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Commanders featured in this Gameplay Reviewed & Verified

Decklists

Deck & Commander Strategies

  • Animar, Soul of Elements

    Animar, Soul of Elements

    Utilizes creature cloning and untap combos to build a large board presence quickly, aiming to combo off for massive damage or infinite triggers.

  • Narset, Enlightened Master

    Narset, Enlightened Master

    Focuses on casting multiple noncreature spells per turn, supported by wheels and tutors to find key pieces, enabling combos and card advantage.

  • Zacama, Primal Calamity

    Zacama, Primal Calamity

    Uses Food Chain to generate infinite mana by repeatedly exiling and recasting creatures, aiming to cast large spells or activate powerful ETB triggers.

  • Breya, Etherium Shaper

    Breya, Etherium Shaper

    Leverages artifact synergies and sacrifice outlets to control the board and assemble a combo finish with the Divergent transformation.

Gameplay Insights

  • 1

    Using Academy Rector to tutor Food Chain allowed a pivotal combo setup for infinite mana generation.

  • 2

    Casting Toxic Deluge to clear the board was a crucial moment to reset the battlefield and stall aggressive strategies.

  • 3

    Smothering Tithe generated significant mana advantage, impacting players' ability to respond and cast spells.

  • 4

    Narset's play pattern of tutoring instants and sorceries enabled a steady flow of value and pressure.

  • 5

    Managing life totals carefully due to early damage from mana acceleration artifacts influenced players' tempo and risk-taking.

Notable Cards

  • Food Chain

    Food Chain

  • Greater Good

    Greater Good

  • Academy Rector

    Academy Rector

  • Toxic Deluge

    Toxic Deluge

  • Caustic Caterpillar

    Caustic Caterpillar

  • Smothering Tithe

    Smothering Tithe

  • Chromatic Lantern

    Chromatic Lantern

  • Mana Confluence

    Mana Confluence

Gameplay Summary

The game features four highly synergistic and combo-oriented decks battling for control and victory.

Early turns see players ramping aggressively using mana artifacts, land fetch, and value creatures.

The Food Chain Zacama deck aims to generate infinite mana and cast creatures repeatedly for value, while the Animar Twin deck focuses on comboing with clone and untap effects to overwhelm opponents.

The Fullmetal Narset deck uses wheels and value engines to draw through its deck quickly and find key spells.

Breya's Divergent Razaketh deck looks to leverage artifact synergies and sacrifice outlets to assemble a combo finish.

Key moments include Zacama assembling Food Chain and combos, Narset tutoring and casting multiple spells, and Breya attempting to stabilize with board wipes and combo pieces.

The game revolves around building mana, drawing aggressively, and carefully timing combo triggers to outpace opponents, with win conditions centered on infinite mana and creature recursion or combo damage.

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