Trauma by dannytime59

Format: Commander

Commander: The Wandering Minstrel

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a five-color "Praetor tribal" deck that masquerades as a land-ramp strategy, helmed by The Wandering Minstrel. The commander serves two overlapping roles: its first ability rewards reaching five or more Towns (which this deck treats as any land, creating 2/2 Elementals each combat), and its activated ability turns those lands into a game-ending overrun. The real plan, however, is to out-ramp the table with land untappers, extra-mana enchantments, and untap creatures, then bury opponents under the overwhelming Praetor suite - each Praetor is a haymaker that compounds the mana/board advantage. Primary wins are combat inevitability via inflated Towns/Elements, the transformative Praetor sagas (Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings and Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis), and Patriarch's Bidding mass reanimation. The deck plays as a high-ramp battlecruiser with a "tall" mana plan and a stacked Praetor payload.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Spring
  • 1 Arbor Elf
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Azorius Chancery
  • 1 Beseech the Queen
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Cloud of Faeries
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crumbling Vestige
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dawn's Reflection
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Deserted Temple
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dictate of Karametra
  • 1 Dig Up
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Fire Nation Palace
  • 1 Flare of Denial
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Garruk Wildspeaker
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Havenwood Battleground
  • 1 Heartbeat of Spring
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Izzet Boilerworks
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
  • 1 Ketria Triome
  • 1 Kiora's Follower
  • 1 Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner
  • 1 Magus of the Candelabra
  • 1 Mana Flare
  • 1 Market Festival
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Overabundance
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Overgrowth
  • 1 Patriarch's Bidding
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pull from Tomorrow
  • 1 Rain of Filth
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Selesnya Sanctuary
  • 1 Sheoldred // The True Scriptures
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shimmerwilds Growth
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spara's Headquarters
  • 1 Splinter's Technique
  • 1 Squandered Resources
  • 1 Summer Bloom
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 The Wandering Minstrel
  • 1 Tinder Farm
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Urabrask the Hidden
  • 1 Urabrask, Heretic Praetor
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vorinclex // The Grand Evolution
  • 1 Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider
  • 1 Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Wolfwillow Haven
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zagoth Triome
  • 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground