Stax Hurts Who Cares - Cedh Gameplay - Winota Vs Jetmir Vs Tevesh/Tana Vs Captain Sisay

Deck Strategies

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  Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools

  A turbo Jund combo deck that tutors for combo pieces early and uses Tevesh as a value engine to draw cards or create sacrificial creatures, enabling powerful combo sequences to win.

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  Captain Sisay

  An adaptive combo deck leveraging Sisay's ability to tutor legendary combo enablers and silver bullet stax pieces, aiming to lock opponents out or assemble infinite mana combos.

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  Jetmir, Nexus of Revels

  A creature-based stax deck that pressures opponents with boosted creatures and uses Jetmir's abilities to enable double strike and vigilance, increasing damage output while maintaining board presence.

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  Winota, Joiner of Forces

  An explosive stax combo deck that cheats nonhuman creatures into play rapidly, overwhelming opponents with aggressive boards and layered combos.

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  Tana, the Bloodsower

  Paired with Tevesh Szat, Tana provides additional synergy with token generation and sacrificing resources to fuel combos and maintain card advantage.

Gameplay Insights

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  Tevesh Szat's value engine was used effectively to generate card draw and sacrifice tokens, providing the resources needed to assemble the combo under heavy stax pressure.

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  Maintaining Drannith Magistrate on board was a strategic decision, as it hindered Winota's ability to cheat creatures into play more than it impacted the combo player.

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  Despite multiple stax pieces locking down the board, the combo deck found a way to break through by carefully sequencing plays and using tutor effects to assemble a winning combo.

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  Players utilized mana dorks and artifact mana sources such as Chrome Mox and Mana Vault to accelerate their game plans despite the stax disruption.

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  The interaction of Goblin Bombardment and Mayhem Devil provided incremental damage while also serving as sacrifice outlets to fuel Tevesh's abilities.

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  The game demonstrated the challenge of piloting stax decks in cEDH, requiring them to act as an archenemy to the table to effectively lock out multiple combo opponents simultaneously.

Notable Cards

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  Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools

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  Goblin Bombardment

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  Finale of Devastation

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  Blind Obedience

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  Deafening Silence

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  Dockside Extortionist

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  Mayhem Devil

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  Chain of Smog

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  Witherbloom Apprentice

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  Eldritch Evolution

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  Selvala, Heart of the Wilds

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  Jetmir, Nexus of Revels

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  Winota, Joiner of Forces

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  Captain Sisay

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  Drannith Magistrate

Summary

The game began with a classic cEDH stax versus combo confrontation featuring five distinct decks. Early turns saw players establishing board presence and locking down resources with stax elements such as Blind Obedience and Deafening Silence. Tevesh Szat and Tana's deck focused on generating value through Thrulls and sacrificing them to draw cards, while Captain Sisay aimed to tutor powerful stax pieces and infinite mana combos. Jetmir applied pressure with creatures enhanced by his ability, and Winota sought to flood the board with humans using her cheat-in mechanic. Despite heavy stax disruption, Anthony on Tevesh Szat navigated through the lockdown by carefully managing resources and leveraging his combo pieces. A pivotal moment occurred when Anthony bypassed the heavy stax effects by assembling a combo involving Chain of Smog and Witherbloom Apprentice, allowing him to break through the control elements and clinch the victory. Notably, Anthony chose to leave Hidden's Dranith as a board presence since it was more detrimental to the aggressive Winota deck than to himself. The game highlighted the tension between stax strategies that try to lock the game and combo decks that aim to assemble a win condition quickly, demonstrating that even heavy disruption isn't always sufficient to prevent a well-tuned combo deck from winning.