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Runo Stromkirk // Krothuss, Lord of the Deep

Legendary Creature — Vampire Cleric // Legendary Creature — Kraken Horror · {1}{U}{B} · Black/Blue commander

Flying When Runo enters, put up to one target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. You may reveal that card. If a creature card with mana value 6 or greater is revealed this way, transform Runo. Flying Whenever Krothuss attacks, create a tapped and attacking token that's a copy of another target attacking creature. If that creature is a Kraken, Leviathan, Octopus, or Serpent, create two of those tokens instead.

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What Runo Stromkirk // Krothuss, Lord of the Deep actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Triggered ability · etbWhen Runo enters, put up to one target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
• Triggered ability · upkeepAt the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. You may reveal that card. If a creature card with mana value 6 or greater is revealed this way, transform Runo.
• Triggered ability · attackWhenever Krothuss attacks, create a tapped and attacking token that's a copy of another target attacking creature. If that creature is a Kraken, Leviathan, Octopus, or Serpent, create two of those tok
• Keyword · flyingflying

What a Runo Stromkirk // Krothuss, Lord of the Deep deck needs

Plays as sea monsters. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• creatures with mana value 6 or greater, especially Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses and Serpents (they transform it; the back face copies them)
• top-of-library setup

The Runo Stromkirk // Krothuss, Lord of the Deep deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

• 6× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 4× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 6× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once

Best cards for Runo Stromkirk // Krothuss, Lord of the Deep

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

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