Counter Intelligence Precon Upgrade by BuyDatBed

Format: Commander

Commander: Kilo, Apogee Mind

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is a Jeskai artifact engine built around Kilo, Apogee Mind, leveraging its haste and tap-triggered proliferate ability to rapidly scale counters across the battlefield. The strategy combines charge counter artifacts, +1/+1 counters, and poison counters to apply simultaneous pressure. Early turns focus on establishing mana velocity through low-cost mana rocks and artifact cost-reducers. Once Kilo enters on Turn 3 or 4, it immediately begins proliferating by attacking, stationing Spacecraft, or tapping to utility cards like Relic of Legends. Midgame threats like Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus and All Will Be One quickly turn counter generation into an aggressive clock. The deck maintains stability using efficient spot removal and asymmetric sweepers like Organic Extinction that spare its own artifact army. If disrupted, alternate win conditions such as Cyberdrive Awakener animate noncreature artifacts into flying attackers to close out games.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 All Will Be One
  • 1 Ancient Den
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage's Charm
  • 1 Aura of Dominion
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Clock of Omens
  • 1 Cloud Key
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curse of the Swine
  • 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
  • 1 Darksteel Reactor
  • 1 Depthshaker Titan
  • 1 Dispatch
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Enthusiastic Mechanaut
  • 1 Etched Oracle
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Experimental Augury
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Fumigate
  • 1 Gavel of the Righteous
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Glittering Massif
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hangarback Walker
  • 1 Insight Engine
  • 1 Inspirit, Flagship Vessel
  • 1 Invert Polarity
  • 1 Irrigated Farmland
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain
  • 1 Kappa Cannoneer
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Kilo, Apogee Mind
  • 1 Long-Range Sensor
  • 1 Lux Artillery
  • 1 Lux Cannon
  • 1 Mm'menon, the Right Hand
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Monastery
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Organic Extinction
  • 1 Paradise Mantle
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Patrolling Peacemaker
  • 1 Pemmin's Aura
  • 1 Pentad Prism
  • 1 Plague Myr
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Prologue to Phyresis
  • 1 Pull from Tomorrow
  • 1 Radiant Summit
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Resourceful Defense
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Shimmer Myr
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solar Array
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Steel Overseer
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Surge Conductor
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus
  • 1 Temple of Epiphany
  • 1 Temple of Triumph
  • 1 Tezzeret's Gambit
  • 1 The Eternity Elevator
  • 1 The Mycosynth Gardens
  • 1 The Seriema
  • 1 Threefold Thunderhulk
  • 1 Thrummingbird
  • 1 Titan Forge
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Uthros Research Craft
  • 1 Virulent Silencer
  • 1 Walking Ballista