Deck & Commander Strategies
Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools
This deck focuses on generating large amounts of mana quickly through artifacts and rituals to cast high-impact spells and overwhelm opponents with thralled creatures and burn damage.
Thrasios, Triton Hero
A value-oriented deck using mana acceleration and card advantage engines like Mystic Remora and Memory Jar to out-resource opponents and find combo pieces or control elements.
Dihada, Binder of Wills
A stax and control deck that uses discard effects, taxing enchantments, and recursion to disrupt opponents while building incremental advantage and locking down the board.
Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped Eclipse
A taxing enchantment-based deck that slows opponents through effects like Blind Obedience, generating value from lifegain synergies and controlling the pace of the game.
Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra
A midrange control deck leveraging enchantments and tutors to assemble powerful combos and lock pieces, aiming to control the board while assembling a win through synergy and incremental advantage.
Gameplay Insights
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Turn one Blind Obedience created immediate taxing effects that heavily influenced early game interactions and slowed down opponents’ development.
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The back-and-forth use of Orcish Bowmaster to remove opposing threats highlighted the importance of precise removal sequencing in maintaining board control.
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Casting Final Fortune under the effects of Blind Obedience resulted in a critical strategic error, illustrating how timing and board state awareness can drastically impact the outcome.
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Memory Jar was effectively used to refresh hands and generate card advantage, enabling players to recover from resource depletion and maintain pressure.
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Discarding cards to exile with large pay life effects was a key setup for endgame plays, demonstrating the value of graveyard manipulation and resource cycling in cEDH.
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The interaction of stax elements combined with combo potential created a complex board state requiring careful sequencing and threat prioritization.
Notable Cards
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Blind Obedience
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Mental Misstep
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Magda, Brazen Outlaw
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Memory Jar
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Final Fortune
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Imperial Seal
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Mystic Remora
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Demonic Tutor
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City of Brass
Gameplay Summary
The game started with aggressive early plays including a turn one Blind Obedience that set a taxing and controlling tone.
Players quickly developed their boards with key artifacts, creatures, and interaction spells, such as Mental Misstep counters and aggressive mana acceleration like Mox Opal and City of Brass.
Tevesh Szat's player focused on generating red mana, casting Magda and creating thralled tokens to pressure opponents.
Meanwhile, Heliod’s presence established a taxing enchantment theme, leveraging Blind Obedience multiple times to stifle opponents' actions. Midgame saw intense interaction with multiple removal spells and strategic plays, including the use of Memory Jar to refresh hands and complex combat decisions.
The board state was volatile, with key creatures like Orcish Bowmaster being repeatedly targeted and removed, and expensive spells like Demonic Tutor and Imperial Seal shaping the players’ resources.
One pivotal moment involved a large discard-to-exile effect that set up a powerful endgame hand; however, a critical misstep occurred when the player cast Final Fortune under Blind Obedience, leading to a loss of interaction and a near-fatal position.
Despite this, the game was marked by high-level sequencing and resource management, with players attempting to leverage stax elements and combo potential to secure a win.
