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Rowan Kenrith
Legendary Planeswalker — Rowan · {4}{R}{R} · Red commander
+2: During target player's next turn, each creature that player controls attacks if able.
−2: Rowan Kenrith deals 3 damage to each tapped creature target player controls.
−8: Target player gets an emblem with "Whenever you activate an ability that isn't a mana ability, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy."
Partner with Will Kenrith
Rowan Kenrith can be your commander.
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What Rowan Kenrith 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+2: During target player's next turn, each creature that player controls attacks if able.
- Activated ability−2: Rowan Kenrith deals 3 damage to each tapped creature target player controls.
- Activated ability−8: Target player gets an emblem
What a Rowan Kenrith deck needs
Plays as planeswalker. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- its partner Will Kenrith
- ways to keep the planeswalker alive (it forces attacks and burns tapped creatures)
The Rowan Kenrith deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 12× Proliferate — every counter already placed is placed again
- 12× Repeat, double, protect or find planeswalkers — the engine around a planeswalker commander
- 6× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 2× Answer a whole board at once
- 8× Refill your hand
- 3× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Rowan Kenrith
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.
Proliferate — every counter already placed is placed again
- Karn's Bastion0 mana
- Contagion Clasp2 mana
- Staff of Compleation3 mana
- Sword of Truth and Justice3 mana
- Throne of Geth2 mana
- Cacophony Scamp1 mana
- Surge Conductor3 mana
- Contagion Engine6 mana
Repeat, double, protect or find planeswalkers — the engine around a planeswalker commander
- Surgehacker Mech4 mana
- Devouring Hellion3 mana
- Heart of Bogardan4 mana
- Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass2 mana
- Mox Amber0 mana
- Stonesplitter Bolt1 mana
- Repeated Reverberation4 mana
- Forge of Heroes0 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Crush1 mana
- Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
- Titan's Presence3 mana
- Abrade2 mana
- Untimely Malfunction2 mana
- Chaos Warp3 mana
- Kozilek's Command2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Imperial Recruiter3 mana
- Shield-Wall Sentinel4 mana
- Skyship Weatherlight4 mana
- Moonsilver Key2 mana
- Pattern Matcher4 mana
- Gamble1 mana
- Hoarding Dragon5 mana
- Shrine Steward5 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Street Spasm1 mana
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Mizzium Mortars2 mana
- Delete2 mana
- Earthquake1 mana
- Apocalypse5 mana
Refill your hand
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Sticky Fingers1 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty3 mana
- Adaptive Omnitool2 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
- Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana