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Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard · {2}{G}{U} · Green/Blue commander
{T}: Add {C} for each card you've drawn this turn.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
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What Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Activated ability{T}: Add {C} for each card you've drawn this turn.
- Keyword · partnerpartner
What a Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix deck needs
Plays as draw engine. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- card draw — each card drawn this turn adds {C} (wheels and draw-sevens explode it)
- a partner
- X spells and mana sinks for the colorless mana
The Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 6× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 3× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 2× Answer a whole board at once
- 24× Refill your hand
- 3× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
- 10× 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 Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix
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.
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
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
- Ozolith, the Shattered Spire2 mana
- Bontu's Monument3 mana
- Enduring Vitality3 mana
- Kami of Whispered Hopes3 mana
- Oketra's Monument3 mana
- Assault Formation2 mana
- Jolrael, Mwonvuli Recluse2 mana
Combos with Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix + Staff Of Domination1,513 decks
- Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix + Sword Of The Paruns345 decks
- Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix + Freed From The Real + Chromatic Orrery132 decks
- Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix + Freed From The Real + Energy Refractor102 decks
- Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix + Ioreth Of The Healing House + Saryth, The Viper's Fang88 decks
- Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix + Pemmin's Aura + Chromatic Orrery82 decks