Every Vote Counts I Swear

Format: Commander

Commander: Kenrith, the Returned King

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This deck leverages Kenrith, the Returned King as the centerpiece of a 5-color political control strategy. It combines voting cards, council dilemmas, and pillowfort enchantments like Ghostly Prison and Propaganda to control game tempo and deflect aggression toward opponents. Meanwhile, it develops mana through 2-3 CMC ramp and uses cost reducers like Training Grounds, Biomancer's Familiar, and Zirda, the Dawnwaker to unlock hyper-efficient activations from Kenrith. Once stabilized, the deck transitions from political negotiation to decisive victory via the Composite Golem reanimation loop, producing infinite mana of all colors to draw the entire library, pump all creatures with infinite +1/+1 counters, and grant haste and trample for an immediate table elimination. Alternate win paths such as Approach of the Second Sun, Tivit, Seller of Secrets, and Expropriate provide resilient backup routes when primary combo pieces face targeted resistance.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Aragorn, King of Gondor
  • 1 Aragorn, the Uniter
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Ballot Broker
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Biomancer's Familiar
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bite of the Black Rose
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brago's Representative
  • 1 Breena, the Demagogue
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Capital Punishment
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Composite Golem
  • 1 Council's Judgment
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Court of Grace
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Círdan the Shipwright
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Eclipsed Steppe
  • 1 Emissary Green
  • 1 Erestor of the Council
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expropriate
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faeburrow Elder
  • 1 Farseek
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Gluntch, the Bestower
  • 1 Idyllic Tutor
  • 1 Illusion of Choice
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Kenrith, the Returned King
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Magister of Worth
  • 1 Mangara, the Diplomat
  • 1 Marchesa's Decree
  • 1 Master of Ceremonies
  • 1 Model of Unity
  • 1 Monologue Tax
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pia, Aether Ascetic
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Plea for Power
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Prisoner's Dilemma
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Queen Marchesa
  • 1 Radiant Summit
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Revel in Riches
  • 1 Sail into the West
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Split Decision
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Sundown Pass
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tempt with Discovery
  • 1 Tempting Contract
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Council of Four
  • 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
  • 1 Training Grounds
  • 1 Vault 11: Voter's Dilemma
  • 1 Wheel of Misfortune
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Zirda, the Dawnwaker