Deck & Commander Strategies
Muldrotha, the Gravetide
Leverages graveyard recursion to cast a permanent of each type from the graveyard each turn, generating value through repeated use of lands, creatures, artifacts, enchantments, and other permanents. The deck focuses on ramp, utility creatures, and board control to grind out opponents.
Gameplay Insights
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Players prioritized ramping multiple lands per turn using Exploration and Sword Tooth to accelerate their board development.
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Sacrificing lands and permanents to fuel graveyard recursion and value was a common theme, with players carefully managing which lands to fetch and which to sacrifice.
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Perpetual Timepiece was used to mill cards into the graveyard and recycle important cards back into the library, enhancing graveyard synergy.
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Key creatures like Deathrite Shaman provided both graveyard interaction and board presence, making them valuable targets for recursion.
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Players showed cautious sequencing, often holding back on playing powerful cards like Hermit Druid to preserve strategic options.
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The presence of multiple Muldrotha decks resulted in a slow, grindy game where value accrual through graveyard recursion was the main path to victory.
Notable Cards
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Exploration
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Deathrite Shaman
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Perpetual Timepiece
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Ledger Shredder
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Lord of Extinction
Gameplay Summary
The game featured four players all piloting different builds of Muldrotha, the Gravetide, leading to a graveyard-centric battle for value and board presence.
Early turns focused heavily on ramping with land drops and playing resource-generating permanents like Exploration and Sword Tooth to accelerate land deployment.
Players utilized powerful graveyard recursion, casting a variety of permanent types from their graveyards to maintain tempo and pressure.
Key plays included deploying utility creatures such as Deathrite Shaman and casting impactful artifacts like Perpetual Timepiece to manipulate the graveyard.
The game saw incremental board development with players balancing between aggressive plays and establishing their graveyard engines to outvalue opponents.
Strategic sacrifices and careful land management were pivotal, as players aimed to capitalize on Muldrotha's ability to replay permanents and generate overwhelming advantage over time.
