Deck & Commander Strategies
Hearthhull, the Worldseed
Utilizes a spacecraft and station mechanics, focusing on creatures and surveil to manipulate the deck and create value while assembling powerful board states.
Sami, Wildcat Captain
An artifact-centric deck aiming to generate value and damage through artifact synergies, featuring cards like Blightsteel Colossus and Aetherflux Reservoir for big finishers.
Szarel, Genesis Shepherd
Leverages graveyard recursion focused on lands to maximize landfall effects, ramping aggressively to overwhelm opponents with land-based synergies.
Mm'menon, the Right Hand
Centers on sacrificing non-token permanents to put +1/+1 counters on creatures, combined with land recursion and artifact interactions to grow threats and maintain card advantage.
Gameplay Insights
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Mm'menon effectively uses its ability to put counters on creatures by sacrificing lands and other permanents, rapidly increasing board threat level.
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The use of Brass-Tunnel Grinder to cycle cards and eventually become a land provides both card advantage and ramp, accelerating gameplay.
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Surveil and land recursion are key tools for Hearthhull and Szarel to maintain resources and shape draws, enabling consistent land drops and triggering landfall effects.
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Artifacts like Manifold Key and Goblin Welder provide essential utility, enabling untaps and artifact recursion to enhance mana efficiency and maintain board presence.
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Players carefully manage land drops and sacrifice triggers to optimize their commanders' abilities, demonstrating the importance of resource timing in high-powered Commander games.
Notable Cards
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Manifold Key
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Blightsteel Colossus
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Aetherflux Reservoir
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Oracle of Mul Daya
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Goblin Welder
Gameplay Summary
The game features four commanders competing in a high-powered Edge of Eternities setting, with players leveraging unique synergies and strategies.
Early turns focus on ramp and setting up board presence, with Hearthhull establishing its spacecraft theme by playing creatures and utilizing station mechanics.
Sami's artifact-centric deck seeks to leverage iconic cards like Aetherflux Reservoir and Blightsteel Colossus, aiming for value and damage through artifact synergies.
Szarel focuses on graveyard interactions by retrieving lands and triggering powerful landfall effects, while Mm'menon's deck capitalizes on sacrificing non-token permanents to grow creatures and generate advantage, synergizing well with land recursion and artifact utility. Key turning points include Mm'menon casting its commander early and using its ability to put +1/+1 counters on Ice-Fang Explorer, then leveraging sacrifice and recursion with cards like Royal Regrowth to maintain resources and fuel its abilities.
Hearthhull uses stationing and surveil to manipulate the deck and board state, while Szarel aggressively mills and recurs lands to maximize landfall triggers.
A notable interaction is Mm'menon's use of artifacts and sacrificing lands to trigger additional effects, increasing board development and card advantage.
The game progresses with players carefully balancing land drops, artifact deployment, and creature growth, setting the stage for larger threats and combos to close out the game.
