Brokeback Meletis

Commander / EDH Group Hug RGWU Theme/Gimmick

ardilly

Land (33)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Boros Garrison
• 1x Botanical Sanctum
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Cascading Cataracts
• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Coral Atoll
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Highland Lake
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 1x Inspiring Vantage
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 1x Irrigated Farmland
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Ketria Triome
• 1x Nephalia Academy
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Scattered Groves
• 1x Spirebluff Canal
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Swiftwater Cliffs
• 1x Temple of Abandon
• 1x Temple of Enlightenment
• 1x Temple of Epiphany
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Temple of Triumph
• 1x Thespian's Stage

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Approach of the Second Sun
• 1x Fumigate
• 1x Sea Gate Restoration  ^Flip
• 1x Show and Tell
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Winds of Change

Artifact (20)

• 1x Black Vise
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Font of Mythos
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Helm of Awakening
• 1x Howling Mine
• 1x Iron Maiden
• 1x Library of Leng
• 1x Magnifying Glass
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Otherworld Atlas
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Skyclave Relic
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Spellbook
• 1x Staff of Nin
• 1x Tamiyo's Journal
• 1x Temple Bell
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Venser's Journal

Enchantment (14)

• 1x Awakening
• 1x Bulwark
• 1x Dictate of Karametra
• 1x Dictate of Kruphix
• 1x Fevered Visions
• 1x Forced Fruition
• 1x Mana Flare
• 1x Mechanized Production
• 1x Rites of Flourishing
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Teferi's Ageless Insight
• 1x Verity Circle
• 1x Weirding Wood
• 1x Well of Ideas

Commander (1)

Creature (16)

• 1x Alrund, God of the Cosmos  ^Flip
• 1x Arcanis the Omnipotent
• 1x Azor's Elocutors
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Edric, Spymaster of Trest
• 1x Kami of the Crescent Moon
• 1x Kruphix, God of Horizons
• 1x Kwain, Itinerant Meddler
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Rattleclaw Mystic
• 1x Selvala, Explorer Returned
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid
• 1x Triskaidekaphile

Instant (6)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Confirm Suspicions
• 1x Humble the Brute
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Sudden Impact
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Jace Beleren
• 1x Mordenkainen
• 1x Niko Aris
• 1x Teferi, Hero of Dominaria

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Because BroHug.

Ridiculous group hug card draw, with a couple of silly fun win conditions:
1. Teferi, Hero of Dominaria Ult: eventual death when I can get my big beefy bois out, or simply paving the way for an alternate victory condition:
2. Laboratory Maniac combined with the stupid amounts of card draw = stupid win!
3. Bulwark combined with the stupid amounts of card draw = slow win by 1000 paper cuts!
4. Forced Fruition combined with slightly less stupid amounts of opponent card draw = slow win by opponent self-milling!
5. Mechanized Production combined with Investigate keyword abuse and Treasure generation = silly win!
6. Sudden Impact combined with slightly less stupid amounts of opponent card draw = big bang or win!
7. Approach of the Second Sun possibly combined with Scroll Rack = stupid win!
8. Azor's Elocutors
9. Triskaidekaphile combined with stupid amounts of card draw = chance for stupid win!

Of course there's always additional damage, almost entirely through non-combat sources, which can slowly chip away at an opponent's health while also giving them lots of cards and potential solutions:
1. Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind combined with stupid amounts of card draw becomes a machine gun I can use to help deal with some pesky creatures or even take out an opponent or 2
2. Black Vise and Iron Maiden for that awesome trip down memory lane, particularly when paired with Forced Fruition
3. Niko Aris's first -1 can be a shotgun or nuclear bomb to clear out my opponents' biggest threats
4. Alrund, God of the Cosmos   & Psychosis Crawler have the potential to become Absolute Units, while Mordenkainen's -2 can make potential big beefy bois as well.

So there's my group hug deck, originally based on an earlier Jhoira of the Ghitu group hug deck that I made (Jhoira (of) the Git). I kind of miss that deck now, and might add my favorite winning combo from that deck to this one for that nostalgic feeling: Pact of Negation + Hive Mind against an opponent with no blue in their deck. It took several years before it finally happened, and it's my happiest memory from playing MtG yet.

Everything down below is the original build of this janky garbage

With this deck I'm going for a full Group Hug with some Teferi-related love, mostly manifesting in every card with Phasing I could muster that could have some effect on the state of play - Breezekeeper would serve only as a headscratcher for my opponents but not much else. For Teferi-related flavor, I hesitate to put Barrin, Master Wizard in here simply because it doesn't seem to be in line with what the rest of the deck does - the same reasoning explains the lack of Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir.

Silly combo idea: Mechanized Production + "Investigate" keyword abuse, though it looks like I can get rid of Trail of Evidence...or I need to increase the instant/sorcery count in the deck.

After a bit of thinking, I decided to remove cards like Sudden Impact, Fateful Showdown, and Blood Oath because the single target nature of them felt inherently non-grouphuggish. As such, Bulwark can probably also come out, which would make space for Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind. Yes, he's also a single-target card, but in conjunction with Forced Fruition and Consecrated Sphinx, I could spread the pain pretty well.

I would prefer, however, going for silly win conditions like Azor's Elocutors (though I currently don't have much of a plan for protecting them), massive group card draw + Iron Maiden...the deck this is based on had Hive Mind with Pact of Negation and Pact of the Titan. If I put that back in here, I could also add Intervention Pact and Summoner's Pact to the mix. But...if I do that, then what else do I take out?

Thoughts? Suggestions? Accusations of insanity?

Date added	7 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 65 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.60
Tokens	Clue, Copy Clone, Dog Illusion */* U, Emblem Mordenkainen, Emblem Teferi, Hero of Dominaria, Morph 2/2 C, Shard, Treasure
Folders	Currently exists, Commander