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Kinzu of the Bleak Coven

Kinzu of the Bleak Coven

Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Vampire · {4}{B} · Black commander

Flying Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, you may pay 2 life and exile it. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it's 1/1 and has toxic 1. (Players dealt combat damage by it also get a poison counter.)
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What Kinzu of the Bleak Coven actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

What a Kinzu of the Bleak Coven deck needs

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

The Kinzu of the Bleak Coven deck plan

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

Best cards for Kinzu of the Bleak Coven

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

  1. Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
  2. Accursed Marauder2 mana
  3. Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
  4. Cauldron Familiar1 mana
  5. Fleshbag Marauder3 mana
  6. Plaguecrafter3 mana
  7. Gray Merchant of Asphodel5 mana
  8. Burglar Rat2 mana

Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch

  1. Glaring Spotlight1 mana
  2. Cultist of the Absolute1 mana
  3. Inquisitorial Rosette2 mana
  4. Predators' Hour2 mana
  5. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  6. Falthis, Shadowcat Familiar3 mana
  7. Lord Skitter's Butcher3 mana
  8. Skorpekh Lord3 mana

Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide

  1. Replicating Ring3 mana
  2. Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
  3. Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
  4. Field of the Dead0 mana
  5. Fountainport0 mana
  6. Grave Titan6 mana
  7. Phyrexian Triniform9 mana
  8. Spawnbed Protector7 mana

A team pump that actually pumps tokens

  1. Heraldic Banner3 mana
  2. Captivating Vampire3 mana
  3. Chief of the Foundry3 mana
  4. Bloodline Keeper // Lord of Lineage4 mana
  5. Caged Sun6 mana
  6. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  7. Heroes' Podium5 mana
  8. Endurance Bobblehead3 mana

Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably

  1. Carrion Feeder1 mana
  2. Viscera Seer1 mana
  3. Altar of Dementia2 mana
  4. Spawning Pit2 mana
  5. Umbral Collar Zealot2 mana
  6. Bloodthrone Vampire2 mana
  7. Dark Privilege2 mana
  8. Ashnod's Altar3 mana

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

  1. Defile1 mana
  2. Tragic Slip1 mana
  3. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  4. Fatal Push1 mana
  5. Bitter Triumph2 mana
  6. Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
  7. Cut Down1 mana
  8. Erebos's Intervention1 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Imperial Seal1 mana
  5. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  6. Grim Tutor3 mana
  7. Tainted Pact2 mana
  8. Scheming Symmetry1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Toxic Deluge3 mana
  2. Damnation4 mana
  3. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  4. Sickening Dreams2 mana
  5. Crypt Rats3 mana
  6. Extinction Event4 mana
  7. Endemic Plague4 mana
  8. The Meathook Massacre2 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Skullclamp1 mana
  2. Black Market Connections3 mana
  3. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  4. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  5. Phyrexian Arena3 mana
  6. The One Ring4 mana
  7. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  8. Ayara, First of Locthwain3 mana

Combos with Kinzu of the Bleak Coven

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Kinzu of the Bleak Coven is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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