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Kros, Defense Contractor
Legendary Creature — Cat Advisor
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a shield counter on target creature an opponent controls. Whenever you put one or more counters on a creature you don't control, tap that creature and goad it. It gains trample until your next turn. (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)
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“Make opponents' creatures attack each other while you build tokens and value.”
Control
Intermediate
Commander damage, Tokens swarm
Tokens, Control, Goad, Aristocrats
Strategy
Kros turns your opponents' creatures into your unwilling allies by loading them up with shield counters and goading them into bad attacks. Your game plan is to exploit the chaos you create—forcing opponents to attack each other while you sit back and accumulate value. You're not trying to win through combat damage yourself; instead, you're leveraging politics and creature tokens to gradually take over the board while opponents damage each other.
The deck thrives on cards that reward you for goading creatures or putting counters on opponents' permanents. Token generators help you survive the inevitable chaos, while cards that care about goading synergize perfectly with Kros's ability. This is a control-minded strategy that wins through attrition—you'll wear opponents down by making their best threats work against them, then close out the game with commander damage or a token army once the board is sufficiently weakened.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Key Synergies
Budget Build
Skip pricey planeswalkers and use cheaper goading effects like Goblin Spymaster and Karazikar. Token generators like Young Wolf and Kheru Token Generators replace expensive aristocrat payoffs.
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