Because of this, we need to make sure we draw enough cards that we have a Fog every time we need one (and find our Gideon, Champion of Justice to finish the game). Since we are actively giving our opponent creatures, most of the time we find ourselves in a situation where we have to resolve a Fog every single turn or we'll lose the game (or our Gideon, Champion of Justice) to their massive board. Meanwhile Swan Song helps against combo and control decks while also protecting our Gideon, Champion of Justice, forcing through our Fog effects, and also giving opponent a 2/2 Bird to help power up our Gideon! Card Draw It functions like an untapped dual land, with the upside of giving our opponent a 1/1 whenever we tap it. Forbidden Orchard is the best option because the opportunity cost is so low. As such, we need a way to give our creature-light opponents creatures, and even in creature-heavy matchups, giving our opponents some tokens helps speed up our plan of ultimating Gideon, Champion of Justice. While many Modern decks help us out by playing their own creatures, there are a reasonable number of decks in the format that don't play many or even any at all. The last important piece of our puzzle is some cards that can give our opponent creatures. As such, the basic plan of our deck is to give our opponent a ton of creatures (and hopefully, they play some of their own), get a Gideon, Champion of Justice, and then just Fog every turn until we can ultimate Gideon, Champion of Justice, exile everything, and win the game! Giving Our Opponent Creatures Most importantly, unlike Ghostly Prison and Orbs of Warding, our Fogs prevent all creature damage, and they don't care whether those creatures are attacking us or our Gideon, Champion of Justice. While some have a big of upside (like Dawn Charm countering a spell or Angelsong cycling), the main reason they are in the deck is to fizzle our opponent's attack for a turn. While we have a ton of Fogs in our deck, they are all pretty much replaceable.
It is this situation that our deck is trying to create with the help of cards that give our opponent creatures and Fogs to keep us (and our Gideon) alive.
Gideon vengeful guardian plus#
However, in a very specific situation (one where our opponent has a ton of creatures that can't kill us for some reason), Gideon, Champion of Justice is amazing because we can plus it once or twice, get it up to 20 or 30 loyalty, and then exile everything and have a 10/10 or even 20/20 Gideon, Champion of Justice left over to win us the game. The main problem is the +1 only adds loyalty and the ultimate costs a massive 15 loyalty counters. Gideon, Champion of Justice has to be one of the worst Gideons (and worst planeswalkers in general) ever printed. After having this happen a few games in a row (and never getting close to ultimating a Gideon, Champion of Justice), I decided it was time to go back to the drawing board for a deck that not only protected our life total but could also protect our Gideon, Champion of Justice, which led us to Bad Gideon Fog! Bad Gideon The deck seemed sweet (and super janky), but after playing a few games with the deck, I realized there was a huge, huge problem with the deck: all of the cards that were designed to protect us from the endless creatures we were giving our opponents said "you." As a result, what would happen is our opponent would get a huge board of creatures and couldn't attack us, but once we played a Gideon, Champion of Justice, they would turn all of their creatures on our planeswalker and it would immediately die. My first Bad Gideon deck omitted the Fogging plan and instead looked to give the opponent creatures with Hunted Phantasm and Hunted Troll while using cards like Ghostly Prison, Reverence, and Orbs of Warding to keep the opponent from attacking.
The deck in the videos is actually my second attempt at building around Gideon, Champion of Justice.
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