Leo's Kalamax

Commander / EDH Combo Competitive Control Counterspell Infinite Combo Magecraft Midrange RUG (Temur) Spellslinger

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Land (36)

• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Castle Vantress
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 4x Forest
• 1x Frontier Bivouac
• 1x Gruul Turf
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 1x Holdout Settlement
• 4x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Kazuul's Fury  ^Flip
• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 1x Mossfire Valley
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Survivors' Encampment
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Removal (7)

• 1x Channeled Force
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Comet Storm
• 1x Niblis of Frost
• 1x Resculpt
• 1x Return to Nature
• 1x Tribute to the Wild

Boardwipe (3)

• 1x AEtherize
• 1x Aetherspouts
• 1x Starstorm

Fling (2)

• 1x Fling
• 1x Kazuul's Fury  ^Flip

Tapper (2)

• 1x Holdout Settlement
• 1x Survivors' Encampment

Ramp (18)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Goblin Electromancer
• 1x Growth Spiral
• 1x Harrow
• 1x Ilysian Caryatid
• 1x Jace's Sanctum
• 1x Jaya Ballard
• 1x Primal Amulet  ^Flip
• 1x Pyromancer's Goggles
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Seething Song
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Storm-Kiln Artist
• 1x Wilderness Reclamation

Copy (13)

• 1x Dualcaster Mage
• 1x Increasing Vengeance
• 1x Insidious Will
• 1x Melek, Izzet Paragon
• 1x Primal Amulet  ^Flip
• 1x Pyromancer's Goggles
• 1x Ral, Storm Conduit
• 1x Refuse / Cooperate
• 1x Repeated Reverberation
• 1x Swarm Intelligence
• 1x Thousand-Year Storm
• 1x Twinning Staff
• 1x Wort, the Raidmother

Counterspell (4)

• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Insidious Will
• 1x Negate
• 1x Whirlwind Denial

CopyMore (2)

• 1x Twinning Staff
• 1x Veyran, Voice of Duality

Protection (2)

• 1x Deflecting Swat
• 1x Lightning Greaves

GraveHate (1)

• 1x Scavenger Grounds

Commander (1)

Draw (14)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Channeled Force
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Hunter's Insight
• 1x Jaya Ballard
• 1x Melek, Izzet Paragon
• 1x Opt
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Rashmi, Eternities Crafter
• 1x Steam Augury
• 1x Sunbird's Invocation
• 1x Thrill of Possibility

WinCondition (8)

• 1x Comet Storm
• 1x Curious Herd
• 1x Epic Experiment
• 1x Guttersnipe
• 1x Metallurgic Summonings
• 1x Ral, Storm Conduit
• 1x Talrand, Sky Summoner
• 1x Veyran, Voice of Duality

Recursion (4)

• 1x Increasing Vengeance
• 1x Jaya Ballard
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Once and Future

Evasion (2)

• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 1x Rogue's Passage

Tutor (1)

• 1x Crop Rotation

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My objective was to shift Kalamax, the Stormsire into a more efficient deck with a lower mana curve, while Zaffai, Thunder Conductor would get the big mana spells to trigger his 10 damage at a random opponent.

Links to all decks in this series: || 4/8 {W} || 3/8 {U} || 3/8 {B} || 6/8 {R} || 2/8 {G} ||

• {B} Leo's K'rrik
• {U}{R} Leo's Zaffai
• {B}{R} Leo's Anje
• {R}{W} Leo's Osgir
• {G}{W} Leo's Siona
• {G}{U}{R} Leo's Kalamax
• {U}{R}{W} Leo's Gavi
• {R}{W}{B} Leo's Humans

Changes:

• Temple of Epiphany (to Zaffai) -> Shivan Reef (untapped lands are better than tapped ones)
• Myriad Landscape -> Blighted Woodland (ramp on a land is great, but a tapland that only generates colorless mana really screws a turn 2 green ramp for a turn 3 Kalamax)
• Rugged Highlands -> Evolving Wilds (better synergy with basic-land-matters cards like Cinder Glade, Sulfur Falls, Castle Vantress and Mystic Sanctuary)
• Thornwood Falls -> Terramorphic Expanse (same as above)
• Forest -> Rogue's Passage (evasion for when Kalamax is huge)
• Forest -> Scavenger Grounds (an answer against Anje or Osgir that uses a land slot is neat. Also, extra synergy with Survivors' Encampment.)
• Forest -> Kazuul's Fury   (versatile: it can be an early land or a late Fling)
• Rootha, Mercurial Artist (to Zaffai) -> Dig Through Time (five mana to copy a spell and only a spell you control is too expensive for this deck. Also, most of your spells cost 3 mana or less; copying them for an extra 160% cost is not worth it)
• Natural Connection -> Fellwar Stone (Connection doesn't allow for a turn 3 Kalamax. Harrow gives you 4 untapped lands for the same price that Connection gives you 2 tapped ones)
• Commander's Sphere (to Zaffai) -> Ilysian Caryatid (the Druid allows for a turn 3 Kalamax; the Sphere doesn't. Also, you have plenty of draw on your instants)
• Deny the Divine -> Resculpt (too narrow and expensive of a counterspell)
• Blasphemous Act (to Osgir) -> Aetherspouts (no need to kill your own creatures)
• Serum Visions (to Zaffai) -> Ponder (it is better to scry and draw than to draw and scry)
• Slice in Twain -> Return to Nature (cheaper, more options - unfortunately the chosen mode is copied aswell. Slice's draw is nice, but you have better draw spells in this deck)
• Lunar Mystic -> Thrill of Possibility (with Kalamax out, Thrill draws 4 cards for 2 mana. Mystic draws 0 cards for 4 mana, and will only catch up Thrill at 8 total mana)
• Reinterpret (to Zaffai) -> Whirlwind Denial (a copied Reinterpret would only get a second free spell if it targets another spell in the stack. Besides, it is really dependant on what your opponents cast and what you have in hand. Denial can shut down whole stacks, including abilities like Osgir, the Reconstructor's and Worldgorger Dragon's. Also, doubling Denial with Kalamax almost guarantees no one will pay for its tax)

Addition: (this deck had only 99 cards)

• Faithless Looting (card selection that also fills your graveyard)

Suggestions for upgrades:

Ramp:

• Edge of Autumn
• Sakura-Tribe Elder

Draw:

• Big Score
• Unexpected Windfall
• Electric Revelation
• Fact or Fiction
• Archmage Emeritus (draw your deck with the infinite combo)

Copy:

• Riku of Two Reflections
• Narset's Reversal

Lands:

• Path of Ancestry
• Silundi Vision  
• Tangled Florahedron  

A sketch you might take some ideas from: Kalamax, the Combosire

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2nd batch of upgrades:

• Ponder (to Zaffai) -> Anticipate (it's instant and also draws cards)

• Faithless Looting -> Unexpected Windfall (it's instant, also fills the graveyard and pays itself if copied with Kalamax)

• Guttersnipe (to Zaffai) -> Thud (a third copy of Fling to your infinite combos involving Veyran or Kalamax. Guttersnipe is slow for this fast gameplan.)

• Curious Herd -> Fortune's Favor (Heard might be a good card against Osgir or Zaffai. Otherwise, getting two 3/3 tokens is not worth a full card. Also, Favor brings a fun minigame to the match.)

• Channeled Force -> Wild Ricochet (Force's discard is risky: a counterspell or a creature/planeswalker removal can set you back so many cards. Kalamax makes it better, but it is still risky.)

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Suggestions:

• Evolving Wilds, Terramorphic Expanse -> Tangled Islet, Molten Tributary (better synergy with Farseek and Mystic Sanctuary).

Date added	1 year
Last updated	10 months
Exclude colors	WB
Splash colors	G
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 31 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 28 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.32
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Construct X/X C, Drake 2/2 U, Elemental 4/4 UR, Emblem Jaya Ballard, Goblin Warrior 1/1 RG, Treasure