Kess, the Heroic

Commander / EDH* Bracket 3 Flashback UBR (Grixis)

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Lands (36)

• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Foreboding Ruins
• 1x Frostboil Snarl
• 8x Island
• 1x Maestros Theater
• 1x Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip
• 8x Mountain
• 1x Shipwreck Marsh
• 1x Silundi Vision  ^Flip
• 7x Swamp
• 1x Valakut Awakening  ^Flip
• 1x Watery Grave

Draw (10)

• 1x Archmage Emeritus
• 1x Change of Fortune
• 1x Expedite
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Forbidden Alchemy
• 1x Rhystic StudyGC
• 1x See the Truth
• 1x Telling Time
• 1x The One RingGC
• 1x Windfall

Mass Disruption (4)

• 1x Cyclonic RiftGC
• 1x Echoing Truth
• 1x Fire Covenant
• 1x Thing in the Ice  ^Flip

Standalone (16)

• 1x Cormela, Glamour Thief
• 1x Crackling Drake
• 1x Dreadhorde Arcanist
• 1x Electrostatic Infantry
• 1x Exalted Flamer of Tzeentch
• 1x Guttersnipe
• 1x Inventive Iteration  ^Flip
• 1x Lier, Disciple of the Drowned
• 1x Livaan, Cultist of Tiamat
• 1x Mercurial Spelldancer
• 1x Pink Horror
• 1x Sea Gate Stormcaller
• 1x Sprite Dragon
• 1x Storm-Kiln Artist
• 1x Tzaangor Shaman
• 1x Urabrask  ^Flip

Enchanter (8)

• 1x Blood for the Blood God!
• 1x Fists of Flame
• 1x Otherworldly Gaze
• 1x Rush of Blood
• 1x Soul's Fire
• 1x Tainted Strike
• 1x Twinferno
• 1x Unleash Fury

Enabler (4)

• 1x Anger
• 1x Glimpse the Unthinkable
• 1x Macabre Waltz
• 1x Rush of Vitality

Tutor (2)

• 1x Scheming Symmetry
• 1x Solve the Equation

Commander (1)

Ramp (12)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Goblin Electromancer
• 1x Nightscape Familiar
• 1x Primal Amulet  ^Flip
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Creativity
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence
• 1x Unexpected Windfall
• 1x Wizards of Thay

Disruption (7)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Into the Roil
• 1x Shenanigans
• 1x Snap
• 1x Winds of Rebuke

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Other (19)

• 1x Abrade
• 1x Artisan of Forms
• 1x Cling to Dust
• 1x Discover the Impossible
• 1x Efreet Flamepainter
• 1x Haughty Djinn
• 1x Helbrute
• 1x Lunar Mystic
• 1x Manaform Hellkite
• 1x Melek, Izzet Paragon
• 1x Najal, the Storm Runner
• 1x Rionya, Fire Dancer
• 1x Runechanter's Pike
• 1x Sea Gate Stormcaller
• 1x See Double
• 1x Shipwreck Marsh
• 1x Smoldering Egg  ^Flip
• 1x Stormchaser Drake
• 1x Volshe Tideturner

New (11)

• 1x Bria, Riptide Rogue
• 1x Commune with Lava
• 1x Compulsive Research
• 1x Mana Geyser
• 1x Repeated Reverberation
• 1x River Kelpie
• 1x Strategic Planning
• 1x Suspend
• 1x Thunderclap Drake
• 1x Unexpected Windfall
• 1x Wrong Turn

New 2 (1)

• 1x Nardole, Resourceful Cyborg

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Description

An combat-oriented Kess deck that uses Prowess and Heroic type effects to maximize the value of recurring/copying instants & sorcerie.

This deck is still in the testing phase. I expect that I will have to further tune the creature density as well as the "target creature" spell density. I will update the description accordingly as updates are made.

Rules disclaimer

My local store uses a point system for EDH including:
- Minor score reduction for searching the library for non-lands more than once per game;
- Minor score reduction for taking someone out before turn 6;
- Minor score increase for saving an opponent from death;
- Minor score increase for first blood through combat;
- Score increase for killing an opponent;
- Score reduction for dying;
- Major score reduction for an infinite combo.

To acquire:

Recent changes:

• Replaced Dragon's Rage Channeler with Khenra Spellspear  
• Replaced Guttersnipe with Mercurial Spelldancer
• Replaced Assault Strobe with Young Pyromancer
• Replaced Brute Force with Kinetic Augur
• Replaced Antagonize with Electrostatic Infantry
• Replaced Infuriate with Crackling Drake
• Replaced Titan's Strength with Blood for the Blood God!
• Replaced Runechanter's Pike with Dark Dabbling
• Replaced Ardent Elementalist with Urabrask  
• Replaced Critical Hit with Twinferno
• Replaced Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy with Spellbound Dragon
• Replaced Fake Your Own Death with Scheming Symmetry

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• Replaced Talisman of Dominance with Mana Geyser
• Replaced Talisman of Indulgence with Dark Ritual
• Replaced Nightscape Familiar with See the Truth
• Replaced Goblin Electromancer with Solve the Equation
• Replaced Narset, Parter of Veils with Unexpected Windfall
• Replaced Khenra Spellspear   with Soulblade Djinn
• Replaced Seize the Day with Change of Fortune
• Replaced Young Pyromancer with Slip Through Space
• Replaced Invigorated Rampage with Shadow Rift
• Replaced Reckless Charge with Crimson Wisps
• Replaced Talisman of Creativity with Repeated Reverberation

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• Replaced Mountain with Foreboding Ruins
• Replaced Island with Exotic Orchard
• Replaced Dark Dabbling with Talisman of Dominance
• Replaced Repeated Reverbation with Talisman of Indulgence
• Replaced Bloodwater Entity with Talisman of Creativity
• Replaced Zada, Hedron Grinder with Nightscape Familiar

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• Replaced Dark Ritual with Birgi, God of Storytelling  
• Replaced Pull from Tomorrow with Jeska's WillGC

Date added	5 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 24 - 0 Rares 26 - 0 Uncommons 19 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.78
Tokens	Copy Clone, Demon Horror 2/2 UR, Treasure