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Format: Commander

Commander: Kenrith, the Returned King

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Kenrith is a five-color activated-ability engine. The deck ramps hard early, lands Kenrith on turn three or four, and uses Training Grounds, Biomancer's Familiar, and Zirda to make his draw, pump, haste, and reanimate abilities cheap. Card draw from Kenrith, Faerie Mastermind, and Smothering Tithe fuels a fair combat kill: a hasty, trampling Kenrith with a huge pile of +1/+1 counters, protected by Kutzil and cheap countermagic. Secondary paths are reanimation of utility creatures after Entomb/Buried Alive and a grindier control plan with Archon of Emeria. There is no hidden commander; the only DFC in the list is Brightclimb Pathway, used as a land.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Emeria
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Biomancer's Familiar
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faeburrow Elder
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 11 Island
  • 1 Kenrith, the Returned King
  • 1 Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Noble Hierarch
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pollywog Prodigy
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rites of Flourishing
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Sleight of Hand
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spara's Headquarters
  • 1 Strix Serenade
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Curiosity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Temple of Mystery
  • 1 Training Grounds
  • 1 Unbreakable Formation
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Zagoth Triome
  • 1 Zirda, the Dawnwaker