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Kellan, the Kid

Kellan, the Kid

Legendary Creature — Human Faerie Rogue · {G}{W}{U} · Green/Blue/White commander

Flying, lifelink Whenever you cast a spell from anywhere other than your hand, you may cast a permanent spell with equal or lesser mana value from your hand without paying its mana cost. If you don't, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
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What Kellan, the Kid actually does

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What a Kellan, the Kid deck needs

Plays as cast from anywhere. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

The Kellan, the Kid deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

Best cards for Kellan, the Kid

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Put a land onto the battlefield — for a landfall commander this triggers where a normal land drop does not

  1. Exploration1 mana
  2. Explore2 mana
  3. Dryad of the Ilysian Grove3 mana
  4. Exploration Broodship1 mana
  5. Azusa, Lost but Seeking3 mana
  6. Loot, Exuberant Explorer3 mana
  7. Wayward Swordtooth3 mana
  8. Druid Class2 mana

A spell you cast from outside your hand — flashback, foretell, escape, adventure, cascade, plot and their kin

  1. Sol Talisman0 mana
  2. Six3 mana
  3. Snapcaster Mage2 mana
  4. Hidden Cataract0 mana
  5. Hidden Courtyard0 mana
  6. Hidden Nursery0 mana
  7. Lotus Bloom0 mana
  8. Mox Tantalite0 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. Reality Shift2 mana
  4. Pongify1 mana
  5. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  6. Resculpt2 mana
  7. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  8. Beast Within3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  2. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  3. Neoform2 mana
  4. Worldly Tutor1 mana
  5. Reshape2 mana
  6. March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
  7. Mask of the Mimic1 mana
  8. Long-Term Plans3 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Mindbreak Trap4 mana
  2. Fierce Guardianship3 mana
  3. Force of Negation3 mana
  4. Force of Will5 mana
  5. Flare of Denial3 mana
  6. Pact of Negation0 mana
  7. An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
  8. Arcane Denial2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  2. Supreme Verdict4 mana
  3. Wrath of God4 mana
  4. Day of Judgment4 mana
  5. Shatter the Sky4 mana
  6. Split Up3 mana
  7. Winds of Abandon2 mana
  8. Depopulate4 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Mystic Remora1 mana
  3. Skullclamp1 mana
  4. Sylvan Library2 mana
  5. Curiosity1 mana
  6. Wizard Class1 mana
  7. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  8. Rhystic Study3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
  2. Bastion Protector3 mana
  3. Gold-Forged Thopteryx2 mana
  4. Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
  5. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  6. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  7. Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
  8. Coppercoat Vanguard2 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Azorius Signet2 mana
  3. Incubation Druid2 mana
  4. Simic Signet2 mana
  5. Palladium Myr3 mana
  6. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  7. Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
  8. Selesnya Signet2 mana

Combos with Kellan, the Kid

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Kellan, the Kid is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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