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Kefka: Endless Jest

Commander / EDH* Bracket 3 Combo Discard Spellslinger Tempo Tokens UBR (Grixis) Wizards

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Land (34)

Enchantment (5)

Creature (27)

Instant (10)

Commander (1)

Commander: Kefka, Court Mage  Flip

Artifact (18)

Sorcery (5)

Life is but a stage, and my several token copies of Kefka are my favorite actor.

Final Fantasy spoiler season is in full swing, and every new commander grows my evil. This is my current Grixis deck, replacing my (attempts at building) Nekusar and Wick. While it's still in a fairly rough state, we can still pull some nasty shenanigans. That being said, it certainly requires refinement, so bookmark this deck or add it to a folder to easily access the new versions as they come out.

We sit in Bracket 3, so our goal isn't necessarily to take game immediately, or to rapidly go infinite. Instead, we want to chip away at our opponents until we're the only game in town. We certainly can go infinite with Niv-Mizzet, Parun or Psychosis Crawler plus Kefka, Ruler of Ruin  , but it's extaordinarily expensive to cast one of these Big Boys in the same turn we flip our Commander. Instead, we get a little silly with it.

Kefka cares about entering and attacking, and he gains us value whenever he does. This deck focuses more on spamming his ETB effect via flicker and token creation than via attacking, because spamming Kefka copies will end up naturally increasing our quantity of on-attack triggers, anyway. We run a number of cards that break the Legend Rule, allowing us to just keep making more Kefkas. For a critical quantity, Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer can turn all of our tokens into Kefkas, allowing us to attack with even more Kefkas. Just keep making Kefkas.

Every time you make a Kefka, or attack with a Kefka, each player (including yourself) discards a card, then (only) you draw a card for each card-type discarded this way. Each Kefka is, essentially, an extremely mean and repeatable Faithless Looting. If all he did was (you) discard and (you) draw, then this would still be an extremely valuable digging effect. As long as at least two card types are discarded (practically unavoidable, even with a coordinated table, especially since we run Howling Mine and similar), we end up at a +1. Bear in mind: this means if we just keep spamming Kefkas, we'll deck out before our opponents do. I've made the decision to not include deck-out wincons, as something like a Doomsday Oracle combo or an Infinite Labman would far exceed my target power level with this deck. Don't deck yourself out. Instead, use your Kefkas to gradually create an insurmountable lead. For those familiar with oldschool YGO, consider this to have a similar playstyle to PACMAN. Pure Advantage Kefka, if you will.

Just keep making Kefkas. Surely nothing will go wrong.

(ps. All those big-mana creatures can be discarded early for later use. Chainer, Nightmare Adept, Reanimate, and Feldon of the Third Path are there for when you have a field ready for eg. Lord Xander, the Collector.) (pss. just because we're playing Wizards doesn't mean you can't say (idk) Time Lords w/ Three Tree City or Roaming Throne. Or, you can copy your Roaming Throne, and double up your Rogues and Avatars, too!)

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