Nin vs Ghave vs Chainer vs Meren EDH / CMDR game play

Deck Strategies

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  Nin, the Pain Artist

  Focuses on casting cheap instants and sorceries to draw cards and generate value, often using Isochron Scepter and mana rituals to produce explosive turns.

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  Ghave, Guru of Spores

  Builds a board state with saproling tokens and +1/+1 counters, leveraging sacrifice outlets and anthem effects to overwhelm opponents.

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  Chainer, Dementia Master

  Uses reanimation and discard mechanics to reuse powerful creatures from graveyards, fueled by Cabal Coffers for massive black mana production.

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  Meren of Clan Nel Toth

  Relies on graveyard recursion and creature sacrifice to generate incremental advantage, gaining life and board presence through persist creatures and reanimation triggers.

Gameplay Insights

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  Chainer's early Cabal Coffers and Thran Dynamo setup enabled him to generate large amounts of black mana, which was critical for repeated reanimation and exploitation of graveyard resources.

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  Meren's ability to repeatedly bring back creatures like Kitchen Finks and Caustic Caterpillar created a resilient board state that sustained pressure and life gain despite opponents' removal.

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  Nin's use of Isochron Scepter imprinting Desperate Ritual combined with overflow chalice allowed for significant mana ramp and card draw, facilitating further spell casting and board control.

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  The use of Merciless Eviction to clear artifacts disrupted Nin's artifact-based combos, forcing him to adapt and slowing his momentum.

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  Dictate of Erebos paired with sacrifice outlets caused multiple forced sacrifices, leveraging Meren and Ghave's synergies to gain life and maintain board presence.

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  Cyclonic Rift was used to bounce Meren back to the command zone during a Memory Jar activation, disrupting Meren’s board while forcing a full hand redraw, significantly shifting the game state.

Notable Cards

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  Cabal Coffers

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  Isochron Scepter

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  Desperate Ritual

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  Memory Jar

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  Merciless Eviction

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  Soul of the Harvest

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  Kitchen Finks

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  Caustic Caterpillar

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  Scute Swarm

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  Green Sun's Zenith

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  Dictate of Erebos

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  Regna, the Redeemer

Summary

The game featured a dynamic four-player Commander match with Nin, the Pain Artist; Ghave, Guru of Spores; Chainer, Dementia Master; and Meren of Clan Nel Toth. Early turns involved mana acceleration and setting up key artifacts like Cabal Coffers and Isochron Scepter. Chainer aggressively utilized reanimation spells to bring back powerful creatures from the graveyard, leveraging Cabal Coffers for a large mana pool and exploiting creature death triggers. Meren focused on creature recursion and incremental advantage through sacrifice and reanimation, repeatedly bringing back utility creatures like caustic caterpillar and kitchen finks to maintain board presence and life gain. Nin utilized blue spells and artifacts to draw cards and control the flow of the game, including casting a kicked overflow chalice and using Isochron Scepter with Desperate Ritual to generate explosive mana combos. Ghave aimed to build a board of tokens and +1/+1 counters but was pressured by board wipes and sacrifice effects from opponents.