New Untitled Deck by user7345445

Format: Commander

Commander: Kess, Dissident Mage

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis Spellslinger Control strategy commanded by Kess, Dissident Mage. It controls the early and mid-game using efficient spot removal, sweepers, and countermagic while establishing steady card flow through Kess's once-per-turn graveyard flashback ability and draw engines like Rhystic Study and Archmage Emeritus. The deck accelerates using 2-mana artifacts and ritual effects, building toward explosive turns around Turn 6. Its primary win paths involve chaining high-mana velocity spells like Jeska's Will and Past in Flames into lethal finishers such as Torment of Hailfire, Crackle with Power, or Aetherflux Reservoir. Alternatively, it can grind opponents out with token swarms from Talrand, Sky Summoner, Young Pyromancer, and Sedgemoor Witch, or trigger lethal life drain with an active Bloodchief Ascension alongside Windfall.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Court of Ambition
  • 1 Crackle with Power
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expressive Iteration
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Into the Roil
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Kess, Dissident Mage
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Metallurgic Summonings
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Confluence
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Parun
  • 1 Past in Flames
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Resculpt
  • 1 Reverberate
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway
  • 1 Sedgemoor Witch
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Snapcaster Mage
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spirebluff Canal
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Undying Malice
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Xander's Lounge
  • 1 Young Pyromancer