kess in wheelchair B3 by Masterbenson

Format: Commander

Commander: Kess, Dissident Mage

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Grixis reanimator and control list led by Kess, Dissident Mage. It focuses on stocking the graveyard with game-ending creatures and using low-cost reanimation spells to deploy them far ahead of curve. In parallel, it leverages symmetry-breaking wheel effects alongside Narset, Parter of Veils, Notion Thief, and Sheoldred, the Apocalypse to strip opponent resources and drain life totals. Kess provides sustained late-game resilience by casting key instants and sorceries directly from the graveyard once each turn. The deck combines efficient removal, free interaction spells, and massive attrition engines like Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant and Toxrill, the Corrosive to lock down the board before winning through combat and wheel burn by turn 6.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Ancient Excavation
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Brain Freeze
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Burning-Rune Demon
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Clear the Mind
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dark Deal
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Dowsing Dagger // Lost Vale
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exhibition Tidecaller
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Geist of Saint Thalia
  • 1 Glimpse the Unthinkable
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Horizon of Progress
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Incarnation Technique
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Jace's Archivist
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
  • 1 Kess, Dissident Mage
  • 1 Ledger Shredder
  • 1 Likeness Looter
  • 1 Magus of the Wheel
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring
  • 1 Prismari, the Inspiration
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reforge the Soul
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 The Warring Triad
  • 1 Thundering Falls
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Uncover the Moon-Letters
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Whispering Madness
  • 1 Will of the Abzan
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Xander's Lounge