Dion, Bahamut's Dominant is one of the main characters in Final Fantasy XVI, and one of the many named Final Fantasy characters given a card in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic: The Gathering's Final Fantasy crossover set. Dion is a noble knight (both in Final Fantasy XVI and quite literally his creature type on his Magic card) who supports the Kn♕ight creature type.

The Knight creature type has been around since 1995, so the amount of Knight support is very high. A Dion, Bahamutꦰ's Dominant Commander deck is a Knight Typal deck, meaning it's a d𓄧eck that focuses primarily on one creature type, in this case, Knights.

Decklist

The decklist contains one planeswalker, 30 creatures, four sorceries, five instants, 18 artifacts, seven enchantments, and 34 lands. Most of the creatures are Knights, with the nonland permanents either ramps or permanents to g𝕴ive boosts in combat.

Key Cards

Dion, Bahamut's Dominant / Bahamut, Warden Of Light

The commander of the deck, Dion, Bahamut's Dominant is great Knight support, giving them all flying during your turn. Since your deck is heavily combat-focused, flying is a great way to get in for dam🎃age, especially if your opponents don't have ways to block flyers.

If you invest in transforming Dion, Bahamut, Warden of Light helps to permanently boost up your Knights with +1/+1 counter. Before returning to Dion, you'll get to destroy any permanent on the battlefield, which canꦏ 𒀰include lands if your opponent has a problematic utility land.

While🔯 Bahamut, Warden of Light is strong, it is not a necessary piece of the strategy. You can easily win the game without ever transforming Di🐎on. It is often better to spend the mana on other spells if you have them.

Knight Exemplar

Nearly every creature in your deck is a Knight, making Knight Exemplar especially strong. For just three mana, you can make all your other Knights indestructible. This allows you to use them in combat without having to worry about them being defeated in it. Bear in mind, an indestructible creature can still be exiled, and Knight Exemplar doesn't have i🦩ndestructible itself.

Knight Exemplar also provides a minor +1/+1 stat boost. While this boost isn't large, stacking multiple stat-boosting effects helps to make even your weakest Knights a big combat threat. There are plenty of ways to boost the stats of your creatures (including Bahamut, Warden of Light), and pair perfe𝕴ctly with Knight Exemplar🍸.

Door Of Destinies

Door of Destinies is a staple of any deck that primarily plays one creature type. For every Knight spell cast, it gets a counter to give an increasing stat boost. It only costs four mana, so it can be played early, which is great as you want to play Door of Destinies as quickly as possible so it can start loading up counters.

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Door of Destinies is an artifact, which is relevant because some colors simply can't remove artifacts easily. Black and blue in particular don't have an🦄y good ways t🥀o permanently get rid of artifacts. Depending on what decks your opponents are on, Door of Destinies may never be at risk of getting removed.

Greymond, Avacyn's Stalwart

Nearly all the creatures in your deck are Knights, but Knights tend to also have the Human typing (especially in this decklist). This makes Greymond, Avacyn's Stalwart fantastic, as it will give all your Humans two keyword abilities of three (first strike, vigilance, and lifelink).

Greymond, Avacyn's Stalwart was originally released as Rick, Steadfast Leader. They are considered the exact same cards despite having different names, so you c🧜an only play one of them, not both. Greymond is simply the Univeres Within version of the Walking Dead crossover card.

You generally want to give your Humans first strike and lifelink, as they are usually stronger than vigilance. The exception would be if another permanent is giving your Knights one of the two other effects. As a bonus, Greymond will give your Humans stat boosts so long as you control four or more (and it counts itsel♛f as one of them, so only three extra Humans are needed).

How To Play The Deck

A Dion, Bahamut's Dominant Commander deck is always casting Knight spells and attacking with them, providing extra damage with permanents that give stat boosts. Dion is the creature leading the charge, transforming into Bahamut as needed to provide +1/+1 counters. Notably, this will give flying to your few non-Knight creatures, unlike the Dion side of the card.

The deck is mono white, and you can take advantage of white support cards. Honor of the Pure, Crovax, Ascendant Hero, and Linden, the Steadfast Queen all provided benefits for attac𓂃king with white creatures. Peral Medallion and Oketra's Monument help to discount the cost of your white creature spells.

Combat, Card Draw, And Win Conditions

The deck is creature-based, so combat is especially important as it's your primary way to deal damage. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:There's a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:sub-Token theme with multiple cards creating Knight create tokens to raise the number of Knights you have. Moonshaker Cavalry is a great payoff for having a large battlefield, as it'll give alꩵl your creatures a massive stat boost, usually enough to win the game the turn you play it.

White can struggle with card draw at times, but luckily, momo white in Commander has a lot of options. Endless Atlas gives you constant card draw so long as you have three lands with the same name, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:War Room let🙈s you pay o🌌ne life to draw a card, and Minas Tirith draws a car💯d so long as you attacked with at least two creatures. These are great ways to keep your hand loaཧded with Knights to cast.

The primary win condition of the deck is winning through combat. You want to constantly be attacking, especially early in the game if you cast Dion af🍒ter a few turns before🐲 your opponents can set up flyers. With all the stat boosts, the win condition is made even easier to achieve.

Weaknesses

The biggest flaw of the deck is its weakness to board wipes. As with all creature decks, once a large battlefield gets wiped, it can be hard to recover. Cards like Emeria, the Sky Ruin help to recur your best creatures, and Unbreakable Formation can save you from one board wipe, but it can be a struggle to rebuild depending on your board state.