Bard Cycling by user5771923

Format: Commander

Commander: Bard, King of Dale

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This Azorius deck blends cycling mechanics with enters-the-battlefield blink synergies. The commander, Bard, King of Dale, acts as a massive force multiplier by doubling all extra card draws and token production. The early game focuses on deploying cost reducers like Fluctuator and engine enchantments like Astral Slide, Astral Drift, or Escape Protocol. These enchantments convert cheap cycling cards into repeatable blinks for value creatures like Wall of Omens, Aether Channeler, and Mulldrifter. Once the engine is online, the deck shifts into lethal pressure around turn 6 using token engines like Shark Typhoon, Ominous Seas, and Decree of Justice. With Bard in play, each cycling trigger creates swarms of doubled 8/8 Krakens or large flying Sharks. Defensive cycling interactions allow the deck to exile opposing attackers, protect its own key creatures, and tap opposing blockers for an overwhelming aerial victory on turn 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aether Channeler
  • 1 Anticausal Vestige
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Astral Drift
  • 1 Astral Slide
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Bard, King of Dale
  • 1 Beza, the Bounding Spring
  • 1 Blasted Landscape
  • 1 Boon of the Wish-Giver
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Capital City
  • 1 Cast Out
  • 1 Celestial Colonnade
  • 1 Censor
  • 1 Charming Prince
  • 1 Choking Tethers
  • 1 Cloud of Faeries
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Curator of Mysteries
  • 1 Currency Converter
  • 1 Decree of Justice
  • 1 Desert of the Mindful
  • 1 Desert of the True
  • 1 Detention Chariot
  • 1 Drannith Healer
  • 1 Drifting Meadow
  • 1 Duplicant
  • 1 Eagles of the North
  • 1 Emrakul's Messenger
  • 1 Escape Protocol
  • 1 Eternal Dragon
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Flourishing Fox
  • 1 Fluctuator
  • 1 Forsake the Worldly
  • 1 Frostveil Ambush
  • 1 Gallant Strike
  • 1 Glacial Floodplain
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Glassdust Hulk
  • 1 Hieroglyphic Illumination
  • 1 Hobbit Hole
  • 1 Idyllic Beachfront
  • 1 Imposing Vantasaur
  • 1 Irrigated Farmland
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Lonely Sandbar
  • 1 Lórien Revealed
  • 1 Monstrosity of the Lake
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 New Perspectives
  • 1 Night Market
  • 1 Nulldrifter
  • 1 Occult Epiphany
  • 1 Oketra's Attendant
  • 1 Ominous Seas
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Remote Isle
  • 1 Restless Anchorage
  • 1 Riftwing Cloudskate
  • 1 River Serpent
  • 1 Seachrome Coast
  • 1 Secluded Steppe
  • 1 Shark Typhoon
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soulherder
  • 1 Spectacular Pileup
  • 1 Startling Development
  • 1 Striped Riverwinder
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Timeless Dragon
  • 1 Valor's Flagship
  • 1 Venser, Shaper Savant
  • 1 Wall of Omens
  • 1 Waxen Shapethief
  • 1 Windcaller Aven
  • 1 Winged Shepherd