We Play Your Decks - Badly! - EDH Gameplay Ep 103

Deck Strategies

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  Mina and Denn, Wildborn

  Utilizes landfall triggers to ramp aggressively by playing additional lands and generating treasure tokens, enabling large creatures to overwhelm opponents.

• Rata Hegodon

  Focuses on creating unblockable creatures that generate assassin tokens on combat damage and reanimate equipment from the graveyard to build a formidable board presence.

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  Codie, Vociferous Codex

  Runs a spell-heavy deck with no permanents, leveraging the commander’s ability to exile and cast instants or sorceries for free, amplified by a companion to maximize spellcasting value.

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  The Lord of Pain

  Controls the board by destroying creatures and temporarily gaining control of them, using sacrifice and recursion to maintain pressure and disrupt opponents.

Gameplay Insights

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  Bajuka Bog was used early to exile key cards from the Mina and Denn deck, significantly hindering its landfall synergy and tempo.

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  Rata Hegodon's ability to create assassin tokens and reanimate equipment like Blade of the Oni allowed for rapid board development and aggressive attacks.

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  The use of Sagarda's Aid enabled immediate equipment attachments, streamlining the Rata deck’s equipment recursion and enhancing threat presence.

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  The Cody deck’s lack of permanents required careful management of spell sequencing to maximize the commander’s ability and companion synergy for free spellcasting.

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  The Lord of Pain deck's use of Comeuppance demonstrated a strategic way to remove threats while temporarily gaining control, allowing for tactical board manipulation.

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  Players carefully negotiated combat damage and attacks, sometimes avoiding certain targets to maintain strategic positioning and avoid unnecessary retaliation.

Notable Cards

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  Blade of the Oni

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  Colossus Hammer

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  Comeuppance

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  Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin

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  Nature's Lore

Summary

The game featured four unique decks piloted by the players, each showcasing their distinct strategies. Early on, the Mina and Denn, Wildborn deck capitalized on landfall triggers and additional land plays to generate treasure tokens, creating a strong ramp and board presence. However, this deck faced setbacks due to disruptive plays like Bajuka Bog exiling key cards. The Rata Hegodon deck focused on aggressive combat with unblockable creatures that created assassin tokens and reanimated equipment from the graveyard to boost its board state. This deck quickly established a threat with a 5/5 menace demon empowered by Blade of the Oni. The Cody, Vociferous Codex deck played an unusual strategy relying exclusively on instants and sorceries, with no permanents, and used the commander’s ability to exile and cast spells for free, assisted by a companion to double up on the effect. This approach provided a dynamic and unpredictable spell-based tempo. Meanwhile, The Lord of Pain deck utilized removal spells like Comeuppance to destroy creatures and temporarily gain control over them, disrupting opponents' boards. Key moments included board wipes and the tactical sacrifice of creatures to maintain tempo. The game unfolded with multiple interactions between equipment recursion, landfall synergies, and spellcasting advantages, with players navigating around disruption and control effects to push their win conditions.