I'm not terribly excited about two color themes so I'm considering tri-color themes instead. Only problem is I'm stuck on Bant. I've got 9 other themes picked out, relatively happy with them but Bant has me stumped. Everything I think I could do with Bant I'm doing with some other color. I was thinking about switching +1/+1 counters from Sultai to Bant since I know white gets some cool stuff but then I would need a new Sultai theme.
Unfortunately every try hard from Sacramento to Shanghai preaches from the top of their 27 lands + Mana Reflection that Tooth and Nail and Time Stretch are fine to play in the same turn but Armageddon is unfair.
Bant could be a blink theme, a lot of UW creatures either enable that strategy or have ETB triggers, and the same for the latter with a number of green guys. Way more of a blink color than Jeskai is IMO, I would honestly just follow what the shards did in Khans of Tarkir for those 5 as they lend themselves naturally to the strategies outside that set, too.
Bant -
Esper - Artifacts
Grixis - Control
Jund - Madness/Hellbent/Discard
Naya - Auras/Hexproof
Mardu - Tokens
Temur - Midrange/Ramp/Fatties
Abzan - Reanimator/Graveyards Matter
Jeskai - ETB/Blink/Twin
Sultai - +1/+1 Counters
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