Hippo's Return

Commander / EDH* Group Hug GWU (Bant)

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Land (36)

• 1x Bant Panorama
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 4x Forest
• 1x Forge of Heroes
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Irrigation Ditch
• 3x Island
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Meteor Crater
• 1x Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
• 3x Plains
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Rainbow Vale
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Riftstone Portal
• 1x Rupture Spire
• 1x Seaside Citadel
• 1x Selesnya Sanctuary
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Temple of Enlightenment
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Temple of Plenty
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

OtherUtility (3)

• 1x Revelation
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Seedborn Muse

SoftRemoval (2)

• 1x Vanishing
• 1x Aven Mimeomancer

QuestingPhelddagrif (1)

• 1x Questing Phelddagrif

Draw (11)

• 1x Minds Aglow
• 1x Anvil of Bogardan
• 1x Howling Mine
• 1x Dictate of Kruphix
• 1x Heartwood Storyteller
• 1x Horn of Greed
• 1x Selvala, Explorer Returned
• 1x Temple Bell
• 1x Walking Archive
• 1x Font of Mythos
• 1x Forced Fruition

WinCon (9)

• 1x Helix Pinnacle
• 1x Mantle of Leadership
• 1x Suture Priest
• 1x Angel's Trumpet
• 1x Flurry of Wings
• 1x Iron Maiden
• 1x Approach of the Second Sun
• 1x Divine Intervention
• 1x Ezuri's Predation

Pillow (9)

• 1x Authority of the Consuls
• 1x Island Sanctuary
• 1x Standstill
• 1x Karmic Justice
• 1x War Tax
• 1x Aurification
• 1x Collective Restraint
• 1x Norn's Annex
• 1x Sandwurm Convergence

Protection (2)

• 1x Sterling Grove
• 1x Privileged Position

Recursion (2)

• 1x Second Sunrise
• 1x Creeping Renaissance

Cheat (1)

• 1x Show and Tell

Commander (1)

Ramp (11)

• 1x Eladamri's Vineyard
• 1x Magus of the Vineyard
• 1x New Frontiers
• 1x Veteran Explorer
• 1x Helm of Awakening
• 1x Heartbeat of Spring
• 1x Pir's Whim
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Tempt with Discovery
• 1x Dictate of Karametra
• 1x Kruphix, God of Horizons

HardRemoval (7)

• 1x Spurnmage Advocate
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Generous Gift
• 1x Mercy Killing
• 1x Nullmage Advocate
• 1x Oblation
• 1x Fractured Identity

Counter (4)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Hinder
• 1x Rewind

Tutor (1)

• 1x Wargate

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Provide gas, use gas to burn their houses down

Win Cons:

Suture Priest + Phelddagrif or Questing Phelddagrif to drown your opponents in friendly hippo cuts for as much as you have.

Angel's Trumpet + Phelddagrif or Questing Phelddagrif to drown your opponents in friendly hippo taps

Flurry of Wings + Your opponent's hippo army = the counterswing

Helix Pinnacle works as intended while you hide behind a wall of friendship

Ezuri's Predation + Your opponent's hippo army = a lot of a dead hippos and a lot of angry beasties.

Approach of the Second Sun gets cast twice really fast

Iron Maiden + Forced Fruition (and all the other bonus draws) + Anvil of Bogardan to fill their hand and hurt them with all the friendship.

Mantle of Leadership + Phelddagrif + to make hippos for your opponent to enable friendly commander bumps of elimination (add if they have a ground blocker)

And of course Divine Intervention because it's not about who wins and loses, but about the friends we made along the way

Date added	10 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 56 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.25
Tokens	1/1 G Creature Hippo, Beast 3/3 G, Bird Soldier 1/1 W, Copy Clone, Elephant 3/3 G, Elf Warrior 1/1 GW, Phyrexian Beast 4/4 G, Spirit 1/1 C, Treasure, Wurm 5/5 G
Based on	Phelddagrif: EDH Diplomatic Absurdity theauthenticwren EDH