5-Color Politics by user4415464

Format: Commander

Commander: Kenrith, the Returned King

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This five-color Group Hug deck helmed by Kenrith, the Returned King leverages political goodwill, universal mana doublers, and symmetrical draw engines to accelerate the entire table before closing the game with decisive asymmetrical finishers. Early turns focus on accelerating board states with cards like Heartbeat of Spring, Howling Mine, and Veteran Explorer, which disarm aggressive opponents and encourage attacks elsewhere. Ghostly Prison and Propaganda provide necessary pillowfort protection against opposing creature swarms. As the table's hand sizes and mana pools swell, the deck pivots toward win conditions that weaponize massive resource volumes, such as Smothering Tithe, Psychosis Crawler, large Prosperity or Fascination spells, and Approach of the Second Sun. Kenrith, the Returned King acts as the ultimate Swiss Army knife, providing card draw, life gain, reanimation, and trample overruns to manage threats and seal victory.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Braids, Conjurer Adept
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Collective Voyage
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dictate of Karametra
  • 1 Dictate of Kruphix
  • 1 Dockside Extortionist
  • 1 Edric, Spymaster of Trest
  • 1 Eerie Interlude
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faeburrow Elder
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Fascination
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flumph
  • 1 Folio of Fancies
  • 1 Font of Mythos
  • 1 Forbidden Orchard
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Gahiji, Honored One
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Gluntch, the Bestower
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Heartbeat of Spring
  • 1 Horn of Greed
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 1 Hunted Phantasm
  • 1 Hunted Troll
  • 1 Hunted Wumpus
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Kami of the Crescent Moon
  • 1 Kenrith, the Returned King
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Kwain, Itinerant Meddler
  • 1 Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Flare
  • 1 Minds Aglow
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Noble Benefactor
  • 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
  • 1 Otherworld Atlas
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Plaza of Heroes
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Prosperity
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Rites of Flourishing
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Seaside Citadel
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Selvala, Explorer Returned
  • 1 Skyscribing
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple Bell
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Tempt with Discovery
  • 1 Tempting Wurm
  • 1 The World Tree
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Upwelling
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Veteran Explorer
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Zedruu the Greathearted
  • 1 Zirda, the Dawnwaker