Deck & Commander Strategies
Eshki, Temur's Roar
A Power Matters deck that triggers Eshki's ability by casting high-power creatures, dealing damage to opponents while drawing cards, and leveraging kindred lightning style burn spells to control the board and chip away at opponents' life totals.
The Thirteenth Doctor
A teamer deck focused on casting cards from exile to grow creatures, generate treasure tokens, and control the tempo of the game through incremental advantage and card recursion.
Yasmin Khan
Paired with The Thirteenth Doctor, this deck emphasizes casting from exile and manipulating the graveyard to build board presence and disrupt opponents, using synergistic spells to keep pressure on the table.
Teval, the Balanced Scale
A lands-focused graveyard recursion deck that exploits Life from the Loam and Field of the Dead to generate a wide zombie druid army, leveraging land drops and graveyard interactions to overwhelm opponents with token creatures.
Hazezon, Shaper of Sands
A desert tribal and ramp deck that creates sand warrior tokens by playing multiple desert lands, aiming to go wide and use token synergies and removal spells to control the board and push for victory.
Gameplay Insights
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Eshki's ability to deal simultaneous damage to all opponents and draw cards through repeated triggers was an important source of pressure.
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The Thirteenth Doctor's exile-based casting strategy allowed for continuous growth of her counters and treasure generation, enabling flexible mana and card advantage.
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Teval's synergy with lands in the graveyard and token generation from Field of the Dead allowed for explosive board states despite early ramp challenges.
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Hazezon's ramp into multiple deserts and the creation of sand warriors helped stabilize the board, providing resilience and a threat base against aggressive decks.
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Key removal spells like Swords to Plowshares were used efficiently to neutralize major threats such as Tatiova, preventing potential game-winning combos.
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Board wipes triggered by cards like Saron's Unsealing reset the board state, allowing Eshki to capitalize on the cleared board with high-power creatures and damage triggers.
Notable Cards
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Eshki, Temur's Roar
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Groundbreaker
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The Thirteenth Doctor
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Incubation Druid
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Field of the Dead
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Life from the Loam
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Cosmic Larva
Gameplay Summary
The game began with players developing their mana bases and setting up their strategies early.
Eshki focused on a Power Matters and kindred bolt synergy, consistently dealing incremental damage through Eshki's triggers by casting big creatures like Ero, Titan of Nature's Wrath and Groundbreaker.
The Thirteenth Doctor and Yasmin Khan leveraged a teamer deck that capitalized on casting cards from exile, growing creatures and generating value, exemplified by casting the Doctor to accumulate counters and generate treasures while exiling cards to maintain tempo.
Teval, the Balanced Scale, employed a graveyard and land recursion strategy to create a growing zombie druid army, utilizing cards like Field of the Dead and Life from the Loam to flood the board with tokens and apply pressure.
Hazezon, Shaper of Sands, ramped into multiple lands and utilized desert synergies to create wide boards of sand warrior tokens, aiming to overwhelm opponents.
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