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Hate the Game

Commander / EDH* Bracket 3 Goad Group Hug Tempting offer Tokens

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Land (36)

Artifact (5)

Creature (21)

Instant (15)

Commander (1)

Commander: Garth One-Eye

Sorcery (17)

Enchantment (5)

Overview:

This is a take on the Peace Offering precon's play style. I really enjoyed some of the group hug elements, particularly the gift cards where I could reward just one player or the tempt cards that benefited me the more other players took part in them. I don't really enjoy the hug cards that just say "hey, let's all be happy and get free stuff on my dime". With cards like Hunted Horror and Wear Down, I'm getting premium stuff at discount prices, and assisting just one player in the process.

One goal of the deck is to be consisted of cards that players can't hate in a vacuum. There are no wipes, the 2 counterspells are the friendliest ways of countering a spell, the removal gives you something in return, and I rely on other player's cards to secure the win. I suppose a person could hate Sol Ring and I wouldn't have a solid response for that.

Garth One-Eye just happens to be the 5 color commander I chose, but you could use any of them really (and I'm sure Kenrith is probably better). The only cards in the deck that really support him specifically are Lightning Greaves and the three blink cards. They also work well with the ETB creatures I have, so it just kinda worked itself out that way. Garth also gives me a toolbox of things like ramp, draw, and removal, so I was able to be more flexible on the number and type of those cards. With all that being said, I could never cast him in a game and would not care.

This deck could be much better if I were to put money into the land base to get cards like Mana Confluence and City of Brass, but I enjoy the challenge of using budget lands to make workable land bases.

Lands:

5 Filter lands (3 for colors that need access to double pips outside the "Hunted" cycle, 2 for ensuring turn 2 green mana)

  1. Cascade Bluffs
  2. Mystic Gate
  3. Rugged Prairie
  4. Sungrass Prairie
  5. Overflowing Basin

5 Vivid lands (budget way to get 5 more Path of Ancestrys)

10 Landscape lands (10 budget lands that are slightly better than Terramorphic Expanse)

10 Basic lands (2 of each to ensure access to double)

6 Rainbow lands (if you want to count Ash Barrens as a rainbow - it's somewhere between rainbow and landscape land to me)

  1. Ash Barrens
  2. Command Tower
  3. Exotic Orchard
  4. Forbidden Orchard
  5. Path of Ancestry
  6. Reflecting Pool

Ramp:

  1. Bloom Tender
  2. Birds of Paradise
  3. Faeburrow Elder
  4. Sol Ring
  5. Arcane Signet
  6. Fellwar Stone
  7. Chromatic Lantern
  8. Cultivate
  9. Kodama's Reach
  10. Farseek
  11. Rampant Growth
  12. Harrow
  13. Spelunking
  14. Tempt with Discovery
  15. Garth One-Eye

Removal:

  1. Arcane Denial
  2. Beast Within
  3. Chaos Warp
  4. Delay
  5. Fractured Identity
  6. Garth One-Eye
  7. Generous Gift
  8. Loran of the Third Path
  9. Parting Gust
  10. Wear Down

Draw:

  1. Your Temple is Under Attack
  2. Cut a Deal
  3. Painful Truths
  4. Secret Rendezvous
  5. Tempt with Bunnies
  6. Share the Spoils
  7. Tenuous Truce
  8. Cultivate
  9. Kodama's Reach
  10. Garth One-Eye
  11. Loran of the Third Path

Reanimation:

  1. Diluvian Primordial
  2. Dire Fleet Daredevil
  3. Sepulchral Primordial
  4. Skullwinder
  5. Snapcaster Mage
  6. Garth One-Eye
  7. Peerless Recycling
  8. Reanimate
  9. Tempt with Immortality
  10. Animate Dead
  11. Necromancy

Getting Across the Finish Line:

  1. Auton Soldier
  2. Diluvian Primordial
  3. Sepulchral Primordial
  4. Hunted Dragon
  5. Hunted Horror
  6. Hunted Lammasu
  7. Hunted Phantasm
  8. Hunted Troll
  9. Tempt with Immortality
  10. Tempt with Reflections
  11. Rite of Replication
  12. Garth One-Eye

In Lieu of Wipes:

  1. Dawn Charm
  2. Take the Bait
  3. Illusionist's Gambit
  4. Agitator Ant
  5. Bothersome Quasit
  6. Orzhov Advokist
  7. Taunt from the Rampart
  8. Disrupt Decorum
  9. Kardur, Doomscourge

Copy Effects:

  1. Auton Soldier
  2. Flesh Duplicate
  3. Phantasmal Image
  4. Rite of Replication
  5. Tempt with Reflections
  6. Tempt with Mayhem

Bounce:

  1. Momentary Blink
  2. Ephemerate
  3. Parting Gust

Gifts:

  1. Forbidden Orchard
  2. Hunted Dragon
  3. Hunted Horror
  4. Hunted Lammasu
  5. Hunted Phantasm
  6. Hunted Troll
  7. Loran of the Third Path
  8. Agitator Ant
  9. Orzhov Advokist
  10. Skullwinder
  11. Tempt with Mayhem
  12. Your Temple is Under Attack
  13. Cut a Deal
  14. Fractured Identity
  15. Secret Rendezvous
  16. Tempt with Bunnies
  17. Tempt with Discovery
  18. Tempt with Immortality
  19. Tempt with Reflections
  20. Wear Down
  21. Parting Gust
  22. Peerless Recycling
  23. Tenuous Truce
  24. Share the Spoils

You could also argue things like Beast Within and Arcane Denial might fit here, but those are more "softening the blow" and less "hey I am going to do something neat, here's a little gift". I avoided cards like Humble Defector because I don't want to give things away that I may never get back.

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