Deck & Commander Strategies
Tivit, Seller of Secrets
Utilizes voting mechanics to generate clues and treasures, gaining card advantage and disrupting opponents through multiple votes per trigger.
Ziatora, the Incinerator
Aggressive Jund deck leveraging sacrifice outlets, treasures, and doubling damage effects to apply early pressure and finish opponents quickly.
Giada, Font of Hope
Angel tribal focused on Land Tax to assemble multiple Plains, generating card draw and life gain while buffing creatures via Vanquisher's Banner.
Anhelo, the Painter
Utilizes spellcasting triggers with Decay Zombies from Puppet Stitcher and casualty mechanics to generate value, mana, and tutor for key cards.
Gameplay Insights
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Kyle’s repeated Land Tax triggers allowed him to consistently amass multiple Plains, fueling his Angel tribal synergy and card draw engine.
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Azrael maximized Tivit’s voting mechanic by voting multiple times per trigger, generating clues and treasures to maintain card advantage and pressure.
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The narrator used casualty mechanics effectively with Jessica's Will and Demonic Tutor, including copying tutors with Dualcaster Mage to dig deeply for answers.
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Kovacs’s use of Ignoble Hierarch’s exalted and sacrifice for treasures enabled explosive early damage but left him vulnerable after losing his commander in combat.
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The counterspell on Winds of Abandon prevented a massive board wipe, preserving critical creatures and tempo for the voting-based deck.
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Use of Puppet Stitcher and Maestro's Charm provided incremental board presence and graveyard recursion, enabling sustained value over multiple turns.
Notable Cards
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Land Tax
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Blind Obedience
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Demonic Tutor
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Dualcaster Mage
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Winds of Abandon
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Vanquisher's Banner
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Forgotten Ancient
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Ignoble Hierarch
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Grudge Keeper
Gameplay Summary
The game unfolded with a strong focus on incremental advantage through land ramp, voting mechanics, and board presence.
Early turns saw players establishing mana bases and casting key ramp artifacts like Dimir Signet, Commander's Sphere, and Orzov Signet.
Kyle leveraged Land Tax repeatedly to amass multiple Plains in hand, fueling a powerful Angel tribal synergy with Giada, Font of Hope, which provided continuous card draw and life gain.
Kovacs aggressively utilized sacrifice and treasure generation via Ignoble Hierarch and Zayatora, the Incinerator, applying early pressure and dealing heavy commander damage before eventually losing his commander in combat. Azrael's Tivit, Seller of Secrets deck centered on the voting mechanic, creating additional value through clues and treasure tokens while disrupting opponents.
Meanwhile, the narrator's Anhelo, the Painter deck focused on a combination of creating Decay Zombies with Puppet Stitcher and powerful spells like Demonic Tutor and Jessica's Will with casualty to generate mana and dig for answers.
Pivotal moments included multiple voting triggers that drained life, a successful counterspell on Winds of Abandon preventing a mass exile, and a triple Demonic Tutor combo via Dualcaster Mage that greatly expanded tutoring options.
The game featured tight interplay between resource generation, life management, and combat damage, with each player pushing their unique synergies toward advantage.
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