Gifting the homeless by user6485000

Format: Commander

Commander: Zedruu the Greathearted

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a classic "bad gifts" Zedruu deck built around donating harmfully symmetrical or self-impairing permanents to opponents-cards like Steel Golem, Grid Monitor, Illusions of Grandeur, and Transcendence-while extracting card draw and life from Zedruu's upkeep trigger. The primary game plan is to establish pillow fort (Propaganda, Ghostly Prison, Statecraft), deploy Zedruu, and begin a slow grind of donating permanents to draw into one of several finishers: Approach of the Second Sun (double-cast), Psychosis Crawler (drain from draw triggers), Insurrection (thief swarm), or Twenty-Toed Toad (hand-size victory). The deck is deliberately political, using gifts like Humble Defector, Bucknard's Everfull Purse, and Pendant of Prosperity to generate tempo while the real punishment pieces stay hidden until donated.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aggressive Mining
  • 1 Akroan Horse
  • 1 Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Assault Suit
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Bazaar Trader
  • 1 Boros Signet
  • 1 Bronze Bombshell
  • 1 Bucknard's Everfull Purse
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Confusion in the Ranks
  • 1 Coveted Falcon
  • 1 Coveted Jewel
  • 1 Curse of Opulence
  • 1 Custody Battle
  • 1 Disrupt Decorum
  • 1 Donate
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exchange of Words
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Fractured Identity
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Grid Monitor
  • 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Harmless Offering
  • 1 Hithlain Rope
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 1 Humble Defector
  • 1 Illusions of Grandeur
  • 1 Insurrection
  • 1 Iroh, Tea Master
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Khârn the Betrayer
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mob Rule
  • 1 Moderation
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Monastery
  • 1 Nine Lives
  • 1 Paradox Haze
  • 1 Pendant of Prosperity
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Puca's Mischief
  • 1 Raugrin Triome
  • 1 Reins of Power
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Risky Move
  • 1 Role Reversal
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Silent Arbiter
  • 1 Sky Swallower
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Statecraft
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Steel Golem
  • 1 Stiltzkin, Moogle Merchant
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tempting Contract
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Transcendence
  • 1 Twenty-Toed Toad
  • 1 Varchild's War-Riders
  • 1 Victory Chimes
  • 1 Wrong Turn
  • 1 Yes Man, Personal Securitron
  • 1 Zedruu the Greathearted