CommanderTestLabor DE
Price
€496.76of €500.00
Overall win rate
20%2 wins in 10 scored games
Games
10played in 1 tournament
Rank
32in the rankings up to €500 · Elo 1500 (start 1500)
Cards
100incl. commander · 39 lands, 13 of them basic
Game Changer
3of at most 3 allowed
Combos
5complete in the deck
Rules check
Passed100 cards, colors, banlist

At most €500 including the commander. If prices rise above that, the shopping list is rebuilt automatically.

grey: role in the deckGame Changer counts for the bracketCombo part of a comboAI can't play replaced in tournamentsAI limited played weakly by the AI

Commander (1)

Creatures (27)

Instants (12)

Sorceries (7)

Artifacts (6)

Enchantments (8)

Lands (39)

The Wandering Minstrel
Card image: © Wizards of the Coast, via Scryfall

Combos in the deck (5)

Detected from the decklist (Commander Spellbook): theoretically possible, see Spellbook for requirements. Whether a combo actually came together in games is shown above under “What the games show”.

  • Springheart Nantuko + Simic Growth Chamber + … → Infinite creature tokens, Infinite landfall triggers, Infinite creature ETB
    12 versions, each with one of: Spelunking · Amulet of Vigor · The Wandering Minstrel · Dryad of the Ilysian Grove · Oracle of Mul Daya · Icetill Explorer and 1 more
  • Springheart Nantuko + … → Infinite landfall triggers, Infinite tapped land tokens, Infinite creature LTB
    9 versions, each with one of: Tireless Provisioner · Lotus Cobra · Nissa, Resurgent Animist · Lumra, Bellow of the Woods · Zuran Orb
  • Zimone, Quandrix Prodigy + Retreat to Coralhelm + Simic Growth Chamber + … → Infinite landfall triggers, Infinite green mana, Infinite blue mana
    6 versions, each with one of: Tireless Provisioner · Lotus Cobra · Spelunking · Amulet of Vigor · The Wandering Minstrel · Nissa, Resurgent Animist
  • Wight of the Reliquary + Retreat to Coralhelm + … → Near-infinite landfall triggers, Put all lands from your library onto the battlefield tapped, Near-infinite creature ETB
    5 versions, each with one of: Scute Swarm · Springheart Nantuko · Chocobo Racetrack · Felidar Retreat · Omnath, Locus of Rage
  • Retreat to Coralhelm + Simic Growth Chamber + PuPu UFO → Infinite landfall triggers

Commander Spellbook lists 33 entries because every version counts separately (for example with a different sacrifice outlet). Here each combo counts once.

Show all 33 entries
  • Springheart Nantuko + Tireless Provisioner → Infinite landfall triggers, Infinite tapped land tokens
  • Springheart Nantuko + Lotus Cobra → Infinite landfall triggers, Infinite tapped land tokens
  • Springheart Nantuko + Nissa, Resurgent Animist → Infinite landfall triggers, Infinite tapped land tokens
  • Lumra, Bellow of the Woods + Springheart Nantuko + Zuran Orb + Lotus Cobra → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite death triggers
  • Lumra, Bellow of the Woods + Springheart Nantuko + Zuran Orb + Tireless Provisioner → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Lumra, Bellow of the Woods + Springheart Nantuko + Zuran Orb + Nissa, Resurgent Animist → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite death triggers
  • Springheart Nantuko + Spelunking + Simic Growth Chamber + Dryad of the Ilysian Grove → Infinite creature tokens, Infinite landfall triggers, Infinite creature ETB
  • Springheart Nantuko + Spelunking + Simic Growth Chamber + Oracle of Mul Daya → Infinite creature tokens, Infinite landfall triggers, Infinite creature ETB
  • Retreat to Coralhelm + Simic Growth Chamber + PuPu UFO → Infinite landfall triggers
  • Springheart Nantuko + Spelunking + Simic Growth Chamber + Icetill Explorer → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature tokens, Infinite landfall triggers
  • Springheart Nantuko + Amulet of Vigor + Simic Growth Chamber + Dryad of the Ilysian Grove → Infinite creature tokens, Infinite landfall triggers, Infinite creature ETB
  • Wight of the Reliquary + Scute Swarm + Retreat to Coralhelm → Near-infinite creature ETB, Near-infinite landfall triggers, Near-infinite creature tokens
  • Springheart Nantuko + Amulet of Vigor + Simic Growth Chamber + Icetill Explorer → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature tokens, Infinite landfall triggers
  • Zimone, Quandrix Prodigy + Retreat to Coralhelm + Simic Growth Chamber + Tireless Provisioner → Infinite landfall triggers
  • Zimone, Quandrix Prodigy + Retreat to Coralhelm + Simic Growth Chamber + Lotus Cobra → Infinite landfall triggers
  • Springheart Nantuko + Simic Growth Chamber + Dryad of the Ilysian Grove + The Wandering Minstrel → Infinite creature tokens, Infinite landfall triggers, Infinite creature ETB
  • Springheart Nantuko + Amulet of Vigor + Simic Growth Chamber + Oracle of Mul Daya → Infinite creature tokens, Infinite landfall triggers, Infinite creature ETB
  • Wight of the Reliquary + Retreat to Coralhelm + Springheart Nantuko → Near-infinite landfall triggers, Put all lands from your library onto the battlefield tapped
  • Springheart Nantuko + Simic Growth Chamber + The Wandering Minstrel + Icetill Explorer → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature tokens, Infinite landfall triggers
  • Springheart Nantuko + Spelunking + Simic Growth Chamber + Wayward Swordtooth → Infinite creature tokens, Infinite landfall triggers, Infinite creature ETB
  • Springheart Nantuko + Simic Growth Chamber + Oracle of Mul Daya + The Wandering Minstrel → Infinite creature tokens, Infinite landfall triggers, Infinite creature ETB
  • Zimone, Quandrix Prodigy + Retreat to Coralhelm + Spelunking + Simic Growth Chamber → Infinite green mana, Infinite blue mana, Infinite landfall triggers
  • Springheart Nantuko + Amulet of Vigor + Simic Growth Chamber + Wayward Swordtooth → Infinite creature tokens, Infinite landfall triggers, Infinite creature ETB
  • Zimone, Quandrix Prodigy + Retreat to Coralhelm + Amulet of Vigor + Simic Growth Chamber → Infinite blue mana, Infinite green mana, Infinite landfall triggers
  • Springheart Nantuko + Simic Growth Chamber + Wayward Swordtooth + The Wandering Minstrel → Infinite creature tokens, Infinite landfall triggers, Infinite creature ETB
  • Zimone, Quandrix Prodigy + Retreat to Coralhelm + Simic Growth Chamber + The Wandering Minstrel → Infinite green mana, Infinite blue mana, Infinite landfall triggers
  • Wight of the Reliquary + Retreat to Coralhelm + Chocobo Racetrack → Near-infinite landfall triggers, Put all lands from your library onto the battlefield tapped
  • Springheart Nantuko + Tireless Provisioner → Infinite landfall triggers, Infinite tapped land tokens
  • Springheart Nantuko + Lotus Cobra → Infinite landfall triggers, Infinite tapped land tokens
  • Springheart Nantuko + Nissa, Resurgent Animist → Infinite landfall triggers, Infinite tapped land tokens
  • Zimone, Quandrix Prodigy + Retreat to Coralhelm + Simic Growth Chamber + Nissa, Resurgent Animist → Infinite landfall triggers
  • Wight of the Reliquary + Retreat to Coralhelm + Felidar Retreat → Near-infinite landfall triggers, Put all lands from your library onto the battlefield tapped
  • Wight of the Reliquary + Omnath, Locus of Rage + Retreat to Coralhelm → Near-infinite damage, Near-infinite landfall triggers, Put all lands from your library onto the battlefield tapped

Adjusted for the Forge AI

The list above is the best tested version, the way you would play it in real games. The Forge AI can't play a few cards – they were replaced in the tournament (the deck builder also rearranges other slots within the budget). The win rate comes from games with these replacements; the original cards themselves were not tested by the AI.

In the list (original cards)
  • Amulet of Vigor: adjusted to make room for another replacement
  • Ancient Greenwarden: swapped for a test
  • Elvish Spirit Guide: adjusted to make room for another replacement
  • Gemstone Caverns: AI can't play it
  • Oracle of Mul Daya: adjusted to make room for another replacement
  • Pact of Negation: AI can't play it
  • Rhystic Study: adjusted to make room for another replacement
  • Scapeshift: AI can't play it
  • Sylvan Safekeeper: AI can't play it
  • Tempt with Discovery: adjusted to make room for another replacement
  • Underworld Breach: adjusted to make room for another replacement
  • Wayward Swordtooth: adjusted to make room for another replacement
Played instead in the tournament
  • Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait: replacement
  • Demonic Tutor: replacement
  • Elven Raft-Steerer: replacement
  • Faerie Mastermind: replacement
  • Fierce Guardianship: replacement
  • Heroic Intervention: replacement
  • Mental Misstep: replacement
  • Rampaging Baloths: replacement
  • Scalding Tarn: replacement
  • Sevinne's Reclamation: test
  • The Necrobloom: replacement
  • Traveling Chocobo: replacement

What the games show

Only 10 analysed games so far – these findings are still uncertain. “logged”: recorded in the game log. “indication”: recurring pattern, but no proof of cause and effect.

Play style: wins through combat – 100% of the damage to opponents is combat damage

Strengths

No clear strength in the logs.

Weaknesses

  • Leaves a lot of mana unused: 41% of lands stayed untapped (all-deck avg: 27%) – the hand was empty or the cards didn't fit logged (own rounds 3–8, 10 games)

Damage per game all games

Total damage to opponents ÷ all 10 games – what the card contributes over the whole test

  1. Insect Token avg 3.3hit in 1 of 10 games
  2. Balamb Garden, Airborne avg 3.1hit in 2 of 10 games
  3. Plant Token avg 3.0hit in 1 of 10 games

Damage when used when it hits

Total damage ÷ games in which the card dealt damage – its strength when used

  1. Traveling Chocobo avg 7.7hit in 3 of 10 games
  2. Elemental Token avg 3.7hit in 3 of 10 games
  3. The Wandering Minstrel avg 1.8hit in 4 of 10 games

Top finishers eliminates opponents

Cards that most often knocked an opposing commander out of the game

  1. Balamb Garden, Airborne 2×10 games in deck
  2. Insect Token 2×10 games in deck
  3. Nissa, Resurgent Animist 1×10 games in deck

Best interaction answers threats

Opposing cards destroyed, exiled, bounced or countered when this card resolved (tokens excluded)

  1. Mystic Remora 19×avg 1.9 per game · 10 games in deck
  2. Path to Exile 3×avg 0.3 per game · 10 games in deck

Biggest walls blocks the most

Opposing cards that blocked this deck's attackers most often – 27% of 79 attackers blocked in total, 5% of those by flyers or reach

Not enough blocks logged yet.

Rarely cast candidates to cut

Cards in this list that were cast least often in their games – often too expensive or too slow (lands excluded)

  1. Azusa, Lost but Seeking 0%cast in 0 of 10 games
  2. Culling Ritual 0%cast in 0 of 10 games
  3. Dragonback Assault 0%cast in 0 of 10 games

Wins by turn speed

On which own turn the 2 wins came

  • by turn 70%
  • turns 8–9100%
  • turns 10–110%
  • turns 12–130%
  • turn 14+0%

Combos in play logged Springheart Nantuko + Tireless Provisioner: all pieces cast in 0 games, 0 won · Springheart Nantuko + Lotus Cobra: all pieces cast in 1 games, 0 won · Springheart Nantuko + Nissa, Resurgent Animist: all pieces cast in 0 games, 0 won · Lumra, Bellow of the Woods + Springheart Nantuko + Zuran Orb + Lotus Cobra: all pieces cast in 0 games, 0 won

Mana curve without lands

Average 2.78

3
0
15
1
11
2
13
3
9
4
2
5
4
6
3
7+

Roles in the deck

Ramp
26 / 20
Card draw
6 / 6
Removal
7 / 7
Board wipe
2 / 2
Protection
2 / 2
Strategy
17 cards no target

Count / target from the EDHREC average deck (the line), red means clearly below. Strategy: the remaining cards without one of these roles, such as the creatures and effects the deck is built around. 60 non-land cards in total.

Card types

Creatures
27
Instants
12
Sorceries
7
Artifacts
6
Enchantments
8
Lands
39

Most expensive cards

Esper Sentinel
€40.73
Gemstone Caverns
€39.00
Rhystic Study
€36.05
Amulet of Vigor
€34.89
Scapeshift
€31.04
Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
€26.87
Exploration
€26.38
Mana Confluence
€25.42

What the program has learned

Each tournament the deck tests one card. A verdict needs at least 40 games with and without the card. Since the deck is rebuilt every tournament with current prices and data, tested cards can drop out again later.

No swap has enough games for a verdict yet.

1 more tested card is still collecting games.

Shopping list for Cardmarket

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Total €496.76 Cardmarket average as of Nov 3, 2026

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Prices without shipping. Individual cards may have become cheaper or more expensive on Cardmarket.

Placement in every tournament

Oldest on the left. Green: top 3, blue: top 10.

35

Best place 35 · average place 35.0 · 0× top 3 · 0× top 10 out of 1 tournament

Played by the Forge AI, four players per game. An average deck wins 25%. How are decks tested?