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Commander / EDH GWU (Bant)

Ruggs

Lands (35)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Bountiful Promenade
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Brushland
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 5x Forest
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Hall of Heliod's Generosity
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 5x Island
• 4x Plains
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Treva's Ruins
• 1x Waterlogged Grove
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Tutors (9)

• 1x Bring to Light
• 1x Congregation at Dawn
• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Idyllic Tutor
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Recruiter of the Guard
• 1x Wargate

Dorks (16)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Beastcaller Savant
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Boreal Druid
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Faeburrow Elder
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Gyre Engineer
• 1x Incubation Druid
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Maraleaf Pixie
• 1x Paradise Druid
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid

Utility (12)

• 1x Aluren
• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Freed from the Real
• 1x Intruder Alarm
• 1x Mana Breach
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Oko, Thief of Crowns
• 1x Rest in Peace
• 1x Road of Return
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir

Spot Removal (3)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Wipes (3)

• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dusk / Dawn
• 1x Fell the Mighty

Commander (1)

Troops (16)

• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Dosan the Falling Leaf
• 1x Drannith Magistrate
• 1x Dream Stalker
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Giver of Runes
• 1x Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Mirror Entity
• 1x Niambi, Esteemed Speaker
• 1x Ranger-Captain of Eos
• 1x Shrieking Drake
• 1x Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
• 1x Thassa's Oracle
• 1x Trophy Mage
• 1x Whitemane Lion

Counterspells (5)

• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Delay
• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Render Silent
• 1x Swan Song

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The goal is to win either by drawing the deck and having either Lab Man or Oracle on the field, or through combat with a big Finale of Devastation or pump with Mirror Entity. Try to get an opening hand with a dork or two to power Chulane out ASAP. Once he's out you can dig for combo pieces by casting creatures.

Notable Interactions

Freed from the Real + Gyre Engineer, Bloom Tender, Incubation Druid(with a +1/+1 counter on her), or Faeburrow Elder = infinite mana

If Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy is on the field the list expands to include all the dorks capable of producing blue mana, so Birds of Paradise, Maraleaf Pixie, Paradise Druid, etc.

Shrieking Drake + Chulane, Teller of Tales can loop as long as you have blue to pay for the drake. Same with Whitemane Lion and Dream Stalker. The creatures simply return themselves to your hand when you cast them.

Intruder Alarm + Shrieking Drake, Dream Stalker, or Whitemane Lion + dorks allows you to draw your entire deck and put all your lands on the field.

Muddle the Mixture Targets:

Blinkers: Whitemane Lion, Dream Stalker

Big Mana: Bloom Tender, Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy, Incubation Druid

Tutors: Eladamri's Call

Counterspells: Counterspell, Dovin's Veto, Narset's Reversal

Wincon: Thassa's Oracle, Finale of Devastation

Lock: Drannith Magistrate, Rest in Peace

Drift of Phantasms Targets (lots of enchantments/artifacts generally): Lock: Aven Mindcensor, Render Silent, Dosan the Falling Leaf

Mana: Freed from the Real, Basalt Monolith, Faeburrow Elder, Gyre Engineer, Vigean Graftmage

Wincons/Utility: Thousand-Year Elixir, Cloudstone Curio, Intruder Alarm, Mirror Entity

Tutor: Wargate, Trophy Mage, Recruiter of the Guard, Ranger-Captain of Eos, Idyllic Tutor

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 49 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.38
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, Elk 3/3 G, Food
Folders	deck ideas