As a member of the LGBT community, I was super pumped to see Magic's first gay couple get featured in my favorite format. However... group hug is not necessarily my strong suit. (Is it anyone's?) So this is what I have.

Let's hug it out: Veteren Explorer, Minds Aglow , Forbidden Orchard, Humble Defector, Seed the Land , Rites of Flourishing, Selvala, Explorer Returned, Swans of Bryn Argoll , Temple Bell, Zhur-Taa Ancient

Someone's left out of this hug: Akroan Horse , Death by Dragons , Tempt with Discovery, Tempt with Vengeance

Spiky Hug: Fevered Visions, Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer , Oblation, Beast Within, Swords to Plowshares, Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa , Goblin Spymaster

Incentive not to Attack Me: Edric, Spymaster of Trest, Gahiji, Honored One, Ghostly Prison, Propaganda, Ludevic, Necro-Alchemist, Windborn Muse , Sphere of Safety, Kaseto, Orochi Archmage (oh? You're attacking that player? Well here. It's unblockable), Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs , Michiko Konda, Truth Seeker , Orzhov Advokist , Pariah + Swans of Bryn Argoll or Pariah + Stuffy Doll

How I could somehow win: Swans or Bryn Argoll + Pariah to potential lead to decking an opponent out or Pariah + Stuffy Doll if dealing with one opponent. There's the convoluted combo of Retreat to Coralhelm + Walking Atlas and Retreat to Emeria and Emeria Angel to flood the board with tokens. Or an Akoum Hellkite to ping indefinitely.

If I don't win, hopefully the resources I provide to my opponents will allow me to stick around in the game. And that's all I really want.

Additionally I added landfall effects. It allows me to generate and pretty healthy token army and recur cards with Emeria Angel.

I'm a little hesitant to include creature ETB effects, because I definitely want to keep Hushwing Gryff in the decklist. The only thing with an ETB that I will keep is Selfless Squire and only because, it can still get big with Swans of Bryn Argoll (with or without Pariah ).

I'm looking for suggestions. More group hugs cards will be great. Any secret deck tech that I might have missed. I would prefer that people suggest budget options, even if some of the deck isn't already budget.

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Date added 8 years
Last updated 7 years
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This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

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5 - 0 Mythic Rares

38 - 0 Rares

26 - 0 Uncommons

11 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 3.56
Tokens Beast 3/3 G, Bird 1/1 W, Dragon 5/5 R, Elemental 1/1 R w/ Haste, Kor Ally 1/1 W, Ogre 3/3 R, Snake 1/1 G, Soldier 1/1 RW, Soldier 1/1 W, Spirit 1/1 C, Squid 1/1 U
Folders Four Color
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