Kenrith, The Returned King by riboyi9814

Format: Commander

Commander: Kenrith, the Returned King

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Kenrith, the Returned King leads a five-color value-and-combo build that accelerates into a critical mass of mana, then uses cheap untap enchantments on Faeburrow Elder or Incubation Druid to produce infinite colored mana. Kenrith is both the draw engine and the finisher: his {3}{U} activation can deck each opponent once the mana loop is online. A supporting layer of stax/tax pieces and powerful threats (Grand Arbiter, Smothering Tithe, Gisela) buys time and provides alternate beatdown wins. The deck is not an early all-in; it plays a mid-game combo game with a control-ish shell, relying on high-value draw and a five-color mana base. Its main risks are a slow manabase and dependence on Kenrith staying on the battlefield.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
  • 1 Baird, Steward of Argive
  • 1 Biomancer's Familiar
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Charitable Levy
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cruel Entertainment
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Deflecting Palm
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faeburrow Elder
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Feroz's Ban
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Final Parting
  • 1 Flare of Denial
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Forced Fruition
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Freed from the Real
  • 1 Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
  • 1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
  • 1 Gyre Sage
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Hellkite Tyrant
  • 1 Incubation Druid
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Invert Polarity
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs
  • 1 Kenrith, the Returned King
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Lightning, Army of One
  • 1 Mai, Scornful Striker
  • 1 Mangara, the Diplomat
  • 1 Merchant Scroll
  • 1 Modify Memory
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pemmin's Aura
  • 1 Phyrexian Tyranny
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Profane Transfusion
  • 1 Promise of Loyalty
  • 1 Reins of Power
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rubinia Soulsinger
  • 1 Shattergang Brothers
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Sudden Substitution
  • 1 Sun Quan, Lord of Wu
  • 1 Sundown Pass
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Tempt with Discovery
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 Training Grounds
  • 1 Treasure Nabber
  • 1 Truth or Consequences
  • 1 Villainous Wealth
  • 1 Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands
  • 1 Warrior's Oath
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Weathered Wayfarer
  • 1 Wrong Turn
  • 1 Xander's Lounge
  • 1 Zacama, Primal Calamity
  • 1 Zirda, the Dawnwaker