UPDATE V2 Spellslinger Grixis | Kess | MC by KaptajnClausen

Format: Commander

Commander: Kess, Dissident Mage

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This Grixis spellslinger deck leverages Kess, Dissident Mage alongside a dense package of low-cost pingers to pressure opponent life totals. Rather than relying on artifact mana rocks, the deck utilizes land drops, cost reducers, and burst rituals to fuel rapid sequences of cheap cantrips. The primary strategy focuses on deploying pingers such as Firebrand Archer and Coruscation Mage early, using Kess, Dissident Mage to recur card draw and removal from the graveyard. In the mid-game, the deck lands a decisive multiplier like Veyran, Voice of Duality, Twinflame Tyrant, or Thousand-Year Storm. On Turn 7, the pilot converts untap mana and rituals into an extended chain of spells, triggering massive noncreature burn to eliminate all three opponents simultaneously. The list features strong instant-speed interaction but remains vulnerable to creature sweepers due to its reliance on fragile board-based damage engines.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Archmage of Runes
  • 1 Black Waltz No. 3
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bloodsoaked Insight // Sanguine Morass
  • 1 Boltwave
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Choreographed Sparks
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dictate of the Twin Gods
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Electrostatic Field
  • 1 Exhibition Tidecaller
  • 1 Expressive Iteration
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fiery Confluence
  • 1 Firebrand Archer
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Gandalf, Goblins' Bane // Flameshape
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Goblin Electromancer
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Harmonic Prodigy
  • 1 Improvisation Capstone
  • 1 Increasing Vengeance
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Izzet Charm
  • 1 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur
  • 1 Kess, Dissident Mage
  • 1 Kessig Flamebreather
  • 1 Lier, Disciple of the Drowned
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Mizzix's Mastery
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Prismari Charm
  • 1 Prismari Command
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Scorched Geyser
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Sleight of Hand
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Stormcatch Mentor
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Thousand-Year Storm
  • 1 Three Steps Ahead
  • 1 Turbulent Springs
  • 1 Twinflame Tyrant
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive