Deck Strategies
Hashaton, Scarab's Fist
This deck focuses on aggressive and tempo-oriented plays, using artifact synergies and efficient disruption to pressure opponents early while leveraging hasaton’s ability to clear blockers and maintain board control.
Atraxa, Grand Unifier
Atraxa’s deck aims to leverage proliferate mechanics and powerful creature synergies to establish a resilient board state, often winning through incremental advantages and slow combo assembly.
Thrasios, Triton Hero and Tymna the Weaver
A classic cEDH duo that focuses on efficient card draw, mana fixing, and assembling fast combos—often utilizing Thrasios’s ability to convert mana into card advantage and Tymna's attack triggers to draw cards and pressure opponents.
Loot, the Pathfinder
This deck uses Loot to maximize value from lands and card draw, leveraging landfall triggers and ramp to accelerate into powerful spells and combos that can close out the game quickly.
Gameplay Insights
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Players carefully managed their mana acceleration and card draw engines to maintain steady tempo and pressure.
- 2
Using Timna the Weaver's attack triggers to draw cards was pivotal in maintaining hand resources throughout the game.
- 3
The One Ring was used defensively to gain protection and draw extra cards, helping the controller stabilize.
- 4
The casting of Laboratory Maniac followed by Demonic Consultation and drawing Thassa's Oracle was a classic, game-winning combo that closed the game decisively.
- 5
Mockingbird was cleverly used to copy key creatures, increasing board presence and value generation.
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Discarding cards like Beseech the Mirror was a necessary sacrifice to maintain tempo and hand size.
Notable Cards
Mox Diamond
Ancient Tomb
The One Ring
Laboratory Maniac
Demonic Consultation
Thassa's Oracle
Mockingbird
Chromatic Sphere
Ranger-Captain of Eos
Summary
The game unfolded with each player developing their board and mana base carefully, while leveraging their commanders' unique strengths. Early gameplay saw the use of efficient mana rocks like Mox Diamond and Ancient Tomb to accelerate into threats such as Timna the Weaver and Hasaton, Scarab's Fist. The players focused on incremental value plays like drawing cards through Ristic Study, triggering Timna's ability by attacking multiple opponents, and deploying utility creatures like Archist of Oghma to maintain steady card advantage. Defensive plays included casting The One Ring to gain protection and maintain resilience against removal. As the game progressed, players began assembling combo pieces, with key plays including casting Laboratory Maniac and setting up for a Demonic Consultation combo to exile their libraries and win the game. The final turning point came when the player piloting Tymna and Thrasios executed a Demonic Consultation on Thassa's Oracle, securing the win through a classic cEDH combo finish.