Gluntch Group Hug by PhoenixPhill

Format: Commander

Commander: Gluntch, the Bestower

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

Gluntch, the Bestower leads a Selesnya group-hug deck whose primary win condition is Approach of the Second Sun. The deck establishes symmetrical draw and ramp engines such as Howling Mine, Rites of Flourishing, Font of Mythos, and Heartbeat of Spring, then protects its pilot with a pillowfort package of Nils, Discipline Enforcer, Orzhov Advokist, and Sphere of Safety, plus a dense suite of fogs. Once the table is flooded with cards and mana, the plan is to cast Approach of the Second Sun, let the group-draw engines dig the seven-card gap, and recast it for the win. A secondary beatdown path exists via large bodies and Duelist's Heritage, while life-total manipulation like Beacon of Immortality and Reverse the Sands is mostly stalling tech. The deck is political, slow, and entirely dependent on its draw engines actually finding the one sorcery that ends the game.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Approach of the Second Sun
• 1 Arbiter of Knollridge
• 1 Awakening
• 1 Beacon of Immortality
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Benevolent Offering
• 1 Bucknard's Everfull Purse
• 1 Canopy Vista
• 1 Collective Voyage
• 1 Combat Calligrapher
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Cut a Deal
• 1 Dawn Charm
• 1 Dawnbreak Reclaimer
• 1 Divine Gambit
• 1 Duelist's Heritage
• 1 Eladamri's Vineyard
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Fecundity
• 1 Flumph
• 1 Fog
• 1 Font of Mythos
• 13 Forest
• 1 Fortified Village
• 1 Gate to the Aether
• 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1 Generous Gift
• 1 Ghirapur Orrery
• 1 Gluntch, the Bestower
• 1 Heartbeat of Spring
• 1 Heartwood Storyteller
• 1 Helm of Awakening
• 1 Howling Golem
• 1 Howling Mine
• 1 Hunted Wumpus
• 1 Hypergenesis
• 1 Magus of the Vineyard
• 1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 New Frontiers
• 1 Nils, Discipline Enforcer
• 1 Nullmage Advocate
• 1 Old-Growth Dryads
• 1 Orzhov Advokist
• 1 Otherworld Atlas
• 1 Pir's Whim
• 13 Plains
• 1 Pulsemage Advocate
• 1 Regna's Sanction
• 1 Reverse the Sands
• 1 Riot Control
• 1 Rites of Flourishing
• 1 Scholarship Sponsor
• 1 Second Sunrise
• 1 Secret Rendezvous
• 1 Selfless Squire
• 1 Selvala, Explorer Returned
• 1 Settle the Wreckage
• 1 Shizuko, Caller of Autumn
• 1 Skullwinder
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sphere of Safety
• 1 Spore Frog
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Sylvan Offering
• 1 Temple Bell
• 1 Tempt with Discovery
• 1 Tempting Wurm
• 1 Three Visits
• 1 Truce
• 1 Victory Chimes
• 1 Weird Harvest
• 1 Winds of Abandon
• 1 Wishmonger
• 1 Your Temple Is Under Attack