political multiplayer: Phelddagrif paper edition

Commander / EDH Budget Enchantment Group Hug GWU (Bant) Pillow Fort Voltron

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Ramp (20)

• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Boundless Realms
• 1x Collective Voyage
• 1x Dowsing Dagger  ^Flip
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Krosan Verge
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Regal Behemoth
• 1x Rites of Flourishing
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Selvala, Explorer Returned
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Tempt with Discovery
• 1x Traverse the Outlands
• 1x Wilderness Reclamation

Draw (9)

• 1x Beck / Call
• 1x Benefactor's Draught
• 1x Biomantic Mastery
• 1x Borrowing 100,000 Arrows
• 1x Curse of Verbosity
• 1x Rishkar's Expertise
• 1x Rites of Flourishing
• 1x Selvala, Explorer Returned
• 1x Theft of Dreams

Voltron (8)

• 1x Ancestral Mask
• 1x Berserk
• 1x Blackblade Reforged
• 1x Colossus Hammer
• 1x Duelist's Heritage
• 1x Forgotten Ancient
• 1x Mantle of Leadership
• 1x True Conviction

Land (36)

• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Bant Panorama
• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 8x Forest
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 9x Island
• 1x Krosan Verge
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 3x Plains
• 1x Port Town
• 1x Seaside Citadel
• 1x Selesnya Sanctuary
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Temple Garden

Removal (13)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Berserk
• 1x Darksteel Mutation
• 1x Ezuri's Predation
• 1x Generous Gift
• 1x Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1x Nullmage Advocate
• 1x Single Combat
• 1x Song of the Dryads
• 1x Treachery
• 1x Trygon Predator
• 1x Unwind
• 1x Wrath of God

Politics (3)

• 1x Bident of Thassa
• 1x Crown of Doom
• 1x Nullmage Advocate

Special (2)

• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Smothering Tithe

Commander (1)

Hippocon (15)

• 1x Angel's Trumpet
• 1x Bident of Thassa
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Crown of Doom
• 1x Dingus Staff
• 1x Ezuri's Predation
• 1x Flurry of Wings
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Illusionist's Gambit
• 1x Mantle of Leadership
• 1x Primal Vigor
• 1x Reins of Power
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Suture Priest
• 1x Wilderness Reclamation

Protection (9)

• 1x Blazing Archon
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Shieldmage Advocate
• 1x Sphere of Safety
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Windborn Muse

Wincon (2)

• 1x Field of the Dead
• 1x Rite of Replication

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Other (20)

• 1x Bounty of the Luxa
• 1x Dictate of Kruphix
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Ever-Watching Threshold
• 1x Finest Hour
• 1x Idol of Oblivion
• 1x Loxodon Warhammer
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mana Short
• 1x Medomai the Ageless
• 1x Out of Bounds
• 1x Plasm Capture
• 1x Pollenbright Wings
• 1x Polymorphist's Jest
• 1x Rewind
• 1x Silence
• 1x Spell Swindle
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Treachery
• 1x Trygon Predator

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Years of effort have achieved a good, Hippos matter deck that is tagged as a grouphug deck, but is really a political multiplayer deck. Use pheld's abilities to help certain players and shift people's threat assessment around until you take a win in...or just flample on over for commander damage. Have fun and enjoy the hippo win conditions. *note, every "group hug" or hippo is really 1 step closer to winning, let the hippo cons explain.

HIPPO CONS: Angel's Trumpet doesn't care if the creature is summoning sick or not, you can deal damage by making hippos. Crown of Doom large hippos. Dingus Staff will work wonders in the face of field wipes + hippos. Mantle of Leadership, Pheld gives himself trample + flying and mantle of leadership with a few hippos becomes quite scary. Primal Vigor double hippos + Ezuri's Predation or Beck / Call. Flurry of Wings will make a bunch of flyers per hippo. Arachnogenesis would also be sweet but I can't afford it. Illusionist's Gambit make all those hippo kill someone. Reins of Power or Bident of Thassa (+ pillowfort) use those hippos to kill someone. Biomantic Mastery can draw most of the deck, I just don't like labman wins but infinite hippos isn't very hard w/ something like [intruder alarm] and a dork, making drawing your deck easy; keep drawing based on hippos with Borrowing 100,000 Arrows and Theft of Dreams.

DECK CONCEPT: bounce around the enemies aggro and create alliances w/ hippos. I have 40 hippo tokens, and i usually run out w/ this current build. Someone will die to these hippos, that person who has the hippos will die to commander damage, or other hippo cons. For the love of large semiaquatic creatures, don't give multiple people hippos, or else they won't attack as freely but by the time you are setup so is someone else. Make that someone else the archenemy against the hippo legion.

PHELD: Don't play him until you trust he can survive until your upkeep, or have 5 mana, the 5th being a blue. Continue to maintain at least one blue mana up (I tend to leave 2 blue, just in case someone gets tricky w/ the stack), the deck is built to hold copious amounts of mana up to produce all the hippos, use your colors wisely. The lifegain feature of pheld to give him flying can be used to mitigate some hate, as he punches an opponent's face or just keep people alive. Instant speed hippo blockers can kill creatures, as well as set up powerful attacks against a common enemy.

Cute combos: Beck / Call with Primal Vigor and or Ezuri's Predation. Forgotten Ancient + Primal Vigor . Nullmage Advocate and the other 2 make fantastic bits of removal, return your opponent's removal so that they use it against communal threats. Seedborn Muse + pheld = soooo many hippos...Suture Priest = dead players. Path of Ancestry works well, if you bounce pheld to protect him you get to recast him and get a free scry, Leyline of Anticipation means you can bounce and recast at instant speed.

ALLSTARS: Crown of Doom is my favorite, I love making my opponents bicker among each other as I make 3/1 hippos to suit my fancy. Chromatic Lantern makes every land into hippo mana, along with sneaky flying and bounce potential; this deck functions well because it can use every drop of it's mana, the lantern makes it that much more efficient. The advocates..seriously get some.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	3 years
Key combos	Forgotten Ancient + Primal Vigor
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 42 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.62
Tokens	1/1 G Creature Hippo, Beast 3/3 G, Bird 1/1 W, Bird Soldier 1/1 W, Copy Clone, Elephant 3/3 G, Phyrexian Beast 4/4 G, Plant 0/2 G, Spirit 1/1 C, Monarch Emblem, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Decks To Work Towards