Consultation Scepter Kenrith

Commander / EDH Combo Counterspell Midrange Primer

Noxid05

Land (32)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Grove of the Burnwillows
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Ketria Triome
• 1x Luxury Suite
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Silent Clearing
• 1x Snow-Covered Forest
• 1x Snow-Covered Island
• 1x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Spire Garden
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Waterlogged Grove
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Culling Ritual
• 1x Demonic Tutor *f-etch*
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Windfall

Instant (27)

• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Dovin's Veto
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x March of Swirling Mist
• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Negate
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Reclaim
• 1x Silence
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Tainted Pact
• 1x Tale's End
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Underworld Breach
• 1x Wild Growth

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
• 1x Narset, Parter of Veils

Commander (1)

Creature (14)

• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Cephalid Illusionist
• 1x Drannith Magistrate
• 1x Esper Sentinel
• 1x Fatestitcher
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Hermit Druid
• 1x Ignoble Hierarch
• 1x Narcomoeba
• 1x Noble Hierarch
• 1x Nomads en-Kor
• 1x Opposition Agent
• 1x Renegade Rallier

Artifact (10)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Curiosity
• 1x Talisman of Resilience
• 1x Tormod's Crypt

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Maybeboard

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Training Grounds
• 1x Whirlwind of Thought
• 1x Wilderness Reclamation

Creature (3)

• 1x Biomancer's Familiar
• 1x Riftsweeper
• 1x Seedborn Muse

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The Rundown

A Kenrith Deck that was built to be competitive within my playgroup. The primary goal is using demonic consultation and Jace to secure the game.

Currently testing out cephalid breakfast combo, and Hermit Druid. This change is to have another line for victory after the dockside ban.

I would love to hear any feedback you have on this deck especially any potential substitutions you may have

Primary Combo

Jace, Wielder of Mysteries + Demonic Consultation or Tainted Pact - Use either Demonic Consultation or Tainted Pact to exile your library while Jace, Wielder of Mysteries is on the battlefield, and then use Jace, Wielder of Mysteries's ability to draw a card.

Additional Combos

Dramatic Reversal + Isochron Scepter - As long as you can generate 3 or more mana off of dramatic reversal you will gain infinite mana by activating Dramatic Reversal

Currently looking for what new combo to add to the deck to replace dockside as an additional combo. Hermit Druid lines seem like a good combo, however tend to take up at least 4 card slots, 3 that are dead draws, in addition to leaving us susceptible to non basic land stax effects like Back to Basics. This one will be the one tested next see how it fairs, currently acquiring the cards for it.

Notable Synergies

Narset, Parter of Veils & Windfall - leaves each opponent with one card in hand and refills ours

Hate Pieces

Narset, Parter of Veils - Shutdown your opponents from drawing extra cards to find their win or combine with Windfall to reduce your opponents' hands down to one card

Drannith Magistrate - Stops commanders from being cast from the command zone. Very key against uncounterable commanders.

Tormod's Crypt - a staple graveyard hate card

Opposition Agent - Prevents opponents from searching for what they want

Grand Abolisher - Allows us to play our turn uninterrupted

Potential Upgrades

These are all primarily cards that do the same or similar effects for a lower CMC or are strictly an upgrade from the current cards in the deck

Shock lands => Dual lands

Reclaim => Noxious Revival

Preordain => Gitaxian Probe

Jace, Wielder of Mysteries => Thassa's Oracle

Potential Adds

These are cards that I do not own, but would be great additions to the deck

Force of Will

Chrome Mox

Mox Diamond

Lion's Eye Diamond

Potential Removals

Fact or Fiction

Card Changes

Eternal Witness => Reclaim - Eternal Witness is too expensive to just receive the card straight to hand. The other benefit of dodging a large share of the non-creature counterspells is not worth the sorcery speed and two extra mana.

Sunken Hollow => Verdant Catacombs - Verdant Catacombs can get an untapped land vs sunken hollow that has a low chance of coming in untapped

Farseek => Avacyn's Pilgrim - It can result in faster access to mana as it can be a T1 play

Wilderness Reclamation => Wild Growth- While Wilderness Reclamation does untap lands at the end of the turn mostly netting back our mana spent on it, it does limit our ability to make progress on the board state. Wild growth can be played turn one for extra mana on following turns, or can be cast with almost no setback turn two or later.

Dockside Extortionist => Grand Abolisher - Ban replacement

Cephalid Breakfast/Hermit druid update

Focused more on going for the win faster rather than accruing value with kenrith before going for a win

Snow-Covered Mountain, Snow-Covered Plains, Prismatic Vista, Fabled Passage => Sacred Foundry, Steam Vents, Scalding Tarn, Wooded Foothills - Starting to remove basic lands and basic land tutors in preparation of adding Hermit Druid

Heartstone, Biomancer's Familiar, Seedborn Muse, Smothering Tithe, Riftsweeper, Viscera Seer, Whirlwind of Thought => Cephalid Illusionist, Nomads en-Kor, Dread Return, Narcomoeba, Fatestitcher, Renegade Rallier, Hermit Druid - adding the cephalid breakfast line. I have not found a thoracle yet, so renegade rallier used to bring in breech to cast jace from the graveyard.

Beast Within => Culling Ritual - Beast within is expensive removal at 3 mana for a single target

Generous Gift => An Offer You Can't Refuse - Pivoting into the Hermit Druid line, better to have cheap counterspells for protection, rather than expensive removal

Date added	4 years
Last updated	1 month
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 57 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	1.96
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Spirit 1/1 C, Treasure