Bard king of tokens by user7478828

Format: Commander

Commander: Bard, King of Dale

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Bard, King of Dale leads an Azorius go-wide token and card advantage strategy. The deck focuses on developing early creature engines, ramping into token multipliers, and capitalizing on Bard's passive abilities to double both extra card draws and token production. Once established, the deck generates large swarms of Human, Dwarf, and Soldier tokens using cards like Increasing Devotion and Visions of Glory. It maintains sustained pressure through recurring card draw engines such as Mentor of the Meek and Mystic Remora. To close out games, the deck leverages wide-board overruns through Moonshaker Cavalry, pumped combat steps with Unbreakable Formation, or one-sided board wipes like Hour of Reckoning.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abandoned Air Temple
  • 1 Anointed Procession
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archetype of Courage
  • 1 Archway of Innovation
  • 1 Bard the Bowman
  • 1 Bard, Heir of Girion
  • 1 Bard, King of Dale
  • 1 Bastion Protector
  • 1 Belladonna Took
  • 1 Beregond of the Guard
  • 1 Bilbo Baggins, Burglar // Take a Glance
  • 1 Bilbo's Gambit
  • 1 Bilbo, Luckwearer // Burglar's Plot
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Confusticate and Bebother
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dwarven Provisioner
  • 1 Dáin, Lord of the Iron Hills
  • 1 Eagle of the Great Shelf
  • 1 Emeritus of Truce // Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Enchanted River's Grasp
  • 1 Essence Scatter
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exalted Sunborn
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fated Infatuation
  • 1 Frontline Medic
  • 1 Fíli the Pathfinder
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Hobbit Hole
  • 1 Hour of Reckoning
  • 1 Increasing Devotion
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Lake-town
  • 1 Lakeshore Apothecary
  • 1 Lossarnach Captain
  • 1 Marshal's Anthem
  • 1 Mentor of the Meek
  • 1 Moment of Glory
  • 1 Moonshaker Cavalry
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 No More Lies
  • 1 Orim's Chant
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 14 Plains
  • 1 Plunder the Trollshaws
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Prince Imrahil the Fair
  • 1 Reconnaissance
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Roads Go Ever, Ever On
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rootborn Defenses
  • 1 Selfless Squire
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stand Up for Yourself
  • 1 Stone by Sunlight
  • 1 Summon: Knights of Round
  • 1 Sunset Revelry
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 1 Suture Priest
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Arkenstone // Seek the Heart
  • 1 The Mountain-king's Return
  • 1 The Queen of Dale
  • 1 Thorin's Last Stand
  • 1 Thriving Heath
  • 1 Thrór's Map
  • 1 Tranquil Cove
  • 1 Troop of Ponies
  • 1 Unbreakable Formation
  • 1 Utter Insignificance
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 Visions of Glory
  • 1 Windbrisk Heights