adventure time by Dahmerst

Format: Commander

Commander: Kess, Dissident Mage

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis Spellslinger engine helmed by Kess, Dissident Mage that blends traditional spell-velocity payoffs with the Adventure mechanic. The early game establishes acceleration through 2-mana mana rocks and cost reducers such as Goblin Electromancer and Stormcatch Mentor, while cantrips and Adventure spells fill the graveyard with versatile utility. By Turn 4, Kess provides continuous card advantage by recasting instants and sorceries directly from the graveyard. The mid-game leverages powerful Magecraft engines like Storm-Kiln Artist, Archmage Emeritus, and Sedgemoor Witch, alongside Adventure doublers like Lucky Clover and Chancellor of Tales. The deck reaches its critical onset on Turn 6, leveraging Thousand-Year Storm or massive mana bursts from Jeska's Will to generate an insurmountable board of flying Dragon tokens from Manaform Hellkite, drain opponents via Black Waltz No. 3 and Gandalf, Goblins' Bane, and close the game on Turn 7 behind an overloaded Cyclonic Rift.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Black Waltz No. 3
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bonecrusher Giant // Stomp
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Brazen Borrower // Petty Theft
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Chancellor of Tales
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Decadent Dragon // Expensive Taste
  • 1 Displace
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Embereth Shieldbreaker // Battle Display
  • 1 Essence Flux
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Foulmire Knight // Profane Insight
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gandalf, Goblins' Bane // Flameshape
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Goblin Electromancer
  • 1 Hearth Elemental // Stoke Genius
  • 1 Horned Loch-Whale // Lagoon Breach
  • 1 Hypnotic Sprite // Mesmeric Glare
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Kess, Dissident Mage
  • 1 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied
  • 1 Lier, Disciple of the Drowned
  • 1 Liquimetal Torque
  • 1 Lucky Clover
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Maestros Theater
  • 1 Manaform Hellkite
  • 1 Merfolk Secretkeeper // Venture Deeper
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Murderous Rider // Swift End
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 Order of Midnight // Alter Fate
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Picklock Prankster // Free the Fae
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Profane Tutor
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rush of Inspiration // Crackling Falls
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scalding Viper // Steam Clean
  • 1 Secrets of the Dead
  • 1 Sedgemoor Witch
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellscorn Coven // Take It Back
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Stormcatch Mentor
  • 1 Storyteller Pixie
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Third Path Iconoclast
  • 1 Thought Scour
  • 1 Thousand-Year Storm
  • 1 Thunderclap Drake
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Virtue of Courage // Embereth Blaze
  • 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Xander's Lounge