Deck & Commander Strategies
Sisay, Weatherlight Captain
A five-color superfriends deck that uses Sisay to tutor key combo and hate pieces, aiming to control the board and generate value through planeswalkers and powerful utility creatures.
Kalamax, the Stormsire
A red-blue spellslinger deck that generates value and card advantage via casting multiple instant and sorcery spells, growing Kalamax with +1/+1 counters and leveraging combos to overwhelm opponents.
Tymna the Weaver / Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator
An artifact-stax deck focusing on locking down the board with pieces like Rule of Law and taxing effects, while using commander damage and incremental advantage to whittle down opponents.
Meren of Clan Nel Toth
A Golgari reanimator deck that aggressively reanimates creatures from the graveyard, aiming to combo out early with Protean Hulk and sacrifice outlets to quickly close the game.
Gameplay Insights
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The use of Carpet of Flowers to accelerate Kalamax's mana and enable explosive spell sequences was crucial in maintaining tempo and card advantage.
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The Flame Sweep copied by Kalamax served as a pivotal board wipe that reset the board while leaving Kalamax untouched, allowing continued pressure.
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Opposition Agent effectively disrupted Jargo’s graveyard strategy by exiling his key combo piece, Underworld Breach, forcing resourceful counter play.
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Multiple layers of counterspells including Force of Will, Dispel, and Swan Song were vital in protecting key value engines and important creature drops.
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Sisay’s use of Sylvan Library combined with Oath of Teferi maximized card selection and advantage despite life loss, illustrating careful resource management.
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Meren’s strategy relied on quickly reanimating and sacrificing Protean Hulk to assemble combos, putting pressure on opponents before they could stabilize.
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Tymna/Malcolm’s artifact stax elements slowed down opponents’ key plays, buying time to leverage incremental damage and control effects to their advantage.
Notable Cards
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Carpet of Flowers
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Dark Confidant
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Force of Will
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Opposition Agent
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Merciless Executioner
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Sylvan Library
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Oath of Teferi
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Null Rod
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Vampiric Tutor
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Flame Sweep
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Mystic Remora
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Protean Hulk
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Rule of Law
Gameplay Summary
The game started with each player setting up their board state and ramping into their commanders.
Sisay quickly established value through tutoring and threat evaluation, while Kalamax generated card advantage with spellslinger synergies and +1/+1 counters.
Tymna/Malcolm focused on locking down the board with artifact synergies and taxing effects such as Rule of Law, controlling opponents' plays while slowly whittling them away.
Meren aggressively pursued reanimation combos, aiming to bring back key creatures like Protean Hulk to quickly close out the game. Early interactions involved key pieces like Carpet of Flowers enabling Kalamax's explosive starts, Dark Confidant and Vampiric Tutor accelerating draws and tutoring, and Null Rod attempting to shut down artifact synergy.
A pivotal moment occurred when a Flame Sweep board wipe was cast and copied by Kalamax, clearing the board but leaving Kalamax itself intact to maintain pressure.
Sisay leveraged powerful value engines like Sylvan Library and Oath of Teferi to dig deeper into their deck and maintain card advantage.
Throughout, the players carefully evaluated threats and used disruption spells such as Force of Will, Dispel, and Swan Song to protect key plays or counter opponents' threats.
The game revolved around maximizing resource use, managing life totals cautiously, and timing reanimation or combo sequences to secure victory.
![Dargo/Tymna vs Varina vs Meren vs Lord Windgrace [EDH/Commander, Magic The Gathering] Gameplay 2020 thumbnail](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZwjElIK5gxA/sddefault.jpg)
