IzzetLegendary Creature — Lizard ArtificerKylox, Visionary Inventor
Mana value7Rank#17,085
The Commander
Menace, ward 
, haste
Whenever Kylox attacks, sacrifice any number of other creatures, then exile the top X cards of your library, where X is their total power. You may cast any number of instant and/or sorcery spells from among the exiled cards without paying their mana costs.
Guide
Gameplan
Cheat out a board of expendable creatures, swing with Kylox, then sacrifice them to exile a huge chunk of your library and free-cast every instant and sorcery you hit. You build toward one explosive attack that fires off X-burn, extra-turn spells, or a chain of value spells that ends the game on the spot.
Strengths
- Single attack can cast multiple free spells, generating overwhelming card advantage and damage at once
- Haste lets Kylox attack the turn it lands, and ward 2 plus menace make it hard to interact with or block
- Loves big-power, low-utility creatures (tokens, fatties) you'd happily sacrifice
- Synergizes with extra-turn and damage-doubling effects for explosive turns
Weaknesses
- Seven mana and reliant on a high spell density in the library to convert the exile
- Whiffs hard if you exile mostly lands and creatures rather than instants/sorceries
- Board wipes and sacrifice-trigger removal can blow out your whole plan
- Telegraphs its power; opponents will hold removal and chump blockers for the swing
Key Cards
- Ghired's Belligerence — A scalable X spell that wipes blockers and feeds power, perfect to free-cast off the attack.
- Jeska's Will — Free ritual-plus-card-draw fuels casting any spells the free casts don't cover.
- Temporal Trespass — Hitting an extra-turn spell off the exile lets you attack with Kylox again immediately.
- Comet Storm — X burn cast for free can close out one or all opponents from a single attack.
- Ophidian Eye — Cheap creature density and enchant effects don't matter—you want raw power on cheap bodies to sacrifice.
- Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer — Pumps out big token armies that double as ammunition for Kylox's sacrifice trigger.
Upgrade Path
Raise your instant/sorcery density and weight it toward X spells, extra turns, and rituals so every exile pays off, while adding cheap recurring token makers (Krenko, Mob Boss; Young Pyromancer) for sacrifice fodder. Add protection like Lightning Greaves and Heroic Intervention so the swing actually resolves, and tutors like Gamble or Mystical Tutor to set up the perfect free-cast. Damage doublers (Fiery Emancipation) and free token generators turn an average attack into a kill.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸Free-casting large X burn spells (Comet Storm, Fall of the Titans) to nuke the table
- ▸Chaining extra-turn spells to attack repeatedly and snowball
- ▸Casting a pile of damage and value spells in one trigger for lethal
- ▸Voltron-style Kylox damage backed by buffs and unblockable enablers
Archetypes
- Spellslinger — The attack trigger is essentially a free-cast engine for your instants and sorceries.
- Tokens/Sacrifice — You want lots of expendable, high-power bodies to convert into exiled cards.
- Combo — Chaining extra-turn spells and free casts enables explosive one-shot turns.
- Burn/Spellslinger Control — Free X-burn and damage spells let you finish multiple players in one swing.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (RU), by popularity.
