Some say they were the first roommates in the Multiverse. Such good that they slept in the same tent on the battlefield, and were even buried together when they died!
"holding hands?" his hand his in his hair stroking his scalp, at the same time the other has his hand wraped around his waist, it is gay and it is ok for it to be gay just let it be gay.
Except that's not how the card works. It only triggers the token on CAST, not etb. In other words, if you flicker the wedding ring, you don't get to give a new player a token copy of it, meaning the board state has not changed in any way at all. If you were giving out wedding ring tokens with each flicker, you were straight up cheating my dude.
@@kingofbudokai Oh my apologies, I used the incorrect terminology, allow me to clarify the events. I used a fractured identity on my opponents token copy, and bounced the original back to my hand with another spell and recast it.
My preferred way to group hug is to see how many cards you can make everyone draw as fast as possible.Watching them go from thankful for an extra card each turn, to worried when they need to discard to hand size after every turn, to needing to kill me because they can survive drawing 20 more cards on my next turn. It is not mill I am giving them cards to play how nice of me
My group hug deck is korona the false god Step 1: cast korona Step 2: make the deal that no one can attack with, or kill korona Step 3: as soon as someone inevitably breaks this deal I proceed to gate keep and girl boss until the subject has been removed from the table
I loved my really bad "Multiverse War" deck. Basically, Karona with a bunch of Battles and "Oh, you attacked? Do it better". Basically, throwing violence into a catalytic converter and then sprucing it up under the guise of "Here, have an extra Commander everyone!"
My Kwain deck is one of my favorites 🐰 The idea is that I’m planning to go infinite and cast a symmetrical draw effect for a billion. Everyone, myself included, decks out and loses simultaneously. No tutors, minimal counter play, just an crapload of draw spells for everyone to dig for pieces as quickly as possible. I win when we all lose, and if you lose it’s not because I didn’t help you draw into your answers. I love it 😊
Ah, kyniaos, my first real commander deck. It was just a tad painful to finally take him apart a year ago. I can still remember the faces of my friends watching me loop both selvalas with Jeskai Ascendancy
@@narkfly Commander is Gor Muldrak, Ampbiologist. With him, the goal is to make sure the opponent has as many Salamanders as possible, whether they want salamanders or not. You do this off his effect, which puts a 4/3 salamander into play of whoever has the least amount of creatures at the end of your turn. You can also forcable turn other creatures into Salamanders, with one of the best options being Isocron Specter imprinted with Standardize, which allows you to turn all creatures on the battlefield into Salamanders. The deck's win conditions are using Seedborn Muse and the aforementioned Isocron Specpter play to just keep everything on the board as Salamanders, and given how your commander gives you and all creatures you control protection from them, you can attack without fear. The next is using cards like Peer Pressure to steal all your opponents salamanders. This has been a lesson on how to group frog. You're welcome.
@@drakefire6675 I can see you have an appreciation of the finer things in life. Are there good options for asymmetrical board wipes in Simic to support this strategy?
@@narkfly Not Particularly. I also run cultural exchange, and various other effects that allow me to trade my Salamanders for enemy creatures. Angular Lure Tortoise is another useful card, specially with the Seed born Muse and Isocron/Peer Preasure combo.
A kingmaker group hug deck sound really fun. At the start if each game, you write the name of one of your opponents on a piece of paper and put it face down on the bottom of your library. Then you do everything possible to help that player run away with the game. Someone else may "win", but if your chosen, unwitting teammate pulls it off, you get to consider it a team effort. XD Legit kind of love that, I thing I might brew that up.
Pheldagriff is a top tier group hug commander he’s mad fun. You can also add a win condition by giving everyone hippos and either taking ‘em or having it ping them for damage
King Kenrith had one of my favorite moments. I vowed to a friend that on a later turn, I would use his white ability (life gain) on him when he really needed it. A few turns later and I told him that I would need to break my promise and to be honest, he threw a bitch fit and demanded that I keep up my end. I reminded him that it was my WHITE ABILITY, that I was going to uphold and that he didn’t care. I told him fuck it and I played the card that prompted me to want to breaking my promise; Tainted Remedy. He was pissed, but he forgave me later. There’s a reason why my Kenrith deck was infamously nicknamed by my friends as “Monkey’s Paw.”
Been testing out Ian Malcom from the new Jurrasic Park cards w/ some friends online, and he may just be my new favorite "Mario Party" commander. Everyone getting to play everyone else's decks is a recipe for a unique flavor of insanity every game.
Built atraxa group hug, handing out indestructible and +1/+1 counters to everybody besides the usual group hug ramp. It‘s tons of fun and a completely different route for one of the most loved/hated commanders
My Xyris the Writhering Stotm was originally a group hug. Just wanted to make snakes for my planes. But then everyone wanted to play their good decks with all my benefits. I got tired of getting rolled by Najeela after a while and Xyris started his villain arc. Now it is the most feared deck at our table and I can only play it once per night.
And then there's my own personal favorite "Let Fate Decide" Where I totally don't have Knowledge Pool and Possibility Storm up at the same time, with Isochron Scepter imprinting Tibalt's Trickery just in case someone tries to get smart with me and ruin the fun.
Since this comment I've bought the LOTR Elf precon and turned it into Cirdan group hug. (Read: on etb or attack, everyone vote a player in secret; each player draws for each vote they receive, if no votes, they cheat a permanent in) [Might not work for you, but 60+% at our table are variants of spell slinger] First off this boy has made more politic discussions in one game than our table has ever had, as the whole table if forced to "hand out weapons" and no one wants to king make. Then for some absolutely mad plays the Blue and green "Join forces" cards are in there (Each player may pay any amount of mana, the total mana is what each player draws/tutors into play basic lands.) The temptation cycle, Rite of flourishing, howling mine, Helm of Awakening for some kindness But then you might be wondering, how am I supposed to get ahead? Cards like Confounding connundrum. (Read: if an opponent has a land etb after their first, bounce it to hand)
I'm the friend, here's card draw and card reduction! (And in one game, get all your basic lands) Yeah sure I'll counter that spell. You are planning to stab me in the back? Fog My turn? eat 46 elves
Thanks to you I've gotten more into commander. Having a blast, currently building my own deck so I don't have to borrow anymore. Admiral Beckett Brass is so fun, I love taking people's stuff
I’m playing Kenrith as my group hug commander, black also gives some neat options like Abyssal Persecutor. No one can leave the game before we allow that and make them beg to stop feeding them resources. I also use this deck to teach people that free resources is a trap with Price of Knowledge when they have a ton of cards drawn with our help. And Kenrith ensures no one is off the game 😊
Made K&T Mario Party by accident once. The thought was to play a bunch of beneficial stuff for everyone it'll ramp up for big, flashy, quick games, and while it succeeded magnificently at points 1 and 2; 3 was a colossal failure. Turns out when you super charge the arms race, you end up with a very complicated cold war where no one can do anything for fear of mutually assured destruction.
My favorite "group hug" is a budget marchesa deck I built. Centered around the vows, and soul link abilities, tenous truce abilities. It's fun to buff creatures but they can't attack me, and make people draw cards but can't do anything to me. I don't win very often, but it's real fun to see what kinds of things happen.
My favorite commander, who is a hug commander of sorts, is Rocco Street Chef. Everyone gets a little something, but you get a little more. And he doesnt just win the game himself, 1/1 counters and food just enable other cards to win the game.
I play Yurlok for my group hug deck. Everybody is gonna be swimming in mana. We’re talking every nonbasic is a mountain that deals two to you when you tap it for 6 red mana, which taps all your other lands. Really fun time.
I'm gonna be honest, I never understood the appeal of group hug tactics until your video on Belbe. I now have a Commander deck around her. And you're giving me more ideas. 😂
Nice! I actually called mr bunny "Springtrap" when I got to know him because he's a rabbit who only seems trust worthy at first....then you realize he is nothing but trouble. My current Group Hug is actually Bill Ferny. I am obssessed with trying to break this commander despite there being only one good combo with Akroan War Horse I think? I'm more interested in Maskwood to either Kingmake or using a spell to retake control of all off them and win the game.
I made loot, the key to everything group hug. Because the key to everything is friendship. Loot is just a little guy that helps me find more group hug stuff to put into play and then I just watch the chaos unfold as everyone draws 8 cards a turn and their mana taps for 6 or more and finally mana pools don't empty between phases so you can just float all of your mana forever
Im planning on making a vazi keen negotiator grouphug deck soon. Jund grouphug is definitely one you can trust, and they will never ever stab you in the back...
I've been rocking a rakdos group hug for a while now and after a fuck load of tuning it is actually a pretty effective and consistent deck that has a decent balance between goals 1) and 3). Along with the normal group hug stuff it has a bit of a reanimator theme, using Livjng Death and Bringed of the last gift to revive your opponent's stuff. Can also donate some token and potentially "polymorph" them. Right now it has a small but potent voltron package to win, but I might adjust that.
Personally the lotr elf precon, or as i so lovingly call it, voting season Is my favorite way to see silly shit happen while still legally calling it group vote
My favorite group hug commander is actually Shanna, and I build her with a very aggressive ramp/draw strategy. I run Howling Mine + Font of Mythos + Horn of Greed + Rites of Flourishing so that everybody is drawing a ton of cards and ramping. Add Burgeoning so that I can ramp out unreal amounts of lands (I can put a land into play whenever anybody else does, and it replaces itself in my hand with Horn), and Smothering Tithe + Smuggler's Share to go nuts with the resource generation. Because it's a group hug, nobody is too concerned with attacking me or removing my stuff... ...which turns out to be a bad idea, as there are three instant wincons that I will draw and ramp to. I run the Approach of the Second Sun + Mystic Tutor combo and Felidar Sovereign Grand Abolisher + Teferi's Protection (it phases in during untap, and I win during upkeep); alternately, I run Thassa's Oracle.
I'm working on The Second Doctor with Clara Oswald (green) group hug right now. My only goal at the moment is making everyone draw an absurd amount of cards
My favorite is “rocco, street chef” he combos with a ham sandwich and lets opponents discard cards from the top and play then until the end of my next turn.
Or Option 4: Tergrid Group Hug. Let everyone play the game all they want, then decide theyve all had their collective fun, drop an All is Dust and watch them cry as everything you gave them is now yours.
Give me Aesi. I love my Soup deck (serpents of unusual proportions), and if someone at the table is getting uppity, a few swaps is all it takes before “oops, all landfall”
Then there is my favorite, forced hug with tons of card draw with Xyris, the Writhing Storm. Overwhelm your opponents with card draw and give them a ton of mana while you build up with snakes.
The amount of times I hear that the roommates were, in fact, only roommates, is hilarious to me. Theros is Greece. In Greece, the pinnacle of masculinity was having a wife you liked alright and a boyfriend you liked way more. So I'm glad we will continue memeing on the "they aren't gay" people until Wizard caves as a company. Keep up the good work, Champion Mald.
I’d rather make sure that no one wins, not even myself, and I can do that by making sure that everyone has as miserable experience as possible. Stax if you will.
My brother plays the last option with that exact commander, almost every game he uses it just goes absolutely balls to the wall and when that wall is finished being built he uses stuff like Reins of Power to make you pay for it.
My favorite group hug commander is Nekusar. Everyone gets to draw cards! And you're in Grixis to make sure no one else gets too far ahead of the rest of the table.
My primary deck is group hug with the gay kings at the helm. I call it The Huggernaut and I explicitly avoid using pillowfort effects or any cards that punish my opponents for having/using the resources I provide and instead tries to leverage a win off of it's own boosted resources with cards like Wizard Class and Kessig Wolf Run. It's a chaotic mess that always makes for a more active and involved game and my play group loves it.
And if you want to come across as absolutely chaotic, try Zevlor from Baldur's Gate. With red for combat tricks, black for card draw, and blue for removals you can kingmaker anyone in colors they won't expect!
Just two best buds, who built an entire city, a statue of the two of them crossing their swords in a show of true friendship; and even adopted several local orphans who they raised as co-parents cause they were that best of friends
I'm running my kings with alternate win cons. Essentially just setting a timer and going, "hey guys, play every single card you own and hope you can get through my pillow fort before the timer is up." But also, running some silly combos like fractured identity, rite of replication, and forced fruition.
I raise Phelddagrif as the Grandfather of Grouphug. Didn't appreciate the big ol flying purple hippo the way i should have about 5 years ago, you can play "everybody wins" from behind the cist of 47 per attack/spell headed your way, a pillow thicker than the Jetpuffd Giant, and an absolute platoon of Squirrels.
I use the prismatic bridge as my commander and I just drop out creatures that allow my opponents to drop out cards just to see how chaotic the game can be. With lots of pillow fort just so they can't hit me with their new friends.
I made a kenrith hug deck in which I make deals with my table for anything they need. “Oh you need haste to pop off? I got you” “Need 2 +1/+1 counters to beat your opponent? No problem” “I see you sent your commander to the graveyard, I’ll hand it over for you” Playing him and adding enchantments and cards that I use to gift them to others like that one goat deer thing with red blue white is amazing, sure I get a bit of health but now your ethali primal can slap with the power of a fiery emancipation.
Funniest thing is that Kynaios and Tiro in the lore stop the ruling archon tyrant with, and I'm paraphrasing "the power of their love for eachother, and freedom" There is no straight actions being made in a K&T deck
My Kwain deck is loaded with tutors to grab wedding ring, artifact clones to hand out more wedding rings, and bounce effects so I can recast wedding ring to hand more out.
Some say they were the first roommates in the Multiverse. Such good that they slept in the same tent on the battlefield, and were even buried together when they died!
Wow. That sounds like the best roommates ever.
Tent pole buds 🎉
In the American version of the story, they're really close cousins.
@@Shadowkat0326I hate that I understood that reference. XD
100% not gay, my history teacher said so
Historical records say they where friends, roommates even
My GOD they were ROOMMATES!
They were “close friends”
“Great Friends, just like my Husband and I” -Joey from EDHRec
The really funny part is that historical records canonically don't exist beyond a pair of statues that were misinterpreted as ENEMIES.
They were roommates yall
Just regular friends
Buried holding hands
On account of friendship 😊
With built statues together as friends
In a country they built together as friends
Were roommates
@@owenzheng8357 statues built by other roommates
In recognition of roommate to roommate status
if you slightly rephrase this comment it could totally be a haiku
just regular friends
on account of their friendship
buried holding hands
@@melskiddo and a damn beautiful haiku it is
"holding hands?"
his hand his in his hair stroking his scalp,
at the same time the other has his hand wraped around his waist,
it is gay and it is ok for it to be gay
just let it be gay.
We're playing Mario party baby. board wipes for days.
The Mario party decks can also have all the other group hug commanders inside them like a nesting doll
And theft, sooo much theft!
You got a star? Thats mine now! What do you mean I havent earned it? I stole it didnt I?
@@maldhoundFor extra fun, donate them! We're ALL running group hug!
@@somejerk5662Absolute mad lad, Iove it
@@yuven437you certainly spent more money on it😂
Look at these heterosexual buddies playing with each other's hair, that's true friendship.
"The power of friendship does, in fact, have hands." fucking sent me lmaooo
One of my favorite moments with Kwain was when I flickered Wedding Ring and married every opponent at the table.
I use wedding ring in my Breena, the demagogue politics deck, because forcing political marriages on people is fun.
Except that's not how the card works. It only triggers the token on CAST, not etb. In other words, if you flicker the wedding ring, you don't get to give a new player a token copy of it, meaning the board state has not changed in any way at all. If you were giving out wedding ring tokens with each flicker, you were straight up cheating my dude.
@@kingofbudokai Oh my apologies, I used the incorrect terminology, allow me to clarify the events. I used a fractured identity on my opponents token copy, and bounced the original back to my hand with another spell and recast it.
The true purpose for polyamory to have a consistent 4 pod
“Derek, that’s gay.”
“Jarred, we’ve been dating for-“
My preferred way to group hug is to see how many cards you can make everyone draw as fast as possible.Watching them go from thankful for an extra card each turn, to worried when they need to discard to hand size after every turn, to needing to kill me because they can survive drawing 20 more cards on my next turn. It is not mill I am giving them cards to play how nice of me
The delivery on "how generous" was fucking magnificent
So I'm gonna need that Mario Party Deck list you got.
Ah yes, my favorite Heterosexual Kings 😍
As a Kwain CEDH player. His description is on point.
Do you have a deck list? I’m trying to build a kwain deck rn
I don’t have a cedh list but descendant of soramaro is a powerhouse. Get big hand, then stack your draws that deep
We need that cedh list baby. We need it bad. And a primer. I'll let you turn me sideways.
My group hug deck is korona the false god
Step 1: cast korona
Step 2: make the deal that no one can attack with, or kill korona
Step 3: as soon as someone inevitably breaks this deal I proceed to gate keep and girl boss until the subject has been removed from the table
I loved my really bad "Multiverse War" deck.
Basically, Karona with a bunch of Battles and "Oh, you attacked? Do it better". Basically, throwing violence into a catalytic converter and then sprucing it up under the guise of "Here, have an extra Commander everyone!"
I have a similar game plan on my significantly worse but extraordinarily goofy Rakdos Group hug deck with Rohgahh of Kher Keep.
Karona is bae. I play her mainly as a Naya Goad deck. You all have to fight, I even give you a bigger stick for whackin. Oh btw you can't touch me.
I do this, except i put impetus and vows on korona in order to make sure i can't be attacked by it
@@Sassaparilla This sounds wonderful, do you happen to have a decklist? Much appreciated either way for the idea.
I play K&T as a chaos deck. Everyone ramps. Everyone draws cards. Nothing goes how anyone wants it to or expects.
I love K&T for my group hug deck makes the games go faster by giving everyone their ideal endgame boardstate when the nukes starts being thrown.
The happy hippo will forever be the best group hug commander and nobody can change my mind on that
All hail Phelddagrif
Fellow Based Phelddagrif-Enjoyer
My Kwain deck is one of my favorites 🐰
The idea is that I’m planning to go infinite and cast a symmetrical draw effect for a billion. Everyone, myself included, decks out and loses simultaneously.
No tutors, minimal counter play, just an crapload of draw spells for everyone to dig for pieces as quickly as possible.
I win when we all lose, and if you lose it’s not because I didn’t help you draw into your answers. I love it 😊
Are you able to share your decklist mayhaps? Asking for a friend
Love the close up "Carefully". And UW is def IRS colors XD
The I've always wanted to build a "oh were just roommates"..grouphug.
I can't wait to hear about the Mario party commanders
I use Zedruu for that. Chaos is so much fun, but everyone expects you to play Stax
@MathasiaJ one of my favorite cards to pair with zedruu is confusion in the ranks
My first thought for Mario Party was Chance Time! Aka Norin the Wary + Confusion in the Ranks and Grip of Chaos for that extra bit of silliness.
I run a muldrotha group hug and it is those colors almost exclusively for Endless Whispers
Oh my god, they were roommates...
Still playing OG hug Pheldagriff!
Current version is named angry hippo 😂
Hangry hangry hippo lol
They were just friends.....
REALLY good friends
"I want to win or I want to make somebody else win"
Nawh, I'm doing things my way....
*busts out Twilight Sparkle Commander*
Ah, kyniaos, my first real commander deck. It was just a tad painful to finally take him apart a year ago. I can still remember the faces of my friends watching me loop both selvalas with Jeskai Ascendancy
walking into a bar fight and handing out knives
you sir are a genius
Oh my God they were roommatessss
“IRS colours” had me wheezing
I mean... he's not wrong. It's called Azorius Control for a very good reason. 😅
Bugs Bunny had me rolling tbh. 😂😂😂
I know how much you like to have cards in your hand, so please roast Tergrid, God of Fright. I just built her and it's hilarious 🤣
My favourite group hug deck is Xantcha.
I constantly give my creatures to other players and make their creatuers stronger.
You play group hug, I play group frog. We are not the same.
Can you say more about group frog?
@@narkfly Commander is Gor Muldrak, Ampbiologist. With him, the goal is to make sure the opponent has as many Salamanders as possible, whether they want salamanders or not. You do this off his effect, which puts a 4/3 salamander into play of whoever has the least amount of creatures at the end of your turn. You can also forcable turn other creatures into Salamanders, with one of the best options being Isocron Specter imprinted with Standardize, which allows you to turn all creatures on the battlefield into Salamanders.
The deck's win conditions are using Seedborn Muse and the aforementioned Isocron Specpter play to just keep everything on the board as Salamanders, and given how your commander gives you and all creatures you control protection from them, you can attack without fear. The next is using cards like Peer Pressure to steal all your opponents salamanders.
This has been a lesson on how to group frog. You're welcome.
@@drakefire6675 I can see you have an appreciation of the finer things in life. Are there good options for asymmetrical board wipes in Simic to support this strategy?
I see Raise the Palisade and Peer Pressure in blue, any asymmetrical options in green or colorless?
@@narkfly Not Particularly. I also run cultural exchange, and various other effects that allow me to trade my Salamanders for enemy creatures. Angular Lure Tortoise is another useful card, specially with the Seed born Muse and Isocron/Peer Preasure combo.
My favorite “group hug” deck is my kami of the crescent moon, hope you like drawing 6 cards at the beginning of each of your turns :)
A kingmaker group hug deck sound really fun. At the start if each game, you write the name of one of your opponents on a piece of paper and put it face down on the bottom of your library. Then you do everything possible to help that player run away with the game. Someone else may "win", but if your chosen, unwitting teammate pulls it off, you get to consider it a team effort. XD Legit kind of love that, I thing I might brew that up.
Kami of the Crescent moon is the best group hug commander. No expects monoblue group hug.
Pheldagriff is a top tier group hug commander he’s mad fun. You can also add a win condition by giving everyone hippos and either taking ‘em or having it ping them for damage
King Kenrith had one of my favorite moments. I vowed to a friend that on a later turn, I would use his white ability (life gain) on him when he really needed it. A few turns later and I told him that I would need to break my promise and to be honest, he threw a bitch fit and demanded that I keep up my end. I reminded him that it was my WHITE ABILITY, that I was going to uphold and that he didn’t care. I told him fuck it and I played the card that prompted me to want to breaking my promise; Tainted Remedy. He was pissed, but he forgave me later. There’s a reason why my Kenrith deck was infamously nicknamed by my friends as “Monkey’s Paw.”
Been testing out Ian Malcom from the new Jurrasic Park cards w/ some friends online, and he may just be my new favorite "Mario Party" commander. Everyone getting to play everyone else's decks is a recipe for a unique flavor of insanity every game.
I call Gluntch my Drunk Uncle at Christmas deck. It gives out crazy gifts then wins by doing something stupid.
Let’s not forget Council of Four. Your howling mine no longer says “Draw 1, Enemies draw 3” whenever the other players play the game, you benefit.
Built atraxa group hug, handing out indestructible and +1/+1 counters to everybody besides the usual group hug ramp. It‘s tons of fun and a completely different route for one of the most loved/hated commanders
My Xyris the Writhering Stotm was originally a group hug. Just wanted to make snakes for my planes. But then everyone wanted to play their good decks with all my benefits. I got tired of getting rolled by Najeela after a while and Xyris started his villain arc. Now it is the most feared deck at our table and I can only play it once per night.
I picked up Kwain a while back, and began picking cards from my collection that I thought would work well. Then I remembered I have no friends.
And then there's my own personal favorite "Let Fate Decide"
Where I totally don't have Knowledge Pool and Possibility Storm up at the same time, with Isochron Scepter imprinting Tibalt's Trickery just in case someone tries to get smart with me and ruin the fun.
I need a Mario party deck tech
Since this comment I've bought the LOTR Elf precon and turned it into Cirdan group hug. (Read: on etb or attack, everyone vote a player in secret; each player draws for each vote they receive, if no votes, they cheat a permanent in)
[Might not work for you, but 60+% at our table are variants of spell slinger]
First off this boy has made more politic discussions in one game than our table has ever had, as the whole table if forced to "hand out weapons" and no one wants to king make.
Then for some absolutely mad plays the Blue and green "Join forces" cards are in there (Each player may pay any amount of mana, the total mana is what each player draws/tutors into play basic lands.)
The temptation cycle, Rite of flourishing, howling mine, Helm of Awakening for some kindness
But then you might be wondering, how am I supposed to get ahead? Cards like Confounding connundrum. (Read: if an opponent has a land etb after their first, bounce it to hand)
I'm the friend, here's card draw and card reduction! (And in one game, get all your basic lands)
Yeah sure I'll counter that spell.
You are planning to stab me in the back? Fog
My turn? eat 46 elves
My favorite moment was a turn 3 collective voyage that gave everyone at the table 19 basic lands onto the battlefield
You gonna leave out my boy Xyris? I’m letting the entire table draw as many cards as they can handle and then some. I call it “Group Squeeze”
Ooh I’d love to see your take on Breena, the Demogogue especially in the context of being played as a group hug commander.
"I prefer pain with my hugs." Nekusar, the Mindrazer
Thanks to you I've gotten more into commander.
Having a blast, currently building my own deck so I don't have to borrow anymore. Admiral Beckett Brass is so fun, I love taking people's stuff
I’m playing Kenrith as my group hug commander, black also gives some neat options like Abyssal Persecutor. No one can leave the game before we allow that and make them beg to stop feeding them resources. I also use this deck to teach people that free resources is a trap with Price of Knowledge when they have a ton of cards drawn with our help. And Kenrith ensures no one is off the game 😊
Made K&T Mario Party by accident once. The thought was to play a bunch of beneficial stuff for everyone it'll ramp up for big, flashy, quick games, and while it succeeded magnificently at points 1 and 2; 3 was a colossal failure. Turns out when you super charge the arms race, you end up with a very complicated cold war where no one can do anything for fear of mutually assured destruction.
My favorite "group hug" is a budget marchesa deck I built. Centered around the vows, and soul link abilities, tenous truce abilities. It's fun to buff creatures but they can't attack me, and make people draw cards but can't do anything to me. I don't win very often, but it's real fun to see what kinds of things happen.
I love Group Hug best when its ‘Here everyone have a free pistol, as long as i get a riot shield too”
My favorite commander, who is a hug commander of sorts, is Rocco Street Chef. Everyone gets a little something, but you get a little more. And he doesnt just win the game himself, 1/1 counters and food just enable other cards to win the game.
I really enjoy the, "Hetero buddies." It's my favorite of my decks.
How dare you pull out the legebetuhque. You know you are wrong for that.😂😂😂😂😂
Parnesse the subtle brush with eye of the storm is my group hug
I play Yurlok for my group hug deck. Everybody is gonna be swimming in mana. We’re talking every nonbasic is a mountain that deals two to you when you tap it for 6 red mana, which taps all your other lands. Really fun time.
(Blue) Braids is my group hug commander.
"Hey everybody, let's all draw cards!!"
watched this after building my kings deck ... I consider naming it mario party now. It fits.
I'm gonna be honest, I never understood the appeal of group hug tactics until your video on Belbe. I now have a Commander deck around her. And you're giving me more ideas. 😂
Nice! I actually called mr bunny "Springtrap" when I got to know him because he's a rabbit who only seems trust worthy at first....then you realize he is nothing but trouble. My current Group Hug is actually Bill Ferny. I am obssessed with trying to break this commander despite there being only one good combo with Akroan War Horse I think? I'm more interested in Maskwood to either Kingmake or using a spell to retake control of all off them and win the game.
I made loot, the key to everything group hug. Because the key to everything is friendship. Loot is just a little guy that helps me find more group hug stuff to put into play and then I just watch the chaos unfold as everyone draws 8 cards a turn and their mana taps for 6 or more and finally mana pools don't empty between phases so you can just float all of your mana forever
Im planning on making a vazi keen negotiator grouphug deck soon. Jund grouphug is definitely one you can trust, and they will never ever stab you in the back...
Long love chaos group hug. I'm not stopping anyone from winning, I'm just letting the decks decide who wins.
I've been rocking a rakdos group hug for a while now and after a fuck load of tuning it is actually a pretty effective and consistent deck that has a decent balance between goals 1) and 3).
Along with the normal group hug stuff it has a bit of a reanimator theme, using Livjng Death and Bringed of the last gift to revive your opponent's stuff. Can also donate some token and potentially "polymorph" them.
Right now it has a small but potent voltron package to win, but I might adjust that.
Personally the lotr elf precon, or as i so lovingly call it, voting season
Is my favorite way to see silly shit happen while still legally calling it group vote
My favorite group hug commander is actually Shanna, and I build her with a very aggressive ramp/draw strategy. I run Howling Mine + Font of Mythos + Horn of Greed + Rites of Flourishing so that everybody is drawing a ton of cards and ramping. Add Burgeoning so that I can ramp out unreal amounts of lands (I can put a land into play whenever anybody else does, and it replaces itself in my hand with Horn), and Smothering Tithe + Smuggler's Share to go nuts with the resource generation. Because it's a group hug, nobody is too concerned with attacking me or removing my stuff...
...which turns out to be a bad idea, as there are three instant wincons that I will draw and ramp to. I run the Approach of the Second Sun + Mystic Tutor combo and Felidar Sovereign Grand Abolisher + Teferi's Protection (it phases in during untap, and I win during upkeep); alternately, I run Thassa's Oracle.
I'm working on The Second Doctor with Clara Oswald (green) group hug right now. My only goal at the moment is making everyone draw an absurd amount of cards
Ky and ty with karuga.
Its the perfect setup..
My favorite is “rocco, street chef” he combos with a ham sandwich and lets opponents discard cards from the top and play then until the end of my next turn.
My group hug is all about forcing a 4 way draw as everyone draws their entire library at the same time
Or Option 4: Tergrid Group Hug. Let everyone play the game all they want, then decide theyve all had their collective fun, drop an All is Dust and watch them cry as everything you gave them is now yours.
Option 4: WHEEL OF FORTUNE BABY!!! LET'S GO GAMBLING!!!
Group Hug Chaos is always my favorite.
Give me Aesi. I love my Soup deck (serpents of unusual proportions), and if someone at the table is getting uppity, a few swaps is all it takes before “oops, all landfall”
Then there is my favorite, forced hug with tons of card draw with Xyris, the Writhing Storm. Overwhelm your opponents with card draw and give them a ton of mana while you build up with snakes.
Phelddagrif needs an honorary mention as OG group hug!
The amount of times I hear that the roommates were, in fact, only roommates, is hilarious to me. Theros is Greece. In Greece, the pinnacle of masculinity was having a wife you liked alright and a boyfriend you liked way more. So I'm glad we will continue memeing on the "they aren't gay" people until Wizard caves as a company. Keep up the good work, Champion Mald.
I’d rather make sure that no one wins, not even myself, and I can do that by making sure that everyone has as miserable experience as possible. Stax if you will.
My brother plays the last option with that exact commander, almost every game he uses it just goes absolutely balls to the wall and when that wall is finished being built he uses stuff like Reins of Power to make you pay for it.
My favorite group hug commander is Nekusar. Everyone gets to draw cards! And you're in Grixis to make sure no one else gets too far ahead of the rest of the table.
My primary deck is group hug with the gay kings at the helm. I call it The Huggernaut and I explicitly avoid using pillowfort effects or any cards that punish my opponents for having/using the resources I provide and instead tries to leverage a win off of it's own boosted resources with cards like Wizard Class and Kessig Wolf Run. It's a chaotic mess that always makes for a more active and involved game and my play group loves it.
You literally inspired me to make the live in bath house EDH deck.
And if you want to come across as absolutely chaotic, try Zevlor from Baldur's Gate. With red for combat tricks, black for card draw, and blue for removals you can kingmaker anyone in colors they won't expect!
Grismold is my favorite group hug commander. 🥰
Making Beamtown Bullies as a mario party deck is also fun.
New Rocco! Just made a sick hugs deck where my win cons all revolve around food.
I enjoy playing group hug decks. They allow me to create friendships and nuclear bombs for when someone looks at me funny.
I like the elrond one, where everyone is forced to be your friend so you can kill your enemies for them.
Just two best buds, who built an entire city, a statue of the two of them crossing their swords in a show of true friendship; and even adopted several local orphans who they raised as co-parents cause they were that best of friends
My fav is esper - using wheels …. Name of the deck Fun by Force…. I love it
I'm running my kings with alternate win cons. Essentially just setting a timer and going, "hey guys, play every single card you own and hope you can get through my pillow fort before the timer is up." But also, running some silly combos like fractured identity, rite of replication, and forced fruition.
I raise Phelddagrif as the Grandfather of Grouphug. Didn't appreciate the big ol flying purple hippo the way i should have about 5 years ago, you can play "everybody wins" from behind the cist of 47 per attack/spell headed your way, a pillow thicker than the Jetpuffd Giant, and an absolute platoon of Squirrels.
I use the prismatic bridge as my commander and I just drop out creatures that allow my opponents to drop out cards just to see how chaotic the game can be. With lots of pillow fort just so they can't hit me with their new friends.
Being funky is my favorite type
I made a kenrith hug deck in which I make deals with my table for anything they need. “Oh you need haste to pop off? I got you” “Need 2 +1/+1 counters to beat your opponent? No problem” “I see you sent your commander to the graveyard, I’ll hand it over for you” Playing him and adding enchantments and cards that I use to gift them to others like that one goat deer thing with red blue white is amazing, sure I get a bit of health but now your ethali primal can slap with the power of a fiery emancipation.
Funniest thing is that Kynaios and Tiro in the lore stop the ruling archon tyrant with, and I'm paraphrasing "the power of their love for eachother, and freedom"
There is no straight actions being made in a K&T deck
I can't believe I recognized Kynaios and Tiro because they are canonical bfs in the Theros D&D setting
My Kwain deck is loaded with tutors to grab wedding ring, artifact clones to hand out more wedding rings, and bounce effects so I can recast wedding ring to hand more out.