Deck # 15: Reflect Culture (EDH / Commander)

Reflecting energy back at its source is one of Dr. Moriarty's signature spells, and she is willing to use it on a frequent basis. But this deck is what happens when Kylie gets supremely cheesed off. She was provoked into rage because a planeswalker decided to challenge her after Alesha's show. Because of her reflective counter-magic, Kylie prevented him from destroying her, but he managed to deal a great deal of damage to himself and everything around him.

The ruination the planeswalker caused to the natural environment only made Kylie angrier. But he not only was unapologetic for the wreck and ruin he caused, he was gleeful over it. Normally, in Kylie's experience, only Americans act that way, taking pleasure from causing ruin just because they can.

The point is, Kylie lost her patience. They got into a fight again, and this time, she finished him off without any of the mercy an obsessive Simic doctor should show. All she cared about was bringing him down, and she did it by turning his most powerful spell back against him.

With the planeswalker having destroyed himself, Kylie abandons her benevolent nature. Giving in to her darkest emotions, she calls for her beloved friend SIlumgar, the Drifting Death, and tells him that they are going out on a hunt. She cannot articulate what she intends to hunt, only that any planeswalker who dares cross her will not have to worry about being bio-chemically desparked to protect the multiverse. Instead, they will have to worry about their very lives.

Silumgar does nothing to calm her down at all. In fact, he makes things worse by introducing her to Sol'kanar, the Swamp King. He allows her to clone him and use the clone to lead a pack of demons into open battle training.

Things take a turn for the worse because of a Chance Encounter with a planeswalker, a gambler by profession. He offers Kylie a test of powers, all too unaware of the danger he's in until it's too late.

Kylie uses his own magic against him on a continual basis. She doesn't counter his spells much, she wrathfully reflects them. Ricochet Trap, Deflection, Wild Ricochet, Misdirection, Shunt, Redirect, Imp's Mischief, Swerve, and Bolt Bend all brought to bear against him.

And in her anger, Kylie would have killed him - were it not for Pharika, God of Affliction. Though shem works with many clones of gods in her generally benevolent fight to protect England and cleanse the multiverse of the distortion the planeswalkers are causing, she still recognizes Pharika as her personal deity.

Pharika heals the planeswalker, and orders him to leave while he still can. Then she rebukes Kylie for going into this dark state, even worse than her brief loss of control when she turned to Tiamat to seek revenge (and the problems that caused). This is her dark night of the soul and she'd be lost to evil forever if Pharika hadn't stepped in.

Pharika then rebukes Silumgar. Kylie drove the car, but he kept buying the fuel, in figurative terms. She decides to take away his hexproof and his ability to make things get -1/-1 for a week as reproof.

We do not know what happens to Dr. Moriarty, because Pharika simply takes her, and neither Silumgar or Sol'kanar were permitted to see where they disappeared to.

I don't know how Pharika will handle this; just know that she will.