Kess, Cruel Reanimator

Commander / EDH* Budget Casual Cruel Control Reanimator UBR (Grixis)

Lepus

Land (34)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cephalid Coliseum
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Grixis Panorama
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 6x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Rakdos Carnarium
• 1x Shadowblood Ridge
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Tainted Peak
• 1x Temple of Epiphany
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Underground River

Artifact (8)

• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Necromancy

Instant (22)

• 1x Ancient Excavation
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Comet Storm
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Crosis's Charm
• 1x Crypt Incursion
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Forbid
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Izzet Charm
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Terminate
• 1x Thought Scour
• 1x Visions of Beyond

Creature (10)

• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Consuming Aberration
• 1x Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
• 1x Kederekt Leviathan
• 1x River Kelpie
• 1x Sire Of Insanity
• 1x Void Winnower
• 1x Worldgorger Dragon

Commander (1)

Sorcery (22)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Breakthrough
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Careful Study
• 1x Cruel Ultimatum
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Dreadbore
• 1x Exhume
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Final Parting
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Painful Truths
• 1x Past in Flames
• 1x Pieces of the Puzzle
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Stitch Together
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Traumatize
• 1x Vandalblast

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Maybeboard

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Dark Deal
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Windfall

Instant (7)

• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Fire Covenant
• 1x Intuition
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Mystical Tutor

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Search for Azcanta  ^Flip

Creature (3)

• 1x Baral, Chief of Compliance
• 1x Corpse Connoisseur
• 1x Laboratory Maniac

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Cuts and recs wanted! :)

Grixis themed control deck aiming to control the enemy players through recurrable removal and hand destruction using Kess for value, then finishing with massive creatures and their ETBs using Twilight's Call and Flayer of the Hatebound. Alternatively use the mass zombie token generators to swarm your opponents to death.

(UPDATE:) Deck now has some better combos namely based around Worldgorger Dragon + Animate Dead or Necromancy to end the game with infinite bounce using Tidespout Tyrant/Kederekt Leviathan, infinite damage using Kess/Archaeomancer/Torment of Hailfire or infinite mill using Consuming Aberration

No tutors as this is meant to be semi-casual for kitchen table play, I don't mind if the deck is a bit janky.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	5 years
Exclude colors	WG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 29 - 0 Rares 26 - 0 Uncommons 25 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.09
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Manifest 2/2 C
Folders	To build