Kenrith, the Returned King | Upping the Average 

Monty Python reference in first 30 seconds? A+ video

Damn this series is just so well done. As for the commander I want to see, Ghave, Guru of Spores.

My favorite part of this video was definitely you discussing why you're taking out Thassa's Oracle and Jace, Wielder of Mysteries. I watch enough cEDH gameplay to know how absolutely potent these cards are, but I totally get your reason for taking them out of the average deck. If you have INFINITE MANA and your entire deck in your hand why would you waste two slots in your deck for cards that give you value only when you're in that winning position.. you can can make infinitely big mana dorks with trample and haste, frankly it's a lot cooler way to win than decking yourself. Thanks for the great video, and I cant wait for the next podcast Friday!

I enjoy these types of videos. Thank you for putting them together.

Bought a Kenrith about 5 months ago and never really had a clear path on to how I would like his deck to be. This video has helped me a lot as I wanted to run away from the cEDH/Combo focused builds. Really appreciate your content ❤️

I love this series so much!

This series is amazing! Love it!

I recently built a Kenrith deck, and I've used this video and Mitch from CQ as great bases to jump off from. I love Kenrith and how versatile he is, and in the few games I've played with him it never felt like I had nothing I could do.

I'd love to see a list on Alela! She seems like she'd have an interesting average, given the split between enchantments, artifacts, and fairy/flying tribal, so it'd be interesting to see how you adjust that into a strategy!

You, sir, may be commander-ruler any time! Kenrith is one of my favorite commanders and I knew my deck needed an overhaul. You made some excellent suggestions. Thank you

Joey's chest lookin huge in that shirt, quarantine got him hitting the weights

Great video, thanks! You have an awesome voice and a very nice talking speed.

Amazing series as always. I'd love to see a Tatyova benthic druid episode it would be amazing

now I want to build a Kenrith deck, which is not something I thought I would ever say. I'm interested in an episode on any Omnath. Angry Omnath was my first commander, but wet Omnath is a lot of fun too.

I'm putting together a Kenrith Ur-Dragon deck and slowly grabbing the cards every paycheck. This will be the first ever deck I'm manually building card for card (been trying friends decks and using prebuilts) and I'm excited to give it a try once I get everything I need. Videos like this are incredibly helpful.

I’d love to see your take on Marath, Will of the Wild. I’ve been on a Naya kick here recently and he’s one I’ve never built.

Kenrith's obvious road to victory is just make infinite or at least a lot of mana, but he CAN be pretty much anything you want, which is why I like him so much. The Kenrith deck I've been brewing in my head for awhile is a five colour combat forcing deck. Throw in all the commanders like Thantis, Marisi, etc, cards that let me control combat and force people to swing in every turn with all their creatures. Cards like Ghostly Prison and Propaganda keep me from getting hit while creatures are flying left and right, while everyone's shield are down I swing in and get benefits with cards like Marchesa. Maybe throw in monarch cards, the curses, and the impetus cards just for fun and flavor, if there's room. Kynaios and Tiro, Nekusar and other parts from that deck keeps my opponents drawing cards so they can keep the ball rolling and the creatures attacking. While they draw they slowly kill themselves, this is icing on the cake if there are a lot of creatures but if there aren't then this can become a win con in a pinch. My thought is Kenrith gives everything haste every turn, he can pump things when needed for political gain, he can return other player's creatures so they can keep swinging in at everyone but me, I can even give people cards if the situation calls for it. I don't imagine it would actually be that powerful, it's probably too unfocused, but I think if it works even sort of how I imagine it will make for fun games.

I would marry this man

Once you have the infinite mana combo, instead of milling yourself, you can mill your opponents! I did that in a 6 player game with my Seedborn Muse out, drew till I hit the cards I needed(Incubation Druid was on the field with a counter on it, needed Vigean Graftmage). Your opponents can't respond with an instant or smth either because the stack will be filled with Kenrith's infinite "Draw your deck +1, peasant" orders!

I would love to see an upping the average on prime speaker zegana! I know she isnt really top tier of a commander but she was one of the first i built around and always a blast to run!

Have you thought about taking a general from a precon deck and doing an episode to perhaps counteract the 'precon effect' in lists which suffer from egregious examples of it?

Would very much like to see vilis, broker of blood, or lathliss, dragon queen deck tech next

Great content as usual, but might want to be more conscious of the text readability on the three upgrade categories: it was kind of difficult to read with the black text on Kenrith

Kenrith +1/+1 counters themed deck, would actually work, now seeing it

I suggest running a Marchesa, The Black Rose... Give everything you have counters and it will never die.

5:14, The last name of the artist for dockside is Imel. Coincidence? I THINK NOT!

How about Upping the Average for Emry? I want to see how to build this deck without getting a disgusting deck ;)

Good video! Can you do an actualization?

I would love your opinion on Xyris- I go back and forth so much on the hug cards in average lists (howling mine, rites of flourishing) and every time I play them if Xyris gets killed a couple times they seem like they’re just liabilities and you’re giving opponents cards for no reason. Especially if your backup commanders are the locust god or Niv Parun since they only care about you drawing cards

Just bought the companion version. Have extra upgrade money, this was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you a million times

I built kenrith as 5 color good stuff. It's so much fun dropping bomb after bomb.

Along the same lines as tainted remedy, I have a False Cure in my Kenrith deck. Good way to kill someone at instant speed when you have enough mana/cost reduction for Kenrith’s lifegain ability

I'd love to see Yarok or Jeleva

I love my kenrith deck he can do so much

Please do an upping the average for kinnan, I think he is very powerful and needs and upgrade!!!

Oh yeah, I espacially enjoy the arch enemy episodes from command zone :D

Yeah, so, the entire doctrine I won't release here but as far as the land base cost and desire for as much mana as possible with as little destruction risk run every single search library basic land battlefield card you can find. As he said, you can go overboard, so do it but not with mana rocks or dorks, they are vulnerable, basic lands are not and mulligan requirements at that point pretty much mean 2 mana 1 green and you're good. Mana base just got cheaper, source of ramp got more resilient and color sources more consistent

Can you do a video for Breya? My friend have a Breya deck but most of the time he just sits there because he can't cast stuff in his hand.

Watch out Joey, your powerthirsty monarch is showing ;)

Anyone playing Kenrith should consider Composite golem. With any activated ability cost reducers aka zirda, training grounds, or heartstone (cards already incredible in this deck) it creates infinite mana of all colors except black using kenriths reanimate ability to sac and reanimate composite golem. And it is like

How about a themed version that is essentially "quest for the holy grail" using the shrines?

I like Licia, Sanguine Tribune. Gain five life, pay three for a 4/4 with first strike and lifelink, oh wait I mean an 8/8 with first strike and lifelink. Seems like a great deal to me.

I would love to see a Nekusar Upping the Average; his average deck seems a bit... all over the place.

Sharktocrab is sneakily really strong

Does awakening lets all the other players untapped there permanents or just the owner ofcthe enchantment

I'm planning on building a Kenrith infinite mana combo deck. Does anyone have any good easy combos?

One card i do recommend (yes it's a wheel) is Emergency Powers. WHile a tad expensive, it acts as fantastic leverage in the mid-to-late game as it can instant speed reset an opponent's empty library with a oracle trigger on the stack, and you get some extra good stuff from casting it during one of your main phases, because you can put a seedborn muse or wild rec. into play, amongst other things

Does kenrith tend to be a kill on sight commander? I built a krenko deck recently and am trying to avoid building around kill on sight commanders so if anyone could let me know that would be much appreciated?!

As popular as it is, why not make a video about Korvold? I've been trying to brew one and some ideas would be welcome. Haha

It could be a Devotion to Kenrith Combo Deck... 🤪

When you think of how expensive this version of the deck is then you consider that the cards you cut are moor expensive than the entire deck lands included. I would've liked to have seen some land cultivating, speaking of which I don't think I even saw basics in your list so you might want to think about that (like for cultivate) and maybe something that gives you flash lol. Great deck and video I greatly enjoyed it

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Nekusar?

Vaevictus Asmadi?..

video: Budget also this video: $400 lands XDDDD i love it

I wish I could make a Kenrith deck but I have other decks I am working on...

Tayam 🥺

Sunbond and crystalline crawler infinite mana

lands cost near to 400$... How???

Add magus of the wheel

Are people even building their own decks still? EDHREC is a great tool, but it seems to me like people are using it totally unoriginally. I see people saying "i bought the list" like it's a precon. Make some effort people :( make it personal. Make it yours.