Bard, King of Dale by Radeschokolade

Format: Commander

Commander: Bard, King of Dale

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Bard, King of Dale is the engine: he replaces every non-first draw-step draw with two cards and doubles every token event. The primary plan is to land Bard, stack second-draw token engines (Homunculus Horde, Mischievous Mystic, Prince Imrahil, Thopter Fabricator), then turn one draw spell into a large army and win with Kinbinding or Porcelain Gallery. Secondary paths are slower go-wide races using Bard's Company, Anafenza, and Raise the Past to rebuild after wipes. There is no hidden commander; Mister Fantastic acts as a force multiplier by turning each token event into extra draws, but the whole deck is built around Bard.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adagia, Windswept Bastion
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Anafenza, Unyielding Lineage
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Bard's Company
  • 1 Bard, King of Dale
  • 1 Belladonna Took
  • 1 Bilbo's Gambit
  • 1 Bilbo, Luckwearer // Burglar's Plot
  • 1 Bofur, Reliable Guardian // Concerted Care
  • 1 Borne Upon a Wind
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Celebrate the Mountain-king
  • 1 Confusticate and Bebother
  • 1 Cosmogrand Zenith
  • 1 Day of Judgment
  • 1 Dictate of Kruphix
  • 1 Dollmaker's Shop // Porcelain Gallery
  • 1 Dáin, Lord of the Iron Hills
  • 1 Eclipsed Merrow
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Gandalf the White
  • 1 Genku, Future Shaper
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Gold-Forged Thopteryx
  • 1 Great Gilded Boat
  • 1 Harmonized Crescendo
  • 1 Helping Hand
  • 1 Homunculus Horde
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 16 Island
  • 1 Kinbinding
  • 1 Kykar, Zephyr Awakener
  • 1 Lake-town
  • 1 Lake-town Lookout
  • 1 Loch Mare
  • 1 Lórien Revealed
  • 1 Mentor of the Meek
  • 1 Minas Tirith
  • 1 Mirrormind Crown
  • 1 Mischievous Mystic
  • 1 Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Orcrist, Goblin-cleaver
  • 1 Pippin, Guard of the Citadel
  • 16 Plains
  • 1 Prince Imrahil the Fair
  • 1 Proft's Eidetic Memory
  • 1 Protect the Negotiators
  • 1 Raise the Past
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Reprieve
  • 1 Rimefire Torque
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Sound the Trumpets
  • 1 Spectacular Pileup
  • 1 Split Up
  • 1 Springleaf Drum
  • 1 Stenn, Paranoid Partisan
  • 1 Stone by Sunlight
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Temple Bell
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Think Twice
  • 1 Thopter Fabricator
  • 1 Thorin's Last Stand
  • 1 Thrór's Map
  • 1 Weathered Wayfarer
  • 1 Wizard's Staff