Welcoming Committee Group Hug Control by Coldcole911

Format: Commander

Commander: Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 48

Deck overview

This deck is a four-color Group Hug Combo strategy led by Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis. It accelerates the table's mana and card draw using symmetric engines such as Howling Mine, Font of Mythos, and the commander's end-step triggers, while using pillowfort defenses like Propaganda, Ghostly Prison, and Dáin, Lord of the Iron Hills to discourage attacks. Behind this benevolent exterior, the deck aims to assemble a decisive two-card infinite combo: Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker and Felidar Guardian. Once deployed, Kiki-Jiki repeatedly copies Felidar Guardian to generate arbitrarily large numbers of hasty 1/4 creatures, eliminating all opponents in a single combat phase on Turn 5. If the creature combo is disrupted, the deck pivots cleanly into Isochron Scepter and Dramatic Reversal to generate infinite mana and draw the library into Blue Sun's Zenith or Psychosis Crawler. Efficient protection spells ensure the deck can reliably force through its win conditions.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Angel's Grace
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Autumn's Veil
  • 1 Bard, King of Dale
  • 1 Bilbo's Gambit
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Blue Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Boros Garrison
  • 1 Botanical Plaza
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Chord of Calling
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clever Impersonator
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Defense Grid
  • 1 Dictate of Kruphix
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dramatic Reversal
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Dáin, Lord of the Iron Hills
  • 1 Eladamri's Call
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Felidar Guardian
  • 1 Flumph
  • 1 Font of Mythos
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Fractured Identity
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Gluntch, the Bestower
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Heartwood Storyteller
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 1 Idyllic Tutor
  • 1 Insurrection
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isochron Scepter
  • 1 Izzet Boilerworks
  • 1 Jungle Shrine
  • 1 Kami of the Crescent Moon
  • 1 Ketria Triome
  • 1 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
  • 1 Kwain, Itinerant Meddler
  • 1 Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Minds Aglow
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mystic Monastery
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Otherworld Atlas
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Prosperity
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Regrowth
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rites of Flourishing
  • 1 Sea Gate
  • 1 Seaside Citadel
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Sokrates, Athenian Teacher
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stardew Valley
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sundown Pass
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Taunt from the Rampart
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Wedding Ring
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zenith Chronicler