Tides V2 by user1186519

Format: Commander

Commander: Tidus, Yuna's Guardian

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This Bant midrange deck leverages Tidus, Yuna's Guardian to turn +1/+1 counters into consistent card draw, rapid board growth, and evasive combat pressure. The game plan focuses on deploying efficient counter generators such as Hardened Scales, Torgal, A Fine Hound, and Tromell, Seymour's Butler, then using Tidus to distribute counters and proliferate every turn upon dealing combat damage. Evasion enablers like Sphere Grid, Rikku, Resourceful Guardian, and Blitzball Stadium ensure attacks connect reliably through opposing blockers. The deck accelerates mana using scaling dorks like Incubation Druid and Gyre Sage, while protecting its developing threats with a dense suite of counterspells, Heroic Intervention, and proactive tools like Silence and Ranger-Captain of Eos. As counters multiply through proliferation and doubling effects like The Earth Crystal, the board swiftly transitions from incremental value into lethal trample and unblockable combat waves, closing the game around turn 8 or finishing with a massive Walking Ballista.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Balamb Garden, SeeD Academy // Balamb Garden, Airborne
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blitzball Stadium
  • 1 Bred for the Hunt
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Bugenhagen, Wise Elder
  • 1 Buster Sword
  • 1 Campsite Cuisine
  • 1 Capital City
  • 1 Champions from Beyond
  • 1 Chasm Skulker
  • 1 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary
  • 1 Collective Effort
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commune with Beavers
  • 1 Conqueror's Flail
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cryptic Command
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dreams of Laguna
  • 1 Endurance
  • 1 Esper Origins // Summon: Esper Maduin
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fathom Mage
  • 1 Fight Rigging
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Gatta and Luzzu
  • 1 Generous Patron
  • 1 Gyre Sage
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Incubation Druid
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Lord Jyscal Guado
  • 1 Mask of Memory
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Overflowing Basin
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Ranger-Captain of Eos
  • 1 Resourceful Defense
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rikku, Resourceful Guardian
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Smuggler's Copter
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphere Grid
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Staff of the Storyteller
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Summon: Fenrir
  • 1 Sungrass Prairie
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sword of Truth and Justice
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syncopate
  • 1 The Destined White Mage
  • 1 The Earth Crystal
  • 1 Tidus, Blitzball Star
  • 1 Tidus, Yuna's Guardian
  • 1 Tireless Tracker
  • 1 Tome of Legends
  • 1 Torgal, A Fine Hound
  • 1 Tromell, Seymour's Butler
  • 1 Venat, Heart of Hydaelyn // Hydaelyn, the Mothercrystal
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Warrior's Resolve
  • 1 Yuna, Grand Summoner
  • 1 Zack Fair