We Played Planechase Commander! | Commander Party Ep. 3 - Magic the Gathering EDH Gameplay

Deck Strategies

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  Éowyn, Shieldmaiden

  Focuses on creating and buffing human and soldier tribal tokens to overwhelm opponents through sheer numbers and combat synergy.

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  Edward Kenway

  Leverages Pirates and Assassins with aggressive early plays, creating treasures and using sacrifice outlets to maintain card advantage and pressure.

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  Chishiro, the Shattered Blade

  Utilizes equipment and auras to generate spirit tokens and enhance creatures with +1/+1 counters and menace, aiming for a powerful board of modified creatures.

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  Imotekh the Stormlord

  Exploits artifact recursion from the graveyard to create 2/2 Necron tokens, ramping Imotekh’s power and overwhelming opponents with artifact-themed synergy.

Gameplay Insights

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  The doubling of tokens and counters due to Celesia Loft Gardens heavily amplified Éowyn’s and Chishiro’s token and counters strategies, making it a key global effect to leverage or escape from.

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  Players carefully chose when to roll the planar die, balancing the risk of chaos triggers or planeswalking against the mana cost of multiple rolls.

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  Edward Kenway’s aggressive use of Reckless Lackey to generate treasures while dealing incremental damage pressured opponents early and maintained resource flow.

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  Imotekh’s ability to create Necron tokens from artifact recursion synergized well with graveyard interactions, enabling a steadily growing board presence.

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  Board development was cautious early as players tried to get out of planes that heavily favored specific deck archetypes, showing strategic adaptation to the dynamic Planechase environment.

Notable Cards

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  Reckless Lackey

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  Arcane Signet

Summary

The game began with all four players navigating the shared Planechase deck, adding dynamic global effects that impacted their strategies. The players adjusted their plays around the current plane, Celesia Loft Gardens, which doubled tokens and counters, synergizing well with the counters-focused decks, particularly benefiting Éowyn's human and soldier tribal strategy and Chishiro's equipment and aura-based token generation. Early turns saw players ramping mana, developing boards, and cautiously attempting to planeswalk to escape or leverage the planes' effects. Imotekh's artifact-based token creation and Edward Kenway's aggressive pirate and treasure generation tactics established early presence, while Becca’s Chishiro capitalized on equipment and auras to flood the board with spirit tokens.