Hey! They Stole My Thing I Do! - Pantlaza vs Teysa vs Billium vs Horde - WPCS #111

Deck Strategies

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  Pantlaza, Sun-Favored

  Pantlaza’s deck is built around powerful dinosaur ETB triggers and blink effects to generate value and incremental advantage. The deck uses toughness-based scaling to create large tokens and threatening creatures, aiming to overwhelm opponents through efficient aggressive creatures with prowl and synergistic dinosaur buffs.

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  Teysa Karlov

  Teysa Karlov’s deck leverages death triggers and sacrifice mechanics to double triggered abilities, creating massive value from creatures dying. It aims to drain opponents’ life totals and generate life gain by repeatedly sacrificing creatures and triggering multiple abilities in a single turn.

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  Bristly Bill, Spine Sower

  Bristly Bill’s deck focuses on landfall triggers to place +1/+1 counters on creatures and double those counters for exponential growth. The deck uses ramp and land synergy to develop a board of huge creatures that can control combat and apply pressure, supported by proliferate and treasure generation.

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  Horde of Notions

  Horde of Notions exploits landfall and elemental tribal synergies to consistently recur elemental creatures from the graveyard, maintaining board presence and momentum. The deck features aggressive land ramp and landfall doublers to steal and abuse opponents’ creatures, combining haste and trample to close out games quickly.

Gameplay Insights

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  The use of Hunting Velociraptor to grant prowl to all dinosaur spells significantly increased Pantlaza’s threat potential and pressured opponents early.

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  Bristly Bill’s combination of landfall triggers and proliferate with Evolution Sage allowed for rapid growth of counters and board development.

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  Teysa Karlov’s strategy of doubling death triggers via sacrifice effects created a continuous life drain and board control mechanism that threatened to destabilize the table.

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  Horde of Notions’ ability to recur elementals from the graveyard and steal creatures using landfall doublers created a dynamic board state where threats could rapidly shift ownership.

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  Players negotiated a temporary truce to avoid attacks and board wipes, demonstrating the delicate balance and mutual threat perception at midgame.

Notable Cards

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  Hunting Velociraptor

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  Lotus Cobra

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  Evolution Sage

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  Tireless Provisioner

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  Nature's Lore

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  Shadowy Backstreet

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  Swords to Plowshares

Summary

The game began with typical land drops and early board development, featuring ramp and value creatures from all four players. Pantlaza focused on casting dinosaurs and gaining value from their toughness, while Teysa Karlov leveraged sacrifice and death triggers to generate incremental advantage. Bristly Bill used landfall triggers to grow creatures and accumulate counters, and Horde of Notions also capitalized on landfall combined with elemental recursion to pressure opponents. Early skirmishes involved small combat exchanges and removal, including a key moment where Pantlaza’s Hunting Velociraptor granted prowl to all dinosaurs, increasing their threat level. As the midgame progressed, players began to execute their core strategies more aggressively. Bristly Bill and Horde of Notions synergized with landfall and proliferate effects to build formidable boards of counters and treasures. Teysa amplified death triggers and began leveraging sacrifice outlets to drain opponents’ life totals while gaining life herself. Pantlaza attempted to generate incremental advantages through ETB triggers and blink effects, though suffered setbacks when key creatures like Lotus Cobra were removed. The game reached a tense stalemate with players negotiating no attacks or board wipes, highlighting the high stakes of the board state and mutual threats on the table.