1.2k
12/29/2023
The Watcher in the Water aka Mono Blue Locust God
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
Legal
Est deck cost: $517.40
Salt Sum: 43.38
1.2k
12/29/2023
Compare
Deck filters

Choose your preferred layout. You can change this at any time using the Deck filters / View as options above.

Commander

Quantity: 1Price: $1.99
The Watcher in the Water

The Watcher in the Water enters the battlefield tapped with nine stun counters on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.) Whenever you draw a card during an opponent's turn, create a 1/1 blue Tentacle creature token. Whenever a Tentacle you control dies, untap up to one target Kraken and put a stun counter on up to one target nonland permanent.

Creature
The Watcher in the Water (ltr) 75
1

"Removal"

Quantity: 8Price: $57.78
Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant
Cyclonic Rift (mm3) 35
1
Perplexing Test

Choose one — • Return all creature tokens to their owners' hands. • Return all nontoken creatures to their owners' hands.

Instant
Perplexing Test (c21) 357
1
Pongify

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Instant
Pongify (tsr) 79
1
Rapid Hybridization

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller creates a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token.

Instant
Rapid Hybridization (gtc) 44
1
Ravenform

Exile target artifact or creature. Its controller creates a 1/1 blue Bird creature token with flying. Foretell {U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Sorcery
Ravenform (khm) 72
1
Reality Shift

Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Instant
Reality Shift (frf) 46
1
Resculpt

Exile target artifact or creature. Its controller creates a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token.

Instant
Resculpt (stx) 51
1
The Phasing of Zhalfir

Read ahead (Choose a chapter and start with that many lore counters. Add one after your draw step. Skipped chapters don't trigger. Sacrifice after III.) I, II — Another target nonland permanent phases out. It can't phase in for as long as you control The Phasing of Zhalfir. III — Destroy all creatures. For each creature destroyed this way, its controller creates a 2/2 black Phyrexian creature token.

Enchantment
The Phasing of Zhalfir (dmu) 59
1

Artifact

Quantity: 5Price: $82.25
Ashnod's Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Ashnod's Altar (5ed) 349
1
Caged Sun

As Caged Sun enters the battlefield, choose a color. Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+1. Whenever a land's ability causes you to add one or more mana of the chosen color, add one additional mana of that color.

Artifact
Caged Sun (c14) 233
1
Coat of Arms

Each creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature on the battlefield that shares at least one creature type with it. (For example, if two Goblin Warriors and a Goblin Shaman are on the battlefield, each gets +2/+2.)

Artifact
Coat of Arms (7ed) 290
1
Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1. Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards. Equip {1}

Artifact
Skullclamp (sld) 1112
1
Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) Equip {1}

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (clb) 339
1

Combo

Quantity: 5Price: $30.81
Drowned Rusalka

{U}, Sacrifice a creature: Discard a card, then draw a card.

Creature
Drowned Rusalka (gpt) 24
1
Jace, Wielder of Mysteries

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead. +1: Target player mills two cards. Draw a card. −8: Draw seven cards. Then if your library has no cards in it, you win the game.

Planeswalker
Jace, Wielder of Mysteries (war) 54
1
Kindred Discovery

As Kindred Discovery enters the battlefield, choose a creature type. Whenever a creature you control of the chosen type enters the battlefield or attacks, draw a card.

Enchantment
Kindred Discovery (clb) 81
1
Paradise Mantle

Equipped creature has "{T}: Add one mana of any color." Equip {1}

Artifact
Paradise Mantle (mma) 211
1
Teferi, Master of Time

You may activate loyalty abilities of Teferi, Master of Time on any player's turn any time you could cast an instant. +1: Draw a card, then discard a card. −3: Target creature you don't control phases out. (Treat it and anything attached to it as though they don't exist until its controller's next turn.) −10: Take two extra turns after this one.

Planeswalker
Teferi, Master of Time (m21) 275
1

Counters

Quantity: 9Price: $77.87
Abjure

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a blue permanent. Counter target spell.

Instant
Abjure (wth) 31
1
An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
An Offer You Can't Refuse (snc) 51
1
Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant
Arcane Denial (c16) 83
1
Artistic Refusal

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Choose one or both — • Counter target spell. • Draw two cards, then discard a card.

Instant
Artistic Refusal (mom) 46
1
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (dd2) 24
1
Cryptic Command

Choose two — • Counter target spell. • Return target permanent to its owner's hand. • Tap all creatures your opponents control. • Draw a card.

Instant
Cryptic Command (mma) 38
1
Force of Negation

If it's not your turn, you may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target noncreature spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Instant
Force of Negation (mh1) 52
1
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (sta) 81
1
Stubborn Denial

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {1}. Ferocious — If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, counter that spell instead.

Instant
Stubborn Denial (ktk) 56
1

Creature

Quantity: 10Price: $50.66
Arcanis the Omnipotent

{T}: Draw three cards. {2}{U}{U}: Return Arcanis the Omnipotent to its owner's hand.

Creature
Arcanis the Omnipotent (dmr) 39
1
Archmage Emeritus

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.

Creature
Archmage Emeritus (stx) 37
1
Hullbreaker Horror

Flash This spell can't be countered. Whenever you cast a spell, choose up to one — • Return target spell you don't control to its owner's hand. • Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Creature
Hullbreaker Horror (vow) 63
1
Jace's Archivist

{U}, {T}: Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Creature
Jace's Archivist (c15) 95
1
Junk Winder

Affinity for tokens (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each token you control.) Whenever a token enters the battlefield under your control, tap target nonland permanent an opponent controls. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Creature
Junk Winder (mh2) 48
1
Nadir Kraken

Whenever you draw a card, you may pay {1}. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on Nadir Kraken and create a 1/1 blue Tentacle creature token.

Creature
Nadir Kraken (ncc) 228
1
Nezahal, Primal Tide

This spell can't be countered. You have no maximum hand size. Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, draw a card. Discard three cards: Exile Nezahal, Primal Tide. Return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
Nezahal, Primal Tide (prix) 45s
1
Toothy, Imaginary Friend

Partner with Pir, Imaginative Rascal (When this creature enters the battlefield, target player may put Pir into their hand from their library, then shuffle.) Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Toothy, Imaginary Friend. When Toothy leaves the battlefield, draw a card for each +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature
Toothy, Imaginary Friend (bbd) 12
1
Wavebreak Hippocamp

Whenever you cast your first spell during each opponent's turn, draw a card.

Creature Enchantment
Wavebreak Hippocamp (thb) 80
1
Wonder

Flying As long as Wonder is in your graveyard and you control an Island, creatures you control have flying.

Creature
Wonder (mh2) 271
1

Draw Spells

Quantity: 11Price: $23.65
Blue Sun's Zenith

Target player draws X cards. Shuffle Blue Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Instant
Blue Sun's Zenith (mbs) 20
1
Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Instant
Brainstorm (sta) 76
1
Flow of Knowledge

Draw a card for each Island you control, then discard two cards.

Instant
Flow of Knowledge (bro) 49
1
Graven Lore

Scry X, where X is the amount of {S} spent to cast this spell, then draw three cards. ({S} is mana from a snow source.)

Instant
Graven Lore (khm) 61
1
Keep Watch

Draw a card for each attacking creature.

Instant
Keep Watch (hop) 10
1
Mystic Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once. • Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}. • Return target creature to its owner's hand. • Draw a card.

Instant
Mystic Confluence (ncc) 227
1
Opt

Scry 1. Draw a card.

Instant
Opt (sta) 82
1
Pull from Tomorrow

Draw X cards, then discard a card.

Instant
Pull from Tomorrow (akh) 65
1
Silver Scrutiny

You may cast Silver Scrutiny as though it had flash if X is 3 or less. Draw X cards.

Sorcery
Silver Scrutiny (dmu) 65
1
Stroke of Genius

Target player draws X cards.

Instant
Stroke of Genius (dmr) 67
1
Transcendent Message

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Draw X cards.

Instant
Transcendent Message (mom) 83
1

Land

Quantity: 36Price: $104.24
Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Myriad Landscape (c14) 61
1
Mystic Sanctuary

({T}: Add {U}.) Mystic Sanctuary enters the battlefield tapped unless you control three or more other Islands. When Mystic Sanctuary enters the battlefield untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Mystic Sanctuary (eld) 247
1
Nesting Grounds

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Move a counter from target permanent you control onto another target permanent. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Nesting Grounds (ncc) 418
1
Otawara, Soaring City

{T}: Add {U}. Channel — {3}{U}, Discard Otawara, Soaring City: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Otawara, Soaring City (neo) 271
1
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (c14) 308
1
Snow-Covered Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Snow-Covered Island (mh1) 251
30
War Room

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

Land
War Room (cmr) 361
1

Miscellaneous

Quantity: 5Price: $64.55
Invasion of Segovia

Battle
Invasion of Segovia // Caetus, Sea Tyrant of Segovia (mom) 63Invasion of Segovia // Caetus, Sea Tyrant of Segovia (mom) 63
1
Ominous Seas

Whenever you draw a card, put a foreshadow counter on Ominous Seas. Remove eight foreshadow counters from Ominous Seas: Create an 8/8 blue Kraken creature token. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Enchantment
Ominous Seas (iko) 61
1
Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (sld) 478
1
Teferi's Ageless Insight

If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Enchantment
Teferi's Ageless Insight (m21) 76
1
Wizard Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) You have no maximum hand size. {2}{U}: Level 2 When this Class becomes level 2, draw two cards. {4}{U}: Level 3 Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Enchantment
Wizard Class (afr) 81
1

Ramp

Quantity: 10Price: $23.60
Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (cmr) 297
1
Coldsteel Heart

Coldsteel Heart enters the battlefield tapped. As Coldsteel Heart enters the battlefield, choose a color. {T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Artifact
Coldsteel Heart (j22) 94
1
Decanter of Endless Water

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Decanter of Endless Water (clb) 309
1
Hedron Archive

{T}: Add {C}{C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Hedron Archive: Draw two cards.

Artifact
Hedron Archive (bfz) 223
1
Midnight Clock

{T}: Add {U}. {2}{U}: Put an hour counter on Midnight Clock. At the beginning of each upkeep, put an hour counter on Midnight Clock. When the twelfth hour counter is put on Midnight Clock, shuffle your hand and graveyard into your library, then draw seven cards. Exile Midnight Clock.

Artifact
Midnight Clock (ncc) 226
1
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Mind Stone: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (ltc) 282
1
Sceptre of Eternal Glory

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {T}: Add three mana of any one color. Activate only if you control three or more lands with the same name.

Artifact
Sceptre of Eternal Glory (40k) 166
1
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (cmd) 261
1
Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Artifact
Thought Vessel (c15) 55
1
Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Wayfarer's Bauble: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (mm2) 234
1

Maybeboard

Quantity: 29Price: $173.87
Aetherspouts

For each attacking creature, its owner puts it on the top or bottom of their library.

Instant
Aetherspouts (m15) 44
1
Altar of Dementia

Sacrifice a creature: Target player mills cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

Artifact
Altar of Dementia (cns) 196
1
Archmage's Charm

Choose one — • Counter target spell. • Target player draws two cards. • Gain control of target nonland permanent with mana value 1 or less.

Instant
Archmage's Charm (mh1) 40
1
Baral, Chief of Compliance

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever a spell or ability you control counters a spell, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Creature
Baral, Chief of Compliance (aer) 28
1
Body of Knowledge

Body of Knowledge's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand. You have no maximum hand size. Whenever Body of Knowledge is dealt damage, draw that many cards.

Creature
Body of Knowledge (cmr) 59
1
Carnage Altar

{3}, Sacrifice a creature: Draw a card.

Artifact
Carnage Altar (zen) 198
1
Cephalid Coliseum

{T}: Add {U}. Cephalid Coliseum deals 1 damage to you. Threshold — {U}, {T}, Sacrifice Cephalid Coliseum: Target player draws three cards, then discards three cards. Activate only if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Land
Cephalid Coliseum (ody) 317
1
Chasm Skulker

Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Chasm Skulker. When Chasm Skulker dies, create X 1/1 blue Squid creature tokens with islandwalk, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on Chasm Skulker. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Creature
Chasm Skulker (ncc) 214
1
Consider

Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) Draw a card.

Instant
Consider (mid) 44
1
Curiosity Crafter

Flying You have no maximum hand size. Whenever a creature token you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature
Curiosity Crafter (c21) 24
1
Curse of the Swine

Exile X target creatures. For each creature exiled this way, its controller creates a 2/2 green Boar creature token.

Sorcery
Curse of the Swine (ths) 46
1
Druidic Satchel

{2}, {T}: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token. If it's a land card, put that card onto the battlefield under your control. If it's a noncreature, nonland card, you gain 2 life.

Artifact
Druidic Satchel (c21) 241
1
Everflowing Chalice

Multikicker {2} (You may pay an additional {2} any number of times as you cast this spell.) Everflowing Chalice enters the battlefield with a charge counter on it for each time it was kicked. {T}: Add {C} for each charge counter on Everflowing Chalice.

Artifact
Everflowing Chalice (wwk) 123
1
Fellwar Stone

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (c16) 254
1
Flux Channeler

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Flux Channeler (war) 52
1
Gilded Lotus

{T}: Add three mana of any one color.

Artifact
Gilded Lotus (m13) 206
1
Icebreaker Kraken

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each snow land you control. When Icebreaker Kraken enters the battlefield, artifacts and creatures target opponent controls don't untap during that player's next untap step. Return three snow lands you control to their owner's hand: Return Icebreaker Kraken to its owner's hand.

Creature
Icebreaker Kraken (khm) 63
1
Karn's Bastion

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Land
Karn's Bastion (ncc) 410
1
Kozilek, Butcher of Truth

When you cast this spell, draw four cards. Annihilator 4 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices four permanents.) When Kozilek, Butcher of Truth is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles their graveyard into their library.

Creature
Kozilek, Butcher of Truth (2x2) 2
1
Laboratory Maniac

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.

Creature
Laboratory Maniac (isd) 61
1
Quicksilver Fountain

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player puts a flood counter on target non-Island land they control of their choice. That land is an Island for as long as it has a flood counter on it. At the beginning of each end step, if all lands on the battlefield are Islands, remove all flood counters from them.

Artifact
Quicksilver Fountain (mrd) 233
1
Sea Gate Restoration

Sorcery
Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn (znr) 76Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn (znr) 76
1
Shipbreaker Kraken

{6}{U}{U}: Monstrosity 4. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put four +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.) When Shipbreaker Kraken becomes monstrous, tap up to four target creatures. Those creatures don't untap during their controllers' untap steps for as long as you control Shipbreaker Kraken.

Creature
Shipbreaker Kraken (pths) 63★
1
Spawning Kraken

Whenever a Kraken, Leviathan, Octopus, or Serpent you control deals combat damage to a player, create a 9/9 blue Kraken creature token.

Creature
Spawning Kraken (c21) 33
1
Stormsurge Kraken

Hexproof Lieutenant — As long as you control your commander, Stormsurge Kraken gets +2/+2 and has "Whenever Stormsurge Kraken becomes blocked, you may draw two cards."

Creature
Stormsurge Kraken (c14) 18
1
Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus

Flying If you would proliferate, proliferate twice instead. {1}{U/P}{U/P}, Remove three counters from among other artifacts, creatures, and planeswalkers you control: Put an indestructible counter on Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus. ({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)

Creature
Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus (one) 71
1
Thing in the Ice

Creature
Thing in the Ice // Awoken Horror (soi) 92Thing in the Ice // Awoken Horror (soi) 92
1
Thirst for Discovery

Draw three cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard a basic land card.

Instant
Thirst for Discovery (vow) 333
1
Whelming Wave

Return all creatures to their owners' hands except for Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents.

Sorcery
Whelming Wave (bng) 57
1

Deck Stats

Deck extras (0)
 avatar
NaN secs
 avatar
NaN secs
 avatar
NaN secs
 avatar
NaN secs
 avatar
NaN secs

Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"After making this deck I just realized this is just [[The Locust God]] with extra hoops to jump through lol\nBuilt it similarly to my Atemsis deck except we get battle tricks in this deck for extra fun.\n"}]}
Unable to load comments