Deck Strategies
Kaalia of the Vast
Kaalia aims to cheat out high-impact demons, dragons, and angels quickly to apply pressure and win through overwhelming flying damage and powerful combat effects.
Dihada, Binder of Wills
Dihada's deck focuses on filling the graveyard with dragons and then recurring them to maintain board presence and drain opponents’ life through incremental damage and repeated threats.
Omo, Queen of Vesuva
Omo leverages everything counters to alter land and creature types, enabling landwalk abilities like islandwalk and forestwalk on both opponents' and own permanents, disrupting their strategy and enabling unblockable attacks.
Sisay, Weatherlight Captain
Sisay uses ramp and a toolbox approach to find key utility creatures and artifacts, stabilizing the board and supporting aggressive or defensive plays as needed.
Gameplay Insights
- 1
Dihada’s use of Corroding Dragonstorm to repeatedly trigger life loss and life gain while surveilling cards gave her a sustainable advantage in card quality and incremental damage.
- 2
Omo’s strategy to place everything counters on opponents’ lands effectively forced them to have multiple land types, enabling unblockable landwalk triggers and disrupting their mana bases.
- 3
Kaalia’s Hazoret’s Monument reduced the cost of her aggressive flying creatures, allowing for explosive board development and synergy with discard-draw effects to maintain card flow.
- 4
The interaction between Omo’s land-type manipulation and aggressive flying creatures created a unique dynamic where opponents had to carefully consider blocking and combat steps.
- 5
Sisay’s toolbox ramp allowed for flexible responses, aiming to stabilize the board and find key pieces to counteract the aggressive and disruptive strategies of other players.
Notable Cards
Corroding Dragonstorm
Sylvia Brightspear
Hazoret's Monument
Lightning Greaves
Path of Ancestry
Paradise Druid
Summary
The game began with players establishing their mana bases and setting up early board states, with Dihada aiming to fill the graveyard with dragons and recur them later, Kaalia preparing to deploy powerful demons, dragons, and angels, Omo focusing on manipulating land and creature types with everything counters to enable island and forest walks, and Sisay ramping and setting up for a versatile toolbox strategy. Early plays included the casting of Corroding Dragonstorm by Dihada, which dealt incremental damage and surveilled cards, and Omo transforming lands to disrupt opponents' strategies by granting multiple land types. Kaalia dropped a key threat, Sylvia Brightspear, enhancing her board with double strike and synergizing with mana reduction artifacts like Hazoret's Monument. The dynamic interaction between the decks became evident as Omo's counters began affecting everyone’s lands, while Dihada's dragons started to chip away at life totals. Sisay worked to stabilize through ramp and utility creatures. The game’s tension rose as each player tried to leverage their commander’s unique strengths: Kaalia's heavy hitters, Dihada’s graveyard recursion with dragons, Omo’s land-type manipulation to enable aggressive island and forest walkers, and Sisay’s versatile support and ramp. The board saw escalating threats, with Kaalia's aggressive flying creatures and Dihada's recurring dragons clashing with Omo's disruptive land-type strategies, setting up for big combat phases and potential combos to close out the game.