At a glance
- Format: Brawl (100-card)
- Commander: Aang, at the Crossroads
- Colors: Green / White / Blue (GWU)
- Archetype: Bant midrange/value
- Power tier: mid-high
- Competitive Brawl: ✅ Legal
Strategy
Aang, at the Crossroads anchors a Bant value pile that now actually pays off his own text. Ramp into him on turn 4-5 (Llanowar Elves, Druid of the Cowl, Ilysian Caryatid, Great Forest Druid, Badgermole Cub, Solemn, Wayfarer’s Bauble, Rampant Growth), dig five deep for a free 4-or-less drop on every ETB, then grind the long game with card-advantage engines (Tatyova, Cloudblazer, Cloudkin Seer, Inga Rune-Eyes, Wan Shi Tong, Kiora). The big refinement: Aang earthbends 2 every combat and gives land creatures vigilance, so the deck now leans into earthbend instead of ignoring it. Badgermole Cub is a 2-mana ramp engine (earthbend 1 + extra {G} whenever you tap a creature for mana); Toph and Badgermole add cheap earthbend bodies, Badgermole hands every counter-creature trample, and The Earth King turns those 4-power land-beaters into a basic-land ramp spigot when they swing. Earthbender Ascension (earthbend 2 + fetch a basic) and Earth Rumble (earthbend + fight removal) and The Boulder round out the package, all converting Aang’s vigilant land-creatures into real pressure. White removal (Swords, Luminous Rebuke, Stroke of Midnight, Valorous Stance, Repel Calamity, Fate of the Sun-Cryst, Sandbenders’ Storm) plus a tight counter shell (Spell Snare, Disdainful Stroke, Refute, Spellgyre) keeps the board honest while flyers (Empyrean Eagle, Giada, Errant and Giada, Lyra) close in the air. Sequence note: with 36 lands plus ramp you’ll occasionally flood, but earthbend turns excess lands into a board, and Meditation Pools / North Pole Gates / Kyoshi Village sack themselves for cards.
Upgrade path
Zero rare/mythic SPELL crafts. All seven additions are owned: Badgermole Cub (mythic, own3), Toph (unc), Badgermole (common), The Earth King (rare, OWNED own4 — not a craft), Earthbender Ascension (rare, OWNED own3), Earth Rumble (unc), The Boulder (unc). The two added owned rares were already in Mik’s collection, so no wildcards are spent. Cut seven low-impact filler pieces to make room: Cat-Owl, Iguana Parrot, Holy Cow, Healer’s Hawk, Curator of Destinies (6-mana symmetric, weak), Saber-Tooth Moose-Lion (vanilla), Earth Kingdom Soldier (5-mana for two counters). Manabase unchanged at 36 (15 basics + 5 untapped nonbasics + Dreamroot Cascade + 2 fetches + 13 tapped utility/scry duals); note earthbend animates lands but does NOT ramp mana, so land count stays healthy. Future owned tweaks: if flooding persists trim to ~34-35 and add another earthbend payoff (Earthbending Lesson / Rockalanche are both owned commons/uncommons) or The Boulder-style attack triggers.
Cards
Decklist
Paste straight into MTG Arena (or Moxfield/Archidekt):
Commander
1 Aang, at the Crossroads
Deck
1 Llanowar Elves
1 Druid of the Cowl
1 Ilysian Caryatid
1 Great Forest Druid
1 Studious First-Year
1 Wayfarer's Bauble
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Ignis Scientia
1 Shared Roots
1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
1 Cloudblazer
1 Cloudkin Seer
1 Inga Rune-Eyes
1 Kiora, the Rising Tide
1 Jadzi, Steward of Fate
1 The Lion-Turtle
1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
1 Giada, Font of Hope
1 Empyrean Eagle
1 Dawnwing Marshal
1 Errant and Giada
1 Aerith Gainsborough
1 Aang, the Last Airbender
1 Appa, Loyal Sky Bison
1 Lyra Dawnbringer
1 Exalted Sunborn
1 Elfsworn Giant
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Flopsie, Bumi's Buddy
1 Emeritus of Truce
1 Grounded for Life
1 Luminous Rebuke
1 Repel Calamity
1 Valorous Stance
1 Take Vengeance
1 Stroke of Midnight
1 Fate of the Sun-Cryst
1 Make Your Move
1 Sandbenders' Storm
1 Threadbind Clique
1 Airbender's Reversal
1 Spell Snare
1 Disdainful Stroke
1 Refute
1 Spellgyre
1 Aang's Journey
1 Proctor's Gaze
1 Cycle of Renewal
1 Pawpatch Formation
1 Glorious Decay
1 Coordinated Maneuver
1 Command Tower
1 Hallowed Fountain
1 Hushwood Verge
1 Dreamroot Cascade
1 Blossoming Sands
1 Tranquil Cove
1 Thornwood Falls
1 Meditation Pools
1 North Pole Gates
1 Kyoshi Village
1 Sharlayan, Nation of Scholars
1 Guadosalam, Farplane Gateway
1 Temple of Enlightenment
1 Temple of Mystery
1 Temple of Plenty
1 Thriving Heath
1 Thriving Isle
1 Evolving Wilds
1 Terramorphic Expanse
1 Starting Town
1 Capital City
5 Forest
6 Island
4 Plains
1 Badgermole Cub
1 Toph, the Blind Bandit
1 Badgermole
1 The Earth King
1 Earthbender Ascension
1 Earth Rumble
1 The Boulder, Ready to Rumble
1 Elemental Bond
1 Rampaging Baloths
1 Vizier of the Menagerie
1 Genesis Wave
1 Suki, Courageous Rescuer
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