Deck Strategies
Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients
Utilizes dice rolling and self-damage to generate a large number of dragons, leveraging tribal synergies and aggressive damage output.
Elenda, Saint of Dusk
Focuses on life gain and life drain mechanics through vampires, with the potential to win suddenly via secret combos that leverage her ability to create vampire tokens and drain opponents.
Helga, Skittish Seer
Plays big creatures to draw cards and maintain hand advantage, ramping into impactful threats while benefiting from synergy with planes that affect creatures.
Missy
Transforms creatures into Cybermen, creating a thematic and mechanical twist that alters the board state and potentially overwhelms opponents with a uniform army.
Gameplay Insights
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The holiday-themed planes introduce unique global effects that require players to constantly adapt their strategies, such as forcing creatures to gain flying and stun counters or generating tokens through singing.
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Class enchantments provide scalable benefits, especially with life gain synergies that can boost creatures or recur threats from the graveyard, adding resilience to board wipes.
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Patchwork Banner's ability to boost a chosen creature type and provide mana fixing is crucial for Vrondiss’s dragon tribal strategy, enabling explosive turns with multiple dragons.
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The use of dice rolling mechanics in conjunction with the Barbarian class enhances the consistency and power of dice-based effects in Vrondiss’s deck.
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Missy’s ability to turn all creatures into Cybermen creates a unique battlefield that can disrupt opponents' tribal synergies and change combat dynamics drastically.
Notable Cards
Bog Humbugs
Wild Growth
Cleric Class
Patchwork Banner
Barbarian Class
Summary
The game begins with players unveiling a festive Planechase deck filled with holiday-themed planes, setting a chaotic and whimsical tone. Early turns focus on ramping mana and establishing board presence with enchantments like Wild Growth and creatures like Lunar Veteran. The planes introduce unique mechanics such as creating Food tokens when humming or singing, and imposing flying and stun counters on creatures, which complicates combat and board state management. Throughout the game, players cast various class enchantments to boost life gain and creature resilience, while artifacts like Patchwork Banner enhance tribal synergies, particularly for dragons. The interaction between planes and deck strategies leads to dynamic board states where players must adapt quickly to shifting conditions.
