Thin Blue Line by Rowdaddy

Format: Commander

Commander: Bard, King of Dale

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Bard, King of Dale is a six-mana threat-amplification engine: he doubles every token created and every card drawn outside the first draw-step draw. The deck around him is an Azorius token/value engine that uses 'draw your second card' payoffs (Prince Imrahil, Homunculus Horde, Thopter Fabricator) and artifact-token producers (Sai, Stridehangar Automaton, Smothering Tithe) to snowball. It wins by attacking with a flying, pumped swarm-Aven Wind Guide or Cyberdrive Awakener-or by burying opponents in Chasm Skulker's Squid tokens. The hidden Commander is King T'Challa // Black Panther, Hope Enduring; the front face adds the same second-draw payoff, while the transformed Black Panther is a fallback double-strike attacker.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Academy Ruins
• 1 Adarkar Wastes
• 1 Aetherize
• 1 Amonkhet Raceway
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archway of Innovation
• 1 Aven Wind Guide
• 1 Avishkar Raceway
• 1 Azorius Chancery
• 1 Azorius Signet
• 1 Bard, King of Dale
• 1 Belladonna Took
• 1 Captain America, Living Legend
• 1 Chasm Skulker
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Curiosity Crafter
• 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
• 1 Esper Sentinel
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Faerie Artisans
• 1 Faerie Mastermind
• 1 Faramir, Prince of Ithilien
• 1 Fateful Discovery
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Forensic Gadgeteer
• 1 Ghost Vacuum
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 Gleaming Splendor
• 1 Gold Myr
• 1 Hallowed Fountain
• 1 Homunculus Horde
• 1 Illustrious Wanderglyph
• 6 Island
• 1 King T'Challa // Black Panther, Hope Enduring
• 1 Kwain, Itinerant Meddler
• 1 Kykar, Zephyr Awakener
• 1 Mangara, the Diplomat
• 1 Midnight Clock
• 1 Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards
• 1 Muraganda Raceway
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 1 Mystic Remora
• 1 Mystic Sanctuary
• 1 Namor, Atlantean King
• 1 Nesting Dovehawk
• 1 Oltec Matterweaver
• 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1 Otawara, Soaring City
• 5 Plains
• 1 Port Town
• 1 Prairie Stream
• 1 Prince Imrahil the Fair
• 1 Quantum Misalignment
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Replication Technique
• 1 Rhystic Study
• 1 Riptide Gearhulk
• 1 Rite of Replication
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Sai, Master Thopterist
• 1 Scavenger Grounds
• 1 Sea of Clouds
• 1 Seachrome Coast
• 1 Shorikai, Genesis Engine
• 1 Silver Myr
• 1 Simulacrum Synthesizer
• 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Smothering Tithe
• 1 Sokrates, Athenian Teacher
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Stridehangar Automaton
• 1 Suppression Ray // Orderly Plaza
• 1 Teferi's Protection
• 1 The Council of Four
• 1 The Queen of Dale
• 1 The Second Doctor
• 1 Thopter Fabricator
• 1 Thought Monitor
• 1 Thousand Moons Smithy // Barracks of the Thousand
• 1 Three Steps Ahead
• 1 Trouble in Pairs
• 1 Urza's Saga
• 1 Urza, Lord High Artificer
• 1 Uthros, Titanic Godcore
• 1 War Room
• 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1 Willie Lumpkin, Postman
• 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow
• 1 Worldwalker Helm