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Kentaro, the Smiling Cat
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Kentaro, the Smiling Cat

Legendary Creature — Human Samurai
1W
· Mono-White
Bushido 1 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) You may pay {X} rather than pay the mana cost for Samurai spells you cast, where X is that spell's mana value.
Budget
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36 lands · total $95.64 budget: $100
W 28 C 2
Composition 27 Basics 6 Fetch Lands 2 Other Nonbasic 1 Hideaway Lands (Lorwyn)

EDHREC hasn’t published enough decks for Kentaro, the Smiling Cat yet, so this manabase isn’t drawn from real-deck inclusion data. It’s ranked by a land-quality heuristic instead — Commander staples and the strongest in-budget cycles first, then basics split across the identity. A solid baseline to start from, not a tuned list.

Commander Staples

$3.29 2

Cycle Picks · Best to Worst

$92.35 7

Basics

$1.89 27

About This Manabase

Kentaro, the Smiling Cat is a Mono-White commander with a W color identity, so any land that produces only those colors is fair game. Our auto-built manabase above starts at the Optimized $100 tier. EDHREC doesn’t yet have deck data for Kentaro, the Smiling Cat, so picks are ranked by a land-quality heuristic — Commander staples and the strongest in-budget cycles first (shocks and untapped fixing, dropping to scry and tap-duals as the cap tightens), with the rest filled by basics split across the identity. The picker always includes Commander staples like Reliquary Tower, Rogue's Passage when they fit your identity — these are nearly auto-includes in any EDH deck. From the catalogued cycles, the picker pulled Windswept Heath, Flooded Strand, Marsh Flats, Arid Mesa , plus 3 more for Kentaro, the Smiling Cat's manabase.

Pick a tier above to reshape the manabase. The Budget ($25) tier leans on basics and the cheapest utility lands; Optimized ($100) adds the best mid-priced duals and untapped fixing the budget allows; Unlimited drops the price cap so premium duals and in-identity fetches come in. Filter out tap-lands for faster decks, or pin yourself to fetchable lands for a fetch-heavy ramp shell.