Kess me <3

Commander / EDH Reanimator Spellslinger UBR (Grixis)

Lmlyvie

Instant (21)

• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Epiphany at the Drownyard
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Grave Endeavor
• 1x Kolaghan's Command
• 1x Lightning Bolt
• 1x Maestros Charm
• 1x Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Otherworldly Gaze
• 1x Pyretic Ritual
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Rewind
• 1x Summary Dismissal
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Terminate
• 1x Undying Evil

Creature (18)

• 1x Angel of Suffering
• 1x Baral, Chief of Compliance
• 1x Burning-Rune Demon
• 1x Cormela, Glamour Thief
• 1x Demon of Dark Schemes
• 1x Emrakul, the Promised End
• 1x It That Betrays
• 1x Lord Xander, the Collector
• 1x Manaform Hellkite
• 1x Marchesa, the Black Rose
• 1x Mirrorhall Mimic  ^Flip
• 1x Noxious Gearhulk
• 1x Sire of Stagnation
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Torrential Gearhulk
• 1x Urabrask the Hidden
• 1x Void Winnower
• 1x Wizards of Thay

Sorcery (21)

• 1x Behold the Beyond
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Epic Experiment
• 1x Ever After
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Glimpse the Unthinkable
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Nahiri's Wrath
• 1x Persist
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1x Seize the Day
• 1x Stitch Together
• 1x Temporal Manipulation
• 1x Torrent of Souls
• 1x Twinflame
• 1x Unmarked Grave
• 1x Vandalblast

Artifact (3)

• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Primal Amulet  ^Flip
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Commander (1)

Land (36)

• 1x Blightstep Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Clearwater Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 7x Island
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Riverglide Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 9x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Tainted Peak

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Maybeboard

Creature (12)

• 1x Cavalier of Flame
• 1x Consuming Aberration
• 1x Diluvian Primordial
• 1x Docent of Perfection  ^Flip
• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1x Nicol Bolas, the Ravager  ^Flip
• 1x Oriq Loremage
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Torrent Sculptor  ^Flip
• 1x Underworld Sentinel
• 1x Void Beckoner

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Grim Discovery
• 1x Increasing Confusion
• 1x Jeska's Will
• 1x Past in Flames
• 1x Rise / Fall
• 1x Seize the Storm
• 1x Torment of Hailfire

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana, Death's Majesty

Instant (7)

• 1x Abrade
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Galvanic Iteration
• 1x Increasing Vengeance
• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Prismari Command
• 1x Seething Song

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cards that might push the budget (of my playgroups rules): Emrakul, the Promised End, Mana Drain, Void Winnower, Snapcaster Mage, Temporal Manipulation, Damnation

this is my prized possession. my Kess EDH deck.

the idea is to get extra value from my spells by being able to cast them twice, and having easy graveyard access with my commander. self mill fills up my graveyard, effectively giving card advantage. the deck has many tutors to find answers when needed, and combo pieces (no infinites).

my main wincon is reanimating big creatures that have entered my graveyard (usually through tutors like Entomb or self-milling), and getting more chances to swing with big creatures with cards like Seize the Day, Twinflame, or just Temporal Manipulation

here’s a funky interaction I’ve found that is potentially devastating and kind of a pseudo wincon: using Ghastly Mimicry   to copy Lord Xander, the Collector will active the ETB and Death trigger on each of my turns by creating a token copy, and having it die to the legend rule. this works not only with Mirrorhall Mimic  , but also with other forms of copies like Twinflame.

i don't have many mana rocks, and only Grim Discovery can pull lands from my graveyard, so i've added some spells for mana ramp like Dark Ritual and Cabal Ritual to help. the ability to cast one of these ramp spells again from your graveyard the same turn to double up on mana gained is massive. i don't run many mana rocks as artifacts are tricky for how I’ve built this deck. there are very few ways for me to pull them out of my graveyard without fully building into it properly, and the focus of this deck is on instants and sorceries.

in the "maybeboard" section of the deck i have some good value cards that are worth considering. there's a lot of cards that could have fantastic interactions that i just haven't gotten round to messing with in my version of the deck. some maybe never will. but if you're inspired to build a similar deck, I recommend you try them out.

I usually wait to bring my commander out until i have some good targets in my graveyard. occasionally, it is worth it to let your commander go to the graveyard if you know you can reanimate her with a spell from your hand for cheaper.

ok that's all thanks :)

Date added	7 years
Last updated	3 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	21 - 0 Mythic Rares 36 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.69
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone, Dragon Illusion */* R, Energy Reserve, Manifest 2/2 C