Bant Battlecruiser - PDH Deck Building Challenge

Pauper EDH* Casual GWU (Bant) Multiplayer

Tuxedodin

Lands (35)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Azorius Guildgate
• 1x Bant Panorama
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 7x Forest
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 1x Haunted Fengraf
• 3x Island
• 1x Khalni Garden
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 5x Plains
• 1x Sandstone Bridge
• 1x Secluded Steppe
• 1x Selesnya Guildgate
• 1x Selesnya Sanctuary
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Simic Guildgate
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Tranquil Thicket

Finishers (7)

• 1x Eldrazi Devastator
• 1x Greater Sandwurm
• 1x Nessian Asp
• 1x Rampaging Hippo
• 1x Stampeding Elk Herd
• 1x Tajuru Pathwarden
• 1x Ulamog's Crusher

Fogs (3)

• 1x Blinding Fog
• 1x Safe Passage
• 1x Tanglesap

Utility (16)

• 1x Freed from the Real
• 1x Godtoucher
• 1x Ivy Lane Denizen
• 1x Nightshade Peddler
• 1x One-Eyed Scarecrow
• 1x Relic of Progenitus
• 1x Scattershot Archer
• 1x Selesnya Evangel
• 1x Skittering Crustacean
• 1x Soltari Visionary
• 1x Stormbound Geist
• 1x Strider Harness
• 1x Tandem Lookout
• 1x True-Faith Censer
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak
• 1x Zephyr Charge

Removal (9)

• 1x Aerie Ouphes
• 1x Celestial Flare
• 1x Claws of Wirewood
• 1x Clip Wings
• 1x Crushing Canopy
• 1x Crushing Vines
• 1x Elvish Skysweeper
• 1x Oran-Rief Recluse
• 1x Reprisal

Protection (6)

• 1x Dive Down
• 1x Eel Umbra
• 1x Elgaud Shieldmate
• 1x Ranger's Guile
• 1x Spidersilk Armor
• 1x Vines of Vastwood

Recursion (2)

• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Pulse of Murasa

Commander (1)

Ramp (9)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Fertile Ground
• 1x Gatecreeper Vine
• 1x Kozilek's Predator
• 1x Krosan Restorer
• 1x Market Festival
• 1x Voyaging Satyr
• 1x Wild Growth
• 1x Yavimaya Elder

Card Draw (7)

• 1x Entourage of Trest
• 1x Fierce Empath
• 1x Kavu Climber
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Palace Sentinels
• 1x Secrets of the Golden City
• 1x Wretched Gryff

Mana Sinks (5)

• 1x Caravan Escort
• 1x Dawnglare Invoker
• 1x Halimar Wavewatch
• 1x Ikiral Outrider
• 1x Wildheart Invoker

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This deck aims to answer the question of how mono-green can you make a bant deck. Lots of mana, check. Hating on flying creatures, yeah! T-T-Trample tribal!? (Psst, we're playing the WHOLE card.) We even got mono-green things such as white fogs, hand-picked for maximum player damage. Blue mini Vines of Vastwood for protecting your huge threats? That, and so much more. Join me in an exploration of the green color identity, and enjoy a slight bit of Mulldrifter seasoning to go with your greens.

It's both brutish and loud; the most mono-green deck you will ever see, now in multicolor, because you deserve it.

Game Plan

This is honestly a somewhat weird deck, so I guess I should explain what it actually tries to accomplish. The centerpiece of the deck, Bant Battlemage , has two abilities, both granting different forms of evasion. This is of course useful when combined with some large beaters, but also allows the deck to attack on a more political axis. Helping your "allies" get through in exchange for truces or more immediate resources is certainly an option. My personal favourite though is granting your opponents' flying, followed by a sweet piece of flying hate.

This deck also plays a couple of the monarch cards, as well as a handful of fogs. All the fogs prevent damage to/from some subset of cards that is beneficial to us, be it by letting tramplers get through or just preventing damage done to creatures, not players, for more trample feelgood. These can be used to further the a political game plan as well.

In addition this deck tries to generate a reasonable amount of mana to hold up protection for our threats and cast them in the first place. As such it was hard not to run Freed from the Real for an infinite mana combo, and thus I did. There are of course quite a few more synergistic card choices in the deck, but this at least covers some of the stranger ones, the rest will be up to you to discover. And if you choose to pick up this deck, good luck, and enjoy.

Tuxedodin

Top Ranked	Achieved #21 position overall 6 years ago
Date added	6 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Pauper EDH legal.
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.18
Tokens	City's Blessing, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Plant 0/1 G, Saproling 1/1 G, The Monarch
Folders	Favorite, Maybedecks