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Slimefoot & Squee vs Lotho vs Locust God vs Borborygmos | CEDH Gameplay

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Commanders featured in this Gameplay Reviewed & Verified

Decklists

Deck & Commander Strategies

  • Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff

    Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff

    An aristocrats-style deck that aims to assemble infinite combo lines using creatures like Gravecrawler and Phyrexian Altar to drain opponents' life totals and win through incremental sacrifice synergies.

  • The Locust God

    The Locust God

    A control and card draw deck that uses insect token generation and spell-based interaction to outvalue opponents and win through overwhelming board presence.

  • Borborygmos and Fblthp

    Borborygmos and Fblthp

    A Temur breach deck that gains card advantage and disrupts opponents by repeatedly casting lands, destroying permanents, and generating treasures to fuel powerful spells and combos.

  • Slimefoot and Squee

    Slimefoot and Squee

    A deck focused on creating numerous saproling tokens and treasures, generating value through death triggers, graveyard interactions, and artifact synergies to overwhelm and drain opponents.

Gameplay Insights

  • 1

    Shaun’s use of Fierce Guardianship and Dispel in a priority stack to protect Borborygmos from removal highlighted precise interaction timing and resource management.

  • 2

    Thomas leveraged Professional Face-Breaker multiple times to exile and cast critical removal spells like Abrupt Decay from exile, efficiently using treasures generated to disrupt opponents’ boards.

  • 3

    Lotho’s ability to generate treasures from opponents losing life was pivotal in maintaining a steady resource flow, enabling combo attempts with sacrifice synergies.

  • 4

    The interplay between bounce effects and counters, such as Zeb bouncing Fairy Mastermind and Hank flashing it in to trigger Whirlpool Warrior, demonstrated high-level tempo control.

  • 5

    Shaun’s repeated mana crypt roll failures inflicted self-damage but he mitigated this with careful land plays and recursion effects, maintaining board presence despite the setbacks.

Notable Cards

  • Dockside Extortionist

    Dockside Extortionist

  • Professional Face-Breaker

    Professional Face-Breaker

  • Skullclamp

    Skullclamp

  • Birthing Pod

    Birthing Pod

  • Mana Crypt

    Mana Crypt

  • Mana Vault

    Mana Vault

  • Blind Obedience

    Blind Obedience

  • Lightning Greaves

    Lightning Greaves

Gameplay Summary

The game started with all four players ramping aggressively and developing their board states with powerful mana rocks, creatures, and key enchantments.

Borborygmos and Fblthp utilized repeated land destruction combined with treasure generation from Dockside Extortionist to gain a significant mana advantage.

Slimefoot and Squee focused on creating a swarm of saprolings and treasures, leveraging artifact synergies like Professional Face-Breaker and Skullclamp to maintain card advantage and pressure.

Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff built an aristocrats-style engine with creatures and sacrifice outlets, aiming to combo off with infinite drain and sac loops.

The Locust God player aimed to generate card advantage through insect tokens but was somewhat reactive with counterspells and bounce effects.

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