Pay 2 Mana to Make Your Friend's Commander Worse

Deck & Commander Strategies

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  Tinybones, the Pickpocket

  Utilizes death touch and graveyard manipulation to chip away at opponents and gain incremental advantages, often evolving into more threatening Gorgon forms to clear weaker creatures.

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  Danitha, New Benalia's Light

  Focuses on boosting and protecting creatures with equipment and auras, enhancing offense with lifelink and vigilance to sustain through combat and support allies.

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  Niv-Mizzet Reborn

  Leverages its multi-color identity to draw cards and find key spells from each guild, enabling powerful spells and combos to control the board and generate card advantage.

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  Niv-Mizzet, Parun

  Centers on spellcasting and drawing cards with damage triggers, aiming to chain spells for continuous damage and card advantage.

Gameplay Insights

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  The ability to swap commanders once per turn for two mana created a dynamic battlefield where players had to adapt their strategies quickly based on the current commander’s abilities and board impact.

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  Forming alliances and using auras like Bear Umbra to untap lands during combat allowed for explosive mana usage and multiple attacks in a single turn, significantly increasing pressure.

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  Players carefully balanced aggression with resource management, using ramp spells and enchantments to maintain tempo while preparing for high-impact plays like casting Niv-Mizzet Reborn.

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  Exiling opponents' graveyard cards with Vgarov, Terror Eater disrupted graveyard-centric strategies, highlighting the importance of graveyard hate in this meta.

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  Sacrificing lands and creatures strategically to trigger Grave Pact effects and to untap lands for follow-up plays demonstrated advanced synergy exploitation.

Notable Cards

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  Tinybones, the Pickpocket

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  Bear Umbra

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  Niv-Mizzet Reborn

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  Lightning Greaves

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  Daybreak Coronet

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  Grave Pact

Gameplay Summary