Kess • (Grixis Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Kess, Dissident Mage

Flying
Once during each of your turns, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from your graveyard. If a spell cast this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

$4.99 $3.56 $3.63

Commander

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Displace

Exile up to two target creatures you control, then return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control.

Instant

$2.29 $4.25 $0.88

Ghostly Flicker

Exile two target artifacts, creatures, and/or lands you control, then return those cards to the battlefield under your control.

Instant

$2.99 $1.69 $1.23

Illusionist's Stratagem

Exile up to two target creatures you control, then return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control.
Draw a card.

Instant

$0.35 $0.32 $0.15

Blink

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Burning Vengeance

Whenever you cast a spell from your graveyard, this enchantment deals 2 damage to any target.

Enchantment

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Guttersnipe

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature deals 2 damage to each opponent.

Creature - Goblin Shaman

$0.69 $0.33 $0.17

Burn

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Cackling Counterpart

Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control.
Flashback

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant

$0.99 $0.34 $0.23

Dualcaster Mage

Flash
When this creature enters, copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Creature - Human Wizard

$5.49 $3.61 $3.42

Increasing Vengeance

Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, copy that spell twice instead. You may choose new targets for the copies.
Flashback

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant

$1.99 $0.85 $0.70

Ral, Storm Conduit

Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, Ral deals 1 damage to target opponent or planeswalker.
+2: Scry 1.
−2: When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Legendary Planeswalker - Ral

$0.99 $0.69 $0.31

Copy

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Dispel

Counter target instant spell.

Instant

$0.99 $1.23 $0.42

Counters

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Duress

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

Sorcery

$0.39 $0.10 $0.15

Discard

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Chart a Course

Draw two cards. Then discard a card unless you attacked this turn.

Sorcery

$0.39 $0.16 $0.15

Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Instant

$0.35 $0.32 $0.16

Faithless Looting

Draw two cards, then discard two cards.
Flashback

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.39 $0.28

Firemind's Research

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, put a charge counter on this enchantment.

, Remove two charge counters from this enchantment: Draw a card.

, Remove five charge counters from this enchantment: It deals 5 damage to any target.

Enchantment

$0.49 $0.31 $0.15

Forbidden Alchemy

Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
Flashback

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Instant

$2.29 $1.84 $1.04

Impulse

Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Instant

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Mind's Desire

Shuffle your library. Then exile the top card of your library. Until end of turn, you may play that card without paying its mana cost.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.)

Sorcery

$1.29 $1.06 $0.64

Opt

Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Draw a card.

Instant

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Precognition Field

You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may cast instant and sorcery spells from the top of your library.

: Exile the top card of your library.

Enchantment

$0.49 $0.25 $0.15

Predict

Choose a card name, then target player mills a card. If a card with the chosen name was milled this way, you draw two cards. Otherwise, you draw a card.

Instant

$1.49 $0.85 $0.26

Radical Idea

Draw a card.
Jump-start (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs. Then exile this card.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.22 $0.15

Secrets of the Dead

Whenever you cast a spell from your graveyard, draw a card.

Enchantment

$0.69 $0.44 $0.38

Strategic Planning

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Thought Scour

Target player mills two cards.
Draw a card.

Instant

$0.79 $0.40 $0.28

Draw

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Cinder Barrens

This land enters tapped.

: Add

Land

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Command Tower

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land

$0.59 $0.31 $0.19

Crumbling Necropolis

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, or

Land

$0.69 $0.32 $0.27

Dimir Aqueduct

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.36 $0.29

Dismal Backwater

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.

: Add

Land

$0.35 $0.22 $0.15

Evolving Wilds

, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land

$0.35 $0.33 $0.15

Grixis Panorama

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land

$0.79 $0.38 $0.15

Highland Lake

This land enters tapped.

: Add

Land

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Island

(

: Add

Basic Land - Island

$0.49 $0.24 $0.15

Izzet Boilerworks

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

: Add

Land

$0.69 $0.40 $0.16

Jwar Isle Refuge

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.

: Add

Land

$0.35 $0.18 $0.15

Mountain

(

: Add

Basic Land - Mountain

$0.49 $0.14 $0.15

Rakdos Carnarium

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.40 $0.25

Swamp

(

: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$0.49 $0.26 $0.15

Swiftwater Cliffs

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.

: Add

Land

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Temple of the False God

: Add

. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Land

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Terramorphic Expanse

, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Vivid Crag

This land enters tapped with two charge counters on it.

: Add

, Remove a charge counter from this land: Add one mana of any color.

Land

$0.35 $0.50 $0.32

Vivid Creek

This land enters tapped with two charge counters on it.

: Add

, Remove a charge counter from this land: Add one mana of any color.

Land

$0.49 $0.36 $0.22

Vivid Marsh

This land enters tapped with two charge counters on it.

: Add

, Remove a charge counter from this land: Add one mana of any color.

Land

$0.49 $0.54 $0.15

Land

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Sage's Row Denizen

Whenever another blue creature you control enters, target player mills two cards.

Creature - Wizard Vedalken

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Mill

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Release to the Wind

Exile target nonland permanent. For as long as that card remains exiled, its owner may cast it without paying its mana cost.

Instant

$1.49 $0.91 $0.50

Protection

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Dark Ritual

Add

Instant

$9.49 $5.15 $5.05

Dimir Locket

: Add

, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

Goblin Electromancer

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost

less to cast.

Creature - Wizard Goblin

$0.35 $0.34 $0.15

Izzet Locket

: Add

, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.33 $0.15

Jace's Sanctum

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost

less to cast.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, scry 1.

Enchantment

$2.79 $1.53 $0.55

Mana Geode

When this artifact enters, scry 1.

: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.35 $0.25

Nightscape Familiar

Blue spells and red spells you cast cost

less to cast.

: Regenerate this creature.

Creature - Zombie

$0.59 $0.41 $0.18

Obelisk of Grixis

: Add

, or

Artifact

$0.35 $0.29 $0.15

Peregrine Drake

Flying
When this creature enters, untap up to five lands.

Creature - Drake

$0.49 $0.26 $0.15

Rakdos Cluestone

: Add

, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.16 $0.15

Rakdos Locket

: Add

, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.37 $0.15

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.79 $1.74 $1.28

Ramp

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Archaeomancer

When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature - Human Wizard

$0.49 $0.38 $0.33

Izzet Chronarch

When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature - Human Wizard

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Mnemonic Wall

Defender
When this creature enters, you may return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature - Wall

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Possessed Skaab

When this creature enters, return target instant, sorcery, or creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
If this creature would die, exile it instead.

Creature - Zombie

$0.35 $0.22 $0.15

Salvager of Secrets

When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature - Wizard Merfolk

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Spelltwine

Exile target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard and target instant or sorcery card from an opponent's graveyard. Copy those cards. Cast the copies if able without paying their mana costs. Exile Spelltwine.

Sorcery

$0.59 $0.35 $0.31

Unearth

Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery

$0.79 $0.42 $0.41

Recursion

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Baral's Expertise

Return up to three target artifacts and/or creatures to their owners' hands.
You may cast a spell with mana value 4 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.29 $0.15

Cast Down

Destroy target nonlegendary creature.

Instant

$1.79 $0.54 $0.43

Disdainful Stroke

Counter target spell with mana value 4 or greater.

Instant

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

Into the Roil

Kicker

(You may pay an additional

as you cast this spell.)
Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. If this spell was kicked, draw a card.

Instant

$0.35 $0.08 $0.15

Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant

$0.35 $0.35 $0.15

Silumgar's Command

Choose two —
• Counter target noncreature spell.
• Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
• Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn.
• Destroy target planeswalker.

Instant

$0.49 $0.23 $0.15

Removal

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Memory Plunder

You may cast target instant or sorcery card from an opponent's graveyard without paying its mana cost.

Instant

$2.49 $1.45 $1.14

Theft

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Murmuring Mystic

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 blue Bird Illusion creature token with flying.

Creature - Human Wizard

$1.49 $0.42 $0.35

Tokens

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Brainspoil

Destroy target creature that isn't enchanted. It can't be regenerated.
Transmute

(

, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Clutch of the Undercity

Return target permanent to its owner's hand. Its controller loses 3 life.
Transmute

(

, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.28 $0.17

Diabolic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery

$1.79 $1.23 $1.00

Final Parting

Search your library for two cards. Put one into your hand and the other into your graveyard. Then shuffle.

Sorcery

$0.79 $0.61 $0.38

Tutor

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Dramatic Reversal

Untap all nonland permanents you control.

Instant

$0.59 $0.45 $0.35

Untap

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $87.54

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 3.08Total Mana Value: 188.00

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Burn

Commander

Copy

Counters

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Draw

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Mill

Protection

Ramp

Recursion

Removal

Theft

Tokens

Tutor

Untap

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50 pips - 41 cards

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26 mana - 25 cards

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19 pips - 13 cards

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22 mana - 21 cards

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5 mana - 3 cards

Avg Mana Value: 3.08Total Mana Value: 188.00

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