Plenty of Gifts by user7967986

Format: Commander

Commander: Zedruu the Greathearted

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Jeskai pillowfort and political control strategy built around Zedruu the Greathearted. The primary game plan focuses on deploying defensive enchantments like Ghostly Prison, Propaganda, and Smoke to discourage attacks while using Zedruu to donate benign or harmful permanents to opponents. Each donated permanent fuels Zedruu's upkeep trigger, steadily refilling your hand and padding your life total. Without fast mana or nonland tutors, the deck plays at a deliberate pace, accumulating resources and controlling the board with efficient counterspells and sweepers like Supreme Verdict and Blasphemous Act. The primary route to victory culminates in alternate win conditions such as Test of Endurance or lethal damage from Aetherflux Reservoir once your life total surpasses 50. Secondary win paths leverage donated curses like Aggressive Mining or explosive life swings from Illusions of Grandeur. The deck excels at multiplayer attrition but remains vulnerable to coordinated aggression and focused enchantment removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Aggressive Mining
  • 1 Alexi's Cloak
  • 1 Angel's Grace
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Ascension
  • 1 Argivian Find
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Awe Strike
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Boros Signet
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Chromatic Orrery
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crystal Chimes
  • 1 Curse of Exhaustion
  • 1 Curse of Shaken Faith
  • 1 Darksteel Mutation
  • 1 Darksteel Relic
  • 1 Display of Power
  • 1 Donate
  • 1 Elixir of Immortality
  • 1 Erode
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fountain of Youth
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Grafted Skullcap
  • 1 Greater Auramancy
  • 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
  • 1 Harmless Offering
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 1 Illusionist's Bracers
  • 1 Illusions of Grandeur
  • 1 Indestructibility
  • 1 Invisible Force Field
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Ivory Tower
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mechanized Production
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Monastery
  • 1 Nine Lives
  • 1 Obliterate
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pendant of Prosperity
  • 9 Plains
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Puca's Mischief
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Quarantine Field
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Ringing Strike Mastery
  • 1 Smoke
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solitary Confinement
  • 1 Spellbook
  • 1 Stasis Snare
  • 1 Strionic Resonator
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftwater Cliffs
  • 1 Test of Endurance
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Timely Ward
  • 1 Tranquil Cove
  • 1 Venser's Journal
  • 1 Well of Lost Dreams
  • 1 Wind-Scarred Crag
  • 1 Zedruu the Greathearted
  • 1 Zuran Orb