The King's Unstoppable Army

Commander / EDH*

1shabby

Land (34)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Bountiful Promenade
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darigaaz's Caldera
• 1x Dromar's Cavern
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 2x Forest
• 1x Gavony Township
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hall of Heliod's Generosity
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Island
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Krosan Verge
• 1x Luxury Suite
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Murmuring Bosk
• 1x Nimbus Maze
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Plains
• 1x Rith's Grove
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Abandon
• 1x Temple of Enlightenment
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Temple of Plenty
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Treva's Ruins

Evasion (3)

• 1x Abzan Falconer
• 1x Champion of Lambholt
• 1x Herald of Secret Streams

Proliferate (3)

• 1x Atraxa, Praetors' Voice
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Sword of Truth and Justice

Removal (2)

• 1x Collective Effort SL
• 1x Karlov of the Ghost Council

Alternate Wincon (1)

• 1x Mayael's Aria

Goodstuff (1)

• 1x Sage of Hours

Ramp (12)

• 1x Animar, Soul of Elements
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Crystalline Crawler
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Gyre Sage
• 1x Jiang Yanggu, Wildcrafter
• 1x Krosan Verge
• 1x Ramos, Dragon Engine
• 1x Rishkar, Peema Renegade
• 1x Sol Ring

Protection (7)

• 1x Asceticism
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Plaxcaster Frogling
• 1x Reyhan, Last of the Abzan
• 1x Shalai, Voice of Plenty
• 1x Sword of Truth and Justice
• 1x Vigor

Anti-Boardwipe (6)

• 1x Cauldron of Souls
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Inspiring Call
• 1x Marchesa, the Black Rose
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Unbreakable Formation

Enters With Counters (6)

• 1x Bloodspore Thrinax
• 1x Cathars' Crusade
• 1x Good-Fortune Unicorn
• 1x Master Biomancer
• 1x Rhythm of the Wild
• 1x The Great Henge

Draw (5)

• 1x Fathom Mage
• 1x Inspiring Call
• 1x Rishkar's Expertise
• 1x Shaman of the Great Hunt
• 1x The Great Henge

Boardwipe (2)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Chain Reaction

Deck Thinning (2)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Counterspell (1)

• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage

Commander (1)

Blanket Counters (10)

• 1x Ajani, the Greathearted
• 1x Archangel of Thune
• 1x Cathars' Crusade
• 1x Collective Effort
• 1x Gavony Township
• 1x Loyal Guardian
• 1x Mayael's Aria
• 1x Mikaeus, the Lunarch
• 1x Shalai, Voice of Plenty
• 1x Unbreakable Formation

Double Counters (6)

• 1x Corpsejack Menace
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Gilder Bairn
• 1x Kalonian Hydra
• 1x Solidarity of Heroes
• 1x Vorel of the Hull Clade

Utility (6)

• 1x Biomancer's Familiar
• 1x Forgotten Ancient
• 1x Hall of Heliod's Generosity
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Spark Double
• 1x Training Grounds

Anti-Enchantment (3)

• 1x Collective Effort
• 1x Force of Vigor
• 1x Nature's Claim

Extra-Counter (3)

• 1x Hardened Scales
• 1x Pir, Imaginative Rascal
• 1x Winding Constrictor

Draw Payoff (2)

• 1x Chasm Skulker
• 1x Toothy, Imaginary Friend

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Boardwipe (1)

• 1x Star of Extinction

Protection (1)

• 1x Asceticism

Utility (1)

• 1x Vizier of the Menagerie

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This is the current version of my 5 color +1/+1 counter deck. I think that Kenrith is the perfect commander for 5 color counters this is because of his nice set of abilities. His vast array of abilities contain effects that are useful in nearly all scenarios. In this deck especially all of the abilities can be used to great effect resulting in some cards such as Archangel of Thune and Karlov of the Ghost Council to become more powerful. While this deck is not all that competitive it can easily stomp all over your opponents with ease and if they attempt to stop it with a boardwipe the deck has plenty of ways completely avoiding the boardwipe or can easily bounce back with various cards allowing creatures to re-enter with one or more counters.

Counter Doubling

The below cards are all very essential to the deck as they all simply double the number of counters on either one or all creatures/ permanents.

• Doubling Season
• Corpsejack Menace
• Vorel of the Hull Clade
• Gilder Bairn
• Kalonian Hydra
• Solidarity of Heroes

Additional Counters

All of the below cards are similar to the counter doubling cards but are not nearly as good as they only add an additional counter. That being said when adding only 1 counter it is the same affect and these cards work wonders when paired with each other or the counter doublers.

• Winding Constrictor
• Hardened Scales
• Pir, Imaginative Rascal

Enter with Additional Counters

These cards are all cards that cause creatures you control to enter with additional counters. These can be very beneficial as they are a little bonus tacked on whenever you cast a creature. These abilities can really increase the momentum of the deck and cause it to start snowballing into bigger and bigger threats.

• Good-Fortune Unicorn
• The Great Henge
• Master Biomancer
• Bloodspore Thrinax
• Cathars' Crusade
• Rhythm of the Wild

Anti-Boardwipe Tech

These cards all allow the deck to either avoid or easily bounce back from a boardwipe, especially when any of the cards that make creatures enter with an additional counter as it allows for a super easy recovery and shoots the deck forward. Boardwipes are crippling to creature decks in general and even more so to a deck that revolves around +1/+1 counters as you lose all of the counters when a creature dies. I've put a lot of focus on ways to minimize the impact of baordwipes in this deck because of it.

• Heroic Intervention
• Marchesa, the Black Rose
• Reyhan, Last of the Abzan
• Cauldron of Souls
• Inspiring Call
• Teferi's Protection

Evasion

This is a creature deck that wants to hit like a train and sometimes it can be hard to get in, but with the evasion cards in the deck it allows the deck to swing in uncontensted. With these cards it allows for a easy win by stomping all over the opponents.

• Herald of Secret Streams
• Abzan Falconer
• Champion of Lambholt
• Kenrith, the Returned King (his ability that gives haste and trample)

Blanket Counters

This deck has quite a few ways to put counters on multiple creatures at a time which I've taken to calling blanket effects as they affect the whole board at once.

• Ajani, the Greathearted
• Cathars' Crusade
• Collective Effort
• Mikaeus, the Lunarch
• Shalai, Voice of Plenty
• Archangel of Thune
• Gavony Township
• Loyal Guardian
• Unbreakable Formation
• Mayael's Aria

Combos

This deck is not meant to be a combo deck by any means, but that being said these cards are very good together and there happen to incidentally be combos in the deck.

• Vigor + Blasphemous Act: Puts 13 counters on each creature besides Vigor and deals 13 damage to each opponents creature.

• Sage of Hours + Gyre Sage with 10 counters on it + Kenrith, the Returned King: Infinite turns.

• Spark Double as Mike + Mikaeus, the Lunarch: Allows for ease of adding blanket counters without either Mike running out of counters.

• Spark Double as Vigor + Vigor + any red boardwipe: all creatures I control get 2X the amount of damage as counters on them and each vigor gets x counters.

• Spark Double as Shalai + Shalai, Voice of Plenty: All creatures I control are unable to be targeted.

• Kenrith, the Returned King + Crystalline Crawler with atleast 1 counter on it + Training Grounds/Biomancer's Familiar + any card that adds an additional counter: Infinite mana which translates to playing your entire deck and everything is arbitrarily large and hasty.

please let me know if you have any cards that you would recommend for the deck and if you like it feel free to +1 it.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	19 - 0 Mythic Rares 65 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	116
Avg. CMC	3.53
Tokens	Squid 1/1 U