Supoptimal Kess

Commander / EDH Budget Casual Creatureless Multiplayer Spellslinger UBR (Grixis)

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Instant (30)

• 1x Slaughter Pact
• 1x Annul
• 1x Blue Elemental Blast
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Ceremonious Rejection
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Defile
• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Electrickery
• 1x Fatal Push
• 1x Opt
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Spell Snare
• 1x Thought Scour
• 1x Anticipate
• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Increasing Vengeance
• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Negate
• 1x Predict
• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Forbidden Alchemy
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Fact or Fiction

Creature (5)

• 1x Guttersnipe
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Street Wraith
• 1x Sire of Stagnation

Land (30)

• 1x Bad River
• 1x Choked Estuary
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Crypt of the Eternals
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Foreboding Ruins
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 1x Grixis Panorama
• 5x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Rakdos Carnarium
• 1x Rocky Tar Pit
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Tainted Peak
• 1x Underground River

Artifact (8)

• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Talisman of Creativity
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Ashiok, Dream Render
• 1x Narset, Parter of Veils
• 1x Jace, Wielder of Mysteries

Commander (1)

Sorcery (21)

• 1x Appetite for Brains
• 1x Battle at the Bridge
• 1x By Force
• 1x Despise
• 1x Divest
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Sleight of Hand
• 1x Unearth
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Pyroclasm
• 1x Tormenting Voice
• 1x Anger of the Gods
• 1x Bonus Round
• 1x Doomsday
• 1x Praetor's Grasp
• 1x Slagstorm
• 1x Windfall
• 1x Disrupt Decorum
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Hour of Devastation
• 1x Temporal Manipulation

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Burning Vengeance
• 1x Secrets of the Dead

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So I play in this creature-heavy meta and I'm really growing tired of it. Perhaps I need to show them what a spellslinging deck looks like without comboing off turn three.

I do have the classic Demonic Consultation + Laboratory Maniac combo in it but only to win as a backup plan. Jace, Wielder of Mysteries works as an harder to remove LabMan alternative. There are plenty of ways to win within an EDH game, besides this combo (Guttersnipe + Thousand-Year Storm , Rite of Replication + X copy spells). These just take time to develop or to get them right - I'm in a learn process myself, stack interaction wasn't that common until now (with this deck).

Keeping the board clear:

Electrickery , Rakdos Charm , Anger of the Gods , By Force , Hour of Devastation , Slagstorm , Pyroclasm

Dealing with threats:

Blue Elemental Blast , Annul , Ceremonious Rejection , Counterspell , Dispel , Defile , Battle at the Bridge , Fatal Push , Rapid Hybridization , Go for the Throat , Slaughter Pact , Negate , Reality Shift , Red Elemental Blast , Snap , Disrupt Decorum

Demonic Kess (Win Con 1.0)

We need to have Kess, Dissident Mage on the field. Then we cast Demonic Consultation , naming Laboratory Maniac . Now we need to cast LabMan and get him through. With Kess, Dissident Mage 's ability on the field we now recast the Consultation. This time we name something that's not in our deck (non-Kess colors could help to clarify the Consultation for your playgroup, e.g.: Swords to Plowshares , Rampant Growth , etc). After resolving we exile our entire library. Now we need just one of our cantrips ( Gitaxian Probe , Sleight of Hand , ..) to win the match. Remember: Jace, Wielder of Mysteries works just as fine as Laboratory Maniac !

Doomsday (Win Con 2.0)

So after we got hit with a shitload of goblins/ dragons/ what-have-you and our gameplan is breaking down, we need to convert our time investment into a win. I thought about a budget-ish doomsday pile, so please correct me if I'm wrong here (still new to spellslinging). We cast Doomsday targeting 1. Gitaxian Probe 2. Predict 3. Laboratory Maniac 4. Unearth 5. Street Wraith . We then cast the Probe for , drawing Predict - casting Predict for and naming LabMan. Labman hits our graveyard. Then we draw Unearth and Street Wraith . Paying to bring LabMan back to the field, paying to cycle Street Wraith to win. So with the cost of Doomsday we need and 4 life to finish the job.

Also remember that this deck functions more like a minrange-y build. It is crucial to have enough mana in play to back up the turn your trying to win with some Counterspell s.

Counterspells:

Annul , Blue Elemental Blast , Ceremonious Rejection , Dispel , Red Elemental Blast , Counterspell , Negate , maybe Narset's Reversal

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Exclude colors	WG
Splash colors	BR
Key combos	Demonic Consultation + Laboratory Maniac Guttersnipe + Thousand-Year Storm
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 24 - 0 Rares 40 - 0 Uncommons 21 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.17
Tokens	Copy Clone, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Manifest 2/2 C
Folders	BuildInPaper