Counter intelligence upgraded? by TonyGunk

Format: Commander

Commander: Kilo, Apogee Mind

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is a Jeskai artifact deck built around charge counters and proliferate synergy. Led by Kilo, Apogee Mind, the strategy turns mana rocks like Astral Cornucopia, Everflowing Chalice, and Empowered Autogenerator into massive mana engines simply by tapping the commander to attack. Card flow engines like Insight Engine and Etched Oracle turn those same proliferate triggers into steady card advantage. The deck controls the board using efficient spot removal and asymmetric sweepers like Organic Extinction before converting its wide field of artifacts into lethal attackers. Finishers such as Cyberdrive Awakener and Depthshaker Titan animate noncreature artifacts into evasive beaters with flying or trample melee, supported by direct burn from Alibou, Ancient Witness. Although the deck lacks compact infinite combos and unconditional tutors, its compounding mana generation and resilient recursion ensure a consistent, overwhelming combat clock.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Alibou, Ancient Witness
  • 1 Ancient Den
  • 1 Angel of the Ruins
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Astral Cornucopia
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Cloud Key
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Coretapper
  • 1 Crystalline Crawler
  • 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
  • 1 Depthshaker Titan
  • 1 Dispatch
  • 1 Drill Too Deep
  • 1 Empowered Autogenerator
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Enthusiastic Mechanaut
  • 1 Etched Oracle
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Experimental Augury
  • 1 Fumigate
  • 1 Gavel of the Righteous
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Glittering Massif
  • 1 Golem Foundry
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 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 Cannon
  • 1 Mindless Automaton
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Moxite Refinery
  • 1 Mystic Monastery
  • 1 Nanoform Sentinel
  • 1 Organic Extinction
  • 1 Pain for All
  • 1 Patrolling Peacemaker
  • 1 Pentad Prism
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Pull from Tomorrow
  • 1 Radiant Summit
  • 1 Razortide Bridge
  • 1 Resourceful Defense
  • 1 Ripples of Potential
  • 1 Rugged Prairie
  • 1 Rustvale Bridge
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Secluded Steppe
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Silverbluff Bridge
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solar Array
  • 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Steel Overseer
  • 1 Steelswarm Operator
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Surge Conductor
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Temple of Epiphany
  • 1 Temple of Triumph
  • 1 Tezzeret's Gambit
  • 1 The Mycosynth Gardens
  • 1 Thirst for Knowledge
  • 1 Thought Monitor
  • 1 Threefold Thunderhulk
  • 1 Thrummingbird
  • 1 Titan Forge
  • 1 Universal Surveillance
  • 1 Uthros Research Craft
  • 1 Wake the Past