I've been playing bant blade for a few years now, switching between this and jund as my primary/secondary decks. Right now, I like bant over jund even though darcy lists are performing well. I honestly think that bant blade can be a top deck, the only thing is that tempo decks can be difficult to pilot (especially for newer players).

As a primer, this is some stuff that this guide might help you with by providing:

Current card choices
- Why
- Possible Alternatives
Sideboard guide against meta decks
Common and interesting lines that can present themselves.

Mainboard

Lands

Most lands are pretty standard for bant blade lists. The standouts here could be Horizon Canopy and the Zagoth Triome.

Horizon Canopy
- Can be replaced with Waterlogged Grove
- With about 6 dorks, being able to pitch a land to draw is useful
Zagoth Triome
- Can be replaced with any triome hitting 2 of the decks colors
- Chosen with an off-color on purpose to help Prismatic Ending
Glasspool Mimic
- Currently being considered in place of the Triome, as an extra blue card that can be pitched to FoN. Will have to evaluate further.

Walkers

You'll notice the lack of a Jace, the Mind Sculptor. The reason for this was basically Toski. However, Toski has since also been cut, with possibly doing 1 max in the deck. Jace doesn't really fit into the tempo plan, and it serves more as a control threat. But in the meta now a days, with many red decks, he's not a very strong walker.

Teferi, Time Raveler (3feri) is pretty standard in this list at the time of writing. It provides strong tempo plays bouncing a fresh saga (don't do this after they are past the first lore), creature, etc., and drawing a card. It's also built-in hate against the cascade decks currently popular in the meta, and any deck that wants to work at instant speed. The obvious synergies with Spell Queller is a cherry on top.

Creatures

Most creatures are standard, 6 mana dorks is especially useful with the 3 color base. Being able to drop a 3cmc threat on turn 2 is exactly the kind of play you want to be making most of the time, short of holding mana for a counter (with queller, both of these are the same).

The most interesting creature choices here are:

Instants

Sorceries

Prismatic Ending

Equipments

Sideboard

Graveyard Hate

Generic Stax

Sanctum Prelate

Aggro push

Geist of Saint Traft

Targeted Removal

Wide Removal

Suggestions

Updates Add

Spoiler Timeline

Card Odds v1 Draw hand

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Casual

100% Competitive

Date added	4 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	17 - 6 Mythic Rares 30 - 3 Rares 3 - 6 Uncommons 3 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.13
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B
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