The Bant Hammer [cEDH]

Commander / EDH* GWU (Bant)

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Land (31)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cephalid Coliseum
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 2x Forest
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Horizon Canopy
• 1x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Tarnished Citadel
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Artifact (8)

• 1x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mask of Memory
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Sword of Fire and Ice

Instant (20)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Misdirection
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Negate
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Sorcery (14)

• 1x Capture of Jingzhou
• 1x Chart a Course
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Personal Tutor
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Regrowth
• 1x Seasons Past
• 1x Seeds of Innocence
• 1x Temporal Manipulation
• 1x Temporal Mastery
• 1x Time Warp
• 1x Treasure Cruise

Commander (1)

Creature (19)

• 1x Alms Collector
• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Cold-Eyed Selkie
• 1x Containment Priest
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Ethersworn Canonist
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Gilded Drake
• 1x Hushwing Gryff
• 1x Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
• 1x Linvala, Keeper of Silence
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Looter il-Kor
• 1x Noble Hierarch
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Stoneforge Mystic

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Grasp of Fate
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Utopia Sprawl
• 1x Wild Growth

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Sideboard

Creature (8)

• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Kataki, War's Wage
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Surrakar Spellblade
• 1x Tandem Lookout
• 1x Thalia, Heretic Cathar
• 1x Tocatli Honor Guard

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Curiosity
• 1x Smothering Tithe

Instant (1)

• 1x Counterspell

Artifact (2)

• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Tangle Wire

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Maybeboard

Creature (14)

• 1x Augury Adept
• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Emrakul, the Promised End
• 1x Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
• 1x Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  ^Flip
• 1x Leonin Arbiter
• 1x Rashmi, Eternities Crafter
• 1x Remorseful Cleric
• 1x Runic Armasaur
• 1x Sovereigns of Lost Alara
• 1x Taigam, Ojutai Master
• 1x Thing in the Ice  ^Flip

Instant (5)

• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Hunter's Insight
• 1x Invasive Surgery
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Reclaim

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Armageddon
• 1x Nostalgic Dreams
• 1x Seasons Past
• 1x Steelshaper's Gift

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Finest Hour
• 1x Opposition
• 1x Serenity
• 1x Stasis
• 1x Survival of the Fittest

Artifact (3)

• 1x Torpor Orb
• 1x Trinisphere
• 1x Umezawa's Jitte

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(Note: trice testing taigam in place of snapcaster mage It’s hammer time.

Currently testing survival, defense of the heart, and brisela combo in place of emrakul, lighthouse, search for azcanta, RIP

This is my most recent, and arguably most successful, version of Rafiq. The aim is to play the control game w/ 1 sided stax effects until you get your hammers rolling with Cold-Eyed Selkie or the like, legacy viable equipment, and rafiq. The deck runs enough interaction to survive until turn 3-5, in which you start to pave a path to victory. There are 2 primary lines of play to win, in order of priority to resolve:

1. Seasons Past loops for infinite turns: using Personal Tutor or Mystical Tutor , a Time Warp variation, and Seasons Past . Takes 12 mana to pull off, but possible as early as turn 4/5 via using time walks to keep hitting land drops, big mana dorks like Priest of Titania , or Sword of Feast and Famine with 6 lands.

2. Sovereigns of Lost Alara + Eldrazi Conscription . Voltron in cEDH!?? =O!!! This is a line of play that speeds up the clock and can be used successfully in conjunction with time warp variations to one shot our opponents one at a time. Functions similarly to how control zur and GAAIV run the RIP+helm combo. Another variation is to use Cephalid Constable with rafiq to return your opponent’s permanents to hand (including lands).

Current recorded record in 4 player, discord/cEDH cockatrice games: 5-3

Currently testing Parallax Wave and Submerge

Date added	6 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 2 Mythic Rares 55 - 7 Rares 13 - 1 Uncommons 18 - 3 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.25
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Treasure
Folders	Follow, cEDH, Edh Decks, best of edh, Rafiq of the Many, Rafiq of the Many, favorites, Inspiration/ideas, CEDH, interesting
Based on	Rafiq Seasons past aggro-control rockleemyhero EDH