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Deck & Commander Strategies

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  Vivi Ornitier

  Utilizes powerful spells and artifacts to control the board and generate value, often leveraging mana acceleration to cast impactful sorceries and instants to dominate the game.

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  Winota, Joiner of Forces

  Focuses on aggressive combat by cheating in human allies from the deck whenever non-human creatures attack, aiming to quickly overwhelm opponents with efficient creature swarms.

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  Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy

  Leverages mana dorks to generate massive mana, enabling big plays and combos, often by activating mana abilities multiple times to achieve explosive turns.

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  Brallin, Skyshark Rider

  Capitalizes on artifact synergies and evasive creatures, creating a tempo-oriented deck that controls the board while dealing incremental damage.

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  Shabraz, the Skyshark

  Uses synergy with artifacts and flying creatures to apply pressure and generate incremental value through aggressive creature combat and artifact interactions.

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  Krark, the Thumbless

  Relies on chaotic, spell-centric gameplay with random effects and artifact interactions to create unpredictable board states and leverage card advantage.

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  Sakashima of a Thousand Faces

  Utilizes cloning and copying spells and creatures to generate value and overwhelm opponents through multiple powerful creature tokens and combos.

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  Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

  Employs ninjutsu and evasive creatures to trigger damage and card draw from opponents’ top deck manipulation, aiming to control the game through stealthy attacks and incremental advantage.

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  Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin

  Focuses on controlling opponents’ hands and board state while draining life, using removal and disruption to maintain dominance and win through attrition.

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  Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh

  Aggressively attacks with goblins and uses haste and combat tricks to deal damage quickly, often leveraging synergy with goblin tokens and burn spells.

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  Silas Renn, Seeker Adept

  Artifact-focused deck that recurs and reuses artifacts for value and combo potential, aiming to control the board and assemble powerful artifact synergies.

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  Tymna the Weaver

  Utilizes card draw from combat damage combined with a toolbox of efficient creatures and disruption to control the board and generate incremental advantage.

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  Thrasios, Triton Hero

  A flexible value engine that ramps mana and draws cards, often combined with other commanders to enable infinite combos or overwhelming board presence.

Gameplay Insights

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  Using Wheel of Fortune early to refill the hand allowed the player to dig for key combo pieces and answers, demonstrating the importance of card selection and resource replenishment in cEDH.

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  Casting Mystical Tutor to find Blasphemous Act set up a potential board wipe, showing a strategic plan to reset the board when opponents overextend.

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  Players carefully managed triggers from creatures like Vial Smasher, timing their life loss and damage to maximize value without overcommitting.

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  The use of Breath of Fury on a threat enabled multiple attacks, suggesting a combo or infinite combat sequence was being set up.

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  Players maintained a cautious combat approach, blocking efficiently and choosing attacks to minimize risk while setting up their win conditions.

Notable Cards

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  Sol Ring

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  Grim Monolith

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  Paradise Mantle

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  Wheel of Fortune

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  Mystical Tutor

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  Blasphemous Act

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  Breath of Fury

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  Esper Sentinel

Gameplay Summary