Deck & Commander Strategies
Rakdos, Lord of Riots
Utilizes aggressive, low-cost creatures to deal early damage, generating mana and board presence by casting large demons and dragons when opponents have lost life.
Dihada, Binder of Wills
Focuses on legendary permanents to generate incremental value, leveraging untap effects and legendary synergy to outvalue opponents and build a resilient board.
Cormela, Glamour Thief
Aims to generate vast amounts of mana through repeated untapping enabled by artifacts and creatures, enabling explosive plays and powerful creatures to dominate the battlefield.
Baba Lysaga, Night Witch
Gathers different types of permanents to fuel sacrifice effects, gradually accumulating value and using token generation and permanent types to overwhelm opponents.
Gameplay Insights
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Rakdosโs early aggressive plays and damage-dealing creatures successfully pressured opponents, enabling him to bring out large demons quickly.
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Dihadaโs legendary-matter strategy created a steady stream of value, especially through untap and tap interactions that enhanced resource generation.
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Cormelaโs ability to untap mana sources repeatedly allowed for explosive mana production, making her a significant threat as the game progressed.
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The presence of planeswalkers added a new dynamic to the game, forcing opponents to prioritize control and removal to prevent snowballing advantages.
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Black Market connections served as a critical engine for card draw and resource accumulation but came at a life cost, requiring careful life total management.
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Players had to weigh the risks of sacrificing permanents for value against maintaining board presence, navigating between aggressive plays and defensive setups.
Notable Cards
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Black Market Connections
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Memory Deluge
Gameplay Summary
The game featured four unique commanders battling for control: Baba Lysaga, Cormela, Dihada, and Rakdos.
Early turns saw players establishing their boards with ramp, creatures, and key permanents.
Rakdos, Lord of Riots, used aggressive small creatures and damage-dealing tactics to fuel his demon-heavy board presence, while Dihada focused on legendary permanents and value generation through tapping and untapping effects.
Baba Lysaga aimed to amass a variety of permanent types to leverage sacrifice value, steadily building up her board with various permanents to generate incremental advantage. Cormela, Glamour Thief, relied heavily on generating large amounts of mana through repeated untapping enabled by her deckโs interaction with mana rocks and creatures.
This allowed her to threaten big plays and overwhelming board presence.
Key moments included players carefully managing life totals around Black Market connections and the arrival of powerful planeswalkers, which threatened to turn the tide.
The game involved intense interactions around value engines, board wipes, and combat phases, with players attempting to disrupt each other's combos while developing their own win conditions based on board state and resource accumulation.