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Furries UNITE! | Bloomburrow Commander Box Brawl

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Commanders featured in this video Reviewed & Verified

Deck Strategies

  • Lumra, Bellow of the Woods

    Lumra, Bellow of the Woods

    A mono-green strategy focused on creature growth and board presence, utilizing token generation and ramp to overwhelm opponents.

  • Vren, the Relentless

    Vren, the Relentless

    A black-centric deck that aims to control the board through removal and disruptive creatures while leveraging recursion and sacrifice synergies.

  • Arthur, Marigold Knight

    Arthur, Marigold Knight

    Focused on aggressive creature combat with equipment and combat tricks to push damage and maintain board dominance.

  • Derevi, Empyrial Tactician

    Derevi, Empyrial Tactician

    A control and tempo deck that uses tap/untap effects and counterspells to disrupt opponents and gain incremental advantages.

Gameplay Insights

  • 1

    Players favored mono-color decks to maximize synergy and consistency given the limited pool from the box battle format.

  • 2

    Token generation through Kindred Charge and other tribal synergies played a significant role in maintaining board presence.

  • 3

    The presence of cascade effects on creatures like Wild Seer allowed for explosive turns and card advantage.

  • 4

    Control elements such as board wipes and protective enchantments were critical to stabilizing the board against aggressive tribal decks.

  • 5

    The unique phrasing of the set allowed commanders to be stolen before reaching the command zone, adding an extra layer of interaction and threat assessment.

Notable Cards

  • Kindred Charge

    Kindred Charge

  • Vren, the Relentless

    Vren, the Relentless

  • Starforged Sword

    Starforged Sword

Summary

In this Bloomburrow-themed Commander game, the players built decks centered around their chosen commanders: Lumra, Bellow of the Woods; Vren, the Relentless; Arthur, Marigold Knight; and Derevi, Empyrial Tactician. The game showcased a strong focus on creature synergy and board presence, with players leveraging the unique characteristics of the set, such as creating tokens through cards like Kindred Charge and utilizing powerful planeswalkers and tribal synergies. The gameplay featured strategic plays revolving around mono-color decks, especially green and black, which allowed players to maximize synergy and ramp. Key moments involved token generation, board stabilization with enchantments like Heroic Intervention analogs, and the use of cascade effects to maintain tempo.

Description

This week we venture into Bloomburrow! Make fuzzy friends, peer into the future, and face off against the worst that mother nature has to throw at you with calamities like no other!

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Box Battle is a series of Magic: The Gathering Youtube videos that seeks to answer two questions: what would happen if we played through every single set of Magics history and who would be named its champion at the end of it? Well, Charlie “MoistCr1tikal” “penguinz0”, Matt, Ryan, and Drew are doing exactly that, playing through some modified sealed/limited rules for the commander format, almost close to brawl. The game works like this: Open a box of magic cards that hasn’t been opened yet Each player gets an amount of cards to build a 60 card deck out of, naming a commander along the way (which can be any creature, not restricted to legendary creatures) Play a game and give points out based on placements, 3 for first, 2 for second, 1 for third, and 0 for last. Also the player that opens the most expensive card gets a point for free. Eventually we will have played through all of the sets and at the end the player with the most points will be crowned the best magic player in the world, unquestionably. Along the way we’ll laugh, we’ll cry, and maybe we will have a few guests in the mean time. Stay tuned!!