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CardName: Commune with the Depths Cost: U Type: Sorcery Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a Kraken, Leviathan, Octopus, Serpent or Island card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: [Assorted] Card Repository Common

Commune with the Depths
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Sorcery
Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a Kraken, Leviathan, Octopus, Serpent or Island card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
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Updated on 19 Oct 2020 by SecretInfiltrator

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2018-07-05 15:03:34: SecretInfiltrator created and commented on the card Commune with the Depths
on 05 Jul 2018 by SecretInfiltrator:

Reference: Commune with the Gods/Commune with Dinosaurs, Quest for Ula's Temple/Whelming Wave

(Kraken, Leviathan, Octopus, Serpent are sea monsters.)

(Fish and Whales are apparently too mundane. They are like sea food. But an Octopus is all weird and squirmy.)

etc.

on 07 Jul 2018 by Tahazzar:

­Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep & Whelming Wave as well? Slinn sneaked Merfolk in there, which feels a bit like a cop out to me. Instead of suggesting going all in with the fatties, it allows you to fill your lower curve with a tribe like Merfolk and then add the big guys as topping.

on 07 Jul 2018 by SecretInfiltrator:

That first post was supposed to say Whelming Wave over Undead Slayer. Weird copy-paste error. Will fix.

The Merfolk thing is interesting and obviously born from the environment. It's a good idea to include Merfolk in the list of sea critters, because Merfolk tribal is relevant due to Ixalan-block.

this is also one issue of why I list all these creature types in rules text rather than e. g. using the "batching" implied by the original comment:

> Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a sea monster or Island card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. (Kraken, Leviathan, Octopus and Serpent are sea monsters.)

It's a technology we now have since historic, but which will at tims not be used due to the lines being blurry as shown above.

My reason to exclude Merfolk includes two other aspects:

For one, it's actually sensible to have the two alternatives be "land" and "fatty that you get if you already have enough land". Though it certainly is not necessary to do it like that.

For another, while three of these types want to be fatties, I would totally make an Octopus small - and not just by going Kraken Hatchling on them. A real Octopus is quite small. I think Squids are actually more associated with having oversized variants.

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