Deck & Commander Strategies
Eriette of the Charmed Apple
Auras and curses enchant creatures and opponents to gain life, prevent attacks, and deal damage at end of turns, aiming for a slow, controlling game plan.
Rocco, Street Chef
Focuses on exiling cards and generating food tokens to grow creatures and gain card advantage, using exile as a resource to fuel powerful plays.
Akbal of the Surging Soul
Uses Murfolk creatures that explore each turn to draw lands or place +1/+1 counters, combined with Hardened Scales to accelerate counter growth and board presence.
10th Doctor and Rose Tyler
Suspends spells and casts them from exile for free, accumulating time counters on As Foretold to cast bigger spells without mana, leveraging suspended spells and time counters for a late-game advantage.
Gameplay Insights
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Using Painful Inheritance to pay life in exchange for ramping lands provided steady mana acceleration despite the life cost, influencing early game tempo.
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The synergy between exile effects and food token generation in Rocco's deck created a recurring resource loop that pressured opponents to respond.
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Exploration triggers on Murfolk combined with Hardened Scales effectively increased board threat size quickly, forcing opponents to address growing creatures.
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As Foretold allowed the 10th Doctor deck to cast spells from exile at no mana cost, leading to escalating board impact as time counters accumulated.
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Equipping Rose Tyler with Lightning Greaves maximized her attack potential by granting haste and protection, enabling aggressive commander damage early on.
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Strategic blocking decisions, such as using Eriette to block and control damage, demonstrated the importance of defensive plays amidst aggressive board states.
Notable Cards
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Lord Skitter's Blessing
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Lightning Greaves
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As Foretold
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Hardened Scales
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Bygone Marvels
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Rose Tyler
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Path of Ancestry
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Restless Fortress
Gameplay Summary
The game featured four unique decks, each with distinctive strategies that shaped the evolving board state.
The game started with slow but synergistic plays, as Eriette of the Charmed Apple focused on enchanting creatures with auras and curses to generate incremental life gain and damage while deterring attacks.
Meanwhile, Rocco, Street Chef aimed to exile cards and generate food tokens, leveraging the synergy from exiling to grow creatures and create resources.
Akbal of the Surging Soul led a counters and exploration strategy, utilizing the explore mechanic on Murfolk creatures to either draw lands or place +1/+1 counters, combining this with Hardened Scales to accelerate growth.
The 10th Doctor and Rose Tyler deck focused on suspending spells and casting them from exile for free, building up time counters on As Foretold to cast increasingly powerful spells without mana cost.
Key turning points included the early establishment of board presence by enchantments and counters, the deployment of food token generation through exile interaction, and progressive pressure from the suspended spells and counters.
The game was marked by strategic resource management, with players balancing life payments for land searches, managing exiled cards, and leveraging unique commander abilities to maintain tempo and board control.
The outcome hinged on which player could best capitalize on their synergies—enchantments and damage prevention, food and exile benefits, exploration and counters, or suspended spell advantage.
