Sidisi vs Wort vs Gisa and Geralf vs Kynaios and Tiro EDH / CMDR game play for Magic: The Gathering

Deck Strategies

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  Sidisi, Brood Tyrant

  Self-mill to fill graveyard and generate zombie tokens, leveraging synergistic creatures and artifacts to control the board and overwhelm opponents with a growing undead horde.

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  Gisa and Geralf

  Zombie tribal focused on creating a large army of zombies quickly and enhancing them with anthem effects and graveyard recursion to apply pressure and win through combat damage.

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  Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis

  Group hug and political control deck that generates card advantage and ramps all players, using mass draw spells and beneficial permanents to shape the game state while avoiding early aggression.

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  Wort, the Raidmother

  Red-green token and ramp deck that uses efficient mana acceleration and token generators to build a wide board presence, utilizing burn and artifact/enchantment destruction for control.

Gameplay Insights

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  Sean's use of Aura Shards combined with Panharmonicon allowed repeated artifact destruction, crippling artifact-dependent strategies and shifting board control.

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  Matt's Grave Pact and Nantuko Husk synergy forced opponents to sacrifice creatures whenever he sacrificed his tokens, creating a strong deterrent against attacks and board wipes.

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  Ken's ramp combo with Sensei's Divining Top and Gamble generated explosive mana, enabling him to cast multiple impactful spells in a single turn and swing the game momentum in his favor.

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  Sidisi's Missed Miracles Orb created a steady mill engine, but its destruction early on slowed down the deck's momentum significantly.

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  The group hug elements from Kynaios and Tiro helped keep the game balanced early on, with cards like Collective Voyage providing mana fixing and card draw for all players, delaying early aggression.

Notable Cards

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  Army of the Damned

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  Aura Shards

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  Grave Pact

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  Nantuko Husk

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  Sensei's Divining Top

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  Gamble

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  Managorger Hydra

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  Relic Crush

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  Wrath of God

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  The Gitrog Monster

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  Overseer of the Damned

Summary

The game opened with all players ramping aggressively, with multiple basics fetched early and key ramp spells played to accelerate into their strategies. Sidisi, Brood Tyrant focused on self-mill and zombie token generation, establishing synergy with cards like The Gitrog Monster and Missed Miracles Orb to fuel continuous milling and token creation. Gisa and Geralf leveraged zombie token synergies and powerful anthem effects, quickly amassing a large zombie army fueled by cards like Army of the Damned and Undead Warchief, threatening massive damage. Wort, the Raidmother developed a token-based red-green midrange strategy with efficient ramp and token generators such as Hangerback Walker and Managorger Hydra, while Kynaios and Tiro took a more political and card advantage-oriented approach, casting mass draw spells and group-benefiting effects like Collective Voyage and Tamiyo's Journal.