Landfall by Akatana

Format: Commander

Commander: Chulane, Teller of Tales

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

This Bant deck combines the explosive card draw and ramp capabilities of Chulane, Teller of Tales with a dedicated landfall token engine. The strategy accelerates in the opening turns using efficient mana dorks and land search spells, aiming to cast Chulane by Turn 4. Once Chulane is active, every creature spell cantrips and places a land directly onto the battlefield, creating compounding resource velocity. The deck converts this mana and card advantage into lethal pressure using potent landfall token producers like Scute Swarm, Avenger of Zendikar, Felidar Retreat, and Greensleeves, Maro-Sorcerer. Robust protection spells like Heroic Intervention and Teferi's Protection defend the board against sweepers while Aura Shards dismantles opposing artifacts and enchantments. The deck closes games around Turn 6 by overwhelming all three opponents with massive, buffed token swarms.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abundance
  • 1 Admonition Angel
  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 Ancient Greenwarden
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Aura Shards
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Hope
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Azorius Chancery
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Banisher Priest
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bonny Pall, Clearcutter
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Brokers Hideout
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Chord of Calling
  • 1 Chulane, Teller of Tales
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Courser of Kruphix
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Druid Class
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Emeria Shepherd
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Felidar Retreat
  • 1 Field of Ruin
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Frilled Mystic
  • 1 Greensleeves, Maro-Sorcerer
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Inga and Esika
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Karametra, God of Harvests
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mossborn Hydra
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Noble Hierarch
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Primeval Bounty
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Retreat to Coralhelm
  • 1 Retreat to Kazandu
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Roil Elemental
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Seaside Citadel
  • 1 Selesnya Sanctuary
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spara's Headquarters
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tranquil Landscape
  • 1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wrenn and Seven
  • 1 Zendikar's Roil