Deck & Commander Strategies
The Tarrasque
Ramp into large creatures and overwhelm opponents with sheer size and resilience, using card draw and trample effects to maintain pressure.
Herigast, Erupting Nullkite
Utilize the emerge mechanic to cheat in big creatures by sacrificing opponent’s creatures, generating value and board presence quickly.
The Ur-Dragon
Cast a swarm of dragons by reducing their costs with Dragon Speaker Shaman and other effects, generating treasure tokens and overwhelming the board with flying threats.
Valgavoth, Terror Eater
Gain large amounts of life to cast opponents' spells from graveyards without paying mana, turning their own resources against them for value and control.
Gameplay Insights
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Silverback Elder’s multiple mode triggers provided significant ramp, life gain, and card draw, enabling the green deck to maintain tempo.
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Dragon Speaker Shaman’s cost reduction and eminence ability allowed The Ur-Dragon player to deploy dragons early and generate treasure tokens, accelerating their board state.
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Valgavoth’s life payment ability required careful life management but promised to leverage opponents' graveyard resources, creating a unique value engine.
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Herigast’s emerge ability synergized well with sacrificing opponent’s creatures, providing a tactical advantage by turning enemy resources into fuel for bigger threats.
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Early removal on Arbor Elf slowed initial ramp but the green decks compensated quickly with multiple ramp spells and large creatures.
Notable Cards
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Silverback Elder
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Kodama's Reach
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Planar Nexus
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Bitter Triumph
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Canopy Gargantuan
Gameplay Summary
The game features a high-cost commander showdown with The Tarrasque, Herigast, Erupting Nullkite, The Ur-Dragon, and Valgavoth, Terror Eater.
Early turns centered around ramping and establishing board presence, with The Tarrasque player quickly developing a large board of powerful creatures supported by ramp spells and card draw effects such as Garuk's Uprising.
Despite some early disruption—like the destruction of Arbor Elf—the green decks maintained pressure through big creatures, life gain, and incremental advantage.
Valgavoth's player focused on gaining and spending life to cast opponents' graveyard spells, aiming to leverage that to outvalue opponents over time.
The Ur-Dragon deck deployed cost-reduction synergies to flood the board with dragons, while Herigast centered around using emerge to cheat in large creatures and sacrifice opponent’s creatures for value.
Key turning points included the Silverback Elder generating multiple value triggers and ramping the board, and the Ur-Dragon’s Dragon Speaker Shaman reducing dragon costs, enabling multiple dragons to enter early and create treasure tokens.
The board state grew increasingly threatening with large flying creatures and utility effects.
The Tarrasque player’s high toughness threats and ramp made them a major threat, but the life gain and graveyard recursion of Valgavoth and the emerge sacrifice strategy of Herigast aimed to disrupt and turn the tide.
The game was poised for a high-impact combat phase with multiple players ready to leverage their powerful creatures and synergies for a decisive strike.
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