GreenEnchantment — Saga // Legendary Creature — AvatarThe Legend of Kyoshi // Avatar Kyoshi
Mana value6Rank#3,674
The Commander
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I — Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control.
II — Earthbend X, where X is the number of cards in your hand. That land becomes an Island in addition to its other types.
III — Exile this Saga, then return it to the battlefield transformed under your control.
Lands you control have trample and hexproof.
: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.
Guide
Gameplan
You start with The Legend of Kyoshi as a Saga: chapter I draws cards equal to your biggest creature's power, chapter II Earthbends a land into a huge creature based on your hand size, and chapter III flips it into Avatar Kyoshi. As the Avatar she gives your lands trample and hexproof and taps for a flood of any-color mana equal to your greatest power, letting you ramp into and recast threats. You win by going tall with big green beaters and animated lands while refilling your hand off power-based draw.
Strengths
- Power-based card draw turns one fatty into a steady stream of cards
- Earthbend creates resilient, hexproof, trampling land-creatures that dodge most removal
- The Avatar side is an explosive mana engine, tapping for huge any-color mana
- Lives in the command zone, so the value resets every time you recast it
- Mono-green consistency and access to elite ramp and recursion
Weaknesses
- Slow start: it takes three turns of upkeeps to flip without acceleration
- Power-based payoffs whiff if your board is wiped or you have no big creature
- Mono-green struggles with interaction, especially countermagic and instant-speed answers
- Reliant on a vulnerable saga before the hexproof Avatar comes online
- Board wipes set you back hard since the whole engine keys off creatures you control
Key Cards
- Ghalta, Primal Hunger — A cheap, enormous power dump that maximizes Saga draw and Avatar mana output.
- Doubling Season — Doubles lore counters to fast-forward the Saga and doubles +1/+1 counters from Earthbend.
- Hardened Scales — Buffs every Earthbend, snowballing your animated lands into massive threats.
- Cultivate — Stocks your hand and lands so chapter II Earthbends a meaningful creature.
- Heroic Intervention — Protects your power-dependent board from the wipes that would shut the deck off.
- Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider — Doubles both lore counters and counter placement while slowing opponents' counters.
- Kamahl, Fist of Krosa — Animates and pumps all your lands to pair with Kyoshi's trample and hexproof.
Upgrade Path
Add proliferate and counter-doublers (Doubling Season, Branching Evolution, Vorinclex) plus lore acceleration to flip the Saga faster and inflate Earthbend. Lean into reliable big-power creatures (Ghalta, End-Raze Forerunners, Craterhoof Behemoth) and protection (Heroic Intervention, Tamiyo's Safekeeping) so wipes don't reset your engine. Top-end mana sinks like Finale of Devastation or Genesis Wave convert the Avatar's explosive mana into immediate wins.
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
- ▸Trampling, hexproof animated lands and giant creatures swing for lethal
- ▸Power-based mana fuels an overrun or massive X-spell finisher
- ▸Card advantage from chapter I out-grinds opponents into an unstoppable board
- ▸Voltron a single huge creature to draw cards and crash through
Archetypes
- +1/+1 Counters / Big Creatures — Earthbend and power-based payoffs reward stacking counters and oversized bodies.
- Lands Matter — The Avatar side weaponizes lands as hexproof trampling creatures and a mana engine.
- Ramp / Big Mana — Kyoshi taps for power-equal mana, enabling huge X-spells and chained threats.
- Stompy Midrange — Mono-green beatdown with card advantage from power-based draw.
Combos
- Aggravated Assault + The Legend of Kyoshi // Avatar Kyoshi
→ Infinite colored mana, Infinite combat phases, Infinite untap of creatures you control
- The Legend of Kyoshi // Avatar Kyoshi + Freed from the Real
→ Infinite colored mana
- The Legend of Kyoshi // Avatar Kyoshi + Body of Research
→ Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers, Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature token
- The Legend of Kyoshi // Avatar Kyoshi + Pemmin's Aura
→ Infinite colored mana
- Temur Sabertooth + Hyrax Tower Scout + The Legend of Kyoshi // Avatar Kyoshi
→ Infinite ETB, Infinite LTB, Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
Combos via Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (G), by popularity.
