get their ETB trigger off before they die to legend rule and are still totally worth it. And of course, Spawning Kraken should be mentioned, because duh. Hope this helps someone aspiring to build this deck!

[@inamecomeunico8935]

Mutavault too! I even run creeping Tar pit, copying lands it's fun

[@zapzap7360]

Trying to build this one myself and it is definitely weird. Personal recommendations are: Sakashima of a Thousand Faces to be able to target those legendary seamonsters with Krothuss as well as getting an exponential amount of Krothusses on the field Manlands like Creeping Tar Pit and Faceless Haven because Krothuss can weirdly ramp with them when you don't have enough mana to cast your fatties and the silly synergy of Grozoth being able to Transmute into Conive // Concoct

[@kristiandahl1310]

That is synergy alright

[@friedpinnapple]

The fact that we can say “i have ramped two lands into play by attacking in dimir” is a trip

[@asaffin1]

Good call on the manlands!

[@Yellow_Magpie]

the manlands point made me think of the budget option of using man-dorks, like dimir keyrune and ebony fly to get a similar effect! I've always liked the look of dimir keyrune so it's nice to find an interesting use for it!

[@WazoobiumNitrate]

Oooh love the man lands idea. Mutavault would be nuts with this card.

[@Veon97]

I love the fact that I can build a full Lovecraft themed deck with this commander. I'll totally go for it!

[@twarnold14]

Anowon from last year: Hey! I'm a vampire and I don't care about vampire tribal! Sygg: Yeah, you're just a different tribal commander... Anowon: ... shut up.

[@Eric_The_Cleric]

I mean in fairness the way this one was built was kinda the same.

[@usauniversal22]

* ✊ 4 *secrets to massive success* 1) *know what you are doing* ✊💪2) *believe in what you are doing* 3) *love what you are doing* 4) *NEVER give up on what you are doing* 💪💪✊✊

[@robintarket6844]

Just as I was looking to build! Thanks Prof!

[@Sir_Francis]

Discussing your Opponent's Pongify Ape going against your Sea Monsters makes me think of the Simpsons episode where the kids watch a video in school about the food chain & one example has a Shark snatching a Gorilla out of a tree, hahaha

[@RichJMoneyTV]

AFAIK, Octopus has a Greek etomology so technically it should be Octopedes or Octopuses rather than Octopi. But I think they are all colloquially accepted.

[@MikealBasile]

Yes! Octopuses for the Greek word. No latin plurals here. ;)

[@idkjustleavemebeplease]

I love running sirens in this deck. It may not be optimal, but I love the flavour of Runo and his coastal angels singing in a choir to bring out the big bois.

[@Metalcursine]

Just found this dude in last night's promo pack at the end of the pre-release and thought, wow this is a real cool dude what kind of deck would you make with it. And there you are the next morning.

[@evanlightner]

Same.

[@bluedog4248]

This is one of the most challenging decks I've built in a while due to the dimir combination Edit: also planning on making alters for the whole deck to really give it the horror of the deep vibe

[@JannikSohn]

Can you link them to me?

[@Iweleth]

I would love to see what could be done with Grolnok, the Omnivore from Crimson Vow.

[@spore4ever91]

Trust me, if you wanna see something funny; my table let me play runo for 1 more mana in a gyruda companion deck. It was really something when gyruda hit sakashima

[@starscreen85]

You might want to mention that if you make multiple copies of a legendary creature, all but one of them will have to die to the legend rule. You used a legendary creature in your example at 2:12.

[@nightregret]

I'm thinking of building this into a Brineline & Ikra Shidiqi deck to add land ramp and Koma. This tech certainly showed me some pieces I didn't know existed. Thank you for all the great work!

[@jonathanrice6550]

I pulled this card in a VOW bundle and was consider making an EDH deck like this. I'm too poor for the $400 cost of this exact deck, but I love having this resource.

[@TeamCardgaming]

The deck is pretty cool. If I ever gonna be building a blue deck in the future it's probably this deck.

[@Lucat27]

I think a reanimated subtheme would be strong. Runo already likes things in your yard, and reanimation offers a good way to get around those mana values

[@flargis4]

I run reanimation in my runo deck, it is amazing, can confirm. It also makes it easier to get beefy boys into your yard to bounce to top with his cast trigger, guaranteeing krothuss transformation

[@cosmicohms2101]

I want to see an out of the box werewolf deck! Oh wait, that's not really possible. Since WotC will only give players that like werewolves one commander that can only really be played one way. But vampire players get many different ways to do something different! Look at all these vampire commanders in this set!

[@c.r.bledsoe9322]

While Runo definitely appreciates a sea creature shell, I feel like given that alot of the great ones mentioned are legendary, it's not valuable given additional tokens will just go away. If anything I feel like making one token but having that token having something useful like myriad is a stronger direction for the deck. But spawning kraken definitely deserves a spot here

[@onisemus777]

Got to have Stormsurge Kraken, it is only 5 so it doesn't flip Runo but with Runo out it is a 7/7 hexproof kraken that draws you two cards if it is blocked!

[@jamesevans6332]

I love Runo so much, though I do think Krothuss should've been a God given what we know about how Runo's veneration of sea monsters, just for the flavour

[@GamesAreAHobby]

As someone who has played a whole lot of magic for it's vast and storied tales, It would be most interesting to see a Raff Capashen, Ship's Mage Historic deck focused around granting flash and spinning grand tales about the planes and history of magic the gathering for a whole table of players. Cards gain entirely NEW lines of play with Raff out on the battlefield. Sagas like Elspeth Conquers Death (depicting the planeswalker, Elspeth, breaking free of the Therosian underworld) or Legendary Sorceries like Urza's Ruinous Blast (depicting the activation of the devastating Golgothian Sylex) or even planeswalkers like Teferi, Master of Time and his Oath of Teferi (which gains all new utility with Flash, allowing it to blink cards at instant speed) are just a few examples. This isn't even mentioning that Artifacts also gain flash, allowing horrifying machines from Dominaria's past to come hurtling through time to assemble and End of turn win condition out of nowhere. I strongly encourage this themed deck to be looked at as I find it deals with the vorthos itch so many players wish they could scratch.

[@kyleblanchard6306]

Rules question: Bog serpent, sea serpent, sea monster, etc. Does the effect of the token copies entering the battlefield already attacking get around the need for the defending player to be one who controls an island/swamp? For example, could I attack an opponent who controls an island with sea serpent, but then have the copies enter the battlefield attacking a different opponent who does not control an island?

[@CommanderMarcel]

I wish Fleet Swallower was one of the creature types that Runo/Krothuss cared about :(

[@zaclindemann9978]

honestly, I'd like to see a deck tech around the disturb mechanic, which will probably cause the deck to also be spirit tribal but still interested in how you'd build it prof

[@jacket2848]

Why? It's an absolutely awful mechanic, most of which simply transforming into an incredibly mediocre flying creature.

[@bloodfest8510]

In full honesty Youd definatly want cards that can lower the cost of cards in graveyard Ashnods altar as well to sacrifice the weak cards and use the mana to instantly disturb them

[@humanwreckage4563]

Hey Prof there's actually a crackpot "aquatic ape" theory supposing that we came directly from the sea rather than the roundabout angle evolution took. Its fuckin hilarious that you made the Pongify joke if you weren't aware of that lmaoo

[@ForeverLaxx]

Junk Winder is pronounced Winder, not Winder. English Teacher.

[@tubasmitty2]

I absolutely love these kinds of decks, when I first started playing Magic, my first rare I opened from a pack was Stormtide Leviathan, and I've never loved anything more than my huge sea monsters! For your next deck tech, I don't know if you've done it already, but I'd love to see an Ooze deck, U/G, B/G, or even U/B/G depending on the commander, whatever you'd like as long as it oozes goodness!

[@Spade6ix]

Definitely building my own version of this. Ive been wanting to make sea monsters for a while now and this is just the right amount of spicy change from the traditional simic route that ive been looking for

[@notimeleft1]

I would love to see a deck tech on the new Olivia crimson bride

[@chrisnengel7520]

Since we are on Innistrad, I think you could do a commander deck tech on my favorite Angel (please). I think there is not enough love for Archangel Avacyn//Avacyn the Purifier (SOI boros one) out there and although I made a deck around her, nobody else seems to know about her in the command zone. I beg thee to make a deck worthy of the beloved Angel of Innistrad and her tragic story!

[@larryalden79]

Awesome, I always like learning about cool combos since I've been away from the game on and off for past decade. Luckily my kids are into it, and got me back into playing

[@usauniversal22]

All dreamers out there this is temporary situations it will pass don't lose hope just keep moving forward your success will come 💪 💪 ✊ ✊ 💪 💪

[@robertmartin5539]

Play this on I hate your deck plz

[@DarthSmirnoff]

It's Polar Kraken's time to shine!

[@LanaSavage]

Thing in the Ice is a pretty good fit in this deck too! Great video, Prof!

[@SaintAnix.]

Hey Prof, uhh... You good, man?

[@lostmarble540]

"octopi have been known to crawl" octopi have been known to do just about anything, including hiding in clam shells, opening jars, having gay sex, and escaping from their enclosures

[@pluit1434]

Wait a minute…. Opening JARS?!

[@lostmarble540]

they can open jars from the inside and from the outside!

[@pap314]

thing in the ice can be nice in that deck

[@ytsejam58]

YES! sea monsters was one of my first decks ever! I've been looking for a good cammander for all the water critters I have.

[@meathookmassacre2438]

I'm actually working on this deck too. This video is Coolio no foolin yo.😎

[@SimpleCoop]

We call our commander deck with that creature types: SKOL! Sounds Scandinavian. Coop ON! 💚

[@seandavis1189]

i would like to cast my vote to "Lim-Dûl the Necromancer" he is very costly to play but im sure there are ways to make him work. like with creatures having death touch and equipment such as pathfinder arrows or viridian longbow.

[@creamskye]

Great deck profile. A minor nitpick/improvement I have is that you should run coldsteel heart instead of charcoal diamond. It has the same effect except strictly better. It lets you pick a color and counts as a snow permanent for icebreaker kraken :)

[@hehedgehohog]

I would like to "sea" new Odrik deck tech. I feel it can be a deck about artifact sinergy with all these blood tokens, sacrificing and taping them for something.

[@DragonbornMike-ym2er]

Strionic Resonator will can copy a trigger abilty (such as you commanders attack trigger). Mirror Box and Mirror Gallery will nullify the "Legend Rule" for you or the table. Sakashima can do the same if you have the budget. All these options can dramatically increase your token generation.

[@thisiskindabadass212]

I think Jacob Hauken has great potential and I'd love to see a take on him that might not be all eldrazi, extra turns, and aminatus augury

[@jonathanbrown9913]

Your justification of merit lage reminded me of Voxy's reason for skittering surveyor from the episode of shuffle with Lexi and Amy. "It has legs"

[@DawsonVonDarkcastle]

Bro! Tell me how I get done making this deck about a week ago, only to find this video today, and with all the cards I decided to put in it. He even suggested Flow of Ideas, a card I was iffy on, until I decided it was better than most X cost draw spells.

[@anthonyalvaladero]

Better idea, play Vampire Hexmage. Sacrifice it and remove all the counters from dark dephs. Instant 20/20 for only two mana. I know I’m not helping, but who doesn’t want a dumb janky combo.

[@chrisnoble8677]

What absolute betrayal! There's no Gyruda, Doom of Depths! Bit of mill, bit of recursion, 6 cmc, AND completely on flavor! Shame the commander isn't even cost himself.

[@cosmicsoybean6419]

Thank you so much for doing this deck! I've made a sea monsters deck with octavia as the commander and this gave me some fantastic addition ideas!

[@allenyates3469]

Mutavault becomes a self ramping land with Krothus. All man lands can work as a target for Krothus. If you run Serpent Assault you can use cards like Spawning Pool to make 3 5/5 regenerating attackers/blockers. Serpent Assault is a banger in this deck.

[@firefang92]

Runo is perhaps my favorite EDH deck outside of more competetive level ones. As such I want to drop a quick PSA: run sakashima, because nothing is more fun than an exponentially growing pile of Kraken gods.

[@gregfisher4147]

What would your deck list be for Jodah, Archmage Eternal? Also, if you're including Archetype of Imagination, Stormtide Leviathan is an auto include.

[@predatorlord6579]

Too bad for any MTG arena players like me (occasionally) who don't get access to hardly any of these beautiful krakens, leviathans, etc... (they need to add more sets to the historic playlist PLEASE!!!)

[@intoxicary]

Commander's quarters' deck tech video: skip the first two minutes, watch for 45 seconds, jump around the video for one minute looking for anything interesting, close video. Tolarian Community College deck tech video, full screen and turn up volume.

[@Wojtek36762]

Ixidron is my sleeper bomb for this deck. It flips all non token creatures on ETB, but MDFCs can’t be turned face down per the rules, so you lock up all the other stuff in play but keep Klothus and whatever tokens you’ve made, which Klothus can happily continue copying.

[@HALOX30]

I am calling you out professor. What is wrong with Edgar Markov. He is my favorite tribal commander. Runo Stromkirk is just a phony vampire wannabe. I don't care if it says vampire on the card. Edgar is the first vampire of them all and he shares my name so you know now why i am up in arms. but keep up the good work but Edgar Markov wil be watching you, and judging you acordingly.

[@hiddenleaf414]

Deck seems very fun but also very hard to balance. You want sea creatures at 6cmc+ to make 2 copies of yet you’re in Black/Blue so you don’t have the best ramp. Adding some recursion/graveyard cards like Animate Dead/Reanimate and Entomb/Buried Alive will help a lot. Also Dark Ritual seems like a big boost in this deck, either helping to get Runo out after he’s died or just hard casting a big fatty. Also just going smaller utility creatures or clones is always an option.

[@raiserofchickens]

I've been holding on to a playset of Quest for Ula's Temple since Worldwake. Now that I have a Runo Stromkirk it's time to make that sea creature tribal deck. Bring on the Whelping Wave!

[@dragonboyjgh]

Krothuss and anything on board both attacking. Thousand Face Shadow ninjutsus to enter battlefield, makes a token that copies krothus, the krothus token targets krothus, his two token copies target krothus, so on and so forth for infinite number of attackers? If it works like i think it works, it's an instant win against all opponents in EDH unless they have a instant speed boardwipe or fog, since the new attackers could be assigned new targets, i feel like that'd be pretty good. Edit: Legend rule. Right. Sakashima then? More vulnerable, still combos.

[@matthew_thefallen]

YES THE GREAT CTHULHU RISES! IA IA CTHULHU FHta..... oh sorry... I got too excited there 🥲

[@allenyates3469]

The mill cards are an alluring trap, I found that out the hard way. Unless you build a full mill deck, avoid them. What you want is sea monsters with big splashy control effects. A lot of them return cards to their owners hands or tap creatures down and skip untap steps. It's tricky getting and keeping the big blue fat fishy guys. Make sure they make a big impact when they land.

[@bigchungus842]

Grolnok! Not that cedh self mill nonsense! Give us the frogs, Professor! GIVE US THE FROOOOOGS

[@kelpsie]

Octopodes is actually pronounced like a Greek name (because it's Greek in origin). Oc-top-oh-dees. I'm not sure it's the right way to pluralize octopus, but it's clearly the coolest.

[@bladetb3934]

I would love for you to cover hogaak as an evil commander. I use stuff like berserk, overwhelming stampede, duelweapon fighting, and the goat that does overwhelming stampede for you when he attacks. So that hogaak is a 2 hit kill, and some times a 1 hit if you pair up the right stuff. You can make hogaak a flying demon who two shots the whole table one at a time with demonic embrace, which also comes back just like hogaak. He is essentially free and keeps coming back after board wipes and grave removal, and targeted removal. As long as you play a mix of token producers and grave filler you can cast hogaak constantly. Cards like gisa ghoulcaller, and the golgari guildmage making 8 tokens for sacing hogaak just let's you keep growing a board and keeping the huge threat on the board. Then when you get draw cards like momentus fall, life's legacy, and rishkars expertise, you never run out of gas in hand. Them with mana dorks you are way out ahead of everyone else. And your dorks kinda have haste since your gonna convoke with them. And if they die you can just eat them with hogaak to fuel him for later. The deck is busted and no one seems to know about it or care. Not sure which one. You can build it cheap or throw silly reserved list cards like hermit druid in. It can kill a player by turn 3, and easily by turn 5. Later on it can wipe the whole table with a big overwhelming stampede into jarad sacing the 16 or 32 power hogaak for a big drain. A lot the deck can do. And so far to me it's the perfect golgari deck.

[@ryanperkins1142]

My playgroup actually was talking about doing a pirate/ocean themed gamenight. We've got a pirate deck, Norfolk are always good and now this. Beautiful. Just need one more.

[@parc_]

I wanna see a deck tech on Eruth, Tormented Prophet I wanna build it but will probably get distracted and never finish. But like, make a blue deck without the crazy draw, and going hellbent with faithless looting like cards is great here. Plus all the u/r cares about being in exile cards, should make something unique

[@OwlXKrdr]

Is there a version of this deck that is "NOT BUDGET FRIENDLY?" A true "BIG BUDGET" list.

[@NekoSauce]

I run most of these in a aesi leviathan simic deck and let me tell you, fleet swallowed WILL PISS SOME PEOPLE OFF. And it's hilarious

[@xEddyTheGr8x]

I mean... I'm probably taking my Arixmethes-Seamonster deck apart & build Runo from it, as the heavy hitters are pretty much here already.

[@StuBBaDuBB92]

So I recently built a runo deck, and despite all the things I've heard it's actually been working extremely well! I've got a lot of creatures with ETB's and decided to look at adding some cheap flicker spells to get more use out of them. Also for protection as well.

[@MakeEmRageQuit]

Prof: An opportunity to have a vampire commander that isn't just doing vampire tribal Florain, Voldaren scion: Am I joke to you?

[@norushoutcast]

The key with Runo is, you could get value even with non Leviathan Creatures. Copying Solemn Simulacrum or Baleful Strix is fun in its own way.

[@ogdeathdog7913]

This reminds me of my jase deck I made running at 42 played in torment and got kicked out for winning all my games , it was going be my first ever win but last person I was playing kicked off and got me removed for playing the 42 cards in 60 card torment ... still got the deck with different versions but only in 60 standard

[@divadnabey5574]

first

[@evanlightner]

Amazing. Question: Are we missing any major opportunities here by not adding a single black card even though our commander is dimir? Lol!

[@pmf98]

Prof saying “Apes aren’t robust swimmers.” Makes me think immediately to the monkey swimming in the ocean to the “life could be a dream “ song, lmao.

[@KasaiChanOuO]

As someone who bought Runo recently, this was extremely helpful and informative!

[@kelseyo402]

I have been trying to build sea monster tribal for a bit now. I just wish Runo was Sultai. Losing Arixmethes, Koma, a few Kjoras and Aesi just feels bad.

[@MikealBasile]

Octopuses. You can't used Octopi as that's a Latin plural form and that would be bad form on a Greek word. Also, it is technically octopuses. Thanks for the great video.

[@alexanderjohnson6781]

29:00 I feel like players could also use any given card search engine and check for cards that Synergize? I guess just blame scryfall and gatherer for showing players cards that exist with the word “draw” on it 🙄

[@arsenalfanrichi]

I am biased because I always liked playing the card in my merfolk decks on MTGA, but Tempest Caller is probably a decent fit for this deck.

[@ZakuBlk]

Great video could do a similar video for yorvo,lord of garenbrig? Or Koloa, the titan ape? I've been trying to build my first commander deck mono green(cus that all I play)

[@Zkeleton969]

My biggest problem with the deck is the difficulty with which you can summon the sea monsters. Green has most of Magic’s ramp, and unless you either have green or a crap ton of mana rocks, it’s extremely difficult to do it. Even with the mana rocks, it’s super hard to do anything more than summon one per turn without a ludicrous amount of mana investment - and even then they’re just prime removal/wipe targets, especially if you only drop one per turn

[@Grimlocksmith]

The plural of octopus is "octopuses" or, if you're feeling fancy, "octopodes." Not "octopi." Prof called it out and then immediately proceeded to get it wrong.

[@goatthulu6662]

Not to be "that guy" but for once and for all, the plural of octopus in English is octopuses. Octopi is the plural in Latin, which is dead, and not what we speak. Cheers.

[@Doofindork]

Now, the real question is; Was it necessary for Runo to be so hot? I don't think it was. But Xiaobotong did that for us... and we can't thank them enough. ♥

[@davidw3281]

I built the new Zombie deck, haven’t played it once and am already bored of it. I love the idea of krakens, leviathans and other horrors from the deep as a theme. I’m building a version of this and scrapping the zombies.

[@barontk]

One of the more interesting cards in an otherwise underwhelming set imo