Artifact Poison by loganparker6424

Format: Commander

Commander: Kilo, Apogee Mind

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This Jeskai deck is an artifact-centric midrange engine helmed by Kilo, Apogee Mind. The strategy revolves around leveraging Kilo's innate haste and tap-triggered proliferate ability alongside innovative Spacecraft stationing mechanics and charge counter engines. In the early game, the deck establishes artifact mana acceleration and seeds initial counters using utility artifacts, poison enablers, and Spacecraft. Once Kilo enters on Turn 4, every tap action—whether through combat, stationing vessels like Inspirit, Flagship Vessel and Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought, or tapping for mana—proliferates counters across the board. The deck quickly scales into an overwhelming mid-to-late game threat by converting charge counters into massive card draw via Insight Engine, rendering its board indestructible with Inspirit, burning the table with Lux Artillery, or eliminating opponents through rapid poison proliferation and Cyberdrive Awakener overruns. Robust defensive taxation and high-efficiency interaction protect the board while the engine closes the game.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Agatha's Soul Cauldron
  • 1 Ancient Den
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Aura of Dominion
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Blighted Agent
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crawlspace
  • 1 Cryptic Trilobite
  • 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
  • 1 Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought
  • 1 Deepglow Skate
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Dispatch
  • 1 Dreamtide Whale
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Enthusiastic Mechanaut
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Experimental Augury
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flux Channeler
  • 1 Freed from the Real
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Harmonized Trio // Brainstorm
  • 1 Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway
  • 1 Inkmoth Nexus
  • 1 Insight Engine
  • 1 Inspirit, Flagship Vessel
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jeskai Ascendancy
  • 1 Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Kilo, Apogee Mind
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Lumen-Class Frigate
  • 1 Lux Artillery
  • 1 Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel
  • 1 March of Swirling Mist
  • 1 Misdirection
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Myr Retriever
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Mystic Monastery
  • 1 Nesting Grounds
  • 1 Organic Extinction
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Patrolling Peacemaker
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Prismari Command
  • 1 Prologue to Phyresis
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Raugrin Triome
  • 1 Razortide Bridge
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Resourceful Defense
  • 1 Ripples of Potential
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Scour for Scrap
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Skrelv, Defector Mite
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solar Array
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Surge Conductor
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus
  • 1 Tezzeret's Gambit
  • 1 Tezzeret, Cruel Captain
  • 1 The Mycosynth Gardens
  • 1 Thraben Charm
  • 1 Thrummingbird
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Uthros Research Craft
  • 1 Uthros, Titanic Godcore
  • 1 Viral Drake
  • 1 Virulent Silencer
  • 1 Vivi Ornitier
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Warmaker Gunship