Kess Doomtide (EDH / Commander)

Hi, here we go again to another maximum power EDH Deck. After Tasigur, this time we look at Kess, the "new" Jevala

0. Why cEDH? And why budgetless?
   Well, I recently found a new playgroup and with them I wanted to try cEDH once again. This time though we decided that actually owning every single card is not required so I could go all in on this build. The Tasigur deck was basically taking the expensive cards from my legacy deck (thats also why it had to be BUG in the first place. I simply have no other duals) and investing a little bit in fast mana. This time I had the free choice out of all the generals and cards out there, so here we are.

1. Why Kess? Why Doomtide?
   First of all, I love High Tide. Storming of with a card like that is just awesome and I loved my Mizzix deck, which was the first time I comboed off with High Tide. I quickly decided that I didn't want to play him in a real competitive environment though since the lack of black tutors is really annoying. That's why I went to kess. She is just the best Grixis General out there. I wanted to include Doomsday as well just to have another mental challenge. Building those piles can become rather difficult and I wanted to test it myself.

2. Why copy the build instead of inventing something new?
   First of all, cEDH is much more like "usual" constructed formats. Where I would never, ever netdeck a casual commander deck I think with cEDH it's something different. So I did the same that I did with my other constructed decks: I took a stock list from the internet and then constantly adjust the list according to playtesting. Also, certain cards are heavily reliant on your own playgroup, so changes according to the group will always be neccessary.

inspired from

https://deckstats.net/decks/85558/901649-kess-doomtide-storm

3. Why this list as a starting point?
   When I started the research I went on from two other decklists. I compared them and wrote some notes what I want to change before I actually get the cards. Then today I wanted to write the decklist so I figured why not start with a list and change it? I googled and found this list which somehow matched the changes I made yesterday almost perfectly. So for now I just copied it and will mmake some small adjustments later when I playtested a little bit.

4. Changes and Reason behind them:
   06.05.19 (initial changes)

   • Rolling Earthquake: As a starting point I think one Boardwipe should be enough
   • Paradoxical Outcome: This card just does EVERYTHING: Draws, resets candelabra, goes mana positive most of the time
   • Pongify
   • Reality Shift: I think Reality Shift is way superior: Exiling is better than destroying, a 3/3 can become way more annoying than a 2/2 and sometimes you can rip them off a vampiric tutor target
   • Ancient Tomb: The deck already damages itself so much that I didn't want include a land that also does that
   • Island: Needs testing wether another dual is required here
   • Delay
   • Demonic Consultation
   • Isochron Scepter
   • Copy Artifact: Included another Wincon and cut a worse one
   • Mental Misstep
   • Red Elemental Blast: Cut the narrow Counter for the better one
   • Snap
   • Time Spiral: This is a concession to one of my favourite cards. I try to fit snap back in though
   • Dispel
   • Narset's Reversal: I read this card, then I read it again, then I reread it once more, then I decided it hast to go into every single commader deck I have ;)