10 ways to win by user6525472

Format: Commander

Commander: Kenrith, the Returned King

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck is a 5-color political Group Hug control deck helmed by Kenrith, the Returned King. It combines a comprehensive Gate land package with an array of standalone alternate win conditions, including Test of Endurance, Maze's End, Approach of the Second Sun, Happily Ever After, and Door to Nothingness. In the early turns, the deck uses symmetric draw pieces like Kwain, Itinerant Meddler and Howling Mine to curry favor and smooth out land drops, while establishing defensive barriers via Ghostly Prison and Propaganda. As the mana base expands with powerful lands like Baldur's Gate and Gond Gate, Kenrith functions as a flexible mana sink that manipulates life totals, draws cards, and recurs key utility creatures. The deck ultimately closes out games by leveraging its massive mana output and life total to trigger a sudden alternate win condition across a single table rotation.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Azorius Guildgate
  • 1 Baldur's Gate
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Biomancer's Familiar
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Black Dragon Gate
  • 1 Boros Guildgate
  • 1 Breena, the Demagogue
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Circuitous Route
  • 1 Citadel Gate
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Cliffgate
  • 1 Cloudblazer
  • 1 Coalition Victory
  • 1 Coiling Oracle
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dimir Guildgate
  • 1 District Guide
  • 1 Door to Nothingness
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faeburrow Elder
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fblthp, Impossibly Lost
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Gatebreaker Ram
  • 1 Gates Ablaze
  • 1 Gateway Plaza
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Golgari Guildgate
  • 1 Gond Gate
  • 1 Gruul Guildgate
  • 1 Happily Ever After
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 1 Humble Defector
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Izzet Guildgate
  • 1 Kami of the Crescent Moon
  • 1 Kenrith, the Returned King
  • 1 Kwain, Itinerant Meddler
  • 1 Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis
  • 1 Leyline of the Guildpact
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Manor Gate
  • 1 Maze's End
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Open the Gates
  • 1 Orzhov Advokist
  • 1 Orzhov Guildgate
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Rakdos Guildgate
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Return to Nature
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sea Gate
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Selesnya Guildgate
  • 1 Selvala, Explorer Returned
  • 1 Shadrix Silverquill
  • 1 Simic Guildgate
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spirited Companion
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Tempt with Discovery
  • 1 Test of Endurance
  • 1 The Council of Four
  • 1 The Deck of Many Things
  • 1 The Millennium Calendar
  • 1 The Wandering Minstrel
  • 1 Training Grounds
  • 1 Triskaidekaphobia
  • 1 Veteran Explorer
  • 1 Wedding Ring
  • 1 Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival
  • 1 Zirda, the Dawnwaker