Deck & Commander Strategies
Tannuk, Memorial Ensign
Utilizes landfall triggers to deal incremental damage to opponents and draw cards, aiming to win by steadily pinging opponents while maintaining card advantage.
Syr Vondam, the Lucent
Builds a wide board of creatures, enhancing them with death touch and life gain, to swing with a powerful, aggressive army for lethal combat damage.
Seedship Broodtender
Fills the graveyard quickly to enable recursion of creatures and spacecraft cards, using sacrifice effects to bring back key threats and overwhelm opponents.
Illvoi Infiltrator
Focuses on casting multiple spells per turn to make the commander unblockable, drawing cards through combat damage triggers and cipher abilities to maintain tempo and card advantage.
Gameplay Insights
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Ciphering Hidden Strings onto Jessian Thief enabled repeated untapping and prowess triggers, greatly enhancing aggression and card draw.
- 2
The casting of Pinnacle Killship to deal 10 damage to a key ciphered creature disrupted a major combo and shifted board control.
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Witness Protection was used strategically to neutralize Tannuk by removing its abilities and reducing it to a vanilla creature, effectively halting its incremental damage output.
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Players balanced casting multiple spells to trigger unblockability and prowess while managing blockers and removal to maintain tempo.
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Sacrificing Seedship Broodtender after milling helped recover powerful creatures from the graveyard, maintaining board presence.
Notable Cards
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Hidden Strings
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Seedship Broodtender
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Witness Protection
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Last Thoughts
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Opal Palace
Gameplay Summary
The game featured four commanders with distinct strategies competing in a Pauper Commander setting.
Early turns saw players establishing their mana bases and developing boards with creatures like Jessian Thief and Seedship Broodtender, who set the stage for graveyard recursion.
Tannuk, Memorial Ensign's landfall ability steadily chipped away at opponents, while Syr Vondam, the Lucent bolstered a wide board with death touch and life gain, pressuring opponents through combat.
Illvoi Infiltrator leveraged casting multiple spells per turn to become unblockable, drawing cards and applying continuous pressure.
The game’s momentum shifted when a Pinnacle Killship was cast, dealing significant damage to a key threat, disrupting cipher-based combos. Strategic plays involved ciphering hidden strings to generate repeated untapping and prowess triggers, enabling aggressive attacks and card advantage.
Players exchanged damage while managing board states, including a notable use of Witness Protection to neutralize Tannuk's abilities and strip it to a vanilla creature, slowing down its damage output.
The interplay of graveyard recursion, incremental damage from landfall, and combat tricks created dynamic shifts, with players balancing aggression and control.
The game’s outcome hinged on disrupting combos and leveraging incremental damage and card advantage to maintain pressure on opponents.
