Deck Strategies
Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power
Leverages damage-dealing landfall abilities and burn spells to control the board and chip away at opponents' life totals while using its land form to generate additional value.
Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar
Utilizes food tokens and sacrifice outlets to deal damage, gain incremental value, and maintain board presence through recursion and damage triggers.
Raffine, Scheming Seer
Focuses on connive to draw cards and grow creatures, enabling a grindy midgame that pressures opponents through combat damage and value generation.
Loot, the Key to Everything
Maximizes card advantage by exiling cards and casting them from exile, combining ramp and recursion with powerful value creatures and spells to maintain board control.
Gameplay Insights
- 1
Adam's use of Rafine's connive ability to discard multiple cards and draw extra cards enabled rapid board development and creature growth.
- 2
Jeff's consistent sacrifice of food tokens to trigger damage from Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar dealt significant incremental damage to opponents and helped control the board.
- 3
Alex effectively used Ojer Axonil's damage triggers combined with burn spells like Lava Dart and Lightning Rick Crew to pressure multiple opponents simultaneously.
- 4
Adam's Cyclonic Rift bounce disrupted opponents' mana bases, shifting the tempo in his favor and enabling further aggressive plays.
- 5
Loot's ability to exile and cast cards from exile allowed for high-value plays that maintained pressure even after board wipes or disruption.
- 6
The interaction between combat damage, connive triggers, and discard synergies created a continuous cycle of card advantage and board development.
- 7
Jeff's use of artifact destruction and graveyard recursion with cards like Colligan's Command and Chainer, Nightmare Adept maintained resilience against board control.
Notable Cards
Baleful Strix
Arcane Signet
Lotus Cobra
Chasm Skulker
Cyclonic Rift
Sensei's Divining Top
Passionate Archaeologist
Chainer, Nightmare Adept
Summary
The game began with players developing their mana bases and casting early utility creatures and commanders. Adam established a board presence with Rafine, Scheming Seer, using its connive ability to generate card advantage and grow creatures like Baleful Strix. Jeff leveraged food tokens and sacrifice outlets with Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar, gaining incremental value and dealing damage through its damage-dealing triggered ability. Alex utilized Ojer Axonil's landfall and damage-dealing capabilities to pressure opponents with repeated damage and board control effects. Midgame saw several pivotal interactions, including Jeff's sacrifice of food tokens to trigger damage via Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar, Adam's use of cyclonic rift to bounce opponents' lands, and Alex's repeated damage spells like Lightning Rick Crew and Lava Dart to whittle down opponents' life totals. Loot, the Key to Everything, focused on leveraging card advantage through exile and recursion, casting value creatures and spells from exile to maintain pressure. Key combat phases involved connive triggers synergizing with aggressive attacks, and artifact interactions such as Jeff's Liquid Metal Torque and Colligan's Command provided both protection and card draw. Towards the later stages, Adam's Rafine continued to grow with counters, and Jeff's recurring creatures from the graveyard with Chainer, Nightmare Adept added resilience. Alex's Ojer Axonil shifted between creature and land form to maximize damage output. The game's tempo swung with board wipes and bounce effects, but the primary win conditions centered around incremental damage through connive and sacrifice synergies, combined with repeated burn spells and aggressive combat phases.