The King's Checkmate by GingerGnome

Format: Commander

Commander: Kenrith, the Returned King

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 75

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power 5-Color Combo Control build commanded by Kenrith, the Returned King. It utilizes a dense suite of one-mana mana dorks and two-mana ramp pieces to accelerate mana development while establishing potent card advantage engines such as Rhystic Study, Mystic Remora, and Sylvan Library. The deck aims to assemble compact, game-ending win conditions by Turn 3 or 4, primarily executing the Thassa's Oracle and Demonic Consultation line. Alternatively, it can generate infinite colored mana using Bloom Tender or Faeburrow Elder enchanted with Freed from the Real or Pemmin's Aura, allowing Kenrith, the Returned King to force all opponents to draw their entire libraries at instant speed. Backed by efficient protection spells like Silence, Veil of Summer, and Fierce Guardianship, alongside reactive disruption and flash hate pieces like Opposition Agent, the deck can reliably protect its win attempts and seamlessly pivot across multiple independent combo lines.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Devoted Druid
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Eladamri's Call
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Faeburrow Elder
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Forbidden Orchard
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Freed from the Real
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Heliod, Sun-Crowned
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Kenrith, the Returned King
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pemmin's Aura
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spara's Headquarters
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Tainted Pact
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Talisman of Unity
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Training Grounds
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Zagoth Triome
  • 1 Zirda, the Dawnwaker