Hungry Hungry Hippo Hugs

Commander / EDH Group Hug GWU (Bant) Phelddagrif

Maxcoh

Land (37)

• 1x Barkchannel Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Blossoming Sands
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 5x Forest
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 7x Island
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 4x Plains
• 1x Rejuvenating Springs
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Seaside Citadel
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Thornwood Falls
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Approach of the Second Sun
• 1x Collective Voyage
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Dance of the Manse
• 1x Ezuri's Predation
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Minds Aglow
• 1x Prosperity
• 1x Secret Rendezvous
• 1x Seeds of Renewal
• 1x Tempt with Discovery

Creature (16)

• 1x Baird, Steward of Argive
• 1x Edric, Spymaster of Trest
• 1x Kami of the Crescent Moon
• 1x Kwain, Itinerant Meddler
• 1x Noble Benefactor
• 1x Orzhov Advokist
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Questing Phelddagrif
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Selvala, Explorer Returned
• 1x Suture Priest
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid
• 1x Tidal Barracuda
• 1x Veteran Explorer
• 1x Walking Archive
• 1x Windborn Muse

Instant (13)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dovin's Veto
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Generous Gift
• 1x Mercy Killing
• 1x Oblation
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Reins of Power
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Jace, Wielder of Mysteries

Commander (1)

Enchantment (13)

• 1x Dictate of Karametra
• 1x Dictate of Kruphix
• 1x Eladamri's Vineyard
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Heartbeat of Spring
• 1x Intruder Alarm
• 1x Island Sanctuary
• 1x Mirrormade
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Reverence
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Rites of Flourishing
• 1x Sphere of Safety

Artifact (8)

• 1x Angel's Trumpet
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Folio of Fancies
• 1x Ghirapur Orrery
• 1x Howling Mine
• 1x Orbs of Warding
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Temple Bell

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This is a pretty staple Phelddagrif group hug deck. The deck itself helps generate tons of cards and mana for everyone at the table while trying to set up some unfair advantages for yourself. There are a number of combinations of cards that you can use in order to win, and you have a good amount of counter magic to stop other people from winning while you're using politics and some other enchantment pillowfort techniques to stop people from attacking you.

Here are the main ways that you win:

Approach of the Second Sun + Tidal Barracuda - The laziest way to win. There's a lot of card draw in the deck. You can very feasibly cast this, draw 7 and cast it again in the same turn. You could also use Tidal Barracuda to flash in Approach or use it to defend the combo.

Jace, Wielder of Mysteries - Your deck has tons of card draw. There is a possibility that you can just mill yourself out and then win with Jace. Not extremely likely but it is possible.

Ezuri's Predation + Phelddagrif + Reins of Power or Angel's Trumpet + Phelddagrif - There are a couple of ways to generate tons of mana, using this you can pump out tons of tokens for your opponent's using your general. You can then use this to just Reins and kill them. With the trumpet you can give them tons of tokens that will have a tough time attacking you due to your other cards, and if you give them tokens on their turn, they'll have summoning sickness and still take the damage.

Mirrormade + Prosperity + Psychosis Crawler - With tons of mana and card draw, you can turn that directly into damage with Crawler. There are MOUNTAINS of ways to draw cards so this makes this combo easy to stack up some damage.

Intruder Alarm + Phelddagrif + Suture Priest + Sylvan Caryatid- Instant kill. With Intruder alarm, when you tap for green with Sylvan, you can use it to make a hippo token with Pheldagriff. This will cause one loss of life to whoever you gave the token to because of Suture and untap all your creatures (namely, sylvan). Do this until everyone is dead.

This type of deck is extremely fun. Even if you don't have all the pieces, you can play kingmaker or politic your way into a position to win. It's a very nice deck and playstyle that's refreshing compared to a lot of other decks.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Key combos	Approach of the Second Sun + Tidal Barracuda Ezuri's Predation + Phelddagrif + Reins of Power Angel's Trumpet + Phelddagrif Mirrormade + Prosperity + Psychosis Crawler Intruder Alarm + Phelddagrif + Suture Priest
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	53 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.03
Tokens	1/1 G Creature Hippo, Beast 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, Elephant 3-3 G, Elf Warrior 1/1 GW, Phyrexian Beast 4/4 G, Spirit 1/1 C