Glad by Jammer94

Format: Commander

Commander: Galadriel, Light of Valinor

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is a Bant creature-centric midrange and stompy strategy commanded by Galadriel, Light of Valinor. The primary game plan revolves around deploying low-cost mana dorks and utility creatures to cast Galadriel by Turn 4. Once assembled, Galadriel's Alliance ability converts each subsequent creature into a powerful tempo boost: generating {G}{G}{G} to extend casting chains, distributing +1/+1 counters to build wide board pressure, and scrying/drawing to maintain card velocity. The deck leverages mass flicker spells such as Eerie Interlude and Ghostway as dual-purpose tools that dodge sweepers while triggering multiple waves of Alliance buffs. Victory is achieved around Turn 5–6 by powering out decisive overrun finishers like Craterhoof Behemoth, Moonshaker Cavalry, or making the entire modified board unblockable with Herald of Secret Streams. An alternate infinite mana combo with Freed from the Real provides additional closing potential.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aether Channeler
  • 1 Alquist Proft, Master Sleuth
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Blightsteel Colossus
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Charming Prince
  • 1 Clifftop Lookout
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Damning Verdict
  • 1 Dawnbringer Cleric
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drown in Dreams
  • 1 Eerie Interlude
  • 1 Elvish Visionary
  • 1 Elvish Warmaster
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faeburrow Elder
  • 1 Farhaven Elf
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Freed from the Real
  • 1 Galadriel, Light of Valinor
  • 1 Ghostway
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Helpful Hunter
  • 1 Herald of Secret Streams
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Heronblade Elite
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hushwood Verge
  • 1 Imperious Perfect
  • 1 Incubation Druid
  • 2 Island
  • 1 It That Betrays
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Lae'zel's Acrobatics
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Merfolk Skydiver
  • 1 Moonshaker Cavalry
  • 1 Nylea, Keen-Eyed
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Parting Gust
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pemmin's Aura
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Recommission
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Seaside Citadel
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Selvala, Eager Trailblazer
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Semester's End
  • 1 Shalai, Voice of Plenty
  • 1 Simic Ascendancy
  • 1 Skyclave Apparition
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spara's Headquarters
  • 1 Sphinx's Revelation
  • 1 Spirited Companion
  • 1 Stroke of Genius
  • 1 Surrak and Goreclaw
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Thassa's Intervention
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tranquil Landscape
  • 1 Vigean Graftmage
  • 1 Wave Goodbye
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow
  • 1 Wood Elves
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Yavimaya Dryad