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This Treasure Deck Goes BOOM! 🚢 w/ @MentalMisplay | Ep 188 | MTG Commander

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Commanders featured in this Gameplay Reviewed & Verified

Decklists

Deck & Commander Strategies

  • Havi, the All-Father

    Havi, the All-Father

    A green-based deck leveraging artifacts, enchantments, and multiple legends with party mechanics to ramp and cheat powerful permanents onto the battlefield, controlling the game through value and board presence.

  • RMS Titanic

    RMS Titanic

    Mono-red focused on generating treasures and big creatures to deal explosive damage quickly, using rituals and discard-draw combos to accelerate mana and maintain pressure.

  • The Goose Mother

    The Goose Mother

    A thematic bird tribal deck centered on creating and feeding birds to grow their power and overwhelm opponents with a flying army.

  • Saskia the Unyielding

    Saskia the Unyielding

    Aggressive combat-oriented deck using all-female creatures with melee and damage amplification to hit opponents hard and quickly capitalize on combat damage triggers.

Gameplay Insights

  • 1

    The Goose Mother player utilized Warden of Evos Isle to reduce the cost of bird creatures, accelerating their tribal strategy effectively.

  • 2

    The RMS Titanic player used Pyretic Ritual in combination with discards to generate large amounts of red mana, enabling explosive plays early in the game.

  • 3

    Havi, the All-Father's player leveraged party mechanics to generate additional green mana and cast powerful creatures like Ivore Wolfkist, which mills opponents and cheats permanents from the graveyard, creating a significant board presence.

  • 4

    Saskia's melee abilities intensified combat damage, making each strike more impactful and pressuring opponents to respond quickly or face heavy losses.

  • 5

    Discarding gratuitous violence to draw cards was a key move to maintain card flow while fueling the red deck's aggressive mana generation.

Notable Cards

  • Warden of Evos Isle

    Warden of Evos Isle

  • Pyretic Ritual

    Pyretic Ritual

  • Adriana, Captain of the Guard

    Adriana, Captain of the Guard

Gameplay Summary

The game began with players developing their boards and ramping mana, setting up their respective strategies.

The Goose Mother deck focused on generating and feeding birds to create a thematic swarm, utilizing cards like Warden of Evos Isle to reduce bird costs and aiming to overwhelm opponents with flying creatures.

Meanwhile, the RMS Titanic deck embraced a mono-red strategy of big creatures and treasure generation, leveraging spells like Pyretic Ritual and drawing cards through discard mechanics to fuel explosive turns.

Saskia the Unyielding played an aggressive all-female creature build, aiming to hit hard and fast with powerful combat damage and melee synergies.

Havi, the All-Father, brought a unique artifact and enchantment-oriented approach with legends, utilizing party mechanics and green ramp to deploy impactful creatures such as Ivore Wolfkist, who could mill opponents and cheat permanents into play.

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