Wizards pingers by AATHOM101

Format: Commander

Commander: Kess, Dissident Mage

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Kess, Dissident Mage helms a Grixis spellslinger deck that blends Wizard tribal synergies, passive burn, and compact combo finishes. The deck aims to deploy cheap pingers and trigger doublers early, transforming low-cost instants and sorceries into high-damage volleys while controlling the board. Kess acts as a recursion engine from the command zone, reusing key interaction, cantrips, and ritual mana directly from the graveyard. While chip damage from spell triggers can eliminate opponents over time, the primary win conditions stem from game-ending combos such as Niv-Mizzet, Parun paired with Curiosity or Dualcaster Mage loops with Saw in Half.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archmage of Echoes
• 1 Archmage of Runes
• 1 Basilisk Collar
• 1 Bitter Triumph
• 1 Blood for the Blood God!
• 1 Boltwave
• 1 Bria, Riptide Rogue
• 1 City of Brass
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Coruscation Mage
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Curiosity
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Deflecting Swat
• 1 Delayed Blast Fireball
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Dramatic Reversal
• 1 Dualcaster Mage
• 1 Emeritus of Ideation // Ancestral Recall
• 1 Entomb
• 1 Exalted Flamer of Tzeentch
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Expressive Iteration
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Fierce Guardianship
• 1 Flame of Anor
• 1 Gandalf the Grey
• 1 Gandalf, Goblins' Bane // Flameshape
• 1 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph
• 1 Gleeful Arsonist
• 1 Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1 Goblin Electromancer
• 1 Goblin Sharpshooter
• 1 Harmonic Prodigy
• 1 Herald's Horn
• 1 High Tide
• 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
• 10 Island
• 1 Jeska's Will
• 1 Keeper of Secrets
• 1 Kess, Dissident Mage
• 1 Kessig Flamebreather
• 1 Kitsa, Otterball Elite
• 1 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied
• 1 Lindblum, Industrial Regency // Mage Siege
• 1 Mana Drain
• 1 Mandate of Abaddon
• 1 Mistrise Village
• 7 Mountain
• 1 Multiversal Passage
• 1 Narset's Reversal
• 1 Niv-Mizzet, Parun
• 1 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Roaming Throne
• 1 Sapphire Medallion
• 1 Saw in Half
• 1 Shivan Reef
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 5 Swamp
• 1 Taurean Mauler
• 1 The Destined Black Mage
• 1 The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell
• 1 Thermo-Alchemist
• 1 Three Tree City
• 1 Thriving Moor
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Urza's Incubator
• 1 Vampiric Tutor
• 1 Vandalblast
• 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Vivi Ornitier
• 1 Vivi's Persistence
• 1 Watery Grave