Deck & Commander Strategies
Birgi, God of Storytelling
A monored storm deck leveraging Birgi’s mana and card draw capabilities to generate large amounts of mana and cast multiple spells per turn, aiming to win via storm combos.
Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
A Simic ramp and value deck that uses Kinnan to cheat huge creatures and threats onto the battlefield quickly, leveraging mana acceleration and creature synergies.
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
A turbo Ad Nauseam combo deck that uses black mana acceleration and necrotic combos, aiming to combo off with graveyard synergies and generate infinite life and damage.
Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools / Kraum, Ludevic's Opus
A midrange deck focused on flicker synergies using Tevesh’s thrall creation ability combined with enter-the-battlefield effects and graveyard recursion, winning through combo interactions involving Underworld Breach and Brain Freeze.
Gameplay Insights
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Skyler’s repeated flickering of Tevesh’s thrall-creating ability with Displacer Kitten generated a critical mass of board presence and card advantage that fueled their combo.
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Alex’s naming of Tevesh with Cage effects demonstrated targeted disruption to slow down Skyler’s combo, but it ultimately wasn’t enough to prevent the win.
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The use of Deflecting Swat and Pyroblast in response to counterspells and removal highlighted high-level interaction and resource management during the combo turns.
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The final winning line involved escaping Brain Freeze multiple times with Underworld Breach while flickering artifacts to generate infinite milling and card advantage, a textbook cEDH combo finish.
Notable Cards
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Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools
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Underworld Breach
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Brain Freeze
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Ad Nauseam
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Displacer Kitten
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Imperial Seal
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Wheel of Fortune
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Mox Opal
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Lion's Eye Diamond
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Chrome Mox
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Thought Vessel
Gameplay Summary
The game featured a competitive four-player cEDH match with Birgi, Kinnan, K'rrik, and the Tevesh Szat/Kraum partner pair.
Early turns saw each player establishing their mana bases and deploying key artifacts and commanders.
Liliana (K'rrik) set up with Dark Ritual and card draw spells, while Skyler (Tevesh/Kraum) developed a midrange board with mana acceleration and disruptive thralls created by Tevesh's abilities.
Alex (Kinnan) focused on ramp and cheating large threats into play, and Sage (Birgi) aimed to storm with mana generation and card draw from Birgi's flip side.
The game escalated as Skyler repeatedly flickered Tevesh’s abilities with Displacer Kitten triggers to generate thralls and draw cards, fueling a graveyard combo with Underworld Breach and other spells.
Despite efforts from other players to disrupt Skyler’s board with revokers and removal, Skyler successfully cast Ad Nauseam and assembled a lethal combo involving Brain Freeze and Oracle of Thassa, milling opponents' libraries and winning the game decisively.
