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Deck Strategies

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  Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord

  Utilizes graveyard recursion and sacrifice to grow creatures and deal damage, focusing on value from the graveyard and board control through removal.

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  The First Sliver

  Sliver tribal deck leveraging the synergy of Slivers making each other stronger and drawing cards on combat damage, aiming to overwhelm opponents with a unified army.

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  Breya, Etherium Shaper

  Artifact-centric deck that controls the board and generates value by creating artifact tokens and using her activated abilities to remove threats or boost board presence.

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  Animar, Soul of Elements

  Focuses on casting cheap creatures and spells to build counters on Animar, allowing for large, evasive threats and combo potential by reducing creature costs.

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  Muldrotha, the Gravetide

  Graveyard recursion across multiple card types to maintain board presence and value over the long game, playing permanents from the graveyard each turn.

Gameplay Insights

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  Playing Root Sliver early prevented opponents from countering critical Sliver spells, allowing the tribal synergy to develop unhindered.

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  Using Unlicensed Hearse to exile multiple cards from opponents' graveyards rapidly increased its power, presenting a growing threat on board.

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  Breya's artifact synergies and activated abilities provided incremental value, enabling control over the board state despite aggressive tribal strategies.

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  Players carefully managed mana and timing of spells, such as suspending Ancestral Vision and holding back key creatures, to optimize their turns.

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  Sacrifices were strategically used to trigger value abilities and clear the way for stronger board presence, exemplifying the importance of resource management.

Notable Cards

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  Unlicensed Hearse

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  Root Sliver

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  Birds of Paradise

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  Ancestral Vision

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  Replication Specialist

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  Cultivate

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  Mystic Sanctuary

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  Katsumasa, the Animator

Summary

The game began with players developing their mana bases and early board presence, including ramp creatures like Birds of Paradise and utility lands such as Mystic Sanctuary. Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord, established graveyard interactions early with Unlicensed Hearse, exiling cards to grow in power. The Sliver tribal deck made a significant impact by casting Root Sliver, which prevented its cards from being countered, accelerating its board presence and synergy. As the game progressed, players focused on developing their board states with various creatures and artifact synergies, including replication specialists and animators. There were several combat phases where the Slivers' synergy and other tribal and artifact-based strategies began to dominate the board. The game saw interaction with removal spells and strategic sacrifices, notably with Breya, Etherium Shaper creating value and incremental advantage.