Art by Chase Stone
Commander deckU
Eluge, the Shoreless Sea
Leverage Eluge's cost reduction on instants and sorceries by accumulating submerged counters, enabling cheap counterspells and massive card draw spells to easily drop huge budget sea monsters.
Asked for“I would like a budget deck built with Eluge, the Shoreless Sea as the commander. I need removal spells such as counterspells, exiling permanents, and a few board wipes(returning all creatures/nonland permanents to hand could be considered a board wipe). I don't have a specific type of typal, but fish, kraken, and overall sea-related creatures seem to have a low cost. Please and thank you”
Deck anatomy
What this list actually runs on: how cheaply it casts things, and whether it has enough ramp, card draw and interaction to keep up at the table. Each block is one card — hover for its name.
Mana curve · 60 nonland cards
The working parts
Counted from Scryfall’s community card tags, not from the builder’s own labels. A card that does two jobs counts twice, so these add up to more than the deck. The hatched band is a common rule of thumb, not a law — combo decks run leaner, battlecruiser decks heavier.
Colored mana symbols
Commander
1Eluge, the Shoreless Sea
1UUULegendary Creature — Elemental Fish
Chosen commander for the requested strategy.
Ramp
10
Card Draw
9
Removal
12
Threats/Wincons
23
Pursued Whale
5UUCreature — Whale
forces opponents' creatures to attack and hurts targeting
Spawning Kraken
5UCreature — Kraken
creates 9/9 kraken tokens on sea creature hits
Scourge of Fleets
5UUCreature — Kraken
bounces opponents' creatures based on island count
Shipbreaker Kraken
4UUCreature — Kraken
taps down opponent threats upon going monstrous
Hullbreaker Horror
5UUCreature — Kraken Horror
flash threat that bounces spells and permanents
Brinelin, the Moon Kraken
6UULegendary Creature — Kraken
bounces permanents on casting high-mana spells
Nezahal, Primal Tide
5UULegendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur
uncounterable threat that draws off opponents' spells
Octavia, Living Thesis
8UULegendary Creature — Elemental Octopus
turns small creatures into 8/8s with magecraft
Charix, the Raging Isle
2UULegendary Creature — Leviathan Crab
massive high-toughness leviathan blocker/beater
Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep
6UULegendary Creature — Leviathan
kicker bounce wipe on a massive creature body
Lorthos, the Tidemaker
5UUULegendary Creature — Octopus
taps down multiple permanents on attack
Mesmerizing Benthid
3UUCreature — Octopus
creates illusion tokens and protects itself
Quest for Ula's Temple
UEnchantment
cheats out giant sea creatures every end step
Tolarian Terror
6UCreature — Serpent
cheap giant serpent paid for with spells in graveyard
Cryptic Serpent
5UUCreature — Serpent
discounted sea serpent based on instants/sorceries
Aethersquall Ancient
5UUCreature — Leviathan
large flying leviathan that can bounce all other creatures
Utility
6
Lightning Greaves
2Artifact — Equipment
gives haste and shroud for commander protection
Archetype of Imagination
4UUEnchantment Creature — Human Wizard
gives your army evasion while grounding opponents
Reconnaissance Mission
2UUEnchantment
card draw engine on combat damage with cycling
