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The Watcher in the Water

Legendary Creature — Kraken · {3}{U}{U} · Blue commander

The Watcher in the Water enters 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.

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What The Watcher in the Water 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 · drawWhenever you draw a card during an opponent's turn, create a 1/1 blue Tentacle creature token.
• Triggered ability · deathWhenever a Tentacle you control dies, untap up to one target Kraken and put a stun counter on up to one target nonland permanent.
• AbilityThe Watcher in the Water enters tapped with nine stun counters on it.

What a The Watcher in the Water deck needs

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

• draw on opponents' turns — instant-speed draw (each draw makes a Tentacle)
• sacrifice outlets for the Tentacles
• Krakens

The The Watcher in the Water deck plan

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

• 4× Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
• 26× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
• 4× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
• 4× Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 10× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand

Best cards for The Watcher in the Water

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.

Combos with The Watcher in the Water

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that The Watcher in the Water is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• The Watcher in the Water + Kindred Discovery1,728 decks
• The Watcher in the Water + Verity Circle + Junk Winder1,033 decks
• The Watcher in the Water + Unctus, Grand Metatect806 decks
• The Watcher in the Water + Symmetry Matrix + Ashnod's Altar542 decks
• The Watcher in the Water + Marneus Calgar456 decks
• The Watcher in the Water + Sage Of The Falls380 decks

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