cEDH Showdown! K’rrik vs Daretti vs Noctis vs Ob Nixilis 🔥 | Fast, Grind, Value, Aggro!

Deck & Commander Strategies

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  K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

  Uses life as an alternate mana source to accelerate casting spells and combos, leveraging Necropotence and Villis, Broker of Blood to draw cards and create a massive card advantage engine for a fast combo kill.

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  Daretti, Scrap Savant

  Mono-red artifact synergy deck that grinds value through artifact recursion and combos such as Grinding Station plus Painter's Servant, aiming to explode the board and control the game through artifact interactions.

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  Noctis, Prince of Lucis

  A toolbox and value-oriented deck utilizing color-changing combos like Painter's Servant and Grindstone to disrupt opponents and generate infinite combos, while maintaining flexibility and interaction.

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  Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin

  Aggressive Rakdos deck that applies pressure through ping effects and incremental life loss, leveraging creature and planeswalker synergies to reduce opponents' life totals quickly.

Gameplay Insights

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  K'rrik's player executed a powerful life-payment engine with Necropotence and Villis to draw through the entire deck, setting up for a near-infinite mana and card draw combo.

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  Noctis’s player used Painter's Servant and Grindstone to turn all cards blue, enabling a potential infinite combo that could mill opponents out, showing the value of color-shifting in combo strategies.

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  Daretti’s player utilized artifact recursion and combo pieces like Grinding Station and Painter's Servant but had to remain cautious of K'rrik's overwhelming card advantage and fast combo potential.

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  Ob Nixilis’s aggressive ping and life pressure strategy forced opponents to consider interacting early to prevent him from dealing lethal incremental damage.

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  The game’s pivot occurred when K'rrik was able to reanimate Villis repeatedly and pay life to draw vast portions of his deck, effectively overwhelming others with card advantage and mana resources.

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  Players noted the difficulty in stopping K'rrik’s combo once it was fully assembled, highlighting the importance of early disruption in cEDH games.

Notable Cards

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  Necropotence

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  Painter's Servant

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  Grinding Station

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  Goblin Engineer

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  Manifold Key

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  Lotus Petal

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  Enter the Infinite

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  Necrotic Ooze

Gameplay Summary