Kemba, Kha Regent and the ballad of the one hundred ripped kitty cats
So BASICALLY this is Cat Tribal, with a few guys who are just barely cool enough to be invited to the party.
The idea of this deck is to equip Kemba with as many equipments as possible, make cats, and swing out and kill everyone while remaining relatively safe and alive. How do I do this?
Step 1. I absolutely must keep Kemba safe. My ideal equipments to have in an opening hand would consist of Swiftfoot Boots or Lightning Greaves and a Darksteel Plate; if I had just those two, I would be more than satisfied. Through these two equipments, I can keep Kemba safe from PRETTY MUCH everything. And when she's safe? Make it rain with them equipments. Argentum Armor, Loxodon Warhammer, Strata Scythe, good stuff! She should be able to one hit anyone.
Step 2. Get out my anthem effects. Spear of Heliod, Intangible Virtue,
Konda's Banner
, Honor of the Pure and Eldrazi Monument are my ideals. This way, my 2/2 cats are far more menacing, unkillable, and vigilant. My tokens are gonna be mini Kemba's, minus the equipments.
Step 3. Wait, there shouldn't be this many steps. I should probably have won (hopefully?!) after I have these two steps done; I have an incredibly powerful commander that is virtually unkillable, and a horde of 6/6 to 7/7 cats that can all attack AND block without fear.
Of course, I'm not going to always get that lucky, (But one day I will, and it shall be glorious) so I have some fallback plans.
Too little land? Endless Horizons, Caged Sun, Journeyer's Kite, Sword of the Animist and Gift of Estates make sure that land shouldn't be a problem. In addition to that, I have a few mana rocks aswell, stuff like Caged Sun, Marble Diamond, Pearl Medallion, Sol Ring, Ashnod's Altar, but I need to get more.
My guys (other then Kemba and the tokens) keep on dying? Emeria, The Sky Ruin and Sun Titan can bring 'em back. And if my equipments (and possibly my anthem effects) keep getting shot down, Open the Vaults will bring it all back. Yes, it can help them, but a majority of the time it's gonna help me more.
Can't find the right equipments? Stonehewer Giant, Steelshaper's Gift, and Steelshapers Apprentice give me what I want, when I want. Okay, not exactly when I want, but they're pretty damn convenient. And we even got Nahiri, the Lithomancer for when costs are too high.
My opponents have menacing amounts of creatures and are all going to kill me because they can't handle the brutal cuteness of the cat?
Mass Calcify
,
Hour of Reckoning
, Divine Reckoning, and Day of Judgment are for when things get a little bit too out of control and I want everyone to settle down.
Those equip costs are too damn high?Puresteel Paladin, Auriok Windwalker, and Brass Squire make it no problem!
I've been looking at this deck and other decks recently, and I have noticed that some improvements can definitely be made and some cards can be replaced.
I'm going to add in more boardwipes, and even some landwipes. I'm going to get more mana rocks, and, when I get enough, I'll play an Armageddon or a Cataclysm. Hokori, Dust Drinker and Winter Orb will slow my opponents down too. What's this word, "friends"? Hate cards are my friends.
Need a little bit more removal, Dispatch is something I'll get soon, also Crib Swap.
Surestrike Trident is a card I may need, though questionable. It sounds absolutely hilarious. Kemba having more than 10 power is a lot more common than you would think...even though it's not commander damage, it's still very considerable.
In the realms of the possibility of adding more creatures,
Leonin Shikari
is a card I need for pretty obvious reasons.
The following cards would highly improve this deck. Not all of them are easy to get, but this is simply a list of cards that I really want for this deck.
- Brimaz, King of Oreskos, Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite, Elspeth, Sun's Champion,
Leonin Shikari
, Runed Halo, the rest of the swords, Dispatch, Trading Post, Thran Dynamo, Worn Powerstone
I'm not entirely sure what I want to take out of the deck yet.
If you got this far, thanks for reading this much! You're awesome! Run this deck because it's tons of fun! Invest a lot of money into cat tokens, because you'll need them! :D
