The Federal Reserve by TheDahv

Format: Commander

Commander: Kenrith, the Returned King

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This deck is a 5-color political token swarm and permanent exchange strategy commanded by Kenrith, the Returned King. It leverages early acceleration and mana fixing to establish powerful value engines such as Smothering Tithe, Black Market Connections, and Training Grounds. By offering political incentives and token gifts through cards like Tempt with Bunnies, Benevolent Offering, and Gluntch, the Bestower, the deck builds an immense resource advantage while masking its threat level. It stacks token multipliers including Doubling Season, Parallel Lives, and Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation to create dozens of tokens in a single turn. Kenrith serves as a versatile utility engine in the command zone, providing card draw, reanimation, and instant-speed team-wide trample and haste. High-impact theft spells like Blatant Thievery and Brand synergies round out a flexible midrange plan that overwhelms opponents in combat.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Adrix and Nev, Twincasters
  • 1 Agent of Treachery
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Anointed Procession
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Bazaar Trader
  • 1 Benevolent Offering
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blatant Thievery
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Bootleggers' Stash
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Brand
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Bribery
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Coveted Falcon
  • 1 Coveted Jewel
  • 1 Cultural Exchange
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Donate
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faeburrow Elder
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fateful Handoff
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Forbidden Orchard
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Fractured Identity
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Genesis Chamber
  • 1 Gilded Drake
  • 1 Gluntch, the Bestower
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Harmless Offering
  • 1 Hithlain Rope
  • 1 Humble Defector
  • 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
  • 1 Kenrith, the Returned King
  • 1 Kwain, Itinerant Meddler
  • 1 Legerdemain
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mass Manipulation
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mondrak, Glory Dominus
  • 1 Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation // Temple of Civilization
  • 1 Old Gnawbone
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Parallel Lives
  • 1 Pendant of Prosperity
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Role Reversal
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Selvala, Explorer Returned
  • 1 Shifting Loyalties
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stiltzkin, Moogle Merchant
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Tempt with Bunnies
  • 1 Tempt with Discovery
  • 1 Tempt with Vengeance
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Training Grounds
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Xorn
  • 1 Zedruu the Greathearted