War Criminal by Onitheus

Format: Commander

Commander: Ms. Bumbleflower

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is a Bant +1/+1 counters midrange strategy led by Ms. Bumbleflower, blending group hug card draw with explosive combat scaling. Early turns establish a stable mana base through low-cost mana dorks, rocks, and land ramp. Once Ms. Bumbleflower enters on turn 3 or 4, the deck sequences two cheap spells per turn to repeatedly trigger her ability, distributing +1/+1 counters, granting flying, and drawing two cards each turn cycle. Counter multipliers such as Branching Evolution, Doubling Season, Ouroboroid, and Byrke, Long Ear of the Law rapidly convert modest utility creatures into lethal airborne threats. Opponents receive card draw incentives that smooth their hands while simultaneously fueling parity-breaking engines like Smothering Tithe, The Council of Four, and Tataru Taru. Protection spells like Heroic Intervention, Dawn's Truce, and Inspiring Call safeguard key boards against sweepers, while alternate win conditions like Simic Ascendancy and Twenty-Toed Toad provide non-combat paths to close out games by turn 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bilbo's Gambit
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Burrowguard Mentor
  • 1 Byrke, Long Ear of the Law
  • 1 Claim Jumper
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Communal Brewing
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Eladamri's Call
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Faeburrow Elder
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Finneas, Ace Archer
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Giggling Skitterspike
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Gluntch, the Bestower
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Jacked Rabbit
  • 1 Kodama of the West Tree
  • 1 Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
  • 1 Kwain, Itinerant Meddler
  • 1 Long River's Pull
  • 1 Ms. Bumbleflower
  • 1 Nasty Little Rabbit
  • 1 Necklace of Girion
  • 1 Noble Hierarch
  • 1 Ouroboroid
  • 1 Overprotect
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Peerless Recycling
  • 10 Plains
  • 1 Promise of Loyalty
  • 1 Quilled Greatwurm
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Riot Control
  • 1 Rishkar, Peema Renegade
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Selvala, Explorer Returned
  • 1 Simic Ascendancy
  • 1 Sin, Unending Cataclysm
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stocking the Pantry
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tataru Taru
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Tempt with Bunnies
  • 1 Tempt with Discovery
  • 1 The Council of Four
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 Thickest in the Thicket
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Turbulent Wilderness
  • 1 Twenty-Toed Toad
  • 1 Twitching Doll
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Wear Down
  • 1 Wilderness Reclamation
  • 1 Zimone, Paradox Sculptor