Adventurer's Pride by vader9911
Format: Commander
Commander: The Wandering Minstrel
Bracket: 3
Deck overview
The Wandering Minstrel is a five-color Adventure / "cast from exile" value deck. The primary plan is to chain Adventure spells, plot, foretell, rebound, and top-of-library casts into a web of payoffs: Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald creates Wolves, Kellan, the Kid cheats permanents into play, Lozhan, Dragons' Legacy and Keeper of Secrets burn the table, and Spider-Verse copies spells. The commander is a late-game multiplier - its static ability lets the deck's many tapped Towns and Triomes enter untapped, and once five or more Towns are present it generates an Elemental each combat and its expensive activation becomes a one-sided overrun. The deck can also close with Candlekeep Inspiration, turning the large stock of Adventures, instants, and sorceries in exile and the graveyard into enormous stats. There is no infinite combo; the deck wins through incremental card advantage, a wide board, and one explosive final turn.
Decklist (100 cards)
- 1 Arcane Signet
- 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
- 1 Beanstalk Giant // Fertile Footsteps
- 1 Beanstalk Wurm // Plant Beans
- 1 Beluna Grandsquall // Seek Thrills
- 1 Bilbo, Thief in the Night
- 1 Blessed Hippogriff // Tyr's Blessing
- 1 Bramble Familiar // Fetch Quest
- 1 Candlekeep Inspiration
- 1 Chromatic Lantern
- 1 City of Brass
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Crop Rotation
- 1 Decadent Dragon // Expensive Taste
- 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
- 1 Edgewall Inn
- 1 Edgewall Innkeeper
- 1 Embereth Shieldbreaker // Battle Display
- 1 Emeritus of Conflict // Lightning Bolt
- 1 Exotic Orchard
- 1 Extraordinary Journey
- 1 Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald
- 1 Fblthp, Lost on the Range
- 2 Forest
- 1 Gandalf, Goblins' Bane // Flameshape
- 1 Giant Killer // Chop Down
- 1 Glamdring, Foe-hammer // Gleam of Death
- 1 Glóin the Mighty // Easy Pickings
- 1 Gohn, Town of Ruin
- 1 Gongaga, Reactor Town
- 1 Gorion, Wise Mentor
- 1 Guadosalam, Farplane Gateway
- 1 Illithid Harvester // Plant Tadpoles
- 1 Indatha Triome
- 1 Insomnia, Crown City
- 1 Ishgard, the Holy See // Faith & Grief
- 2 Island
- 1 Jadzi, Oracle of Arcavios // Journey to the Oracle
- 1 Jetmir's Garden
- 1 Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
- 1 Keeper of Secrets
- 1 Kellan, Inquisitive Prodigy // Tail the Suspect
- 1 Kellan, the Kid
- 1 Ketria Triome
- 1 Leyline of the Guildpact
- 1 Lier, Disciple of the Drowned
- 1 Lindblum, Industrial Regency // Mage Siege
- 1 Lozhan, Dragons' Legacy
- 1 Lucky Clover
- 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
- 1 Monster Manual // Zoological Study
- 1 Mosswood Dreadknight // Dread Whispers
- 2 Mountain
- 1 Murderous Rider // Swift End
- 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
- 1 Nature's Lore
- 1 Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time
- 1 Paradoxical Outcome
- 1 Passionate Archaeologist
- 1 Path of Ancestry
- 2 Plains
- 1 Planar Nexus
- 1 Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring
- 1 Prishe's Wanderings
- 1 Questing Druid // Seek the Beast
- 1 Reach the Horizon
- 1 Realm-Cloaked Giant // Cast Off
- 1 Reflecting Pool
- 1 Reliquary Tower
- 1 Risen Reef
- 1 Sage of the Beyond
- 1 Savvy Trader
- 1 Scalding Viper // Steam Clean
- 1 Sharlayan, Nation of Scholars
- 1 Sol Ring
- 1 Spara's Headquarters
- 1 Spider-Verse
- 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
- 2 Swamp
- 1 Sword Coast Serpent // Capsizing Wave
- 1 The Arkenstone // Seek the Heart
- 1 The Reality Chip
- 1 The Wandering Minstrel
- 1 The World Tree
- 1 Treno, Dark City
- 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
- 1 Vega, the Watcher
- 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
- 1 Whirlwind of Thought
- 1 Wild-Magic Sorcerer
- 1 Windurst, Federation Center
- 1 Woodland Acolyte // Mend the Wilds
- 1 Zagoth Triome
- 1 Zanarkand, Ancient Metropolis // Lasting Fayth
- 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground