Bard cEDH building blocks by user6478893

Format: Commander

Commander: Bard, King of Dale

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 70

Deck overview

This deck is an Azorius competitive Commander control-combo build commanded by Bard, King of Dale. It leverages format-ceiling acceleration, dense free countermagic, and premier tax effects to control the table before executing an uncounterable game-ending combo. The primary game plan accelerates into an early silence effect such as Silence, Grand Abolisher, or Teferi, Time Raveler, completely locking opponents out of stack interaction. Once protected, the deck deploys Hullbreaker Horror, utilizing mana-positive rocks like Sol Ring and Mox Opal to generate infinite colored and colorless mana. This loop returns every opposing nonland permanent to hand and fuels a lethal Brain Freeze storm finish or a Laboratory Maniac win. In the early game, Drannith Magistrate and Vexing Bauble restrict opposing development, while Rhystic Study, Mystic Remora, and Bard's draw-doubling passive provide massive card advantage to sculpt winning hands with high consistency.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Angel's Grace
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Bard, King of Dale
  • 1 Bilbo's Gambit
  • 1 Borne Upon a Wind
  • 1 Brain Freeze
  • 1 Chain of Vapor
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 City of Traitors
  • 1 Clever Impersonator
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commandeer
  • 1 Copy Enchantment
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dispel
  • 1 Disrupting Shoal
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Emrakul's Messenger
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flash Photography
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Idyllic Tutor
  • 1 Into the Flood Maw
  • 1 Island
  • 1 King T'Challa // Black Panther, Hope Enduring
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mental Misstep
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Mirrormade
  • 1 Misdirection
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mockingbird
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Orim's Chant
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Permission Denied
  • 1 Phantasmal Image
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ranger-Captain of Eos
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Saprazzan Skerry
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Springleaf Drum
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Subtlety
  • 1 Sudden Substitution
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tataru Taru
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 The Queen of Dale
  • 1 Timetwister
  • 1 Trickbind
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Valley Floodcaller
  • 1 Vexing Bauble
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
  • 1 Windswept Heath