Getting Flippy with It | Commander Gameplay (Chandra, Jace, Kytheon, Liliana)

Deck Strategies

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  Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh // Chandra, Roaring Flame

  The Chandra deck focused on dealing damage through red spells and utilized Chandra's planeswalker abilities to ramp up damage output. A key strategy was to generate a lot of mana and then chain various red spells to burn opponents.

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  Jace, Vryn's Prodigy // Jace, Telepath Unbound

  The Jace deck used card draw and graveyard interaction to gain advantage. The deck also aimed to control the board state by manipulating opponents' decks and using counterspells.

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  Kytheon, Hero of Akros // Gideon, Battle-Forged

  The Kytheon deck used a creature-centered strategy, with a focus on creating and buffing creature tokens. It aimed for a wide board state and used Kytheon's flip ability to add to its creature force.

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  Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer

  The Liliana deck used a combination of creature sacrifice and recursion synergies to disrupt opponents and amass value. It also used powerful black spells to control the board and Liliana's abilities to gain substantial advantage.

Gameplay Insights

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  The use of 'The Elder Spell' by the Liliana player was a decisive play, significantly reducing the threat from other players' planeswalkers and powering up Liliana in one fell swoop.

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  The Chandra player's chain of red spells was an impressive play, demonstrating the potential of the deck when it has sufficient mana and a good combination of spells in hand.

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  The 'Hour of Devastation' card caused a significant shift in board state, wiping out all creatures and non-Bolas planeswalkers, and resetting the game.

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  The 'True Conviction' card played by the Kytheon player boosted their creatures significantly and was a key part of their strategy of overwhelming opponents with creatures.

Notable Cards

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  Hour of Devastation

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  True Conviction

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  Chandra, Torch of Defiance

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  Smothering Tithe

Summary

This Commander game featured a face-off between planeswalker commanders Chandra, Jace, Kytheon, and Liliana. The game started off with a decent pace as each player built up their board states and their commanders flipped into their planeswalker forms. The turning point of the game was when the player using Liliana cast 'The Elder Spell', destroying the other players' planeswalkers and boosting Liliana substantially. Despite a valiant effort from the remaining players, including an impressive chain of red spells from the Chandra player in an attempt to burn out their opponents, the game ended with Liliana's player gaining control of the board and establishing an insurmountable advantage.