Never Bargain with a Flying Hippo

Commander / EDH Casual GWU (Bant) Jank Multiplayer Pillow Fort Theme/Gimmick

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1 Land (37)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Botanical Sanctum
• 1x Bountiful Promenade
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 4x Forest
• 1x Hall of Heliod's Generosity
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x High Market
• 6x Island
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 4x Plains
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Quicksand
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Seachrome Coast
• 1x Seaside Citadel
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

2 Ramp (8)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Collective Voyage
• 1x Veteran Explorer
• 1x Kiora's Follower
• 1x Heartbeat of Spring
• 1x Rites of Flourishing
• 1x Selvala, Explorer Returned
• 1x Smothering Tithe

3 Card Draw (11)

• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Flumph
• 1x Tenuous Truce
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Secret Rendezvous
• 1x Windfall
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Struggle for Project Purity
• 1x The Second Doctor
• 1x Wedding Ring

4 Win Conditions (4)

• 1x Intruder Alarm
• 1x Dovescape
• 1x Guile
• 1x Divine Intervention

5 Tutors (4)

• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Moon-Blessed Cleric
• 1x Academy Rector
• 1x Birthing Pod

6 Political Cards (11)

• 1x Spurnmage Advocate
• 1x Gluntch, the Bestower
• 1x Nullmage Advocate
• 1x Orzhov Advokist
• 1x Pulsemage Advocate
• 1x Skullwinder
• 1x Master of Ceremonies
• 1x Fractured Identity
• 1x Hymn of Rebirth
• 1x Cultural Exchange
• 1x Dawnbreak Reclaimer

7 Copy and Steal (11)

• 1x Doppelgang
• 1x Steal Enchantment
• 1x Copy Enchantment
• 1x Mirrormade
• 1x Aura Thief
• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Mirrorhall Mimic  ^Flip
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Soul Foundry
• 1x Bribery
• 1x Empress Galina

8 Pillowfort (4)

• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Silent Arbiter
• 1x Mystic Barrier

9 Removal (9)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Generous Gift
• 1x Wrong Turn
• 1x False Prophet
• 1x Promise of Loyalty
• 1x Sludge Monster
• 1x Tragic Arrogance
• 1x Farewell

Commander (1)

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Other (35)

• 1x Field of Ruin
• 1x Miren, the Moaning Well
• 1x Sylvan Offering
• 1x Altar of Bone
• 1x Dawnstrider
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Fog Bank
• 1x Righteous Aura
• 1x Split Decision
• 1x Voyaging Satyr
• 1x Weird Harvest
• 1x Winds of Abandon
• 1x Angus Mackenzie
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Edric, Spymaster of Trest
• 1x Faeburrow Elder
• 1x Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer
• 1x Holistic Wisdom
• 1x Martyr's Cause
• 1x Nils, Discipline Enforcer
• 1x Noble Benefactor
• 1x Protective Sphere
• 1x Shieldmage Advocate
• 1x Viridian Revel
• 1x Awakening
• 1x Bubble Matrix
• 1x Coercive Portal
• 1x Questing Phelddagrif
• 1x Settle the Wreckage
• 1x Replication Technique
• 1x The Council of Four
• 1x Mirror-Sigil Sergeant
• 1x Fated Retribution
• 1x Ghosts of the Innocent
• 1x Play of the Game

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Most people build Phelddagrif as a group hug deck, but I find group hug to be an unexciting deck type so I went with politics instead. Why give things away for free when you can cut deals for them?

This is a political EDH deck that combines political cards and pillow fort. Basically you drop pillow fort early and try to manipulate other players so that the weaker players gang up on the strongest player until they are dead or neutralized. After that you make alliances and back stab until you can draw into Dovescape + Guile or Divine Intervention. Is this an efficient way to win? Probably not, but it's fun!

This is a janky deck full of political bears and pillow fort cards that are terrible in 1v1, but end up being powerful political tools in multiplayer games. You can convince people to stop attacking you in exchange for cards, hippo tokens, life gain, political favors... you name it.

Also, as a side theme, I try to put as many gaudy cards in the deck as possible. My theory is that when my opponents see cards cards that look stupid looking they don't perceive me as a real threat.

The biggest downsides are that this deck can't compete against fast competitive decks and takes a long time to win. This deck also plays horribly in a 1v1 scenario, which is why you want to avoid that at all costs. If you like EDH politics it's a lot of fun though.

Divine Intervention Count: 4

Date added	8 years
Last updated	5 months
Exclude colors	BR
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 59 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.53
Tokens	1/1 G Creature Hippo, 1/1 WU Token Creature Bird, Citizen 1/1 GW, Copy Clone, Elephant 3/3 G, Radiation, Spirit 1/1 C, Treasure
Folders	EDH Jank Inspo, EDH - Other People's Decks, Cool Decks I Like, Commander, interesting, EDH