Superfriends with Super Benefits

Commander / EDH Combo Control GWUB Multiplayer Primer Superfriends

Enral

Land (37)

• 1x Ancient TombGC
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bountiful Promenade
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forest
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Indatha Triome
• 1x Inkmoth Nexus
• 1x Interplanar Beacon
• 3x Island
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Creature (1)

• 1x Deepglow Skate

Planeswalker (20)

• 1x Ashiok, Dream Render
• 1x Elspeth, Knight-Errant
• 1x Elspeth, Sun's Champion
• 1x Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
• 1x Jace, the Mind Sculptor
• 1x Jace, Unraveler of Secrets
• 1x Kiora, the Crashing Wave
• 1x Liliana, Dreadhorde General
• 1x Narset, Parter of Veils
• 1x Narset Transcendent
• 1x Oko, Thief of Crowns
• 1x Sorin, Lord of Innistrad
• 1x Sorin, Solemn Visitor
• 1x Tamiyo, Field Researcher
• 1x Tamiyo, the Moon Sage
• 1x Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
• 1x Teferi, Temporal Archmage
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker
• 1x Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
• 1x Venser, the Sojourner

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Cleansing Nova
• 1x Demonic TutorGC
• 1x Imperial SealGC
• 1x Merciless Eviction
• 1x Seasons Past
• 1x Terminus
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Winds of Abandon

Instant (8)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic RiftGC
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Vampiric TutorGC

Commander (1)

Artifact (18)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Astral Cornucopia
• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Proteus Staff
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Progress
• 1x Talisman of Unity
• 1x The Chain Veil
• 1x Thought Vessel

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Oath of Nissa
• 1x Oath of Teferi
• 1x Rhystic StudyGC
• 1x Smothering TitheGC

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Introduction

The Deck

This is my superfriends control deck with an explosive combo to finish the game. Idea is to deter aggro with removals, boardwipe, and anti-creature walkers till I am able to get a game winning emblem or assemble some kind of combo. This deck was tuned to thrive in a 75% aggrocentric meta and is reflected in my specific card selection. With the support of permissions and diversified removals, I can effectively play a game of draw-go without worrying about a massive boardwipe to reset my board. While there are several ways of building a superfriends deck including infect, pillowfort, or stax, I think that this build is a more fun and exciting way to pilot the deck while allowing the rest of the table to enjoy the game.

Strengths

• Strong late game and inevitability

• Ability to handle stax strategies

• Unaffected by creature hate and pillowfort strategies

• Generates immense card advantage, board presence, and value over time

Weaknesses

• Weak to early game aggro and fast combo

• Slow early game

• Mana intensive

• Difficult to pilot (requires proper planning and threat assessment)

• Draws hate from everyone (often resulting in archenemy)

Synergies and Combos

Infinite Walker Activations

With one rock tapping for like Astral Cornucopia/Everflowing Chalice, I can have infinite planeswalker activations with the following:

• Tezzeret the Seeker + The Chain Veil (instant win with Ugin, the Spirit Dragon or Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath in play)

Infinite Mana and Draw

The following combo produces infinite mana (can be filtered into Astral Cornucopia and infinite draw to assemble a win:

• Basalt Monolith + Rings of Brighthearth + Sensei's Divining Top

Deepglow Staff

This is probably one of the easiest and most broken one card combo you can assemble in a superfriends deck. The only creature I run is Deepglow Skate for the sole purpose of having a constant access to it via Proteus Staff. Every turn, I can tuck it at the bottom of my library only to have it come back again to double all my walkers' loyalties. In addition to that, I can also rearrange my entire library to stack it so that I will draw my other win conditions and combo pieces. It also gets even crazier with Rings of Brighthearth by quadrupling the loyalty counters instead! There are many times during the game where I would grab Proteus Staff over Doubling Season due to its ridiculousness. This combo alone with some walkers in play will just win games:

• Deepglow Skate + Proteus Staff

The following is a typical game-winning Proteus Staff deck manipulation arrangement. With and Deepglow Skate in play (setup the chain by sacrificing Atraxa or a token to get deepglow skate into play first), you basically draw and cast Tamiyo, Field Researcher and activate Proteus Staff to start the chain:

• Draw Tamiyo, Field Researcher and cast her.

• Activate Proteus Staff to put Deepglow Skate into play (which will put Tamiyo, Field Researcher into ultimate range) and rearrange the library from top to bottom in the order of Doubling Season, Ugin, the Spirit Dragon, Tezzeret the Seeker, The Chain Veil, Rings of Brighthearth, Basalt Monolith.

• Ultimate Tamiyo, Field Researcher to draw the three cards that was prearranged from the staff that is (Doubling Season, Ugin, the Spirit Dragon, and Tezzeret the Seeker) and get her emblem. You can now cast non-land cards from your hand for free.

• Cast Doubling Season, Ugin, the Spirit Dragon, and then Tezzeret the Seeker. Doubling Season will put Ugin in ultimate range.

• Ultimate Ugin, the Spirit Dragon to draw seven cards (The Chain Veil, Rings of Brighthearth, Basalt Monolith, and four other cards).

• You now have can produce infinite mana via Rings of Brighthearth + Basalt Monolith to activate The Chain Veil infinite times with Tezzeret the Seeker +1 ability and kill everyone on the table with infinite Ugin, the Spirit Dragon activations.

Emblem/Ultimate out of Nowhere

The following are cards that lets me get an emblem/ultimate walkers out of nowhere. Timing is key and has everything to do with the success of pulling it off:

• Planewide Celebration
• Deepglow Skate
• Doubling Season
• Teferi's Protection

Footnotes

Here are some rulings regarding The Chain Veil that might cause some confusions:

• You can activate TCV as many times as you can untap it, effectively enabling a slew of infinite planeswalker activation combos.

• Once TCV is activated, it provides a new permission for all planeswalkers you control. This means that new planeswalkers cast after TCV was activated will still be able to activate twice.

My thoughts on pillowfort and superfriends:

• Most pillowfort cards (like Ghostly Prison) doesn't stop opponents from attacking the planeswalkers thus making it a very unreliable and bad strategy for superfriends.

• The most effective "pillowfort" cards are more akin to creature hate enchantments like Humility or token generation to block attackers.

• I think that running more boardwipes and recursion is a better strategy than pillowfort for superfriends.

• Stax is a much better alternative than pillowfort in superfriends helmed by Atraxa.

Hidden gems superfriends players ought to know:

• You can have multiple copies of the same emblem with each of their own separate triggers if you happen to ultimate that planeswalker again.

• Ultimate a planeswalker with Rings of Brighthearth is a superfriends pilot's wetdream.

• Deepglow Skate and Venser, the Sojourner or Kaya, Ghost Assassin are best friends.

• Rings of Brighthearth and The Chain Veil or fetchlands are best friends.

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Top Ranked	Achieved #4 position overall 8 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH GWUB 3 years ago
Date added	8 years
Last updated	4 years
Key combos	Basalt Monolith + Rings of Brighthearth + Sensei's Divining Top Tezzeret the Seeker + The Chain Veil Deepglow Skate + Proteus Staff
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	31 - 0 Mythic Rares 49 - 0 Rares 11 - 0 Uncommons 3 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.30
Tokens	Elk 3/3 G, Emblem Elspeth, Knight-Errant, Emblem Elspeth, Sun's Champion, Emblem Gideon, Ally of Zendikar, Emblem Jace, Unraveler of Secrets, Emblem Kiora, the Crashing Wave, Emblem Narset Transcendent, Emblem Sorin, Lord of Innistrad, Emblem Sorin, Solemn Visitor, Emblem Tamiyo, Field Researcher, Emblem Tamiyo, the Moon Sage, Emblem Teferi, Hero of Dominaria, Emblem Teferi, Temporal Archmage, Emblem Venser, the Sojourner, Food, Knight Ally 2/2 W, Kraken 9/9 U, Soldier 1/1 W, Treasure, Vampire 1/1 B w/ Lifelink, Vampire 2/2 B, Zombie 2/2 B
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