Deck & Commander Strategies
The First Sliver
Utilizes Food Chain to exile and recast creatures repeatedly, generating infinite mana and enabling powerful combo finishers.
4C Rashmi / Curiosity Control (Thrasios, Vial Smasher)
Combines Curiosity with Vial Smasher to draw cards and deal damage while ramping and controlling the board, aiming to draw the deck and win with value or combos.
Lazav, the Multifarious
Leverages graveyard interactions and infinite mana combos, including Basalt Monolith and Dramatic Scepter, to generate overwhelming advantage or win by milling or combo.
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
Mono-black storm deck that uses life payment and storm spells to build a lethal storm count and finish the game with direct damage combos.
Gameplay Insights
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Casting Gilded Drake on an opponent's turn to steal a key creature while cascading into The First Sliver was a pivotal tempo play.
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Using Praetor's Grasp to exile an opponent's Mox Opal prevented a critical mana acceleration and allowed casting it for the control deck’s combo.
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Lazav's player carefully surveilled on ETB to manipulate the top of their deck, setting up future plays.
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Players prioritized setting up infinite mana combos early while simultaneously maintaining threats and disruption to prevent opponents from executing their plans.
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The interaction of Food Chain with creatures that can be recast from exile allowed the Sliver deck to generate large amounts of mana quickly, applying pressure on the table.
Notable Cards
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Food Chain
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Basalt Monolith
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Gilded Drake
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Praetor's Grasp
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Mana Crypt
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Demonic Tutor
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Curiosity
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Vial Smasher the Fierce
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Gravecrawler
Gameplay Summary
The game began with players ramping and setting up their mana bases quickly, with key early plays including The First Sliver deploying Food Chain to enable repeated creature casting, and Thrasios, Triton Hero entering the battlefield to provide card advantage and mana fixing.
Players exchanged early threats like Gilded Drake and utilized tutors such as Demonic Tutor and Praetor's Grasp to fetch critical combo pieces.
Lazav, the Multifarious and K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth also joined the fray, each contributing their unique synergies—Lazav with graveyard interactions and K'rrik with a mono-black storm approach focused on leveraging life payments and storm count.
Mid-game saw players advancing their combos, with Food Chain and Dramatic Scepter combos starting to emerge.
Lazav's pilot began assembling infinite mana with Basalt Monolith and other artifacts, while the control elements from the 4C Rashmi deck aimed to maintain board presence and card advantage.
The First Sliver deck sought to accelerate its infinite mana loop to produce overwhelming threats.
Meanwhile, K'rrik's storm deck was poised to capitalize on life payment synergies and storm spells to close out the game quickly.
The game’s tension built around these combo assemblages, with players carefully sequencing tutor and mana plays to optimize their win conditions.
The video captures an intense early-to-mid game battle with multiple combo lines in development but no clear victor by the segment’s end.
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