Precon-a-paloza part two! Jeson vs Shanid vs Firkraag vs Burakos EDH / CMDR game play

Deck Strategies

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  Burakos, Party Leader

  The deck utilizes its commander's ability to generate treasures and deal damage to opponents. It also incorporates life-drain strategies to whittle down opponents' life totals.

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  Jenson Carthalion, Druid Exile

  This deck aims to ramp up and cast spells that allow additional land drops to gain advantage. However, it struggled to maintain a strong board presence in this game.

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  Shanid, Sleepers' Scourge

  The deck utilizes a strategy of drawing and discarding cards to trigger its commander's ability. Despite this, it was unable to maintain board presence due to board wipes.

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  Firkraag, Cunning Instigator

  This deck focuses on aggressive strategies, utilizing its commander's ability to deal significant damage and draw cards. It also includes board wipe strategies to control the game's pace.

Gameplay Insights

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  Maximus cleverly used Burakos' ability to consistently generate treasures and deal damage to opponents.

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  The use of Spectacular Showdown to apply double strike counters and goad all creatures was a significant game-changing move by Firkraag.

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  The board wipe using Blasphemous Act coupled with Stuffy Doll's triggered ability resulted in a significant shift in the game dynamics, taking out Shanid and damaging Burakos substantially.

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  Despite the board wipe, Burakos quickly recovered and regained control using Sabine's Reclamation to rebuild his board.

Notable Cards

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  Spectacular Showdown

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  Blasphemous Act

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  Stuffy Doll

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  Undercity's Embrace

Summary

The game started with players building their boards and ramping up their resources. Burakos took an early lead by consistently utilizing his commander's ability to accumulate treasures and deal damage to opponents. Firkraag managed to land significant damage through his commander's ability coupled with a double strike counter from Spectacular Showdown. The game featured a board wipe with the use of Blasphemous Act, which resulted in the death of Shanid, and also dealt significant damage to Burakos via Stuffy Doll's triggered ability. Despite the board wipe, Burakos quickly recovered by reassembling his board with Sabine's Reclamation, which allowed him to drain life from his opponents and eventually take out Jeson. The game concluded with Burakos maintaining control over the board state and dealing the final blow.