SENPAPI GABE PLAYS cEDH! - SCION vs TERRA vs MAGDA vs ETALI

Deck & Commander Strategies

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  Scion of the Ur-Dragon

  A five-color dragon tribal deck focused on assembling a powerful board with multiple dragon creatures, leveraging enter-the-battlefield triggers and tutors like Demonic Tutor to find combo pieces and control the game. The deck uses Panharmonicon to double triggers and generate massive card advantage, aiming to win through overwhelming board presence and combo damage.

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  Terra, Magical Adept

  A spell-slinger deck that leverages the adventure and modal abilities of Terra to generate value from instants and sorceries while controlling the board. It aims to ramp and chain spells efficiently to outvalue opponents and eventually win through incremental advantage and disruption.

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  Magda, Brazen Outlaw

  A treasure-based aggressive dwarf tribal deck that ramps quickly by generating treasures from attacking and dwarf creatures, aiming to produce a large mana pool early to cast powerful threats and combos. The deck pressures opponents with fast damage and mana acceleration.

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  Etali, Primal Conqueror

  A big red dinosaur tribal deck focused on casting high-impact creatures and spells to trigger Etali’s ability, dealing damage and stealing cards from opponents. The deck uses ramp and disruption to clear the way for Etali’s repeated attacks and damage output.

Gameplay Insights

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  The decision to use Imperial Seal to tutor for Orcish Bowmaster to deal with Magda was a defensive play, but it was recognized as suboptimal since it did not advance the player's own win condition and only slowed one opponent.

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  Leveraging Panharmonicon to double all enter-the-battlefield triggers was crucial to maximizing the value of cards like Chunky, Rionia, and others, enabling explosive board states.

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  Using Molten Duplication on Chunky to generate multiple triggers demonstrated effective use of spells to increase value from creatures with powerful ETB effects.

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  The use of Roaming Throne to make all creatures dinosaurs synergized strongly with tribal synergies to create multiple copies of Etali, resulting in massive damage output and board control.

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  Casting Gifts Ungiven to find multiple dragon threats and recursion tools allowed the player to assemble a resilient and threatening board quickly.

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  Playing around Mindbreak Trap and sequencing spells carefully ensured that the player's combo pieces and tutors resolved successfully without disruption.

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  Utilizing flash speed responses and recursion effects like Eternal Witness to reuse key spells maintained board presence and card advantage in a fast-paced cEDH environment.

Notable Cards

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  Panharmonicon

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  Demonic Tutor

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  Roaming Throne

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  Molten Duplication

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  Gemstone Caverns

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  Eternal Witness

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  Mox Diamond

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  Tainted Pact

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  Deflecting Swat

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  Blood Moon

Gameplay Summary