Are You Familiar With the Story of Krampus?

Commander / EDH BRG (Jund) Group Hug Group Slug Jank Theme/Gimmick

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Hug: Creatures (19)

• 1x Akroan Horse
• 1x Bazaar Trader
• 1x Boldwyr Heavyweights
• 1x Endless Whispers
• 1x Exhume
• 1x Harmless Offering
• 1x Humble Defector
• 1x Hunted Dragon
• 1x Hunted Horror
• 1x Hunted Troll
• 1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1x Sleeper Agent
• 1x Tempt with Immortality
• 1x Tempt with Vengeance
• 1x Tempting Wurm
• 1x Tibalt, Rakish Instigator *f-pre*
• 1x Varchild, Betrayer of Kjeldor
• 1x Varchild's War-Riders
• 1x Xantcha, Sleeper Agent

Group Slug/Steal (7)

• 1x Acidic Soil
• 1x Disrupt Decorum
• 1x Grenzo, Havoc Raiser
• 1x Hellkite Tyrant
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Necrotic Plague
• 1x Oath of Mages

WinCon (3)

• 1x Insurrection
• 1x Repercussion
• 1x Vicious Shadows

Personal: Mana Ramp (2)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Sol Ring

Lands (35)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 5x Forest
• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 1x Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
• 11x Mountain
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Sheltered Thicket
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 9x Swamp
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Boardwipe/Burn/Hate (8)

• 1x Arcbond
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Breath of Darigaaz
• 1x Decree of Annihilation
• 1x Earthquake
• 1x Fault Line
• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 1x Star of Extinction

Hug: Lands/Mana (6)

• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Collective Voyage
• 1x Mana Flare
• 1x New Frontiers
• 1x Rites of Flourishing
• 1x Tempt with Discovery

Personal: Land Ramp (2)

• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Spoils of Victory

Commander (1)

Defense (9)

• 1x Assault Suit
• 1x Crawlspace
• 1x Darksteel Plate
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Magebane Armor
• 1x Vow of Lightning
• 1x Vow of Malice
• 1x Vow of Wildness
• 1x War's Toll

Hug: Draw (6)

• 1x Heartwood Storyteller
• 1x Howling Mine
• 1x Molten Psyche
• 1x Seizan, Perverter of Truth
• 1x Spiteful Visions
• 1x Temple Bell

Personal: Draw/Tutor (2)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Worldly Tutor

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I thought not. It's not a story your parents would tell you. It's a Christmas legend. Krampus was an assistant of Saint Nick, so powerful and so terrifying that he could use his power to influence the behaviour of children. He had such a knowledge of the naughty list that he could even keep the worst he scorned from misbehaving again. Severely punishing asshole children is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.

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A friend of mine thought it would be neat to build a Naya group hug deck sometime close to Christmas. Naturally, my next idea after that was to build a Jund group "hug" deck as a counterpart. The deck has a few objectives it can take to win:

Give everyone tokens, blow them up with Kresh on the field, pump him up

• Not the most foolproof strat the deck has without some form of protection on Kresh the Bloodbraided , but I think it can work. Being able to benefit off of any creature's death, regardless of whether or not I control it, is why I run him over Prossh, Skyraider of Kher .

Give everyone tokens, hit them all for big damage while Repercussion is out

• A strat I'm quite familiar with from running Light Up the Night [Multiplayer Burn]. This might arguably be more viable than the above plan.

Give everyone more draw power, hit them hard when they draw

• The downside here is that I also take damage in every case. If I can go fast enough, it won't matter. I have other ways of group slugging via group hug effects. The biggest issue will be surviving the mass amount of aggro I'll draw to myself if I don't play carefully (or even if I do...).

Give everyone tokens and/or other creatures, kill them with Vicious Shadows out

• It doesn't matter if it was a 1/1 Soldier creature token that died or an 11/9 Eldrazi they put out; if it dies, Vicious Shadows will stack quickly. Pairs nicely with the group hug draw effects.

Give everyone tokens and the ability to cast other creatures, and then beat them with said creatures via Insurrection

• Exactly as titled.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 53 - 0 Rares 14 - 0 Uncommons 2 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.34
Tokens	Centaur 3/3 G w/ Pro Black, Copy Clone, Devil 1/1 R, Elemental 1/1 R w/ Haste, Faerie 1/1 U, Knight 2/2 W w/ First Strike, Soldier 1/1 W, Spirit 1/1 C, Survivor 1/1 R
Folders	Are You Familiar With the Story of Krampus?