Commander Clash: Viewer Submitted Decks | Brudiclad vs. Ezuri vs. Mageta vs. Tayam | S9E19

Deck Strategies

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  Tayam, Luminous Enigma

  A graveyard-focused aristocrat deck that uses counters and sacrificing creatures to mill and reanimate low-cost permanents, generating card advantage and incremental value to grind out the game.

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  Mageta the Lion

  Mono-white control deck centered on recurring board wipes that destroy creatures, combined with land tax and resource manipulation to maintain a steady hand and tempo advantage.

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  Ezuri, Claw of Progress

  A turtle tribal deck that develops a resilient board of turtles, some with indestructible traits, and uses +1/+1 counter synergies to build a strong, hard-to-remove presence.

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  Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer

  A blue-red artifact token deck that leverages Brudiclad's ability to transform tokens into different types, enabling explosive token generation and unique artifact-based combos.

Gameplay Insights

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  Tayam's ability to repeatedly put low-cost permanents from the graveyard onto the battlefield created a slow but powerful value engine that pressured opponents over time.

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  Mageta's selective board wipes that only destroyed creatures but spared lands allowed for repeated triggers of land tax, maintaining hand advantage and tempo.

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  Ezuri's inclusion of indestructible turtles provided a defensive backbone that helped weather Mageta's board wipes and maintain board presence.

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  Brudiclad's artifact tokens and the ability to transform them mid-combat introduced unique interactions that disrupted opponents’ strategies and created multiple avenues for winning.

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  The timing of board wipes and token generation was critical, as players had to balance clearing opponents' boards without crippling their own fragile setups.

Notable Cards

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  Midnight Reaper

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  Sun Titan

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  Land Tax

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  Cyclonic Rift

Summary

In this Commander game, four viewer-submitted decks faced off: Mageta the Lion, Ezuri, Claw of Progress, Tayam, Luminous Enigma, and Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer. The game developed around each deck's unique strategy, with Tayam's aristocrat-style graveyard recursion allowing for incremental value through sacrificing creatures and reanimating low-cost permanents. Mageta's deck focused on mono-white control and creature board wipes, leveraging land tax and other resource manipulation to maintain resilience. Ezuri's turtle tribal deck aimed to build a robust board state with various turtle creatures, some possessing indestructibility or other defensive traits to survive board clears. Brudiclad brought a unique artifact token theme, generating and leveraging artifact tokens in blue-red colors, diverging from the traditional green-white token archetype. Early turns saw players jockeying for position and managing threats, with board wipes and token generation being critical turning points. The game's win conditions revolved around incremental value and attrition from Tayam's reanimator engine, Mageta's control and wrath effects, Ezuri's progressive buffs and turtle synergy, and Brudiclad's explosive token combos. The interaction between board wipes and resilient creatures/tokens shaped the flow of the game, with players carefully timing their plays to capitalize on synergies and protect their board states.