[EDH] Gaddock Teeg

[B.C.]

My new fun deck, largely inspired by the fact that every time I get deep into an interactive multiplayer game, some douche bag assembles his infinite combo, and then it's just over. Always a huge let-down. Gaddock Teeg is meant to prevent anybody from ever doing anything broken... because screw them.

General
Gaddock Teeg

Creatures
Academy Rector
Acidic Slime
Archon of Justice
Aven Mindcensor
Caustic Wasps
Dauntless Escort
Eternal Witness
Exalted Angel
Fauna Shaman
Genesis
Heartwood Storyteller
Indrik Stomphowler
Intrepid Hero
Jotun Grunt
Kami of Ancient Law
Karmic Guide
Kataki, War's Wage
Knight of the Reliquary
Linvala, Keeper of Silence
Loxodon Hierarch
Mirran Crusader
Mother of Runes
Mystic Enforcer
Peacekeeper
Phyrexian Revoker
Preacher
Qasali Pridemage
Ranger of Eos
Ronom Unicorn
Rune-Tail, Kitsune Ascendant
Saffi Eriksdotter
Sakura-Tribe Elder
Samurai of the Pale Curtain
Serra Ascendant
Serra Avenger
Steward of Valeron
Student of Warfare
Viridian Shaman
Viridian Zealot
Werebear
Whipcorder
Wilt-Leaf Liege
Windborn Muse
Yavimaya Elder

Enchantments
Aura Shards
Aura of Silence
Ghostly Prison
Land Tax
Oblivion Ring
Rancor
Shield of the Oversoul
Suppression Field
Survival of the Fittest
Sylvan Library
Wheel of Sun and Moon

Instants and Sorceries
Condemn
Congregation at Dawn
Eladamri's Call
Enlightened Tutor
Path to Exile
Regrowth
Shahrazad (like I said... screw them)
Swords to Plowshares

Artifacts
Null Rod

Land
Forest x10
Plains x9
Brushland
Emeria, the Sky Ruin
Evolving Wilds
Gaea's Cradle
Graypelt Refuge
Maze of Ith
Razorverge Thicket
Savannah
Selesnya Sanctuary
Stirring Wildwood
Strip Mine
Sunpetal Grove
Temple Garden
Terramorphic Expanse
Wasteland
Windswept Heath

Some cards are better than others, but hopefully you kinda see what I'm trying to do here. So what am I missing?... other than artifacts, which I don't really want because I really want to find and play Null Rod.

[TheArchitect]

I really like the idea of this deck! Brooding Saurian, Aurification, Hallowed burial and Oblation are a good anti-shenanigans cards. Burial and oblation are kind of auto includes in any EDH deck with access to white. Mirari's wake might be good too.

[B.C.]

The problem with a lot of those cards is that they can't be played if Gaddock Teeg is out.

[TheArchitect]

I realized that, but they just seem so good any anti synergy can be ignored. Well maybe brooding saurian might not be worth it unless a lot of people play blue in your group. Miraris wake might be unnecessary with your low curve, but hallowed burial is kinda of the "oh shit!" button for when teeg has failed. Oblation is just awesome general hate.

[lost_ronin_soul]

Academy Ruins
// Deck: Teeg, All the hate All the time(100)

// General
1 Gaddock TeegKrosan Verge

// Lands 30 (It surprisingly runs fine for the most part)
1 [cards]Arid Mesa
1 Cavern of Souls
1 Evolving Wilds
1 Flooded Strand
3 Forest
1 Horizon Canopy
1 Krosan Verge
1 Marsh Flats
1 Misty Rainforest
4 Plains
1 Razorverge Thicket
1 Savannah
1 Stirring Wildwood
1 Sungrass Prairie
1 Sunpetal Grove
1 Temple Garden
1 Temple of Plenty
1 Terramorphic Expanse
1 Veldt
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Windswept Heath
1 Wooded Bastion
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Yavimaya Hollow
1 Command Tower

// Creatures 30
1 Archetype of Endurance
1 Argothian Enchantress engine
1 Blazing Archon defense/cheated in
1 Bloom Tender
1 Containment Priest hate
1 Eidolon of Blossoms engine
1 Elderscale Wurm defense
1 Eternal Witness
1 Fauna Shaman engine
1 Grand Abolisher hate
1 Hushwing Gryff hate
1 Intrepid Hero defense
1 Iona, Shield of Emeria normally cheated
1 Linvala, Keeper of Silencehate
1 Loyal Retainers combo piece
1 Magus of the Moat defense
1 Mesa Enchantress engine
1 Mother of Runes defense
1 Peacekeeper defense
1 Platinum Angel defense
1 Primordial Hydra beats
1 Reya Dawnbringer cheated in
1 Seedborn Muse see yisan
1 Serra Ascendantbeats
1 Sun Titan engine
1 Sylvan Safekeeper defense
1 Verduran Enchantress engine
1 Vigor defense/beats
1 Voidstone Gargoyle hate
1 Yisan, the Wanderer Bard engine

// Instants 8
1 Beast Within answer
1 Eladamri's Call tutor
1 Enlightened Tutor tutor
1 Oblation answer
1 Path to Exile defense
1 Swords to Plowshares defense
1 Tithe
1 Worldly Tutor tutor

// Sorceries 3
1 Council's Judgment answer
1 Idyllic Tutor tutor
1 Sylvan Tutor tutor

// Enchantments 22
1 Act of Authority
1 Ancestral Mask beats
1 Arrest defense
1 Aura of Silence
1 Broken Fall defense
1 Darksteel Mutation defense
1 Enchantress's Presence engine
1 Ethereal Armor beats
1 Ground Seal hate
1 Lignify defense
1 Nevermore hate
1 Oblivion Ring answer
1 Pariah defense
1 Prison Term defense
1 Runed Halo defense
1 Shield of the Oversoul beats
1 Song of the Dryads answer
1 Spirit Mantle beats
1 Sterling Grove tutor
1 Stony Silence hate
1 Survival of the Fittest engine
1 Sylvan Library engine

// Artifacts 6
1 Arena of the Ancients defense
1 Cursed Totem hate
1 Damping Matrix hate
1 Ensnaring Bridge defense
1 Null Rod hate
1 Torpor Orb hate


Cards are marked Defense (help you live longer because you becoming public enemy number one as people want to cast spells and can't), Answer (gets rid of troublesome permanents and can help with defense), Engine(helps you get more card advantage), and of course Hate (completely nullifying the remaining strategies that opponents can use to try to get around Gaddock Teeg).
The strongest engines are Yisan, the Wanderer Bard (when you get to 5 counters and fetch Seedborn Muse things spiral out of control quickly),followed up by Survival of the Fittest/Fauna Shaman (they tutor hate, and can combo with Loyal Retainers ), and followed up by Argothian Enchantress/Mesa Enchantress/Eidolon of Blossoms/Verduran Enchantress. The deck is fun and does cool things but at the cost of becoming an easy target due to stopping very powerful spells people like to cast.

[Bed Decks Palyer]

Something I thought about. Congrats on executing this lovely strategy, a GW control is not seen everyday.
Speaking of engine: have you given any thought to Rancor-Auratog-Femeref Enchantress "combo"? I know that it takes three slots, and I knw that the cards alone do very little, I'm just asking.

Nice deck, indeed.

[lost_ronin_soul]

Something I thought about. Congrats on executing this lovely strategy, a GW control is not seen everyday.
Speaking of engine: have you given any thought to Rancor-Auratog-Femeref Enchantress "combo"? I know that it takes three slots, and I knw that the cards alone do very little, I'm just asking.

Nice deck, indeed.

I have not realized that engine you mentioned. Rancor was in my original build of this deck and very playable but I cut it for more defense instead of beats. Other cards with rancor's resilience effect include Brilliant Halo , Cessation, and Spirit Loop. I feel Auratog is sub par because most of the time you do not want to sacrifice your own enchantments, and there will probably be times you do not have an enchantment to sacrifice. But it DOES make Oblivion Ring and Act of Authority much better by being permanent removal by sacrificing it when it triggers. Femeref Enchantress is the worst enchantress. Femeref's only sac outlet is Auratog. Relieing on your opponent to blow up your enchantments is bad especially if your deck doesn't have synergy with Open the Vults or Replenish. Auratog The other enchantress cards are strictly better, Eidolon of Blossoms is the forth enchantress card. If you are looking for recurring draw effects the deck currently has Broken Fall + any of the 4 enchantress card which is much easier to assemble and has more synergy with other cards in the deck.

I am trying real hard to fit an Aven Mind Censor. Cannot cut a land due to low land count.

[BBG|Scott-Spain]

So I'm thinking of coming back to this deck, but I'm trying to figure out the right approach. I basically want it to play like DnT/Maverick decks. Is this the right move to make?

[Davran]

So I'm thinking of coming back to this deck, but I'm trying to figure out the right approach. I basically want it to play like DnT/Maverick decks. Is this the right move to make?

Maybe?

I have a deck with Selvala, Explorer Returned at the helm that I essentially built like Maverick, and I find that it's pretty robust. That said, I'm not running much in the way of hate bears because they're just not that effective in my playgroup. If things were more combo oriented where I play I'd definitely change that, though.

[lost_ronin_soul]

I updated my teeg list because teeg isn't very welcomed in other peoples' pods. I wanted to make it so I can swap it out with another commander for most casual games. Saffi is great to pilot the deck, since people feel they will have a chance to actually cast a few spells. Saffi is also a powerful alternative commander and makes me feel like I can carrying 2 edh decks in one deck box. I haven't been able to test this list out but it seems stupid powerful. Only reason Pattern of Rebirth is in the gaddock teeg deck is because Boonweaver Giant bypasses the restriction. Pattern of Rebirth is probably the best thing to tutor for ever if running Saffi as the alternative commanders (probably tutoring boonweaver , recast commander the following turn, and auto win if you have one more creature to move Bound by Moonsilver away to an opponent's creature around turn 5) . I could make the list more brutal if I put triskelion over Brisella-kuul (my nickname for the meld creature). The deck fishes well. It has the ability to tutor every creature in the deck with Boonweaver Giant +Pattern of Rebirth+ Bound by Moonsilver. Boonweaver Giant/Auratouched Mage + Saffi/ Karmic Guide/Gift of Immortality+ any other creature you control + one other targetable creature (including opponents) = tutor whole deck (including infinite mana with Nature's Chosen, infinite spells with Eternal Witness and and infinite draw with Yavimaya Elder). It can be disrupted by graveyard hate but the creatures are pretty sweet by themselves which should make it fun anyway. The combo revolves around tutoring Bound by Moonsilver and getting a way to reset Boonweaver to tutor Pattern of Rebirth then use it to tutor out Karmic Guide +Saffi/Fiend Hunter+ Reveilark using Bound by Moonsilver as the sac outlet to gain all the creature tutoring ever. Auratouched Mage is a peusdo Boonweaver. I opted to make my deck really convoluted. I can take out the Eldritch angels to get more slots for a protean hulk and triskelion but I figured it looks cooler as is. The thing I like about this deck is it still can play the hate bear game and if I wish to combo , I can (even while keeping a dampening matrix on the field :-p ).

// Deck: teeg/saffi (100)

// Lands
1 Arid Mesa
1 Brushland
1 Canopy Vista
1 Cavern of Souls
1 Command Tower
1 Evolving Wilds
1 Flooded Strand
4 Forest
1 Gaea's Cradle
1 Horizon Canopy
1 Krosan Verge
1 Marsh Flats
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Myriad Landscape
4 Plains
1 Razorverge Thicket
1 Savannah
1 Stirring Wildwood
1 Sungrass Prairie
1 Sunpetal Grove
1 Temple Garden
1 Terramorphic Expanse
1 Tranquil Garden
1 Vec Townships
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Windswept Heath
1 Wooded Bastion
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Yavimaya Hollow

// Creatures
1 Platinum Angel
1 Benevolent Bodyguard
1 Mother of Runes
1 Serra Ascendant
1 Weathered Wayfarer
1 Joraga Treespeaker
1 Sylvan Safekeeper
1 Bloom Tender
1 Gaddock Teeg
1 Saffi Eriksdotter
1 Fiend Hunter
1 Spirit of the Labyrinth
1 Fauna Shaman
1 Magus of the Moat
1 Heliod's Pilgrim
1 Loyal Retainers
1 Peacekeeper
1 Yisan, the Wanderer Bard
1 Eternal Witness
1 Yavimaya Elder
1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence
1 Captain Sisay
1 Reveillark
1 Karmic Guide
1 Voidstone Gargoyle
1 Sigarda, Host of Herons
1 Auratouched Mage
1 Sun Titan
1 Dragonlord Dromoka
1 Boonweaver Giant
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
1 Iona, Shield of Emeria

// Eldritch-Cards
1 Bruna, the Fading Light
1 Eldritch Evolution
1 Gisela, the Broken Blade

Sad thing is I started out mostly as a fair deck with the intention to play a fair game. Then I slowly accidently morphed into some busted convoluted combo deck. I don't know why I ruin nice things

[lost_ronin_soul]

I misread Bound by Moonsilver. It has a once per turn clause. While still good. It's less busted then I thought it was. This actually makes me happier because can play sweet cards without actually auto winning...this makes it more likely I can see cards like brisella-kuul (meld angel nick name) because my opponent is less likely to auto scoop. Yay!