Kalain, Reclusive Painter
$0.34

Legendary Creature — Human Elf Bard

Rakdos

How it feels to play against

Mildly Annoying Some frustrating moments but still fun.

Popularity

Proven Option Well-established with solid community support.

Ranking

#1621 Current Rank

#1801 Last Week

#1613 Last Month

Links & Decks

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Videos

Commander gameplay videos featuring Kalain, Reclusive Painter.

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New Cards

Fresh cards from recent sets that players are experimenting with in Kalain, Reclusive Painter decks.

Coin of Mastery

+42% Synergy $1.96

Ominous Harvest

+8% Synergy $1.64

Arcade Cabinet

+5% Synergy $0.68

Super Shredder

+4% Synergy $27.49

Decorum Dissertation

+1% Synergy $6.99

High Synergy Cards

Cards that work exceptionally well with Kalain, Reclusive Painter's abilities and overall game plan.

Xorn

+65% Synergy $8.69

Captain Lannery Storm

+64% Synergy $0.28

Marut

+57% Synergy $0.11

Hoarding Ogre

+56% Synergy $0.18

Goldspan Dragon

+56% Synergy $5.92

Juri, Master of the Revue

+55% Synergy $0.25

Blood Money

+54% Synergy $1.11

Unexpected Windfall

+52% Synergy $3.12

Deadly Dispute

+51% Synergy $0.36

Rain of Riches

+49% Synergy $1.05

Top Cards

The most popular and reliable cards that form the backbone of successful Kalain, Reclusive Painter decks.

Nadier's Nightblade

+48% Synergy $0.29

Professional Face-Breaker

+47% Synergy $5.91

Marionette Master

+47% Synergy $3.92

Big Score

+46% Synergy $0.64

Reckless Fireweaver

+46% Synergy $0.42

Seize the Spoils

+46% Synergy $0.21

Mirkwood Bats

+45% Synergy $0.74

Grim Hireling

+45% Synergy $15.38

Mayhem Devil

+35% Synergy $0.24

Terminate

+11% Synergy $0.38

Game Changers

Powerful cards that can single-handedly turn the tide of a game when resolved.

Vampiric Tutor

-7% Synergy $64.98

Demonic Tutor

-8% Synergy $68.04

Jeska's Will

-9% Synergy $41.65

Creatures

Essential creatures that complement Kalain, Reclusive Painter's strategy through synergy, utility, or raw power.

Skullport Merchant

+48% Synergy $0.14

Decadent Dragon

+44% Synergy $1.91

Crime Novelist

+42% Synergy $0.80

Forsworn Paladin

+41% Synergy $0.32

Hoard Robber

+40% Synergy $0.10

Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge

+39% Synergy $0.29

Academy Manufactor

+38% Synergy $6.93

Exava, Rakdos Blood Witch

+37% Synergy $0.19

Hagra Constrictor

+37% Synergy $0.12

Swashbuckler Extraordinaire

+36% Synergy $0.21

Fain, the Broker

+35% Synergy $4.01

Magda, Brazen Outlaw

+33% Synergy $2.08

Impulsive Pilferer

+31% Synergy $0.31

Kellogg, Dangerous Mind

+31% Synergy $4.80

Plundering Barbarian

+31% Synergy $0.29

Mahadi, Emporium Master

+30% Synergy $1.63

Mastermind Plum

+28% Synergy $1.50

Disciple of the Vault

+26% Synergy $0.80

Rapacious Dragon

+26% Synergy $0.23

Ancient Copper Dragon

+25% Synergy $101.98

Magda, the Hoardmaster

+25% Synergy $0.48

Marionette Apprentice

+23% Synergy $0.99

Atsushi, the Blazing Sky

+23% Synergy $0.40

Hellkite Tyrant

+22% Synergy $4.00

Ruthless Technomancer

+20% Synergy $3.56

Ingenious Artillerist

+20% Synergy $0.54

Cavern-Hoard Dragon

+20% Synergy $12.89

Shambling Ghast

+20% Synergy $0.39

Prosperous Bandit

+20% Synergy $0.28

Generous Plunderer

+18% Synergy $13.05

Zhentarim Bandit

+18% Synergy $0.11

Patron of the Arts

+17% Synergy $0.28

Baeloth Barrityl, Entertainer

+17% Synergy $14.34

Breeches, Eager Pillager

+17% Synergy $0.41

Rose Room Treasurer

+17% Synergy $0.38

Pitiless Plunderer

+16% Synergy $3.44

Lobelia Sackville-Baggins

+16% Synergy $0.26

Mer-Ek Nightblade

+16% Synergy $0.17

Treasure Dredger

+16% Synergy $0.12

Storm-Kiln Artist

+15% Synergy $1.22

Prosper, Tome-Bound

+15% Synergy $13.82

Hired Hexblade

+15% Synergy $0.09

Locke, Treasure Hunter

+14% Synergy $0.33

The Balrog, Durin's Bane

+14% Synergy $0.33

Bonehoard Dracosaur

+13% Synergy $14.00

Ruthless Knave

+13% Synergy $0.15

Undercity Scrounger

+13% Synergy $0.16

Scuzzback Scrounger

+12% Synergy $0.76

Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer

+11% Synergy $48.12

Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate

+11% Synergy $1.13

Instants

Key instant-speed responses for protection, removal, and keeping Kalain, Reclusive Painter safe.

Fake Your Own Death

+22% Synergy $0.27

Costly Plunder

+21% Synergy $0.12

Deadly Derision

+14% Synergy $0.24

Demand Answers

+13% Synergy $0.48

Bottle-Cap Blast

+12% Synergy $1.50

Sudden Breakthrough

+12% Synergy $0.18

Flick a Coin

+10% Synergy $0.22

Smashing Success

+7% Synergy $0.07

Ancestors' Aid

+7% Synergy $0.28

Great Train Heist

+6% Synergy $3.45

Power Word Kill

+5% Synergy $0.24

Bedevil

+4% Synergy $0.26

Eviscerator's Insight

+4% Synergy $0.28

Murder

+3% Synergy $0.15

Reckoner's Bargain

+3% Synergy $1.01

Feign Death

+1% Synergy $1.26

Hurl Through Hell

+1% Synergy $5.97

Abrade

0% Synergy $0.35

Go for the Throat

0% Synergy $0.59

Valakut Awakening

-2% Synergy $14.92

Fell the Profane

-3% Synergy $3.11

Withering Torment

-4% Synergy $3.31

Infernal Grasp

-5% Synergy $0.30

Chaos Warp

-6% Synergy $0.36

Rakdos Charm

-6% Synergy $0.38

Tibalt's Trickery

-6% Synergy $9.73

Malakir Rebirth

-8% Synergy $13.71

Deflecting Swat

-9% Synergy $68.07

Untimely Malfunction

-9% Synergy $5.39

Thrill of Possibility

-9% Synergy $0.26

Village Rites

-9% Synergy $0.82

Deadly Rollick

-12% Synergy $26.08

Dark Ritual

-28% Synergy $6.80

Sorceries

Important sorcery spells that advance Kalain, Reclusive Painter's game plan and control the board.

Brass's Bounty

+41% Synergy $0.34

Pirate's Pillage

+36% Synergy $0.51

Strike It Rich

+30% Synergy $1.39

Inspired Tinkering

+26% Synergy $0.73

Grim Bounty

+24% Synergy $0.12

Reckless Endeavor

+22% Synergy $9.56

Hit the Mother Lode

+21% Synergy $0.42

Hell to Pay

+17% Synergy $0.37

Seize the Spotlight

+12% Synergy $15.25

Contract Killing

+11% Synergy $0.20

Improvised Weaponry

+9% Synergy $0.13

Devour Intellect

+8% Synergy $0.13

Season of the Bold

+7% Synergy $0.61

Spiteful Repossession

+6% Synergy $0.40

Lich-Knights' Conquest

+5% Synergy $1.33

Visions of Ruin

+5% Synergy $0.44

Megaton's Fate

+5% Synergy $0.32

Price of Loyalty

+5% Synergy $0.18

Involuntary Employment

+4% Synergy $0.13

Diabolic Tutor

0% Synergy $2.07

Damnation

-1% Synergy $20.74

Feed the Swarm

-2% Synergy $0.38

Blasphemous Edict

-3% Synergy $3.47

Read the Bones

-4% Synergy $0.27

-7% Synergy $2.79

Night's Whisper

-7% Synergy $0.27

Toxic Deluge

-7% Synergy $4.71

Vandalblast

-12% Synergy $2.39

Faithless Looting

-13% Synergy $0.27

Blasphemous Act

-15% Synergy $0.66

Utility Artifacts

Versatile artifacts that provide ongoing value, card selection, or strategic advantages.

Diamond Pick-Axe

+46% Synergy $0.73

Goldvein Pick

+36% Synergy $0.24

Treasure Map

+34% Synergy $0.43

The Reaver Cleaver

+33% Synergy $11.36

Beamtown Beatstick

+27% Synergy $0.52

Collector's Vault

+25% Synergy $1.55

Idol of Oblivion

+23% Synergy $0.82

The Ozolith

+15% Synergy $69.05

Thieves' Tools

+14% Synergy $0.11

Treasure Chest

+14% Synergy $0.46

Prying Blade

+14% Synergy $0.17

Tempting Contract

+13% Synergy $8.82

Noble's Purse

+11% Synergy $0.29

Tarrian's Soulcleaver

+8% Synergy $3.33

Cranial Ram

+8% Synergy $0.18

Hoard Hauler

+8% Synergy $0.48

Cranial Plating

+7% Synergy $0.41

Gilded Pinions

+7% Synergy $0.26

Oni-Cult Anvil

+6% Synergy $0.32

Bucknard's Everfull Purse

+6% Synergy $5.54

RMS Titanic

+6% Synergy $5.44

Inspiring Statuary

+5% Synergy $0.34

Vat of Rebirth

+5% Synergy $0.30

Wayfarer's Bauble

-5% Synergy $0.32

Swiftfoot Boots

-14% Synergy $1.85

Lightning Greaves

-18% Synergy $3.56

Enchantments

Powerful enchantments that support Kalain, Reclusive Painter's strategy and create lasting battlefield effects.

Sticky Fingers

+46% Synergy $0.29

Alchemist's Talent

+40% Synergy $2.99

Revel in Riches

+38% Synergy $17.34

Shiny Impetus

+35% Synergy $0.27

Black Market Connections

+18% Synergy $17.30

Descent into Avernus

+17% Synergy $10.83

Agent of the Iron Throne

+16% Synergy $0.41

Spiteful Banditry

+16% Synergy $7.79

There and Back Again

+15% Synergy $3.47

Uncivil Unrest

+11% Synergy $21.32

Obsessive Pursuit

+9% Synergy $0.47

Korvold and the Noble Thief

+8% Synergy $0.16

Fable of the Mirror-Breaker

+6% Synergy $7.95

Guild Artisan

+6% Synergy $0.30

Greed

+4% Synergy $0.36

Curse of Opulence

0% Synergy $1.46

Phyrexian Arena

-6% Synergy $3.70

Planeswalkers

Planeswalkers that work alongside Kalain, Reclusive Painter to provide ongoing value and board presence.

Daretti, Ingenious Iconoclast

+5% Synergy $5.60

Utility Lands

Non-basic lands that offer additional utility beyond just mana production.

Treasure Vault

+45% Synergy $1.68

Mines of Moria

+36% Synergy $1.56

Volatile Fault

+14% Synergy $0.24

Karn's Bastion

+10% Synergy $1.85

Fountainport

+10% Synergy $2.91

Rogue's Passage

+7% Synergy $0.31

Inventors' Fair

+5% Synergy $12.99

The Gold Saucer

+5% Synergy $0.27

Great Furnace

+3% Synergy $1.74

Vault of Whispers

+3% Synergy $5.38

War Room

+2% Synergy $2.31

Bojuka Bog

+1% Synergy $0.53

Midgar, City of Mako

+1% Synergy $2.51

Urza's Saga

+1% Synergy $39.52

Castle Locthwain

0% Synergy $4.00

Mortuary Mire

0% Synergy $0.41

Barren Moor

0% Synergy $0.31

Arena of Glory

-1% Synergy $10.99

Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

-1% Synergy $11.06

Cabal Coffers

-4% Synergy $29.74

Reliquary Tower

-5% Synergy $2.54

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

-6% Synergy $58.63

Mana Artifacts

Artifacts focused on mana acceleration and color fixing for consistent gameplay.

Glittering Stockpile

+31% Synergy $0.39

Fire Diamond

-3% Synergy $0.35

Commander's Sphere

-5% Synergy $0.34

Mind Stone

-16% Synergy $0.35

Sol Ring

-18% Synergy $1.17

Arcane Signet

-21% Synergy $0.39

Rakdos Signet

-23% Synergy $2.32

Fellwar Stone

-25% Synergy $0.65

Talisman of Indulgence

-30% Synergy $3.52

Lands

The mana base foundation for Kalain, Reclusive Painter decks, ensuring smooth and reliable mana development.

Evolving Wilds

+6% Synergy $0.23

Black Dragon Gate

+6% Synergy $0.41

Cliffgate

+6% Synergy $0.36

Rakdos Carnarium

+5% Synergy $0.35

Rakdos Guildgate

+5% Synergy $0.11

Drossforge Bridge

+5% Synergy $1.14

Heap Gate

+5% Synergy $0.35

Bloodfell Caves

+3% Synergy $0.20

Tramway Station

+3% Synergy $0.10

Sulfurous Mire

+2% Synergy $0.34

Swamp

+1% Synergy $0.11

Mountain

+1% Synergy $0.16

Temple of Malice

+1% Synergy $0.21

Tainted Peak

0% Synergy $0.51

Blightstep Pathway

0% Synergy $5.45

Terramorphic Expanse

0% Synergy $0.26

Geothermal Bog

0% Synergy $0.20

Luxury Suite

-1% Synergy $29.92

Myriad Landscape

-1% Synergy $0.27

Command Tower

-2% Synergy $0.31

Foreboding Ruins

-2% Synergy $0.35

Fabled Passage

-2% Synergy $1.03

Valakut Awakening

-2% Synergy $14.92

Haunted Ridge

-3% Synergy $7.52

Badlands

-3% Synergy

Fell the Profane

-3% Synergy $3.11

Smoldering Marsh

-4% Synergy $0.37

Dragonskull Summit

-4% Synergy $0.53

Shadowblood Ridge

-4% Synergy $0.36

Canyon Slough

-5% Synergy $0.34

Raucous Theater

-6% Synergy $10.76

Blackcleave Cliffs

-6% Synergy $1.59

Path of Ancestry

-6% Synergy $0.29

Blazemire Verge

-7% Synergy $8.81

Graven Cairns

-8% Synergy $3.16

Malakir Rebirth

-8% Synergy $13.71

Blood Crypt

-9% Synergy $8.87

Bloodstained Mire

-9% Synergy $16.13

Mount Doom

-9% Synergy $7.48

Exotic Orchard

-10% Synergy $0.30

Sulfurous Springs

-14% Synergy $1.04

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Rankle and Torbran

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