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An October 13 EDHREC construction turns Dack Fayden, Helping Hand into the centerpiece of a mono-white combo deck. Its defining deckbuilding choice is to run only six creatures in the 99: Preston, the Vanisher, Flickerwisp, Radiant Solar, All-Fates Stalker, Fiend Hunter and Felidar Guardian. The remaining slots prioritize acceleration, protection and disruptive noncreature permanents.
Dack reveals creatures according to the number of opponents, puts them onto the battlefield under your control, then distributes them to those opponents. The timing matters. You control the triggered abilities created when those creatures enter, even though the creatures have changed controllers by the time their triggers go onto the stack. Targets are selected after Dack’s resolving ability finishes.
The article explains an illustrative line that starts by revealing Preston, Flickerwisp and Radiant Solar. Preston’s triggers can produce token copies of the other creatures under your control. The original Flickerwisp exiles Preston until the end step, and the token Flickerwisp exiles Dack. Both originals return under their owner’s control, letting a second Dack trigger bring out the other half of the package while Preston is available to copy entering nontoken creatures.
In that second stage, Fiend Hunter can temporarily exile Felidar Guardian. A Preston-created Fiend Hunter token then exiles the original Hunter, returning Guardian under your control. From there, Guardian’s own trigger can blink Radiant Solar, while its Preston-generated token copy blinks the original Guardian. Repeating that exchange supplies repeated venture triggers. Cycling through Lost Mine of Phandelver’s Dark Pool drains opponents and provides a win condition without combat damage.
The six-creature restriction is essential to the construction; adding ordinary utility creatures can dilute Dack’s reveals. It also creates practical weaknesses. Combo pieces already drawn need to be managed, opponents leaving the game change the number revealed, and removal or triggered-ability disruption can break the required sequence. The demonstrated first stage also waits for the end step, giving opponents a meaningful opportunity to intervene.
The list pairs fast artifact mana with effects such as Rule of Law and Deafening Silence, aiming to slow competing spell chains while assembling a commander-led route. This is new strategic construction around Reality Fracture’s Dack, not tournament proof of a dominant deck. The published walkthrough illustrates one ordering; it should not be read as a claim that every possible reveal, battlefield or interruption automatically produces a win.
Dack reveals creatures according to the number of opponents, puts them onto the battlefield under your control, then distributes them to those opponents. The timing matters. You control the triggered abilities created when those creatures enter, even though the creatures have changed controllers by the time their triggers go onto the stack. Targets are selected after Dack’s resolving ability finishes.
The article explains an illustrative line that starts by revealing Preston, Flickerwisp and Radiant Solar. Preston’s triggers can produce token copies of the other creatures under your control. The original Flickerwisp exiles Preston until the end step, and the token Flickerwisp exiles Dack. Both originals return under their owner’s control, letting a second Dack trigger bring out the other half of the package while Preston is available to copy entering nontoken creatures.
In that second stage, Fiend Hunter can temporarily exile Felidar Guardian. A Preston-created Fiend Hunter token then exiles the original Hunter, returning Guardian under your control. From there, Guardian’s own trigger can blink Radiant Solar, while its Preston-generated token copy blinks the original Guardian. Repeating that exchange supplies repeated venture triggers. Cycling through Lost Mine of Phandelver’s Dark Pool drains opponents and provides a win condition without combat damage.
The six-creature restriction is essential to the construction; adding ordinary utility creatures can dilute Dack’s reveals. It also creates practical weaknesses. Combo pieces already drawn need to be managed, opponents leaving the game change the number revealed, and removal or triggered-ability disruption can break the required sequence. The demonstrated first stage also waits for the end step, giving opponents a meaningful opportunity to intervene.
The list pairs fast artifact mana with effects such as Rule of Law and Deafening Silence, aiming to slow competing spell chains while assembling a commander-led route. This is new strategic construction around Reality Fracture’s Dack, not tournament proof of a dominant deck. The published walkthrough illustrates one ordering; it should not be read as a claim that every possible reveal, battlefield or interruption automatically produces a win.
Original source: Building Dack Fayden, Helping Hand for cEDH ↗EDHREC