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Kiora, the Rising Tide

Kiora, the Rising Tide

Legendary Creature — Merfolk Noble · {2}{U} · Blue commander

When Kiora enters, draw two cards, then discard two cards. Threshold — Whenever Kiora attacks, if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard, you may create Scion of the Deep, a legendary 8/8 blue Octopus creature token.
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What Kiora, the Rising Tide actually does

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What a Kiora, the Rising Tide deck wants

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Best cards for Kiora, the Rising Tide

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Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses

  1. Displacer Kitten4 mana
  2. Eternal Acrobat Toast0 mana
  3. Conjurer's Closet5 mana
  4. Nephalia Smuggler1 mana
  5. Y'shtola Rhul6 mana
  6. Escape Protocol2 mana
  7. Gandalf, Shadow's Foe7 mana
  8. Essence Flux1 mana

A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one

  1. Shoreline Looter2 mana
  2. Most Decrepit Old Bird // Speak Secrets1 mana
  3. Thought Shucker2 mana
  4. Kiora, the Rising Tide3 mana
  5. Mindwhisker3 mana
  6. Nightwhorl Hermit3 mana
  7. Cephalid Inkmage3 mana
  8. Cephalid Sage4 mana

Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide

  1. Chasm Skulker3 mana
  2. Kozilek's Unsealing3 mana
  3. Trendy Circus Pirate0 mana
  4. Myr Battlesphere7 mana
  5. Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
  6. Invasion of Segovia // Caetus, Sea Tyrant of Segovia3 mana
  7. Field of the Dead0 mana
  8. Spawnbed Protector7 mana

A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses

  1. Chrome Mox0 mana
  2. Mystic Sanctuary0 mana
  3. Cabaretti Courtyard0 mana
  4. Lotus Field0 mana
  5. Riveteers Overlook0 mana
  6. Talon Gates of Madara0 mana
  7. Mithril Coat3 mana
  8. Adventurer's Inn0 mana

A team pump that actually pumps tokens

  1. Nesting Grounds0 mana
  2. Patchwork Banner3 mana
  3. Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
  4. Eldritch Immunity1 mana
  5. Shore Up1 mana
  6. Heraldic Banner3 mana
  7. Cyberman Patrol2 mana
  8. It That Heralds the End2 mana

Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource

  1. Altar of Dementia2 mana
  2. Brain Freeze2 mana
  3. Mindcrank2 mana
  4. Codex Shredder1 mana
  5. Hedron Crab1 mana
  6. Thought Scour1 mana
  7. Emry, Lurker of the Loch3 mana
  8. Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana

Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide

  1. Chasm Skulker3 mana
  2. Kozilek's Unsealing3 mana
  3. Trendy Circus Pirate0 mana
  4. Myr Battlesphere7 mana
  5. Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
  6. Invasion of Segovia // Caetus, Sea Tyrant of Segovia3 mana
  7. Field of the Dead0 mana
  8. Spawnbed Protector7 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Reality Shift2 mana
  2. Pongify1 mana
  3. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  4. Resculpt2 mana
  5. Suspend1 mana
  6. Snap2 mana
  7. Into the Flood Maw1 mana
  8. Planar Incision2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Displacement Wave2 mana
  2. Filter Out3 mana
  3. Aligned Hedron Network4 mana
  4. Coercive Portal4 mana
  5. Whelming Wave4 mana
  6. Consuming Tide4 mana
  7. Llawan, Cephalid Empress4 mana
  8. Part the Veil4 mana

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