It's Your Choice- Really! by aerialviolet

Format: Commander

Commander: Kenrith, the Returned King

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color political group-slug and attrition control deck commanded by Kenrith, the Returned King. Its game plan revolves around presenting opponents with lose-lose choices, leveraging pile-splitter tutors, voting spells, and punisher enchantments. In the early game, the deck establishes defensive barriers such as Charismatic Conqueror, Norn's Annex, and Marchesa's Decree while smoothing its five-color mana requirements. During the midgame, it deploys taxing attrition engines like Court of Ambition, Painful Quandary, and Rottenmouth Viper, steadily draining opposing life totals and stripping hands. The endgame culminates in high-impact finishers including Emergent Ultimatum, Torment of Hailfire, and Archfiend of Despair, which rapidly doubles life loss across the table. While the deck boasts high political leverage and strong recursion through Kenrith, its high mana curve, tapland base, and reliance on conditional interaction leave it vulnerable to fast combo and targeted removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abstract Performance
  • 1 Archfiend of Despair
  • 1 Archfiend of Spite
  • 1 Baeloth Barrityl, Entertainer
  • 1 Boneyard Parley
  • 1 Brilliant Ultimatum
  • 1 Burning-Rune Demon
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Captive Audience
  • 1 Cataclysmic Gearhulk
  • 1 Charismatic Conqueror
  • 1 Choice of Damnations
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Coastal Peak
  • 1 Combustible Gearhulk
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Council's Judgment
  • 1 Court of Ambition
  • 1 Cunning Rhetoric
  • 1 Deliver Unto Evil
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dread
  • 1 Dredge the Mire
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Druid of Purification
  • 1 Echoing Deeps
  • 1 Elemental Teachings
  • 1 Emergent Ultimatum
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Festering Thicket
  • 1 Fetid Pools
  • 1 Florian, Voldaren Scion
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Garland, Royal Kidnapper
  • 1 Ghost Quarter
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Glittering Massif
  • 1 Grip of Amnesia
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Ill-Gotten Gains
  • 1 Illicit Auction
  • 1 Irrigated Farmland
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs
  • 1 Kenrith, the Returned King
  • 1 Killing Wave
  • 1 Krosan Verge
  • 1 Mages' Contest
  • 1 Magister of Worth
  • 1 Manifold Insights
  • 1 Marchesa's Decree
  • 1 Mocking Doppelganger
  • 1 Mogis, God of Slaughter
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Murmuring Bosk
  • 1 Norn's Annex
  • 1 Pain's Reward
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Perplex
  • 1 Petrified Field
  • 1 Pir's Whim
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Plargg and Nassari
  • 1 Plaza of Heroes
  • 1 Prince of Thralls
  • 1 Promise of Loyalty
  • 1 Protection Racket
  • 1 Queen Marchesa
  • 1 Rags // Riches
  • 1 Rain-Slicked Copse
  • 1 Realms Uncharted
  • 1 Riftstone Portal
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Rottenmouth Viper
  • 1 Scattered Groves
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Selvala's Stampede
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Single Combat
  • 1 Skullwinder
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Tempt with Discovery
  • 1 The Lord of Pain
  • 1 The World Tree
  • 1 Threats Undetected
  • 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Umbral Expanse
  • 1 Volcanic Offering
  • 1 Watchers of the Dead
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Zanarkand, Ancient Metropolis // Lasting Fayth