Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix - A Magic the Gathering Commander 2016 Card Review

by ElspethFTW, Old School Duelist

Kruphix, God of Horizons  can do some pretty silly things in Commander. The Prophet of Kruphix was so good that she was banned in the format.  Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix isn't quite so broken but creatures that can produce more than one mana in a turn are always useful. Being colorless mana lines up well with the God Kruphix's ability to store colorless mana in your mana pool indefinitely. She seems a useful member of his 99 and a nice complementary piece to any Green/Blue Commander deck.

As a commander herself, she doesn't seem that exciting. Her deck would basically be focused about drawing a bunch of cards and dumping all of that colorless mana into something like Helix Pinnacle. Or you could draw out your entire deck, play Laboratory Maniac, and win the game by having no cards left. Another option would be to play a bunch of Eldrazi. There are options, but I'm not sure how powerful she really is as a Commander.
 
On the other hand, she has the Partner ability, which allows her to be a co-Commander with another other Legendary Creature with Partner. This seems to be her best use, as in this case, providing Blue and Green mana to build around one or two other colors makes her ability simply gravy. I don't think that I would consider her as a Commander by herself, but as a Partner, I really like her.

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