Bant Blinks by user5096754

Format: Commander

Commander: Chulane, Teller of Tales

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 51

Deck overview

This Chulane, Teller of Tales deck is an optimized Bant creature-engine and blink combo strategy. The primary game plan focuses on rapid early-game acceleration via dense 1-to-2 CMC mana dorks and land ramp, enabling Chulane to enter the battlefield as early as Turn 3 or 4. Once Chulane is active, every creature spell cast draws a card and puts an additional land directly onto the battlefield, creating explosive mana velocity and digging deep into the library. The deck converts this resource superiority into a deterministic victory on Turn 5, primarily by resolving an entwined Tooth and Nail to assemble Emiel the Blessed and Palinchron for infinite mana, bouncing all opposing permanents with Aether Channeler or Venser, and overrunning the table with Craterhoof Behemoth. Backed by versatile counterspells, channel lands, and resilient recursion packages, the deck maintains high synergy and strong recovery capabilities while executing a swift, compact finish.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward
  • 1 Acidic Slime
  • 1 Aether Channeler
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anticausal Vestige
  • 1 Arbor Elf
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Badgermole Cub
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Body Double
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Chord of Calling
  • 1 Chulane, Teller of Tales
  • 1 Coiling Oracle
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Dour Port-Mage
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Emiel the Blessed
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Faeburrow Elder
  • 1 Flickering Hound
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Horizon Canopy
  • 1 Hushwood Verge
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Karmic Guide
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Lurking Predators
  • 1 Lush Portico
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Mirari's Wake
  • 1 Mirror Entity
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Momentary Blink
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Mystic Snake
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nature's Rhythm
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Palinchron
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Preston, the Vanisher
  • 1 Reflector Mage
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Restoration Angel
  • 1 Reveillark
  • 1 Risen Reef
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Simulacrum Shaper
  • 1 Skyshroud Claim
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soulherder
  • 1 Spara's Headquarters
  • 1 Starfield Vocalist
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Terastodon
  • 1 Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tooth and Nail
  • 1 Urban Retreat
  • 1 Vanquish the Horde
  • 1 Venser, Shaper Savant
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Voidslime
  • 1 Wargate
  • 1 Waterlogged Grove
  • 1 Willowrush Verge
  • 1 Winds of Abandon
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wood Elves
  • 1 Wooded Foothills