The Minstrel’s Ballad - Magic the Gathering (Extreme) by Fredrikie

Format: Commander

Commander: The Wandering Minstrel

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a five-color **Towns/landfall value engine** helmed by The Wandering Minstrel, whose "lands you control enter untapped" clause is the glue that fixes a land base otherwise full of tapped Towns. The deck's plan is to chain extra land drops (Oracle of Mul Daya, Azusa, Lost but Seeking, The Gitrog Monster, Thalia and The Gitrog Monster, Zell Dincht, Druid Class) into a cascade of landfall payoffs - Scute Swarm, Felidar Retreat, Omnath, Locus of Rage, The Necrobloom, Tatyova, Benthic Druid - building a wide board that the commander's scalable overrun and Jetmir, Nexus of Revels turn lethal. A secondary, faster line is the Peregrine Drake + Deadeye Navigator infinite-mana loop feeding Thrasios, Triton Hero into Laboratory Maniac, with the Necrobloom's dredge as a self-mill backup. It is a midrange value deck that wins through either overwhelming combat or a compact two-card combo.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aang, at the Crossroads // Aang, Destined Savior
  • 1 Adventurer's Inn
  • 1 Ancient Greenwarden
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Avatar's Wrath
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Balamb Garden, SeeD Academy // Balamb Garden, Airborne
  • 1 Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway
  • 1 Baron, Airship Kingdom
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Capital City
  • 1 Clive's Hideaway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commercial District
  • 1 Compost
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Crossroads Village
  • 1 Cryptic Command
  • 1 Deadeye Navigator
  • 1 Dominaria's Judgment
  • 1 Druid Class
  • 1 Eden, Seat of the Sanctum
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Felidar Retreat
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Gogo, Master of Mimicry
  • 1 Gohn, Town of Ruin
  • 1 Gongaga, Reactor Town
  • 1 Guadosalam, Farplane Gateway
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Insomnia, Crown City
  • 1 Ishgard, the Holy See // Faith & Grief
  • 1 Jetmir, Nexus of Revels
  • 1 Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Lindblum, Industrial Regency // Mage Siege
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Lush Portico
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Mirrorpool
  • 1 Nissa, Resurgent Animist
  • 1 Nissa, Vital Force
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of Rage
  • 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
  • 1 Overkill
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Peregrine Drake
  • 1 Portal to Phyrexia
  • 1 Prishe's Wanderings
  • 1 PuPu UFO
  • 1 Pull from Tomorrow
  • 1 Rabanastre, Royal City
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Reach the Horizon
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Retreat to Coralhelm
  • 1 Risen Reef
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Sharlayan, Nation of Scholars
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Smuggler's Surprise
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Splendid Reclamation
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Summon: Titan
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Thalia and The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 The Gold Saucer
  • 1 The Necrobloom
  • 1 The Regalia
  • 1 The Wandering Minstrel
  • 1 Thrasios, Triton Hero
  • 1 Tifa Lockhart
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Travel the Overworld
  • 1 Treno, Dark City
  • 1 Unbreakable Formation
  • 1 Vector, Imperial Capital
  • 1 Venat, Heart of Hydaelyn // Hydaelyn, the Mothercrystal
  • 1 Windbrisk Heights
  • 1 Windurst, Federation Center
  • 1 Wrenn and Seven
  • 1 Yarok, the Desecrated
  • 1 Zanarkand, Ancient Metropolis // Lasting Fayth
  • 1 Zell Dincht
  • 1 Zuran Orb