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Format: Commander

Commander: Kels, Fight Fixer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 53

Deck overview

This Dimir Aristocrats deck is helmed by Kels, Fight Fixer, who acts as an accessible card advantage engine and resilient sacrifice outlet in the command zone. The deck operates by developing early mana ramp and recurring creature fodder such as Gravecrawler, Bloodghast, and Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia. It transitions into mid-game value by drawing cards off death triggers using Kels, Skullclamp, or Dark Prophecy. The primary win condition is an infinite sacrifice and life-drain loop, most notably combining Gravecrawler, Warren Soultrader (a Zombie), and a drain permanent like Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, or Marionette Apprentice. Supported by a lean counterspell suite and targeted black removal, the deck can protect its setup and execute a same-turn table elimination around Turn 5.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abjure
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Attrition
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Celebrant
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Careful Study
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Countersquall
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Prophecy
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Demon of Death's Gate
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Faerie Macabre
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Geralf, the Fleshwright
  • 1 Grave Venerations
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Hidden Lair
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Kels, Fight Fixer
  • 1 Ledger Shredder
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Nim Deathmantle
  • 1 Ozox, the Clattering King
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Profaner of the Dead
  • 1 Puppet Conjurer
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Resculpt
  • 1 Scuttletide
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Skirge Familiar
  • 1 Skirsdag High Priest
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spawning Pit
  • 1 Spiketail Drakeling
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The Mycosynth Gardens
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tishana's Tidebinder
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unsubstantiate
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat