Jumbo cactuar by Jwoody2257

Format: Commander

Commander: Kenrith, the Returned King

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 14

Deck overview

This deck uses Kenrith, the Returned King as a flexible late-game engine. His abilities grant haste and trample, grow creatures, draw cards, gain life, and reanimate creatures, but each activation is expensive. The main pressure plan is to develop lands, cast large threats, and use Kenrith, the Returned King to make a threat attack immediately. Jumbo Cactuar is the strongest single combat payoff: with haste and trample, its attack trigger creates lethal damage against one opponent. That line requires eight mana, the commander, and a singleton threat without tutor support, so it is a ceiling rather than a dependable win route. The deck has reasonable creature removal and some protection, but little stack interaction, weak selection, many tapped lands, and no compact combo. It is best suited to slower casual or upgraded-precon tables where incremental creature value and repeated combat matter.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead
  • 1 Aether Refinery
  • 1 Alabaster Potion
  • 1 Animist's Might
  • 1 Apocalypse Hydra
  • 1 Arcade Cabinet
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bighorner Rancher
  • 1 Bite Down
  • 1 Blossoming Bogbeast
  • 1 Blossoming Sands
  • 1 Bountiful Landscape
  • 1 Bovine Intervention
  • 1 Brightmare
  • 1 Broodguard Elite
  • 1 Chastise
  • 1 Command Bridge
  • 1 Coordinated Clobbering
  • 1 Dazzling Reflection
  • 1 Defend the Rider
  • 1 Dina, Essence Brewer
  • 1 Dismal Backwater
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fierce Retribution
  • 1 Fling
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Get Out
  • 1 Graypelt Refuge
  • 1 Hunter's Talent
  • 1 Icefeather Aven
  • 1 Immolating Glare
  • 1 Infested Thrinax
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Jumbo Cactuar
  • 1 Jungle Hollow
  • 1 Kenrith, the Returned King
  • 1 Klothys, God of Destiny
  • 1 Krumar Initiate
  • 1 Live or Die
  • 1 Makeshift Binding
  • 1 Monstrous Emergence
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Myr Convert
  • 1 Nature's Way
  • 1 Neglected Manor
  • 1 Nova Cleric
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Overkill
  • 1 Peema Aether-Seer
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Polukranos, Unchained
  • 1 Popular Egotist
  • 1 Predator's Rapport
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Rakish Scoundrel
  • 1 Reconstruct History
  • 1 Reroute Systems
  • 1 Resistance Fighter
  • 1 Riot Control
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rugged Highlands
  • 1 Sacred Nectar
  • 1 Sanguine Savior
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Signature Slam
  • 1 Smallpox
  • 1 Soul's Fire
  • 1 Soul's Grace
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftwater Cliffs
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Thornwood Falls
  • 1 Thud
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Wall of Reverence
  • 1 Windswift Slice