GayBros Hugs (modified version of Stalwart Unity)

Commander / EDH Four Color Group Hug Multiplayer

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Land (41)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 4x Forest
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Homeward Path
• 4x Island
• 1x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Krosan Verge
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Opal Palace
• 4x Plains
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Transguild Promenade
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury
• 1x Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

Enchantment (14)

• 1x Arboria
• 1x Arcane Laboratory
• 1x Awakening
• 1x Copy Enchantment
• 1x Curse of Exhaustion
• 1x Divine Presence
• 1x Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1x Kismet
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Oath of Druids
• 1x Oath of Lieges
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Rites of Flourishing
• 1x Sterling Grove

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Collective Voyage
• 1x Day's Undoing
• 1x Insurrection
• 1x Open the Vaults
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Reminisce
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Tempt with Discovery
• 1x Terminus
• 1x The Great Aurora
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Wheel of Fate

Artifact (8)

• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Ghirapur Orrery
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Howling Mine
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Vedalken Orrery
• 1x Venser's Journal

Commander (1)

Creature (13)

• 1x Academy Rector
• 1x Avacyn, Angel of Hope
• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Keranos, God of Storms
• 1x Luminate Primordial
• 1x Progenitor Mimic
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
• 1x Veteran Explorer
• 1x Zedruu the Greathearted

Instant (9)

• 1x Ancient Grudge
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Learn from the Past
• 1x Mnemonic Nexus
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Return to Dust
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Sylvan Reclamation

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Sideboard

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Future Sight
• 1x Leyline of Sanctity
• 1x Leyline of Singularity
• 1x Oath of Lieges
• 1x Shared Fate

Artifact (3)

• 1x Bow of Nylea
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Perilous Vault

Instant (1)

• 1x Invulnerability

Creature (1)

• 1x Mother of Runes

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Maybeboard

Land (6)

• 1x Plateau
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Taiga
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Volcanic Island

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Timetwister

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H/T to Elfarcher73 for posting the decklists for all of the C16 precons. It made this easier.

So I'm working on hugging my opponents. I love cooperative games. So let's make Magic into a cooperative game!

The primary wincon is to provide effects to my opponents that they want enough that they don't swing at me until such time as it's just two players remaining, then choke my opponent out with value and let the likes of Avacyn, GayBros, Elesh Norn, Sun Titan, and Luminate Primordial finish him or her off. The Maybeboard includes some artifact tutoring for my mana rocks and/or Psychosis Crawler (if my card draw game is getting absurd).

What am I trying to do?

Simply put, this is a minimum win-con deck. My idea is to just be nice to everybody until there are just two people left, then either concede to their overwhelming board state or end them with creature beats.

That said, I'm not building a pillowfort here: you're not attacking me because you want to draw cards and fix your mana--and I can help with combat problems. I've removed all three Propaganda effects, largely because the way I'm ramping everybody renders them pretty much irrelevant.

Category explanation

Recursion here is not just about recurring cards to my hand or battlefield, but rather meant in a broader sense: I am also including effects that shuffle a graveyard into its controller's library. This is also grave hate, as it has a rather neat, huggy way of dealing with a player's graveyard: just make them have to refill it. Hey, I was just saving you from dying to mill.

Weaknesses

This deck really wants a four man pod. While I could probably have kept one of the two games I lost first with under control by attacking one player instead of the other (and paying more attention to my utility lands), the other game ended by surprise after I vandalblasted. My opponent milled himself aggressively over a few turns, then Psychic Spiraled me after I'd done all my EOT effects and was thus tapped out. In both games, key enchantments (Kismet in the game I got milled out, and a Turn 0 Leyline of Anticipation in the game I overextended my board into a train wreck of pump spells) painted a target on my back early. I really just need to learn how to play control effectively.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 1 Mythic Rares 54 - 7 Rares 17 - 2 Uncommons 5 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.95
Tokens	Copy Clone, Elf Druid 1/1 G, Spirit 1/1 C
Based on	Stalwart Unity- WURG C16 PreCon Elfarcher73 EDH