choco

Format: Commander

Commander: Choco, Seeker of Paradise

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This Bant deck combines Bird typal synergies with explosive Landfall triggers, helmed by Choco, Seeker of Paradise. The primary strategy curves early mana acceleration and low-cost evasive Birds into a Turn 4 Choco deployment. By attacking with multiple Birds, Choco looks deep into the library to draw cards and place all revealed lands directly onto the battlefield tapped. This multi-land drop engine immediately fuels powerful Landfall payoffs such as Emeria Angel, Chocobo Racetrack, Felidar Retreat, and Sazh's Chocobo, generating an expanding swarm of flying attackers with scaling power. Card advantage engines like Kindred Discovery and Kastral, the Windcrested maintain full hand sizes, while efficient spot removal and defensive countermagic protect the board. Opponents are systematically eliminated through overwhelming aerial combat by Turn 7, facilitated by asymmetric evasion tools like Raise the Palisade.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Adarkar Wastes
• 1 Airborne Aid
• 1 Ambrosia Whiteheart
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ash Barrens
• 1 Austere Command
• 1 Banner of Kinship
• 1 Bartz and Boko
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Bident of Thassa
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Branching Evolution
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 1 Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks
• 1 Brushland
• 1 Canopy Vista
• 1 Choco, Seeker of Paradise
• 1 Chocobo Camp
• 1 Chocobo Kick
• 1 Chocobo Racetrack
• 1 Circuitous Route
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Deserted Beach
• 1 Emeria Angel
• 1 Empyrean Eagle
• 1 Entish Restoration
• 1 Essence Scatter
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Felidar Retreat
• 1 Flooded Grove
• 5 Forest
• 1 Forgotten Ancient
• 1 Frantic Search
• 1 Good-Fortune Unicorn
• 1 Hardened Scales
• 1 Harmonized Crescendo
• 1 Harrow
• 1 Horizon Canopy
• 1 Inspiring Call
• 2 Island
• 1 Kastral, the Windcrested
• 1 Kindred Discovery
• 1 Kodama's Reach
• 1 Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
• 1 Lórien Revealed
• 1 Mockingbird
• 1 Murmuration
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 1 Nature's Claim
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 Negate
• 1 Overgrown Farmland
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Path to Exile
• 2 Plains
• 1 Plumecreed Mentor
• 1 Prairie Stream
• 1 Prishe's Wanderings
• 1 Raise the Palisade
• 1 Rampant Growth
• 1 Refute
• 1 Rejuvenating Springs
• 1 Restless Anchorage
• 1 Ride the Shoopuf
• 1 Sazh Katzroy
• 1 Sazh's Chocobo
• 1 Seaside Citadel
• 1 Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier
• 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
• 1 Sidequest: Raise a Chocobo // Black Chocobo
• 1 Simic Ascendancy
• 1 Simic Growth Chamber
• 1 Snakeskin Veil
• 1 Sodden Verdure
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soulcatchers' Aerie
• 1 Stroke of Midnight
• 1 Summon: Choco/Mog
• 1 Summon: Fat Chocobo
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Tawnos, the Toymaker
• 1 Temple Garden
• 1 Three Visits
• 1 Tifa Lockhart
• 1 Traveling Chocobo
• 1 Turbulent Shore
• 1 Valkyrie's Call
• 1 Vigorbloom Charm