My only problem is figuring out how to kill you

Commander / EDH* Control GWU (Bant)

msanchez13

Creature (27)

• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Clone
• 1x Coiling Oracle
• 1x Containment Priest
• 1x Drogskol Reaver
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Karmic Guide
• 1x Kiora's Follower
• 1x Kruphix, God of Horizons
• 1x Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Palinchron
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Perplexing Chimera
• 1x Prime Speaker Zegana
• 1x Progenitor Mimic
• 1x Prophet of Kruphix
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Restoration Angel
• 1x Reveillark
• 1x Riftsweeper
• 1x Sigarda, Host of Herons
• 1x Soul of the Harvest
• 1x Sphinx of Uthuun
• 1x Stonecloaker
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Farseek
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Peregrination
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Wargate

Land (32)

• 1x Command Tower
• 4x Forest
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 7x Island
• 4x Plains
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Rupture Spire
• 1x Seaside Citadel
• 1x Sejiri Refuge
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Temple of Enlightenment
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Tranquil Cove
• 1x Transguild Promenade
• 1x Vivid Grove

Artifact (9)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Conjurer's Closet
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Magewright's Stone
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sundial of the Infinite
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1x Unbender Tine

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x Pemmin's Aura
• 1x Righteous Authority

Commander (1)

Instant (19)

• 1x AEtherize
• 1x Bant Charm
• 1x Bind
• 1x Comeuppance
• 1x Condemn
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Dissipate
• 1x Ghostway
• 1x Interdict
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Polymorphist's Jest
• 1x Render Silent
• 1x Return to Dust
• 1x Rewind
• 1x Stifle
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Trickbind
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Planeswalker (2)

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

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Maybeboard

Creature (2)

• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Seedborn Muse

Instant (1)

• 1x Trickbind

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Karn Liberated

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Austere Command

Artifact (1)

• 1x Strionic Resonator

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Good night, sweet prince, Prophet of Kruphix The deck works by building up a non-threatening board state with little interference, then playing a few key cards to arm it, quickly and efficiently killing the board (in theory. It usually ends up locking the board down until I figure out how to start killing people).

Combinations of cards I hold off on:
Drogskol Reaver + Righteous Authority or Overbeing of Myth, preceded by Windreader Sphinx
Great Whale + Kruphix, God of Horizons or any other untap card, especially with a Gilded Lotus
Eternal Witness + Riftsweeper assuming neither gets removed (easy enough with Roon's ability and an untap dork or two), it becomes impossible to remove my permanents.
Deadeye Navigator gets out of hand with about 13 different cards in this deck including those that are abused by Kiora's Follower unless dealt with by the next turn.
Prime Speaker Zegana on its own really. The game ends there if I don't have a hand size.
Perplexing Chimera and a way to frequently return it to my control, otherwise it's too much of a liability.
Ghostway + [name a board wipe]

Blink targets include:

Acidic Slime
Archaeomancer
Coiling Oracle
Eternal Witness
Great Whale
Lavinia of the Tenth
Mulldrifter
Nevermaker
Peregrine Drake
Perplexing Chimera
Prime Speaker Zegana
Riftsweeper
Sphinx of Uthuun
Venser, Shaper Savant

I've decided the non-land/ramp cards in this deck fit nicely into seven categories.

Blink Engines

Conjurer's Closet
Deadeye Navigator
Ghostway
And, of course, Roon of the Hidden Realm

Removal

AEtherize
Acidic Slime
Bant Charm
Condemn
Curse of the Swine
Cyclonic Rift
Krosan Grip
Nevermaker
Rapid Hybridization
Snap
Supreme Verdict
Swords to Plowshares
Terminus
Venser, Shaper Savant

Draw Power

Bident of Thassa
Coiling Oracle
Dictate of Kruphix
Drogskol Reaver
Edric, Spymaster of Trest Mulldrifter
Overbeing of Myth
Prime Speaker Zegana
Righteous Authority
Soul of the Harvest
Sphinx of Uthuun
Staff of Nin
Treasure Hunt
Urban Evolution
Windreader Sphinx

Recursion

Archaeomancer
Eternal Witness - almost always targeted by Wargate for obvious reasons
Riftsweeper

Untap

Mostly meant for Roon with a bit of land untap
Great Whale
Kiora's Follower
Peregrine Drake
Prophet of Kruphix - my other target with Wargate, if I see myself needing mana before next turn
Thousand-Year Elixir
Unbender Tine

Board Control

Counterspells, zone shifting, politics, and Sigarda
Counterspell
Edric, Spymaster of Trest
Dissipate
Lavinia of the Tenth
Pact of Negation
Perplexing Chimera
Polymorphist's Jest
Render Silent
Rewind
Sigarda, Host of Herons
Stifle

Etc

Mostly tutors, planeswalkers, hand size eliminators and clones
Clone
Jace, Memory Adept
Kruphix, God of Horizons
Library of Leng
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Progenitor Mimic
Sundial of the Infinite
Venser, the Sojourner
Venser's Journal
Wargate

This list has come a long way from starting out as my second EDH deck and now resembles what I feel is most effective in the Bant colors with Roon as the general. The theme is Bant control with a focus on battlefield manipulation, and was a retaliation to the disgusting world of combos I entered when I started EDH playing with Prossh as my general. This list changes frequently, as it reflects what I consider to work best for Bant control and within my friend group, and obviously there are budget constraints.

Feel free to +1 if you like it! And please make suggestions if you can think of cards that would synergize well, I'm still fairly new to the world of Magic.
p.s. my maybeboard is actually just the cards I'm too poor to run.

Date added	10 years
Last updated	6 years
Key combos	Drogskol Reaver + Righteous Authority Great Whale + Kruphix, God of Horizons Eternal Witness + Riftsweeper
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 42 - 0 Rares 30 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.51
Tokens	Copy Clone, Emblem Kiora, the Crashing Wave, Emblem Venser, the Sojourner, Kraken 9/9 U