Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin test by nanoturp

Format: Commander

Commander: Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin

Bracket: 5

Deck overview

This deck is a highly tuned Grixis combo-control strategy helmed by Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin. The primary game plan revolves around assembling efficient, low-cost infinite combos while policing the table with a massive suite of counterspells and interaction. Kefka serves primarily as a value engine in the command zone, providing hand disruption and card draw to fuel the deck's relentless pace, though the deck operates almost entirely independently of him. The deck wins through the classic Thassa's Oracle + Demonic Consultation line, or by utilizing Dualcaster Mage in conjunction with Saw in Half, Ghostly Flicker, or Electroduplicate to generate infinite hasty tokens or infinite mana. It plays like a predatory cEDH-lite deck, sitting back on interaction until a window opens to execute a protected win.

Decklist (101 cards)

• 1 Ad Nauseam
• 1 Animate Dead
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Bolt Bend
• 1 Cabal Ritual
• 1 Cephalid Coliseum
• 1 Chrome Mox
• 1 City of Brass
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Demonic Consultation
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Dismember
• 1 Dispel
• 1 Displace
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Drift of Phantasms
• 1 Dualcaster Mage
• 1 Electroduplicate
• 1 Essence Flux
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fiery Islet
• 1 Flare of Denial
• 1 Flare of Duplication
• 1 Force of Will
• 1 Ghostly Flicker
• 1 Glorious Gale
• 1 Go for the Throat
• 1 Imperial Seal
• 1 Insatiable Avarice
• 6 Island
• 1 Jeska's Will
• 1 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin
• 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
• 1 Lotus Petal
• 1 Luxury Suite
• 1 Malevolent Hermit // Benevolent Geist
• 1 Mana Leak
• 1 Mana Sculpt
• 1 Mental Misstep
• 1 Miscast
• 1 Misdirection
• 1 Morphic Pool
• 4 Mountain
• 1 Mystical Tutor
• 1 Necromancy
• 1 Negate
• 1 Opposition Agent
• 1 Perplex
• 1 Rapid Hybridization
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Rionya, Fire Dancer
• 1 River of Tears
• 1 Run Away Together
• 1 Saw in Half
• 1 Seething Song
• 1 Shivan Reef
• 1 Simian Spirit Guide
• 1 Siren Stormtamer
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Snapback
• 1 Snuff Out
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spell Pierce
• 1 Spire of Industry
• 1 Steam Vents
• 1 Strike It Rich
• 1 Strix Serenade
• 1 Stubborn Denial
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 5 Swamp
• 1 Tainted Peak
• 1 Talisman of Creativity
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 Thassa's Oracle
• 1 Training Center
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Unsubstantiate
• 1 Vampiric Tutor
• 1 Volatile Stormdrake
• 1 Wishclaw Talisman