Getting Stoned | Magic: The Gathering Commander | Big Deck Energy

Deck Strategies

• Tatsunari Toad Rider

  Cast enchantments to create frog tokens and drain opponents’ life, leveraging enchantment synergies and token generation for incremental advantage.

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  Bristly Bill, Spine Sower

  Build +1/+1 counters on creatures, grow them large, and protect them with hexproof to maintain board dominance.

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  Toggo, Goblin Weaponsmith

  Generate artifact rocks that can be equipped and thrown as damage sources, creating a unique weaponized artifact synergy.

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  Ich-Tekik, Salvage Splicer

  Focus on artifact synergy, especially rocks, enhancing creatures with death touch and using artifacts as offensive tools.

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  Atraxa, Praetors' Voice

  Utilize a fiend/phyrexian tribal theme with counters and incremental growth, avoiding the usual poison counter proliferation and focusing on creature synergy.

Gameplay Insights

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  The interaction between Toggo’s artifact rocks and Ich-Tekik’s death touch synergy created a unique threat where even small creatures became deadly when equipped with rocks.

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  Tatsunari maximized enchantment plays to produce multiple frog tokens that drained life each turn, applying steady pressure on opponents.

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  Bristly Bill’s strategy of accumulating +1/+1 counters was enhanced by careful protection, forcing opponents to consider when to expend removal.

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  Players demonstrated mutual respect for game pacing, with some turns focused on setup and incremental growth rather than aggressive swings early on.

• 5

  The use of Evolving Wilds to fetch specific lands and the careful sequencing of mana sources like Command Tower to optimize color fixing was a subtle but important strategic layer.

Notable Cards

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  Restless Cottage

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  Oran-Rief, the Vastwood

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  War Room

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  Conduit Pylons

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  Evolving Wilds

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  Command Tower

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  Hardened Scales

Summary

The game began with a relatively casual pace as each player established their board presence through basic land drops and early creatures. Tatsunari Toad Rider focused on an enchantment-based strategy that generates frog tokens and drains opponents whenever enchantments were cast. Bristly Bill worked to build a board of creatures with +1/+1 counters, aiming to grow a formidable threat while protecting those creatures with hexproof. Toggo, Goblin Weaponsmith centered on creating and equipping artifact rocks that could be thrown as damage sources, synergizing with Ich-Tekik, Salvage Splicer’s artifact-focused deck that turns rocks into deadly tools with death touch. Meanwhile, Atraxa, Praetors’ Voice pursued a fun and tribal approach with a focus on fian creatures and incremental growth through counters without proliferating poison counters, despite her name’s usual associations.