final fantasy by user3851465

Format: Commander

Commander: Kenrith, the Returned King

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is five-color midrange value helmed by Kenrith, the Returned King, whose activated abilities glue together three intertwined themes: Towns, legendary creatures, and Sagas. Twenty-one Town lands form a slow-but-flexible mana skeleton and feed payoffs like The Wandering Minstrel, PuPu UFO, Travel the Overworld, and Reach the Horizon. A dense legendary suite is rewarded by Serah Farron's cost reduction, Venat, Heart of Hydaelyn's one-draw-per-legendary-cast, and Clive's Hideaway's free-cast unlock. Kenrith supplies the deck's most important effects from the command zone - {R} haste/trample, {4}{B} reanimation, and {3}{U} draw. The deck wins through combat attrition rather than combos: Kenrith's haste turns Jumbo Cactuar into a one-shot-per-turn 10,000-power trampler, while Summon: Bahamut's Mega Flare can end the entire table in one chapter. Milling, discarding, and Saga value keep the engine fed.

Decklist (94 cards)

  • 1 Adventurer's Inn
  • 1 Airship Crash
  • 1 Ancient Adamantoise
  • 1 Ardyn, the Usurper
  • 1 Balamb Garden, SeeD Academy // Balamb Garden, Airborne
  • 1 Baron, Airship Kingdom
  • 1 Battle Menu
  • 1 Buster Sword
  • 1 Capital City
  • 1 Clash of the Eikons
  • 1 Clive's Hideaway
  • 1 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno
  • 1 Cloud's Limit Break
  • 1 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary
  • 1 Combat Tutorial
  • 1 Crossroads Village
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dark Confidant
  • 1 Esper Origins // Summon: Esper Maduin
  • 1 Fire Magic
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Freya Crescent
  • 1 Gladiolus Amicitia
  • 1 Gohn, Town of Ruin
  • 1 Gongaga, Reactor Town
  • 1 Goobbue Gardener
  • 1 Guadosalam, Farplane Gateway
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Ice Magic
  • 1 Ignis Scientia
  • 1 Insomnia, Crown City
  • 1 Ishgard, the Holy See // Faith & Grief
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jecht, Reluctant Guardian // Braska's Final Aeon
  • 1 Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
  • 1 Jill, Shiva's Dominant // Shiva, Warden of Ice
  • 1 Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant // Phoenix, Warden of Fire
  • 1 Jumbo Cactuar
  • 1 Kenrith, the Returned King
  • 1 Lindblum, Industrial Regency // Mage Siege
  • 1 Louisoix's Sacrifice
  • 1 Magic Damper
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Overkill
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Prompto Argentum
  • 1 PuPu UFO
  • 1 Rabanastre, Royal City
  • 1 Random Encounter
  • 1 Reach the Horizon
  • 1 Restoration Magic
  • 1 Ring of the Lucii
  • 1 Rydia, Summoner of Mist
  • 1 Serah Farron // Crystallized Serah
  • 1 Seymour Flux
  • 1 Sharlayan, Nation of Scholars
  • 1 Sidequest: Catch a Fish // Cooking Campsite
  • 1 Sin, Spira's Punishment
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Summon: Bahamut
  • 1 Summon: Leviathan
  • 1 Summon: Titan
  • 1 Summoner's Grimoire
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Syncopate
  • 1 Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra
  • 1 The Wandering Minstrel
  • 1 Thunder Magic
  • 1 Tifa Lockhart
  • 1 Torgal, A Fine Hound
  • 1 Town Greeter
  • 1 Travel the Overworld
  • 1 Treno, Dark City
  • 1 Vector, Imperial Capital
  • 1 Venat, Heart of Hydaelyn // Hydaelyn, the Mothercrystal
  • 1 Windurst, Federation Center
  • 1 World Map
  • 1 Yuna, Hope of Spira
  • 1 Zanarkand, Ancient Metropolis // Lasting Fayth
  • 1 Zell Dincht