Santa IreniClaus

Commander / EDH Casual Donate Group Slug Jank Land Destruction Sacrifice Stax UB (Dimir)

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Gifts (26)

• 1x Amphin Mutineer
• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Bloodsoaked Champion
• 1x Demonic Taskmaster
• 1x Desecration Elemental
• 1x Dreamstealer
• 1x Drinker of Sorrow
• 1x Ebon Drake
• 1x Ebonblade Reaper
• 1x Flesh Reaver
• 1x Greater Harvester
• 1x Grid Monitor
• 1x Hellcarver Demon
• 1x Juzam Djinn
• 1x Needle Specter
• 1x Oona's Blackguard
• 1x Phyrexian Negator
• 1x Plague Spitter
• 1x Putrid Goblin
• 1x Reiver Demon
• 1x Rite of Belzenlok
• 1x Rotting Regisaur
• 1x Rust Elemental
• 1x Steel Golem
• 1x Taniwha
• 1x Wretched Anurid

Other (7)

• 1x Archfiend of Depravity
• 1x Ashiok, Dream Render
• 1x Crawlspace
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Narset, Parter of Veils
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Lands (35)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Blackbloom Rogue  ^Flip
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Clearwater Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkslick Shores
• 1x Homeward Path
• 6x Island
• 1x Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Otawara, Soaring City
• 1x Plaza of Heroes
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Riptide Laboratory
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 9x Swamp
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Urza's Saga
• 1x Watery Grave

Ramp (10)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Jeweled Lotus
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Planar Atlas
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Commander (1)

Response (14)

• 1x All is Dust
• 1x An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1x Countersquall
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Introduction to Annihilation
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Negate
• 1x Resculpt
• 1x Shore Up
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Virtus's Maneuver
• 1x Vona's Hunger

Advantage/Tutor (6)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Syphon Mind
• 1x Wizard Class

Extra gifting (1)

• 1x Gilded Drake

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Extra gifting (14)

• 1x Assault Suit
• 1x Daring Thief
• 1x Endless Whispers
• 1x Irenicus's Vile Duplication
• 1x Legerdemain
• 1x Puca's Mischief
• 1x Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
• 1x Sakashima the Impostor
• 1x Sleeper Agent
• 1x Spark Double
• 1x Spawnbroker
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Sudden Substitution
• 1x The Trickster-God's Heist

Pillowfort (6)

• 1x Collective Restraint
• 1x Forcefield
• 1x Hissing Miasma
• 1x Koskun Falls
• 1x No Mercy
• 1x Revenge of Ravens

Ramp (4)

• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Heartless Summoning
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Unstable Obelisk

Response (12)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Fade Away
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Killing Wave
• 1x Liliana's Triumph
• 1x Make an Example
• 1x Mire in Misery
• 1x Mizzium Skin
• 1x Necrotic Hex
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Turn Aside

Gifts (boring) (6)

• 1x Circling Vultures
• 1x Meteor Golem
• 1x Order of Midnight
• 1x Phyrexian Soulgorger
• 1x Ravenous Chupacabra
• 1x The Long Reach of Night  ^Flip

Gifts (fancy) (4)

• 1x Abyssal Persecutor
• 1x Liege of the Pit
• 1x Phage the Untouchable
• 1x Phyrexian Vatmother

Lands (3)

• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Sanctum of Eternity
• 1x Swamp

Misc (11)

• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Gisa, Glorious Resurrector
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Guildpact Informant
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Pendrell Mists
• 1x Slip Out the Back
• 1x Tergrid, God of Fright  ^Flip
• 1x Thrummingbird
• 1x Vile Consumption
• 1x Wound Reflection

Gifts (affordable) (8)

• 1x Filthy Cur
• 1x Fledgling Djinn
• 1x Gloom Surgeon
• 1x Graf Reaver
• 1x Hasran Ogress
• 1x Pitiless Horde
• 1x Reaver Drone
• 1x Vampire Lacerator

Advantage/Tutor (3)

• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Sygg, River Cutthroat
• 1x Verity Circle

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Poisoned gifts commander, dimir edition!

When an opponent loses, they'll rudely return all the gifts you give them. This can obviously be very nasty, so plan accordingly; I suggest spreading the love among multiple players.

People are going to get annoyed with you, so try to leave mana open for counterspells vs e.g. removal pointed at Jon. (Try not to cry when you end up getting stuck with a Steel Golem on the battlefield and Jon in the C-zone.) Riptide Laboratory works decently too.

You don't have to gift things with Jon.

Homeward Path works well when you're down to 1v1, since your gifts will be able to attack you. You can still get extra cards by activating Path in response to Jon's draw trigger when you're attacked.

The deck has various forced creature sacrifice to take advantage of gift immunity, netting both value and less enemy blockers.

Oona's Blackguard turns into a specter upon getting its gift counters, along with any other gifted creatures controlled by the same opponent. Watch out for non-gifted enemy creatures with counters on them though! (The deck has no other Rogues, so just ignore the Blackguard's ETB ability.)

Putrid Goblin will Persist back under your control, wherafter you can gift it to clear out the -1/-1 counter on it, letting it continually return.

When gifted, Phyrexian Soulgorger's cumulative upkeep does not do anything in practice (unless its controller wants to sac some non-gifted creatures for whatever reason). If you get it back with Homeward Path, this goes for you too!

Reiver Demon will kill just a few creatures in the deck. The expections are Taniwha (which can phase out), Amphin Mutineer, and Gilded Drake.

Wizard Class level 3 can give Jon some commander damage potential, albeit he's still hampered by a lack of evasion. Hell, you can even make him gift himself and take him back with Homward Path to pump him a little more.

Top Ranked	Achieved #44 position overall 2 years ago Achieved #33 position in Commander / EDH 2 years ago Achieved #2 position in Commander / EDH Jank 2 years ago Achieved #2 position in Commander / EDH UB (Dimir) 2 years ago
Date added	2 years
Last updated	2 months
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 40 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.72
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, City's Blessing, Cleric 0/1 B, Construct 0/0 C, Copy Clone, Demon 6/6 B, Dreamstealer 4/4 B, Elemental 4/4 UR, Morph 2/2 C, Treasure
Folders	Commander, My (Mostly) Finished Stuff, Ideas