Not mine, testing by Runnin

Format: Commander

Commander: Kenrith, the Returned King

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 50

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy 5-color Zombie tribal reanimator and aristocrats engine commanded by Kenrith, the Returned King. The game plan focuses on rapidly stocking the graveyard through self-mill, looting, and creature sacrifice, while establishing mana acceleration with multi-color dorks like Bloom Tender and Faeburrow Elder. By Turn 4, the deck deploys key card engines such as Undead Augur, Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver, or Birthing Pod to generate overwhelming card velocity. The deck closes games around Turn 5 using explosive mass reanimation from Living Death, attrition from Tombstone Stairwell, or drain loops with Gravecrawler, Phyrexian Altar, and Diregraf Captain or Gray Merchant of Asphodel. Kenrith acts as an omnipresent mana sink and haste enabler in the command zone, allowing reanimated boards to attack immediately. While exceptionally resilient against creature destruction, the deck remains vulnerable to dedicated graveyard hate and lacks countermagic to protect against fast combo interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
• 1 Ancient Tomb
• 1 Animate Dead
• 1 Apprentice Necromancer
• 1 Arid Mesa
• 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
• 1 Birthing Pod
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Bloom Tender
• 1 Bone Shards
• 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 1 Carrion Feeder
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Cryptbreaker
• 1 Cryptolith Rite
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Deathrite Shaman
• 1 Diregraf Captain
• 1 Diregraf Colossus
• 1 Dread Return
• 1 Entomb
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Faeburrow Elder
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Fatestitcher
• 1 Fell Stinger
• 1 Field of the Dead
• 1 Fleshbag Marauder
• 1 Forest
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Graveborn Muse
• 1 Gravecrawler
• 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1 Greater Good
• 1 Headless Rider
• 1 Indatha Triome
• 1 Island
• 1 Kenrith, the Returned King
• 1 Ketria Triome
• 1 Kindred Discovery
• 1 Krosan Verge
• 1 Ledger Shredder
• 1 Lethal Scheme
• 1 Life from the Loam
• 1 Liliana's Standard Bearer
• 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
• 1 Living Death
• 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
• 1 Marsh Flats
• 1 Masked Vandal
• 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1 Misty Rainforest
• 1 Nature's Claim
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 Necromancy
• 1 Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion
• 1 Nevinyrral, Urborg Tyrant
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Phyrexian Altar
• 1 Phyrexian Delver
• 1 Phyrexian Tower
• 1 Plumb the Forbidden
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Pyre of Heroes
• 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Resculpt
• 1 Riveteers Ascendancy
• 1 Rot Hulk
• 1 Scalding Tarn
• 1 Selhoff Entomber
• 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soldevi Adnate
• 1 Stitcher's Supplier
• 1 Stomping Ground
• 1 Sun Titan
• 1 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1 Temple Garden
• 1 The World Tree
• 1 Three Visits
• 1 Thrilling Encore
• 1 Tombstone Stairwell
• 1 Undead Augur
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1 Varina, Lich Queen
• 1 Verdant Catacombs
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver
• 1 Windswept Heath
• 1 Wooded Foothills
• 1 World Shaper
• 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
• 1 Zagoth Triome
• 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground