Bantastic

Modern Competitive Control GWU (Bant) Superfriends Tempo

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Creature (9)

• 2x Dragonlord Ojutai
• 3x Snapcaster Mage
• 4x Tarmogoyf

Planeswalker (5)

• 2x Elspeth, Knight-Errant
• 2x Garruk Wildspeaker
• 1x Nissa, Voice of Zendikar

Land (24)

• 3x Breeding Pool
• 3x Celestial Colonnade
• 4x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forest
• 4x Hallowed Fountain
• 2x Island
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 2x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Plains
• 2x Temple Garden
• 1x Windswept Heath

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Detention Sphere

Instant (15)

• 3x Cryptic Command *list*
• 2x Mana Leak
• 2x Ojutai's Command
• 4x Path to Exile
• 2x Remand
• 2x Spell Snare

Sorcery (6)

• 4x Serum Visions
• 2x Supreme Verdict

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Sideboard

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Detention Sphere
• 4x Leyline of Sanctity
• 3x Stony Silence

Instant (5)

• 2x Disenchant
• 2x Negate
• 1x Sphinx's Revelation

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Gitaxian Probe

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Does Bant really suck that much? I don't know. I hope that it doesn't.

Allow me to present to you a Bant strategy that is not Knightfall or Eldrazi, Bant control. It operates like a traditional control deck, except with a little more of a tempo strategy.

You've got modern staple control spells like Path to Exile and Cryptic Command that conrol the board, with a few Supreme Verdicts to boot.

Then, you have planeswalkers that will spew tokens for you, buff them up, and give your opponent a very bad headache. These tokens will be troublesome enough that opponents will have to pay attention to them.

Meanwhile you have been dropping Tarmogoyfs all over the place that should have gotten huge by now. Did your opponent kill them? Well, then enter Ojutai's Command and you have an even bigger Tarmogoyf. Finally you should drop a Dragonlord Ojutai, and try to kill 'em. If he connects, you have a free Anticipate that will shore up your hand for the rest of the hopefully short game. Minamo, School at Water's Edge helps keep Ojutai out of harm's way. And if you ever need a spell again, Snapcaster Mage is there for you.

That's the strategy. I hope it at least will be somewhat competitive. If you liked it, upvote, if you didn't, comment why. Thanks for taking the time to read this.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	8 years
Legality	This deck is not Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 1 Mythic Rares 28 - 8 Rares 12 - 0 Uncommons 2 - 6 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.56
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Emblem Elspeth, Knight-Errant, Plant 0/1 G, Soldier 1/1 W