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Partnered Up Pride with Joey Schultz & Midori Monet

Spell Slayers 6 EDH Gameplay videos

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Commanders featured in this Gameplay Reviewed & Verified

Personality featured in this Gameplay

Joey Schultz

Deck & Commander Strategies

Zimone, Infinite Analyst and Rosheen, Roaring Prophet
Focuses on casting X spells, reducing their costs, and gaining value from placing counters on Zimone, enabling powerful spellcasting and board presence.
Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate and Xantcha, Sleeper Agent
Aggressive strategy that uses Alesha to recur creatures and Zantcha to disrupt opponents by giving it to an enemy while drawing cards and dealing damage.
Dina, Essence Brewer and Atla Palani, Nest Tender
Token generation and board control through Atla’s ability to create eggs, combined with Dina’s support to build a resilient board state.
Ayula, Queen Among Bears and Alania, Divergent Storm
A bear tribal deck that pumps bear creatures and uses Alania’s spell doubling to overwhelm opponents with both creatures and spells.

Gameplay Insights

1
Casting Stonecoil Serpent for zero mana to trigger Zimone’s ability and immediately place counters is a clever way to accelerate the deck’s synergy.
2
Giving Xantcha, Sleeper Agent to an opponent to disrupt their resources while benefiting from its activated ability is a strategic use of a partner commander.
3
Early ramp spells like Cultivate and mana-fixing lands such as Exotic Orchard and Reflecting Pool enabled players to cast multiple colors and accelerate their game plans.
4
Utilizing the Partner keyword allowed for creative deckbuilding, combining commanders with complementary mechanics that enhanced each other’s strengths.
5
The bear tribal deck leveraged Ayula’s anthem effect to pump a swarm of bears, while Alania’s ability to double spells added a layer of spell-based pressure.

Notable Cards

Zimone, Infinite Analyst
Rosheen, Roaring Prophet
Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate
Xantcha, Sleeper Agent
Atla Palani, Nest Tender
Dina, Essence Brewer
Ayula, Queen Among Bears
Alania, Divergent Storm
Cultivate
Stonecoil Serpent
Reflecting Pool
Exotic Orchard
Command Tower

Gameplay Summary

The game featured a unique Commander format where all commanders had the Partner keyword, allowing players to pair any two commanders to build creative decks.

Joey played a deck focused on X spells, leveraging Zimone, Infinite Analyst and Rosheen, Roaring Prophet to reduce the cost of X spells and benefit from casting them.

This led to early board development and strategic plays centered around incrementing counters and casting spells with variable mana costs.

Midori combined Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate with Xantcha, Sleeper Agent to create a deck with aggressive draw and damage potential, using Zantcha’s ability to disrupt opponents while pushing damage.

Bosco piloted a bear-themed deck led by Ayula, Queen Among Bears and Alania, Divergent Storm, aiming to flood the board with bears and pump them up for a strong board presence and spell doubling.

Dina and Atla Palani formed a synergistic pair focusing on token generation and board presence through Atla’s ability to create eggs and Dina’s brewing theme.

The game developed with early ramp and commander deployment, with players casting spells to trigger their commanders' unique abilities and setting up for mid-game pressure.

Key interactions included Zantcha being given to an opponent to leverage its ability strategically and the use of mana fixing and ramp spells like Cultivate and Exotic Orchard to accelerate game plans.

The gameplay showcased diverse strategies centered on partner synergy, with each player leveraging their commander pairs to build towards their win conditions involving either spellcasting combos, aggressive creature swarms, or incremental advantage through tokens and counters.

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