Noctis by user4953088

Format: Commander

Commander: Kenrith, the Returned King

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color legendary-matters midrange build commanded by Kenrith, the Returned King. It synergizes high-impact legendary permanents, crossover Final Fantasy characters, and powerful value engines like Jodah, the Unifier and Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge. The strategy focuses on establishing early mana fixing and ramp, transitioning into a dense board of legendary creatures that scale rapidly through anthem effects and multi-color triggers. Kenrith provides essential late-game utility, granting haste, trample, card advantage, and instant-speed recursion to bypass summoning sickness and recover from board wipes. While the deck possesses explosive combat capabilities and flexible reactive answers, its reliance on numerous tapped Town lands introduces tempo friction. Winning the game is achieved through overwhelming combat damage, leveraging Kenrith and evasive or tap-down effects to break through opposing defenses over multiple combat steps.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aerith Gainsborough
  • 1 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate
  • 1 Aragorn, the Uniter
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Atraxa, Grand Unifier
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Baron, Airship Kingdom
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Boros Charm
  • 1 Burgeoning
  • 1 Capital City
  • 1 Captain America, Living Legend
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno
  • 1 Cloud of Darkness
  • 1 Crackling Doom
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld
  • 1 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge
  • 1 Espers to Magicite
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exdeath, Void Warlock // Neo Exdeath, Dimension's End
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faeburrow Elder
  • 1 Fang, Fearless l'Cie
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flowering of the White Tree
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Gladiolus Amicitia
  • 1 Gohn, Town of Ruin
  • 1 Golbez, Crystal Collector
  • 1 Guadosalam, Farplane Gateway
  • 1 Ignis Scientia
  • 1 Ishgard, the Holy See // Faith & Grief
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
  • 1 Jodah, the Unifier
  • 1 Kenrith, the Returned King
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Lindblum, Industrial Regency // Mage Siege
  • 1 Louisoix's Sacrifice
  • 1 Marisi, Breaker of the Coil
  • 1 Merieke Ri Berit
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Moment of Reckoning
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nibelheim Aflame
  • 1 Omega, Heartless Evolution
  • 1 Overkill
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Prishe's Wanderings
  • 1 Professor Dellian Fel
  • 1 Prompto Argentum
  • 1 Rabanastre, Royal City
  • 1 Rosa, Resolute White Mage
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Sephiroth, Planet's Heir
  • 1 Serah Farron // Crystallized Serah
  • 1 Sharlayan, Nation of Scholars
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Snow Villiers
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Thor, God of Thunder
  • 1 Thriving Bluff
  • 1 Thriving Heath
  • 1 Thriving Isle
  • 1 Thunder Magic
  • 1 Tidus, Blitzball Star
  • 1 Ugin, Eye of the Storms
  • 1 Ultima, Origin of Oblivion
  • 1 Ultimecia, Temporal Threat
  • 1 Ultimecia, Time Sorceress // Ultimecia, Omnipotent
  • 1 Vanille, Cheerful l'Cie
  • 1 Vector, Imperial Capital
  • 1 Vivi Ornitier
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 White Auracite
  • 1 Xande, Dark Mage
  • 1 Y'shtola Rhul