Overview:

This Commodore Guff Superfriends deck focuses on planeswalker synergy, leveraging proliferate mechanics and loyalty counter manipulation to activate game-winning ultimates and control the board. The deck combines defensive enchantments, token generation for protection, and value engines like Rhystic Study to maintain momentum. Key strengths include proliferate redundancy and stax-like effects to slow opponents, but it lacks infinite combos and relies on incremental advantage.

Primer:

Core Strategy: Deploy planeswalkers early using Guff’s token generation and proliferate effects (Flux Channeler, Inexorable Tide) to accelerate loyalty abilities. Protect walkers with tax effects (Ghostly Prison, Sphere of Safety) and blockers (Servo/Spirit tokens). Close games via ultimates (e.g., Chandra, Awakened Inferno’s emblems) or damage amplification from All Will Be One. Backup plans include The Peregrine Dynamo copying loyalty abilities and Sarkhan the Masterless turning walkers into threats.

Mulligan Priorities:

• Ensure 3+ lands with color fixing (prioritize Command Tower, Interplanar Beacon).
• Seek early planeswalkers (Saheeli, Sublime Artificer, Narset, Parter of Veils) or proliferate engines (Thrummingbird).
• Keep hands with at least one protection piece (Teferi’s Protection, Orim’s Chant).

Key Tips:

• Sequence Loyalty Abilities: Use Guff’s end-step loyalty counter ability to enable ultimates next turn.
• Proliferate Triggers: Flux Channeler + noncreature spells or Grateful Apparition combat damage can rapidly scale counters.
• Stax Synergy: Teferi, Time Raveler and Propaganda disrupt opponents’ ability to respond or attack walkers.

Avoid Traps:

• Overextending walkers without tax/protection.
• Holding proliferate triggers for "perfect" moments—use them to pressure life totals via All Will Be One.

Weaknesses:

Critical:

• Planeswalker Vulnerability: Relies on fragile permanents; lacks recursion beyond Onakke Oathkeeper.
• No Infinite Combos: Struggles to close games quickly against high-power decks.

Moderate:

• Artifact/Enchantment Reliance: Key pieces (Ichormoon Gauntlet, The Chain Veil) are soft to mass removal.
• Slow Recovery: Limited card draw outside planeswalker activations.

Minor:

• Mana Base: Some enters-tapped lands; weak to Blood Moon effects.

Most Important Cards:

• All Will Be One (Damage engine)
• Deepglow Skate (Loyalty doubling)
• The Chain Veil (Planeswalker activations)
• Teferi’s Protection (Protection)
• Cyclonic Rift (Board reset)
• Rhystic Study (Card advantage)
• Smothering Tithe (Mana acceleration)
• Ichormoon Gauntlet (Proliferate/extra turns)
• Sarkhan the Masterless (Wincon)
• Narset, Parter of Veils (Disruption)

Attribute Ratings:

Speed: 5/10

• No fast mana or cheats; relies on T4–5 planeswalker setups. Ichormoon Gauntlet enables T7–8 extra turns, but requires board presence.

Resilience: 6/10

• Multiple protection spells (Galadriel’s Dismissal, Deflecting Palm) and stax effects, but walkers remain vulnerable to focused aggression.

Consistency: 6/10

• Strong draw engines (Rhystic Study, Mangara, the Diplomat) but limited tutors. Proliferate redundancy compensates.

Interaction: 7/10

• Efficient removal (Generous Gift, Stroke of Midnight) and counters (Narset’s Reversal), but lacks free spells.

Rating Justification:

This deck sits between Optimized Casual (5.0) and High-Power Casual (5.5). It can lock opponents with planeswalker emblems by T8–9 but lacks the speed (T7+ win benchmark) and redundancy of true combo decks. While it has strong stax elements and interaction, its reliance on incremental value and vulnerability to board wipes caps its ceiling.

Power level: 5.0 – 5.5