Magda vs Licia vs Zedruu vs Morophon EDH / CMDR game play for Magic: The Gathering

Deck Strategies

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  Licia, Sanguine Tribune

  Licia's deck emphasizes creating and leveraging creature tokens alongside life gain synergies, using enchantments and equipment to strengthen the board, aiming to overwhelm opponents through incremental life gain and board presence.

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  Zedruu the Greathearted

  Zedruu focuses on card draw and incremental advantage through enchantments like Mystic Remora and Paradox Haze, while using the commander’s ability to benefit allies or disrupt opponents with politically oriented gifting strategies.

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  Morophon, the Boundless

  Morophon leads a tribal slivers deck, aiming to flood the board with synergistic sliver creatures that boost each other’s stats and abilities, applying pressure through tribal synergy and cascade spells.

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  Magda, Brazen Outlaw

  Magda’s deck capitalizes on artifact and dwarf synergies, generating treasure tokens to ramp into large threats like Goldspan Dragon and Academy Manufactor, and using Torbran to amplify damage for a fast, aggressive win.

Gameplay Insights

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  Adam’s Magda deck leveraged treasure token generation extremely well, converting these into explosive board states with Goldspan Dragon and artifact synergy, making quick progress toward victory.

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  Scott’s cascade into Grim Captain's Call was a pivotal moment, although overall he seemed to struggle with mana consistency, impacting his ability to fully capitalize on Morophon's tribal potential.

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  The use of Cyclonic Rift by the Zedruu player to bounce Magda during combat was a crucial defensive play to stall Adam’s tempo and slow down treasure generation.

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  Licia’s use of Divinity of Pride and Children of Korliss combined with equipment like Sword of the Animist provided steady pressure and token enhancement, contributing to board control and life gain.

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  The interaction between Magda's treasure production and Torbran’s damage amplification created significant combat damage outputs, forcing opponents to respond quickly or face heavy losses.

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  Zedruu’s Mystic Remora and Paradox Haze ensured consistent card advantage and extra turns, supporting a control and value-oriented game plan despite aggressive threats on the board.

Notable Cards

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  Magda, Brazen Outlaw

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  Goldspan Dragon

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  Torbran, Thane of Red Fell

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  Divinity of Pride

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  Mystic Remora

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  Paradox Haze

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  Academy Manufactor

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  Sylvia Brightspear

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  Gemhide Sliver

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  Grim Captain's Call

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  Fires of Invention

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  Cyclonic Rift

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  Tibalt's Trickery

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  Mass Appeal

Summary

The game began with all four players establishing their mana bases and early board presence, with Licia focusing on token creation and life gain, Magda ramping aggressively with treasures and artifacts, Zedruu generating card advantage through enchantments like Mystic Remora and Paradox Haze, and Morophon deploying a tribal sliver strategy. Early skirmishes involved Magda producing treasures to fuel artifact and dwarf synergies, supported by Torbran's damage boost, while Licia used Children of Korliss and Divinity of Pride to pressure opponents. Scott's Morophon deck struggled a bit with mana but managed to cascade into impactful spells like Grim Captain's Call and deployed slivers to support the tribal theme. Adam’s Magda deck quickly ramped into powerful threats like Goldspan Dragon and Academy Manufactor, accumulating treasure tokens and applying continuous pressure with flying and indestructible creatures.