Kenrith Current Buildnew (copy) by mordonextra

Format: Commander

Commander: Kenrith, the Returned King

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 55

Deck overview

This deck is a high-powered 5-Color Reanimator strategy piloted by Kenrith, the Returned King. It functions by accelerating mana on early turns, depositing game-ending creature bombs into the graveyard via Buried Alive, Formidable Speaker, and Stargaze, and reanimating them ahead of curve using efficient spells like Reanimate, Animate Dead, and Victimize. Kenrith provides an unmatched utility toolbox in the command zone, especially when combined with cost-reducing engines such as Training Grounds and Biomancer's Familiar, allowing cheap card draw, recursion, and team-wide haste buffs. Powerhouse targets including Archon of Cruelty, Atraxa, Grand Unifier, and Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur establish crushing card advantage and resource denial starting on Turn 4. Supported by robust defensive suites like Sylvan Safekeeper, Flawless Maneuver, and Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar, the deck smoothly protects its board before closing the game around Turn 6 via overwhelming combat damage or a devastating Torment of Hailfire.

Decklist (101 cards)

  • 1 Agatha of the Vile Cauldron
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arbor Adherent
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Armored Scrapgorger
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Atraxa, Grand Unifier
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Biomancer's Familiar
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Boros Charm
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Burning-Rune Demon
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hapatra, the Desert Frost
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Homeward Path
  • 1 Ioreth of the Healing House
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Kenrith, the Returned King
  • 1 Kiora of Fire and Ashes
  • 1 Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 1 Mona Lisa, Science Geek
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Noxious Revival
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Requisition Raid
  • 1 Restoration Magic
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shelob, Dread Weaver
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stargaze
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Training Grounds
  • 1 Tyvar's Stand
  • 1 Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Vibrant Cityscape
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wood Elves
  • 1 Zirda, the Dawnwaker