WIP Kess

Commander / EDH* UBR (Grixis)

Siosilvar

Land (11)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Island
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Snow-Covered Island
• 1x Snow-Covered Mountain
• 1x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Xander's Lounge

Instant (1)

• 1x Narset's Reversal

Commander (1)

---

Maybeboard

Instant (52)

• 1x Bedevil
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Consider
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Countersquall
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Deflecting Swat
• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Dihada's Ploy
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Dream Fracture
• 1x Drown in the Loch
• 1x Echoing Truth
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Foil
• 1x Forbidden Alchemy
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Fork
• 2x Frantic Search
• 1x Galvanic Iteration
• 1x Increasing Vengeance
• 1x Infernal Grasp
• 1x Intuition
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Maestros Charm
• 1x Mental Note
• 1x Mission Briefing
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Negate
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Reiterate
• 1x Remand
• 1x Reverberate
• 1x Sauron's Ransom
• 1x Seething Song
• 1x Siphon Insight
• 1x Snap
• 1x Steam Augury
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Tainted Pact
• 1x Terminate
• 1x Thought Scour
• 1x Twincast
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Wild Ricochet

Sorcery (48)

• 1x Anger of the Gods
• 2x Blatant Thievery
• 1x Burning Inquiry
• 1x Call to Mind
• 1x Careful Study
• 1x Cathartic Reunion
• 1x Crush of Tentacles
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Dreadbore
• 1x Echoing Return
• 1x Expropriate
• 1x Extract from Darkness
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Fiery Confluence
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Insurrection
• 1x Jeska's Will
• 2x Mana Geyser
• 1x Mystic Retrieval
• 1x Necromantic Summons
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x No One Left Behind
• 1x Notion Rain
• 1x Personal Tutor
• 1x Pilfered Plans
• 1x Profane Tutor
• 1x Pyroclasm
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Relearn
• 1x Rise from the Grave
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Role Reversal
• 1x See the Truth
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Slagstorm
• 1x Spreading Insurrection
• 1x Strategic Planning
• 1x Sweltering Suns
• 1x Tormenting Voice
• 1x Vandalblast

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Aria of Flame
• 1x Firemind's Research
• 1x Maestros Ascendancy
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Search for Azcanta  ^Flip
• 1x Sorcerer Class

Creature (24)

• 1x Aquatic Alchemist
• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Baral, Chief of Compliance
• 1x Curious Homunculus  ^Flip
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Electrostatic Field
• 1x Erebor Flamesmith
• 1x Firebrand Archer
• 1x Gelectrode
• 1x Goblin Electromancer
• 1x Gravebreaker Lamia
• 1x Guttersnipe
• 1x Kessig Flamebreather
• 1x Lambholt Raconteur  ^Flip
• 1x Nightscape Familiar
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Picklock Prankster
• 1x Rona, Sheoldred's Faithful
• 1x Sedgemoor Witch
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Talrand, Sky Summoner
• 1x Unruly Catapult
• 1x Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator

Artifact (14)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Mirari
• 2x Primal Amulet  ^Flip
• 1x Pyromancer's Goggles
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sphinx-Bone Wand
• 1x Talisman of Creativity
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Land (11)

• 1x Crosis's Catacombs
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Temple of Epiphany
• 1x Temple of Malice
• 1x Thriving Bluff
• 1x Thriving Isle
• 1x Thriving Moor
• 1x Vivid Creek
• 1x Vivid Grove
• 1x Vivid Marsh

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Liliana, Waker of the Dead
• 1x Rowan, Scholar of Sparks  ^Flip
• 1x Saheeli, Sublime Artificer

---

general notes:

• spells can only be cast on your turn, so counterspells in the graveyard are just for fighting over your own spells
• self mill has general value
• flashback is good because of the self mill
• kess can cast adventures and then you can choose the adventure replacement effect to have the creature available
• flickering kess (e.g. Ghostly Flicker) does allow you to cast again

Potential win condition ideas:

• cEDH combo: Demonic Consultation/Tainted Pact into Thassa's Oracle, recast for some funny name like Plains, Abandon Hope, or You Are Already Dead. Also works with a live Jace, Wielder of Mysteries.
• cEDH storm: Isochron Scepter + Dramatic Reversal + Aetherflux Reservoir
• Doomsday Thassa's Oracle
• kiki combo: Splinter Twin/Kiki-Jiki, the Mirror Breaker + Pestermite/Deceiver Exarch/Zealous Conscripts, with Phyrexian Delver to save the combo from self-mill
• Reanimator: also powered by Phyrexian Delver, Unearth, Stitch Together
• painter combo: Painter's Servant+Sphinx's Tutelage/Grindstone. Lots of ways to tutor for artifacts, Fabricate is notable because you can grab both
• niv combo: Niv Mizzet Firemind/Niv-Mizzet, Parun + Curiosity/Ophidian Eye/Tandem Lookout/Mischievous Catgeist   (+Dizzy Spell transmutes into Curiosity)
• spellslinger: normal procs like Talrand, Young Pyromancer, Sedgemoor Witch, Guttersnipe, Sorcerer Class. Chain of Smog pushes this over the top into an actual combo
• mill?: Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  , Consuming Aberration, Fractured Sanity, Tasha's Hideous Laughter, Mind Grind, Maddening Cacophony, Jace, Memory Adept.
• giant Torment of Hailfire, Cut / Ribbons, Exsanguinate, Jaya's Immolating Inferno, Mind Grind, or X draw spell. copied and ramped into with High Tide, Bubbling Muck, rituals, or any of the common infinite bounce combos
• Runechanter's Pike with 18 spells in graveyard
• Price of Progress, Rakdos Charm to punish people playing stuff that we don't as much

card choices:

• Narset's Reversal can be used on our own spells to save them from flashback exile, or on our opponent's spells to steal them

Date added	1 year
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 2 - 0 Rares 4 - 0 Commons
Cards	13
Avg. CMC	3.00