Tom Bombadil*

Format: Commander

Commander: Tom Bombadil

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Tom Bombadil is the ultimate Saga-value engine, and this build leans entirely into that identity: a five-color spiritual-value deck that resolves low-cost Sagas, cascades final chapters into one another, and eventually converts all that card/treasure/creature advantage into a Dwarf-based and token-based beatdown. The primary early goal is to establish Fisher's Talent, Fortune Teller's Talent, or Thror's Map to smooth draws, then land Tom with a couple of Sagas already ticking. He turns every final chapter into a free "chain a Saga from the top" trigger, generating lasting engine pressure without needing a single tutor. The deck has no infinite combos; it wins by grinding into giant Sagas such as The Coming of Galactus and The Misty Mountains Cold, by overrunning with Dwarf tokens from An Unexpected Party and Avengers: Under Siege, and occasionally via Balin, Loremaster combined with Bifur, Melodic Rider for a huge draw-burn turn.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 A.I.M. Labs
  • 1 Airbending Lesson
  • 1 An Unexpected Party // At the Door
  • 1 Asgardian Citadel
  • 1 Avengers: Under Siege
  • 1 Balin, Loremaster
  • 1 Baxter Building
  • 1 Bifur, Melodic Rider
  • 1 Bilbo Baggins, Burglar // Take a Glance
  • 1 Bilbo's Gambit
  • 1 Bofur, Reliable Guardian // Concerted Care
  • 1 Boros Signet
  • 1 Burn, Burn, Tree and Fern
  • 1 Call Damage Control
  • 1 Coiling Oracle
  • 1 Command Bridge
  • 1 Confusticate and Bebother
  • 1 Down in the Valley
  • 1 Down, Down to Goblin-town
  • 1 Dwarven Mattock
  • 1 Dáin, Lord of the Iron Hills
  • 1 Elvenking's Halls
  • 1 Energybending
  • 1 Environmental Scientist
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fisher's Talent
  • 1 Fisk Tower
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Fortune Teller's Talent
  • 1 Fíli the Pathfinder
  • 1 Ghirapur Orrery
  • 1 Giant's Boulder
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Glóin the Mighty // Easy Pickings
  • 1 Great Divide Guide
  • 1 Gruul Signet
  • 1 Hell's Kitchen
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hobbit Hole
  • 1 Iron Hills
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Lake-town
  • 1 Leaves from the Vine
  • 1 Mirkwood
  • 1 Mirkwood Nurturer
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Monastery
  • 1 Noxious Newt
  • 1 Octomancer
  • 1 Old Fat Spider Can't See Me
  • 1 Oliphaunt
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Overflowing Basin
  • 1 Peerless Recycling
  • 1 Pillar Launch
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Prophetic Titan
  • 1 Pull Through the Weft
  • 1 Pym Technologies
  • 1 Restoration Seminar
  • 1 Restorative Technique
  • 1 Roads Go Ever, Ever On
  • 1 Rugged Prairie
  • 1 Rumble Arena
  • 1 Seaside Citadel
  • 1 Short Bow
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Smaug's Fury
  • 1 Sound the Trumpets
  • 1 Stark Industries
  • 1 Super Strength
  • 1 Surveillance Room
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Tempest Technique
  • 1 The Black Arrow
  • 1 The Cave of Two Lovers
  • 1 The Coming of Galactus
  • 1 The Legend of Kuruk // Avatar Kuruk
  • 1 The Misty Mountains Cold
  • 1 The Mountain-king's Return
  • 1 Thorin Oakenshield
  • 1 Through the Forest Gate
  • 1 Thrór's Map
  • 1 Time Wipe
  • 1 Tom Bombadil
  • 1 Troop of Ponies
  • 1 Warg Tactics
  • 1 Wizard Class
  • 1 World War Hulk