Kess High Doom // Storm

Commander / EDH Combo Competitive Control UBR (Grixis)

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Instant (31)

• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Delay
• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Gush
• 1x High Tide
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Intuition
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Opt
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Predict
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Snap
• 1x Spell Pierce
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Thought Scour
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Winds of Rebuke

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Copy Artifact
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Necropotence

Land (28)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 10x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Artifact (15)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence
• 1x Voltaic Key

Commander (1)

Sorcery (17)

• 1x Chart a Course
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Doomsday
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Praetor's Grasp
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Unearth
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Windfall
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Creature (4)

• 1x Baral, Chief of Compliance
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Street Wraith

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Dack Fayden

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Maybeboard

Artifact (2)

• 1x Lion's Eye Diamond
• 1x Mox Diamond

Land (1)

• 1x Marsh Flats

Instant (2)

• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Mana Drain

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Imperial Seal

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Based on what I have in paper. Although this deck does not have a consistent early win at T3 or earlier, this deck is optimize to win at earliest T5-T6.

Doomsday is the primary Win-Con for this deck. These doomsday primer is the reference when building this deck The EDH Doomsday Primer, Dr. Meandeck,

Win-Con / Doomsday Budget Piles

Wincons

• Doomsday
  
• Isochron Scepter + Dramatic Reversal + Aetherflux Reservoir = Infinite Storm, Mana, Life
  
• Isochron Scepter + Dramatic Reversal + Copy Artifact + Swan Song
• Laboratory Maniac + Demonic Consultation
  

Doomsday Piles

Opener: Thought Scour + Kess, Dissident Mage in play
Cost:
Laboratory Maniac
Gush
Lotus Petal
Unearth
Gush

Opener: Cantrip Draw 1
Cost: 3 Lands (2 Island) + + 2 Life
Gush
Laboratory Maniac
Frantic Search
Unearth
Street Wraith

Opener: Cantrip Draw 1
Cost: Cantrip + + 4 Life
Predict
Laboratory Maniac
Gitaxian Probe
Unearth
Street Wraith

Opener: Cantrip Draw 1
Cost: Cantrip + + 2 Life
Meditate
Pact of Negation
Mana Crypt
Street Wraith
Laboratory Maniac
Opener: Cantrip Draw 2
Cost: Cantrip + + 2 Life
Predict
Lotus Petal
Laboratory Maniac
Unearth
Gitaxian Probe

Intuition Piles

We'd Like To End the Game Now, Is That OK? Tier:
- Yawgmoth's Will, Doomsday, Gitaxian Probe - Demonic Consultation, Laboratory Maniac, Unearth

Our Opponent Has Cast Flash, Can I Have a Counter? Tier:
- Ad Nauseam, Yawgmoth's Will, Force of Will

I Don't Have The Mana To Win Tier, Can I Have 28 Cards Please?:
- Demonic Tutor, Vampiric Tutor, Wheel of Fortune (go get yourself a Notion Thief!)

Credits for intuition piles go to Dr. Meandeck

Date added	6 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 36 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 21 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	1.90
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Emblem Dack Fayden
Folders	Helpful Decks