Stacked Fayden
Dack Fayden, Helping Hand Commander Deck
Dack Fayden, Helping Hand seeds the battlefield with powerful, goaded creatures gifted to opponents, then uses flicker and blink effects to pull those permanents back under your control and trigger their devastating ETBs again for your own benefit. Board wipes serve double duty, clearing the board to reclaim gifted creatures for free or at reduced cost while also helping cheat out massive threats like Blightsteel Colossus and Pathrazer of Ulamog. A robust ramp package keeps triggering Archaeomancer's Map repeatedly, ensuring consistent mana development, while Panharmonicon doubles every ETB trigger to maximize the value extracted from each creature once it has been reclaimed to your side. Key ownership interactions: When Dack gifts a creature to an opponent, you retain ownership — this enables three important lines. First, Mystifying Maze can exile an attacking goaded creature for {4} and return it to the battlefield under your control at end step, effectively reclaiming any gifted threat cheaply. Second, Airbender Ascension's airbend ability exiles a gifted creature the opponent controls, and since you own it, you may recast it for {2} — re-triggering its ETB at a massive discount — while also functioning as a repeatable end-step flicker for your own creatures once four quest counters accumulate. Third, Emrakul, the World Anew's leave-the-battlefield trigger causes the opponent who controls it to sacrifice all their creatures, so flickering or bouncing Emrakul while an opponent controls it functions as a one-sided board wipe on demand.
Decklist
- Getaway Glamer
- Land Tax
- Wayfarer's Bauble
- Kor Cartographer
- Terrain Generator
- Northampton Farm
- Marble Diamond
- Pearl Medallion
- World Map
- Expedition Map
- Guildless Commons
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Sol Ring
- Loyal Warhound
- Arcane Signet
- Claim Jumper
- Thran Dynamo
- Knight of the White Orchid
- Monologue Tax
- Hedron Archive
- Worn Powerstone
- Remote Farm
- Homeward Path
- Emeria, the Sky Ruin
- Command Beacon
- Mystifying Maze
- Requisition Raid
- Lotus Field
- Myriad Landscape
- Karoo
- Highcliff Felidar
- Parting Gust
- Path to Exile
- Swords to Plowshares
- Touch the Spirit Realm
- 25× Plains
- Grasp of Fate
- Skyclave Apparition
- Brainstone
- Aang's Iceberg
- Reprieve
- Starfall Invocation
- Avatar's Wrath
- Angel of the Ruins
- Sandstone Oracle
- Blightsteel Colossus
- Tragic Arrogance
- Smuggler's Share
- Herald of Eternal Dawn
- Akroma, Angel of Wrath
- Curious Colossus
- Galactus, Devourer of Worlds
- Tome of Legends
- Zetalpa, Primal Dawn
- Darksteel Angel
- Darksteel Colossus
- Endless Atlas
- Archaeomancer's Map
- Inspiring Overseer
- Beza, the Bounding Spring
- Airbender Ascension
- Flickerwisp
- Flicker of Fate
- Charming Prince
- Long Road Home
- Teleportation Circle
- Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
- Eldrazi Displacer
- Preston, the Vanisher
- Glimmerpoint Stag
- Panharmonicon
- Brought Back
- Angelic Renewal
- Serra Avatar
- Emrakul, the World Anew
- Duelist's Heritage
- Faith's Reward
- Ori, Plate Stacker
- Karmic Guide
- Flickering Hound
- Pathrazer of Ulamog
- Ancient Stone Idol
- Angel of Serenity
- Return to the Light Realms
- Restoration Seminar
- Ulamog's Crusher