Bard King of Dale Actual by user1065847

Format: Commander

Commander: Bard, King of Dale

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck is an Azorius go-wide tokens and card advantage strategy commanded by Bard, King of Dale. The primary game plan focuses on establishing early mana development and utility creatures, resolving Bard on Turn 6, and immediately exploiting his dual doubling abilities. Bard doubles any secondary card draw into two cards and doubles token creation, turning standard recruit effects, cantrips, and token spells into overwhelming resource engines. On Turn 7, heavy token spells such as Increasing Devotion, Elspeth, Sun's Champion, or Horn of Valhalla // Ysgard's Call deploy massive armies of ten or more creatures in a single turn. The deck then converts this board presence into lethal combat damage using combat directors like Odric, Master Tactician, Court Street Denizen, or anthem effects over Turns 8 and 9. While the deck boasts immense card draw and board-flooding potential once assembled, it relies on reaching six mana and remains vulnerable to board wipes and interaction during its combat setup turns.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arwen's Gift
  • 1 Bard the Bowman
  • 1 Bard's Company
  • 1 Bard, King of Dale
  • 1 Bilbo Baggins, Burglar // Take a Glance
  • 1 Bilbo's Gambit
  • 1 Bilbo, Luckwearer // Burglar's Plot
  • 1 Birthday Escape
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Captain of the Watch
  • 1 Celebrate the Mountain-king
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Confusticate and Bebother
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Court Street Denizen
  • 1 Curiosity Crafter
  • 1 Deep Analysis
  • 1 Eagle of the Great Shelf
  • 1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Frontline Medic
  • 1 Gatta and Luzzu
  • 1 Great Gilded Boat
  • 1 Great Hall of the Citadel
  • 1 Heraldic Banner
  • 1 Homunculus Horde
  • 1 Horn of Valhalla // Ysgard's Call
  • 1 Increasing Devotion
  • 1 Intrepid Hero
  • 13 Island
  • 1 Lake-town
  • 1 Lake-town Lookout
  • 1 Linden, the Steadfast Queen
  • 1 Magnificent End
  • 1 Mana Leak
  • 1 Mangara, the Diplomat
  • 1 Nils, Discipline Enforcer
  • 1 Odric, Lunarch Marshal
  • 1 Odric, Master Tactician
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Out of Time
  • 14 Plains
  • 1 Plunder the Trollshaws
  • 1 Practiced Offense
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Prince Imrahil the Fair
  • 1 Quick Study
  • 1 Rally the Ranks
  • 1 Reconnaissance
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Roll-Roll-Roll-Roll
  • 1 Settle the Wreckage
  • 1 Skyline Cascade
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sound the Trumpets
  • 1 Sting, Bilbo's Sword
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Thalia, Heretic Cathar
  • 1 Thassa's Intervention
  • 1 The Eagles Are Coming!
  • 1 The Grey Havens
  • 1 The Lord of the Eagles
  • 1 The Mountain-king's Return
  • 1 The Queen of Dale
  • 1 Thriving Isle
  • 1 Thrór's Map
  • 1 Tranquil Cove
  • 1 Uncover the Moon-Letters
  • 1 Verge Rangers
  • 1 Whispersilk Cloak
  • 1 Wild Unraveling