Deck Strategies
Jhoira of the Ghitu
Cast spells with suspend counters from exile to generate value and control the board, leveraging artifact ramp and spell recursion for continuous pressure.
Lord of Tresserhorn
Sacrifice creatures and pay life to draw cards and disrupt opponents while building a resilient board through regeneration and combat tricks.
Norin the Wary
Exile creatures temporarily when they attack or cast spells to create chaos, prevent blockers, and gain card advantage through flicker effects.
Reaper King
Use tribal synergies with shapeshifters to trigger powerful effects, combined with flicker to repeatedly abuse enter-the-battlefield triggers and control the board.
Gameplay Insights
- 1
Lord of Tresserhorn’s forced sacrifices and life loss create a tempo disadvantage but reward card draw, enabling effective disruption.
- 2
Reaper King’s tribal synergies combined with flicker effects allow repeated enter-the-battlefield triggers, creating incremental value and board control.
- 3
Jhoira’s use of suspend and artifact ramp allows casting powerful spells ahead of curve and controlling the pace of the game.
- 4
Norin the Wary’s exile triggers disrupt opponents’ combat and casting phases, creating chaotic board states that benefit from flicker strategies.
- 5
The combination of flicker and creature type synergies leads to looping effects that become central to the game’s momentum.
- 6
Board wipes and careful resource management are pivotal moments that reset or shift the board state in a multi-player environment.
Notable Cards
Lord of Tresserhorn
Reaper King
Jhoira of the Ghitu
Norin the Wary
Summary
The game begins with each player setting up their unique strategies using their Halloween-themed decks. Lord of Tresserhorn's player focuses on sacrificing creatures and paying life to draw cards and disrupt opponents, while Reaper King aims to leverage a variety of creature types with flicker effects to trigger powerful synergies and board control. Jhoira of the Ghitu's deck revolves around casting spells from exile using suspended counters, accelerating with artifact mana and powerful draw spells. Norin the Wary's player uses a strategy centered on flickering and exile interactions to exile creatures upon casting or attacking, aiming to generate chaos and card advantage. A key turning point occurs when Lord of Tresserhorn enters the battlefield, forcing his controller to sacrifice creatures and lose life, which slows down their board presence but rewards card draw and disruption. Meanwhile, Reaper King's player develops a board with shapeshifters and flicker synergy, gaining incremental advantage and board wipes through creature type manipulation. Jhoira accelerates mana and uses suspended cards to deploy powerful threats and control elements, while Norin keeps exiling threats to maintain tempo and pressure. The interaction of flicker with Reaper King’s tribal support and Norin’s exile triggers creates a volatile board state. Eventually, the game sees multiple board wipes and attempts to stabilize, but the synergy between creature types and flicker effects proves decisive, pushing the Reaper King player closer to victory through incremental zombie token generation and combat damage.