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Format: Commander

Commander: Kilo, Apogee Mind

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 53

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy Jeskai artifact combo engine built around Kilo, Apogee Mind. Kilo turns every tap action into a proliferate trigger, converting tap-and-untap effects into rapid resource scaling and instant table lethality. The primary win condition combines Kilo with a mana-tapping enabler like Relic of Legends or Urza, Lord High Artificer and an untap aura such as Freed from the Real or Pemmin's Aura. Once assembled, this creates an infinite proliferate loop that instantly stacks poison counters to 10 across all opponents using Prologue to Phyresis or Skrelv, Defector Mite, or fuels lethal damage via Walking Ballista. Backed by dense artifact tutoring, robust stack interaction, and phased protection via Ripples of Potential, the list can also pivot to massive Construct beatdown with Simulacrum Synthesizer and Urza, Lord High Artificer if combo pieces are contested.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abandoned Air Temple
  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Adagia, Windswept Bastion
  • 1 Alibou, Ancient Witness
  • 1 Ancient Den
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archway of Innovation
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Aura of Dominion
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Castle Doom
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Coretapper
  • 1 Crystalline Crawler
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Darksteel Reactor
  • 1 Deepglow Skate
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delay
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Dreamtide Whale
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Experimental Augury
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Flux Channeler
  • 1 Freed from the Real
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hangarback Walker
  • 1 Inkmoth Nexus
  • 1 Insight Engine
  • 1 Inspirit, Flagship Vessel
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 1 Iron Spider, Stark Upgrade
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Kappa Cannoneer
  • 1 Kilo, Apogee Mind
  • 1 Long-Range Sensor
  • 1 Lux Cannon
  • 1 Magistrate's Scepter
  • 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Open the Armory
  • 1 Organic Extinction
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Padeem, Consul of Innovation
  • 1 Pemmin's Aura
  • 1 Plague Myr
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Pollywog Prodigy
  • 1 Prologue to Phyresis
  • 1 Raugrin Triome
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Resculpt
  • 1 Reshape
  • 1 Ripples of Potential
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scour for Scrap
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Simulacrum Synthesizer
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Skrelv, Defector Mite
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solar Array
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Steel Overseer
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 1 Surge Conductor
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus
  • 1 Tezzeret, Cruel Captain
  • 1 The Aetherspark
  • 1 The Mycosynth Gardens
  • 1 The Seriema
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Unctus, Grand Metatect
  • 1 Unstoppable Plan
  • 1 Urza, Lord High Artificer
  • 1 Uthros Research Craft
  • 1 Uthros, Titanic Godcore
  • 1 Virulent Silencer
  • 1 Vraska, Soul of Stone
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Whir of Invention