Tombadil by Chronaus

Format: Commander

Commander: Tom Bombadil

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

Tom Bombadil leads a dedicated five-color Saga enchantress deck that turns chapter abilities into a self-sustaining engine of value, board control, and overwhelming tokens. Supported by an optimal mana base of original dual lands and fetchlands, the deck accelerates into early ramp pieces before establishing Tom Bombadil and a suite of versatile Sagas. Counter manipulators like Barbara Wright, Satsuki, the Living Lore, and Goldberry, River-Daughter accelerate or hold specific chapters, while static protections like Sterling Grove and Greater Auramancy shield the battlefield. Once four lore counters accumulate, Tom Bombadil becomes an indestructible, hexproof anchor that cascades into fresh Sagas every time a final chapter resolves. The deck converts this momentum into victory around Turn 8 through massive token swarms from Kiora Bests the Sea God and Summon: Knights of Round, animated enchantments via Starfield of Nyx or Bello, Bard of the Brambles, and finishing bursts of life loss from Narci, Fable Singer and Summon: Bahamut.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aminatou, Veil Piercer
  • 1 Anikthea, Hand of Erebos
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Azusa's Many Journeys // Likeness of the Seeker
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Barbara Wright
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles
  • 1 Binding the Old Gods
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Coalition Victory
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Court of Vantress
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Entity Tracker
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fable of the Mirror-Breaker // Reflection of Kiki-Jiki
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Glissa Sunslayer
  • 1 Goldberry, River-Daughter
  • 1 Greater Auramancy
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hex Parasite
  • 1 Hidetsugu Consumes All // Vessel of the All-Consuming
  • 1 Historian's Boon
  • 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis
  • 1 Jukai Naturalist
  • 1 Kiora Bests the Sea God
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Narci, Fable Singer
  • 1 O'aka, Traveling Merchant
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Plateau
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Power Conduit
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Resurgent Belief
  • 1 Ripples of Potential
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rugged Prairie
  • 1 Sanctum Weaver
  • 1 Satsuki, the Living Lore
  • 1 Savannah
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sigurd, Jarl of Ravensthorpe
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Song of Eärendil
  • 1 Sphere of Safety
  • 1 Starfield of Nyx
  • 1 Stenn, Paranoid Partisan
  • 1 Sterling Grove
  • 1 Summon: Bahamut
  • 1 Summon: Fenrir
  • 1 Summon: G.F. Ifrit
  • 1 Summon: Knights of Round
  • 1 Summon: Primal Odin
  • 1 Summon: Yojimbo
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Tale of Tinúviel
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra
  • 1 The Bath Song
  • 1 The Cruelty of Gix
  • 1 The Eldest Reborn
  • 1 The First Iroan Games
  • 1 The Kami War // O-Kagachi Made Manifest
  • 1 The Rise of Sozin // Fire Lord Sozin
  • 1 There and Back Again
  • 1 Tom Bombadil
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills