Kess Kontrol

Commander / EDH* Control UBR (Grixis)

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Land (35)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Canyon Slough
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Desolate Lighthouse
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 5x Island
• 1x Luxury Suite
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Riptide Laboratory
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Watery Grave

Creature (6)

• 1x Baral, Chief of Compliance
• 1x Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  ^Flip
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Torrential Gearhulk
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant

Instant (29)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Bedevil *f-pre*
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Condescend
• 1x Counterflux
• 1x Crosis's Charm
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Desertion
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Disdainful Stroke
• 1x Doom Blade
• 1x Expansion / Explosion
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Forbidden Alchemy
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Increasing Vengeance
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mystic Confluence
• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Reiterate
• 1x Silumgar's Command
• 1x Terminate
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Wrecking Ball

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Dack Fayden
• 1x Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh
• 1x Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Search for Azcanta  ^Flip

Commander (1)

Sorcery (16)

• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Dreadbore
• 1x Expropriate
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Treasure Cruise
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Yahenni's Expertise

Artifact (7)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Primal Amulet  ^Flip
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence

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Artifact (1)

• 1x Mana Crypt

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First attempt at a Grixis Control EDH.

Angling to take advantage of Kess and her ability to recur spells. Also a small Wizard theme that doesn't really make much of an impact, but is still there for flavor reasons.

Looking to close out the game with a Bolas planeswalker, a big Expropriate or multiple thereof, or recurring Blatant Thievery or Bribery.

Made a v1.1 update, removing a couple of cards I didn't end up acquiring when I assembled the deck and making some swaps for others. Working in Torment of Hailfire as a decent game ender at this point. Have also won several games by copying Expropriates and having people scoop.

v1.2 Update - Have recently come into some pocket capital and have used it to improve mostly the manabase of this deck, but also some card selections.

v2.0 Update. I've made some large changes I haven't tracked here. CMC keeps coming down, and a lot more money has been put into the deck. Going to be making yet more changes to make it a big quicker and take out a few of the big CMC things. Though I'm going to keep them in my deckbox for playing slightly lower powered games, if those come up.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 49 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.12
Tokens	Emblem Dack Fayden, Emblem Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, Manifest 2/2 C