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Denry Klin, Editor in Chief
Legendary Creature — Cat Advisor · {2}{W}{U} · Blue/White commander
Denry Klin enters with your choice of a +1/+1, first strike, or vigilance counter on it.
Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, if Denry Klin has counters on it, put the same number of each kind of counter on that creature.
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What Denry Klin, Editor in Chief actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Triggered ability · etbWhenever a nontoken creature you control enters, if Denry Klin has counters on it, put the same number of each kind of counter on that creature.
- Keyword · first strikefirst strike
What a Denry Klin, Editor in Chief deck needs
Plays as counters. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- counter producers for the commander — +1/+1 and keyword counters (each nontoken creature entering copies them)
- nontoken creatures
The Denry Klin, Editor in Chief deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 14× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
- 20× A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
Best cards for Denry Klin, Editor in Chief
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion3 mana
- Yoshimaru, Beloved Companion3 mana
- Thrummingbird2 mana
- Grateful Apparition2 mana
- Metastatic Evangel2 mana
- Vexing Radgull2 mana
- Ainok Bond-Kin2 mana
- Generous Pup2 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Generous Gift3 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Reshape2 mana
- Mask of the Mimic1 mana
- Long-Term Plans3 mana
- Open the Armory2 mana
- Whir of Invention3 mana
- Merchant Scroll2 mana
- Enlightened Tutor1 mana
- Mystical Tutor1 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Mindbreak Trap4 mana
- Fierce Guardianship3 mana
- Force of Negation3 mana
- Force of Will5 mana
- Flare of Denial3 mana
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
- Arcane Denial2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Supreme Verdict4 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Shatter the Sky4 mana
- Split Up3 mana
- Winds of Abandon2 mana
- Depopulate4 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Mystic Remora1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Curiosity1 mana
- Wizard Class1 mana
- Rhystic Study3 mana
- Archivist of Oghma2 mana
- Faerie Mastermind2 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Gold-Forged Thopteryx2 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
- Lost in the Maze2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Azorius Signet2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
- Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
- Cleric Class1 mana
- Bontu's Monument3 mana
- Mirror Entity3 mana
- Oketra's Monument3 mana
- Hazoret's Monument3 mana
- Rhonas's Monument3 mana
- Twinning Staff3 mana
Combos with Denry Klin, Editor in Chief
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Denry Klin, Editor in Chief is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Denry Klin, Editor in Chief + Ashnod's Altar138 decks
- Denry Klin, Editor in Chief + Glen Elendra Archmage + Ashnod's Altar70 decks
- Denry Klin, Editor in Chief + Sage Of Hours + Soulherder35 decks
- Denry Klin, Editor in Chief + River Kelpie + Ashnod's Altar33 decks
- Denry Klin, Editor in Chief + Lesser Masticore + Ashnod's Altar27 decks
- Denry Klin, Editor in Chief + Twilight Shepherd + Ashnod's Altar22 decks