Kilo by Vahhs

Format: Commander

Commander: Kilo, Apogee Mind

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is a Jeskai artifact synergy list centered on Kilo, Apogee Mind. Kilo turns every tap action into an immediate proliferate trigger, accelerating permanents that use charge counters, +1/+1 counters, and loyalty counters. The early game establishes cost-reducers and modular mana rocks like Astral Cornucopia and Empowered Autogenerator. Once Kilo begins attacking, these rocks rapidly scale into massive mana engines that fund high-cost historic payoffs. In the midgame, the deck converts counter volume into table-wide advantage through card draw from Insight Engine and token generation from Titan Forge. The deck closes games around Turn 8 by turning counters directly into damage with All Will Be One and Lux Artillery, or by overrunning opponents with an army of animated 4/4 fliers via Cyberdrive Awakener. While the lack of tutors means it relies on raw card velocity, the high density of overlapping artifact payoffs ensures a resilient, compounding board state.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Alibou, Ancient Witness
  • 1 All Will Be One
  • 1 Ancient Den
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Astral Cornucopia
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Clock of Omens
  • 1 Cloud Key
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crystalline Crawler
  • 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
  • 1 Darksteel Reactor
  • 1 Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought
  • 1 Deepglow Skate
  • 1 Depthshaker Titan
  • 1 Dispatch
  • 1 Empowered Autogenerator
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Enthusiastic Mechanaut
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Experimental Augury
  • 1 Freed from the Real
  • 1 Fumigate
  • 1 Gavel of the Righteous
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Glittering Massif
  • 1 Golem Foundry
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Insight Engine
  • 1 Inspirit, Flagship Vessel
  • 1 Irrigated Farmland
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain
  • 1 Kappa Cannoneer
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Kilo, Apogee Mind
  • 1 Long-Range Sensor
  • 1 Lux Artillery
  • 1 Lux Cannon
  • 1 Magistrate's Scepter
  • 1 Mindless Automaton
  • 1 Mm'menon, Uthros Exile
  • 1 Mm'menon, the Right Hand
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Moxite Refinery
  • 1 Mystic Monastery
  • 1 Organic Extinction
  • 1 Patrolling Peacemaker
  • 1 Pentad Prism
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Radiant Summit
  • 1 Razortide Bridge
  • 1 Resourceful Defense
  • 1 Ripples of Potential
  • 1 Rugged Prairie
  • 1 Rustvale Bridge
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Silverbluff Bridge
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solar Array
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Steel Overseer
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Surge Conductor
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Temple of Epiphany
  • 1 Temple of Triumph
  • 1 Tezzeret's Gambit
  • 1 The Mycosynth Gardens
  • 1 Thirst for Knowledge
  • 1 Thought Monitor
  • 1 Thrummingbird
  • 1 Titan Forge
  • 1 Universal Surveillance
  • 1 Unwinding Clock
  • 1 Urza, Lord High Artificer
  • 1 Uthros Research Craft
  • 1 Virulent Silencer
  • 1 Wake the Past
  • 1 Walking Ballista