High Entropy - Kess, Dissident Mage

Commander / EDH Control Counterspell Creatureless Discard Flashback Multiplayer UBR (Grixis) Wheels

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Land (39)

• 1x Ancient TombGC
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Cephalid Coliseum
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Clearwater Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Drowned Catacomb *f-pre*
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 1x Grixis Panorama
• 2x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Riverglide Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 2x Swamp
• 1x The Tabernacle at Pendrell ValeGC
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Watery Grave

Instant (18)

• 1x Anticipate
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic RiftGC
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Fierce GuardianshipGC
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of WillGC
• 1x Increasing Vengeance
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mystical TutorGC
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Shadow of the Grave
• 1x Vampiric TutorGC

Sorcery (14)

• 1x Bonus Round
• 1x Burning Inquiry
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Demonic TutorGC
• 1x Mind's Desire
• 1x Mizzix's Mastery
• 1x Past in Flames
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Whispering Madness
• 1x Windfall
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Rowan, Scholar of Sparks  ^Flip

Commander (1)

Artifact (15)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Grim MonolithGC
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana VaultGC
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Vedalken Orrery
• 1x Voltaic Key

Enchantment (12)

• 1x Grip of Chaos
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Liliana's Caress
• 1x Megrim
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Raiders' Wake
• 1x Rhystic StudyGC
• 1x Secrets of the Dead
• 1x Tainted AEther
• 1x Underworld BreachGC
• 1x Waste Not

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Maybeboard

Instant (12)

• 1x Cancel
• 1x Counterflux
• 1x Cryptic Command
• 1x Dissipate
• 1x Dissolve
• 1x Funeral Charm
• 1x Kolaghan's Command
• 1x Mission Briefing
• 1x Opt
• 1x Piracy Charm
• 1x Remand
• 1x Wild Ricochet

Artifact (6)

• 1x Chaos Wand
• 1x Cryptolith Fragment  ^Flip
• 1x Omen Machine
• 1x Otherworld Atlas
• 1x Torpor Orb
• 1x Unwinding Clock

Enchantment (11)

• 1x Burning Sands
• 1x Cloak of Confusion
• 1x Necrogen Mists
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Rite of the Raging Storm
• 1x Search for Azcanta  ^Flip
• 1x Secrets of the Dead
• 1x Shrieking Affliction
• 1x Underworld Dreams
• 1x Words of Waste

Land (1)

• 1x Maze of Ith

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Disrupt Decorum
• 1x Hymn to Tourach
• 1x Last One Standing
• 1x Mystic Speculation
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Syphon Mind
• 1x Wheel of Fate
• 1x Whispers of Emrakul

Creature (6)

• 1x Black Cat
• 1x Fatestitcher
• 1x Keranos, God of Storms
• 1x Mogis, God of Slaughter
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Shocker

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Entropy expressed in a commander deck, illustrating the slow, horrifying, yet inevitable march of the universe toward heat death. To me this deck has been both an expression and outlet for my anxiety with regard to that eventuality, and I have spared no expense. There could be a budget version of this built, and I'm totally for that, but I needed the best of everything for this project. Unfortunately, the price of most of the cards have doubled since I've built this deck, and it doesn't look like getting some of them will ever get any easier. WotC really does need to reprint this stuff and, even though I already have these cards, I'd like to see some of the RL get printed, especially duals (and maybe tabby should be banned in EDH idk.)

I've made enormous changes to this deck over the years and paradox engine got banned. I need to tune up the land base a little but this deck is faster, more focused and has better recursion. I've also removed all of the creatures. Also, other decks have come out with similar builds, I assume independently, many of them with Nekusar instead. I've decided to take a different route, or rather, to stay on the route I was already on. Instead of allowing my opponents to get any free cards and potentially punishing them for that later, I'm always making them discard and punishing them for that. If you get Waste Not on the battlefield and play any of the cards that are like Wheel of Fortune , you'll probably draw into another wheel, and then maybe some recursion, you'll get some extra mana to spend, and you will usually win that turn. I do still have the Dramatic Reversal + Isochron Scepter combo in there, but I wouldn't over extend trying to get it. If you get it fine, otherwise, consider putting something else under that IS. Consider your graveyard part of your hand, there is so much recursion in here. I know it seems odd to put Phyrexian Altar in a deck that doesn't have any creatures in the 99, but with Waste Not it's just too good. Anything that isn't a wheel, a Megrim , or recursion is there to either protect your own spells or to slow down your opponents trying to blow up your board. The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale isn't necessary, and I took out the Chains because it really didn't help me much and is just expensive for no reason. You can slot Pendrell Mists in, but I definitely think you should use something like that since you can't protect against attacks very well. Either way this deck is meant to be played aggressively and viciously.

Top Ranked	Achieved #45 position overall 6 years ago
Date added	6 years
Last updated	3 years
Key combos	Dramatic Reversal + Isochron Scepter
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	17 - 0 Mythic Rares 55 - 0 Rares 13 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.70
Tokens	Elemental 4/4 UR, Emblem Rowan, Scholar of Sparks, Manifest 2/2 C, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	CMDR, Cool Decks, Grixis