Bad gifts by xchains81

Format: Commander

Commander: Zedruu the Greathearted

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Zedruu is both the engine and the hidden commander: there is no double-faced alternative. The deck ramps into her early, then turns donated permanents into life and cards each upkeep. Its primary plan is to give away dangerous or symmetric permanents such as Steel Golem, Bronze Bombshell, and Grid Monitor while pillow-forting with Sphere of Safety and Solitary Confinement. Secondary paths include Felidar Sovereign and Aetherflux Reservoir as life-based wins, a one-shot Transcendence donation to remove a single player, and Triskaidekaphile as a fragile backup. Bazaar Trader and Harmless Offering provide donation redundancy, but Zedruu's repeatable draw is what makes the strategy operate.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Act of Aggression
  • 1 Act of Authority
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Aggressive Mining
  • 1 Akroan Horse
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Azorius Chancery
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Banishing Light
  • 1 Bazaar Trader
  • 1 Boros Garrison
  • 1 Brand
  • 1 Bronze Bombshell
  • 1 Chaos Lord
  • 1 Cinder Giant
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Confiscate
  • 1 Conjured Currency
  • 1 Dance of the Manse
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Detention Sphere
  • 1 Djinn of Infinite Deceits
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Felidar Sovereign
  • 1 Fickle Efreet
  • 1 Form of the Dragon
  • 1 Frost Titan
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Goblin Cadets
  • 1 Grid Monitor
  • 1 Harmless Offering
  • 1 Humble Defector
  • 1 Illusions of Grandeur
  • 1 Inferno Titan
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Izzet Boilerworks
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jinxed Choker
  • 1 Jinxed Idol
  • 1 Keeper of the Accord
  • 1 Khârn the Betrayer
  • 1 Leave // Chance
  • 1 Modify Memory
  • 9 Mountain
  • 1 Nine Lives
  • 1 Nykthos Paragon
  • 1 Oblivion Ring
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Perplexing Chimera
  • 9 Plains
  • 1 Rainbow Vale
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rust Elemental
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solitary Confinement
  • 1 Sphere of Safety
  • 1 Steel Golem
  • 1 Sudden Substitution
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Transcendence
  • 1 Triskaidekaphile
  • 1 Turf War
  • 1 Vedalken Plotter
  • 1 Wall of Denial
  • 1 Well of Lost Dreams
  • 1 Wild Research
  • 1 Wrong Turn
  • 1 Zedruu the Greathearted