temp by user2767804

Format: Commander

Commander: Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

This is a competitive Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy combo deck. The commander turns Basalt Monolith into an infinite colorless-mana engine: the Monolith produces four through Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy, and three mana untaps it. The preferred outlet is Walking Ballista, which can enter with enough counters to deal 40 damage to each opponent. The deck supports this plan with fast mana, artifact tutors, creature tutors, and free counterspells. Its best draws can assemble the loop very early, but ordinary execution is closer to turn 4 for the operational engine and turn 5 for a reliable lethal attempt. The deck has strong access and interaction, but the primary permanents remain vulnerable before the loop is active. It does not present a dependable stax plan or a separate commander-independent win route. Colored infinite mana is not automatic, so Thrasios, Triton Hero is a value option rather than a required part of the primary kill.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Allosaurus Shepherd
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Autumn's Veil
  • 1 Azure Mage
  • 1 Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Botanical Sanctum
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Chromatic Orrery
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Dispel
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Energy Refractor
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Freed from the Real
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Gemstone Array
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Intuition
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
  • 1 Kuldotha Forgemaster
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Mental Misstep
  • 1 Merchant Scroll
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Moonsilver Key
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Multiversal Passage
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Natural Order
  • 1 Nature's Rhythm
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Paradise Mantle
  • 1 Pemmin's Aura
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Prismite
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Reshape
  • 1 Retraction Helix
  • 1 Rings of Brighthearth
  • 1 Simic Signet
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Staff of Domination
  • 1 Stonework Packbeast
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Sylvan Tutor
  • 1 Talisman of Curiosity
  • 1 Tezzeret the Seeker
  • 1 Thrasios, Triton Hero
  • 1 Tidespout Tyrant
  • 1 Timetwister
  • 1 Transmutation Font
  • 1 Trophy Mage
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Waterlogged Grove
  • 1 Whir of Invention
  • 1 Willowrush Verge
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast