Kess, Dissident Mage

Commander / EDH Budget Competitive Control Infinite Combo Twin UBR (Grixis)

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Land (36)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 1x Choked Estuary
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Grixis Panorama
• 8x Island
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Riptide Laboratory
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Wandering Fumarole
• 1x Watery Grave

Artifact (11)

• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Primal Amulet  ^Flip
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Instant (20)

• 1x Ancient Excavation *list*
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Increasing Vengeance
• 1x Intuition
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Mystic Confluence
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Negate
• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Stroke of Genius
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Terminate

Creature (13)

• 1x Body Double
• 1x Deceiver Exarch
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
• 1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Pestermite
• 1x Phyrexian Delver
• 1x Talrand, Sky Summoner
• 1x The Locust God
• 1x Torrential Gearhulk
• 1x Young Pyromancer

Commander (1)

Sorcery (15)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Exhume
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Increasing Ambition
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Windfall

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Jace's Sanctum
• 1x Metallurgic Summonings
• 1x Splinter Twin

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Maybeboard

Instant (7)

• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Gush
• 1x Increasing Vengeance
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Search for Azcanta  ^Flip

Land (4)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Watery Grave

Artifact (3)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Dimir Signet

Creature (3)

• 1x Baral, Chief of Compliance
• 1x Dualcaster Mage
• 1x Goblin Electromancer

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Doomsday
• 1x Past in Flames
• 1x Toxic Deluge

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This is my personal Kess EDH. It is quite casual compared to a Tier 1 Kess, but I'm trying to make it more competitive. The Maybeboard is the more competitive cards I need but some of them I don't know what to take out.Suggestions are welcome but please no individual cards over $100. And yes I realize the mana base is pretty shaky without all the fetch, shock, and original dual lands. Just moved formats from Competitive Standard Grixis Control to Kess, so that might explains some of the jank cards.

Special Thanks to:TheDevicer

Combos:

Splinter Twin/Kiki-Jiki/Body Double + Pestermite/Deceiver Exarch/Body Double = infinte creatures with haste.

Worldgorger Dragon + Animate Dead + all colors of mana of my battlefield = Infinite mana

Infinte mana + Body Double of Locust God / Niv Mizzet = win.

This is probably obvious but should I run Counterspell over Disallow? With cost reductions it is basically Counterspell + Stifle .

I originally had the 38-12 land/ramp ratio, but with all the card draw and cutting expensive cmc cards I felt to flooded to outvalue or even to storm out 3 players.

Removals so far:1x Blue Sun's Zenith (C15)

1x Chart a Course

1x Commit / Memory (AKH)

1x Epic Experiment (C15)

1x Mind's Desire

1x Necromantic Selection

1x Opt

1x Blatant Thievery (C15)

1x Pull from Tomorrow

1x Worldgorger Dragon (EMA)

1x Disallow

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Exclude colors	WG
Key combos	Counterspell + Stifle
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 39 - 0 Rares 27 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.08
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Construct */* C, Copy Clone, Drake 2/2 U, Elemental 1/1 R, Insect 1/1 UR, Manifest 2/2 C