Kurkesh, Activating Ancient

Commander / EDH* Artifact Mono-Red

Igorimus

Artifact (43)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Astral Cornucopia
• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Blasting Station
• 1x Candy Trail
• 1x Clock of Omens
• 1x Codex Shredder
• 1x Dreamstone Hedron
• 1x Empowered Autogenerator
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Gemstone Array
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Gonti's Aether Heart
• 1x Grinding Station
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Liquimetal Torque
• 1x Lithoform Engine
• 1x Lux Cannon
• 1x Magistrate's Scepter
• 1x Manifold Key
• 1x Mazemind Tome
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mindslaver
• 1x Mishra's Bauble
• 1x Moonsilver Key
• 1x Myr Turbine
• 1x Oracle's Vault
• 1x Prototype Portal
• 1x Relic of Progenitus
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Sculpting Steel
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Staff of Domination
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Tamiyo's Journal
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Trading Post
• 1x Voltaic Key
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Creature (15)

• 1x Birgi, God of Storytelling  ^Flip
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Coretapper
• 1x Dross Scorpion
• 1x Foundry Inspector
• 1x Goblin Engineer
• 1x Goblin Welder
• 1x Hellkite Tyrant
• 1x Iron Myr
• 1x Jhoira's Familiar
• 1x Kuldotha Forgemaster
• 1x Lodestone Golem
• 1x Pentavus
• 1x Scrap Trawler
• 1x Slobad, Goblin Tinkerer

Instant (7)

• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Comet Storm
• 1x Deflecting Swat
• 1x Kazuul's Fury  ^Flip
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Valakut Awakening  ^Flip

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Saheeli's Directive
• 1x Trash for Treasure

Commander (1)

Land (32)

• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Desert of the Fervent
• 1x Forgotten Cave
• 1x Great Furnace
• 1x Hall of Tagsin
• 20x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Shrine of the Forsaken Gods
• 1x Smoldering Crater
• 1x Treasure Vault

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Artifact (13)

• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Chaos Wand
• 1x Decimator Web
• 1x Endless Atlas
• 1x Erratic Portal
• 1x Goblin Charbelcher
• 1x Helm of Awakening
• 1x Journeyer's Kite
• 1x Mindslaver
• 1x Mystic Forge
• 1x Ring of Three Wishes
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Transmogrifying Wand

Creature (6)

• 1x Geode Golem
• 1x Mindless Automaton
• 1x Myr Battlesphere
• 1x Scrap Trawler
• 1x Shimmer Myr
• 1x Silent Arbiter

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Pretty standard combo Kurkesh deck on a budget - artifacts with lots of fun activated abilities. Focus on winning through infinite extra turns into infinite creatures or mana. Notable combos include:

Kurkesh, Onakke Ancient + Voltaic Key + Anything that taps for 3 colored mana (or 4 colorless + Gemstone Array)= infinite mana

Pentavus + Dross Scorpion + Anything that taps for 3 mana = infinite mana

Myr Turbine + Dross Scorpion + Ashnod's Altar = infinite colorless mana.

Magistrate Scepter + Kurkesh, Onakke Ancient + any form of artifact untapping ( Voltaic Key, Manifold Key ) = infinite turns (this takes a decent amount of mana)

If you have infinite red mana, Kurkesh + Pentavus can create infinite 1/1 tokens and an infinite power/toughness creature.

A strange interaction: Strionic Resonator can copy Kurkesh's triggered ability - Kurkesh then gets another trigger, letting him copy his own ability again. This costs a total of 5 mana but you effectively get to copy an artifact's ability 4 times. Useful for extra turns or big card draw.

Prototype Portal is a beast. There are so many cards that are so powerful if you can get multiple copies of them. Gonti's Aether Heart is a huge one, but even something like a Great Furnace or Darksteel Citadel is a fantastic imprint option with effectively a free land being made every turn.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 34 - 0 Rares 31 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.94
Tokens	Clue, Copy Clone, Energy Reserve, Goat 0/1 W, Myr 1/1 C, Pentavite 1/1 C, Powerstone, Treasure
Folders	Decks Currently In Use