Midrange Kenrith cEDH (Budget)

Commander / EDH Combo Competitive Five Color Infinite Combo Midrange Ramp

Sanguinolency

Land (31)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Clearwater Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fiery Islet
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 1x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Riverglide Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Tarnished Citadel
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Waterlogged Grove
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Mirrormade
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Pemmin's Aura
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Training Grounds

Instant (25)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Deflecting Swat
• 1x Delay
• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Dovin's Veto
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mask of the Mimic
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Tainted Pact
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Regrowth
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Windfall
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Commander (1)

Creature (15)

• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Drannith Magistrate
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Faeburrow Elder
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Gilded Drake
• 1x Incubation Druid *f-pre*
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Noble Hierarch
• 1x Thassa's Oracle
• 1x Vexing Shusher

Artifact (10)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Sol Ring

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Maybeboard

Land (12)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Forest
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Indatha Triome
• 1x Island
• 1x Island
• 1x Island
• 1x Ketria Triome
• 1x Raugrin Triome
• 1x Raugrin Triome
• 1x Zagoth Triome
• 1x Zagoth Triome

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Ashiok, Dream Render
• 1x Narset, Parter of Veils

Instant (8)

• 1x Disallow
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Sudden Spoiling
• 1x Tale's End
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Trickbind

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Copy Artifact
• 1x Dovescape
• 1x Rule of Law
• 1x Steal Enchantment
• 1x Verity Circle
• 1x War's Toll

Creature (8)

• 1x Biomancer's Familiar
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Evra, Halcyon Witness
• 1x Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Zirda, the Dawnwaker

Artifact (3)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Torpor Orb

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Merchant Scroll

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This deck's goal is to use Thassa's Oracle and Demonic Consultation or Tainted Pact in response to the ETB trigger to remove our library. An alternate route is to generate infinite mana from Freed from the Real/Pemmin's Aura with Bloom Tender/Faeburrow Elder/Incubation Druid and use Kenrith to either kill everyone with combat damage; draw everyone out; or draw yourself out and play Thassa's Oracle.

This is a paper list

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Video from Playing with Power featuring Kenrith

Kenrith's Strategy

Mulligans

A keepable hand in this deck revolves around which strategy you will go for.

First and foremost, never keep a hand with no land OR that is missing two of the three keys: 1. Two to three sources of mana 2. Interaction/Utility 3. Strategy building pieces

A hand with lands and ramp can secure an early commander play. Kenrith can become a heavy hitter on turn two or three. If you get him out early , you can buff and swing him in to a lot of things with trample and haste and +1/+1 counters. If this is the strategy you go for, keep a hand that allows you to cast Kenrith on turn 1 or turn 2 (Not that difficult to pull off). I would stay away from hands that have 5 or more lands as there wouldn't be much to do between rounds and would not help you forward a lead. Training Grounds is a great piece in this situation and I recommend tutoring for this if you end up going for this strategy. People will want to get rid of Kenrith when he is a problem, so I also recommend having some instant speed interaction to protect him.

Things to consider about this deck

With this deck being built specifically to my meta, if you plan to make a variation of this deck to play in your meta, there are some things you should know. Firstly, this deck is mostly and used to be a Tasigur, the Golden Fang control deck. It's far from that anymore, however there are still a lot of control aspects there. I brewed this deck to be a midrange/fast combo/control deck aimed more towards the fast combo. The reason is goes in so many directions is due to the versatility of Kenrith. Secondly, this deck is not 100% optimized due to it being a paper list and restricted to my budget, so there are a few lands and cards that the deck would need if you were building it fully optimized, such as, OG Dual Lands (i.e. Tropical Island, Imperial Seal, and Timetwister. Finally, this deck is meant for a competitive meta, so if you take this in to a casual game, your opponents might get a bit frustrated.

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Top Ranked	Achieved #61 position overall 4 years ago Achieved #22 position in Commander / EDH 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Midrange 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Ramp 4 years ago
Date added	4 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 0 Mythic Rares 64 - 0 Rares 13 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	1.78
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Spirit 1/1 C, Treasure
Folders	My Brews, Kenrith, the Returned King EDH lists, cEDH, EDH, CEDH Primers/Lists, EDH
Based on	Tainted Consult Scepter Tasigur cEDH Sanguinolency EDH