High Tide Brings the Storm

Commander / EDH UBR (Grixis)

Oddball55

Sorcery (23)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Bonus Round
• 1x By Force
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Grapeshot
• 1x Jeska's Will
• 1x Mana Geyser
• 1x Mind's Desire
• 1x Mystic Retrieval
• 1x Past in Flames
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Temporal Extortion
• 1x Tendrils of Agony
• 1x Time Warp
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Windfall

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Jace's Sanctum
• 1x Metallurgic Summonings
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Sunbird's Invocation
• 1x Thousand-Year Storm
• 1x Underworld Breach

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ral, Storm Conduit

Instant (20)

• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Desperate Ritual
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x High Tide
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Negate
• 1x Pyretic Ritual
• 1x Reach Through Mists
• 1x Seething Song
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Unsubstantiate

Artifact (10)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Sentinel Tower
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Creativity
• 1x Talisman of Dominance

Commander (1)

Land (33)

• 12x Island
• 3x Mountain
• 6x Swamp
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Tainted Peak
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Volcanic Island

Creature (6)

• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Goblin Electromancer
• 1x Guttersnipe
• 1x Nightscape Familiar
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Baral, Chief of Compliance

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Storm-centric Kess deck. Does contain the Demonic Consultation + Laboratory Maniac/Jace, Wielder of Mysteries combo, but the deck is mostly focused on Thousand-Year Storm and building up a high enough storm count to cast Torment of Hailfire , Blue Sun's Zenith , or an extra turn spell, to win the game using the copies of those spells. The deck does also have the infinite storm cheat code, Dramatic Reversal + Isochron Scepter . Jace, Wielder of Mysteries and Laboratory Maniac provide the secondary win-con's for the deck through Blue Sun's Zenith , Mind's Desire , or the previously mentioned Demonic Consultation combo. The deck also runs Aetherflux Reservoir and Sentinel Tower to bolt or blast people once the storm count gets high enough.

Kess is mainly used to get additional value from cantrips, build a quicker storm count, and allow the recursion of spells that have been countered or dealt with in another way. Cast a bunch of rituals/cantrips, once, twice, three times, then cast a big spell and copy it a trillion times for the win.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	2 years
Key combos	Dramatic Reversal + Isochron Scepter
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 37 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 20 - 0 Commons
Cards	101
Avg. CMC	2.68
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Construct X/X C, Treasure