"It's Just a Hug, Bro"

Commander / EDH Discard Group Hug Group Slug Mono-Black

TonJolley

Discard (19)

• 1x Burglar Rat
• 1x Rotting Rats
• 1x The Raven Man
• 1x Tinybones, Trinket Thief
• 1x Waste Not
• 1x Bottomless Pit
• 1x Dark Deal
• 1x Dying to Serve
• 1x Liliana's Specter
• 1x Megrim
• 1x Necrogen Mists
• 1x Stronghold Rats
• 1x Court of Ambition
• 1x Creeping Dread
• 1x Fell Specter
• 1x Geth's Grimoire
• 1x Raiders' Wake
• 1x Sangromancer
• 1x Bone Miser

Lands (34)

• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Memorial to Folly
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Polluted Mire
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 27x Swamp
• 1x Witch's Cottage

Group Hug (13)

• 1x Scheming Symmetry
• 1x Howling Mine
• 1x Keen Duelist
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Wishclaw Talisman
• 1x Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
• 1x Howling Golem
• 1x Master of the Feast
• 1x Assault Suit
• 1x Endless Whispers
• 1x Enslaved Horror
• 1x Seizan, Perverter of Truth
• 1x Tempt with Immortality

Rocks (9)

• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Charcoal Diamond
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Planar Atlas
• 1x Star Compass
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum

Removal (8)

• 1x Defile
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Baleful Mastery
• 1x Mutilate
• 1x Ritual of Soot
• 1x Archfiend of Ifnir
• 1x Overwhelming Remorse
• 1x Decree of Pain

Commander (1)

Wincons (11)

• 1x Underworld Dreams
• 1x Fate Unraveler
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Ob Nixilis Reignited
• 1x Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1x Eldritch Pact
• 1x Peer into the Abyss
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms

Utility (5)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Gixian Puppeteer
• 1x Noetic Scales
• 1x Revenge of Ravens
• 1x Rakshasa Debaser

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Maybeboard

Initial Cuts (17)

• 1x Bag of Holding
• 1x Unearth
• 1x Key to the City
• 1x Bog Witch
• 1x Davriel, Rogue Shadowmage
• 1x Abyssal Specter
• 1x Ghirapur Orrery
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Languish
• 1x Liliana, Waker of the Dead
• 1x Necrotic Plague
• 1x Infernal Offering
• 1x Skirge Familiar
• 1x The Eldest Reborn
• 1x Demon of Dark Schemes
• 1x Urgoros, the Empty One
• 1x Lorcan, Warlock Collector

Removed From Deck (2)

• 1x Prismatic Lens
• 1x Victory Chimes

Discard (14)

• 1x Ruthless Sniper
• 1x Tortured Existence
• 1x Vicious Rumors
• 1x Augur of Skulls
• 1x Liliana's Caress
• 1x Pilfer
• 1x Virus Beetle
• 1x Faith of the Devoted
• 1x Hypnotic Specter
• 1x Words of Waste
• 1x Feast of Sanity
• 1x Grimoire of the Dead
• 1x Liliana's Reaver
• 1x The Cruelty of Gix

Removal (4)

• 1x Leaden Myr
• 1x Oubliette
• 1x Introduction to Annihilation
• 1x Blood Money

Group Hug (6)

• 1x Exhume
• 1x Helm of Awakening
• 1x Horn of Greed
• 1x Bloodvial Purveyor
• 1x Font of Mythos
• 1x Ghirapur Orrery

Rocks (5)

• 1x Coldsteel Heart
• 1x Star Compass
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Crowded Crypt
• 1x Infernal Idol

Utility (5)

• 1x Disciple of the Vault
• 1x Skeleton Key
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Night Dealings
• 1x Endless Obedience

Wincons (2)

• 1x Liliana Vess
• 1x Psychosis Crawler

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This is my take on Rankle and how far "Group Hug" goes in the least huggy color, Mono Black!

Themes:

• Group Slug Discard
• Group Hug Draw
• Drawing/Discarding = damage
• Slight Reanimation

This was originally a Tinybones deck, but I was advised I would likely instantly be Archenemy. Rankle became the new leader with almost none of the deck changing. The plan is simple. Draw and discard lots of cards, and watch your opponents' life slowly tick down, like the hugging a boa constrictor.

The side board were easy cuts from the first draft. The Maybe Board are cards that were difficult choices that I may add back in later.

"Cool, we can be friends until Underworld Dreams. Then it gets difficult." -Kangaroo

https://imgur.com/gallery/nPoo3NB

Date added	1 year
Last updated	11 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 30 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.56
Tokens	Bird 1/1 B, Copy Clone, Emblem Ob Nixilis Reignited, Monarch Emblem, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	EDH Decks