The Fastest Way to Watch Commander Gameplay - CCO's Curbside Pickup

Deck Strategies

• 

  Shroofus Sproutsire

  Utilizes ramp and treasure generation to accelerate casting large creatures and spells, aiming to outpace opponents with explosive mana and board development.

• 

  Rasputin Dreamweaver

  Focuses on energy generation and +1/+1 counter synergies to grow creatures, producing tokens and applying consistent flying damage while gaining incremental advantages through scry effects.

• 

  Trelasarra, Moon Dancer

  Builds a board presence with soul tokens and counters, enhancing creatures' power and toughness, and leveraging lifegain and scrying to maintain card advantage and board control.

• 

  The Reality Chip

  Centers on artifact synergies and combo plays, generating mana through Eldrazi tokens and powerful artifact interactions, enabling large threats and complex board states.

Gameplay Insights

• 1

  Casting Oolamog, Defiler to exile half of an opponent's library was a decisive play that drastically weakened a mill-focused strategy and created a near-unblockable annihilator threat.

• 2

  Using Eldrazi Displacer and gemstone counters to produce large mana pools enabled complex interactions and repeated blinking of creatures to gain additional value and counters.

• 3

  The timing of Austere Command effectively reset the board by destroying artifacts and large creatures, forcing players to rebuild and rethink their strategies mid-game.

• 4

  Players coordinated blocking and attacking carefully, recognizing key threats like the flying Trelasarra and massive Eldrazi tokens, while also managing board states with life gain and token generation.

• 5

  The Reality Chip's ability to blink creatures and manipulate artifact counters was central to maintaining tempo and enabling powerful late-game plays.

Notable Cards

• 

  Gemstone Array

• 

  Austere Command

• 

  Concordant Crossroads

• 

  Collective Unconscious

• 

  Lantern of the Lost

• 

  Eldrazi Displacer

• 

  Guide of Souls

Summary

The game began with players establishing their mana bases and deploying early creatures and artifacts to build resource engines. Rasputin Dreamweaver's deck focused on generating tokens and leveraging energy and counters to grow creatures like Trelasarra, Moon Dancer, steadily pressuring opponents with flying and aggressive attacks. Meanwhile, The Reality Chip enabled artifact synergies and combo potential, including the generation of Eldrazi tokens and mana acceleration. A pivotal moment occurred when an Oolamog, Defiler was cast, exiling half of a player's library and creating a massive threat with annihilator 10, dramatically shifting the board state and forcing opponents to respond quickly. Despite this overwhelming board presence, the game continued with players using board wipes like Austere Command to reset the battlefield and interact with key threats.