The Best Kithkin Cards – Magic: The Gathering

Summary

• Mistmeadow Witch’s ability to exile creatures can help control the board and disrupt opponents’ strategies.
• Barrenton Medic’s ability can render you immortal in a Commander game when combined with -1/-1 counters.
• Augury Adept provides card draw and life gain, making it a powerful choice in the right conditions.

Though one of the more niche creature types in Magic: The Gathering, the Kithkin creature type has plenty of unique cards that can enhance your deck in a wide variety of ways. While there are some obvious synergies with other creature types, some are just fantastic cards on their own.

Whether you’re looking for a unique creature type to build a deck around or just want some inspiration for your current decks, this creature type has plenty of gas to keep your winning streak going. Here are the very best Kithkin cards you can find and play with your decks.

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Mistmeadow Witch

Got Any Spare Mana?

Having a few tricks up your sleeve is vital in Magic: The Gathering no matter which format you’re playing. Mistmeadow Witch is a little Kithkin Wizard that has a pretty handy ability tied to it that if you have some mana lying around, you can put to good use.

For four mana you get to exile any creature of your choice. That creature comes back to play at the start of the next end step, but in the meantime, anything happening to it will go away. You can do it in response to being attacked, kicking the attacker out of the game for a bit, or you can use it to reset any enter the battlefield effects you might have.

9

Barrenton Medic

Put Those Counters To Use

While it might not have a ton of use in a Kithkin-based deck, Barrenton Medic has one fantastic combo you can pull out that will effectively render you immortal in a game of Commander. Barrenton Medic has an ability to tap and prevent the next one damage you or one of your creatures would take. You can then untap it by putting a -1/-1 counter on the Medic to untap it, giving you a chance to negate up to four damage.

When combined with a card like Swift Reconfiguration, you transform the Medic into an artifact vehicle, so putting -1/-1 counters on it does nothing unless you try to crew it.

8

Augury Adept

Card Draw And Life Gain

Sometimes, all you need is an efficient creature to get some work done in a game to get ahead, and Augury Adept is a powerhouse under the right conditions. Anytime Augury Adept deals combat damage to a player, you get to reveal the top card of your deck, gain life equal to the mana value, and then you put it into your hand.

While you do have to connect with an opponent to trigger the effect, there are plenty of ways to make it unblockable so you can slip through. While two points of damage might not do much, the life gain and card advantage certainly do.

7

Figure Of Destiny

Start Leveling Up

One of the more fascinating Kithkin cards to come from Magic, Figure of Destiny starts off as a little 1/1 creature for one mana but quickly grows into an unstoppable force. You can pay one mana to upgrade Figure of Destiny to a Kithkin Spirit creature and it becomes a 2/2.

For three mana it becomes a 4/4, and then for six mana Figure of Destiny becomes an 8/8 with both flying and first strike, which is a heavy commitment, but ensures you have a threat late in the game.

Figure of Destiny would become the inspiration for the Level Up mechanic that would debut years later.

6

Galepowder Mage

Start Blinking

Galepowder Mage is a free exile trigger every time it attacks, much like Mistmeadow Witch though with just a one-time mana commitment. This ability will trigger every time it attacks, letting you exile any creature in play and bringing it back on the next endstep.

You can use this trigger to remove a pesky blocker and push some damage, or you can use it to double up on your enter the battlefield triggers. Either way, Galepowder Mage can get some work in, especially since it has some evasion tacked on it too.

5

Thistledown Liege

A Blue And White Lord

Lords in Magic: The Gathering play an important role in helping your smaller creatures get a little extra power throughout a game. Thistledown Liege pulls double duty in that it gives both your white creatures +1/+1, as well as +1/+1 to your blue creatures.

While it doesn’t affect itself, it will give your blue and white multicolor creatures an extra little bonus, giving +2/+2 if they have both colors. Slap this neat lord in some type of creature-based blue and white list, and you’ll have yourself a powerful boon to the battlefield.

4

Ballyrush Banneret

Everything Is A Little Easier

A running theme with a lot of Kithkin cards are that they are also Soldiers and Ballyrush Banneret makes running either your Kithkin cards or your Soldier ones just a little easier to cast.

With Ballyrush Banneret out, spells of either type cost one generic less to cast. This gives the little Kithkin a lot of versatility and as a result, it ends up seeing a lot of play. Even if you’re only running a few Soldier cards, or your commander is a Soldier, Ballyrush Banneret can let a four-mana commander come out on turn three, putting you ahead of your opponents.

3

Preeminent Captain

Attention Soldier!

Another Kithkin Soldier, Preeminent Captain is a fun and sneaky way to cheat a Soldier creature on to the battlefield to get some huge attacks in. Anytime Preeminent Captain attacks, you get to take a Soldier creature from your hand and put it into play tapped and attacking.

Putting a creature into play this way does not trigger any attack triggers that creature might have. If you put a second Preeminent Captain into play, for instance, you do not get that Captain’s attack trigger.

You can cheat some powerful Soldiers into play this way, but it will make the Captain a pretty big target. Having first strike helps keep the Captain alive through combat, but don’t expect too many attacks with this little guy.

2

Gaddock Teeg

Shut Down Your Opponents

An incredibly powerful legendary creature and very frustrating Commander to run, Gaddock Teeg is a creature filled to the brim with unique taxing effects that can completely shut down your opponent’s game plan just by being in play.

Gaddock Teeg has two main effects:

• No one can cast noncreature spells with a mana value of four or more.
• No one can cast spells with X in their mana cost.

Yes, this hits you as well, but completely locking your opponents out of their big instants, sorceries, planeswalkers, and more is worth it.

1

Kinsbaile Cavalier

Hit ‘Em, Then Hit ‘Em Again

An absolutely amazing Kithkin Knight, Kinsbaile Cavalier is a brutal creature that in the right conditions will swing the game completely in your favor. Even though it’s just a little 2/2 creature for four-mana, This Knight gives all your Knights double strike.

This functionally gives Kinsbaile Cavalier a power of four when it attacks, assuming both attacks go through. When applied to a whole army of Knights on the battlefield, you have yourself some serious damage to dish out.