Thrasios & Ravos vs. Vivi - CDF 2025 - Day 2 - FINALE - Duel Commander│MTG│bitzelberg

Deck & Commander Strategies

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  Thrasios, Triton Hero and Ravos, Soultender

  A midrange-combo deck leveraging Thrasios’s ability to generate card advantage through land drops and Ravos’s recursion to maintain board presence. The deck focuses on interaction, controlling the board with efficient removal and counterspells, while setting up value engines with artifacts and enchantments.

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  Vivi Ornitier

  A spell-slinging wizard tribal deck that utilizes efficient instants and sorceries alongside creatures like Snapcaster Mage to generate value. It leverages interactions like Gutshot and recurring spells through Underworld Breach to build storm counts and overwhelm opponents with incremental advantage and tempo.

Gameplay Insights

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  Thrasios’s ability to activate on multiple land drops each turn provided continuous card advantage and board presence, forcing opponents to respond or lose tempo.

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  Vivi Ornitier’s deck capitalized on Underworld Breach to repeatedly cast spells from the graveyard, building storm count and enabling powerful sequences that pressured the opponent.

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  Charles’s deck showed strong interaction with multiple instant-speed removal spells but struggled to keep up with the incremental engine value generated by Vivi’s deck.

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  The sequence involving Mental Note and other cantrips allowed Vivi to cycle through cards quickly, setting up lethal storm thresholds.

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  Decisions around protecting key permanents like the Raze’s Verge and timing the activation of Thrasios were critical in maintaining board control and tempo.

Notable Cards

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  Thrasios, Triton Hero

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  Ravos, Soultender

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  Vivi Ornitier

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  Underworld Breach

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  Snapcaster Mage

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  Swords to Plowshares

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  Fatal Push

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  Mental Note

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  Brainstorm

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  Mystic Confluence

Gameplay Summary