cEDH Gameplay | Animar vs Muldrotha vs Klothys vs Sakashima // Kodama | E7 | Magic the Gathering

Deck Strategies

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  Animar, Soul of Elements

  Build a board full of creatures to reduce Animar's counters, enabling free and repeated creature casts. Use combo pieces like Cloudstone Curio and Ancestral Statue to generate infinite triggers and win.

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  Muldrotha, the Gravetide

  Control the board and generate card advantage by recurring permanents from the graveyard each turn, setting up a Thrasios-like combo finish.

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  Klothys, God of Destiny

  Disrupt opponents by destroying lands and use Kiki-Jiki to combo off for an infinite damage or value combo.

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  Sakashima of a Thousand Faces

  Use stax elements and utility lands with Kodama of the East Tree to generate incremental advantage and set up a land-based combo win involving infinite food tokens and mana.

Gameplay Insights

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  Sakashima's player used the interaction between Trade Routes and Gingerbread Cabin to generate infinite food tokens, creating a unique resource engine though not infinite mana at that moment.

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  Muldrotha's player prioritized graveyard recursion and controlled the board with spells like Cast Down and Intuition to dig for combo pieces.

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  Animar's deck attempted to assemble the combo with Cloudstone Curio and Ancestral Statue but faced disruption and careful counterplay, including bounces and counters from opponents.

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  The group displayed a tendency to avoid early aggression, focusing instead on ramp, setup, and disruption to prevent sudden combo wins.

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  A key turning point was the countering of what would have been a devastating Dockside Extortionist play, preventing an immediate infinite treasure combo and maintaining balance among players.

Notable Cards

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  Cloudstone Curio

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  Ancestral Statue

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  Aether Spellbomb

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  Carpet of Flowers

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  Life from the Loam

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  Kodama of the East Tree

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  Trade Routes

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  Gingerbread Cabin

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  Jeweled Lotus

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  Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker

Summary

The game begins with all four players deploying creature-heavy decks focused on various combo and value strategies, but with a notable reluctance to attack early on. Animar's player aims to leverage creature synergies and combo potential with Cloudstone Curio and Ancestral Statue to generate infinite value. Meanwhile, Muldrotha's deck focuses on controlling the board and extracting value through repeated graveyard recursion, aiming for a Thrasios-style combo finish. Klothys seeks to disrupt opponents with land destruction and then combo off with creatures like Kiki-Jiki, while Sakashima paired with Kodama builds a stax shell and aims for a land-based combo involving utility lands like Trade Routes and Gingerbread Cabin. Early turns see players ramping aggressively with mana dorks, enchantments, and fetchlands, setting up their board states and digging for key combo pieces.