Commander Versus Series: Deck Tech - Olivia Voldaren Vs. Cromat

Deck Strategies

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  Olivia Voldaren

  A vampire tribal deck focused on aggressive life drain and damage through synergistic vampire creatures and combos. It uses Patriarch's Bidding for mass creature recursion and life gain/loss combos like Exquisite Blood and Wound Reflection to outvalue opponents.

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  Cromat

  A five-color Super Friends deck designed around deploying numerous planeswalkers to control the board and generate card advantage. It employs tribal support cards like Door of Destinies and D of Destin to enhance planeswalkers, with effects to cheat planeswalkers into play and ultimate multiple planeswalkers quickly.

Gameplay Insights

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  Olivia Voldaren’s deck relies heavily on life drain combos that can rapidly swing life totals, especially when combined with cards like Colossus Highborn and Wound Reflection, creating a potent damage and life gain engine.

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  Cromat’s strategy of maximizing planeswalkers with tribal synergies and using cards like Door of Destinies allows him to recover quickly from board wipes and maintain a strong board presence through multiple planeswalkers.

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  The interaction between Olivia's creature-focused tribal synergies and Cromat's planeswalker-centric board state sets up an interesting dynamic where Olivia attempts to break through planeswalker defenses, while Cromat aims to outvalue and stabilize with powerful ultimate abilities.

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  Patriarch's Bidding proves crucial in Olivia's deck to rebuild a vampire board after mass removal, ensuring resilience against Cromat’s control elements.

Notable Cards

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  Patriarch's Bidding

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  Door of Destinies

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  Exquisite Blood

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  Wound Reflection

Summary

The game features a thematic showdown between Olivia Voldaren's vampire tribal deck and Cromat's Super Friends planeswalker deck. Olivia's strategy revolves around leveraging vampire synergies, life drain combos, and tribal staples like Patriarch's Bidding to maintain board presence despite board wipes. Key cards help revive or sustain her vampire horde, while life gain and drain effects provide incremental advantage. Cromat, on the other hand, centers on deploying a wide array of planeswalkers, aiming to generate value from their abilities and ultimate effects. His deck includes ways to cheat planeswalkers into play and maximize their impact, creating a formidable board state that aims to outpace Olivia's creatures.