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Format: Commander

Commander: Ms. Bumbleflower

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This deck is a Bant group hug and alternate win strategy commanded by Ms. Bumbleflower. It accelerates the entire table by distributing extra cards and mana through symmetrical engines like Font of Mythos, Rites of Flourishing, and Gluntch, the Bestower. While providing resources creates political goodwill and diverts early aggression, the deck capitalizes on this velocity through Ms. Bumbleflower's ability to grow creatures with +1/+1 counters, grant flying, and draw extra cards when casting two spells per turn. The deck transitions into a lethal threat using specific payoffs that scale with card draw and counter distribution, notably Simic Ascendancy, Twenty-Toed Toad, and Psychosis Crawler. Defensive pieces like Baird, Steward of Argive, The Second Doctor, and Dawn's Truce keep you alive against the empowered opposition. The deck finishes by securing an alternate win condition or crashing through with massive flying beaters after opponents exhaust their resources against one another.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Avatar of Growth
  • 1 Baird, Steward of Argive
  • 1 Brightglass Gearhulk
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Communal Brewing
  • 1 Coveted Jewel
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Cultural Exchange
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fisher's Talent
  • 1 Flumph
  • 1 Folio of Fancies
  • 1 Font of Mythos
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghirapur Orrery
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Gluntch, the Bestower
  • 1 Heartwood Storyteller
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Homunculus Horde
  • 1 Into the Flood Maw
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Jace Beleren
  • 1 Kwain, Itinerant Meddler
  • 1 Long River's Pull
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Managorger Hydra
  • 1 Master of Ceremonies
  • 1 Minds Aglow
  • 1 Mr. Foxglove
  • 1 Ms. Bumbleflower
  • 1 Octomancer
  • 1 Overflowing Basin
  • 1 Peerless Recycling
  • 1 Perch Protection
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Promise of Loyalty
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rites of Flourishing
  • 1 Scrapshooter
  • 1 Seaside Citadel
  • 1 Selvala, Explorer Returned
  • 1 Simic Ascendancy
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Smuggler's Share
  • 1 Sokrates, Athenian Teacher
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Starfall Invocation
  • 1 Strix Serenade
  • 1 Sungrass Prairie
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tamiyo, Field Researcher
  • 1 Teferi's Reproach
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Temple of Mystery
  • 1 Temple of Plenty
  • 1 Tempt with Bunnies
  • 1 Tempt with Discovery
  • 1 Tenuous Truce
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Second Doctor
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tranquil Landscape
  • 1 Twenty-Toed Toad
  • 1 Veteran Explorer
  • 1 Vnwxt, Verbose Host
  • 1 Walking Archive
  • 1 Wear Down
  • 1 Wedding Ring
  • 1 Wizard Class
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Zenith Chronicler