Party Hard

Commander / EDH Battlecruiser Casual Four Color Group Hug Multiplayer Tokens

swordrush

Creature (14)

• 1x Akroan Horse
• 1x Blazing Archon
• 1x Edric, Spymaster of Trest
• 1x Essence Warden
• 1x Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer
• 1x Humble Defector
• 1x Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Selvala, Explorer Returned
• 1x Soul's Attendant
• 1x Suture Priest
• 1x Varchild's War-Riders
• 1x Windborn Muse
• 1x Zedruu the Greathearted *f-etch*

Land (40)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 5x Forest
• 1x Frontier Bivouac
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Gruul Turf
• 1x Homeward Path
• 5x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Jungle Shrine
• 1x Krosan Verge
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Mystic Monastery
• 1x Opal Palace
• 5x Plains
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Seaside Citadel
• 1x Selesnya Sanctuary
• 1x Stomping Ground

Enchantment (11)

• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Curse of Echoes
• 1x Fevered Visions
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Heartbeat of Spring
• 1x Hive Mind
• 1x Mana Flare
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Rites of Flourishing
• 1x Sphere of Safety
• 1x Vicious Shadows

Artifact (5)

• 1x Horn of Greed
• 1x Howling Mine
• 1x Prismatic Geoscope
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Temple Bell

Instant (13)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Benefactor's Draught
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Commune with Lava
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Mirrorweave
• 1x Naya Charm
• 1x Oblation
• 1x Reins of Power
• 1x Secure the Wastes
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Sylvan Reclamation

Sorcery (16)

• 1x Alliance of Arms
• 1x Collective Voyage
• 1x Covenant of Minds
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Decree of Justice
• 1x Deploy to the Front
• 1x Fumigate
• 1x Grenzo's Rebuttal
• 1x Incite Rebellion
• 1x Insurrection
• 1x Minds Aglow
• 1x Nomads' Assembly
• 1x Sylvan Offering
• 1x Tempt with Discovery
• 1x Treacherous Terrain
• 1x Warp World

Commander (1)

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Do you like to party? I know there's a party over at the house next to mine, and I'm sure they'd love more company! I'd love for you to make more noise next door, all night long, while I'm trying to sleep. Here--here's some tokens, and maybe some spells, and go ahead--yeah, go ahead--return that card back to your hand. Say, and lands. I'd love it if you got even more space to blare your music and nonsense.

The deck is sort of based on the Steam game, Party Hard, where the player is a neighbor to a large party next door. As the neighbor, you end their partying the hard way--elimination. After seeing the game played, I felt this is an apt description for the Group Hug strategy: hug them and persist until your opponents off themselves through their own devices, or subtly take them out. Here, the goal is to give your opponents tokens through Hive Mind or enchanting yourself with Curse of Echoes. Doing this will make for a potent Incite Rebellion, Insurrection, Suture Priest, etc.

The deck has some kinks to work out still. Out-drawing your opponents is still difficult, and the games I've played have probably been lost to this. The difficulty is in getting enough draw without taking out too much of the combinations. There's also less removal overall than I'd like. There's probably still some fat in the deck, but I haven't seen yet how stuff like Zedruu, Edric, and Gwafa will work out.

Your backup plan is fairly simple: make lots of tokens, and win the game. Treacherous Terrain is also a fancy win condition, if played at the right time. Mirrorweave is brilliant here, as you can use it during someone else's combat step to change their plans into either an full-on alpha strike or complete dud (or create your own alpha strike). If you're able, Vicious Shadows will cause a traffic accident in the middle of your opponent's living room.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	8 years
Exclude colors	B
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 47 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.60
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Beast 3/3 G, Elf Warrior 1/1 G, Kor Soldier 1/1 W, Ogre 3/3 R, Ogre 4/4 R, Soldier 1/1 W, Spirit 1/1 C, Survivor 1/1 R, Treefolk X/X G, Warrior 1/1 W