Kenrith optimized by kphilly46

Format: Commander

Commander: Kenrith, the Returned King

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 50

Deck overview

This deck is a high-powered 5-color commander build headed by Kenrith, the Returned King, functioning as a versatile midrange reanimator, big-mana engine, and go-wide overrun shell. It utilizes rapid early mana acceleration and color fixing to deploy Kenrith alongside potent value multipliers such as Training Grounds, Seedborn Muse, and Smothering Tithe. Once established, the deck leverages high-impact tutors and Entomb effects to reanimate game-dominating bombs like Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur or assemble expansive token armies with Avenger of Zendikar and Scute Swarm. Kenrith acts as an omnipresent mana sink, granting immediate haste, trample, recurring recursion, and life buffer. The deck seals victories through overwhelming combat damage facilitated by Craterhoof Behemoth, massive +1/+1 counter distribution, or asymmetric burn spells like Torment of Hailfire and Crackle with Power, while defending its board with premier free interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
  • 1 Ancient Copper Dragon
  • 1 Aura Shards
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Hope
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Coat of Arms
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crackle with Power
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Darksteel Mutation
  • 1 Defense of the Heart
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Elspeth, Storm Slayer
  • 1 Enduring Vitality
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Glen Elendra Archmage
  • 1 Glissa Sunslayer
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Jetmir's Garden
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
  • 1 Kenrith, the Returned King
  • 1 Ketria Triome
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Krenko, Mob Boss
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Merieke Ri Berit
  • 1 Mirari's Wake
  • 1 Mossborn Hydra
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Necrotic Ooze
  • 1 Nightshade Dryad
  • 1 Nissa's Pilgrimage
  • 1 Oko, Thief of Crowns
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Prismatic Omen
  • 1 Purphoros, God of the Forge
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Roil Elemental
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Savai Triome
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spore Frog
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Training Grounds
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Xander's Lounge
  • 1 Zagoth Triome
  • 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground