The Groupest of Hugs by SaschaMTG

Format: Commander

Commander: Ms. Bumbleflower

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This deck is a Bant +1/+1 counters and spellslinger strategy commanded by Ms. Bumbleflower. The primary game plan revolves around casting at least two spells each turn cycle to trigger Bumbleflower's ability, distributing +1/+1 counters, granting flying, and drawing two cards. By utilizing low-mana cantrips, reactive protection spells, and repeatable bounce creatures like Shrieking Drake and Whitemane Lion, the deck maintains consistent card advantage while rapidly growing its board. Win conditions include aggressive combat damage amplified by Chocobo Knights granting double strike, counter doublers like Growth Curve and Level Up, and alternate win conditions such as Twenty-Toed Toad and Triskaidekaphile. The deck shields its board state with an extensive suite of low-cost hexproof, phasing, and shield counter spells. While gifting cards to opponents gives them additional resources, asymmetric sweepers like Damning Verdict and attack taxes like Ghostly Prison keep opposing pressure manageable.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aligned Heart
  • 1 Alisaie Leveilleur
  • 1 Alphinaud Leveilleur
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Ascension
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Bastion Protector
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Chocobo Knights
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Condemn
  • 1 Crib Swap
  • 1 Damning Verdict
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faeburrow Elder
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Gift of the Viper
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Growth Curve
  • 1 Guardian Augmenter
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Haystack
  • 1 Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped Eclipse
  • 1 High Score
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Incubation Druid
  • 1 Inexorable Tide
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Level Up
  • 1 Long River's Pull
  • 1 Lyla, Holographic Assistant
  • 1 Mana Sculpt
  • 1 Monk Class
  • 1 Ms. Bumbleflower
  • 1 On the Trail
  • 1 Overflowing Basin
  • 1 Pensive Professor
  • 1 Pip-Boy 3000
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Promise of Loyalty
  • 1 Protection Magic
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Razorverge Thicket
  • 1 Reality Ripple
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Resourceful Defense
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Royal Treatment
  • 1 Seachrome Coast
  • 1 Seaside Citadel
  • 1 Shared Roots
  • 1 Sheltered by Ghosts
  • 1 Shrieking Drake
  • 1 Siren Stormtamer
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Step Through
  • 1 Stirring Hopesinger
  • 1 Sungrass Prairie
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Temple of Mystery
  • 1 Temple of Plenty
  • 1 Tempt with Discovery
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thriving Grove
  • 1 Thriving Heath
  • 1 Thriving Isle
  • 1 Tidus, Yuna's Guardian
  • 1 Together Forever
  • 1 Triskaidekaphile
  • 1 Twenty-Toed Toad
  • 1 Vanishing
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 View from Above
  • 1 Wear Down
  • 1 Whitemane Lion
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast