Deck & Commander Strategies
Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
A quick, aggressive deck focused on fast mana acceleration and generating card advantage through Ragavan's abilities, aiming to assemble combos like Kiki-Jiki to end the game swiftly.
Green Goblin (Norman Osborn)
A graveyard-centric deck that discards cards to reduce casting costs, enabling explosive plays and value generation through mayhem effects and cheat-into-play interactions.
Hashaton, Scarab's Fist
A Grixis control-combo deck that copies spells and creatures, focusing on graveyard recursion and comboing out quickly, often aiming to win with Thassa's Oracle or similar finishers.
Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh & Silas Renn, Seeker Adept
A Grixis adjacent deck blending control elements with combo potential, aiming to find and execute a Thassa's Oracle combo as fast as possible while disrupting opponents.
Gameplay Insights
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Exiling Cabal Ritual with Gemstone Caverns provided a powerful mana acceleration tool, enabling explosive early plays.
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Casting Ragavan on turn one after Ancient Tomb and Grim Monolith ramp established early pressure and card advantage.
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The use of Vexing Shusher and Trinisphere by the Grixis decks aimed to lock down free spells and slow down opponents' explosive starts.
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Players aggressively mulliganed to find fast starts, reflecting the high-speed nature of cEDH gameplay.
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The game featured a delicate balance between assembling combos quickly and deploying disruption to prevent opponents from doing the same.
Notable Cards
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Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
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Gemstone Caverns
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Cabal Ritual
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Ancient Tomb
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Grim Monolith
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Vexing Shusher
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Trinisphere
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Thassa's Oracle
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Mystic Remora
Gameplay Summary
The game began with an explosive start from the Ragavan player, who utilized Ancient Tomb and Grim Monolith to quickly ramp and cast Ragavan, setting a fast-paced early tempo.
The Green Goblin player focused on graveyard synergy, discarding cards to reduce their casting costs and aiming to generate value with mayhem effects, effectively accelerating their board presence.
The Grixis decks, including Rograkh/Silas Renn and Hashaton, leaned heavily into graveyard recursion and combo potential, both attempting to assemble their win conditions rapidly while controlling the board state with disruption like Vexing Shusher and Trinisphere. A notable early interaction was the use of Gemstone Caverns to exile and recast Cabal Ritual, providing additional mana acceleration for the Grixis decks.
The game featured aggressive mulligans and resource denial, with players trying to outpace each other through fast mana and disruption.
The Rograkh deck threatened a Thassa's Oracle combo finish, prompting heightened tension.
Meanwhile, the Green Goblin player leveraged discard synergies and mana rocks to maintain pressure.
The game evolved into a tight race of combo assembly and disruption, with players balancing between protecting their own strategies and dismantling opponents' board states, showcasing a dynamic cEDH environment.
