Kurkesh Sesh

Commander / EDH Artifact Combo Infinite Combo Mono-Red Reanimator Sacrifice Tap/Untap Value Engine

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Artifact (35)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Clock of Omens
• 1x Codex Shredder
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Decimator Web
• 1x Endless Atlas
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Ichor Wellspring
• 1x Investigator's Journal
• 1x Liquimetal Coating
• 1x Liquimetal Torque
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mirage Mirror
• 1x Moonsilver Key
• 1x Mystic Forge
• 1x Oblivion Stone
• 1x Oracle's Vault
• 1x Planar Bridge
• 1x Prismatic Lens
• 1x Prototype Portal
• 1x Pyramid of the Pantheon
• 1x Pyrite Spellbomb
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Sculpting Steel
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Soul-Guide Lantern
• 1x Staff of Domination
• 1x Tamiyo's Journal
• 1x Trading Post
• 1x Unstable Obelisk
• 1x Unwinding Clock
• 1x Voltaic Key

Creature (16)

• 1x Foundry Inspector
• 1x Goblin Engineer
• 1x Goblin Welder
• 1x Iron Myr
• 1x Jhoira's Familiar
• 1x Kuldotha Forgemaster
• 1x Lodestone Golem
• 1x Meteor Golem
• 1x Myr Battlesphere
• 1x Myr Retriever
• 1x Quicksmith Genius
• 1x Scrap Trawler
• 1x Silent Arbiter
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Workshop Assistant
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Chain Reaction
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Scrap Mastery
• 1x Trash for Treasure
• 1x Vandalblast

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Daretti, Scrap Savant
• 1x Ugin, the Ineffable

Commander (1)

Land (35)

• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Field of Ruin
• 1x Great Furnace
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 28x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Temple of the False God

Instant (4)

• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Comet Storm
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Tibalt's Trickery

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Enchantment (2)

• 1x Ghirapur AEther Grid
• 1x Pia's Revolution

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Kurkesh artifact goodstuff! It's hard finding an artifacts-matter commander that isn't super degenerate.

Why Kurkesh?

I chose Kurkesh over Daretti mostly due to the latter commander being more of a hate magnet. I like value engine commanders, like Teysa Karlov or Veyran, Voice of Duality, and this ogre spirit is no different. Doubling the activated abilities of artifacts allows you to look at some mundane artifacts in new ways, and I enjoy making the most of what a cool commander Kurkesh can be!

Why Mono Red?

I originally wanted to try {U}{R} artifacts for a while, but found no commanders that interested me. I also tried mono-{U} artifacts, and yet again none of the commanders particularly appealed to me. Eventually, I narrowed myself down to mono-{R}. Red has a lot of artifact resurrection (a la Goblin Welder). I built a U/R "reanimation" deck. with sphinxes and other fun cards to resurrect from the graveyard. Here are the two of the three commanders that I narrowed down to:

• Bosh, Iron Golem: Super fun fatty-flinging deck. He's built around cheating in huge artifacts into play and flinging them to opponents' faces. My only issue was that Bosh was a whopping 8 CMC. Especially in mono-{R}, that was stretching things.

• Daretti, Scrap Savant: The most popular artifact goodstuff commander. He's super cool and helps the deck out a ton, but I wanted to try a more obscure commander!

Interactions

• Divination: Cards like MindStone become powerful card draw in red with Kurkesh in play! Imagine drawing cards like a blue deck in mono-red!

• The Portal: Prototype Portal + Great Furnace/Darksteel Citadel becomes a powerful way to ramp, and Prototype Portal + Sculpting Steel can make clones of all the artifacts

Combos

Infinite Mana

• Kurkesh + Gilded Lotus/Pyramid of the Pantheon + Voltaic Key = Infinite {R} mana

• Basalt Monolith + Rings of Brighthearth = Infinite {C} mana

Infinite Mana Sinks

• Staff of Domination: Tap down or infinite draw into...

• Comet Storm: Infinite damage (boring)

• Decimator Web: Infect win (spicy!)

Date added	1 year
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 35 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.26
Tokens	Clue, Copy Clone, Emblem Daretti, Scrap Savant, Goat 0/1 W, Myr 1/1 C, Spirit 2/2 C, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink
Folders	Complete Decks