Kess Slings Spells Twice

Commander / EDH* UBR (Grixis)

Hatterini

Instant (23)

• 1x Ancient Excavation *list*
• 1x Cast Down
• 1x Circular Logic
• 1x Countervailing Winds
• 1x Dark Bargain
• 1x Dazzling Lights
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Fervent Strike
• 1x Forbidden Alchemy
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Izzet Charm
• 1x Magma Spray
• 1x Mission Briefing
• 1x Nahiri's Stoneblades
• 1x Rakshasa's Disdain
• 1x Run Amok
• 1x Samut's Sprint
• 1x Twisted Reflection
• 1x Tyrant's Scorn
• 1x Unexplained Disappearance
• 1x Unsummon
• 1x Vicious Offering
• 1x Wizard's Lightning

Artifact (8)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Dimir Locket
• 1x Firemind Vessel
• 1x Izzet Locket
• 1x Rakdos Locket
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Traveler's Amulet
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Creature (18)

• 1x Adeliz, the Cinder Wind
• 1x Book Devourer
• 1x Burning Prophet
• 1x Crackling Drake
• 1x Dreadhorde Arcanist
• 1x Enigma Drake
• 1x Firebrand Archer
• 1x Ghitu Lavarunner
• 1x Goblin Electromancer
• 1x Guttersnipe
• 1x League Guildmage
• 1x Murmuring Mystic
• 1x Naru Meha, Master Wizard
• 1x Spellheart Chimera
• 1x Spellkeeper Weird
• 1x Talrand, Sky Summoner
• 1x Vodalian Arcanist
• 1x Young Pyromancer

Land (34)

• 1x Cinder Barrens
• 1x Crypt of the Eternals
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Gateway Plaza
• 11x Island
• 1x Izzet Guildgate
• 7x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Rakdos Guildgate
• 1x Submerged Boneyard
• 5x Swamp
• 1x Swiftwater Cliffs
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Commander (1)

Sorcery (15)

• 1x Bontu's Last Reckoning
• 1x Cathartic Reunion
• 1x Cruel Ultimatum
• 1x Empty the Warrens
• 1x Enter the God-Eternals
• 1x Final Parting
• 1x Finale of Promise
• 1x Ghostform
• 1x Grapeshot
• 1x Incendiary Flow
• 1x Invade the City
• 1x Strategic Planning
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Walk the Plank
• 1x Weight of Memory

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Experimental Frenzy

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The Goal

Fuel up our graveyard with mill effects and get a highly flexible available spell pool to hit our opponents with a crazy amount of removal, burn, etc, as well as build up board states through the sheer activity of casting spells.

Rock Out

• Traveler's Amulet and Wayfarer's Bauble for fetching.
• Rakdos Locket , Izzet Locket , and Dimir Locket for ramp/fix and potential draw if needed.
• Firemind Vessel and Thran Dynamo for bulk mana.
• Vodalian Arcanist because he's a blue dork.
• Chromatic Lantern for supreme fixing.

Cast Value

• Talrand, Sky Summoner , Young Pyromancer , Murmuring Mystic all generate tokens on casts.
• Firebrand Archer , Guttersnipe burn opponents on casts (really adds up quick).
• Naru Meha, Master Wizard and League Guildmage can copy spells on the stack.
• Goblin Electromancer reduces costs.
• Burning Prophet lets us dig through the chaff on a cast (part of dig strat as well).
• Adeliz, the Cinder Wind gives wizards communal prowess.
• Empty the Warrens because what's better than storming off a bunch of cheap crap and getting a ton of goblins.

Graveyard Value

• Ghitu Lavarunner gets a buff if 2+ instants/sorceries are in the grave (there will be).
• Crackling Drake , Spellheart Chimera , Enigma Drake all as big as your instants/sorceries in grave.

Digging

• Ancient Excavation can mana fix or dig as deep as our current hand size, whatever is necessary.
• Book Devourer is Ancient Excavation on a body and repeatable.
• Izzet Charm covers a lot of spots, but its most valuable aspect is the ability to Loot 2. Can use it as a bad counterspell if needed, or as removal if needed (please don't when you can avoid it).
• In this deck Final Parting effectively lets us tutor 2.
• Fact or Fiction because no matter the split it has very little effect on us.
• Experimental Frenzy means we don't care about our hand anymore and can just get card advantage off the top.
• Cathartic Reunion , Dark Bargain , Strategic Planning , Forbidden Alchemy , Weight of Memory all let us draw as well as mill fuel into the graveyard.

Buffs/Debuffs

• Fervent Strike , Nahiri's Stoneblades , Run Amok , Samut's Sprint are buffs. Go figure.
• Ghostform is temporary evasion, good for a big attack.
• Dazzling Lights gives us a bit of dig tacked onto a debuff that can save a creature or keep yourself alive a bit longer.

Build An Army

• Invade the City can make a massive army right off the bat.
• Enter the God-Eternals does it all: removal, self-mill, life gain, and army building.

Removal

• I'm gonna lump everything that just kills single targets together for this first one: Magma Spray , Twisted Reflection , Wizard's Lightning , Incendiary Flow , Vicious Offering , Walk the Plank (can sideboard for something like Fatal Push when dealing with merfolk tribal), Cast Down .
• Unsummon and Unexplained Disappearance will bounce.
• Tyrant's Scorn can do either of the previous two categories.
• Bontu's Last Reckoning to board wipe. I suggest only using this when you need to, as it exerts your lands. If you wanna risk putting in a high cost card, sub for In Garruk's Wake .
• Grapeshot has huge storm potential and can kill a bunch of small guys or a few big guys, or even just hit an opponent in the face repeatedly.
• Torment of Hailfire has board wipe potential, and if you aren't board wiping you can really drain out your opponents. Pay 6 or 7 on this and the other players will sweat.
• Cruel Ultimatum basically siphons resources from an opponent. Great at setting a confident player back a couple steps.

Recast

In order to support Kess' recast ability, we've got a few extra recast sources.

• Mission Briefing lets us dig and gives us what is effectively one more Kess cast for the turn.
• Spellkeeper Weird is a pretty decent wall, but it can also help us recur a spell without necessarily losing it to exile.
• Dreadhorde Arcanist plays well with the buffs from earlier and lets us recur a spell when swinging for free, any spell equal to or less than its power. You could even do something like buff it with Run Amok , twice.
• Finale of Promise is game-endingly powerful, a card which if you happen to have some protection for your spells ready to go (read: 15 mana up), you can cast crazy big and powerful spells, twice each, and just game whoever you want. Works great with the Amass cards, Cruel Ultimatum, removal spells, buffs, etc.

Literally just counterspells

• you have four counterspell slots. Run whatever you want. Graveyard checking counterspells are pretty decent in this deck which is why I run them, they come in the form of Countervailing Winds , Circular Logic , and Rakshasa's Disdain . I also run Force of Negation because it can let us queue other fuel into our graveyard, and it's cheap AF as well as a result. Really though, as long as you run 4 counterspells, you effectively get 8 (4 for other players turns, 4 to protect your turns).

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Exclude colors	WG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 10 - 0 Rares 27 - 0 Uncommons 35 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.77
Tokens	Bird Illusion 1/1 U, Drake 2/2 U, Elemental 1/1 R, Goblin 1/1 R, Zombie Army 0/0 B