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It would be surprising if, when we check back on the most popular commander rankings a year from now, Kess, Dissident Mage isn't in the top 15, at the very least

Keep this out of your Commander decks, though

A few interesting swamp-heavy decks tried to play Ghast in Constructed, but even the decks that did use the extort as a bonus didnt have it as a main feature

Time would show that it was a bit too restrictive and that just caring about any creature dealing combat damage would have been fine

Dimir (Blue/Black) Midrange: A flexible and powerful strategy that combines efficient threats with hand disruption

While the most obvious question we could ask is, Is there a Commander deck here? the question I set out to answer was, What does Energy do that will contribute to a winning strategy? Its easy to see Energy as more of a Rube Goldberg machine than an effective resource, and so I set out with the intention of doing just that