Kess me <3 by Larry_Fisherman

Format: Commander

Commander: Kess, Dissident Mage

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Grixis spellslinger deck helmed by Kess, Dissident Mage. The primary game plan is to fill the graveyard with cheap instants and sorceries, then abuse Kess's once-per-turn flashback to generate overwhelming card advantage. The deck creates a horde of tokens via Young Pyromancer, Talrand, Sky Summoner, and Third Path Iconoclast while digging for a finisher. The win conditions are explosive: a massive Torment of Hailfire, Exsanguinate, or a Bolas's Citadel activation that drains the table. Rituals like Dark Ritual and Cabal Ritual accelerate the mana needed for these X-spells. The deck is a value engine that grinds out advantage before pivoting to a sudden, mana-intensive kill.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Petition
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Docent of Perfection // Final Iteration
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dreadhorde Arcanist
  • 1 Dress Down
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Expressive Iteration
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Flame of Anor
  • 1 Flashback
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jace, Vryn's Prodigy // Jace, Telepath Unbound
  • 1 Jori En, Ruin Diver
  • 1 Kess, Dissident Mage
  • 1 Kiora, the Rising Tide
  • 1 Kolaghan's Command
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Maestros Ascendancy
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Manaform Hellkite
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Rite of the Dragoncaller
  • 1 Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway
  • 1 Riverpyre Verge
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sedgemoor Witch
  • 1 See the Truth
  • 1 Serum Visions
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Snapcaster Mage
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spikefield Hazard // Spikefield Cave
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Strix Serenade
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Reality Chip
  • 1 Third Path Iconoclast
  • 1 Thundering Falls
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Urabrask // The Great Work
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Xander's Lounge
  • 1 Young Pyromancer