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Kess, Dissident Mage (no infinites, no storm)
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Est deck cost: $1392.60
Salt sum: 49.43
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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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Burn

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Banefire

Banefire deals X damage to any target. If X is 5 or more, this spell can't be countered and the damage can't be prevented.

Sorcery
Banefire (mm2) 104
Boltwave

Boltwave deals 3 damage to each opponent.

Sorcery
Boltwave (fdn) 79
Crackle with Power

Crackle with Power deals five times X damage to each of up to X targets.

Sorcery
Crackle with Power (stx) 95
Exquisite Firecraft

Exquisite Firecraft deals 4 damage to any target. Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, this spell can't be countered.

Sorcery
Exquisite Firecraft (ori) 143

Burn

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Copy

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

Instant
Increasing Vengeance (sta) 40
Reverberate

Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Instant
Reverberate (m11) 155
Storm King's Thunder

When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell X times. You may choose new targets for the copies.

Instant
Storm King's Thunder (clb) 583
Twincast

Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Instant
Twincast (m10) 78

Copy

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Draw

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Borne Upon a Wind

You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash. Draw a card.

Instant
Borne Upon a Wind (ltr) 44
Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Instant
Brainstorm (cns) 91
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 (sld) 1779
Frantic Search

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

Instant
Frantic Search (ncc) 222
Ignite the Future

Exile the top three cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, you may play cards this way without paying their mana costs. Flashback {7}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Ignite the Future (clb) 797
Overmaster

The next instant or sorcery spell you cast this turn can't be countered. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Overmaster (dmr) 132
Pact Weapon

As long as this Equipment is attached to a creature, you don't lose the game for having 0 or less life. Whenever equipped creature attacks, draw a card and reveal it. The creature gets +X/+X until end of turn and you lose X life, where X is that card's mana value. Equip—Discard a card.

Artifact
Pact Weapon (clb) 139
Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (fdn) 322
Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Ponder (m12) 73
Secrets of the Dead

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

Enchantment
Secrets of the Dead (dka) 48
See the Truth

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. If this spell was cast from anywhere other than your hand, put each of those cards into your hand instead.

Sorcery
See the Truth (m21) 69
The Magic Mirror

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard. You have no maximum hand size. At the beginning of your upkeep, put a knowledge counter on The Magic Mirror, then draw a card for each knowledge counter on The Magic Mirror.

Artifact
The Magic Mirror (eld) 345
Thrill of Possibility

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards.

Instant
Thrill of Possibility (sld) 1805

Draw

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Finisher

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Exsanguinate

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Sorcery
Exsanguinate (cmm) 638

Finisher

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Land

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Blightstep Pathway

Land
Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway (khm) 291Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway (khm) 291
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 (ktk) 230
Boseiju, Who Shelters All

Boseiju enters tapped. {T}, Pay 2 life: Add {C}. If that mana is spent on an instant or sorcery spell, that spell can't be countered.

Land
Boseiju, Who Shelters All (chk) 273
Cascade Bluffs

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

Land
Cascade Bluffs (ncc) 390
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (clb) 351
Crumbling Necropolis

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

Land
Crumbling Necropolis (ddh) 74
Emergence Zone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.

Land
Emergence Zone (war) 245
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (dmc) 209
Glacial Chasm

Cumulative upkeep—Pay 2 life. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) When this land enters, sacrifice a land. Creatures you control can't attack. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you.

Land
Glacial Chasm (ice) 353
Gloomlake Verge

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

Land
Gloomlake Verge (dsk) 331
Graven Cairns

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

Land
Graven Cairns (exp) 28
Haunted Ridge

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

Land
Haunted Ridge (dbl) 263
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (mid) 270
Maze of Ith

{T}: Untap target attacking creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.

Land
Maze of Ith (dmr) 456
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (mid) 274
Polluted Delta

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

Land
Polluted Delta (mh3) 356
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) 478
Shipwreck Marsh

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

Land
Shipwreck Marsh (dbl) 267
Stormcarved Coast

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

Land
Stormcarved Coast (dbl) 532
Sunken Hollow

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

Land
Sunken Hollow (exp) 2
Sunken Ruins

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

Land
Sunken Ruins (exp) 27
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mid) 272
Training Center

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Training Center (cmm) 434
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (tsr) 287

Land

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Land Destruction

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Molten Rain

Destroy target land. If that land was nonbasic, Molten Rain deals 2 damage to the land's controller.

Sorcery
Molten Rain (tsr) 348

Land Destruction

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Protection

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Deflecting Swat

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. You may choose new targets for target spell or ability.

Instant
Deflecting Swat (cmm) 214
Leyline of Anticipation

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield. You may cast spells as though they had flash.

Enchantment
Leyline of Anticipation (clb) 726
Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (2xm) 360
Return the Favor

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {1} — Copy target instant spell, sorcery spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. You may choose new targets for the copy. + {1} — Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.

Instant
Return the Favor (otj) 142
Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.) Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (fdn) 355
Vanishing

Enchant creature {U}{U}: Enchanted creature phases out. (While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist. It phases in before its controller untaps during their next untap step.)

Enchantment
Vanishing (vis) 48
Vedalken Orrery

You may cast spells as though they had flash.

Artifact
Vedalken Orrery (2x2) 399

Protection

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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 (clb) 298
Chromatic Lantern

Lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color." {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Chromatic Lantern (mps) 8
Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Commander's Sphere (cmm) 655
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (sta) 26
Jeska's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Add {R} for each card in target opponent's hand. • Exile the top three cards of your library. You may play them this turn.

Sorcery
Jeska's Will (cmr) 668
Mana Geyser

Add {R} for each tapped land your opponents control.

Sorcery
Mana Geyser (5dn) 75
Mindsplice Apparatus

Flash At the beginning of your upkeep, put an oil counter on this artifact. Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast for each oil counter on this artifact.

Artifact
Mindsplice Apparatus (one) 63
Primal Amulet

Artifact
Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring (xln) 243Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring (xln) 243
Seething Song

Add {R}{R}{R}{R}{R}.

Instant
Seething Song (mrd) 104
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (pf19) 7

Ramp

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Recursion

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Beacon of Unrest

Put target artifact or creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. Shuffle Beacon of Unrest into its owner's library.

Sorcery
Beacon of Unrest (2xm) 77
Mystic Retrieval

Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Mystic Retrieval (dka) 42
Nine-Lives Familiar

This creature enters with eight revival counters on it if you cast it. When this creature dies, if it had a revival counter on it, return it to the battlefield with one fewer revival counter on it at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
Nine-Lives Familiar (fdn) 321
Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Sorcery
Reanimate (otp) 18
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) 323
Yawgmoth's Will

Until end of turn, you may play lands and cast spells from your graveyard. If a card would be put into your graveyard from anywhere this turn, exile that card instead.

Sorcery
Yawgmoth's Will (usg) 171

Recursion

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Removal

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Blasphemous Edict

You may pay {B} rather than pay this spell's mana cost if there are thirteen or more creatures on the battlefield. Each player sacrifices thirteen creatures of their choice.

Sorcery
Blasphemous Edict (fdn) 57
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (mh2) 267
Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant
Cyclonic Rift (rtr) 35
Delayed Blast Fireball

Delayed Blast Fireball deals 2 damage to each opponent and each creature they control. If this spell was cast from exile, it deals 5 damage to each opponent and each creature they control instead. Foretell {4}{R}{R} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Instant
Delayed Blast Fireball (clb) 630
Disallow

Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Instant
Disallow (aer) 31
Malicious Malfunction

All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. If a creature would die this turn, exile it instead.

Sorcery
Malicious Malfunction (neo) 110
Mana Drain

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of {C} equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant
Mana Drain (2x2) 348
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (sta) 18
Profane Command

Choose two — • Target player loses X life. • Return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. • Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. • Up to X target creatures gain fear until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Sorcery
Profane Command (ncc) 256
Three Steps Ahead

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {1}{U} — Counter target spell. + {3} — Create a token that's a copy of target artifact or creature you control. + {2} — Draw two cards, then discard a card.

Instant
Three Steps Ahead (otj) 75

Removal

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Tutor

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Demonic Tutor

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

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (sta) 27
Fabricate

Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Fabricate (m10) 52
Insatiable Avarice

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {2} — Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. + {B}{B} — Target player draws three cards and loses 3 life.

Sorcery
Insatiable Avarice (otj) 91
Mystical Tutor

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant
Mystical Tutor (sld) 334

Tutor

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