All Hands to Battle Stations by finalforteller

Format: Commander

Commander: Kilo, Apogee Mind

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

Kilo, Apogee Mind commands a Jeskai artifact deck designed to generate immense value through counter manipulation and proliferation. Early turns focus on establishing mana acceleration and charge-counter engines like Everflowing Chalice, Pentad Prism, and Insight Engine. Once Kilo enters combat, its innate haste allows an immediate attack, tapping to proliferate and rapidly compounding counters across all permanents. The deck leverages this resource accumulation into overwhelming mana with Empowered Autogenerator and substantial card advantage. In the midgame, the strategy converts counter volume into table-wide pressure through win conditions such as Lux Artillery, which deals 10 damage to each opponent each turn once thirty counters are reached, or Cyberdrive Awakener, which turns utility artifacts into an evasive flying army. Protection pieces like Ripples of Potential safeguard the board against sweepers, while Organic Extinction breaks parity to clear blockers. The result is a synergistic midrange deck that scales steadily toward an inevitable finish.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Alibou, Ancient Witness
  • 1 Ancient Den
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Astral Cornucopia
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Cloud Key
  • 1 Command Bridge
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Coretapper
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crystalline Crawler
  • 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
  • 1 Darksteel Reactor
  • 1 Depthshaker Titan
  • 1 Dispatch
  • 1 Dreamtide Whale
  • 1 Empowered Autogenerator
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Enthusiastic Mechanaut
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Experimental Augury
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Glittering Massif
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Hangarback Walker
  • 1 Insight Engine
  • 1 Inspirit, Flagship Vessel
  • 1 Irrigated Farmland
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain
  • 1 Kappa Cannoneer
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Kilo, Apogee Mind
  • 1 Lady Octopus, Inspired Inventor
  • 1 Long-Range Sensor
  • 1 Lux Artillery
  • 1 Lux Cannon
  • 1 Mindless Automaton
  • 1 Mm'menon, the Right Hand
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Moxite Refinery
  • 1 Mystic Monastery
  • 1 Nesting Grounds
  • 1 Organic Extinction
  • 1 Patrolling Peacemaker
  • 1 Pentad Prism
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Radiant Summit
  • 1 Razortide Bridge
  • 1 Resourceful Defense
  • 1 Ripples of Potential
  • 1 Rugged Prairie
  • 1 Rustvale Bridge
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Sami, Wildcat Captain
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Silverbluff Bridge
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solar Array
  • 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 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 Enlightenment
  • 1 Temple of Epiphany
  • 1 Tezzeret's Gambit
  • 1 Tezzeret, Cruel Captain
  • 1 The Mycosynth Gardens
  • 1 The Seriema
  • 1 Thirst for Knowledge
  • 1 Thought Monitor
  • 1 Threefold Thunderhulk
  • 1 Thrummingbird
  • 1 Universal Surveillance
  • 1 Unstoppable Plan
  • 1 Uthros Research Craft
  • 1 Wake the Past