Kenrith by user1209166

Format: Commander

Commander: Kenrith, the Returned King

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a five-color Kenrith combo-control deck that uses mana dorks, mana rocks, and a dense tutor suite to reach an early compact kill. Kenrith is both a value engine and the outlet for infinite mana: his blue and black abilities draw and reanimate, while his red and green abilities turn a large board into a hasty lethal swing. The primary win line is Thassa's Oracle plus Demonic Consultation or Tainted Pact. Backup lines are Auriok Salvagers with Lion's Eye Diamond and Hullbreaker Horror with Sol Ring and Mana Vault, both generating infinite mana for Kenrith. A small stax package (Peacekeeper, Crawlspace, Meekstone) buys time. Zirda is a value piece, not a legal companion, because most lands and several permanents lack activated abilities.

Decklist (99 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Auriok Salvagers
  • 1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Biomancer's Familiar
  • 1 Blazing Archon
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Carpet of Flowers
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crawlspace
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Defense of the Heart
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Engineered Explosives
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faeburrow Elder
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Incubation Druid
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Kenrith, the Returned King
  • 1 Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
  • 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Meekstone
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mother of Runes
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Nature's Rhythm
  • 1 Neoform
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Peacekeeper
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Razorverge Thicket
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 River of Tears
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Silent Arbiter
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Snapcaster Mage
  • 1 Snow-Covered Forest
  • 1 Snow-Covered Island
  • 1 Snow-Covered Plains
  • 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Spike Weaver
  • 1 Spore Frog
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Pact
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Zagoth Triome
  • 1 Zirda, the Dawnwaker