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Kianne, Corrupted Memory
Legendary Creature — Illusion · {2}{G}{U} · Green/Blue commander
As long as Kianne's power is even, you may cast noncreature spells as though they had flash.
As long as Kianne's power is odd, you may cast creature spells as though they had flash.
Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Kianne.
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What Kianne, Corrupted Memory 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 · drawWhenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Kianne.
- Static ability · restrictionAs long as Kianne's power is even, you may cast noncreature spells as though they had flash.
- Static ability · restrictionAs long as Kianne's power is odd, you may cast creature spells as though they had flash.
What a Kianne, Corrupted Memory deck needs
Plays as draw engine. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- card draw, wheels and cantrips (each card drawn triggers it)
- counter doublers and proliferate (it grows only itself with +1/+1 counters)
- creatures and spells worth casting at instant speed — ambush enter triggers and end-of-turn threats (it gives them flash)
The Kianne, Corrupted Memory deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 13× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 7× 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
Best cards for Kianne, Corrupted Memory
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.
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Eternal Witness3 mana
- Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
- Arboreal Grazer1 mana
- Thousand-Faced Shadow1 mana
- Reclamation Sage3 mana
- Rishkar, Peema Renegade3 mana
- Wood Elves3 mana
- Badgermole Cub2 mana
Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- Branching Evolution3 mana
- Hardened Scales1 mana
- Ozolith, the Shattered Spire2 mana
- Kami of Whispered Hopes3 mana
- Benevolent Hydra2 mana
- Michelangelo, Weirdness to 112 mana
- The Earth Crystal4 mana
- High Score3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- Beast Within3 mana
- Nature's Claim1 mana
- Emerald Charm1 mana
- Naturalize2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Neoform2 mana
- Worldly Tutor1 mana
- Reshape2 mana
- March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
- Mask of the Mimic1 mana
- Long-Term Plans3 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
- Desynchronization4 mana
- Wave Goodbye4 mana
- Whelming Wave4 mana
- Consuming Tide4 mana
- Oversimplify5 mana
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Needle Storm3 mana
- Evacuation5 mana
Refill your hand
- Mystic Remora1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Curiosity1 mana
- Wizard Class1 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Rhystic Study3 mana
- Faerie Mastermind2 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
- Lost in the Maze2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Asceticism5 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Incubation Druid2 mana
- Simic Signet2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
- Heritage Druid1 mana
- Llanowar Tribe3 mana
Combos with Kianne, Corrupted Memory
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Kianne, Corrupted Memory is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Kianne, Corrupted Memory + Approach Of The Second Sun + Endless Detour33 decks
- Kianne, Corrupted Memory + Aether Storm + Mindslaver2 decks
- Kianne, Corrupted Memory + Approach Of The Second Sun + Memory Lapse2 decks
- Kianne, Corrupted Memory + Ulalek, Fused Atrocity + Drowner Of Truth2 decks
- Kianne, Corrupted Memory + Mindslaver + Lethal Vapors1 decks
- Kianne, Corrupted Memory + Falco Spara, Pactweaver + Sensei's Divining Top + Helm Of Awakening1 decks