The Hate U Give 🐐

Format: Commander

Commander: Zedruu the Greathearted

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This Jeskai control deck is commanded by Zedruu the Greathearted and focuses on the classic 'Bad Gifts' strategy. The deck utilizes early mana ramp to deploy Zedruu and pass control of detrimental permanents to opponents. Cards like Steel Golem and Grid Monitor shut down creature-heavy decks, while Aggressive Mining halts land drops. Meanwhile, Zedruu rewards you each upkeep with extra cards and life for every permanent you own under opposing control. Defensive staples such as Ghostly Prison, Pramikon, Sky Rampart, and the damage-locking combination of Solemnity with Nine Lives or Phyrexian Unlife keep you alive against aggressive boards. To close out games, the deck donates life-loss bombs like Illusions of Grandeur and Nine Lives, then destroys or bounces them to rapidly eliminate opponents one by one.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aggressive Mining
  • 1 Akroan Horse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Aura Blast
  • 1 Bazaar Trader
  • 1 Brand
  • 1 Bronze Bombshell
  • 1 Bucknard's Everfull Purse
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Giant
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultural Exchange
  • 1 Curse of Opulence
  • 1 Delusions of Mediocrity
  • 1 Dictate of Kruphix
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fractured Identity
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Chasm
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Goblin Rabblemaster
  • 1 Goldnight Castigator
  • 1 Grid Monitor
  • 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hanna, Ship's Navigator
  • 1 Harmless Offering
  • 1 Heliod's Intervention
  • 1 Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway
  • 1 Hithlain Rope
  • 1 Homeward Path
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 1 Humble Defector
  • 1 Illusions of Grandeur
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs
  • 1 Legerdemain
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirage Mirror
  • 1 Mirrormade
  • 1 Mirrorweave
  • 1 Mob Rule
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Mystic Monastery
  • 1 Needleverge Pathway // Pillarverge Pathway
  • 1 Nimbus Maze
  • 1 Nine Lives
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pendant of Prosperity
  • 1 Phyrexian Unlife
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Pramikon, Sky Rampart
  • 1 Puca's Mischief
  • 1 Rainbow Vale
  • 1 Raugrin Triome
  • 1 Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway
  • 1 Role Reversal
  • 1 Rugged Prairie
  • 1 Rust Elemental
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Shifting Grift
  • 1 Silent Arbiter
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Solemnity
  • 1 Spawnbroker
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Statecraft
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Steel Golem
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Sudden Substitution
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sundown Pass
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 1 Switcheroo
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Thundering Falls
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Transcendence
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Wear // Tear
  • 1 Whirlwind of Thought
  • 1 Wild Research
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow
  • 1 Wrong Turn
  • 1 Yes Man, Personal Securitron
  • 1 Zedruu the Greathearted