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Kess the Adventurer
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $255.78
Salt sum: 26.97
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Commander

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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.

Creature
Kess, Dissident Mage (ncc) 344

Commander

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Land

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Bloodstained Mire

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Bloodstained Mire (mh3) 216
Cascade Bluffs

{T}: Add {C}. {U/R}, {T}: Add {U}{U}, {U}{R}, or {R}{R}.

Land
Cascade Bluffs (blc) 297
Choked Estuary

As this land enters, you may reveal an Island or Swamp card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Choked Estuary (mkc) 254
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (blc) 130
Crumbling Necropolis

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}, {B}, or {R}.

Land
Crumbling Necropolis (lcc) 326
Drowned Catacomb

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Drowned Catacomb (drc) 152
Edgewall Inn

This land enters tapped. As this land enters, choose a color. {T}: Add one mana of the chosen color. {3}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Return target card that has an Adventure from your graveyard to your hand.

Land
Edgewall Inn (woe) 255
Evolving Wilds

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

Land
Evolving Wilds (blc) 302
Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Land
Exotic Orchard (blc) 131
Ferrous Lake

{1}, {T}: Add {U}{R}.

Land
Ferrous Lake (blc) 303
Frostboil Snarl

As this land enters, you may reveal an Island or Mountain card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Frostboil Snarl (otc) 298
Halimar Depths

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. {T}: Add {U}.

Land
Halimar Depths (dsc) 282
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (blb) 269
Madlands

Madlands enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. Madness {0} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, play it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard. You can play a land only during your turn and only if you have an available land play remaining.)

Land
Madlands (mb2) 614
Maestros' Totally Safe Hideout

Land casualty 2 (As this land enters, you may sacrifice a creature with power 2 or greater. If you do, create a token that's a copy of this land.) Maestros' Totally Safe Hideout enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {U}, {B}, or {R}.

Land
Maestros' Totally Safe Hideout (mb2) 615
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (blb) 275
Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Myriad Landscape (dsc) 289
Riverpyre Verge

{T}: Add {R}. {T}: Add {U}. Activate only if you control an Island or a Mountain.

Land
Riverpyre Verge (dft) 260
Scalding Tarn

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Scalding Tarn (mh2) 254
Shipwreck Marsh

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Shipwreck Marsh (inr) 284
Shivan Reef

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {R}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Shivan Reef (otc) 320
Smoldering Marsh

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Smoldering Marsh (dsc) 299
Stormcarved Coast

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Stormcarved Coast (who) 308
Sulfur Falls

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Mountain. {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Sulfur Falls (otc) 322
Sunken Hollow

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Sunken Hollow (otc) 325
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (blb) 373
Tainted Isle

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Land
Tainted Isle (dsc) 303

Land

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Sorcery

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Your Wish Is My Command

You may cast an instant or sorcery spell from your sideboard. If you cast a modal spell this way, you may choose an additional mode. (A modal spell lets you choose one or more modes from a bulleted list.)

Sorcery
Your Wish Is My Command (mb2) 540

Sorcery

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Creature

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Runed Terror

Instead of taking turns as normal, players take their phases sequentially. (For example, you take your beginning phase as the active player, then the next player in turn order becomes the active player and takes their beginning phase. After each player had a beginning phase, do the same for first main, combat phase, second main, ending phase, and then beginning phase again. If this creature leaves the battlefield, the active player continues their turn as normal.)

Creature Artifact
Runed Terror (mb2) 610

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Mill

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Breach the Multiverse

Each player mills ten cards. For each player, choose a creature or planeswalker card in that player's graveyard. Put those cards onto the battlefield under your control. Then each creature you control becomes a Phyrexian in addition to its other types.

Sorcery
Breach the Multiverse (mom) 94
Cruel Somnophage

Creature
Cruel Somnophage // Can't Wake Up (woe) 286
Gray Slaad

Creature
Gray Slaad // Entropic Decay (clb) 129
Merfolk Secretkeeper

Creature
Merfolk Secretkeeper // Venture Deeper (eld) 53
Riverchurn Monument

{1}, {T}: Any number of target players each mill two cards. (Each of them puts the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.) Exhaust — {2}{U}{U}, {T}: Any number of target players each mill cards equal to the number of cards in their graveyard. (Activate each exhaust ability only once.)

Artifact
Riverchurn Monument (dft) 57

Mill

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Theft

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Crabomination

Emerge from artifact {5}{B}{B} (You may cast this spell by sacrificing an artifact and paying the emerge cost reduced by that artifact's mana value.) When this creature enters, target opponent exiles the top card of their library, a card at random from their graveyard, and a card at random from their hand. You may cast a spell from among cards exiled this way without paying its mana cost.

Creature
Crabomination (mh3) 85
Elder Brain

Menace Whenever this creature attacks a player, exile all cards from that player's hand, then they draw that many cards. You may play lands and cast spells from among the exiled cards for as long as they remain exiled. If you cast a spell this way, you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.

Creature
Elder Brain (clb) 125
Gonti, Night Minister

Whenever a player casts a spell they don't own, that player creates a Treasure token. Whenever a creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, its controller looks at the top card of that opponent's library and exiles it face down. They may play that card for as long as it remains exiled. Mana of any type can be spent to cast a spell this way.

Creature
Gonti, Night Minister (dft) 87
River Song's Diary

Imprint — Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell from their hand, exile it instead of putting it into a graveyard as it resolves. At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are four or more cards exiled with this artifact, choose one of them at random. You may cast it without paying its mana cost.

Artifact
River Song's Diary (who) 460

Theft

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Draw

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Anvil of Bogardan

Players have no maximum hand size. At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card, then discards a card.

Artifact
Anvil of Bogardan (vis) 141
Archmage Emeritus

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.

Creature
Archmage Emeritus (otc) 90
Big Score

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards and create two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Big Score (blc) 193
Dig Through Time

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Instant
Dig Through Time (dsc) 115
Epic Experiment

Exile the top X cards of your library. You may cast instant and sorcery spells with mana value X or less from among them without paying their mana costs. Then put all cards exiled this way that weren't cast into your graveyard.

Sorcery
Epic Experiment (otc) 222
Expressive Iteration

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand, put one of them on the bottom of your library, and exile one of them. You may play the exiled card this turn.

Sorcery
Expressive Iteration (mb2) 82
Extraordinary Journey

When this enchantment enters, exile up to X target creatures. For each of those cards, its owner may play it for as long as it remains exiled. Whenever one or more nontoken creatures enter, if one or more of them entered from exile or was cast from exile, you draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Enchantment
Extraordinary Journey (woe) 48
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
Fact or Fiction (woc) 90
Faithless Looting

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Faithless Looting (otc) 165
Foulmire Knight

Creature
Foulmire Knight // Profane Insight (moc) 249
Galvanic Giant

Creature
Galvanic Giant // Storm Reading (woe) 52
Liliana's Other Contract

Enchantment
Liliana's Other Contract // Liliana's Undead Minion (mb2) 548Liliana's Other Contract // Liliana's Undead Minion (mb2) 548
Mob Verdict

Secret council — Each player secretly votes for another player, then those votes are revealed. For each vote an opponent received, Mob Verdict deals 2 damage to that player and each creature that player controls. For each vote you received, draw a card.

Sorcery
Mob Verdict (mkc) 343
Moonshae Pixie

Creature
Moonshae Pixie // Pixie Dust (clb) 84
Windfall

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Sorcery
Windfall (otc) 123
Young Blue Dragon

Creature
Young Blue Dragon // Sand Augury (clb) 106

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (blc) 127
Decadent Dragon

Creature
Decadent Dragon // Expensive Taste (woe) 223
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (dsc) 248
Nightscape Familiar

Blue spells and red spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. {1}{B}: Regenerate this creature.

Creature
Nightscape Familiar (dmr) 94
Show and Tell

Each player may put an artifact, creature, enchantment, or land card from their hand onto the battlefield.

Sorcery
Show and Tell (mb2) 171
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (blc) 129
Stormcatch Mentor

Haste Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Creature
Stormcatch Mentor (blb) 234
Talisman of Creativity

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {R}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Creativity (who) 248
Young Red Dragon

Creature
Young Red Dragon // Bathe in Gold (clb) 210

Ramp

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Tokens

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Rite of the Dragoncaller

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 5/5 red Dragon creature token with flying.

Enchantment
Rite of the Dragoncaller (fdn) 92

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Enchantment

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Wisedrafter's Will

Your opponents play with their hands revealed. {U}, Sacrifice Wisedrafter's Will: Draw a card. {U}{U}, Sacrifice Wisedrafter's Will: Counter target spell.

Enchantment
Wisedrafter's Will (mb2) 539

Enchantment

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Recursion

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Altar of Bhaal

Artifact
Altar of Bhaal // Bone Offering (clb) 109
Ancient Brass Dragon

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, roll a d20. When you do, put any number of target creature cards with total mana value X or less from graveyards onto the battlefield under your control, where X is the result.

Creature
Ancient Brass Dragon (clb) 111
Call from the Grave

Put a random creature from a random graveyard into play under your control. Call from the Grave deals to you an amount of damage equal to that creature's casting cost.

Sorcery
Call from the Grave (mb2) 541
Festival of Embers

During your turn, you may cast instant and sorcery spells from your graveyard by paying 1 life in addition to their other costs. If a card or token would be put into your graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead. {1}{R}: Sacrifice this enchantment.

Enchantment
Festival of Embers (blb) 134
Gorex, the Tombshell

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of creature cards from your graveyard. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each card exiled this way. Deathtouch Whenever Gorex attacks or dies, choose a card at random exiled with Gorex and put that card into its owner's hand.

Creature
Gorex, the Tombshell (j25) 67
Invoke Calamity

You may cast up to two instant and/or sorcery spells with total mana value 6 or less from your graveyard and/or hand without paying their mana costs. If those spells would be put into your graveyard, exile them instead. Exile Invoke Calamity.

Instant
Invoke Calamity (neo) 147
Maestros Ascendancy

Once during each of your turns, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from your graveyard by sacrificing a creature in addition to paying its other costs. If a spell cast this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

Enchantment
Maestros Ascendancy (snc) 198
Order of Midnight

Creature
Order of Midnight // Alter Fate (moc) 261
Rise of the Dark Realms

Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.

Sorcery
Rise of the Dark Realms (fdn) 183

Recursion

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Tutor

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Fervent Mastery

You may pay {2}{R}{R} rather than pay this spell's mana cost. If the {2}{R}{R} cost was paid, an opponent discards any number of cards, then draws that many cards. Search your library for up to three cards, put them into your hand, shuffle, then discard three cards at random.

Sorcery
Fervent Mastery (stx) 101
Step Through

Return two target creatures to their owners' hands. Wizardcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Wizard card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Sorcery
Step Through (mh2) 66

Tutor

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Finisher

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Candlekeep Inspiration

Until end of turn, creatures you control have base power and toughness X/X, where X is the number of cards you own in exile and in your graveyard that are instant cards, are sorcery cards, and/or have an Adventure.

Sorcery
Candlekeep Inspiration (clb) 59

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Removal

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Baleful Mastery

You may pay {1}{B} rather than pay this spell's mana cost. If the {1}{B} cost was paid, an opponent draws a card. Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Baleful Mastery (otc) 126
Beluna's Gatekeeper

Creature
Beluna's Gatekeeper // Entry Denied (woe) 43
Blasphemous Act

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield. Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Sorcery
Blasphemous Act (drc) 101
Common Black Removal

Choose one. Destroy target creature, then — • Create a Food token. • Create a Treasure token. • Put a menace counter on a creature you control. • That creature's controller mills cards equal to its power.

Instant
Common Black Removal (mb2) 543
Filter Out

Return all noncreature, nonland permanents to their owners' hands.

Instant
Filter Out (mat) 7
Horned Loch-Whale

Creature
Horned Loch-Whale // Lagoon Breach (woe) 53
Hypnotic Sprite

Creature
Hypnotic Sprite // Mesmeric Glare (eld) 49
Murderous Rider

Creature
Murderous Rider // Swift End (eld) 287
Sapphire Dragon

Creature
Sapphire Dragon // Psionic Pulse (clb) 94
Scalding Viper

Creature
Scalding Viper // Steam Clean (woe) 295
Spellscorn Coven

Creature
Spellscorn Coven // Take It Back (woe) 237
Sword Coast Serpent

Creature
Sword Coast Serpent // Capsizing Wave (clb) 99

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Deck Info

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48 pips - 29 cards
27 mana - 25 cards
37 pips - 22 cards
18 mana - 18 cards
24 pips - 16 cards
24 mana - 22 cards
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8 mana - 7 cards
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