Post Malone Plays Magic: The Gathering | Game Knights 45 | Commander Gameplay EDH

Deck Strategies

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  Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar

  This deck aims to generate value by discarding cards, sacrificing creatures, and recurring them to the battlefield or hand. It plans to overwhelm opponents with accumulated value.

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  Merieke Ri Berit

  This deck focuses on utilizing the commander's ability to control opponents' creatures. It's built around enchantments and artifacts that untap the commander or generate value from using opponent's creatures.

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  Garth One-Eye

  The deck revisits Magic's history by allowing the casting of original cards. It includes ways to untap Garth to repeatedly use his ability, with additional creatures that benefit from being untapped.

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  Xantcha, Sleeper Agent

  This deck focuses on manipulating opponents using enchantments that incentivize them to attack each other. It seeks to whittle down opponents' life totals using Xantcha's ability before delivering the final blow with heavy hitters.

Gameplay Insights

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  The early game was heavily influenced by Post Malone's Soul Ring, providing him with significant mana advantage.

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  Josh's Esper Sentinel played a crucial role in drawing him additional cards, maintaining his hand size and giving him more options.

• 3

  Jimmy's Witches' Oven and Foreboding Fruit aligned with his food token strategy, setting up potential value plays later in the game.

• 4

  Ashlen's Curse of Opulence created a political dynamic, encouraging attacks against Josh.

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  Post Malone's Rhystic Study allowed him to consistently draw cards, providing a steady stream of resources throughout the game.

Notable Cards

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  Esper Sentinel

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  Foreboding Fruit

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  Rhystic Study

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  Curse of Opulence

Summary

The game kicked off with all players developing their board states, with Post Malone taking an early lead by playing a Soul Ring on his first turn. Josh followed this up by casting Esper Sentinel, drawing cards whenever opponents cast non-creature spells. Jimmy's strategy focused on creating food tokens with cards like Witches' Oven and Foreboding Fruit. Ashlen introduced a political element to the game by playing Curse of Opulence on Josh, incentivizing the other players to attack him. Post Malone continued to generate value from his Rhystic Study, drawing cards whenever opponents didn't pay the additional cost for their spells.