edhseer Commander synergy, explained

Kiora, the Crashing Wave

Kiora, the Crashing Wave

Legendary Planeswalker — Kiora

Mana cost: {2}{G}{U}

How we read this card

Until your next turn, prevent all damage that would be dealt to and dealt by target permanent an opponent controls.

activated +1 —

Draw a card. You may play an additional land this turn.

activated −1 — draws you 1 card

activated −1 —

You get an emblem with that ability

activated −5 — gets an emblem

At the beginning of your end step, create a 9/9 blue Kraken creature token.

Causes: prevented permanent , draw a card, play a land.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

a land is played — 97 cards in the game can cause this (Kiora is one).

When a land plays a land thanks to Kiora, the Crashing Wave:

  1. Flubs, the Fool — draws you 1 card
  2. Infernal Sovereign — draws you 1 card
  3. Shadow of the Goblin — deals 1 damage
  4. The Endstone — draws you 1 card
  5. Horn of Greed — makes a player draw 1 card
  6. Pangosaur — triggers
  7. City of Traitors — sacrifices itself

7 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a planeswalker is cast — 361 cards in the game can cause this (Kiora is one).

When Kiora, the Crashing Wave is cast:

  1. Jaya's Phoenix — returns itself from the graveyard
  2. Interplanar Beacon — gains you 1 life
  3. Defiler of Vigor — puts a counter on a creature
  4. Defiler of Dreams — draws you 1 card
  5. Primeval Bounty — puts 3 counters on a creature
  6. Tetsuko Umezawa, Pursuer — gets +1/+1
  7. Thor, God of Thunder — deals that spell's mana value damage
  8. Krile Baldesion — brings a card back
  9. Summon: Good King Mog XII — makes a token
  10. Blood Funnel — sacrifices a creature

239 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a planeswalker enters the battlefield — 366 cards in the game can cause this (Kiora is one).

When Kiora, the Crashing Wave enters:

  1. Builder's Talent — puts a counter on a creature
  2. Brainstealer Dragon — makes a player lose life equal to its mana value
  3. Cloudstone Curio — triggers

2 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

damage is prevented — 568 cards in the game can cause this (Kiora is one).

When a permanent has damage prevented thanks to Kiora, the Crashing Wave:

  1. Phyrexian Vindicator — deals that much damage
  2. New Way Forward — deals that much damage
  3. Samite Ministration — gains you that much life
  4. Judgment of Alexander — deals its power damage

1 other card cares about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a card is drawn — 3,815 cards in the game can cause this (Kiora is one).

When Kiora, the Crashing Wave makes a player draw a card:

  1. Temmet, Naktamun's Will — gives +1/+1
  2. Niv-Mizzet, Parun — deals 1 damage
  3. Aether Syphon — mills a card
  4. The Locust God — makes a token
  5. Starving Revenant — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  6. Diviner's Wand — gets +1/+1
  7. Ominous Seas — puts a foreshadow counter on itself
  8. Dream Trawler — gets +1/+0
  9. Iron Man, Armored Avenger — puts a counter on a creature
  10. The Astonishing Ant-Man — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

57 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything enters the battlefield — 26,499 cards in the game can cause this (Kiora is one).

  1. Nature's Wrath — When Kiora, the Crashing Wave enters, Nature's Wrath makes a player sacrifice an Island or permanent

23 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.