Kilo by ClemFandango

Format: Commander

Creator: ClemFandango

Commander: Kilo, Apogee Mind

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This deck is a Jeskai artifact midrange engine commanded by Kilo, Apogee Mind. It blends classic artifact acceleration with aggressive counter proliferation. Early turns focus on establishing scalable mana rocks such as Astral Cornucopia, Everflowing Chalice, and Pentad Prism, which generate compounding mana advantages when proliferated by Kilo's attack trigger. Mid-game turns leverage this surge of mana to deploy substantial counter payoffs like Insight Engine, Lux Cannon, and Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus, rapidly overwhelming opponents in resources. The deck converts this advantage into victory around turn 6 to 8 by animating its noncreature artifacts into lethal airborne armies using Cyberdrive Awakener, granting team-wide haste and melee via Depthshaker Titan, or burning the table down with Lux Artillery. While vulnerable to mass artifact sweepers and possessing limited countermagic, it maintains strong recovery potential through mass recursion spells like Wake the Past and robust modularity.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Alibou, Ancient Witness
  • 1 Ancient Den
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archway of Innovation
  • 1 Astral Cornucopia
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Cayth, Famed Mechanist
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Cloud Key
  • 1 Command Bridge
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Coretapper
  • 1 Crystalline Crawler
  • 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
  • 1 Darksteel Reactor
  • 1 Deepglow Skate
  • 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 Extinguisher Battleship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 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 Lonely Sandbar
  • 1 Long-Range Sensor
  • 1 Lux Artillery
  • 1 Lux Cannon
  • 1 Metastatic Evangel
  • 1 Mm'menon, Uthros Exile
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Moxite Refinery
  • 1 Organic Extinction
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pentad Prism
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Prologue to Phyresis
  • 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 Scour for Scrap
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Silverbluff Bridge
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solar Array
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Steel Overseer
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Surge Conductor
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus
  • 1 Tezzeret's Gambit
  • 1 The Mycosynth Gardens
  • 1 Thirst for Knowledge
  • 1 Thought Monitor
  • 1 Threefold Thunderhulk
  • 1 Thrummingbird
  • 1 Titan Forge
  • 1 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man
  • 1 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence
  • 1 Uthros Research Craft
  • 1 Uthros, Titanic Godcore
  • 1 Virulent Silencer
  • 1 Wake the Past