Deck Strategies
Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh
Aggressive red-black combo deck focusing on fast mana, artifact synergies, and explosive plays with cards like Dockside Extortionist to generate treasure tokens for mana acceleration and combo enablers.
Silas Renn, Seeker Adept
Artifact combo/control deck leveraging artifact recursion and disruption, using tutors and interaction to assemble combos and control the pace of the game.
Ukkima, Stalking Shadow / Cazur, Ruthless Stalker
A synergistic green-black deck with graveyard interaction, creature-based combo potential, and ramp spells to generate board presence and combo resources.
Sisay, Weatherlight Captain
Legendary creature toolbox deck that uses tutors and powerful legendary synergies to assemble combo pieces and control elements, supported by artifact mana acceleration.
Bjorna, Nightfall Alchemist
A deck built around spell casting and interaction, leveraging instants and sorceries with life gain and disruption, aiming for incremental advantage and control.
Wernog, Rider's Chaplain
A deck focused on graveyard recursion, token generation, and life gain synergies to stabilize and set up combo or value-based win conditions.
Gameplay Insights
- 1
Players prioritized early mana acceleration artifacts and lands to enable explosive starts and rapid development of combo pieces.
- 2
Dockside Extortionist served as a key pivot for mana generation and treasure tokens, facilitating complex combo sequences.
- 3
The interaction between Tainted Pact and Demonic Consultation was pivotal for library manipulation and digging for win conditions.
- 4
Multiple players deployed counterspells and disruption such as Force of Will, Silence, and Dress Down to interrupt opponent combos, reflecting high tension and careful resource management.
- 5
The winner effectively managed paying for triggers like Rustic Study and carefully timed their spells to avoid losing combo momentum despite heavy interaction.
- 6
Using Dark Ritual and exile effects, the winning player reduced their deck to a single card, drawing into Dark Grid to lock opponents and finalize the win.
Notable Cards
Dockside Extortionist
Dark Ritual
Tainted Pact
Demonic Consultation
Force of Will
Mana Crypt
Ancient Tomb
Mystical Tutor
Pact of Negation
Dress Down
Snapcaster Mage
Summary
The game featured a high-powered four-player cEDH multiplayer match with aggressive and interactive plays from all sides. Early turns were marked by heavy use of mana acceleration artifacts such as Mox Diamond, Soul Ring, and Ancient Tomb, enabling fast deployment of key spells and combo pieces. A significant early turning point was the casting of Dockside Extortionist, generating multiple treasures that ramped players into explosive turns. The players cycled through various tutor effects, wheel effects like Wheel of Fortune, and disruption spells to maintain pressure and control the board state. As the game progressed, the players leveraged intricate interactions involving cards like Dark Ritual, Tainted Pact, and Demonic Consultation to fuel their combo lines. One player notably used Dark Ritual and Tainted Pact in conjunction with Dockside Extortionist treasures and mana rocks to exile their library down to a single card, drawing into a Dark Grid to lock the game and secure victory. The game showcased tense counterspell battles and resource management around paying for triggers such as those from Rustic Study and defense against wheels. Despite multiple attempts to disrupt combos with Force of Will, Silence, and Dress Down, the winning player navigated through the disruption and completed their combo first.
