Kenrith, the Returned King - Maze's End (EDH / Commander) [Revision 15]

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This deck ultimately wants to win with Maze's End and 10 Guildgates on the battlefield. The way this deck wants to go about doing that is by playing cards like Mesmeric Orb, Mirror-Mad Phantasm and Hedron crab to self mill as quickly as possible. Hermit Druid is probably the best mill card in the deck because he will tap and mill your whole Library. We also run Laboratory Maniac but generally if you have your whole deck in the graveyard, you can win with Maze's End and won't need him.

The idea is to mill the guildgates into your graveyard and recurr them with cards like Splendid Reclamation, The Mending of Dominaria and World Shaper. Each of them brings back all lands to the battlefield. There is also Crucible of Worlds, Ramunap Excavator and Muldrotha, the Gravetide that can all just play lands out of your graveyard.

There are a few ways to capitalize on this effect. The first being cards like Retreat to Hagra and Ob Nixilis, the Fallen. They both have landfall triggers that deal direct damage to your opponents and Ob Nixilis can become a huge threat very fast. Also having a card like Amulet of Vigor on the board will make all those lands come into play untapped giving you a ton of mana that turn.

This deck is built around self mill so naturally there is a fair amount of recursion as well. Our commander, Horde of Notions, can recur any elemental to the battlefield. There are a few good ones, but the one you want almost every time is Muldrotha, the gravetide. She will allow you to get back any combo pieces you need from the graveyard. Other recursion options are Unburial Rites and Lazav, the multifarious for creatures and Past in Flames or Mystic Retrieval for instants/sorceries.

There are a few options for winning if Maze's End or one of your guildgate gets exiled. Dark Depths + Thespian's Stage or Mirage Mirror can set up a big beater that cant be ignored and is easily recurrable in this deck. Torment of Hailfire is just a crazy powerful card that attacks your opponents from every angle. Its recurrable with past in flames and is just one of my favorite finishers.