Everyone Gets a Nuke by MrDanoMano35

Format: Commander

Commander: Kenrith, the Returned King

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This five-color deck, helmed by Kenrith, the Returned King, embraces a group-hug philosophy that aims to accelerate the entire table with symmetrical draw, mana, and land-advantage effects. The primary strategy is to survive the chaos it creates by deploying a pillowfort suite-Ghostly Prison, Propaganda, No Mercy-and asymmetrical board wipes like Supreme Verdict and Ruinous Ultimatum. Kenrith's activated abilities provide the deck's primary engine: drawing cards, granting trample and haste, placing +1/+1 counters, gaining life, and reanimating creatures from any graveyard. The deck lacks a focused, fast win condition; it typically wins through attrition by using Kenrith's reanimation to rebuild after a wipe, then pumping the resulting board to trample over opponents. Cost reducers such as Training Grounds, Biomancer's Familiar, and Zirda, the Dawnwaker lower the activation costs of Kenrith's abilities, but without an infinite mana combo the deck remains a slow, grind-based value engine.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agatha of the Vile Cauldron
  • 1 Angel's Grace
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Asgardian Citadel
  • 1 Awakening
  • 1 Biomancer's Familiar
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Botanical Sanctum
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Braids, Conjurer Adept
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Burgeoning
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Comeuppance
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dawn Charm
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Dictate of Karametra
  • 1 Dictate of Kruphix
  • 1 Dimension X
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Everybody Lives!
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faeburrow Elder
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 1 Flux
  • 1 Fog
  • 1 Folio of Fancies
  • 1 Forced Fruition
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Ghirapur Orrery
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Helm of Awakening
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 1 Hunted Wumpus
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jace Beleren
  • 1 Jungle Hollow
  • 1 Jungle Shrine
  • 1 Kami of the Crescent Moon
  • 1 Kenrith, the Returned King
  • 1 Kwain, Itinerant Meddler
  • 1 Leyline of the Guildpact
  • 1 Library of Leng
  • 1 Magus of the Vineyard
  • 1 Mana Flare
  • 1 Minds Aglow
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mutant Town
  • 1 No Mercy
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Prosperity
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rites of Flourishing
  • 1 Rootweaver Druid
  • 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
  • 1 Savage Lands
  • 1 Seaside Citadel
  • 1 Shieldmage Advocate
  • 1 Show and Tell
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellbook
  • 1 Spore Frog
  • 1 Spurnmage Advocate
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Tempt with Discovery
  • 1 Tempting Contract
  • 1 Tempting Wurm
  • 1 The Second Doctor
  • 1 The World Tree
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tidal Barracuda
  • 1 Training Grounds
  • 1 Veteran Explorer
  • 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
  • 1 Walking Archive
  • 1 Zenith Chronicler
  • 1 Zirda, the Dawnwaker