Before we start: Cantrips = Spells that draw you 1 or 2 cards. Wheels = Spells that make you discard your hand and draw a new hand.

Main Strategy/Win Conditions of the deck: Keep a hand with a cantrip or a combo piece, around 1-3 mana rocks, and 1-2 lands. On the first turn, cast a mana rock, cantrip, tutor or another one-mana spell. If you don't have one, you either kept a bad hand or kept a hand with a finisher. On the second turn, cast a mana rock, a cantrip, or, if you were lucky to have enough mana, Kess. By your third turn, it's very situation-dependent. You could possibly win on turn 3, but then again, this deck can also win on turn 1. After turn 3, it's up to you to make the right decision. Also, if you have a counterspell, be smart about holding mana open to use it.

In the late game, keep recasting tutors, cantrips, and all your other spells with Kess to try and win. Combos: Aetherflux Reservoir on the battlefield as you cast mana accelerators and cantrips can often win the game. Doomsday . Check out the Doomsday primer linked further down below to see all the complicated combos with this card (most of which have been included in this deck). Isochron Scepter imprinting Dramatic Reversal with sufficient mana rocks on the battlefield generates infinite mana and/or infinite storm count, which instantly wins the game with Aetherflux Reservoir on the field and can often provide enough fuel for your cantrips so that you can draw into Aetherflux Reservoir , Doomsday , or draw your deck with Laboratory Maniac in play. Paradox Engine with a few cantrips in hand provides enough mana and draw to get to one of the other finishers in the deck similarly to the previous combo. Ad Nauseam and Necropotence let you draw a massive amount of cards and likely draw you into your finishers. Cast Demonic Consultation naming Laboratory Maniac . If Lab Man wasn't in your hand then Demonic consultation will likely put it there. Cast Lab Man and use Kess's ability to recast Demonic Consultation , exiling the rest of your library. You can then cast a cantrip and win.

Personal notes and budget cuts: Price wise, I wouldn't consider this much of a budget deck at all right now. However, I'll be using proxy cards for both Yawgmoth's Will and Lion's Eye Diamond because I want to play the Doomsday Combos. For more information on Doomsday combos, look here: enter link description here. Everything you'd ever need to know about a Doomsday combo is found here, so I won't be explaining the Doomsday combos this deck includes. If you don't want to play proxy cards and don't want to invest $325 into 2 cards, I'll explain the substitutes I'd make. Those two cards only really help out the Doomsday combos and make the Doomsday combo work, so we'll be taking out the Doomsday combo entirely. Although you could still play the combos, they'd be less flexible with only 2 or 3 Doomsday piles to choose from, so even though you might want to run the combos, I personally wouldn't because of the increased likelihood of failure. So, if you don't want to run those two expensive cards and want to take out the Doomsday combo, here are my suggestions. Take out Lion's Eye Diamond , Doomsday , Gush , and Yawgmoth's Will . There are a few options on what to replace. If you want to play a more control style build, consider putting in Pongify , Pyroblast , Blasphemous Act , Cyclonic Rift , or other control cards like them. For another set of combo cards, you could insert Splinter Twin and Deceiver Exarch / Pestermite / Breaching Hippocamp . Lastly, you could add more cantrips and a Dark Petition . However, these are just my thoughts so do with them as you please.

Final Thoughts: This deck was made to model a cEDH deck whilst being about 1/10 or 1/15 of the budget of a cEDH deck. Therefore, it isn't what many would consider a budget deck. Many of the cards such as Paradox Engine, Sensei's Divining Top, and Ad Nauseam may seem too expensive for many players. However, I don't want the price tag of this deck to scare people away from playing Kess storm, one of my favorite decks of all time. Therefore, if someone was to want to play this deck without it being very competitive and expensive, I would suggest taking any cards which seem too expensive (aside from Aetherflux Reservoir , the main wincon of almost any Kess storm build) and replacing them with cantrips, tutors, board wipes, and counterspells. It's not much because the deck can still be a little bit expensive for some players, but playing Kess storm is one of the most fun ways to play Magic and I'd encourage everyone to try it, no matter what version of the deck or what the budget is. This took me hours to build and write, so be sure to leave an upvote and feedback!

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Legality

This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

4 - 0 Mythic Rares

27 - 0 Rares

17 - 0 Uncommons

33 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 2.00
Tokens Bird 2/2 U
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