Zedruu, the Trader (EDH / Commander)

Zedruu the Greathearted is an amazing commander. What can she do?
Ability 1: "At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain X life and draw X cards, where X is the number of permanents you own that your opponents control."

• Definitely a little weird, until you go on a bit.
  Ability 2: WUR: Target opponent gains control of target permanent you control.

Ooooh here we go. Yes I can already tell your mind is brewing something. This could lead to some amazing results. It's time to play a commander that lets you feel good about yourself. A commander that is great for politics. It's time to do some donating!

Prime Donation Material
Aggressive Mining, Grim Monitor, and Steel Golem are classic Zedruu donation material.
Delusions of Mediocrity and Illusions of Grandeur are great, because you get the benefit, and just gift an opponent the downside.
Island is also an okay card to give out sometimes. Specifically because we include Inkwell Leviathan, Colossal Whale, and Stormtide Leviathan in the deck.
Lastly, Celestial Dawn is always a fun card, and whoever receives it always does a double take and asks "What?"

Control
Zedruu is also an amazing control commander, because of those prime UW colours. Also, cards like Detention Sphere doesn't care who owns it once it's on the battlefield, so it also makes prime donation fodder.

Draw
Zedruu herself is probably the best draw you're going to have. But why stop there? It's likely that after a couple of plays, your playgroup is going to know to kill Zedruu on sight. Feel free to exchange any of the cards in this section for others that you prefer. I built it to my own card pool. But I do recommend keeping Wild Research. It's a rarely used card, but I think Zedruu brings out the best in this card's potential.

Win-Cons
If our Island-walking, huge life, huge draw isn't good enough for you, there's room for some great finishers. Psychosis Crawler and Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind play off the large card pool. Feel free to play around a bit.

Up for Debate
There are a lot of cards in the "Things to Donate" section, but not a lot in win-cons. If you feel like you need it for your playgroup, switching out some of the worse donations (like Bronze Bombshell, Crown of Doom, Jinxed Choker, and Jinxed Idol) for some more win-cons (like Storm Herd, Call the Skybreaker, Kiki Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Splinter Twin, Pestermite + Deceiver Exarch) are an option.

Hope you have fun playing Zedruu!