Counter Inteligence by Tooltime

Format: Commander

Commander: Kilo, Apogee Mind

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is a Jeskai artifact engine built around Kilo, Apogee Mind. The strategy revolves around deploying artifacts that enter with charge counters or +1/+1 counters, then repeatedly tapping Kilo to proliferate those counters across the entire board. Because Kilo has haste, it immediately triggers upon attacking or tapping for abilities such as Crew, Station, or Improvise. This acceleration compounds mana through Everflowing Chalice and Astral Cornucopia, fuels card draw via Insight Engine and Danny Pink, and grows an army of artifact creatures. The deck converts its massive counter presence into victory using lethal burst damage from All Will Be One, sudden flying overruns with Cyberdrive Awakener, or direct burn with Lux Artillery and Walking Ballista. Supported by premium Jeskai interaction and free protection spells, the deck establishes overwhelming board value and closes games reliably.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Alibou, Ancient Witness
  • 1 All Will Be One
  • 1 Ancient Den
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Astral Cornucopia
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chrome Host Seedshark
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Clock of Omens
  • 1 Cloud Key
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crystalline Crawler
  • 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
  • 1 Danny Pink
  • 1 Darksteel Reactor
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Depthshaker Titan
  • 1 Dispatch
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Enthusiastic Mechanaut
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Experimental Augury
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Glittering Massif
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hangarback Walker
  • 1 Insight Engine
  • 1 Inspirit, Flagship Vessel
  • 1 Inti, Seneschal of the Sun
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 1 Irrigated Farmland
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain
  • 1 Kappa Cannoneer
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Kilo, Apogee Mind
  • 1 Luminarch Aspirant
  • 1 Lux Artillery
  • 1 Mindless Automaton
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Monastery
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Organic Extinction
  • 1 Pentad Prism
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Radiant Summit
  • 1 Razortide Bridge
  • 1 Recon Craft Theta
  • 1 Requisition Raid
  • 1 Resourceful Defense
  • 1 Ripples of Potential
  • 1 Rugged Prairie
  • 1 Rustvale Bridge
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Secluded Steppe
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Silverbluff Bridge
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 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 Tezzeret the Seeker
  • 1 Tezzeret's Gambit
  • 1 The Mycosynth Gardens
  • 1 Thirst for Knowledge
  • 1 Thought Monitor
  • 1 Threefold Thunderhulk
  • 1 Thrummingbird
  • 1 Universal Surveillance
  • 1 Virtue of Loyalty // Ardenvale Fealty
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Whir of Invention