Legendary Creature — Jellyfish

Gluntch, the Bestower

Mana value3EDHREC#3,131

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The Commander

Flying

At the beginning of your end step, choose a player. They put two +1/+1 counters on a creature they control. Choose a second player to draw a card. Then choose a third player to create two Treasure tokens.

Guide

Gameplan

Gluntch turns your end step into a recurring engine that hands out counters, cards, and Treasure—ideally all to yourself or your chosen allies. You leverage the politics of gifting to keep heat off you while building a board, then convert counters and ramp into a lethal threat or combo. Direct the value where it benefits you most and pivot to a fast clock before the table catches up.

Strengths

Free, repeatable card advantage and ramp every turn with zero mana investment
Built-in political leverage—you can buy goodwill or starve a threat by directing gifts
Cheap 3-mana flyer that comes down early and survives most board sweepers' priority
Synergizes with counter payoffs, Treasure shenanigans, and 'whenever you draw' triggers

Weaknesses

Symmetrical generosity helps opponents unless you weaponize the triggers selfishly
Body is small and dies easily to removal, shutting off the engine
No protection or evasion-based win on its own—needs supporting pieces
Slow if you simply give value away without a closing plan
Vulnerable to graveyard hate and Treasure/counter removal

Key Cards

Doubling Season — Doubles every +1/+1 counter and Treasure Gluntch distributes, turning the gift into an explosive payoff.
Hardened Scales — Cheap counter multiplier that snowballs the +1/+1 counters you can always direct to your own creatures.
Smothering Tithe — Punishes the opponents you give cards to while building extra Treasure alongside Gluntch's tokens.
Walking Ballista — Counter sink that converts Gluntch's gifts directly into removal and a win condition with proliferate or doublers.
Heroic Intervention — Protects Gluntch and your board from the removal that would otherwise unplug your engine.
Cathars' Crusade — Turns every counter trigger into a board-wide anthem, snowballing your creatures fast.

Upgrade Path

Add counter doublers (Doubling Season, Branching Evolution, Vorinclex) and proliferate to make your self-directed gifts dwarf what opponents get. Tighten the deck with strong protection (Heroic Intervention, Teferi's Protection) and ramp/tutors (Smothering Tithe, Sylvan Tutor) so you reliably assemble a Walking Ballista or Craterhoof finish. Trim purely altruistic group-hug pieces in favor of payoffs that punish the cards and Treasure you hand out, like Smothering Tithe and Rhystic Study.

Core Cards

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Win Conditions

▸Overrun the table with a counter-pumped board via Craterhoof Behemoth or Overwhelming Stampede
▸Walking Ballista plus a counter doubler/proliferate for infinite damage
▸Voltron a single counter-laden flyer or trample threat into commander-damage range
▸Grind incremental card and Treasure advantage into an inevitable mana and threat lead

Archetypes

Group Hug — Gluntch naturally showers the table with cards and ramp, letting you play the beloved benefactor while steering value.
+1/+1 Counters — The end-step counters feed proliferate, multipliers, and counter payoffs for a growing board.
Combo — Treasure ramp and reliable card draw fuel ramp-into-combo lines or counter-based infinite loops like Walking Ballista with doublers.
Tokens/Go-Wide — Treasure and counters support a wide GW board that closes with anthems and overrun effects.