Deck Strategies
Tidus, Yuna's Guardian
Focuses on moving and proliferating counters between creatures, drawing cards with combat damage, and enhancing creatures via counters to create a resilient and value-generating board.
Terra, Herald of Hope
Utilizes graveyard milling and recursion to maintain board presence, while gaining flying and enabling repeated reanimation of smaller creatures to sustain pressure.
Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER
Aggressively equips powerful artifacts to create huge threats with haste, drawing cards on attack and generating treasure tokens to ramp and cast additional spells.
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
Leverages damage-triggered card draw and life gain, combined with spells of higher mana value to deal damage and maintain card advantage while sustaining life total.
Gameplay Insights
- 1
Equipping Buster Sword to Professor Hojo for free due to his cost reduction ability enabled a powerful chain of card draw and free spell casting, accelerating tempo significantly.
- 2
Using Hardened Scales to double counters synergized strongly with counter-generating creatures and proliferate effects, rapidly increasing board threat levels.
- 3
Casting Soldier Military Program alongside commander triggers allowed generating tokens and buffing soldiers simultaneously, creating a formidable army.
- 4
Attaching Colossus Hammer to Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER, despite its high equip cost, was mitigated by Professor Hojo's ability and led to explosive attacks with multiple drawn cards and treasure tokens.
- 5
Terra's milling and reanimation ability provided resilience and sustained pressure by recurring key creatures from the graveyard.
- 6
Players focused attacks on the most threatening opponents, recognizing the danger from large equipped creatures with haste and card advantage engines.
Notable Cards
Professor Hojo
Buster Sword
Colossus Hammer
SOLDIER Military Program
Hardened Scales
Terra, Herald of Hope
Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
Summary
The game began with players developing their boards cautiously, casting creatures that synergized with counters and incremental value. Early plays included creatures like Shelinda Yevvin Acolyte who grows with other creatures entering, and Professor Hojo, who reduces activation costs and draws cards when creatures are targeted. The game tempo shifted as players started equipping powerful artifacts like Buster Sword and Colossus Hammer, enhancing their creatures significantly and generating card advantage through damage triggers. A key turning point came when Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER entered with haste and was equipped with multiple heavy-hitting equipments, enabling massive card draws and treasure generation during combat. Terra, Herald of Hope contributed by milling and enabling graveyard recursion of smaller creatures, adding resilience to her board state. The soldiers generated by Soldier Military Program combined with Hardened Scales doubling counters created a wide and growing board that threatened opponents. The game’s momentum swung heavily towards aggressive combat steps combined with proliferate effects and equipment synergy, putting immense pressure on opponents and setting up a lethal board presence.
