Ranar Exile Deck by Gorebash

Format: Commander

Commander: Ranar the Ever-Watchful

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 24

Deck overview

This deck is an Azorius control and token-swarm strategy commanded by Ranar the Ever-Watchful. The primary game plan revolves around casting exile-based interaction, blink effects, and foretell spells to trigger Ranar repeatedly, generating an evasive army of 1/1 flying Spirit tokens. The deck features a dense removal suite consisting of classic 'Oblivion Ring' enchantments like Banishing Light, Oblivion Ring, and Borrowed Time, alongside premier instant-speed exile spells such as Swords to Plowshares and Path to Exile. Value engines such as Brago, King Eternal, Soulherder, and Cloudblazer allow the deck to reuse enter-the-battlefield abilities, resetting removal enchantments and drawing cards. Win conditions stem from combat damage, scaling Spirit tokens with anthems like Intangible Virtue and Favorable Winds or deploying large top-end threats like Nezahal, Primal Tide and Colossal Whale. While resilient against single-target removal thanks to blink spells, the deck operates on a slower, fair clock vulnerable to board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aerial Extortionist
  • 1 Alabaster Host Intercessor
  • 1 Azorius Chancery
  • 1 Azorius Guildgate
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Banisher Priest
  • 1 Banishing Light
  • 1 Banishment
  • 1 Behold the Multiverse
  • 1 Borrowed Time
  • 1 Brago, King Eternal
  • 1 Cast Out
  • 1 Citizen's Arrest
  • 1 Cloudblazer
  • 1 Cloudgoat Ranger
  • 1 Colossal Whale
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conclave Tribunal
  • 1 Cosmic Intervention
  • 1 Curse of the Swine
  • 1 Drifting Meadow
  • 1 Endless Sands
  • 1 Ethereal Valkyrie
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Expel
  • 1 Favorable Winds
  • 1 Fieldmist Borderpost
  • 1 Fiend Hunter
  • 1 Flicker of Fate
  • 1 Flickerwisp
  • 1 Forsake the Worldly
  • 1 Gates of Istfell
  • 1 Glacial Floodplain
  • 1 Hero of Bretagard
  • 1 In the Trenches
  • 1 Intangible Virtue
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Lavinia of the Tenth
  • 1 Lyev Skyknight
  • 1 March of Otherworldly Light
  • 1 Meandering River
  • 1 Mentor of the Meek
  • 1 Meteor Golem
  • 1 Meticulous Excavation
  • 1 Midnight Clock
  • 1 Mistmeadow Witch
  • 1 Moorland Haunt
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nephalia Smuggler
  • 1 Nezahal, Primal Tide
  • 1 Oblivion Ring
  • 1 Ossification
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 16 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prayer of Binding
  • 1 Prison Realm
  • 1 Quarantine Field
  • 1 Ranar the Ever-Watchful
  • 1 Ravenform
  • 1 Reconnaissance Mission
  • 1 Reduce to Memory
  • 1 Remote Isle
  • 1 Restoration Angel
  • 1 Return to Dust
  • 1 Samurai of the Pale Curtain
  • 1 Saw It Coming
  • 1 Scrollshift
  • 1 Seal from Existence
  • 1 Sejiri Refuge
  • 1 Soul Partition
  • 1 Soulherder
  • 1 Static Net
  • 1 Stonebinder's Familiar
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tales of the Ancestors
  • 1 Touch the Spirit Realm
  • 1 Tranquil Cove
  • 1 Vanish into Eternity
  • 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad