Narset, Enlightened Exile 🆚 Xyris 🆚 Soul of Windgrace 🆚 Jodah, the Unifier | Quality EDH Gameplay

Deck Strategies

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  Narset, Enlightened Exile

  Focuses on casting multiple noncreature spells during combat using Narset’s triggers, leveraging Jeskai Ascendancy and prowess creatures to generate tokens, card draw, and incremental damage, aiming to overwhelm opponents with flying threats and spell synergy.

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  Xyris, the Writhing Storm

  Utilizes combat damage triggers to draw cards and create snake tokens, applying pressure through incremental damage and board presence, often using spells like Tooth and Nail for powerful combos and token generation.

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  Soul of Windgrace

  A landfall and graveyard recursion deck that focuses on recurring lands and creatures like the Gitrog Monster to generate value, using life gain and sacrifice outlets, culminating in powerful land-based damage combos such as Valakut triggers to finish the game.

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  Jodah, the Unifier

  A five-color spellslinger that casts a variety of impactful spells and creatures efficiently, often generating additional value through Helm of the Host and other equipment to create multiple threats and control the board.

Gameplay Insights

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  Using Mystic Reflection to copy Gitrog Monster and synergize with snake tokens allowed for increased board presence and card draw.

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  Jeska's Ascendancy combined with Footfalls and prowess creatures generated significant card advantage and board development.

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  The timing of Blasphemous Act wiped the board at a critical moment, resetting the board state and stalling aggressive strategies.

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  Helm of the Host on Jodah created multiple copies that pressured opponents effectively in the mid to late game.

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  Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle combined with returning fetchlands via Lord Windgrace's ability dealt lethal damage, showcasing the power of landfall damage combos.

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  Narset’s combat-triggered spell casting and token creation was a strong mid-game strategy but was ultimately overwhelmed by the landfall damage combo.

Notable Cards

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  Impact Tremors

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  Blasphemous Act

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  Helm of the Host

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  Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle

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  Mystic Reflection

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  Leap

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  Lord Windgrace

Summary

The game began with players ramping and setting up their boards, with early plays including mana rocks, lands, and key creatures. Soul of Windgrace made a strong early impact by recurring lands and casting threats like the Gitrog Monster, while Xyris focused on creating tokens and drawing cards through combat damage triggers. Narset's player leveraged spells like Jeskai Ascendancy and Footfalls, generating multiple spirit tokens and using prowess to grow creatures quickly. Notable interactions included Mystic Reflection copying Gitrog Monster to synergize with snake tokens and repeated use of Jeskai Ascendancy to draw and discard cards. Impact Tremors also dealt consistent damage to all players throughout the game.