Kess Reanimator

Commander / EDH

ICSM

1.1 - Main Wincon (4)

• 1x Deceiver Exarch
• 1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1x Pestermite
• 1x Splinter Twin

1.2 - Isochron Storm Package (5)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Paradox Engine

2 - Secondary Reanimate Targets (3)

• 1x Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
• 1x Kederekt Leviathan
• 1x Sire Of Insanity

3.1 - Reanimation Suite (5)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Body Double
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Phyrexian Delver
• 1x Reanimate

3.2 - Reanimation Sinergy (10)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Cathartic Reunion
• 1x Compulsive Research
• 1x Corpse Connoisseur
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Taigam's Scheming
• 1x Tolarian Winds

4.1 - Draw (10)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Opt
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Windfall

4.2 - Tutors (5)

• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Perplex
• 1x Shred Memory

5.1 - Removal/Hate (11)

• 1x Bontu's Last Reckoning
• 1x By Force
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Oblivion Stone
• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 1x Terminate
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Winds of Rebuke

5.2 - Counter (5)

• 1x Counterflux
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Essence Scatter
• 1x Negate
• 1x Swan Song

6 - Ramp (9)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Worn Powerstone

7 - Lands (32)

• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Highland Lake
• 8x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Jwar Isle Refuge
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Shadowblood Ridge
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 5x Swamp
• 1x Swiftwater Cliffs
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Underground River

Commander (1)

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Maybeboard

Other (3)

• 1x Dimir House Guard
• 1x Dimir Machinations
• 1x Zealous Conscripts

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Trying to convert my Inala Reanimator into a Kess Reanimator Twin Scepter something using what I alrealdy have.

Kess, Dissident Mage is used as the commander because she is stupidly strong with tutors and cantrips. Also because I am tired of having a commander that is best never cast. Inalla is also too scrawny, has bad breath and is a total poopie head.

The main wincondition is using Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker or Splinter Twin with either Deceiver Exarch or Pestermite to create infinite tokes with Haste. The easiest way to do this is to use Buried Alive to grab Kiki, one of the ETB Untap creatures and a Phyrexian Delver. From there, Reanimate the delver, and use delver trigger to reanimate Kiki-jiki. Tap Kiki to make a copy of the Delver, use the second delver to reanimate the untapper, and the untapper ETB trigger to untap kiki. Tap Kiki to make another copy the untapper and use the new ETB trigger to untap Kiki again. Repeat this last step as much as needed to kill the whole table with a single attack with the haste untapper copies. You can also hardcast the combo, preferably casting the untapper on the endstep before yout turn.

In case that's not an option, you can reanimate a Sire Of Insanity or a Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur to get unsurmountable card advantage or at least screw your opponent's hand. Sire isn't even that bad to you because Kess allows you to cast most of the deck from the GY.Kederekt Leviathan is there because it combos with Animate Dead and Necromancy as a reusable board-wide bounce and my meta require as many of those as possible.

The Isochron package is mostly there because I alrealdy have it laying around. It also gives me a way to win against pillowfort decks that stack Propaganda effects without needing to bounce the whole table. I can either Dramatic Reversal + Isochron Scepter to get infinite storm and Aetherflux Reservoir to infinite lifegain and infinite damage, or I can imprint any draw spell with Paradox Engine in play to draw my whole deck, cast Laboratory Maniac, and win. This whole thing will get scrapped as soon as I acquire better tutors to make getting my Buried Alive pile more consistent.

Possible upgrades: The deck can esasily get much, much stronger by swapping in better tutors, better artifact ramp and a better manabase, but that's what I have avaliable in hand.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Exclude colors	WG
Key combos	Dramatic Reversal + Isochron Scepter
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 24 - 0 Rares 29 - 0 Uncommons 25 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.66
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone