Deck & Commander Strategies
Kraum, Ludevic's Opus / Tymna the Weaver
A wheel-based combo deck leveraging card draw and discard to generate advantage. The deck uses wheels like Windfall combined with Notion Thief to disrupt opponents and refuel its own hand, aiming to assemble a game-winning combo through incremental card advantage and tempo swings.
Zur the Enchanter
An Esper control and reanimator deck that uses control spells and reanimation to maintain board presence. Zur tutors and reanimates key creatures like Gienka, Taxus to pressure opponents while protecting spells with delay counters and counterspells.
Brago, King Eternal
A blue-white combo control deck focused on flicker effects to generate value and lock opponents out. It uses artifact mana acceleration and incremental combos with permanents to control the board and eventually close out the game through repetitive value and disruption.
Gameplay Insights
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Players strategically chose when to pay for taxing enchantments like Mystic Remora, balancing card draw against mana and life costs.
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Zur used Delay with multiple time counters to protect key spells, buying time to establish board presence.
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Notion Thief was a critical card affecting wheel effects and opponents' draw steps, forcing players to adjust their plans.
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Brago leveraged artifact mana and flicker effects to maintain tempo and disrupt opponents' plays.
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Players carefully timed wheel effects and counterspells to maximize disruption and card advantage.
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The interaction between reanimation and delay counters created a complex resource management scenario.
Notable Cards
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Notion Thief
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Mystic Remora
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Windfall
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Delay
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Talisman of Progress
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Sensei's Divining Top
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Toxic Deluge
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Entomb
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Chalice of the Void
Gameplay Summary
The game began with a slow setup as players developed mana and played early interaction like Mystic Remora and Sensei's Divining Top to gain card advantage.
The Kraum/Tymna deck focused on drawing and discarding to fuel its wheel-based combo strategy, attempting to leverage cards like Windfall and Notion Thief to disrupt opponents and generate advantage.
Zur applied control elements and reanimation, bringing back key creatures such as Gienka, Taxus to maintain board presence and pressure.
Brago played a more control-combo style, utilizing flicker effects and artifact mana acceleration to establish tempo and threaten combos. Key turning points included Zur successfully reanimating Gienka, Taxus and using delay counters to protect spells, as well as the interactions around Notion Thief, which complicated opponents' draw phases and wheel effects.
The players also carefully managed taxing effects from enchantments and artifacts like Mystic Remora and Chalice of the Void to slow down opponents' plays.
The game featured multiple wheels, draw spells, and counterspells with players strategically deciding when to pay for taxing effects or hold back resources.
The win conditions centered around Kraum/Tymna's combo wheels, Zur's control and reanimation of powerful creatures, and Brago's blink combos to generate incremental advantage and lock opponents out, with the game evolving into a tense balance of resource management and disruption.
