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

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Deck Strategies

  • Éowyn, Shieldmaiden

    Éowyn, Shieldmaiden

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

  • Edward Kenway

    Edward Kenway

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

  • Chishiro, the Shattered Blade

    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.

  • Imotekh the Stormlord

    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

  • 1

    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.

  • 2

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

  • 3

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

  • 4

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

  • 5

    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

  • Reckless Lackey

    Reckless Lackey

  • Arcane Signet

    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.

Description

Commander Party takes a Magic the Gathering family vacation with Planechase! We’re using the March of the Machine Planechase cards, and you should too!

You can grab the MOM pre-constructed decks that come with the Planechase cards here: www.tcgplayer.com/product/484593/magic-commander-march-of-the-machine-march-of-the-machine-commander-decks-set-of-5

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CAST Becca Scott Ify Nwadiwe Karen Han Phill Correa

CREDITS Director: Matt Moynihan Associate Producer: “Handsome” Ray Rehberg Story Producer: Emme Montgomery Editor: Trevor Adams Cameras: @Blackmagic Design Music and Effects: epidemicsound.com Lighting: Aputure

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