Tropic Thunder 2 Semi Finals - Dihada vs Blue Farm vs Blue Farm vs Gitrog - CEDH (TPM & Salt City)

Deck Strategies

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  Dihada, Binder of Wills

  Focuses on controlling combat phases and board presence through efficient creatures and combat tricks, leveraging incremental value and disruption to outlast opponents.

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  Kraum, Ludevic's Opus

  Utilizes card draw and disruption elements, including Opposition Agent, to tax opponents' tutors and control the pace of the game while generating incremental advantage through damage and card draw.

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  Tymna the Weaver

  Relies on aggressive card draw from combat damage and efficient creatures to maintain pressure, while using interaction to protect its board state and disrupt opponents.

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  The Gitrog Monster

  Leverages land sacrifice, graveyard synergies, and continuous card draw triggers to generate overwhelming resource advantage and assemble combo or lock pieces for a game-winning board state.

Gameplay Insights

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  The Gitrog player maximized land sacrifice triggers efficiently to draw multiple cards per turn, accelerating their combo setup.

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  Opposition Agents on multiple opponents created a taxing environment for tutors and disrupted common combo lines, significantly influencing political dynamics.

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  Players carefully managed combat blocks to avoid losing key creatures that generate card advantage or disruption, reflecting a high awareness of threat levels.

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  The use of Grim Monolith and Mox Diamond enabled fast mana acceleration for early key plays, highlighting the importance of rapid development in cEDH games.

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  Despite strong early ramp and interaction, The Gitrog player struggled to find threshold and key combo pieces immediately, illustrating the tension between ramp and combo execution.

Notable Cards

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  The Gitrog Monster

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  Opposition Agent

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  Grim Monolith

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  Esper Sentinel

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  Cabal Pit

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  Bloodstained Mire

Summary

The game began with players establishing early board presence and mana acceleration, notably with The Gitrog Monster aiming for a fast turn two deployment. The Gitrog player effectively utilized land sacrifice triggers to draw extra cards, fueling their hand and enabling continuous resource advantage. Meanwhile, the opponents deployed key creatures such as Opposition Agent and Esper Sentinel to disrupt and tax card draw, adding political tension and interaction that slowed tempo shifts. A notable early interaction involved multiple players holding Opposition Agents, which complicated the game state and limited easy access to tutors and card advantage. As the game progressed, The Gitrog Monster deck leveraged its graveyard and land synergies, attempting to build towards a threshold-based advantage and activate Cabal Pit for board control. The Dihada deck, meanwhile, focused on generating incremental value from creatures like Elvis Claw and managing combat interactions carefully to avoid losing precious blockers. Political decisions and cooperation between Kraum, Ludevic's Opus, and Tymna the Weaver decks influenced combat and resource exchanges, with players balancing aggression against the threat of combo or lock pieces. The game reached a critical point where the presence of multiple Opposition Agents and the ongoing draw triggers from The Gitrog player made further interaction and disruption crucial to prevent a swift win from a combo or overwhelming board presence.