Deck & Commander Strategies
Sisay, Weatherlight Captain
Sisay’s deck focuses on ramping through mana rocks and tutors to assemble powerful legendary creatures that can dominate the board. It uses removal and counterspells to maintain control and leverage synergy with legendary permanents to generate overwhelming advantage.
Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra
Terra’s deck revolves around enchantment synergy and efficient ramp. It uses spell disruption like Pact of Negation and Blood Moon to hamper opponents while setting up enchantment-based combos and controlling the pace of the game.
Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar / Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator
This paired deck utilizes treasure generation and aggressive combat damage to wear down opponents. It leverages artifact synergies, token generation, and interaction with opponents’ hands or board states through cards like Jessica’s Will and Siren Stormtamer to maintain tempo.
Rydia, Summoner of Mist
Rydia’s deck focuses on graveyard interactions and elemental tribal synergies. It capitalizes on landfall effects, multiple spell triggers, and exile effects to control opponents’ resources while ramping massively and tutoring key combo pieces like Tiller Engine for game-ending combos.
Gameplay Insights
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Rydia’s layering of Nissa Resurgent and Echoing Deeps triggers to exile multiple opponents’ graveyards significantly disrupted their strategies and ramped mana efficiently.
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Sisay’s use of Mystic Remora and Demonic Tutor allowed for strong card advantage and control over the match pace.
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Malcolm/Kediss exploited treasure tokens and aggressive combat to apply steady pressure while disrupting opponents with targeted spells like Jessica’s Will.
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Terra Magical Adept’s early Pact of Negation protected critical plays, while Blood Moon was used to slow down nonbasic land-dependent decks, shifting the tempo in Terra’s favor.
Notable Cards
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Pact of Negation
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Echoing Deeps
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Aftermath Analyst
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Tiller Engine
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Blood Moon
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Orcish Lumberjack
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Mystic Remora
Gameplay Summary
The game features a high-level competitive EDH match with five players piloting distinct Final Fantasy-themed commanders.
Early turns focus heavily on ramping mana and setting up powerful synergies.
Terra Magical Adept starts strong with efficient mana acceleration and a Pact of Negation, while Rydia Summoner of Mist takes advantage of graveyard interactions and multiple triggers to generate massive value with lands and spells like Echoing Decays and Nissa's abilities.
Sisay, Weatherlight Captain uses strong mana rocks and card draw with Mystic Remora, preparing to tutor impactful creatures.
Malcolm and Kediss utilize treasure generation and combat damage to apply pressure early. A pivotal moment occurs when Rydia uses a complex stack of triggers from Nissa Resurgent, Echoing Deeps, and Aftermath Analyst to exile opponents' graveyards and ramp massively, enabling powerful tutoring with Court of Calling for Tiller Engine, a key combo piece.
Meanwhile, Sisay sets up a board presence and counters with Demonic Tutor and Mystic Remora, maintaining control of the game state.
Malcolm/Kediss leverages treasure tokens and creature combat damage synergistically, while Terra Magical Adept focuses on disruption with Blood Moon and reactive spells.
The match highlights layered synergies, graveyard hate, and resource denial as players jockey for position, with Rydia’s graveyard exile and land synergy standing out as a significant turning point.
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