Hippo Hug Cannon

Commander / EDH Group Hug GWU (Bant) Infinite Combo Multiplayer Pillow Fort

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Creature (25)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Archangel of Thune
• 1x Axebane Guardian
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Chasm Skulker
• 1x Fathom Mage
• 1x Guard Gomazoa
• 1x Horizon Chimera
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Mnemonic Wall
• 1x Nullmage Advocate
• 1x Overgrown Battlement
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Pulsemage Advocate
• 1x Questing Phelddagrif
• 1x Selvala, Explorer Returned
• 1x Skullwinder
• 1x Spurnmage Advocate
• 1x Sunscape Familiar
• 1x Suture Priest
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid
• 1x Thing in the Ice  ^Flip
• 1x Walking Archive
• 1x Wall of Blossoms
• 1x Windborn Muse

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Council's Judgment
• 1x Fumigate
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Rout
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Sylvan Scrying
• 1x Tempt with Discovery

Land (37)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Bant Panorama
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Field of Ruin
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 6x Forest
• 1x Graypelt Refuge
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 6x Island
• 1x Mystifying Maze
• 6x Plains
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rupture Spire
• 1x Seaside Citadel
• 1x Temple of Enlightenment
• 1x Temple of Plenty
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Thornwood Falls
• 1x Transguild Promenade
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Artifact (8)

• 1x Azorius Cluestone
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Selesnya Cluestone
• 1x Simic Cluestone
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Temple Bell
• 1x Venser's Journal

Commander (1)

Instant (16)

• 1x AEtherize
• 1x Anticipate
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Dawn Charm
• 1x Dream Fracture
• 1x Evacuation
• 1x Fog
• 1x Forsake the Worldly
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Lapse of Certainty
• 1x Oblation
• 1x Out of Bounds
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Respite
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Sylvan Reclamation

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Intruder Alarm
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Rites of Flourishing
• 1x Sphere of Safety

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Sideboard

Instant (1)

• 1x Telling Time

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Maybeboard

Creature (14)

• 1x Fierce Empath
• 1x Fog Bank
• 1x Geist of the Archives
• 1x Hope of Ghirapur
• 1x Ley Weaver
• 1x Lore Weaver
• 1x Recruiter of the Guard
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Tatyova, Benthic Druid
• 1x Terastodon
• 1x Wall of Kelp
• 1x Wall of Omens
• 1x Wall of Vapor
• 1x Woodland Bellower

Instant (12)

• 1x Blunt the Assault
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Growth Spiral
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Opt
• 1x Out of Bounds
• 1x Peer Through Depths
• 1x Relic Crush
• 1x Summoner's Pact
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Foresee
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x March of Souls
• 1x Serum Visions
• 1x Sylvan Tutor
• 1x Uncage the Menagerie

Artifact (2)

• 1x Ghirapur Orrery
• 1x Vedalken Orrery

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I'd been trying to create a hyper-group-hug deck with both Phelddagrif and Zedruu the Greathearted , under Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis . I felt like it was trying to do too much, but I love me some happy hippo and givee goat, so I decided to split them back into two different decks that could stand on their own.

This version of my Phelddagrif deck is a heavy control shell that should enable you to play politics and make deals while you assemble combo pieces. I tried to focus on instant speed removal and permission cards that come with an up side, hopefully patching some hurt feelings with a few cards drawn ( Arcane Denial , Oblation ) or tokens in play ( March of Souls , Pongify , Terastodon ).

The Advocate cycle ( Nullmage Advocate , Pulsemage Advocate , Spurnmage Advocate ) and Skullwinder let other players return cards from their graveyard to their hand, helping the table keep threats under control by recurring counter-magic and removal as it's needed, and letting you make deals.

I included the normal pillow-fort suite of Ghostly Prison effects, and a healthy pile of creatures with Defender to protect you in the early game and synergize with Axebane Guardian and Overgrown Battlement for ramp and combo potential. Thing in the Ice   is a great rattlesnake card, providing synergy with your suite of instants and sorceries and defender cards. Even if it never triggers, the threat of it doing so at instant speed can keep people in line.

The two combos that win the game are:

The titular hippo cannon is Phelddagrif + Intruder Alarm + any mana dork, which allows you to grant infinite hippo tokens to an opponent of your choice. If you have two mana dorks, it also provides infinite mana. If you have Suture Priest , each of those hippos deals 1 damage, hence the cannon in question.

Archangel of Thune + Fathom Mage + Horizon Chimera , which lets you draw as many cards as you want while pumping all the creatures on your board and gaining life. Laboratory Maniac and Psychosis Crawler with the combo add lethal intent if you aren't interrupted.

They are convoluted and cheesy and require many pieces to work, but if you can survive and clear the way, it can give you a win. At worst, it can make for a fun, political game with lots of interaction.

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Feel free to check out descriptions of my Commander decks here.

The analysis of my decks are posted on GoogleDrive here.

The TappedOut folder for these decks are listed here.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Exclude colors	BR
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 30 - 0 Rares 26 - 1 Uncommons 24 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.05
Tokens	1/1 G Creature Hippo, Ape 3/3 G, Spirit 1/1 C, Squid 1/1 U
Folders	multi to check, EDH Constructed