Kenrith Cycling

Commander / EDH

Jakeace

Land (37)

• 1x Badlands
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Fiery Islet
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 3x Forest
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 2x Island
• 1x Luxury Suite
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 2x Mountain
• 2x Plains
• 1x Plateau
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Silent Clearing
• 1x Steam Vents
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Taiga
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Skyshroud Claim

Creature (26)

• 1x Alchemist's Apprentice
• 1x Angel of the God-Pharaoh
• 1x Archfiend of Ifnir
• 1x Brallin, Skyshark Rider  ^Flip
• 1x Breya, Etherium Shaper
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Curator of Mysteries
• 1x Drannith Stinger
• 1x Glint-Horn Buccaneer
• 1x Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
• 1x Krosan Tusker
• 1x Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded
• 1x Purphoros, God of the Forge
• 1x Ranger-Captain of Eos
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Scion of Darkness
• 1x Shabraz, the Skyshark  ^Flip
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1x Tasigur, the Golden Fang
• 1x Thrasios, Triton Hero
• 1x Titanoth Rex
• 1x Valiant Rescuer
• 1x Void Beckoner
• 1x Walking Ballista
• 1x Weathered Wayfarer
• 1x Yavimaya Elder

Instant (12)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dovin's Veto
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Commander (1)

Artifact (18)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Boros Signet
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Nim Deathmantle
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Sword of Fire and Ice

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Goblin Bombardment
• 1x Sylvan Library

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Sideboard

Creature (1)

• 1x Zirda, the Dawnwaker

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One of my favourite YouTube Channels "The Commander's Quarters" pitched an idea of Kenrith as a creature cycling recursion Archetype with the new companion Zirda in mind. Sicne I loved the idea I am theorycrafting a bit in this list. What I did is, that I took all the creatures that were mentioned in the pitch and added some cycling creatures which I thought would work fine in the list. Then since we play around recursion I added some sac outlets and some cards with activated abilities that somehow offer an aristocrats-esque style with Syr Konrad for the classic aristocrat style and purphoros for the damage when creature recursion happens. Also I added a few backup wins to creature damage+aristocrat playstyle by adding a tainted pact+jace combo(thassa's on the one hand is even cheaper for the insta win and on the other hand doesn't have an activated ability), a few infinites (Kinnan+Monolith+Thrasios for the classic Thrasios draw your whole deck thingy; Breya+Ashnods+Nim Deathmantle(Mantle+Ashnods offering a lot of value in combination with the whole recursion theme anyway+breya's ability only costing 1 sacrifice instead of 2mana+sac is neat); Dramatic Scepter+either thrasios, kenrith or kinnan)...This way the decks strongest win cons are basically not about the actual cycling archetype, but I first wanted to build a list fitting the competitive environment I usually play in, rather than fully committing to the cycling theme. I will make another list in which I fully commit to the cycling theme, but I yet have to figure out a way to either make it strong enough to fit my group or talk my group into some more chill power levels so some cycling shenanigans could work out just fine. One way I thought off to make the cycling build worthwile is some kind of stacks-oriented build which profits off the recursions of my creatures and gives combo decks a hard time comboing off, but that's all jsut in my head so far.

As a conclusion to this list and how I built it so far, I would say having so many wincons might be a bit all over the place sicne it's not really optimized to win in one specific way but rather has some easy combos as a backup for the actual game plan. Therefore the overall list probably won't make it to the strongest lists I am playing but I want to try it out and see how it goes.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	18 - 0 Mythic Rares 45 - 1 Rares 11 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.83
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Human Soldier 1/1 W, Thopter 1/1 U