Grixxis casse terrains by Khamar

Format: Commander

Commander: Kess, Dissident Mage

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This Grixis control deck uses Kess, Dissident Mage to run a targeted land destruction and spellslinger strategy. The early game focuses on deploying two-mana rocks and cost reducers like Baral, Chief of Compliance to enable rapid spellcasting. In the mid-game, the deck casts pinpoint land destruction spells such as Stone Rain, Sinkhole, and Molten Rain, using Kess to flash them back from the graveyard to keep the primary threat at the table off balance. Meanwhile, low-cost cantrips fill the graveyard to power up evasive finishers including Crackling Drake, Enigma Drake, Spellheart Chimera, and Murktide Regent. The deck closes games through aerial combat over several combat steps while holding up interaction like Drown in the Loch and Terminate to disrupt opposing plays.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abrade
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Army Ants
• 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
• 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Boom // Bust
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Calculated Dismissal
• 1 Caldera Pyremaw
• 1 Cascade Bluffs
• 1 Choking Sands
• 1 Chromatic Lantern
• 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Convolute
• 1 Crackling Drake
• 1 Crumbling Necropolis
• 1 Damnation
• 1 Despoil
• 1 Diabolic Edict
• 1 Dimir Signet
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Drown in the Loch
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Enigma Drake
• 1 Foreboding Ruins
• 1 Goblin Electromancer
• 1 Graven Cairns
• 1 Haughty Djinn
• 1 Icequake
• 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1 Impulse
• 1 Incinerate
• 4 Island
• 1 Izzet Signet
• 1 Kess, Dissident Mage
• 1 Kolaghan's Command
• 1 Lava Blister
• 1 Lightning Bolt
• 1 Mana Leak
• 1 Mizzix of the Izmagnus
• 1 Molten Rain
• 4 Mountain
• 1 Murktide Regent
• 1 Negate
• 1 Ominous Seas
• 1 Pillage
• 1 Plunder
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Portent
• 1 Power Sink
• 1 Preordain
• 1 Prismari Command
• 1 Rain of Tears
• 1 Rakdos Charm
• 1 Rakdos Signet
• 1 Rancid Earth
• 1 Raze
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 1 Rethink
• 1 River's Rebuke
• 1 Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway
• 1 Roiling Terrain
• 1 Scalding Tarn
• 1 Secrets of the Dead
• 1 Seismic Spike
• 1 Serum Visions
• 1 Shivan Reef
• 1 Sinkhole
• 1 Spell Pierce
• 1 Spellheart Chimera
• 1 Star of Extinction
• 1 Steam Vents
• 1 Stensia Bloodhall
• 1 Stingerquill Charm
• 1 Stone Rain
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 1 Sunken Ruins
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Tainted Isle
• 1 Tainted Peak
• 1 Terminate
• 1 Theorix Charm
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1 Wash Away
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Wrecking Ball