Kingly Embrace

Commander / EDH* Group Hug RGWU

senordiablo

Land (36)

• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Field of Ruin
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 3x Forest
• 1x Frontier Bivouac
• 1x Grove of the Burnwillows
• 1x Homeward Path
• 4x Island
• 1x Jungle Shrine
• 1x Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Mystic Monastery
• 1x Naya Panorama
• 1x Nephalia Academy
• 1x Opal Palace
• 4x Plains
• 1x Plateau
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Seaside Citadel
• 1x Spire Garden
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Thespian's Stage

Artifact (8)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Horn of Greed
• 1x Howling Mine
• 1x Library of Leng
• 1x Orbs of Warding
• 1x Spectral Searchlight
• 1x Venser's Journal

Instant (26)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Cryptic Command
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Deflecting Palm
• 1x Desertion
• 1x Devious Cover-Up
• 1x Expansion / Explosion
• 1x Failure / Comply
• 1x Insidious Will *f-pre*
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Mandate of Peace
• 1x Mission Briefing
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Pull from Eternity
• 1x Realms Uncharted
• 1x Refuse / Cooperate
• 1x Rewind
• 1x Settle the Wreckage
• 1x Shared Summons
• 1x Spelljack
• 1x Summary Dismissal
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Sylvan Reclamation
• 1x Teferi's Protection

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Rites of Flourishing
• 1x Sphere of Safety
• 1x Zendikar Resurgent

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Jace, Unraveler of Secrets
• 1x Tamiyo, Field Researcher

Commander (1)

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Bring to Light
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Expropriate
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Fractured Identity
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Plea for Power
• 1x Praetor's Counsel
• 1x Primal Command
• 1x Seeds of Renewal
• 1x Tempt with Discovery
• 1x Wargate

Creature (10)

• 1x Blazing Archon
• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Dragonlord Dromoka
• 1x Drogskol Reaver
• 1x Horizon Chimera
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Protector of the Crown
• 1x Tatyova, Benthic Druid
• 1x The Locust God
• 1x Windborn Muse

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Enchantment (1)

• 1x Wheel of Sun and Moon

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Tamiyo, the Moon Sage

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I'm the only person at my LGS who picked up this deck. And sure it's not over the top crazy like Yidris or Atraxa. But it's a ton of fun to play. I went with the semi grouphug/pillowfort build. My opponents are usually happy to let me be since I tend to enable their decks and not pose a threat. This works fine for me, I'm usually left standing with one other player in the end, and short of them getting past my Prison effects, I'll likely win.

One of the secrets of the deck is Landfall, you end up drawing so many cards, and can usually play multiple lands (even on opponents turns) that it can get a bit crazy.

Win Cons

So the deck enables you to get things rolling really quickly, I tend to play the deck off as a group hug with some "threats" to protect myself.

1st wincon: Drogskol Reaver+Horizon Chimera+Laboratory Maniac

-Fairly simple 3 card combo, you just need to draw a card to get it going. Both Drogskol Reaver and Horizon Chimera feed off each other creating a nice loop, which on their own would just deck you, in comes the Laboratory Maniac to help you out and win. For best results, hold the Laboratory Maniac in your hand, and flash it in with Alchemist's Refuge at the right time, or any of the counterspells in the deck should help. Words of Wilding is a bit of a panic button, in case something happens to the Laboratory Maniac.

2nd wincon: Mechanized Production+Howling Mine

-This one if kinda flimsy and easily dealt with, but people tend to wait too long since they love card draw so much that they'll let it stick around too long.

3rd wincon: no real one yet, I've considered adding Approach of the Second Sun. The deck draws a ton of cards, and if you hold it and build up clue tokens with Tamiyo's Journal or have Archmage Ascension active, you could potentially do it in the same turn. For the sake of my playgroup, I have yet to do this, but that may change.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	4 years
Exclude colors	B
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 45 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.06
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Emblem Jace, Unraveler of Secrets, Emblem Tamiyo, Field Researcher, Insect 1/1 UR, Spirit 1/1 C, Monarch Emblem
Folders	Commander Decks