Help Deck

Commander / EDH* Casual Five Color Group Hug Jank Mill Multiplayer

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Draw (24)

• 1x Dakra Mystic
• 1x Dictate of Kruphix
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Fascination
• 1x Fecundity
• 1x Font of Mythos
• 1x Heartwood Storyteller
• 1x Horn of Greed
• 1x Howling Mine
• 1x Indentured Djinn
• 1x Kami of the Crescent Moon
• 1x Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis
• 1x Minds Aglow
• 1x Otherworld Atlas
• 1x Prosperity
• 1x Questing Phelddagrif
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Selvala, Explorer Returned
• 1x Shah of Naar Isle
• 1x Skyscribing
• 1x Soldevi Sentry
• 1x Temple Bell
• 1x Walking Archive
• 1x Windfall

Tokens (5)

• 1x Akroan Horse
• 1x Genesis Chamber
• 1x Hunted Phantasm
• 1x Hunted Troll
• 1x Phelddagrif

ShowandTells (4)

• 1x Boldwyr Heavyweights
• 1x Braids, Conjurer Adept
• 1x Hunted Wumpus
• 1x Tempting Wurm

Land (37)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Bountiful Promenade
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Field of Ruin
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 7x Forest
• 1x Frontier Bivouac
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 6x Island
• 1x Jungle Shrine
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Mystic Monastery
• 2x Plains
• 1x Rainbow Vale
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Seaside Citadel
• 1x Spire Garden
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Defense (4)

• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Windborn Muse

Donate (2)

• 1x Bazaar Trader
• 1x Zedruu the Greathearted

Lifegain (2)

• 1x Arbiter of Knollridge
• 1x Wall of Shards

Commander (1)

Ramp (19)

• 1x Collective Voyage
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Dictate of Karametra
• 1x Eladamri's Vineyard
• 1x Heartbeat of Spring
• 1x Helm of Awakening
• 1x Keeper of Progenitus
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Magus of the Vineyard
• 1x Mana Flare
• 1x New Frontiers
• 1x Rites of Flourishing
• 1x Shizuko, Caller of Autumn
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Spectral Searchlight
• 1x Tempt with Discovery
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Veteran Explorer
• 1x Zhur-Taa Ancient

Pump (2)

• 1x Orzhov Advokist
• 1x Sheltering Ancient

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Maybeboard

Other (82)

• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Anvil of Bogardan
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Bazaar Trader
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Calciform Pools
• 1x Cauldron of Souls
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Charmed Griffin
• 1x Clear the Land
• 1x Condemn
• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Constant Mists
• 1x Council's Judgment
• 1x Custody Battle
• 1x Day's Undoing
• 1x Donate
• 1x Doubling Cube
• 1x Dowsing Dagger  ^Flip
• 1x Dream Fracture
• 1x Earthquake
• 1x Edric, Spymaster of Trest
• 1x Enslaved Horror
• 1x Exhume
• 1x Feldon's Cane
• 1x Fiery Justice
• 1x Forced Fruition
• 1x Gate to the AEther
• 1x Genesis Chamber
• 1x Ghirapur Orrery
• 1x Grove of the Burnwillows
• 1x Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer
• 1x Harmless Offering
• 1x Haunted Angel
• 1x Helm of Awakening
• 1x Humble Defector
• 1x Hunted Dragon
• 1x Hunted Horror
• 1x Hunted Lammasu
• 1x Hurricane
• 1x Hypergenesis
• 1x Illicit Auction
• 1x Insurrection
• 1x Jace Beleren
• 1x Kruphix, God of Horizons
• 1x Library of Leng
• 1x Luxury Suite
• 1x Mana Cache
• 1x Mass Polymorph
• 1x Master of the Feast
• 1x Oath of Druids
• 1x Oath of Lieges
• 1x Oblation
• 1x Old-Growth Dryads
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Peacekeeper
• 1x Polymorph
• 1x Praetor's Counsel
• 1x Saltcrusted Steppe
• 1x Scrambleverse
• 1x Seizan, Perverter of Truth
• 1x Settle the Wreckage
• 1x Skullwinder
• 1x Sky Swallower
• 1x Spellbook
• 1x Sphere of Safety
• 1x Statecraft
• 1x Switcheroo
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Teferi's Puzzle Box
• 1x Temporary Truce
• 1x Time Reversal
• 1x Treasure Nabber
• 1x Truce
• 1x Vision Skeins
• 1x Warp World
• 1x Well of Ideas
• 1x Well of Knowledge
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Wild Evocation
• 1x Witch Engine

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This is a group-hug EDH originally inspired by my friend Ryan's help deck for multiplayer. His original deck was not a commander deck, but I adapted it for my multiplayer format of choice, commander. The goal with this deck is not necessarily to win, but to help other players, accelerate the game, and quite possibly end the game in a draw either from milling all players with a Prosperity effect, or a damage to all players effect Hurricane Earthquake. While it is possible to win with Forced Fruition, it goes slightly against the spirit of the deck, and your "win," condition is being equitable to all players, potentially helping the underdog, and often taking second place or ending the game with a draw for all players. Since you are doing your damnedest to help all players, it's going to be a rare multiplayer game where you are targeted for hate or eliminated first, but my suggestion is to ward off all notions of winning and play simply for the fun of the game and helping others. I have an extensive maybeboard for this deck as a catalog of potential cards, and this list is highly customizable. While some cards such as Soldevi Sentry are absolutely too efficient at what they do to really consider being cut, some cards are more or less efficient at helping others, and some in fact only help yourself to ramp or draw, in this way there is a certain "core," to the deck that should probably always be included, and some cards that are either too chaotic Warp World Scrambleverse or slightly too mean-spirited Arcane Denial Swords to Plowshares to be considered "core," and will more depend on your playgroup and how effective you'd like to be at selfishly stopping combo players from winning.

*Edit: I have tuned this list a bit to focus on milling opponents with optional card draw, land thinning, and as the game progresses, less optional card draw, while still keeping a pretty helpful shell with no real removal or sweepers. If you find that the mill strategy is still too win-focused, or if you want to change gears to be slightly more competitive, feel free to tune it as you like. Cards like Day's Undoing and Time Reversal were stripped in favor of Elixir of Immortality so you can grind down opponents and shuffle your own graveyard, but not theirs. If you want to be less competitive and more purely helpful, you can add them back in over cards like Forced Fruition and Earthquake/Hurricane to be less mean. I also cut Consecrated Sphinx, Anvil of Bogardan and Grove of the Burnwillows to make the deck a bit more budget friendly, and these cards added very little to the central help strategy.

Have fun and don't forget to help!

**Edit2: Soldevi Sentry sadly does not work the way I wanted it to, he actually has to "die" and regenerate for the draw effect to happen. Still, if you can convince opponents to block him he still works at a rate of 1 draw per turn, which isn't terrible

***Edit3: Upon discovery of many new and old help cards, too many of which I wanted to include, I have edged out the decision to include win cons such as Forced Fruition, Hurricane, Earthquake and the somewhat selfish ramp from Treasure Nabber in favor of even more help. This leaves the deck pure now without a win condition at all, but if you dislike going forth with no win condition feel free to tinker with the deck as you see fit, I just couldn't not run cards like Bazaar Trader, Dakra Mystic and Wall of Shards that I discovered/remembered browsing other group hug lists. Some credit is due to RamaLama and Jorcob, for their group hug EDH's, Epochalyptik sonnet666 thegigibeast for their EDH group hug list, and EDHREC for their group hug commander list as well. Thank you all for your helpful resources! Despite having no "win," condition, you can still have a huge impact on the game (and it is still possible to mill everyone, though unlikely), and that impact, being the decider on who gets what, is where your fun comes from. You just do things :)

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 45 - 0 Rares 27 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.90
Tokens	1/1 G Creature Hippo, Faerie 1/1 U, Goblin 1/1 R, Myr 1/1 C, Soldier 1/1 W, Spirit 1/1 C
Folders	EDH