COMMANDER CLASH || VS QUEEN OF CARDBOARD AND SCOTT LARABEE

Deck Strategies

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  Aragorn, King of Gondor

  Control the board by becoming the Monarch, leveraging Aragorn's vigilance and lifelink to pressure opponents and prevent blocking, stabilizing the board while gaining incremental card advantage.

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  Bright-Palm, Soul Awakener

  Utilize the backup mechanic to place counters on creatures and trigger powerful abilities such as double strike, focusing on incremental growth and combat buffs to dominate combat phases.

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  Perrie, the Pulverizer

  Build a wide board of diverse tokens and leverage creature type synergies to overwhelm opponents, using a mixture of ramp and token generators to maintain pressure.

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  Nelly Borca, Impulsive Accuser

  Aggressive Boros-style deck focused on creatures with menace and evasion, combined with equipment and enchantments like Smuggler's Share to generate card draw and treasure tokens, maintaining pressure and disruption.

Gameplay Insights

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  Scott's early move to become Monarch with Aragorn significantly influenced board dynamics by restricting opponents' blockers and providing a steady card draw advantage.

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  Beth capitalized on the backup mechanic by using Deathgreeter's Champion to put a counter on Michas the Lunarch, granting double strike and creating a strong combat threat.

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  The use of Smuggler's Share by Oblivion synergized well with multiple opponents drawing cards, generating treasure tokens and card advantage, which helped maintain resource flow.

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  Pez leveraged Path of Ancestry to scry and maintain card quality, optimizing draws to support the token-wide strategy.

• 5

  The combination of equipment counters on Gavel of the Righteous and alternate equip costs introduced strategic depth in managing buffs and positioning of key creatures during combat.

Notable Cards

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  Aragorn, King of Gondor

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  Gavel of the Righteous

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  Smuggler's Share

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  Wall of Roots

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  Mind Stone

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  Path of Ancestry

Summary

The game started with players developing their mana bases and establishing early board presence. Scott, playing Aragorn, King of Gondor, quickly established himself as the Monarch with a strong 4/4 vigilance lifelink creature that also hindered blockers, setting a defensive and control-oriented tempo. Meanwhile, Beth on Bright-Palm, Soul Awakener focused on utilizing the backup mechanic to enhance creatures like Michas the Lunarch, granting them powerful combat abilities such as double strike via counters. Pez, piloting Perrie the Pulverizer, aimed for a token-based wide board strategy that included synergistic creatures like Wall of Roots and devotion-themed cards, while Oblivion, on Nelly Borca, Impulsive Accuser, focused on aggressive, evasive creatures with menace and disrupting opponents using equipment and enchantments like Smuggler's Share to gain card advantage and treasure tokens.