Stuns a lot by user3767420

Format: Commander

Commander: Kess, Dissident Mage

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis Spellslinger Control list centered on Kess, Dissident Mage. It merges classic spell recursion with a dedicated stun-counter and aura-based suppression package. The deck controls the board by stripping opposing creatures of their abilities with cards like Witness Protection and Amphibian Downpour, tapping down key threats, and multiplying stun counters through proliferate engines such as Flux Channeler, Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus, and Inexorable Tide. Fear of Sleep Paralysis creates a near-permanent tap lock on affected creatures. As the table's offensive options dwindle, the deck leverages Kess, Dissident Mage to recast cantrips, interaction, and burn spells. It closes out games using incremental burn from Guttersnipe and Caldera Pyremaw, flying token swarms from Talrand, Sky Summoner, or a scaling Exsanguinate. While the control suite is resilient and asymmetric, the deck's closing speed is gradual and depends on keeping key creatures alive across several turn cycles.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abrade
• 1 Amphibian Downpour
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archmage Emeritus
• 1 Azure Beastbinder
• 1 Big Score
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Caldera Pyremaw
• 1 Cascade Bluffs
• 1 Chandra, Chill of Compliance
• 1 Choked Estuary
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Contentious Plan
• 1 Cormela, Glamour Thief
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Crumbling Necropolis
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Dreamtide Whale
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Dualcaster Mage
• 1 Duskmourn's Domination
• 1 Eaten by Piranhas
• 1 Experimental Augury
• 1 Exsanguinate
• 1 Fear of Sleep Paralysis
• 1 Floodpits Drowner
• 1 Flux Channeler
• 1 Frantic Search
• 1 Fresh Start
• 1 Frostboil Snarl
• 1 Goblin Electromancer
• 1 Grappling Kraken
• 1 Guttersnipe
• 1 Haunted Ridge
• 1 Hymn to Tourach
• 1 Impede Momentum
• 1 Increasing Vengeance
• 1 Inexorable Tide
• 10 Island
• 1 Kaito, Bane of Nightmares
• 1 Karn's Bastion
• 1 Kess, Dissident Mage
• 1 Let the Galaxy Burn
• 1 Liliana Vess
• 1 Lulu, Stern Guardian
• 5 Mountain
• 1 Nadir Kraken
• 1 Negate
• 1 Nesting Grounds
• 1 Nightscape Familiar
• 1 Noggle the Mind
• 1 Opt
• 1 Procrastinate
• 1 Propaganda
• 1 Radstorm
• 1 Rakdos Charm
• 1 Ral Zarek, Guest Lecturer
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Resonating Lute
• 1 Retro-Mutation
• 1 Rime Chill
• 1 Seething Song
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Snap
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Stormcarved Coast
• 1 Stormcatch Mentor
• 1 Stunning Strike
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner
• 1 Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus
• 1 Temple of Deceit
• 1 Terminate
• 1 Tezzeret's Gambit
• 1 Thrummingbird
• 1 Tranquilize
• 1 Urza's Cave
• 1 Vicious Rumors
• 1 Withering Torment
• 1 Witness Protection