Commandeer, Gather Specimens

This is the most interesting Gwafa build I've ever seen focusing on the "draws a card" side of his ability rather than the "can't attack or block" side. Would you say you're more likely to bribe threatening creatures or nonthreatening ones?

This deck is almost literally the antithesis of my Mogis Hellbent deck. Mine is based on depriving everyone of answers, then punishing them for not having answers. Including Omen Machine, which would negate most of the effects you have to help people. I'd love to see a game with your deck and mine at the same time. It would probably be amazing. I love the concept, especially as it means you might have a chance to win with the Elocutors. Anyone who can make that work, well done indeed.

I would love to see this Mogis and this Gwafa go at it. It would be like watching the Angel and the Devil on people's shoulders fight over whether they should be calm and content or raging and tormented.

It would, wouldn't it?! And the game might almost end up being two games at once, where the angel and devil fight with each other to determine who gets to influence the people the most! All the while, the people having to suffer or be benefitted in turns, and by degrees that they did not earn, nor possibly deserve. It's almost theological!

I would likely end up just feeding people stuff that you would force them to discard...

... but for a moment, for one brief moment, they might have answers they could cast. :)

It might end up playing out -- continuing with the theology -- like Legacy Miracles. "Can I topdeck an answer? What am I going to get? Gwafa help me, please!"

(although, heaven help us if you get Waste Not in play -- Gwafa's been known to give people 5-6 cards a turn easily, that would just be insane value for you... )

I'd be down!

I like this deck list! I seems awesome! You inspired me to make a similar deck. I'm currently working on that.

What do you think about the combo Hive Mind + Intervention Pact / Pact of Negation? Gwafa will save you, but if you can't pay for his services you die!

After having a commander night the other day where Mogis Hellbent just wrecked face, I see this deck again and I wish to heaven that I could play against it. Funny thing was, Mogis never won, because one of my friends made it a point to ensure that someone else was given the opportunity to win before I could seal the deal, since he couldn't win himself. But really, looking through your deck description again, our decks are as diametrically opposed as they could be. You provide so much ample opportunity for so many things to be done, I go out of my way to take away all options from everybody, and make everything hurt. I'd +10 this deck if I could, just because of the appreciation of the opposite.

I really like the Azorius combination commanders and I want to make my first edh deck, I was totally on the brago deck idea, with blinks and triggers, but that perspective of Gwafa makes me think again, and now i'm sure that i'll be the Brazilian Godfather, thank you, upvote!

gustable -- Appreciate it! Please let me know how it goes! :D

Could you elaborate on Dream Halls and Forced Fruition as a win condition? I get that they could mill themselves a lot but how does letting people play their deck for free win? I think i'm missing something here.

henry198 -- Admittedly, that one is a "win" condition more for the LOLs than any actual efficacy, but I have actually seen people lose to it.

Since the draw trigger on Forced Fruition isn't a "may" trigger, a player will indeed completely deck themselves if they cast more spells than their number of cards in library divided by 7, and FF then requires them to draw a card from an empty library. This is easy to lose track of while you're spamming cards for "free" thanks to Dream Halls, and constantly getting refilled thanks to FF.

It also helps end games quickly when the other two or three players battle it out with everything in their decks for free, and when the smoke clears, they're all at <20 cards in library and you're still at 70+. And you've still got all of Gwafa's global-draw effects up. ;)

Have you considered Well of Knowledge? You lure people to draw cards and the tap out their own mana to do it.

I was about to build a Gwafa Hazid deck myself, and I came across this and... I love this idea too much. Its glorious. I hope you don't mind me (sort of) mimicking this deck.