It's a gift, promise.. by GingerGnome

Format: Commander

Commander: Ms. Bumbleflower

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Bant spellslinger-midrange strategy commanded by Ms. Bumbleflower. It accelerates in the first two turns with efficient green ramps and mana dorks to deploy the commander on Turn 3. Starting on Turn 4, the deck casts two low-cost spells per turn, triggering Ms. Bumbleflower to grow its creatures with +1/+1 counters, grant flying evasion, and draw two cards to keep the hand completely full. The deck pairs counter-doubling engines like Branching Evolution and Innkeeper's Talent with card-draw punishers like Trouble in Pairs and Smothering Tithe. It protects its development with an exceptional suite of silence effects such as Grand Abolisher, Teferi, Time Raveler, and Dragonlord Dromoka. Once its attackers reach lethal size, the deck closes the game on Turns 6 to 7 using Akroma's Will, an overloaded Cyclonic Rift, or Approach of the Second Sun.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Alchemist's Refuge
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archivist of Oghma
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Chasm Skulker
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Danny Pink
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dragonlord Dromoka
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Gavony Township
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Innkeeper's Talent
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Ms. Bumbleflower
  • 1 Myrel, Shield of Argive
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Noble Hierarch
  • 1 Open the Way
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Proft's Eidetic Memory
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Razorverge Thicket
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Seachrome Coast
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Shrieking Drake
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Spara's Headquarters
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Trouble in Pairs
  • 1 Wear Down
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wizard Class
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth