Grixis Storm by user3028006

Format: Commander

Commander: Kess, Dissident Mage

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 53

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Grixis Spellslinger Storm build piloted by Kess, Dissident Mage. The strategy focuses on accelerating through the early turns with fast mana artifacts and rituals, filtering draws using efficient cantrips, and establishing sustained card velocity with engines like Archmage Emeritus, Rhystic Study, and The One Ring. Once mana efficiency is achieved, the deck strings together multiple low-cost instants and sorceries, doubling its effective spell count by casting key pieces directly from the graveyard via Kess. The deck decisively closes games in a single turn using storm payoffs, primarily Aetherflux Reservoir laser bursts, heavy Tendrils of Agony copies, or cascading free spells through Mind's Desire. Strong free interaction spells like Fierce Guardianship and Deflecting Swat ensure the combo turn is well protected against opposing disruption.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Bilbo, Thief in the Night
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Electro, Assaulting Battery
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flashback
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Geist of Saint Thalia
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Into the Flood Maw
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Kess, Dissident Mage
  • 1 Kitsa, Otterball Elite
  • 1 Lutri, the Spellchaser
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mind's Desire
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Paradise Mantle
  • 1 Past in Flames
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Plaza of Heroes
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Prismatic Lens
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Retraction Helix
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Snow-Covered Island
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Springleaf Drum
  • 1 Storm the Vault // Vault of Catlacan
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormcatch Mentor
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Tendrils of Agony
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Reality Chip
  • 1 Theorix Charm
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tormod's Crypt
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Urabrask // The Great Work
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Valki, God of Lies // Tibalt, Cosmic Impostor
  • 1 Valley Floodcaller
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Volcanic Island