Budget Bants

Commander / EDH Budget GWU (Bant)

jaskamakkara

Creature (25)

• 1x Aerie Mystics
• 1x Angel of Finality
• 1x Angel of Serenity
• 1x Assault Zeppelid
• 1x Blighted Agent
• 1x Carnage Wurm
• 1x Coiling Oracle
• 1x Colossal Whale
• 1x Daxos of Meletis
• 1x Deep-Sea Kraken
• 1x Elite Arcanist
• 1x Fleecemane Lion
• 1x Inkwell Leviathan
• 1x Invisible Stalker
• 1x Isperia, Supreme Judge
• 1x Kiora's Follower
• 1x Kruphix, God of Horizons
• 1x Master Biomancer
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Nimbus Swimmer
• 1x Prime Speaker Zegana
• 1x Roon of the Hidden Realm
• 1x Simic Guildmage
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Trygon Predator

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Kiora, the Crashing Wave
• 1x Venser, the Sojourner

Land (38)

• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Azorius Guildgate
• 1x Bant Panorama
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 8x Forest
• 8x Island
• 1x Opal Palace
• 7x Plains
• 1x Rupture Spire
• 1x Seaside Citadel
• 1x Sejiri Refuge
• 1x Selesnya Guildgate
• 1x Selesnya Sanctuary
• 1x Simic Guildgate
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Transguild Promenade

Enchantment (11)

• 1x Alpha Authority
• 1x Aqueous Form
• 1x Fable of Wolf and Owl
• 1x Favor of the Overbeing
• 1x Into the Wilds
• 1x Khalni Heart Expedition
• 1x Rancor
• 1x Shielding Plax
• 1x Unflinching Courage
• 1x Vow of Flight
• 1x Vow of Wildness

Artifact (8)

• 1x Codex Shredder
• 1x Crystal Chimes
• 1x Explorer's Scope
• 1x Library of Leng
• 1x Mask of Memory
• 1x Ring of Kalonia
• 1x Spectral Searchlight
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

Instant (6)

• 1x Dissolve
• 1x Essence Scatter
• 1x Honor the Fallen
• 1x Negate
• 1x Savage Summoning
• 1x Simic Charm

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Dawn to Dusk
• 1x Journey of Discovery
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Planar Cleansing
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Reviving Melody
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Urban Evolution

Commander (1)

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A budget-friendly Bant EDH deck that I would like some opinion on. I have tried to categorise my choices to show why I have chosen the cards I have done:

CARD ADVANTAGE (Drawing and keeping cards):Mulldrifter,Urban Evolution,Prime Speaker Zegana,Ponder,Coiling Oracle,Kruphix, God of Horizons,Library of Leng,Mask of Memory

EVASION (getting creatures into opponents' faces): Assault Zeppelid ,Rancor,Unflinching Courage, Ring of Kalonia ,Vow of Flight, Vow of Wildness , Alpha Authority ,Aqueous Form, Favor of the Overbeing ,Whispersilk Cloak

MANA ADVANTAGE/ACCELERATION (ramping and fixing):Spectral Searchlight,Cultivate,Kodama's Reach, Khalni Heart Expedition , Journey of Discovery ,Explorer's Scope,Into the Wilds,Kiora's Follower

RECURSION (retrieving creatures and spells from GY):Crystal Chimes, Dawn to Dusk , Reviving Melody ,Codex Shredder,Sun Titan,Elite Arcanist

PROTECTION (keep creatures alive and general control):Roon of the Hidden Realm, Dissolve ,Negate, Shielding Plax , Simic Guildmage ,Fleecemane Lion,Savage Summoning,Simic Charm,Essence Scatter, Aerie Mystics

REMOVAL:Trygon Predator, Venser, the Sojourner ,Angel of Serenity,Supreme Verdict,Planar Cleansing

ANTI-GRAVEYARD: Angel of Finality , Honor the Fallen

WIN CONDITIONS: Kiora, the Crashing Wave ,Deep-Sea Kraken,Inkwell Leviathan, Nimbus Swimmer ,Master Biomancer, Invisible Stalker , Carnage Wurm ,Isperia, Supreme Judge,Blighted Agent, Colossal Whale ,Daxos of Meletis,Fable of Wolf and Owl

General idea is to have lots of evasive creatures with some Auras attached and decent card advantage in order to trample to enemy.

Please let me know if you think I have made good choices, I am looking to keep this as cheap as possible so if you make a suggestion then it would be good if the new card is of a similar value to one that would be replaced. Please also comment if you think this deck is even worth constructing, perhaps you think alternative style of deck would be better for this money.

Thanks for any help in advance!

Date added	10 years
Last updated	10 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 15 - 0 Rares 30 - 0 Uncommons 24 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.48
Tokens	Bird 1/1 U, Emblem Kiora, the Crashing Wave, Emblem Venser, the Sojourner, Human 2/2 G, Kraken 9/9 U, Wolf 2/2 G