Her consultation leads to a pact that ensures doomsday for her opponents.

After dabbling with a wizard-tribal build for a few years to fun but mixed results, it was finally time to unleash Kess, Dissident Mage in her most potent form. With the addition of Thassa's Oracle, the lines to victory between Demonic Consultation, Tainted Pact and Doomsday, paired with the fish lady, Laboratory Maniac and Jace, Wielder of Mysteries are both consistent and redundant. Paired with a control-shell and the ability to recast any needed instant or sorcery spell from the graveyard with Kess in play, the deck is quick and resilient.

The creatures included each serve a necessary purpose to consistently advance one of the winning lines, often times slowing the opposition as well. I've broken them down by color and intended purpose for a little more flavor:

RED - Dockside Extortionist for treasure ramping.

BLUE - Baral, Chief of Compliance for spell cost reduction and card draw; Thieving Skydiver for artifact theft; Hullbreacher for treasure ramp and opponent draw prevention; Spellseeker for spell tutoring; Thassa's Oracle for the primary win trigger; Vedalken AEthermage for a nearly unstoppable Thassa tutor; and Laboratory Maniac for another win condition via card draw, if needed.

BLACK - Opposition Agent for opponent tutor denial and theft.

Because most of the creatures in the deck with game-winning potential are wizards, Cavern of Souls helps to ensure they hit the board when needed, especially the Oracle and Lab Man. Regardless of creatures, the primary goal is to setup the ability to thin your library and win, while also denying and exiling your opponents' combo pieces with the likes of counter magic and Extirpate, Extract and Praetor's Grasp. If you like it or if you think I missed an obvious option to include, feel free to leave me some feedback. Thanks for taking a look and happy brewing.

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34% Casual

66% Competitive

Top Ranked
  • Achieved #24 position overall 5 years ago
Date added 6 years
Last updated 3 years
Exclude colors WG
Splash colors R
Legality

This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

10 - 0 Mythic Rares

62 - 0 Rares

15 - 0 Uncommons

12 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 2.00
Tokens Bird 2/2 U, Manifest 2/2 C, Treasure
Folders Interesting Commander Decks
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