WIP - Counter Intellegence by Shynto86

Format: Commander

Commander: Kilo, Apogee Mind

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This deck is a Jeskai artifact midrange engine commanded by Kilo, Apogee Mind. It focuses on accumulating charge counters, +1/+1 counters, and time counters across its battlefield, then multiplying them rapidly through proliferate triggers whenever Kilo becomes tapped. The list circumvents standard combat risks by utilizing Spacecraft with the Station mechanic—such as Inspirit, Flagship Vessel and Uthros Research Craft—as well as Vehicles to tap Kilo safely at sorcery speed on the turn it enters play. Scalable mana rocks like Everflowing Chalice and Astral Cornucopia quickly generate large amounts of mana, fueling explosive card advantage through Insight Engine and Shorikai, Genesis Engine. The deck transitions into the late game by locking down opposing threats with Lux Cannon and Organic Extinction, then closes out the table using Lux Artillery group burn, wide construct tokens, or an overwhelming air assault enabled by Cyberdrive Awakener.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Alibou, Ancient Witness
  • 1 Ancient Den
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Astral Cornucopia
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Cloud Key
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
  • 1 Darksteel Reactor
  • 1 Deepglow Skate
  • 1 Depthshaker Titan
  • 1 Dispatch
  • 1 Empowered Autogenerator
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Enthusiastic Mechanaut
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Expansion Algorithm
  • 1 Experimental Augury
  • 1 Extinguisher Battleship
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Gavel of the Righteous
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Golem Foundry
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Hangarback Walker
  • 1 Icy Manipulator
  • 1 Inexorable Tide
  • 1 Insight Engine
  • 1 Inspirit, Flagship Vessel
  • 1 Irrigated Farmland
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Kilo, Apogee Mind
  • 1 Lonely Sandbar
  • 1 Long-Range Sensor
  • 1 Lux Artillery
  • 1 Lux Cannon
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Moxite Refinery
  • 1 Mystic Monastery
  • 1 Organic Extinction
  • 1 Padeem, Consul of Innovation
  • 1 Patrolling Peacemaker
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Pull from Tomorrow
  • 1 Radiant Summit
  • 1 Razortide Bridge
  • 1 Recon Craft Theta
  • 1 Relic Barrier
  • 1 Requisition Raid
  • 1 Resourceful Defense
  • 1 Ripples of Potential
  • 1 Rugged Prairie
  • 1 Rustvale Bridge
  • 1 Salvation Engine
  • 1 Sami, Wildcat Captain
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Shorikai, Genesis Engine
  • 1 Silverbluff Bridge
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solar Array
  • 1 Steel Overseer
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Surge Conductor
  • 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 Millennium Calendar
  • 1 The Mycosynth Gardens
  • 1 The Seriema
  • 1 Thought Monitor
  • 1 Thoughtcast
  • 1 Threefold Thunderhulk
  • 1 Thrummingbird
  • 1 Time Wipe
  • 1 Titan Forge
  • 1 Unstoppable Plan
  • 1 Uthros Research Craft
  • 1 Wake the Past
  • 1 Weather Maker