The Wondering Minstrel (Landfall) by redhound

Format: Commander

Commander: The Wandering Minstrel

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a five-color Towns/landfall value engine helmed by The Wandering Minstrel. The plan is to play as many lands as possible - a dozen extra-land-drop effects, Reshape the Earth, and Tempt with Discovery - convert each landfall into bodies through Avenger of Zendikar, Rampaging Baloths, Felidar Retreat, Zendikar's Roil, and Scute Swarm, then close with the commander's {3}{W}{U}{B}{R}{G} overrun, which pumps every other creature by the number of Towns you control. The commander also makes every land enter untapped, turning the bounce lands into repeatable landfall engines and letting mass-tutored lands come online immediately, and mints a 2/2 Elemental each combat once five Towns are out. The primary win is one massive landfall turn plus the pump; secondary lines are Omnath, Locus of Rage drain, Mossborn Hydra/Tifa Lockhart doubling beats, and post-wipe rebuilds via Splendid Reclamation and Aftermath Analyst.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Ancient Greenwarden
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archdruid's Charm
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Azorius Chancery
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Balamb Garden, SeeD Academy // Balamb Garden, Airborne
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Case of the Locked Hothouse
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Crossroads Village
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Druid Class
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Eureka Moment
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Felidar Retreat
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Gohn, Town of Ruin
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Gongaga, Reactor Town
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Guadosalam, Farplane Gateway
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Ishgard, the Holy See // Faith & Grief
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Izzet Boilerworks
  • 1 Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Lindblum, Industrial Regency // Mage Siege
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Loot, Exuberant Explorer
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Mossborn Hydra
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of Creation
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of Rage
  • 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Planar Genesis
  • 1 Prishe's Wanderings
  • 1 PuPu UFO
  • 1 Rabanastre, Royal City
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Razorverge Thicket
  • 1 Reach the Horizon
  • 1 Reshape the Earth
  • 1 Retreat to Coralhelm
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Selesnya Sanctuary
  • 1 Sharlayan, Nation of Scholars
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 1 Splendid Reclamation
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Sylvan Scrying
  • 1 Tannuk, Memorial Ensign
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Tempt with Discovery
  • 1 The Necrobloom
  • 1 The Wandering Minstrel
  • 1 Tifa Lockhart
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Travel the Overworld
  • 1 Vector, Imperial Capital
  • 1 Windurst, Federation Center
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Zanarkand, Ancient Metropolis // Lasting Fayth
  • 1 Zendikar's Roil