Nowhere to Hidetsugu (Budget EDH)

Commander / EDH* Budget Combo Group Slug Mono-Red

Futuremonk

Land (38)

• 1x Barbarian Ring
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Encroaching Wastes
• 1x Endless Sands
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Glacial Chasm
• 1x High Market
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 1x Madblind Mountain
• 19x Mountain
• 1x Mystifying Maze
• 1x Phyrexia's Core
• 1x Ramunap Ruins
• 1x Rath's Edge
• 1x Sandstone Needle
• 1x Sea Gate Wreckage
• 1x Sequestered Stash
• 1x Shivan Gorge
• 1x Spinerock Knoll
• 1x Temple of the False God

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Browbeat
• 1x Collective Defiance
• 1x Dragon Fodder
• 1x Geosurge
• 1x Goblin Offensive
• 1x Infernal Plunge
• 1x Insult / Injury
• 1x Krenko's Command
• 1x Kuldotha Rebirth
• 1x Mana Geyser
• 1x Shattered Perception
• 1x Trash for Treasure

Artifact (19)

• 1x Bubbling Cauldron
• 1x Claws of Gix
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Fire Diamond
• 1x Gate to the Afterlife
• 1x Hammer of Purphoros
• 1x Hazoret's Monument
• 1x Lich's Mirror
• 1x Life Chisel
• 1x Mask of Avacyn
• 1x Mindstorm Crown
• 1x Ring of Evos Isle
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Skyship Weatherlight
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Tamiyo's Journal
• 1x Thornbite Staff
• 1x Trading Post

Instant (8)

• 1x Battle Hymn
• 1x Desperate Gambit
• 1x Desperate Ritual
• 1x Dragonrage
• 1x Fateful Showdown
• 1x Overblaze
• 1x Pyretic Ritual
• 1x Sarkhan's Triumph

Commander (1)

Creature (14)

• 1x Angrath's Marauders
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Conduit of Storms  ^Flip
• 1x Cyclops of Eternal Fury
• 1x Dragon Mage
• 1x Junk Diver
• 1x Myr Retriever
• 1x Priest of Urabrask
• 1x Rapacious One
• 1x Runehorn Hellkite
• 1x Skirk Prospector
• 1x Treasonous Ogre
• 1x Warbreak Trumpeter
• 1x Workshop Assistant

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Barrage of Expendables
• 1x Curse of Bloodletting
• 1x Curse of Opulence
• 1x Dictate of the Twin Gods
• 1x Emblem of the Warmind
• 1x Fervor
• 1x Furnace of Rath
• 1x Pia's Revolution

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Artifact (5)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Citanul Flute
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Ring of Three Wishes

Creature (3)

• 1x Hoarding Dragon
• 1x Kuldotha Forgemaster
• 1x Neheb, the Eternal

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Gamble

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Daretti, Scrap Savant

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How to play this deck:

Heartless Hidetsugu deals damage to each player, including you, equal to half of that player's life total, rounded down. Half is never enough to kill someone. But double half is. So this deck has plenty of cards that double damage dealt.

But wait! Doesn't that mean you'll lose too? Not necessarily. Because the damage is half rounded down, that means if you have an odd life total, you'll end up with 1 life left after tapping Hidetsugu. So would any opponent with an odd life total too. So there are several cards that let you ping yourself and/or opponents as well as gain life in order to try to doctor the even/odd life total distribution.

There is another trick, however: Lich's Mirror prevents you from losing the game and resets your life total to 20. So if everyone would lose, but you have your mirror in play, you win. If one or more opponents have an even life total but you have an odd one, they will be reduced to 1 and you will be at 20. You'll be pretty disadvantaged, however, so you better hope they don't have a good board state. Still, it might be worth the gamble or, at least, it is a dramatic way to lose.

Even better: Glacial Chasm will prevent all damage done to you as long as it is in play.

Suggestions welcome!

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 26 - 0 Rares 41 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.05
Tokens	Clue, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Enchantment Golem 3/3 C, Goat 0/1 W, Goblin 1/1 R, Gold, Morph 2/2 C