Deck & Commander Strategies
Dihada, Binder of Wills
Utilizes powerful artifact mana acceleration and tutors to assemble combo pieces quickly, aiming to control the game and generate card advantage through disruptive creatures and graveyard interactions.
Hashaton, Scarab's Fist
Focuses on artifact synergy to generate fast mana and enable combo plays, often leveraging flicker and recursion effects to abuse enter-the-battlefield triggers and disrupt opponents.
Marneus Calgar
Plays a controlling role with efficient removal and card advantage, supporting the team by maintaining board presence and disrupting opponents' combos.
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
Leverages black mana generation and sacrifice outlets to enable life payment for costs, powering out combo pieces rapidly and taking advantage of graveyard recursion and tutors to assemble lethal combos.
Gameplay Insights
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Using Bazaar of Baghdad to discard critical combo pieces while drawing cards allowed for efficient graveyard setup and combo assembly.
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Flickering key creatures like Opposition Agent with Fairy Time Raveler created repeated disruption and enabled infinite loops.
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Demonic Consultation was used to rapidly exile the deck and set up a win condition with minimal resistance.
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Players carefully managed their mana and timing to chain together multiple spells on the stack, maximizing storm counts and combo potential.
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Sacrifice and recursion combos with Gravecrawler and Carrion Feeder provided a resilient and repeatable combo engine.
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The strategic use of tutors to find crucial combo components while denying opponents the chance to respond was central to the game's outcome.
Notable Cards
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Bazaar of Baghdad
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Chrome Mox
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Lotus Petal
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Blood Artist
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Gravecrawler
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Carrion Feeder
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Demonic Consultation
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Opposition Agent
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Animate Dead
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Mox Opal
Gameplay Summary
The game began with players setting up their mana bases rapidly, using fast mana artifacts like Chrome Mox, Lotus Petal, and Mana Vault to accelerate their early plays.
The players deployed key utility cards such as Blood Artist and Bazaar of Baghdad, aiming to enable combo pieces and card draw engines.
One player quickly established a graveyard combo setup with cards like Gravecrawler and Carrion Feeder, while others focused on controlling the board and disrupting opponents' plans. A pivotal moment occurred when a player activated Bazaar of Baghdad and discarded critical combo pieces, then used a cloning effect to create a copy, effectively expanding their combo potential.
This led to a sequence of plays involving flickering and reusing creatures like Opposition Agent and Fairy Time Raveler, culminating in a Demonic Consultation to exile most of their library, setting up a fast win.
The final sequence involved killing a key opponent's creature to clear the path and then drawing out the deck to secure victory through an infinite mana and combo loop enabled by the flicker interactions and tutoring.
The game ended swiftly after this decisive combo execution.
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