Wrexial, the Risen Deep
Legendary Creature — Kraken
Islandwalk, swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island or a Swamp.)
Whenever Wrexial deals combat damage to a player, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from that player's graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.
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- Set
- Commander 2011 (CMD #239)
- Rarity
- Mythic
- Mana value
- 6
- Released
- 2011-06-17
- Artist
- Eric Deschamps
- EDHREC rank
- #5,309
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Nonfoil
- Served from
- Local database
Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos
Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Stormtide Leviathan
- Consuming Aberration
- Nemesis of Reason
- Whelming Wave
- Ruin Crab
- Extract from Darkness
- Fractured Sanity
- Memory Plunder
- Maddening Cacophony
- Spreading Seas
- Drown in the Loch
- Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
- Mind Grind
- Mindcrank
- Memory Erosion
- Fleet Swallower
- Whispering Madness
- Traumatize
- Singularity Rupture
- Thief of Sanity
- Psychic Strike
- The Water Crystal
- Psychic Corrosion
- Nephalia Drownyard
- Gyruda, Doom of Depths
- Hedron Crab
- Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker
- Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- Mind Funeral
- Didn't Say Please
- Duskmantle Guildmage
- Court of Cunning
- Manic Scribe
- Cruel Somnophage
- Trepanation Blade
- Sepulchral Primordial
- Visions of Beyond
- Thought Collapse
- Glimpse the Unthinkable
- Grisly Spectacle
- Rise of the Dark Realms
- Fraying Sanity
- Diluvian Primordial
- Spawning Kraken
- Dreamborn Muse
- Lightning Greaves
- Swiftfoot Boots
- Breach the Multiverse
- Serpent of Yawning Depths
- Geth, Lord of the Vault
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Island
- Swamp
- Sol Ring
- Arcane Signet
- Command Tower
- Consuming Aberration
- Dimir Signet
- Sunken Hollow
- Drowned Catacomb
- Counterspell
- Nemesis of Reason
- Stormtide Leviathan
- Drown in the Loch
- Dimir Aqueduct
- Ruin Crab
- Extract from Darkness
- Fractured Sanity
- Maddening Cacophony
- Watery Grave
- Talisman of Dominance
- Mindcrank
- Lightning Greaves
- Whelming Wave
- Memory Plunder
- Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- Singularity Rupture
- Swiftfoot Boots
- Choked Estuary
- Temple of Deceit
- Shipwreck Marsh
- Reliquary Tower
- Dark Ritual
- Mind Grind
- Rogue's Passage
- Tainted Isle
- The Water Crystal
- Spreading Seas
- Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
- Memory Erosion
- Negate
- Traumatize
- Nephalia Drownyard
- Mind Stone
- Fleet Swallower
- Whispering Madness
- Thief of Sanity
- Psychic Corrosion
- Baleful Strix
- Psychic Strike
- Darkwater Catacombs
Format legality
Rulings
- 2010-03-01
If you are unable to cast the targeted card (there are no legal targets for the spell, for example), nothing happens when the ability resolves, and the card remains in its owner's graveyard.
- 2010-03-01
If you cast a card "without paying its mana cost," you can't pay any alternative costs. On the other hand, if the card has additional costs (such as kicker or multikicker), you may pay those.
- 2010-03-01
If you cast the targeted card and it would be put into its owner's graveyard from the stack for any reason (either because it resolves or because it's countered), that card is exiled instead.
- 2010-03-01
If you want to cast the targeted card, you cast it as part of the resolution of Wrexial's triggered ability. Timing restrictions based on the card's type are ignored. Other restrictions are not (such as "Cast [this card] only during your end step").