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Kess, wielder of scepters

Commander / EDH* Sinken

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Big changes! —April 23, 2019

I recently built an Arjun, the Shifting Flame deck and ended up buying a lot of cantrips that also fit into this deck, so I've ended up cutting a lot of the higher CMC cards and quite a few of the dead cards. The deck feels a lot better to play, and with additional counterspells the combos aren't as fragile either. I decided to cut the Kiki-Jiki combo as the mana cost is just too brutal for a deck that's only 20% red...

The Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind + Curiosity combo is also a lot more reliable with all cantrips, but I'm still not sure if I have enough artifacts for the Isochron Scepter + Dramatic Reversal infinite mana combo.. Maybe I should add Tezzeret the Seeker back in?

Sinken says... #1

I do think more effects like Soothsaying would have been amazing with Jeleva when I was still playing tons of big spells, but sadly I decided she was no longer the right Grixis commander for me, and swapped her out with Kess, Dissident Mage

Though, I don't think Helm of the Host would do anything? The ETB is useless as the cost to play her is 0, so 0 cards would be exiled, and she doesn't share a card pool with the original Jeleva. I should probably look at Thousand-Year Storm though, now that Kess is the commander and I'm cutting CMC. Thanks for the suggestion ^^

January 10, 2019 9:19 p.m. Edited.

hkhssweiss says... #2

Heya Sinken!

Kess is super fun. There is a lot of cards you do and her ability to reuse them from the yard just makes it so much better. Here are some cards off the top of my head that you can consider using.

You can also take a look at my Kess deck if you want some ideas as well!

January 11, 2019 4:09 a.m.

Sinken says... #3

Thanks again for a lot of good suggestions. I recently pulled a Gamblefrom an UMA pack, so I'll definietly be trying it. The rituals are also probably very good now that I run Kess. I played around with Cabal Ritual in Jeleva but I never really reached Treshhold when I actually needed the mana

I also love all the cantrips like Ponder, Preordain, and Gitaxian Probe. The sellers I've bought for just never haven't really had them at anything less than way too much when I've looked. But I agree that they're all pretty much staples in Kess.

Do you have any suggestions for cards you feel like might not fit in my list? :)

January 11, 2019 8:44 a.m.

hkhssweiss says... #4

Sinken

Yeah for Kess there would be a couple cards you can cut. High CMC instants or sorceries are fine as you can at least cast them later on with Kess, but other high CMC spells I would cut.

Here are some possible cuts I would consider:

Hope that helps :)

January 11, 2019 5:54 p.m.