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Kresh the Bloodbraided

Kresh the Bloodbraided

Legendary Creature — Human Warrior · {2}{B}{R}{G} · Black/Green/Red commander

Whenever another creature dies, you may put X +1/+1 counters on Kresh, where X is that creature's power.
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What Kresh the Bloodbraided actually does

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What a Kresh the Bloodbraided deck wants

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Best cards for Kresh the Bloodbraided

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Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably

  1. Phyrexian Tower0 mana
  2. High Market0 mana
  3. Grim Backwoods0 mana
  4. Lazotep Quarry0 mana
  5. Susur Secundi, Void Altar0 mana
  6. Scavenger's Talent1 mana
  7. Hostile Hostel // Creeping Inn0 mana
  8. Miren, the Moaning Well0 mana

Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there

  1. Karn's Bastion0 mana
  2. Bristly Bill, Spine Sower2 mana
  3. Cankerbloom2 mana
  4. Thirsting Roots1 mana
  5. Evolution Sage3 mana
  6. Mossborn Hydra3 mana
  7. Blightbelly Rat2 mana
  8. Contagion Clasp2 mana

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

  1. Assassin's Trophy2 mana
  2. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  3. Defile1 mana
  4. Tragic Slip1 mana
  5. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  6. Terminate2 mana
  7. Fatal Push1 mana
  8. Beast Within3 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Do or Die2 mana
  2. Force of Despair3 mana
  3. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  4. Accursed Marauder2 mana
  5. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  6. Innocent Blood1 mana
  7. Breaking Point3 mana
  8. Coils of the Medusa2 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  5. Imperial Seal1 mana
  6. Insatiable Avarice1 mana
  7. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  8. Nature's Rhythm2 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Skullclamp1 mana
  2. Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
  3. Black Market Connections3 mana
  4. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  5. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  6. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  7. Phyrexian Arena3 mana
  8. Beast Whisperer4 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  2. Innkeeper's Talent2 mana
  3. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  4. Cryptothrall4 mana
  5. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  6. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  7. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  8. Asceticism5 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Chrome Mox0 mana
  2. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  3. Mox Amber0 mana
  4. Mox Diamond0 mana
  5. Mox Opal0 mana
  6. Birds of Paradise1 mana
  7. Crop Rotation1 mana
  8. Delighted Halfling1 mana

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