All Dressed Up | Modified Creatures - EDH Gameplay Ep 17

Deck Strategies

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  Ayesha Tanaka, Armorer

  Focuses on equipping creatures with powerful equipment to boost their combat abilities, using recursion and tutors like Stoneforge Mystic and Sun Titan to maintain pressure and card advantage.

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  Otrimi, the Ever-Playful

  Utilizes mutate mechanics to stack multiple creatures and abilities onto one resilient mutate creature, combined with graveyard recursion to maintain board presence and overwhelm opponents.

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  Hamza, Guardian of Arashin

  Leverages +1/+1 counters and cost reduction from having multiple creatures with counters to efficiently deploy large creatures and double counters with cards like Doubling Season.

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  Galea, Kindler of Hope

  Employs auras and enchantments to create sticky creatures with hexproof and other protective abilities, drawing cards off aura spells and enhancing creatures to steadily grow and control the board.

Gameplay Insights

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  Forgotten Ancient's ability to accumulate counters on every spell cast synergized powerfully with Hamza's cost reduction and counter doubling, creating a rapid board growth engine.

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  Galea's ability to cast equipment spells from the top of the library allowed for efficient aura deployment and card draw, enabling consistent pressure.

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  The use of protective auras such as Rancor and hexproof creatures like Invisible Stalker and Core Spirit Dancer provided critical evasion and defense against large threats.

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  Players carefully managed blocking strategies to mitigate damage while preserving key creatures for future turns, highlighting the importance of board presence over aggressive early attacks.

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  Graveyard recursion effects such as Sun Titan and Mythos of Bracus helped maintain tempo and recover resources in the mid-to-late game.

Notable Cards

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  Hamza, Guardian of Arashin

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  Forgotten Ancient

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  Galea, Kindler of Hope

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  Invisible Stalker

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  Rancor

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  Stoneforge Mystic

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  Sun Titan

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  Solemn Simulacrum

Summary

The game featured a dynamic battle centered on enhancing creatures with equipment, auras, and +1/+1 counters. Early turns saw players developing their boards cautiously, with key plays including the casting of Hamza, Guardian of Arashin to benefit from multiple +1/+1 counters and Galia, Kindler of Hope to cast equipment spells from the top of the library. Power Dragon's deck capitalized on +1/+1 counters and doubling effects to rapidly grow creatures, while PeachyPop focused on making creatures sticky through enchantments and protective auras like Rancor and core Spirit Dancer's synergy with auras. Meanwhile, MTG Nerd Girl's Ayesha Tanaka armorer deck aimed to equip creatures for combat dominance, supported by cards like Stoneforge Mystic and Sun Titan for recursion. Veggiewagon's Otrimi, the Ever-Playful deck pursued a mutate strategy to stack abilities on a resilient creature, often returning creatures from the graveyard for continued pressure. A pivotal moment was Power Dragon's use of Forgotten Ancient to accumulate multiple +1/+1 counters each turn, which Hamza then leveraged for cost reductions and rapid board presence. PeachyPop's enchantment-based buffs and hexproof creatures provided defensive stability and card draw, while MTG Nerd Girl's equipment synergy consistently threatened to outclass opponents' creatures in combat. The gameplay revolved around incremental power boosts, strategic attacks, and defensive blocks, with players carefully managing resources to maintain tempo. The match progressed toward a win condition involving overwhelming the board with large, well-equipped creatures or mutating a nearly indestructible creature to close out the game.