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(EDH) Maelstrom Wanderer Vs Atraxa Vs Yarok - Gameplay Ep.8

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Commanders featured in this Gameplay Reviewed & Verified

Decklists

Deck & Commander Strategies

  • Maelstrom Wanderer

    Maelstrom Wanderer

    Cascade into powerful dragons and other spells to flood the board with large creatures and planeswalkers, using tempo and value plays to overwhelm opponents.

  • Atraxa, Praetors' Voice

    Atraxa, Praetors' Voice

    Proliferate counters on creatures and planeswalkers, generate tokens, and leverage +1/+1 counters to build a resilient and scalable board presence.

  • Yarok, the Desecrated

    Yarok, the Desecrated

    Double all enter-the-battlefield triggers to maximize value from creatures and permanents, focusing on synergistic spells that benefit from repeated triggers.

Gameplay Insights

  • 1

    Doubling Season combined with Yarok’s ability significantly increased token production and counters, highlighting the importance of tracking triggers carefully.

  • 2

    The use of overloaded Cyclonic Rift effectively reset the board state, allowing Maelstrom Wanderer to capitalize on the disruption and secure the win.

  • 3

    Players utilized combat strategically, often blocking to preserve life totals and maintain board control instead of outright attacking.

  • 4

    Cascade mechanics on Maelstrom Wanderer enabled multiple spell casts per turn, generating momentum and applying pressure on opponents.

  • 5

    The game demonstrated how a single misplay in trigger management can alter the flow, but adaptation and correct sequencing allowed the players to recover and finish decisively.

Notable Cards

  • Cyclonic Rift

    Cyclonic Rift

  • Genesis Wave

    Genesis Wave

  • Scavenging Ooze

    Scavenging Ooze

  • Primordial Hydra

    Primordial Hydra

  • Avenger of Zendikar

    Avenger of Zendikar

  • Eternal Witness

    Eternal Witness

  • Expedition Map

    Expedition Map

  • Coalition Relic

    Coalition Relic

Gameplay Summary

In this three-player Commander game featuring Maelstrom Wanderer, Atraxa, Praetors' Voice, and Yarok, the early game focused on ramping mana and developing board states through synergistic creature plays and land drops.

Maelstrom Wanderer's deck leveraged cascade and dragon tribal synergies, while Atraxa focused on proliferate and counters, and Yarok utilized doubling triggered abilities to maximize value.

The gameplay saw significant board development with token generation, multiple counters, and powerful planeswalkers entering the battlefield. A pivotal moment occurred when a massive Genesis Wave cast by Atraxa generated a large token army and multiple permanents, but a misplay with trigger doubling slightly altered the outcome.

Subsequent combat phases involved strategic blocking and damage assignments, with players carefully managing their life totals and board presence.

The game climaxed when Maelstrom Wanderer cast an overloaded Cyclonic Rift to bounce all nonland permanents, severely disrupting opponents’ boards.

Despite this, the game ended with a dramatic swing where the player controlling Maelstrom Wanderer dealt lethal damage by attacking with a large board, winning the game.

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