Yippee. Lorthos or Inkwell or even Wrexial turn 4 and any of your opponents turns.
wolfv
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(5 votes)
this is a blue control players wet dream, use spell like creatures to massage your deck, and then have this thing get your big dorks to kill thinks fast... it is the merger between agro speed and control sensibilities
"ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" "Why choose the lesser evil? Cthulhu for president 2012." "That which is not dead can forever dreaming lie." "Narwhals are an effective counter-measure against Cthulhu attacks."
tikkimann
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(5 votes)
@ Khias: I prefer some 7th Edition Giant Octopus, myself, but that's a pretty sweet play, too.
Dingo777
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(3 votes)
idk about it, yeah there are some biggies you can drop as soon as T4 but it isnt all that blue, dropping huge creatures and pounding face, that is green, and last I checked, the symbol for Green was a Green circle with a tree
blue is mental combat, counter spells, drawing, bouncing, milling, those are the blue powers, and creatures do one of those or stop your face from getting beaten in as you blast your opponents mind
ByGoblinsBeDriven
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(5 votes)
I played someone who drafted both this and Wrexial, the Risen Deep at the pre-release. Ouch.
Very flavorful. I like it a lot.
LTJZamboni
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(7 votes)
Hey, guys, what's Kraken?
abra24
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(4 votes)
What about running this in a deck with only a dozen lands, some ponder, some 1 drop blockers and fill the rest of the deck out with giant kraken/octopus etc.
-You could mulligan till you get this with 1 land and drop it turn 1. -Almost for sure get a counter per turn since 80% of ur deck is creatures. -drop ur blockers to stay alive until turn 4 -turn 4 begin dropping insane monsters
May require a little luck but not much. Is this plausable?
True_Mumin
★☆☆☆☆ (1.6/5.0)(4 votes)
Ummm... oookay? This is weird. And not really good, either.
Skyboatpilot
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(4 votes)
This is one of my favourite cards ever. I'm gonna make an octopus Leviathan Kraken and serpent deck now ^^
jetzine
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(22 votes)
Release the Kraken!
DonRoyale
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(7 votes)
Grozoth is crying in the $1 bin at stores around the world ; Inkwell Leviathan is right there in the $2 bin being the shoulder it is crying on.
Between the new Jace, Halimar Depths, Brainstorm itself and Ponder, getting the quest counters on this thing isn't that hard.
Dropping 8-9 CMC bombs on turn 3 isn't something to overlook. It's just REALLY sad that cards like Maelstrom Pulse and the lesser-played Qasali Pridemage will kill this dead. It also doesn't help that this deck really needs Grozoth, who's from Ravnica and therefore isn't in Standard. Still, this is a mean, mean card to make a deck off of for fun.
BossCrab
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
I love this card. That said, it's extremely demanding because you need to build your deck around it. A little disenchantment can ruin your day. Halimar Depths and Sage Owl can help. I'd run this with Clone as well since it will help you complete the quest, copy your non-legendary fatties, and basically deal with any creature problem. Spreading seas can give you card draw, help out your island-walk sea-monsters, and give your opponent another enchantment besides Ula's to worry about.
This card may not be be in the top 8 decks in pro tour but it seems like an amazingly fun card anyway! I searched through gatherer and it seems you can do some really fun stuff with it. Yeah, I'm totally going to make a deck around this card and/or using this card!
Omenchild
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Man this is the shiz! I imagine running twelve lands, these, and Aetherplasm. plus about 12 good creatures that work with it dayum.
blindthrall
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(3 votes)
For Christ's sake... "That is not dead which can eternal lie And with strange aeons even death may die." Stop misquoting ***ure.
It censored s c r i p t u r e. Wow.
f_fivefiftyseven
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
A decent card. Its a good combo card for constructed, and its very flavourful, and it lets you get your fatties out for cheap. And you can probably get enough cards in your deck to justify it in sealed. In booster draft, you DO NOT want to open this unless third pack unless you lucked out and ended up with a play set ofShoal Serpent and Kraken Hatchling, and maybe a Lorthos, the Tidemaker. However, just because its not good in draft doesn't mean its still not an amazing card. It just erks me when I open this in a Zendikar-Zendikar-World Wake draft, and it got passed to a guy who opened Wrexial, the Risen Deep :-(
dishwater63
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
do you think there will be more serpents in rise of the eldrazi? maybe another octopus? i know they probably weren't thinking this as seeing much standard play, but as of right now there's only 3 serpents and 1 octopus. i dunno, just food for thought.
as far as the card goes, i think it has great synergy. as long as you can drop it within the first two turns, it quickly turns into something that an opponent has to deal with soon or the card might get out of hand.
coyotemoon722
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
BLAHH this card is so difficult to build around. Fun when it goes online though.
lukejf01
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(2 votes)
I see this card going way up in value when RoE comes out. 4.5/5 because it could take a while to activate and is easily countered.
Xenobody
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Moreso than enchantment destruction, Vampire Hexmage has been the bane of my Ula's Temple deck. It seems that every other time I play it, there's a Hexmage about.
nammertime
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Time for some Grozoth to tutor up your other 9cmc fatties.
Tezz
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
maybe usefull in paradox haze deck, only need one creature on top and reveal it 3 times, then get out deep-sea kraken... naah not that good...
metalevolence
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(3 votes)
sooo i guess this has nothing do with ulamog. wonder how the magic works then.
BurningDragon
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Do giant sea monsters live in Ula's temple? Why does anyone want to find it?
Enchantment_Removal
★★☆☆☆ (2.4/5.0)(5 votes)
Oh, look. It's a fun AND USABLE card.
Hey look, it didn't break the game.
Behold, people are happy.
Wizards finally did not further restrain an already not-so-good strategy. I think I actually want to PLAY this card.
Good stuff, Wizards? Was that so difficult?
Guntz1092
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
made a deck revolving around this, conjuring sea creatures like Wrexial, Stormtide Leviathan from the new set, and Lorthos. Things like Augury Owl, Ponder, and Halimar Depths can help. Wall of Frost, Wall of Denial, Sejiri Merfolk, and Deft Duelist are helpful in keeping you alive, as well as being creatures to add a counter on this thing.
Weary_PSI
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I love this card, although it does turn your game into pretty much every episode of "Yu-Go-Oh" ever aired. You know the drill: "In three turns my deck will become UNSTOPPABLE!"
AXER
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I pulled this off with 4 of them and Sage of Epytir and Augury Owl as my support creatures. The rest is up to you.
justicarphaeton
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I love how this card has, "JOHNNY BUILD AROUND ME" written all over it.
kolomeha
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Lorthos, we're going to Mirrodin and we've got some titans to slay! (plus a pesky volcano that needs a Spreading Seas) I'm bringing this deck to the next FNM, just to see the looks on everyone's faces. Proliferate eat your heart out!
@metalevolence: If you look at Ulamog it actually seems to have tentacles. But I personally think that Ulamog is the son of Ula. Mark my words, Ula will be the next Planeswalker. And it will have a subtype Leviathan so Quest for Ula's Temple will be relevant again. And just for the hell of it, it will also make contraptions!
divine_exodus
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Lorthos, the Tidemaker, Wrexial, the Risen Deep, Stormtide Leviathan, Grozoth......i need this card!!!
TPmanW
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Putting this in my creature heavy changeling deck. Might sprinkle in a few leviathans for good measure.
Fauna Shaman is the nozzle on the hose that will help you spray down your opponents with Stormtide Leviathan. And Grozoth is like Squadron Hawk but 9 times more awesome.
scumbling1
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(9 votes)
I like that it offers you a variety of sea monsters, rather than it being restricted to a single tribe. I wish there were more cards that functioned across two or more tribe. Ula's Temple is a portal any sea denizen can use; Lovisa doesn't discriminate between warriors, bersekers, and barbarians who want to help her crush Varchild; Death Baron likes several forms of animated corpses -- these cards just work so well from a flavor perspective.
bijart_dauth
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I like to run this in a deck with 14 islands and 46 creatures rather than the normal 24/36 split. All but 3 of the creatures in it can be dropped by the quest. Not that you'de want to drop the hatchling with it though. Thrumming bird work wonders in the deck both to trigger it one turn earlier and to help trigger any additional quests you happen to get down.
VarteDod
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(2 votes)
The most beautiful thing of this card is that it triggers not at your upkeep, but at the beginning of each end step. You get those counters, and at the beginning of your end step, you already can drop your Grozoth and fetch yourself those Inkwell Leviathans, then you drop one of them at the end of your opponent's turn and you can begin smacking him around with your aquatic monstrosities. Bonus creatures if you're playing multiplayer, too!
ninjaman98
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Did you know that there are only 2 octopus cards ever made? Yeah, real useful...
Just be an *** and 4 of this, 1 island, and the rest is just creatures that fit the de***ion. Turn 4 and forth, you'll have giant creatures coming out.
MaizeRage47
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Scary artwork, great flavor.
Salient
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
It's kind of astonishing that nobody has broken this card yet.
this may be a stupid question, but does this card allow you to play those certain creature cards without paying their mana cost?
sarroth
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@stikfigure16: "does this card allow you to play those certain creature cards without paying their mana cost?" - Yes, stupid question, because it answers it right on the card. They aren't cast - they're "put onto the battlefield." So they go there without you having to pay any mana, but it's different than casting them without paying their mana cost because they can't be countered and don't trigger "when... cast" triggered abilities.
That said, I don't get the comments talking about this card's viability in Standard when it was in Standard. This isn't a Standard card. It's a casual Timmy card. It seems pretty obvious - it wants you to play with creatures that just aren't plentiful enough in a small environment, and in a way that, even with Ponder and Sensei's Divining Top effects may not really be tournament worthy anyway. But fun at a casual table? Hell yeah. This is the #1 card that has ever made me want to play Blue.
Crackmore
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
i like it you only need a bunch of islands in your deck ( for the serpent ability' )
theoneandonlyjoseph
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
paradox haze. reveal a realy nasty card 3 times in one turn, then play it at you end step for free. assuming you just didnt play this on turn 1, had a few lucky draws and then start playing creatures on turn 3+ (when paradox haze becomes avalible).
Arachnos
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I wonder who is Ula. Reminds me of the old animated movie "Heavy Metal" which had an entity called "Uhluhtc" ("Cthulhu" spelled backwards, and pronounced as "Ulatec").
It kinda fits because Cthulhu is affiliated with krakens and sea leviathans.
CrazyLou
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Arachnos Technically, Ula is Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre! The three Zendikar deities Ula, Cosi, and Emeria were time-worn and corrupted memories of the first time the Eldrazi came to Zendikar. The denizens of Zendikar before the Eldrazi were set free worshipped these old "gods" much as people from our world worship our deities, and throughout the first two sets in the block you see a lot of references to these mistaken gods.
psychichobo
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
You don't even need to build your deck around it really, if you're going green blue like Kiora. Those two colours make for the silliest creatures.
Those two have excellent synergy together, and this brings them together.
AtticusF
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I'll be the first to say it. The new name for decks playing this shall be KAIJU TRIBAL!
gideon999
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
In a couple turns I'll have an octopus. You might as well surrender now... ... ... Why aren't they surrendering yet?
Lumppu
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
How does Strionic resonator work with this card? Does it allow you to reveal the card twice, and put 2 counters on it? And with the second ability, does it let you play 2 creatures each end step?
Continue
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
UNLEASH THE KRAKEN! And the leviathan, octopus, and serpent while you're at it.
deggdegg
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Totally missed that it says at the beginning of each end step. Wow.
MindAblaze
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Instead of Sage Owl run Augury Owl. Thrummingbird is a good suggestion, I find Gomazoa helpful and Looters to toss extra copies. Run some reanimation too or Noxious Revival to help pick up fatties you pitched with the looter. Even Screeching Silcaw could be fun if artifact leviathans are your flavor of choice.
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"Why choose the lesser evil? Cthulhu for president 2012."
"That which is not dead can forever dreaming lie."
"Narwhals are an effective counter-measure against Cthulhu attacks."
blue is mental combat, counter spells, drawing, bouncing, milling, those are the blue powers, and creatures do one of those or stop your face from getting beaten in as you blast your opponents mind
Very flavorful. I like it a lot.
-You could mulligan till you get this with 1 land and drop it turn 1.
-Almost for sure get a counter per turn since 80% of ur deck is creatures.
-drop ur blockers to stay alive until turn 4
-turn 4 begin dropping insane monsters
May require a little luck but not much. Is this plausable?
Between the new Jace, Halimar Depths, Brainstorm itself and Ponder, getting the quest counters on this thing isn't that hard.
Lorthos, the Tidemaker is also happy to see this thing.
Dropping 8-9 CMC bombs on turn 3 isn't something to overlook. It's just REALLY sad that cards like Maelstrom Pulse and the lesser-played Qasali Pridemage will kill this dead. It also doesn't help that this deck really needs Grozoth, who's from Ravnica and therefore isn't in Standard. Still, this is a mean, mean card to make a deck off of for fun.
"That is not dead which can eternal lie
And with strange aeons even death may die."
Stop misquoting ***ure.
It censored s c r i p t u r e. Wow.
as far as the card goes, i think it has great synergy. as long as you can drop it within the first two turns, it quickly turns into something that an opponent has to deal with soon or the card might get out of hand.
naah
not that good...
Hey look, it didn't break the game.
Behold, people are happy.
Wizards finally did not further restrain an already not-so-good strategy. I think I actually want to PLAY this card.
Good stuff, Wizards? Was that so difficult?
@metalevolence: If you look at Ulamog it actually seems to have tentacles. But I personally think that Ulamog is the son of Ula. Mark my words, Ula will be the next Planeswalker. And it will have a subtype Leviathan so Quest for Ula's Temple will be relevant again. And just for the hell of it, it will also make contraptions!
A typical Counterbalance deck has all kinds of library manipulation, Brainstorm and Sensei's Divining Top and whatnot. Surely it wouldn't be too impossible to cheat out Kederekt or Inkwell in short order?
That said, I don't get the comments talking about this card's viability in Standard when it was in Standard. This isn't a Standard card. It's a casual Timmy card. It seems pretty obvious - it wants you to play with creatures that just aren't plentiful enough in a small environment, and in a way that, even with Ponder and Sensei's Divining Top effects may not really be tournament worthy anyway. But fun at a casual table? Hell yeah. This is the #1 card that has ever made me want to play Blue.
you only need a bunch of islands in your deck ( for the serpent ability' )
It kinda fits because Cthulhu is affiliated with krakens and sea leviathans.
Technically, Ula is Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre! The three Zendikar deities Ula, Cosi, and Emeria were time-worn and corrupted memories of the first time the Eldrazi came to Zendikar. The denizens of Zendikar before the Eldrazi were set free worshipped these old "gods" much as people from our world worship our deities, and throughout the first two sets in the block you see a lot of references to these mistaken gods.
EDIT: Nvm, All is Dust reveals that Ulamog does indeed have tentacles.
Those two have excellent synergy together, and this brings them together.
You might as well surrender now...
...
...
Why aren't they surrendering yet?
Also, Thassa, god of the sea helps the game along. Theros has provided for this build a bit with her and Omenspeaker.
Plays Mistform Ultimus.
Zero fucks given.