Recruit Draw Bard by ttonyttiger

Format: Commander

Commander: Bard, King of Dale

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck is an Azorius midrange engine led by Bard, King of Dale that converts card draw and token production into an overwhelming wide battlefield. The strategy focuses on setting up draw-two engines and symmetric draw pieces in the early turns, then resolving Bard to double both extra card draws and token creation. Once established, cards like The Council of Four, Horn of Gondor, and Alandra, Sky Dreamer flood the board with resilient creature armies on every player's turn. The deck protects its board with premier defensive spells like Clever Concealment and Grand Abolisher, before closing out the game with lethal combat overruns via Akroma's Will and Moonshaker Cavalry, or an alternate win line using Approach of the Second Sun.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abandoned Air Temple
  • 1 Adagia, Windswept Bastion
  • 1 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
  • 1 Agna Qel'a
  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Alandra, Sky Dreamer
  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bard the Bowman
  • 1 Bard's Company
  • 1 Bard, Heir of Girion
  • 1 Bard, King of Dale
  • 1 Belladonna Took
  • 1 Beza, the Bounding Spring
  • 1 Bilbo's Gambit
  • 1 Bilbo, Luckwearer // Burglar's Plot
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Caretaker's Talent
  • 1 Castle Ardenvale
  • 1 Cathars' Crusade
  • 1 Champions from Beyond
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cosmogrand Zenith
  • 1 Court of Grace
  • 1 Cut a Deal
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Elspeth, Storm Slayer
  • 1 Exalted Sunborn
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Faramir, Prince of Ithilien
  • 1 Faramir, Steward of Gondor
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Flowering of the White Tree
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gleaming Bastion
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Grand Crescendo
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Horn of Gondor
  • 1 Idol of Oblivion
  • 1 Irrigated Farmland
  • 1 Island
  • 1 King T'Challa // Black Panther, Hope Enduring
  • 1 Krang, the All-Powerful
  • 1 Ledger Shredder
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Mangara, the Diplomat
  • 1 Master of Ceremonies
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
  • 1 Minas Tirith
  • 1 Minn, Wily Illusionist
  • 1 Monologue Tax
  • 1 Moonshaker Cavalry
  • 1 Myojin of Blooming Dawn
  • 1 Nimbus Maze
  • 1 Norn's Annex
  • 1 Ominous Seas
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 14 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Prince Imrahil the Fair
  • 1 Proft's Eidetic Memory
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Reprieve
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Secret Rendezvous
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul's Attendant
  • 1 Suppressor Skyguard
  • 1 The Arkenstone // Seek the Heart
  • 1 The Council of Four
  • 1 The Queen of Dale
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Trouble in Pairs
  • 1 Visions of Glory
  • 1 Wizard Class