Vial Smasher//Ishai 🆚 Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar 🆚 Cayth, Famed Mechanist 🆚 Zinnia, Valley's Voice

Deck Strategies

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  Vial Smasher the Fierce and Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker

  This deck focuses on control and interaction, leveraging the damage from opponents' spells to deal surprise damage while using combat tricks and life gain to stabilize. It aims to close out games through efficient removal and incremental damage.

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  Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar

  A mono-green landfall deck that ramps aggressively and grows Multani into a massive threat. It uses land recursion and card draw engines like Greater Good to maintain momentum and sustain pressure through repeated land and creature interactions.

• Zinnia, Valley’s Voice

  An aggressive token and swarm deck that leverages Zinnia’s ability to buff small creatures and grant them offspring, creating wide boards of cheap creatures to overwhelm opponents and draw cards through equipment like Skullclamp.

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  Cayth, Famed Mechanist

  A token and artifact synergy deck that uses fabricate and proliferate to generate numerous servo tokens and grow its artifact creatures. It draws cards through artifact triggers and aims to win through a large, synergistic board presence.

Gameplay Insights

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  Using Volatile Fault and sacrifice outlets like Greater Good allowed Multani’s player to draw a significant number of cards, refilling the hand and enabling multiple land drops.

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  The interaction between Cayth’s fabricate ability and tokens generated through proliferate and repeated casting of creatures like Shrieking Drake created a large board of artifact creatures and consistent card draws.

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  Vial Smasher and Ishai’s player made strategic use of damage prevention and life gain from Metropolis Reformer and combat tricks to survive early aggression and maintain board control.

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  Zinnia’s use of Skullclamp on tokens maximized card draw while maintaining board presence, showcasing effective resource management in a token swarm deck.

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  The timing of Path to Exile on Multani disrupted the key threat momentarily, but recursion and land returns kept the pressure ongoing.

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  Repercussion set up a punishing response to damage spells, deterring opponents from attacking recklessly and influencing combat decisions.

Notable Cards

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  Metropolis Reformer

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  Oracle of Mul Daya

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  Greater Good

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  Shrieking Drake

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  Skullclamp

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  Path to Exile

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  Repercussion

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  Volatile Fault

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  Solemn Simulacrum

Summary

The game began with each player establishing their board presence and mana bases, with early land drops and key ramp spells setting the pace. Vial Smasher and Ishai's player focused on controlling the board and leveraging opponent spells to gain incremental advantages, while Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar built a ramp-heavy landfall strategy aiming to grow into a massive threat supported by card draw and recursion. Zinnia, Valley's Voice developed a swarm of small creatures to buff with her commander’s offspring ability, creating a wide board for incremental damage and card advantage. Cayth, Famed Mechanist generated value through artifact and token synergies, using proliferate and fabricate to create a swarm of artifact creatures and draw cards. Early skirmishes involved tactical combat and interaction, with Vial Smasher and Ishai’s player utilizing life gain and damage prevention to stay alive, while Multani took advantage of landfall triggers and card draw engines to maintain momentum. The game featured pivotal moments such as the destruction of Vial Smasher’s key card and the clever use of sacrifice outlets by Multani to draw cards and reload the board. As the midgame progressed, the players continued to develop their boards, with Zinnia equipping tokens and generating value from Skullclamp, while Cayth flooded the board with servo tokens and artifact creatures through repeated casting and bouncing of creatures like Shrieking Drake. Multani’s player leveraged Greater Good and Oracle of Mul Daya to cycle lands and draw substantial cards, enabling the Commander to return from the graveyard multiple times, maintaining pressure. Meanwhile, Vial Smasher and Ishai’s player attempted to disrupt these plans with spot removal and damage prevention, but the other players’ growing board states made it increasingly difficult to control. The game showcased a dynamic interplay of token generation, card advantage engines, and strategic combat decisions, setting the stage for explosive turns and potential combos to close out the game.