CRAZY cEDH Stack War! || OB NIX vs BRALLIN SHABRAZ vs SISAY vs SELVALA

Commanders featured in this Gameplay Reviewed & Verified

Deck & Commander Strategies

Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin
Utilizes incremental damage through ping triggers from creatures like Bergie and Firebrand Archer, combined with discard and removal spells to control the board while setting up a potential Ad Nauseam win combo.
Brallin, Skyshark Rider
Focuses on aggressive creature-based damage and exploiting enter-the-battlefield effects to maintain pressure and disrupt opponents early in the game.
Shabraz, the Skyshark
Leverages flying aggressive threats and synergy with other creatures to apply fast damage and maintain board presence in a tempo-oriented approach.
Sisay, Weatherlight Captain
A legendary creature toolbox deck that aims to fetch and deploy impactful legendary creatures for utility, interaction, and combos to control the game and establish a winning board state.
Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
Ramp-heavy strategy using mana acceleration from lands and spells like Cradle, Carpet of Flowers, and Dark Rituals to cast large spells and overwhelm opponents with powerful creatures and effects.

Gameplay Insights

1
Casting Molten Duplication on Firebrand Archer to double ping triggers provided significant incremental damage, forcing opponents to react immediately.
2
The use of Firestorm as a multi-target removal spell helped clear multiple threats but also prompted responses and complex stack interactions.
3
Ad Nauseam was held as a powerful game-ending resource, demonstrating the importance of timing and stacking triggers carefully in cEDH.
4
Players carefully managed their lands and mana resources, such as sacrificing lands to cast spells like Dark Ritual and Firestorm, emphasizing the high-risk, high-reward nature of cEDH.
5
Interaction spells like Dismember and Rain of Filth were timed to disrupt and respond to key triggers, highlighting the critical role of instant-speed interaction in controlling the pace of the game.

Notable Cards

Firebrand Archer
Molten Duplication
Ad Nauseam
Rain of Filth
Dismember
Carpet of Flowers
Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer

Gameplay Summary

The game started explosively with fast mana plays such as Ancient Tomb, Bergy tokens, and Ragavan, setting the stage for a highly interactive cEDH match.

Ob Nixilis leveraged early aggressive creatures and incremental damage sources like Firebrand Archer and Bergie triggers to apply pressure across the table.

Selvala’s player ramped quickly into powerful mana acceleration with cards like Cradle, Sewing-Mic Spawn, and Carpet of Flowers, enabling large spells and board presence.

Sisay’s deck focused on assembling a toolbox of legendary creatures and interaction, while Brallin and Shabraz pilots used aggressive creatures and synergistic triggers to maintain tempo and pressure opponents' resources. Mid-game saw a flurry of interaction with spells like Dismember, Rain of Filth, and multiple triggers from Ob Nixilis’s ping effects generating incremental damage.

The board state became volatile as players used spells like Firestorm to deal multi-target damage, aiming to clear threats and reset the board.

Key moments included the casting of Molten Duplication on Firebrand Archer to double damage triggers and a cascade of ping triggers from multiple sources.

The use of Ad Nauseam by Ob Nixilis’s pilot hinted at a potential combo or big play, rapidly shifting the game’s tempo and threatening a lethal outcome.

The game exemplified a classic cEDH stack war where timing, resource management, and precise sequencing of triggers defined the evolving board state and win conditions.

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