Kess, Thousand-Year Storm

Commander / EDH Combo Storm UBR (Grixis)

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Instant (25)

• 1x Ancient Excavation *list*
• 1x Anticipate
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Comet Storm
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Forbidden Alchemy
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Increasing Vengeance
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Negate
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Reiterate
• 1x Seething Song
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Terminate
• 1x Turnabout

Creature (1)

• 1x Notion Thief

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ral, Storm Conduit

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Thousand-Year Storm

Sorcery (21)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Bonus Round
• 1x Cathartic Reunion
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Drawn from Dreams
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Finale of Promise
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Increasing Ambition
• 1x Mana Geyser
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Past in Flames
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Serum Visions
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Tormenting Voice
• 1x Windfall

Artifact (15)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Commander (1)

Land (35)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 11x Island
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Watery Grave

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First Draft.

Early Game: Control the board with removal spells and board wipes while cycling through your deck to find ramp and tutors.

Early mulligans prioritize cantrip effects, mana rocks and light removal.

casting Kess, Dissident Mage on turn 4 to recycle cantrips is a perfectly fine line if no other line to your storm turn presents itself.

MID Game: You have to be able to identify the threat level of other combo player, gauge how close the stompy deck is running over you, how much you can hold off the control player in addition to considering your best line to a successful storm turn.

Storm turn: Thousand Year Storm: The namesake of the deck. With Thousand-Year Storm online, if you are allowed to untap, you should be making a push to win the game no matter what. It will not survive more than a turn. Plan out your cantrips, rituals and tutors wisely to start the storm chain. Common line would be something like Ponderx1, Frantic Searchx2 floating 3 mana, Increasing Ambitionx3 finding rituals and either Comet Storm or Torment of Hailfire depending on if you think red or black mana is more reliable. Another option is to tutor for an infinite mana loop, but this isnt necessary.

This chain will end with something like 7 copies of an x=200 Torment of Hailfire or Comet Storm

Bonus Round: Bonus Round, Mana Geyser into Increasing Vengeance,then Comet Storm for = a lot, and flash back Increasing Vengeance to win with 6 copies of an = a lot Comet Storm.

Classic: Cast Isochron Scepter imprinting Dramatic Reversal and net infinite mana as long as you have mana rocks that can tap for more than 2. After this is accomplished, you can cast any of Torrment of Hailfire, Comet Storm, Ral, Storm Conduit, Sentinel Tower, Aetherflux Reservoir or your favore storm card to close out the game.

Ritual: Reiterate + Turnabout/Mana Geyser are very likely to net infinite mana.

After generating infinite mana (or near it), Reiterate can loop any spell, such as Lightning Bolt for a finisher as well as the storm finishers described above.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 31 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 23 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.52
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Manifest 2/2 C
Based on	Kess, Thousand-Year Storm [Primer-ish] olivebagel EDH