Magic: the Gathering Commander Gameplay | The Spike Feeders S3E2

Deck & Commander Strategies

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  Thrasios, Triton Hero and Tymna the Weaver

  This deck employs efficient card draw and mana acceleration to assemble combo pieces or powerful creatures quickly, leveraging value from Tymna’s combat damage triggers and Thrasios’s ability to filter mana and draw cards, aiming for a value or combo finish.

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  Anafenza, the Foremost

  Anafenza’s deck focuses on disrupting opponents through taxing spells like Thalia and applying aggressive pressure, using resilient creatures and combat tricks to control the board and push damage while hindering noncreature spellcasters.

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  Tana, the Bloodsower and Tymna the Weaver

  Blood Pod aims to flood the board with tokens and efficient creatures, leveraging sacrifice and value engines to maintain pressure and generate incremental advantage, often using Tana’s ability to create tokens and Tymna’s draw triggers to maintain card advantage.

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  Zur the Enchanter

  Zur’s deck focuses on stax elements and control, using enchantments and disruption to limit opponents’ options and slowly grind out a win through incremental advantage and locking down the board state.

Gameplay Insights

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  Casting Jin-Gitaxias and drawing seven cards at the end step was a major pivot, greatly increasing card advantage for the Thrasios/Tymna player.

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  Holding back Toxic Deluge showcased the tension of balancing board wipes against preserving one's own board presence in a creature-heavy meta.

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  Thalia’s ability to increase noncreature spell costs effectively slowed down opponents’ game plans and dictated early game tempo.

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  Players carefully managed priority and timing to avoid losing key cards to discard or removal during critical turns.

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  Using Crop Rotation to cheat in Scrubland for mana fixing and then casting Dark Confidant demonstrated efficient resource management and card advantage planning.

Notable Cards

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  Mystic Remora

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  Thalia, Guardian of Thraben

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  Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur

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  Toxic Deluge

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  Aven Mindcensor

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  Crop Rotation

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  Dark Confidant

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  Tana, the Bloodsower

Gameplay Summary