The "Giving" Goat (Small primer) + Extra Jank!

Commander / EDH* Enchantment Group Hug Multiplayer RUW (Jeskai, America)

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Land (37)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Azorius Guildgate
• 1x Boros Garrison
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 5x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Mistveil Plains
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Mystic Monastery
• 5x Plains
• 1x Port Town
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rupture Spire
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Swiftwater Cliffs
• 1x Temple of Triumph
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Transguild Promenade
• 1x Vivid Crag
• 1x Vivid Creek
• 1x Vivid Meadow
• 1x Wandering Fumarole

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Cultural Exchange
• 1x Enduring Ideal
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Insurrection
• 1x Legerdemain
• 1x Supreme Verdict

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Dovin Baan
• 1x Venser, the Sojourner

Enchantment (20)

• 1x Archmage Ascension
• 1x Assemble the Legion
• 1x Delaying Shield
• 1x Detention Sphere
• 1x Form of the Dragon
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Gift of Immortality
• 1x Illusions of Grandeur
• 1x Journey to Nowhere
• 1x Luminarch Ascension
• 1x Oblivion Ring
• 1x Paradox Haze
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Puca's Mischief
• 1x Pyromancer's Swath
• 1x Second Chance
• 1x Starfield of Nyx
• 1x Stasis Snare
• 1x Statecraft
• 1x Wild Research

Artifact (14)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Boros Signet
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Font of Mythos
• 1x Howling Mine
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Meekstone
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Temple Bell
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Venser's Journal

Commander (1)

Creature (15)

• 1x Akroan Horse
• 1x Bazaar Trader
• 1x Djinn of Infinite Deceits
• 1x Grid Monitor
• 1x Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer
• 1x Hanna, Ship's Navigator
• 1x Humble Defector
• 1x Hushwing Gryff
• 1x Perplexing Chimera
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Steel Golem
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Vedalken Plotter

Instant (5)

• 1x Capsize
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Reins of Power
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

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Maybeboard

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Arrest

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Officially geared this deck towards multiplayer. Wrote a small primer.

Goal

Alright, so what are we actually trying to achieve? Well, lets take a look at our commanders ability : Zedruu the Greathearted , Gain X Life and Draw X cards for each card we own, but we do not control(Own = started in our deck, control = not ours to control). Futhermore it reads : : Target opponent grains control of target permanent you control. Great we can give away stuff when our GoatSanta is on the field! Most people will not know what to expect, which always gives some fun games.

Playstyle

So we need to give away the goods but here is our main difference with the "Real" Santa, most of the presents have some kind of catch to them, suddenly we became some sort of Mafia Boss,"offering" people presents while we take more advantage of them ourselfs. Lets take a look at a few:

Form of the Dragon , Illusions of Grandeur , Pyromancer's Swath , : Man these cards are really annoying ... they stop your opponent quite hard with hand/mana/library disruption. !

Akroan Horse, Grid Monitor , Steel Golem , : Work like the above, however these peasants are not that happy with the current state of affairs, they might come back at ya ..., well, we got something for that too :
Meekstone,Ghostly Prison, Propaganda, Statecraft .

Other options are the gifts which do not really do anything if our opponents have them like Howling Mine.

Zedruu the Greathearted might always be around to trade your stuff, so use Daring Thief , Legerdemain , Vedalken Plotter ,Humble Defector (remember to tap correctly) and Perplexing Chimera to change some things around. Trading lands is better than I thought, especially stealing something which taps for dubble mana, which is just ramp for us

Some more protection in the form of Swiftfoot Boots and Gift of Immortality.

Real value allstars in this deck are Wild Research , Archmage Ascension (can be used very political) and Alhammarret's Archive. Just plain value.

So, we probably drew a lot of cards, gained a decent amount of life, so what do we do with it?
Lets look at the retirement plan for our Santa/Maffia Goat. Insurrection, Aetherflux Reservoir, Reins of Power, Assemble the Legion to close out the game.

Another cool combo is Venser, the Sojourner + Illusions of Grandeur

Multiplayermode

For multiplayer / grouphug we could include some fun cards, Armageddon Clock, Minds Aglow, Zur's Weirding, Jinxed Choker. It really depends on what you want to do, even Possibility Storm is a fun/chaos option.

Since last update the deck got a lot more geared towards multiplayer. Cards like Font of Mythos, Temple Bell, Howling Mine Fevered Visions are all included to help the "group", some of you might call it goodwill, I call it an investment. They can also be used as gifts as most of these are global effects.

Ofcourse there are more cards which will work good in this deck which I did not include (yet), let me know what I am missing and I might add them! Already alot of cards in the Maybeboard, of some I am really doubting to add them and others I simply did not aquire yet.

Final words

Well that should explain most of the deck, scroll through the deck and you'll see the other cards which mostly fill the deck with : Value, Ramp or protection, nothing really special.

The Insane Jank

All credits goes to u/cromonolith https://www.reddit.com/r/EDH/comments/209n52/what_are_the_silliest_combos_youve_ever_seen_or

Step 1: Get Second Chance and Form of the Dragon in play, and cast Enduring Ideal . Your fetch when the original copy of Ideal resolves can be one or the other of these, or get them over multiple turns if you feel safe. Either way, go Epic and get those two out, along with a Mistveil Plains and enough white permanents to turn it on.
Step 2: Upkeep of the first turn after you have these: stack Second Chance's ability above Enduring Ideal, sac Second Chance to get an extra turn, use Mistveil to put it back in your library immediately, then fetch it out again with Enduring Ideal. At any point in here, let Form of the Dragon resolve, doing damage to people. On your extra turn, the cycle repeats. Infinite turns while YOU ARE A DRAGON.

+1 if you like the deck and leave your suggestions below!

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 41 - 0 Rares 29 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.46
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Emblem Dovin Baan, Emblem Venser, the Sojourner, Soldier 1/1 RW, Soldier 1/1 W
Folders	Budget Deck, group hugs, Remember, Decks I Like, Cool Decks, EDH