Commander Adventures # 4 - Meren v. Riku v. Rhys v. Ishai/Ludevic

Deck Strategies

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  Meren of Clan Nel Toth

  Focuses on graveyard recursion and accumulating experience counters to repeatedly bring back creatures, enabling incremental advantage and draining opponents through life loss triggers.

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  Riku of Two Reflections

  Utilizes spell copying and versatile ramp to control the board and generate card advantage, often leveraging powerful instants and sorceries to manipulate the game state and repeatedly cast value spells.

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  Rhys the Redeemed

  Generates tokens and uses token doubling effects to flood the board with elves and warriors, aiming for overwhelming combat damage and synergy with anthem effects.

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  Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker & Ludevic, Necro-Alchemist

  Combines aggressive combat damage with card draw from combat triggers; uses equipment and burn spells to maintain pressure while generating value from casting and dealing damage.

Gameplay Insights

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  Meren’s use of experience counters significantly enhanced her board presence, allowing multiple creatures to recur and applying consistent pressure through life drain effects.

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  Riku’s repeated casting of Unexpected Results and Fact or Fiction helped him maintain card advantage and flexibility, fueling his ability to respond to board states.

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  Rhys capitalized on token doubling with Anointed Procession, creating a large army that could threaten multiple opponents simultaneously.

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  The use of board wipes such as Supreme Verdict and Blasphemous Act reset the board at key moments, but Meren’s experience counters and graveyard recursion helped her recover quickly.

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  Ludevic’s synergy with Ishai and equipment like Lightning Greaves allowed for efficient early damage and card draw, pressuring opponents while maintaining tempo.

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  Will Kenrith’s -1 ability was used strategically to neutralize threats temporarily, exemplifying the importance of planeswalker utility in multiplayer games.

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  Day’s Undoing dramatically reset the game state by shuffling all players’ hands and graveyards into libraries, providing a fresh start and reshaping the late game dynamics.

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  Riku’s Finale of Glory created a substantial token army but forced an attack due to the commander’s drawback, showing the risk-reward balance of powerful spells.

Notable Cards

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  Meren of Clan Nel Toth

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  Riku of Two Reflections

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  Rhys the Redeemed

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  Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker

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  Ludevic, Necro-Alchemist

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  Fact or Fiction

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  Unexpected Results

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  Anointed Procession

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  Supreme Verdict

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  Will Kenrith

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  Assemble the Legion

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  Shamanic Revelation

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  Azusa, Lost but Seeking

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  Eternal Witness

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  Lightning Greaves

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  Blasphemous Act

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  Day's Undoing

Summary

The game featured a dynamic multiplayer Commander match with Meren of Clan Nel Toth, Riku of Two Reflections, Rhys the Redeemed, and the Ishai/Ludevic partner combo. Early turns focused on ramp and setup, with players casting mana rocks, ramp spells, and establishing board presence. Meren’s player leveraged graveyard recursion and experience counters to maintain sustained pressure. Riku’s player utilized spells like Fact or Fiction and Unexpected Results to dig through their deck and generate value, while also casting powerful creatures and spells to control the board. Rhys the Redeemed’s player focused on token generation and doubling with Anointed Procession, creating a growing army of elves and warriors. Ishai/Ludevic teamed up for aggressive damage and card draw through combat and spellcasting synergy, equipping Ludevic with Lightning Greaves and using various burn spells.