Game Knights Live w/ Mark Rosewater & Becca Scott | MagicCon Las Vegas 2024 | MTG Commander

Deck Strategies

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  Thalisse, Reverent Medium

  Focuses on creating an army of spirit tokens and taking advantage of token synergy cards.

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  Sidisi, Brood Tyrant

  A graveyard-focused deck that looks to mill cards and create zombie tokens.

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  The Jolly Balloon Man

  An unpredictable deck with a chaos theme that disrupts opponents' strategies.

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  The Lord of Pain

  Focuses on damaging opponents and using pain-inducing cards to gain benefits.

Gameplay Insights

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  Using self-mill as a resource can be extremely powerful, as demonstrated by JLK's Sidisi, Brood Tyrant deck.

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  Mark Rosewater's Jolly Balloon Man deck showcased the potential for chaos decks in a multiplayer format, disrupting the board and keeping opponents off balance.

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  The power of token multiplication was on full display in Becca Scott's Thalisse, Reverent Medium deck, creating an overwhelming board state.

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  Jimmy's Lord of Pain deck highlighted the strategy of using life as a resource and inflicting pain on opponents to gain advantages.

Notable Cards

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  Grave Titan

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  Doubling Season

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  Purphoros, God of the Forge

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  Rise of the Dark Realms

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  Parallel Lives

Summary

In this thrilling MTG Commander match, our players take on a spooky theme with their decks. Mark Rosewater's Jolly Balloon Man deck, with its clown-like antics, created a chaotic battlefield that kept everyone guessing. Becca Scott, playing Thalisse, Reverent Medium, stuck to her spirit theme and unleashed an army of spirits that haunted her opponents. JLK, with his Sidisi, Brood Tyrant deck, skillfully manipulated his graveyard and spawned an army of zombies. Jimmy's Lord of Pain deck inflicted constant pain on his opponents and used this to his advantage. The match saw many dramatic shifts in board state, strategic plays, and culminated in an epic showdown.