Kellan the kid by travis.Rodriguez1

Format: Commander

Commander: Kellan, the Kid

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 57

Deck overview

This Bant list is built around Kellan, the Kid, leveraging spells cast from exile, adventures, foretell, and the top of the library to cheat permanents into play. The deck uses low-cost mana dorks and cost-reduction creatures like Doc Aurlock to deploy Kellan on Turn 3. Once online, engines such as Vega, the Watcher, Future Sight, and Monk Gyatso generate substantial card advantage while flooding the board with lands and creatures. The primary path to victory is a compact infinite mana loop using Emiel the Blessed and Peregrine Drake. With infinite mana, the deck flickers Spirited Companion to draw its entire library and loops Eternal Witness with Reality Shift to exile every opponent's library in a single turn. Backed by cheap counterspells and targeted removal, the list combines explosive value generation with a deterministic combo finish.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Appa, Steadfast Guardian
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Augur of Autumn
  • 1 Autumn's Veil
  • 1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
  • 1 Bilbo, Thief in the Night
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Brazen Borrower // Petty Theft
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Case of the Locked Hothouse
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clifftop Lookout
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Depart the Realm
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Destiny Spinner
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Elven Chorus
  • 1 Emiel the Blessed
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Fortune Teller's Talent
  • 1 Future Sight
  • 1 Gemstone Mine
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hidden Courtyard
  • 1 Hidden Nursery
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Impulse
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Kellan, the Kid
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Monk Gyatso
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Natural Order
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Nature's Rhythm
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nomads en-Kor
  • 1 Once Upon a Time
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Peregrine Drake
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Preston, the Vanisher
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Recruiter of the Guard
  • 1 Restoration Angel
  • 1 Seachrome Coast
  • 1 Semblance Anvil
  • 1 Shaman en-Kor
  • 1 Skyclave Apparition
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spirit en-Kor
  • 1 Spirited Companion
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Surge of Brilliance
  • 1 Surge of Salvation
  • 1 Suspend
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Curiosity
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Vega, the Watcher
  • 1 White Plume Adventurer
  • 1 Windbrisk Heights
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wood Elves
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast