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General Kudro of Drannith
WBOrzhovLegendary Creature — Human Soldier

General Kudro of Drannith

Mana value3Rank#9,858
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The Commander

Other Humans you control get +1/+1.

Whenever General Kudro or another Human you control enters, exile target card from an opponent's graveyard.

{2}, Sacrifice two Humans: Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater.

Guide

Gameplan

Flood the board with cheap, efficient Humans, anthem them up with Kudro, and beat down while incidentally hating on graveyards every time a Human enters. You curve into wide aggression, use the sacrifice ability to pick off problematic fatties, and close games before opponents stabilize.

Strengths

  • Powerful tribal anthem that turns small Humans into real threats
  • Built-in graveyard hate disrupts reanimator, dredge, and Aristocrats decks
  • Repeatable removal for big creatures via the sacrifice ability
  • Low curve makes it one of the fastest tribal aggro builds in BW
  • Wide boards punish slow, durdly tables

Weaknesses

  • Board wipes are devastating to a go-wide creature deck
  • Lacks card advantage engines compared to ramp/control decks
  • Two colors limits access to broad answers and ramp
  • Commander dies easily to spot removal, weakening the anthem
  • Can run out of gas if the early aggression stalls

Key Cards

  • Champion of the Parish — Snowballs out of control as each Human you play makes it bigger, embodying the go-wide plan.
  • Thalia's Lieutenant — A second anthem-on-entry that pumps the whole team and grows itself.
  • Anointed Procession — Doubles Human token output to overwhelm boards and fuel Kudro's sac and trigger abilities.
  • Skullclamp — Turns your glut of cheap Humans into a relentless card-draw engine, fixing the deck's biggest weakness.
  • Cathars' Crusade — Stacks counters on your whole team every time a Human enters, snowballing combat fast.
  • Sublime Archangel — Exalted plus your wide board makes a single attacker a one-shot kill threat.

Upgrade Path

Add card-advantage engines like Skullclamp, Welcoming Vampire, and Sword of the Animist to avoid running dry, and lean on token doublers (Anointed Procession, Mondrak) to make boards resilient to a single wipe. Tighten the curve with premium one- and two-drop Humans and add protective pieces like Heroic Intervention and Flawless Maneuver. For higher power, incorporate stax taxers (Thalia, Guardian of Thraben; Drannith Magistrate) to slow combo while your aggression closes.

Core Cards

The most-played cards for this commander, built from aggregated deck data (the Mythic Graph). Build public decks to seed it.

Win Conditions

  • ▸Wide creature beatdown buffed by Kudro and stacked anthems
  • ▸Single-creature alpha strikes via exalted or trample enablers like Sublime Archangel
  • ▸Combat damage doublers and overruns (e.g., Cathars' Crusade snowball)
  • ▸Grinding out value while picking off threats with the power-4 sacrifice removal

Archetypes

  • Humans Tribal Aggro — Kudro's anthem and entry triggers reward flooding the board with cheap Humans for fast beatdown.
  • Tokens/Go-Wide — Human token generators plus anthems and doublers create overwhelming armies.
  • Aristocrats — The sacrifice ability and abundance of Human bodies pair with sac payoffs and recursion.
  • Hatebears/Stax — BW Human disruption pieces tax and slow opponents while you race ahead.

Combos

No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.

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