FINAL FANTASY COMMANDER PRECONS | Big Deck Energy

Deck Strategies

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  Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER

  Aggressively attack with equipped creatures to draw cards and generate treasure tokens once a high power threshold is met, leveraging haste for early impact.

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  Tidus, Yuna's Guardian

  Manipulate and move counters among creatures to draw cards and proliferate, increasing creature effectiveness and drawing incremental advantage through combat damage.

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  Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

  Control the board by dealing incremental damage to opponents through noncreature spells and gaining life, while drawing cards when opponents lose life to maintain resource advantage.

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  Terra, Herald of Hope

  Mill cards to set up graveyard recursion, then use combat damage triggers to return smaller creatures from the graveyard to the battlefield, maintaining board presence and resilience.

Gameplay Insights

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  Cloud’s ability to draw cards based on equipped attacking creatures encourages aggressive equipment deployment and active combat to maintain hand advantage.

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  Tidus’s mechanic of moving counters combined with proliferate rewards careful combat planning and timing to maximize card draw and board growth.

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  Playing Coin of Fate early provided valuable card selection but introduced vulnerability due to its graveyard interaction and sacrifice requirement.

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  Avalanche of Sector 7 punishes artifact-heavy decks but requires opponents to have multiple artifacts to reach significant damage output, highlighting meta considerations.

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  Terra’s milling at the start of combat synergizes well with graveyard recursion, enabling a steady stream of creatures to be reanimated and maintain battlefield control.

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  Players’ missteps with land sequencing and untapped lands underscored the importance of resource management in early turns for tempo and casting flexibility.

Notable Cards

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  Coin of Fate

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  Avalanche of Sector 7

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  Temple of the False God

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  Secret Rendezvous

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  Mask of Memory

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  Stitch Together

Summary

The game begins with players deploying their respective Final Fantasy-themed precon decks, each led by unique commanders embodying iconic characters. Cloud, the aggressive and equipment-focused commander, sets the pace by leveraging his haste and card draw ability when attacking with equipped creatures. Tidus centers his strategy around moving counters between creatures, drawing cards, and proliferating to enhance his board presence gradually. Y'shtola offers a more control-oriented approach, drawing cards whenever players lose significant life and dealing damage with noncreature spells, while Terra focuses on milling cards and recurring smaller creatures from the graveyard to maintain board presence and pressure opponents. Early key plays include the casting of artifact cards like Coin of Fate, which provides card advantage but also presents risks, and Terra's milling triggers that put valuable cards into the graveyard for recursion. Avalanche of Sector 7 proves to be an interesting piece for punishing artifact-heavy opponents, though its power is contingent on opponents' artifact count. Players navigate land drops carefully, with some misplays on land sequencing impacting tempo. The first combat engagements begin with Tidus swinging cautiously to optimize counters, while Cloud looks to capitalize on his equipment synergy for drawing cards and generating treasure tokens. Throughout the game, players balance aggressive attacks with strategic card advantage and board development, setting the stage for various win conditions centered on combat damage, equipment synergy, and graveyard recursion.