Generic Commander S2 Ep 12 -It's Veggie Wagon! Mister Negative v Atraxa v Absolute Virtue v Jegantha

Deck & Commander Strategies

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  Mister Negative

  Control the board while using life total swapping and card draw to outlast opponents, or leverage life payment combos to gain advantage and swap life totals for a decisive edge.

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  Absolute Virtue

  Voltron-style with strong protection and damage prevention, aiming to dominate the board while using stack interactions despite the no-counter/token restriction.

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  Atraxa, Praetors' Voice

  Good-stuff deck with cloning and card draw, hindered by the inability to use proliferate or counters, focusing on solid creatures and value cards.

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  Jegantha, the Wellspring

  Five-color ramp and heavy tutoring to assemble Door to Nothingness and win through that combo, with fallback value plays in case the combo fails.

Gameplay Insights

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  The no tokens and no counters restriction forced players to rethink usual synergies, particularly nullifying Atraxa's proliferate and Jegantha's common combo enablers.

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  Veggie Wagon's Mister Negative deck cleverly used life total swapping combined with card draw to maintain resource advantage and threaten opponents.

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  Absolute Virtue's protection and damage prevention created a strong defensive posture that complicated opponents' plans.

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  Howling Mine created a dynamic where some players benefited from extra card draws, but the inability to tap it down limited its control potential.

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  Several cards typically relied on counters or tokens had to be removed or replaced, causing decklists to fill with generic good-stuff cards.

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  The heavy tutor and recursion suite in Jegantha's deck was a direct response to the difficulty in assembling combos under the restriction.

Notable Cards

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  Mister Negative

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  Absolute Virtue

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  Atraxa, Praetors' Voice

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  Jegantha, the Wellspring

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  Howling Mine

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  Mind Stone

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  Sapphire Medallion

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  Rampant Growth

Gameplay Summary