Emeria wants a Hug

Commander / EDH Eldrazi Group Hug Ramp

Citridon

Creature (29)

• 1x Artisan of Kozilek
• 1x Bladegriff Prototype
• 1x Blight Herder
• 1x Conduit of Ruin
• 1x Cryptic Trilobite
• 1x Crystalline Giant
• 1x Deceiver of Form
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Eldrazi Mimic
• 1x Endbringer
• 1x Endless One
• 1x It That Betrays
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Kozilek, the Great Distortion
• 1x Kozilek's Channeler
• 1x Matter Reshaper
• 1x Meteor Golem
• 1x Myriad Construct
• 1x Oblivion Sower
• 1x Reality Smasher
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Spawnsire of Ulamog
• 1x Thought-Knot Seer
• 1x Traxos, Scourge of Kroog
• 1x Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
• 1x Void Winnower
• 1x Wandering Archaic  ^Flip
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine
• 1x Zhulodok, Void Gorger

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Karn Liberated
• 1x Ugin, the Ineffable

Artifact (22)

• 1x Anvil of Bogardan
• 1x Assault Suit
• 1x Bandit's Haul
• 1x Bounty Board
• 1x Chaos Wand
• 1x Dreamstone Hedron
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Font of Mythos
• 1x Forsaken Monument
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Hedron Matrix
• 1x Howling Mine
• 1x Lithoform Engine
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mystic Forge
• 1x Relic of Progenitus
• 1x Replicating Ring
• 1x Spine of Ish Sah
• 1x Staff of Nin
• 1x Temple Bell
• 1x The Immortal Sun
• 1x Vexing Puzzlebox

Instant (5)

• 1x Not of this World
• 1x Scour from Existence
• 1x Spatial Contortion
• 1x Titan's Presence
• 1x Warping Wail

Sorcery (4)

• 1x All is Dust
• 1x Gruesome Slaughter
• 1x Rise of the Eldrazi
• 1x Skittering Invasion

Commander (1)

Land (37)

• 1x Arch of Orazca
• 1x Blast Zone
• 1x Crawling Barrens
• 1x Eldrazi Temple
• 1x Eye of Ugin
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 1x Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
• 1x Mobilized District
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Ruins of Oran-Rief
• 1x Sanctum of Ugin
• 1x Sea Gate Wreckage
• 1x Shrine of the Forsaken Gods
• 1x Spawning Bed
• 1x Tomb of the Spirit Dragon
• 1x Urza's Factory
• 19x Wastes
• 1x Zoetic Cavern

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Sideboard

Creature (79)

• 1x Birthing Hulk
• 1x Brood Butcher
• 1x Brood Monitor
• 1x Catacomb Sifter
• 1x Eyeless Watcher
• 1x Forerunner of Slaughter
• 39x Hand of Emrakul
• 33x Kozilek's Channeler
• 1x Scion Summoner

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Maybeboard

Land (3)

• 1x Blasted Landscape
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Mikokoro, Center of the Sea

Artifact (2)

• 1x Blinkmoth Urn
• 1x Genesis Chamber

Creature (1)

• 1x Eager Construct

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Emeria simply wishes to hug players and be accepted. Help them draw cards and occasionally play extra lands. Emeria can even come down from the command zone to grant an extra turn. We can even help the turn be productive. They're practically forced to be our friend for the turn!

Jokey premise aside, this deck is looking to ramp into big eldrazi. Since that plan, in colorless, often takes all our cards to manage we augment it with card draw engines that get to be very cheap by nature of being symmetrical or semi-symmetrical. Early game we tale good advantage of this by chaining ramp together, and once we get enough mana we're more likely to draw truly potent gas to utilize all this setup.

The deck does come with some risk. Obviously drawing our opponents extra cards means they might just go-off first (or harder, though hopefully we have "over the top" covered). That is somewhat mitigated compared to a normal group hug deck because we don't provide extra mana. But there is still a small amount the deck leans into the political side of "giving cards and initially non-scary" to duck early pressure. If players don't respond to that tactic, the deck can be on the back foot by the time it's ramped enough.

What's up with the Sideboard?

I originally got the sideboard together as a joke win condition with Spawnsire of Ulamog. The idea was that offering "hey if you are cool with the joke AND I actually manage to resolve spawnsire, pump like 20 mana into it to make enough spawns, then untap with all that can I just press it's ability as an 'I win' button by throwing Hands at everyone?" would amuse people even if they didn't want to say yes. It'd also be really funny of the off chance it ever was okay'd and actually happened. (Even funnier if both things happened, then someone had an instant speed board wipe for the full reversal X-D)

The idea is that you'd get a couple spawns from the random couple cards, feed those into Forerunner of Slaughter to haste up a Kozilek's Channeler. The channeler makes enough mana to haste the next Channeler and a Hand. Loop til you have way too many hasty hands.

It has happened once and everyone had a blast.

I would also like a way to make the joke properly in color identity, but I'm not looking to spend much on it.

It's also a fun reason to keep copies of my 2nd favorite creature type that couldn't get into the main deck with the deck.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	6 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 0 Mythic Rares 45 - 1 Rares 19 - 4 Uncommons 3 - 74 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	5.19
Tokens	Assembly-Worker 2/2 C, City's Blessing, Construct 1/1 C, Copy Clone, Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Morph 2/2 C, Replicated Ring, Spirit 2/2 C, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink
Folders	Commander, Cool Decks