Balloon animals by user4693974

Format: Commander

Commander: The Jolly Balloon Man

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

This deck is a Boros token swarm strategy commanded by The Jolly Balloon Man, built around 15 copies of Hare Apparent. The plan uses the commander's ability to create temporary 1/1 flying Balloon copies of Hare Apparent. Because the copies retain the name Hare Apparent, each activation triggers an exponential surge of permanent 1/1 Rabbit creature tokens. The deck translates this wide board state into a win using scaling damage amplifiers and mass anthems such as Impact Tremors, Cathars' Crusade, Banner of Kinship, and Fiery Emancipation. Mass recursion from Raise the Past provides rapid recovery after board wipes. The deck features strong natural redundancy in its creature core, though its reliance on tap-lands and vulnerability to mass exile sweepers remain its primary limiting factors.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Angelic Purge
  • 1 Archangel of Tithes
  • 1 Archivist of Oghma
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Banishing Light
  • 1 Banner of Kinship
  • 1 Belladonna Took
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Cathars' Crusade
  • 1 Command Bridge
  • 1 Destroy Evil
  • 1 Dimensional Exile
  • 1 Divine Resilience
  • 1 Electroduplicate
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
  • 1 Elspeth, Storm Slayer
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Fated Firepower
  • 1 Fiery Emancipation
  • 1 Galadriel's Dismissal
  • 1 God-Pharaoh's Statue
  • 15 Hare Apparent
  • 1 Haunted Fengraf
  • 1 Helm of the Host
  • 1 Helping Hand
  • 1 Hobbit Hole
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Inspiring Vantage
  • 1 Iron Hills
  • 1 Keep Out
  • 1 Lay Down Arms
  • 1 Liminal Hold
  • 1 Make Your Move
  • 1 Marvin, Murderous Mimic
  • 1 Mirage Mesa
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Night Market
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Patriar's Seal
  • 10 Plains
  • 1 Planetarium of Wan Shi Tong
  • 1 Raise the Past
  • 1 Restoration Angel
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Settle Beyond Reality
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Sozin's Comet
  • 1 Spirited Companion
  • 1 Split Up
  • 1 Sunbillow Verge
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sword of Hearth and Home
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Temple of Triumph
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Jolly Balloon Man
  • 1 Thriving Bluff
  • 1 Tocasia's Welcome
  • 1 Troop of Ponies
  • 1 Uncharted Haven
  • 1 Valgavoth's Lair
  • 1 Valorous Stance
  • 1 Vibrant Cityscape
  • 1 Virtue of Loyalty // Ardenvale Fealty
  • 1 White Lotus Tile
  • 1 Wind-Scarred Crag