Kona, Rescue Beastie

📖 How to build Kona, Rescue Beastie

Kona, Rescue Beastie is a green creature that turns combat into card advantage. Each turn, if Kona is tapped when your second main phase begins, you may put a permanent card from your hand onto the battlefield. The plan is to attack or otherwise tap Kona, then cheat expensive permanents into play without paying their mana costs.

Build around ways to fill your hand with permanents and keep Kona tapped. Ramp and card-advantage spells like Cultivate, Farseek, Rampant Growth, Nature's Lore, Three Visits, and Kodama's Reach give you more permanents to put into play. Mana creatures such as Birds of Paradise, Llanowar Elves, and Elvish Mystic add mana but do not tap Kona. Heroic Intervention can protect Kona, and Beast Within can answer threats.

Kona's ability is optional and only checks at one moment, so it is easy to shut off. Kona must be tapped when the second main phase begins, which means it needs to have attacked or been tapped by another effect. If Kona is removed or stays home, you get no trigger that turn. The ability also only works with permanent cards, so spells in your hand do nothing for it.

Deck guide written with AI assistance based on the card's rules text.