Minstrel by basbas

Format: Commander

Commander: The Wandering Minstrel

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color Landfall Combo and Token Swarm deck commanded by The Wandering Minstrel. The Minstrel's static ability forces all lands you control to enter the battlefield untapped, transforming Ravnica bounce lands into immediate two-mana acceleration. The primary win condition is an infinite landfall engine combining a tap-to-put land creature (such as Sakura-Tribe Scout or Llanowar Scout), Retreat to Coralhelm, and a bounce land. Each land drop untaps the creature via Coralhelm while the bounce land returns itself to hand, generating infinite mana and infinite landfall triggers to burn out the table with Iridescent Vinelasher, Tunneling Geopede, or Retreat to Hagra. If the combo is disrupted, the deck pivots to producing large armies of tokens using Felidar Retreat, Zendikar's Roil, and Chocobo Racetrack, overrun by the Minstrel's Town-buff ability.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abundant Harvest
  • 1 Adventurer's Inn
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Azorius Chancery
  • 1 Baron, Airship Kingdom
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Boros Garrison
  • 1 Budoka Gardener // Dokai, Weaver of Life
  • 1 Chocobo Racetrack
  • 1 Coiling Oracle
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commune with Spirits
  • 1 Decimate
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Elfsworn Giant
  • 1 Emeria Angel
  • 1 Eusocial Engineering
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Felidar Retreat
  • 1 Fell the Mighty
  • 1 Fierce Empath
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Gohn, Town of Ruin
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Gongaga, Reactor Town
  • 1 Gretchen Titchwillow
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Guadosalam, Farplane Gateway
  • 1 Guardian Sunmare
  • 1 Heritage Reclamation
  • 1 Insomnia, Crown City
  • 1 Intruder Alarm
  • 1 Iridescent Vinelasher
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Izzet Boilerworks
  • 1 Joint Exploration
  • 1 Llanowar Scout
  • 1 Lush Oasis
  • 1 Mangara, the Diplomat
  • 1 Meloku the Clouded Mirror
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Mythos of Brokkos
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Painful Truths
  • 1 Patron of the Moon
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Planar Genesis
  • 1 PuPu UFO
  • 1 Rabanastre, Royal City
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Retreat to Coralhelm
  • 1 Retreat to Emeria
  • 1 Retreat to Hagra
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Ruin Ghost
  • 1 Sabotender
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Scout
  • 1 Scaled Herbalist
  • 1 Scrib Nibblers
  • 1 Selesnya Sanctuary
  • 1 Sharlayan, Nation of Scholars
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Skyshroud Ranger
  • 1 Spitfire Lagac
  • 1 Stroke of Genius
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Scrying
  • 1 Tannuk, Memorial Ensign
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 The Gold Saucer
  • 1 The Wandering Minstrel
  • 1 Tireless Tracker
  • 1 Trade Routes
  • 1 Treno, Dark City
  • 1 Tunneling Geopede
  • 1 Urban Evolution
  • 1 Vector, Imperial Capital
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Walking Atlas
  • 1 Wargate
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Windurst, Federation Center
  • 1 World Map
  • 1 Zell Dincht
  • 1 Zendikar's Roil
  • 1 Zimone, Quandrix Prodigy
  • 1 Zur the Enchanter