Border patrol by user4281514

Format: Commander

Commander: Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This is a Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy ramp deck that uses mana creatures and artifacts to reach large creatures ahead of schedule. Its strongest engine is Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy plus Basalt Monolith, which produces infinite colorless mana. A separate colored mana source turns that mana into repeated commander activations, allowing non-Human creatures to enter directly from the top five cards of the library. The deck can then build a lethal combat board with Jumbo Cactuar, Blightsteel Colossus, Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus, and other large threats. The engine is powerful but not fully deterministic: it needs a colored source, requires Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy to survive, and has no compact outlet that wins immediately from infinite mana alone. Interaction is present but limited, and recovery after a full engine wipe is slow. The normal supported line assembles around turn 5, creates a must-answer board engine that turn, and aims to finish on turn 6.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 All-Fates Scroll
  • 1 Ancient Stone Idol
  • 1 Assimilate Essence
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Blightsteel Colossus
  • 1 Blitzball
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Bugenhagen, Wise Elder
  • 1 Cancel
  • 1 Crossroads Candleguide
  • 1 Cultivator Colossus
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Energy Refractor
  • 1 Essence Scatter
  • 1 Explore
  • 14 Forest
  • 1 Freed from the Real
  • 1 Frenzied Baloth
  • 1 Genesis Wave
  • 1 Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
  • 1 Goobbue Gardener
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Gyre Engineer
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Invasion of Ikoria // Zilortha, Apex of Ikoria
  • 15 Island
  • 1 Jumbo Cactuar
  • 1 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
  • 1 Koma, Cosmos Serpent
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Loyal Inventor
  • 1 Magic Damper
  • 1 Moonsilver Key
  • 1 Murkfiend Liege
  • 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
  • 1 Nature's Rhythm
  • 1 Omen Hawker
  • 1 Overprotect
  • 1 Peter Parker's Camera
  • 1 Poison Dart Frog
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Prismite
  • 1 Prophet of Distortion
  • 1 Quandrix Charm
  • 1 Raucous Audience
  • 1 Ringing Strike Mastery
  • 1 Saryth, the Viper's Fang
  • 1 Scour for Scrap
  • 1 Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu
  • 1 Simic Signet
  • 1 Sire of Seven Deaths
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Spider-Man No More
  • 1 Springleaf Drum
  • 1 Springleaf Parade
  • 1 Strength of Will
  • 1 Summon: Bahamut
  • 1 Surrak and Goreclaw
  • 1 The Notary Hobbits
  • 1 The Tarrasque
  • 1 Three Tree Rootweaver
  • 1 Titan of Industry
  • 1 Trinket Mage
  • 1 Tyvar, the Pummeler
  • 1 Urn of Godfire
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Whir of Invention
  • 1 Wildborn Preserver
  • 1 Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus