Legendary Creature — Cat Cleric

Kemba, Kha Regent

Mana value3EDHREC#8,598

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The Commander

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

Guide

Gameplan

Kemba turns Equipment into a token engine: load her up with cheap and powerful gear, then generate a 2/2 Cat army every upkeep that snowballs into lethal swings or sacrifice fodder. You ramp into Equipment, protect Kemba, and either go wide with anthems or go tall by suiting her up as a Voltron threat.

Strengths

Self-contained token engine that needs no other creatures to start producing
Equipment doubles as both an army and personal protection/evasion
Mono-white access to the deepest pool of anthems, Equipment tutors, and board wipes
Flexible win paths: go wide, go tall, or pivot to aristocrats

Weaknesses

Heavily commander-dependent; if Kemba dies tokens stop and Equipment becomes vulnerable
Slow start if you draw gear without the body, or vice versa
Mono-white struggles with card draw and ramp relative to other colors
Equipment-matters strategies fold hard to artifact removal and board wipes

Key Cards

Puresteel Paladin — Free Equipment attachment with metalcraft lets you suit up Kemba explosively and draw on each Equipment cast.
Sigarda's Aid — Flash in Equipment and attach for free, enabling surprise blocks and instant-speed army growth.
Stoneforge Mystic — Tutors your best Equipment to hand and cheats it into play attached to Kemba.
Swiftfoot Boots — Cheap Equipment that grants hexproof and haste while also adding to your Cat count.
Cathars' Crusade — Every Cat token enters with a +1/+1 counter trigger, snowballing the board into lethal fast.
Skullclamp — Turns excess 2/2 Cats and counter-pumped tokens into a relentless card-draw engine.

Upgrade Path

Prioritize free or near-free attach effects (Puresteel Paladin, Sigarda's Aid, Leonin Shikari) and protection (Lightning Greaves, Whispersilk Cloak) so Kemba survives and snowballs. Add white's best ramp and card draw (Smothering Tithe, Esper Sentinel, Land Tax) plus token payoffs like Anointed Procession to double output. Top end with Equipment tutors (Stoneforge Mystic, Steelshaper's Gift) and a clean finisher such as Felidar Retreat or an overrun effect.

Core Cards

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Win Conditions

▸Go wide with Cats and finish with anthems like Cathars' Crusade or overrun effects
▸Commander damage from a fully equipped Kemba
▸Skullclamp-fueled card advantage into a grinding token swarm
▸Convoke/sac payoffs turning Cats into damage or drain

Archetypes

Voltron — Kemba can be loaded with Equipment to swing as a lethal commander while still making tokens.
Tokens — Each attached Equipment makes a 2/2 Cat every upkeep, fueling a go-wide army.
Equipment Matters — The deck is built around cheap, powerful gear that triggers Kemba and Equipment payoffs.
Aristocrats — The steady stream of Cat tokens makes perfect sacrifice fodder for value engines.