Bant (green/white/blue) is a color combination with a ton of different playstyles under its belt inMagic: The Gathering. In Magic, preconstructed decks built for the Commander deck are common, and are often released alongside major set releases (and in some cases, on their own). Precons come in various power levels, with some weak, and others as strong as constructed decks.
A Bant deck can be ramp, control, enchantment-based, and more. There haven’t been a large number of Bant precons, but a lot of them are very powerful, with a few minor exceptions from the earlier days of Commander precons.
9Evasive Maneuvers
Control And Blink
Evasive Maneuvers is one of the oldest Commander precons, and it shows. It’s a very confused deck, not sure if it wants to be a blink deck or a control deck. However, it functions all the same, just has a few different themes that don’t synergize too well with each other.
Itdid introduce Derevi, Empyrial Tactician, which has gone on to become a staple stax commander. It does a lot of what Bant has become known for, and helped to shape its Commander identity. There are far worse precons out there, but also much better ones.
8Enchantress Rubinia
The First Precon
Enchantress Rubinia is one of the two Commander precons from the first-ever release of preconstructed decks. For being called ‘enchantress’ (meaning it’s a deck built around enchantments), it has a surprisingly low amount of them, only 14 in the deck. Instead, there are a lot more utility creatures.
Instead, Enchantress Rubinia plays more like a theft deck, stealing your opponents' creatures to use them as your own. It also includes a few powerful cards that later got put on the game changers list such as Rhystic Study and Enlightened Tutor.
7Blast From The Past
With Classic Who
Released asa part of the four Doctor Who Commander precons, Blast From The Past captures the “classic” era of the show with the 1st through 8th Doctors. As a deck, it’s heavily based on a historic theme (cards that are artifacts, legendary, or Sagas).
The deck has almost exclusively legendary creatures, with many named characters included. Thanks to this, all the historic support works very well together, and even though all the Doctors have different designs and playstyles, they all mesh together for a solid Bant precon that’s great out of the box.
6Aura Of Courage
Equipment And Aura Voltron
Aura of Courage is one of the precons released in Magic’s first official crossover set with Dungeons and Dragons (though unlike later crossovers, it was with an IP owned by the same company). Despite the name of the deck being Aura of Courage, it also includes multiple Equipment cards to give your creatures even more of a stat boost.
Galea, Kindler of Hope is a great commander, allowing you to cheat around large equip costs if you cast Equipment from the top of your library instead of your hand. The Aura and Equipment available in the deck are great too, possessing most of the commonly played ones. Although the creature count is low, as with most Voltron decks, your commander is all you need.
5Adaptive Enchantment
Enchantments Galore
Adaptive Enchantment is the best Bant precon you can play if you’re looking to run an enchantment-based deck. Bant is the best color for the theme, and Adaptive Enchantment includes all the best generic enchantment support cards.
AlthoughEstrid, the Masked is the face commander, the alternate commander Tuvasa the Sunlit is more often what you’ll use as your commander instead, as it provides more consistent support by drawing you cards and growing its stats for every enchantment you control. Overall, the deck is fantastic out of the box, and has plenty of room for upgrades if you want to pump up its power.
4Deep Clue Sea
Get Investigating
Deep Clue Sea, as the name might imply, is built around the investigate mechanic,creating Clue tokenswhile drawing extra cards. There is a token sub-theme since you create so many Clue tokens that allow you to gain extra advantage from them.
Along with having a ton of great reprints in it, the deck synergizes very well, with very few cards worth cutting for upgrades. Outside of perhaps the alternate commander Sophia, Dogged Detective, you can play with Deep Clue Sea as-is and be able to hold your own against many other decks. Like all the Karlov Manor precons, Deep Clue Sea is a step above from other precons.
3Bedecked Brokers
Shield The Brokers
If you love putting different kinds of counters on your permanents, Bedecked Brokers is the best precon for you. It’s also just one of the best Bant precons out there. Although shield counters are the most common, there are also +1/+1 counters, -1/-1 counters, and feather counters to name a few.
The deck is very consistent and gives itself natural protection thanks to all the shield counters it can spread around. Counter decks have had a ton of support over the years (including in Streets of New Capenna, where the precon was released alongside), and Bedecked Brokers has many of the best counter cards.
2Peace Offering
Hug With Bunnies
WhileGroup Hug has been a theme for ages, there are not a lot of precons built around it, but Peace Offering is the best option there is (and one of the best Bant precons in general). Peace Offering wants you to give your opponents a card draw while drawing cards yourself as you spread counters on creatures to buff them up for attacks.
Peace Offering is fantastic right from the get-go without needing to make any card changes. You want to cast a lot of spells to make sure Ms. Bumbleflower triggers two times, something the deck can easily do thanks to most cards having a low mana value. The counter theme helps to close games out, something Group Hug decks can usually struggle with.
1Counter Blitz
Tidus And The Guardians
Counter Blitz was released alongside three other Commander decks, each based on a different Final Fantasy game. Counter Blitz is the Final Fantasy 10 deck, and based on the game’s sphere grid, which translates to Magic in the form of +1/+1 counters.
The deck easily spreads counters to all its creatures and moves them around as needed. It can proliferate to add even more counters to your permanents. You’ll be moving a lot of counters as many creatures benefit from having them as it’ll unlock more powerful effects compared to their base ones. The precon even has an infinite combo included in it, making for the best Bant Commander precon you’re able to get.
