Pheldagriff: mtgo version

Commander / EDH

zachryan156

Land (37)

• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Bountiful Promenade
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 7x Forest
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Irrigated Farmland
• 8x Island
• 1x Krosan Verge
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 2x Plains
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Yavimaya Hollow

Protection (11)

• 1x Arachnogenesis
• 1x Blazing Archon
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Illusionist's Gambit
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Sphere of Safety
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Yavimaya Hollow

Draw (8)

• 1x Beck / Call
• 1x Bident of Thassa
• 1x Curse of Verbosity
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Rishkar's Expertise
• 1x Rites of Flourishing
• 1x Selvala, Explorer Returned
• 1x Time Spiral

Ramp (20)

• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Dowsing Dagger  ^Flip
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Krosan Verge
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mirari's Wake
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Nature's Will
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Rites of Flourishing
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Selvala, Explorer Returned
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Three Visits

Removal (13)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Berserk
• 1x Cleansing Nova
• 1x Ezuri's Predation
• 1x Generous Gift
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Nullmage Advocate
• 1x Single Combat
• 1x Song of the Dryads
• 1x Sword of Sinew and Steel
• 1x Wrath of God

Tutor (2)

• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Mystical Tutor

Commander (1)

Hippocon (13)

• 1x Angel's Trumpet
• 1x Arachnogenesis
• 1x Bident of Thassa
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Crescendo of War
• 1x Crown of Doom
• 1x Dingus Staff
• 1x Ezuri's Predation
• 1x Illusionist's Gambit
• 1x Mantle of Leadership
• 1x Primal Vigor
• 1x Reins of Power
• 1x Suture Priest

Voltron (10)

• 1x Ancestral Mask
• 1x Berserk
• 1x Blackblade Reforged
• 1x Duelist's Heritage
• 1x Finest Hour
• 1x Forgotten Ancient
• 1x Mantle of Leadership
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Sword of Sinew and Steel
• 1x True Conviction

Wincon (1)

• 1x Field of the Dead

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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. Arachnogenesis down to 1v1? block all the hippos and then backswing for the win . Illusionist's Gambit make all those hippo kill someone. Reins of Power or Bident of Thassa (+ pillowfort) use those hippos to kill someone. All the others are rather self explanatory.

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. Avoid giving hippos to black decks or else they sac for value, and give hippos to someone who loves to attack.

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. Smothering Tithe let your opponents draw cards to make mana. The advocates..seriously get some.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Key combos	Forgotten Ancient + Primal Vigor
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 50 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.57
Tokens	1/1 G Creature Hippo, Beast 3/3 G, Bird 1/1 W, Elephant 3/3 G, Phyrexian Beast 4/4 G, Plant 0/2 G, Spider 1/2 G, Spirit 1/1 C, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B