Hippo by Avissar

Format: Commander

Commander: Phelddagrif

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Group Hug and Pillowfort build helmed by Phelddagrif. Its primary strategy revolves around supercharging the entire table with symmetrical draw engines like Howling Mine and Font of Mythos, alongside mana doublers such as Heartbeat of Spring and Dictate of Karametra. To survive the immense resources it provides to opponents, the deck deploys a defensive wall of blockers and pillowfort deterrents including Glacial Chasm, Crawlspace, Silent Arbiter, and Wall of Denial. It aims to close the game late by leveraging accumulated mana into massive X-draw spells like Prosperity, Minds Aglow, or Skyscribing, or by activating Folio of Fancies to mill all opponents simultaneously based on their inflated hand sizes. The deck entirely forgoes conventional spot removal, counterspells, and board wipes in favor of political insulation and shared resource acceleration.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aluren
  • 1 Anvil of Bogardan
  • 1 Arbiter of Knollridge
  • 1 Awakening
  • 1 Axebane Guardian
  • 1 Braids, Conjurer Adept
  • 1 Burgeoning
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Collective Voyage
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concordant Crossroads
  • 1 Crawlspace
  • 1 Darksteel Myr
  • 1 Dictate of Karametra
  • 1 Dictate of Kruphix
  • 1 Dream Halls
  • 1 Eladamri's Vineyard
  • 1 Fog Bank
  • 1 Folio of Fancies
  • 1 Font of Mythos
  • 1 Forbidden Orchard
  • 11 Forest
  • 1 Gate to the Aether
  • 1 Genesis Chamber
  • 1 Glacial Chasm
  • 1 Gluntch, the Bestower
  • 1 Heartbeat of Spring
  • 1 Heartwood Storyteller
  • 1 Helm of Awakening
  • 1 Hive Mind
  • 1 Horn of Greed
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 1 Indentured Djinn
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Joiner Adept
  • 1 Kami of the Crescent Moon
  • 1 Kwain, Itinerant Meddler
  • 1 Magus of the Vineyard
  • 1 Manor Gargoyle
  • 1 Maze of Ith
  • 1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
  • 1 Minds Aglow
  • 1 Oath of Druids
  • 1 Oath of Lieges
  • 1 Old-Growth Dryads
  • 1 Overgrown Battlement
  • 1 Phelddagrif
  • 9 Plains
  • 1 Prosperity
  • 1 Questing Phelddagrif
  • 1 Rainbow Vale
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rites of Flourishing
  • 1 Seaside Citadel
  • 1 Selvala, Explorer Returned
  • 1 Sheltering Ancient
  • 1 Silent Arbiter
  • 1 Skyscribing
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soldevi Sentry
  • 1 Temple Bell
  • 1 Tempt with Discovery
  • 1 Tempt with Reflections
  • 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Upwelling
  • 1 Walking Archive
  • 1 Wall of Denial
  • 1 Wall of Frost
  • 1 Wall of Glare
  • 1 Wall of Shards
  • 1 Wall of Vapor