Deck & Commander Strategies
Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
Aims to flood the board with creature tokens and enhance them with equipment and enchantments.
Adrix and Nev, Twincasters
Focuses on creating a multitude of tokens, boosted by powerful token generators.
Breena, the Demagogue
Plays a political game, encouraging opponents to attack each other while building up creatures with +1/+1 counters.
Tanazir Quandrix
Deploys evasive creatures and uses the commander's ability to create large creatures to deal significant damage.
Gameplay Insights
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Chandler's decision to equip the Sword of the Animist to his token created by Adeline proved to be highly beneficial, allowing him to ramp and deal significant damage.
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Jason's Breena deck successfully played politics, manipulating the board state to his advantage and forcing others to deal with threats on his behalf.
- 3
The use of Rogue's Passage by Jason to make his buffed Ornithopter unblockable was a game-winning move, demonstrating the power of evasion in Commander format.
Notable Cards
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Eldrazi Monument
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Felidar Retreat
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Sword of the Animist
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Rogue's Passage
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Rampaging Baloths
Gameplay Summary
The game kicked off with all players setting up their boards with mana ramp and utility creatures.
Chandler, piloting Adeline, focused on flooding the board with creature tokens and enhancing them with Felidar Retreat and Sword of the Animist.
Matt, with Adrix and Nev, also set up a token strategy, building up his board state with Tireless Tracker and Rampaging Baloths.
Jason’s Breena deck played a political game, incentivizing opponents to attack each other while he built up his creatures with +1/+1 counters.
Cameron, with Tanazir Quandrix, played evasive creatures and used his commander's ability to create large creatures.
The game saw a lot of back and forth between players, with many swings of momentum.
Chandler's Adeline deck managed to deal a substantial amount of damage, especially after casting Eldrazi Monument, but the game ultimately ended when Jason used Rogue's Passage to make his pumped-up Ornithopter unblockable, delivering lethal damage to Chandler.
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