Bant Bring the Plot is a Combo-Control deck designed to cheat haymaker spells out earlier than normal while having a survival game plan.
Though Bant is the core, Black is splashed for Valki, God of Lies
, Atraxa, Grand Unifier, and Glarb, Calamity's Augur.
Combo Plan
Kellan Joins Up and Jace Reawakened allow for the plotting of Valki, God of Lies
and Bramble Familiar. Casting a turn 4 or 5 Tibalt while still having mana up to protect with No More Lies or further advance the board state by casting anything exile by Tibalt can lurch the game forward. Bramble Familiar's mill 7 can put card:Atraxa into play for free or put in many of our sideboard enchantments if we don't get them in hand when needed.
Bring to Light has been a mainstay in the Niv to light lists but finds a comfortable home here by being deployed turn 4 to cheat out card:Tibalt, Cosmic Imposter or Bramble Familiar.
Ramp and color fixing
Triomes, fast lands, slow lands, and the occasional man-lands allow this 3 (4) color deck to flourish. Ancient Cornucopia being a fix all mana source that gains life helps offset the Mana Confluence's cost of inclusion. Courier's Briefcase provides fixing with a chump blocker to protect planeswalkers or prevent death in combat. If in dire straight Bramble Familiar can also be deployed as a dork.
Synergies
Plotting or exiling to Tibalt, See the Truth is effectively a draw three that doesn't draw a card avoiding lethal damage from Sheoldred, the Apocalypse.
Glarb, Calamity's Augur helps ensure land drops, triggers Kellan Joins Up and let's your surveil with Bramble Familiar on the stack allowing you to look at potentially 9 cards instead of 7 helping you find what you need more consistently.
