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Kemba, Kha Regent

Legendary Creature — Cat Cleric1 generic manaWhite manaWhite mana

The wager an Equipment-matters payoff makes is whether the bonus pays for the friction. Most Equipment decks suffer from the cost of suiting up: every sword and boot is a turn spent not advancing the board. Kemba inverts that math by turning each attached Equipment into a recurring body, so the gear stops being a tax on tempo and starts compounding. A 2/4 holding three Equipment hands you a 2/2 Cat every upkeep per piece, and because the tokens are creatures, the engine snowballs on its own once it gets going. The body is the quiet load-bearing part: 2/4 survives most early aggression and parks comfortably as a defensive anchor while the Equipment count climbs, which matters for a creature whose payoff is gated entirely behind staying alive through your upkeep. The vulnerability is structural and worth naming: scatter the gear or kill the regent and the recurring tokens stop, since the count resets to whatever stays attached. That tension is the whole design. This is the white Cat tribal piece that gives the archetype a reason to over-commit to equipment rather than spread it across a team, and it remains the cleanest articulation of the idea that a single creature plus a pile of swords can become an army that refuses to shrink.

Kemba, Kha Regent (cmm)
CMM · #671uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.25
Foil: $0.44
Oracle Text

Rules text

At the beginning of your upkeep, create a 2/2 white Cat creature token for each Equipment attached to Kemba.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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