Card text
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.
The Watcher in the WaterExtended Art · Surge Foil
Legendary Creature — Kraken
Universes Beyond: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) · 765
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Mana cost
{3}{U}{U}
Power / toughness
9/9
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Card text
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.
Format legality
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- AlchemyNot legal
About The Watcher in the Water
This page covers the extended art printing of The Watcher in the Water (765), a Blue Legendary Creature — Kraken from Universes Beyond: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR). It is printed at Mythic Rare rarity. It is legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage and Commander and 4 more formats.
We track no other printing of 765 in this set, so there is no base card here to compare its price with.
Universes Beyond: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth is a main expansion, released June 2023. The Watcher in the Water has 1 other card in the database, listed further down the page.
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.
Card details
- Card number
- 765
- Set
- Universes Beyond: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)
- Set type
- Expansion
- Released
- 23 June 2023
- Rarity
- Mythic Rare (M)
- Printing
- Extended Art · Surge Foil
- Type line
- Legendary Creature — Kraken
- Colour
- Blue
- Colour identity
- Blue
- Mana cost
- {3}{U}{U}
- Power / toughness
- 9/9
- Finish
- Surge Foil
TCGplayer listing: The Watcher in the Water
Other printings of The Watcher in the Water in Universes Beyond: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
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The Watcher in the Water in other sets
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