Kess, Dissident Mage
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard
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.
"Loss has no meaning here. You cannot take from those who have nothing."
3 / 4
- Set
- The List (PLST #NCC-344)
- Rarity
- Mythic
- Mana value
- 4
- Released
- 2026-11-09
- Artist
- Izzy
- EDHREC rank
- #3,141
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Nonfoil
- Served from
- Local database
Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos 8
All 8 combos.
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Ponder
- Frantic Search
- Faithless Looting
- Preordain
- Brainstorm
- Storm-Kiln Artist
- Archmage Emeritus
- Windfall
- Goblin Electromancer
- Consider
- Gitaxian Probe
- Mystical Tutor
- Guttersnipe
- Dark Ritual
- Thousand-Year Storm
- Opt
- Increasing Vengeance
- Baral, Chief of Compliance
- Mana Geyser
- Cabal Ritual
- Lightning Bolt
- Fact or Fiction
- Talrand, Sky Summoner
- See the Truth
- Seething Song
- Young Pyromancer
- Toxic Deluge
- Jeska's Will
- Demonic Tutor
- Swan Song
- Cyclonic Rift
- Entomb
- Underworld Breach
- Mizzix's Mastery
- Narset's Reversal
- Mystic Remora
- Reanimate
- Expressive Iteration
- Gamble
- Brain Freeze
- Steam Vents
- Black Waltz No. 3
- Flame of Anor
- Stormcatch Mentor
- Thought Scour
- Vampiric Tutor
- Scalding Tarn
- Ral, Storm Conduit
- Professor Onyx
- Solve the Equation
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Island
- Command Tower
- Swamp
- Mountain
- Sol Ring
- Arcane Signet
- Dark Ritual
- Steam Vents
- Watery Grave
- Exotic Orchard
- Frantic Search
- Blood Crypt
- Faithless Looting
- Talisman of Dominance
- Talisman of Creativity
- Counterspell
- Brainstorm
- Windfall
- Polluted Delta
- Sulfur Falls
- Bloodstained Mire
- Ponder
- Talisman of Indulgence
- Scalding Tarn
- Crumbling Necropolis
- Storm-Kiln Artist
- Blasphemous Act
- Fellwar Stone
- Drowned Catacomb
- Dragonskull Summit
- Archmage Emeritus
- Izzet Signet
- Shivan Reef
- Preordain
- Dimir Signet
- Training Center
- Xander's Lounge
- Reanimate
- An Offer You Can't Refuse
- Morphic Pool
- Mystical Tutor
- Toxic Deluge
- Luxury Suite
- Demonic Tutor
- Chaos Warp
- Goblin Electromancer
- Swan Song
- Cyclonic Rift
- Underground River
- Rakdos Signet
Format legality
Rulings
- 2019-06-14
If a sorcery card is put into your graveyard during your main phase and the stack is empty, you have a chance to cast it before any player may attempt to remove that card from your graveyard.
- 2019-06-14
If a spell cast this way is put into another zone after it resolves (perhaps because it had buyback), it's considered a new object. If that card later moves to your graveyard, it won't be exiled.
- 2019-06-14
If you cast a card from your graveyard using another permission (such as that of flashback), Kess's effect doesn't apply. You can cast another instant or sorcery card from your graveyard.
- 2019-06-14
If you cast one instant or sorcery card from your graveyard and then have a new Kess come under your control in the same turn, you may cast another instant or sorcery card from your graveyard that turn.
- 2019-06-14
Once you begin to cast the card, losing control of Kess won't affect the spell. You can finish casting it as normal and it will be exiled if it would be put into your graveyard.
- 2019-06-14
You must follow the normal timing permissions and restrictions of the card you cast from your graveyard.
- 2019-06-14
You must pay the costs to cast that card. If it has an alternative cost, you may cast it for that cost instead.