John — Tall Stories by Necromogg

Format: Commander

Commander: Chulane, Teller of Tales

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 48

Deck overview

This deck is a Bant creature-storm and combo strategy commanded by Chulane, Teller of Tales. The deck accelerates in the opening turns using a dense suite of 1-CMC and 2-CMC mana dorks, deploying Chulane ahead of curve on Turn 3 or 4. Once Chulane resolves, every creature cast functions as both a cantrip and an additional land drop, generating compounding mana and card advantage. On Turn 5, the deck transitions into a game-ending turn by looping bounce creatures like Whitemane Lion or Peregrine Drake with Temur Sabertooth and Lotus Cobra. This sequence draws the entire library and generates surplus mana to resolve Thassa's Oracle or Laboratory Maniac for an immediate same-turn victory. As a backup plan, wide token generation from God-Eternal Oketra and stat doubling from Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus provide lethal combat pressure.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abundance
• 1 Amulet of Vigor
• 1 Arbor Elf
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Armored Scrapgorger
• 1 Aura Shards
• 1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1 Azorius Chancery
• 1 Beast Whisperer
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Botanical Sanctum
• 1 Brushland
• 1 Cankerbloom
• 1 Chulane, Teller of Tales
• 1 Circuitous Route
• 1 Coiling Oracle
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Dovin's Veto
• 1 Eladamri's Call
• 1 Elvish Mystic
• 1 Enlightened Tutor
• 1 Esper Sentinel
• 1 Eternal Witness
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Faeburrow Elder
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Flooded Strand
• 8 Forest
• 1 Frilled Mystic
• 1 Fyndhorn Elves
• 1 Ghalta and Mavren
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 God-Eternal Oketra
• 1 Green Sun's Twilight
• 1 Growth Spiral
• 1 Gyre Engineer
• 1 Hallowed Fountain
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Ice-Fang Coatl
• 1 Incubation Druid
• 1 Inga and Esika
• 3 Island
• 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
• 1 Knight of Autumn
• 1 Kodama's Reach
• 1 Laboratory Maniac
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Loran of the Third Path
• 1 Lotus Cobra
• 1 Mystic Snake
• 1 Noble Hierarch
• 1 Paradise Druid
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Peregrine Drake
• 4 Plains
• 1 Primal Command
• 1 Reclamation Sage
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1 Seaside Citadel
• 1 Seedborn Muse
• 1 Selesnya Sanctuary
• 1 Sensei's Divining Top
• 1 Simic Growth Chamber
• 1 Smothering Tithe
• 1 Snow-Covered Plains
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sunpetal Grove
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Sylvan Library
• 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
• 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
• 1 Temple Garden
• 1 Temur Sabertooth
• 1 Terastodon
• 1 Thassa's Oracle
• 1 Time Wipe
• 1 Whitemane Lion
• 1 Windswept Heath
• 1 Worldly Tutor
• 1 Yavimaya Coast
• 1 Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus