Kenrith Cycle of Life

Commander / EDH Discard Jank Theme/Gimmick Value Engine

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Land (38)

• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Blasted Landscape
• 1x Canyon Slough
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Desert of the Fervent
• 1x Desert of the Glorified
• 1x Desert of the Indomitable
• 1x Desert of the Mindful
• 1x Desert of the True
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Drifting Meadow
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Forgotten Cave
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Gruul Turf
• 1x Indatha Triome
• 1x Irrigated Farmland
• 1x Ketria Triome
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Night Market
• 1x Orzhov Basilica
• 1x Polluted Mire
• 1x Rakdos Carnarium
• 1x Raugrin Triome
• 1x Remote Isle
• 1x Savai Triome
• 1x Scattered Groves
• 1x Secluded Steppe
• 1x Sheltered Thicket
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Slippery Karst
• 1x Smoldering Crater
• 1x Snow-Covered Forest
• 1x Snow-Covered Island
• 1x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Tranquil Thicket
• 1x Zagoth Triome

Creature (20)

• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Archfiend of Ifnir
• 1x Bone Miser
• 1x Cloud of Faeries
• 1x Drannith Stinger
• 1x Esper Sojourners
• 1x Flourishing Fox
• 1x Hollow One
• 1x Igneous Pouncer
• 1x Jhessian Zombies
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Nimble Obstructionist
• 1x Pale Recluse
• 1x Sanctum Plowbeast
• 1x Shefet Monitor
• 1x Street Wraith
• 1x Valley Rannet
• 1x Vizier of Tumbling Sands
• 1x Yidaro, Wandering Monster
• 1x Zirda, the Dawnwaker

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Astral Drift
• 1x Astral Slide
• 1x Cast Out
• 1x Decree of Silence
• 1x Escape Protocol
• 1x New Perspectives
• 1x Ominous Seas
• 1x Tectonic Reformation
• 1x Unpredictable Cyclone

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Akroma's Vengeance
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Demonic TutorGC
• 1x Ichor Slick
• 1x Razaketh's Rite
• 1x Regrowth
• 1x Splendid Reclamation
• 1x Sweltering Suns
• 1x Unearth

Commander (1)

Instant (14)

• 1x Complicate
• 1x Countervailing Winds
• 1x Gilded Light
• 1x Hieroglyphic Illumination
• 1x Lull
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Repopulate
• 1x Rescind
• 1x Resounding Wave
• 1x Scarab Feast
• 1x Shadow of the Grave
• 1x Stinging Shot
• 1x Swat
• 1x Wilt

Artifact (9)

• 1x Abandoned Sarcophagus
• 1x Fluctuator
• 1x Indatha Crystal
• 1x Ketria Crystal
• 1x Monument to Endurance
• 1x Raugrin Crystal
• 1x Savai Crystal
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Zagoth Crystal

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Hope you didn't skip leg day, let the cycling begin.

Who would want to play this deck? Show

Pros:

• Draws a lot of cards every game

• Is super budget for a 5 color deck

• Other decks tend to have trouble interacting with us (cycling adn cycling triggered effects can't be countered except by Stifle effects)

Cons:

• Really hates Narset, Parter of Veils and her ilk

• Shuffles a lot more than expected

• Can be repetitive in it's win con, but still has good resiliency to pull off its secondary win when necessary.

Neuteral:

-This deck focuses on building an advantage through synergies. It does have 1 combo (that I'll explain later in the Primer), but it is very convoluted and has so many moving parts, the deck has usually won or lost before it can be assembled.

Why Kenrith? Show

Kenrith is Ideal for the following reasons in roughly this order of importance:

1. 5 colors: Being 5 colors allows us to run the best cycling cards, ANY/ALL the cycling lands, and the best cycling matters cards.

2. He draws cards: Feels really bad when New perspectives hits, but it doesn't quite gt us to the 7 cards in hand necessary to trigger its relavant effect.

3. He reanimates creatures. Sometimes we really need that blocker, but more often its to get back Bone Miser, Laboratory Maniac or an early cycled Cloud of Faeries.

4. He provides a source of haste if we need to go the beat-down route.

5. his other 2 abilities are sometimes relevant.

6. He has strong politicking potential.

How do we win? Show

Strategy 1 is to cycle into more cycling synergy until we are generating more resources by cycling than it costs to cycle so that we can eventually play Lab man then continuing to draw until we win.

Strategy 2 is to cycle into cards like Bone Miser, Ominous Seas, and/or Drannith Stinger then continuing to cycle to generate a board state to overwhelm and kill our opponents through combat.

The combo Show

Step 1: Set up Cycling costs need to be free/reduced, which means we want New Perspectives, but Fluctuator works too

Step 2: Manna generation Escape Protocol being necessary down the line, the easiest way to generate mana is to play Cloud of Faeries and then pay the 1 to blink it when we cycle to untap the land we paid the cost to blink her and 1 other. We must be able to generate black mana, and green mana makes our life much easier. Otherwise we can make do with Bone Miser and a 2+ lands that cycle (specifically cycle for (2) if using Fluctuator )

Step 3: Generate tokens Bone Miser is slightly more efficient, but Ominous Seas works too.

Step 4: Don't deck yourself! The cycle of creatures that basic land type cycle for either basic land of their colors (Pale Recluse and others) won't actually draw you cards, so cycling them to trigger Escape Protocol and Miser/Seas is the easiest way to not deck yourself. If we can generate green manna, we can cast repopulate to shuffle all the creatures in our grave into our library to draw over and over again.

Step 5: Shadow of the grave cast Shadow of the Grave to be able to keep cycling over and over.

Step 6: Cast/Blink card:Archeomancer to get back Shadow of the Grave (and Repopulate as needed)

Seemingly Unusual Card Choices Show

Ravnica Bouncelands (Azorius Chancery ): These lands play a key role in helping us keep cards in hand so we are more likely to be able to trigger New perspectives, allowing us to bounce cycle-able lands to then continue cycling, and they allow us to generate extra value from Cloud of Faeries, especially when combined with Escape Protocol

Amulet of Vigor : helps negate the fact that so many of our lands inherently enter tapped.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	2 weeks
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 30 - 0 Rares 29 - 0 Uncommons 37 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.50
Tokens	Kraken 8/8 U, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B