Commander Game - Elminster, Alela, Kaalia, Anhelo - EDH Format

Deck Strategies

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  Elminster

  Discount instants and sorceries through scrying and spell casting to flood the board with a large number of Fairy Dragon tokens, using Elminster's ability to exile spells and create token armies.

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  Alela, Artful Provocateur

  Overwhelm opponents by generating a swarm of Faerie tokens and enchantments, leveraging synergy to apply continuous pressure and gain incremental advantages.

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  Kaalia of the Vast

  Cheat out powerful Angels, Demons, and Dragons from hand to battlefield for free, creating an imposing board presence and life gain engine through combat triggers.

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  Anhelo, the Painter

  Copy instants and sorceries by sacrificing creatures, generating value and enabling powerful spell recursion and combos to dominate the late game.

Gameplay Insights

• 1

  J-man's repeated combat steps triggered Kaalia multiple times, allowing him to cheat in several powerful Angels, gaining life and board presence rapidly.

• 2

  Kyle used Anhelo's ability to sacrifice creatures to copy Fact or Fiction twice, maximizing card advantage and fuel for his spells.

• 3

  Busterkins leveraged Elminster's ability with Mystical Tutor and Storm Herd to create a large army of Fairy Dragons, setting up a token-based win condition.

• 4

  Kyle generated 22 floating red mana through Monastery Siege and sacrifice interactions, enabling a massive Torment of Hellfire from the graveyard to clear the board.

• 5

  Mostly Casual Commander used All Heliad's Generosity to protect themselves by countering the lethal Torment of Hellfire, denying Kyle the kill and keeping the game competitive.

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  Rustic Study provided incremental card draw to Busterkins and J-man, fueling their strategies and making resource management key throughout the game.

Notable Cards

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  Desecration Demon

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  Righteous Valkyrie

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  Rekindling Phoenix

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  Fact or Fiction

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  Dragon's Rage Channeler

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  Monastery Siege

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  Kess, Dissident Mage

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  Skyclave Shade

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  Approach of the Second Sun

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  Storm Herd

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  Mystical Tutor

Summary

The game started with each player establishing their mana base and early board presence. Busterkins (Elminster) focused on building up card advantage and scrying with cards like Cryptid and a lid and Nethery's Puzzle Ward, aiming to leverage Elminster's ability to create a large number of Fairy Dragons by exiling instants and sorceries. Meanwhile, Alela (Mostly Casual Commander) aimed to swarm the board with Faeries and enchantments. J-man, piloting Kaalia of the Vast, quickly established board control by cheating powerful Angels, Demons, and Dragons into play, generating significant pressure and life gain with creatures like Desecration Demon and Righteous Valkyrie. Kyle (Anhelo, the Painter) utilized spell copying and recursion, notably replicating Fact or Fiction and Monastery Siege with the help of Anhelo's ability to sacrifice creatures, generating massive mana and card advantage to fuel powerful spells and combos.