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Bard, King of Dale

Bard, King of Dale

Legendary Creature — Human Noble Archer · {4}{W}{U} · Blue/White commander

Reach, vigilance If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead. If one or more tokens would be created under your control, twice that many of those tokens are created instead.
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What Bard, King of Dale actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

What a Bard, King of Dale deck needs

Plays as token doubler. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

The Bard, King of Dale deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

Best cards for Bard, King of Dale

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide

  1. Kozilek's Unsealing3 mana
  2. Replicating Ring3 mana
  3. Elspeth, Storm Slayer5 mana
  4. Hero of Bladehold4 mana
  5. Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
  6. Elspeth, Sun's Champion6 mana
  7. Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
  8. Cosmogrand Zenith3 mana

A team pump that actually pumps tokens

  1. Intangible Virtue2 mana
  2. Caretaker's Talent3 mana
  3. Inspiring Leader3 mana
  4. Prava of the Steel Legion3 mana
  5. Gideon's Memorial2 mana
  6. Mite Overseer4 mana
  7. Phantom General4 mana
  8. Flowering of the White Tree2 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. Reality Shift2 mana
  4. Pongify1 mana
  5. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  6. Resculpt2 mana
  7. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  8. Generous Gift3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Reshape2 mana
  2. Mask of the Mimic1 mana
  3. Long-Term Plans3 mana
  4. Open the Armory2 mana
  5. Whir of Invention3 mana
  6. Merchant Scroll2 mana
  7. Enlightened Tutor1 mana
  8. Mystical Tutor1 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Mindbreak Trap4 mana
  2. Fierce Guardianship3 mana
  3. Force of Negation3 mana
  4. Force of Will5 mana
  5. Flare of Denial3 mana
  6. Pact of Negation0 mana
  7. An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
  8. Arcane Denial2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  2. Supreme Verdict4 mana
  3. Wrath of God4 mana
  4. Day of Judgment4 mana
  5. Shatter the Sky4 mana
  6. Split Up3 mana
  7. Winds of Abandon2 mana
  8. Depopulate4 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Mystic Remora1 mana
  3. Skullclamp1 mana
  4. Curiosity1 mana
  5. Wizard Class1 mana
  6. Rhystic Study3 mana
  7. Archivist of Oghma2 mana
  8. Faerie Mastermind2 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
  2. Bastion Protector3 mana
  3. Gold-Forged Thopteryx2 mana
  4. Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
  5. Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
  6. Coppercoat Vanguard2 mana
  7. Lost in the Maze2 mana
  8. Lightning Greaves2 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Azorius Signet2 mana
  3. Palladium Myr3 mana
  4. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  5. Chrome Mox0 mana
  6. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  7. Mox Diamond0 mana
  8. Mana Vault1 mana

Combos with Bard, King of Dale

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Bard, King of Dale is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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