Kenrith the returned king of hugs

Commander / EDH*

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Creature (28)

• 1x Akroan Horse
• 1x Blazing Archon
• 1x Boldwyr Heavyweights
• 1x Bringer of the Black Dawn
• 1x Corridor Monitor
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Devoted Druid
• 1x Edric, Spymaster of Trest
• 1x Elite Arcanist
• 1x Faeburrow Elder
• 1x Grand Architect
• 1x Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer
• 1x Kami of the Crescent Moon
• 1x Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Ludevic, Necro-Alchemist
• 1x Maralen of the Mornsong
• 1x Orzhov Advokist
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Pili-Pala
• 1x Selvala, Explorer Returned
• 1x Tempting Wurm
• 1x Veteran Explorer
• 1x Vizier of Remedies
• 1x Walking Archive
• 1x Windborn Muse
• 1x Worldgorger Dragon
• 1x Zhur-Taa Ancient

Instant (4)

• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Intervention Pact
• 1x Pact of the Titan
• 1x Slaughter Pact

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Jace Beleren
• 1x Jace, Wielder of Mysteries

Land (36)

• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Frontier Bivouac
• 1x Jungle Shrine
• 1x Mystic Monastery
• 1x Plateau
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Seaside Citadel
• 3x Snow-Covered Forest
• 3x Snow-Covered Island
• 3x Snow-Covered Mountain
• 3x Snow-Covered Plains
• 3x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Taiga
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Collective Voyage
• 1x Game Plan
• 1x Hypergenesis
• 1x New Frontiers
• 1x Prosperity
• 1x Scheming Symmetry
• 1x Skyscribing
• 1x Tempt with Discovery
• 1x Tempt with Reflections

Commander (1)

Enchantment (11)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Awakening
• 1x Dictate of Karametra
• 1x Dictate of Kruphix
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Happily Ever After
• 1x Heartbeat of Spring
• 1x Hive Mind
• 1x Rites of Flourishing
• 1x Upwelling
• 1x Vernal Equinox

Artifact (9)

• 1x Folio of Fancies
• 1x Gate to the AEther
• 1x Ghirapur Orrery
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Horn of Greed
• 1x Howling Mine
• 1x Prismatic Geoscope
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Temple Bell

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This is a deck mainly focused around politics and group hug with a slight pension for going infinite and winning.

Infinite mana combos: Elite arcanist+dramatic reversal+mana rocks/dorks that together make over 3 mana. Kenrith can give haste with 1 red making it a bit more reliable than it otherwise would’ve been and for budgetary purposes used this instead of isochron scepter and in niche cases could be used to get around a phyrexian revoker or other never more like effects.

Grand architect+pili-pala+1 blue mana turns pili-pala into a blue creature and can tap for 2 colorless to use on artifact abilities, use pili-pala’s untap ability to make a mana of any color then repeat the process for infinite mana.

Deadeye navigator+peregrine drake/(corridor monitor+mana rock/dork that makes 3 or more mana) use the navigators soul bound ability to target either peregrine drake or corridor monitor then use the blink ability to have the creature re-enter the battlefield and the drake will untap 5 lands and have it soul bound to the navigator again or target the monitor and when it re-enters off the blink ability have it untap either faeburrow elder, prismatic geoscope, or gilded lotus to net infinite mana. (Drake is easier to pull off but monitor is less mana intensive kinda)

Worldgorger dragon+animate dead. Once worldgorger is put into your graveyard you cast animate dead targeting the dragon. The dragon comes back onto the field with animate dead on the dragon, the dragons exile effect goes off and then your board including lands and the animate dead. Once the animate dead is gone the dragon sees that and goes back to the graveyard and his leave ability goes off and your board comes back, including animate dead, tap your lands/dorks/rocks and make the most mana you can and target the worldgorger dragon again and repeat until desired.

Devoted Druid+vizier of remedies. When you tap devoted Druid for green it then has an untap ability for putting a -1/-1 counter on it but the vizier reduces the counter to 0 counters as it’s being placed thus effectively making it untap for nothing and can produce infinite green mana.

The ways to win: The most likely case for winning will be using kenrith’s blue ability and drawing your entire deck, playing laboratory maniac or Jace, wielder of mystery and winning by attempting to draw when there are no more cards, you could also use Kenrith’s blue ability to deck all of your opponents. Following up on that you could use kenrith’s green ability and swing in with infinite counters with back up by the red ability to give trample.

With infinite mana you could activate walking archive to give it infinite +1/+1 counters or use kenriths green ability and then pass turn to have all opponents deck out.

The most flavorful win would be with happily ever after but there’s no real way to cheat those conditions, just by doing them, but it seems like it’d be a fun flavorful way to instantly win.

Use infinite mana with folio of fancies, prosperity, skyscribing, or temple bell with infinite untaps, to deck your opponents.

Use hivemind and cast pact of the titan, intervention pact, or slaughter pact to force each opponent to cast a copy of it and hopefully won’t be able to pay the cost and lose.

Most importantly: Have fun with the deck. Most of it is just fluff to help everyone out and to actually have fun at a table and not focus on being competitive. You don’t have to use any way to win and just be there to have a good time with everyone.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 60 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 5 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.35
Tokens	Copy Clone, Giant 4/4 R, Soldier 1/1 W
Folders	Kenrith, the Returned King EDH lists, Future Deck Ideas