Zedruu EDH Bad Santa

Commander / EDH

Spliced_Minds

Land (34)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 4x Island
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Mistveil Plains
• 1x Mystic Monastery
• 1x Nimbus Maze
• 4x Plains
• 1x Plateau
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Rainbow Vale
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Seachrome Coast
• 1x Serra's Sanctum
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Vesuva
• 1x Vivid Creek
• 1x Volcanic Island

Instant (7)

• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Render Silent
• 1x Stifle

Enchantment (22)

• 1x As Foretold
• 1x Assemble the Legion
• 1x Banishing Light
• 1x Cast Out
• 1x Copy Enchantment
• 1x Darksteel Mutation
• 1x Detention Sphere
• 1x Faith's Fetters
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Gift of Immortality
• 1x Grasp of Fate
• 1x Illusions of Grandeur
• 1x Nevermore
• 1x Oblivion Ring
• 1x Omniscience
• 1x Paradox Haze
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Puca's Mischief
• 1x Pyromancer's Swath
• 1x Solitary Confinement
• 1x Statecraft
• 1x Wild Research

Artifact (12)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Coalition Relic
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Library of Leng
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thought Vessel

Commander (1)

Creature (16)

• 1x Academy Rector
• 1x Akroan Horse
• 1x Avacyn, Angel of Hope
• 1x Bazaar Trader
• 1x Diaochan, Artful Beauty
• 1x Djinn of Infinite Deceits
• 1x Gilded Drake
• 1x Humble Defector
• 1x Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
• 1x Phantasmal Image
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Rust Elemental
• 1x Sakashima the Impostor
• 1x Steel Golem
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Vedalken Plotter

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Cultural Exchange
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Idyllic Tutor
• 1x Open the Vaults
• 1x Replenish

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Jace Beleren
• 1x Tamiyo, the Moon Sage

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Enchantment (3)

• 1x Aggressive Mining
• 1x Indestructibility
• 1x Manabarbs

Creature (1)

• 1x Laboratory Maniac

Artifact (1)

• 1x Jinxed Choker

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A Zedruu deck built around giving your opponents gifts they are bound to love! (Although they never seem to show proper appreciation...). Hide behind Solitary Confinement, Ghostly Prison, Propaganda, and some U/W answers, while gifting away nasty or useless cards for card draw and life. Win conditions are Illusions of Grandeur (often with recursion effects), Aetherflux Reservoir, Psychosis Crawler, stealing (exchanging) for other's creatures, or overrun with tokens from Assemble the Legion .

Key tricks (besides gifting away the obviously bad stuff):- Paradox Haze and copy effects to get extra goodies from Zedruu- Gift Statecraft to stop a creature deck in its tracks- Cultural Exchange can get out of otherwise impossible situations due to targeting players instead of creatures for control shuffling (and you don't even have to pick yourself!)- Use the Exile Permanent enchantments as answers, and then gift away the prison of their own card :)- Darksteel Mutation, Faith's Fetters, and exchanging control are all good ways of dealing with opposing commanders without letting them get sent back to owner's command zone. Nevermore is there for to deal with Commanders as well. - Trading tokens from Akroan Horse and Assemble the Legion for opponent's good stuff

Things to keep in mind (weaknesses)- Deck does rather poorly without Zedruu, so you have to protect him. I use Gift of Immortality, but also used to have Indestructibility - can gift away the enchantments once they are on Zedruu for additional benefits- Some of the cards are really bad if you have to keep control of them - make sure you have the means to get rid of them immediately!- This list is NOT a budget deck list - am still working on acquiring some of the cards, but have this is the current dream list

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 56 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 2 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.42
Tokens	Emblem Tamiyo, the Moon Sage, Soldier 1/1 RW, Soldier 1/1 W