Group hug but snake, so Boa Constrictor

Commander / EDH Card Draw Matters Combo Group Hug RUG (Temur) Tokens

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Creature (18)

• 1x Adrix and Nev, Twincasters
• 1x Braids, Conjurer Adept
• 1x Cold-Eyed Selkie
• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1x Delighted Halfling
• 1x Edric, Spymaster of Trest
• 1x Esix, Fractal Bloom
• 1x Essence Warden
• 1x Faerie Mastermind
• 1x Heartwood Storyteller
• 1x Howling Golem
• 1x Humble Defector
• 1x Kami of the Crescent Moon
• 1x Magus of the Wheel
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Tidal Barracuda
• 1x Whirlpool Warrior

Artifact (13)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Combine Chrysalis
• 1x Folio of Fancies
• 1x Font of Mythos
• 1x Horn of Greed
• 1x Howling Mine
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Spellbook
• 1x Teferi's Puzzle Box
• 1x Temple Bell
• 1x Thought Vessel

Land (35)

• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Cragcrown Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 5x Forest
• 1x Frontier Bivouac
• 1x Gruul Turf
• 12x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Ketria Triome
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Rejuvenating Springs
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rockfall Vale
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Spirebluff Canal
• 1x Stormcarved Coast
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Training Center

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Collective Voyage
• 1x Echo of Eons
• 1x Fascination
• 1x Minds Aglow
• 1x Molten Psyche
• 1x Prosperity
• 1x Skyscribing
• 1x Tempt with Discovery
• 1x Time Reversal
• 1x Windfall

Commander (1)

Enchantment (15)

• 1x Concordant Crossroads
• 1x Cryptolith Rite
• 1x Curiosity
• 1x Dictate of Kruphix
• 1x Fevered Visions
• 1x Forced Fruition
• 1x Goblin Bombardment
• 1x Impact Tremors
• 1x Keen Sense
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Rites of Flourishing
• 1x Shared Animosity
• 1x Teferi's Ageless Insight
• 1x Well of Ideas

Instant (8)

• 1x Artifact Mutation
• 1x Battle Hymn
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Gruul Charm
• 1x Naturalize
• 1x Vision Skeins
• 1x Wheel and Deal
• 1x Words of Wisdom

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Creature (10)

• 1x Endurance
• 1x Enduring Vitality
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Niv-Mizzet, Parun
• 1x Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
• 1x Purphoros, God of the Forge
• 1x Razorkin Needlehead
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Seshiro the Anointed
• 1x Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student  ^Flip

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Mana Echoes
• 1x Shared Animosity
• 1x Song of Creation
• 1x Sylvan Library

Instant (2)

• 1x Cryptic Command *list*
• 1x Gruul Charm

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As someone who claims to love playing black decks, I cant stop making Temur commanders :P

This is a Xyris, the Writhing Storm “Group Hug” deck that hopes to win either through explosive combo turns or attrition with snake tokens.

The gameplan is to stay lowkey for the first couple turns, helping opponents draw cards or play lands with low cost things which also help us, like Collective Voyage, Howling Mine or Vision Skeins.

After a few turns we get Xyris out, which will give us a few chump blockers, and can help us draw a few cards. Its also where a bit of politic-ing can come in, because taking 3 commander damage for 3 cards is a great deal.

After a few wheel effects like Whirlpool Warrior or Time Reversal, we should have a lot of tokens/ mana/ cards, we try to win the game all at once buy turning snakes into gold. We can do this by sacrificing all the tokens to Ashnod's Altar or Phyrexian Altar, or preferably using Battle Hymn to let us keep our snakes, and floating a ton of mana to channel into an X draw spell like Minds Aglow or Prosperity. Then all we need is to have Impact Tremors out beforehand, or to cast Molten Psyche afterwards, and profit!

Of course we can always also win through combat, we've got Combine Chrysalis and Craterhoof Behemoth, after all.

Top Ranked	Achieved #11 position overall 4 months ago Achieved #10 position in Commander / EDH 4 months ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Card Draw Matters 4 months ago
Date added	11 months
Last updated	2 weeks
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 39 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.86
Tokens	Beast 4/4 G, Copy Clone, Saproling 1/1 G, Snake 1/1 G
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