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Kenrith, the Returned King

Legendary Creature — Human Noble

{R}: All creatures gain trample and haste until end of turn.
{1}{G}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
{2}{W}: Target player gains 5 life.
{3}{U}: Target player draws a card.
{4}{B}: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under its owner's control.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{4}{W}
Color identity
BGRUW
Rarity
mythic
Set
Multiverse Legends
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#3003
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Kenrith, the Returned King card art
Kenrith, the Returned King puts five activated abilities on the board the moment it lands — haste, lifegain, card draw, reanimation, and counter spread — all gated by color rather than a single cost, which means a five-color shell unlocks the full suite every turn. The real cost is the deckbuilding constraint: you need all five colors to get full value, which is why it shows up as a role-player in Jodah, the Unifier legendaries-matter decks and as a reanimation target off Composite Golem lines rather than a casual good-stuff commander.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Jodah, the Unifier

Jodah, the Unifier

32.4% of decks · synergy 0.29

Jodah, the Unifier cascades into Kenrith, the Returned King off any legendary spell, and Kenrith immediately turns surplus mana into card draw or reanimation — two things a legends-matter deck always wants more of.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Kenrith, the Returned King does its best work: the format's singleton rule makes five repeatable activated abilities on a single permanent genuinely broken, and the long game gives you the mana to fire them every turn. As a 99-card inclusion it slots into any five-color pile that wants a mana sink or a reanimation outlet on a creature. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but sees essentially no play — five colors and five mana for a 5/5 with no immediate board impact doesn't compete with the threats those formats generate on turns one and two. Pioneer follows the same logic; the card is legal but the format is too fast and too focused for a five-color utility creature that asks you to tap mana repeatedly. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander format worth noting: Kenrith as a planeswalker-adjacent commander with instant-speed reanimation is a real axis of play in longer games.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

1,281 decks
Chatterfang, Squirrel GeneralKenrith, the Returned KingWarren Soultrader

Chatterfang, Squirrel GeneralKenrith, the Returned KingWarren Soultrader

Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite death triggers; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite lifegain; Infinite Treasure tokens; Infinite card draw for any number of players; Return all creature cards from all graveyards to the battlefield under your control; Infinite draw triggers for any number of opponents; Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control; Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite colored mana

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Kenrith, the Returned KingSmothering TitheNyxbloom AncientBiomancer's Familiar

Kenrith, the Returned KingSmothering TitheNyxbloom AncientBiomancer's Familiar

Infinite card draw; Infinite colored mana; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite lifegain; Infinite card draw for any number of players; Return all creature cards from all graveyards to the battlefield under your control; Infinite draw triggers for any number of opponents; Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control

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Price Context

Current price

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Current pricing data isn't available for Kenrith, the Returned King, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for the live number. Historically it has settled in the $3–8 range depending on printing — it's had multiple reprints, which keeps the floor accessible even though demand from five-color Commander builds is steady.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.