Kenrith, Two-Card King by user3637458

Format: Commander

Commander: Kenrith, the Returned King

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 92

Deck overview

This deck is a competitive EDH powerhouse piloted by Kenrith, the Returned King, structured as an adaptive 5-color midrange-turbo combo engine. It leverages format-ceiling acceleration featuring seven 0-mana artifacts, mana dorks, and an optimized mana base of original dual lands and fetchlands. The primary route to victory is the compact Thassa's Oracle pairing with Demonic Consultation or Tainted Pact, capable of closing games cleanly on Turn 3. The strategy is reinforced by redundant win conditions including Underworld Breach storm loops with Brain Freeze and Lion's Eye Diamond, as well as Food Chain with Squee, the Immortal. A premier suite of tutors provides unmatched consistency, while proactive protection spells like Silence, Grand Abolisher, and Ranger-Captain of Eos ensure clean combo execution. Disruptive stax staples like Drannith Magistrate and Opposition Agent slow down opposing strategies while card advantage engines like Rhystic Study and Mystic Remora maintain overwhelming resource velocity.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Brain Freeze
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dramatic Reversal
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Eladamri's Call
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Food Chain
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Intuition
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Isochron Scepter
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Kenrith, the Returned King
  • 1 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Noble Hierarch
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Plateau
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ranger-Captain of Eos
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Savannah
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solitude
  • 1 Squee, the Immortal
  • 1 Survival of the Fittest
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Tainted Pact
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldly Tutor