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Kilo, Apogee Mind
Legendary Artifact Creature — Robot Artificer · {U}{R}{W} · Red/Blue/White commander
What Kilo, Apogee Mind actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Triggered ability · otherWhenever Kilo becomes tapped, proliferate.
- Keyword · hastehaste
- Keyword · proliferateproliferate
What a Kilo, Apogee Mind deck needs
Plays as counters engine. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- ways to tap the commander every turn — attacks, crew, convoke and untap effects (each tap proliferates)
- counters of every kind to proliferate — +1/+1, loyalty, charge
The Kilo, Apogee Mind deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 16× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- 13× Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot
- 10× Proliferate — every counter already placed is placed again
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
Best cards for Kilo, Apogee Mind
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion3 mana
- Zabaz, the Glimmerwasp1 mana
- Yoshimaru, Beloved Companion3 mana
- Thrummingbird2 mana
- Grateful Apparition2 mana
- Metastatic Evangel2 mana
- Vexing Radgull2 mana
- Ainok Bond-Kin2 mana
Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot
- Aggravated Assault3 mana
- Aurelia, the Warleader6 mana
- Freed from the Real3 mana
- Pemmin's Aura3 mana
- Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
- Umbral Mantle3 mana
- Unstoppable Plan3 mana
- Genji Glove5 mana
Proliferate — every counter already placed is placed again
- Karn's Bastion0 mana
- Thrummingbird2 mana
- Contagion Clasp2 mana
- Grateful Apparition2 mana
- Metastatic Evangel2 mana
- Dreamtide Whale3 mana
- Flux Channeler3 mana
- Patrolling Peacemaker3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Reshape2 mana
- Mask of the Mimic1 mana
- Long-Term Plans3 mana
- Open the Armory2 mana
- Whir of Invention3 mana
- Merchant Scroll2 mana
- Enlightened Tutor1 mana
- Mystical Tutor1 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Mindbreak Trap4 mana
- Fierce Guardianship3 mana
- Force of Negation3 mana
- Force of Will5 mana
- Flare of Denial3 mana
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
- Arcane Denial2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Supreme Verdict4 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Street Spasm1 mana
- Shatter the Sky4 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Mystic Remora1 mana
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Curiosity1 mana
- Wizard Class1 mana
- Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
- Rhystic Study3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Gold-Forged Thopteryx2 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Cryptothrall4 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
- Lost in the Maze2 mana
Combos with Kilo, Apogee Mind
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Kilo, Apogee Mind is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Kilo, Apogee Mind + Inspirit, Flagship Vessel + Magistrate's Scepter9,413 decks
- Kilo, Apogee Mind + Pentad Prism + Freed From The Real8,128 decks
- Kilo, Apogee Mind + Crystalline Crawler + Freed From The Real8,050 decks
- Kilo, Apogee Mind + Freed From The Real + Relic Of Legends7,309 decks
- Kilo, Apogee Mind + Freed From The Real + Paradise Mantle6,488 decks
- Kilo, Apogee Mind + Aura Of Dominion + Pentad Prism5,274 decks
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