Radha vs Queen Marchesa vs Muldrotha vs Vial | Tymna EDH / CMDR game play for Magic: The Gathering

Summary

The game began with each player establishing their board presence and ramping into powerful spells. Chris, playing Muldrotha, leveraged graveyard recursion extensively, repeatedly dredging Life from the Loam and utilizing cards like Splendid Reclamation to recover lands, while deploying key threats including Endycar Resurgent, Grave Pact, and Azusa. Rhys on Radha focused on ramp and card draw, using creatures like Eternal Witness and Sarkhan Vol to gain value, and eventually drawing a massive number of cards through Muldrotha's sacrifice synergy with Greater Good. Sam, piloting Queen Marchesa, flooded the board with Shadowborn Apostles and aimed to control the board with artifacts and enchantments, but struggled with mana early on. I, playing Tymna and Vial Smasher, set up a control and spellslinging strategy, using Cabal Coffers and mana rocks to generate explosive mana, casting tutors and disruption like Demonic Tutor, Rakdos Charm, and Shreds of Sanity to keep opponents in check while assembling a threatening board state.

Deck Strategies

• 

  Muldrotha, the Gravetide

  Utilizes the graveyard as a resource to replay permanents every turn, focusing on value creatures, lands, and enchantments to generate incremental advantage and board control through sacrifice effects and recursion.

• 

  Queen Marchesa

  Uses a monarch mechanic with aggressive tokens like Shadowborn Apostles to pressure opponents, leveraging control elements and political interactions to maintain board dominance.

• 

  Radha, Heir to Keld

  Focuses on ramping mana through lands and spells to cast large creatures and pump effects, generating card advantage and damage through combat and sacrifice synergies.

• 

  Tymna the Weaver & Vial Smasher the Fierce

  Combines Tymna’s card draw from combat damage with Vial Smasher’s random damage to opponents, backed by efficient spellslinging, tutoring, and heavy mana generation to control the game and gain incremental advantage.

Gameplay Insights

• 1

  Chris’s use of Life from the Loam combined with Splendid Reclamation and graveyard recursion allowed him to repeatedly rebuild his mana base and re-cast powerful permanents, maintaining strong board presence.

• 2

  Rhys’s combination of Radha’s attack-triggered mana and Greater Good enabled a massive card draw turn by sacrificing a pumped Muldrotha, drawing 24 cards and refueling his hand significantly.

• 3

  The interplay of Grave Pact with sacrifice effects forced opponents to continuously sacrifice creatures, disrupting their boards and enhancing Muldrotha’s value.

• 4

  The Tymna and Vial Smasher player used a combo of heavy mana generation from Cabal Coffers and mana rocks alongside tutors and disruptive spells to control the graveyard and hinder Chris’s recursion strategy, showcasing a strong spellslinger approach.

• 5

  Sam’s Queen Marchesa deck struggled with early land drops yet managed to apply pressure with multiple Shadowborn Apostles and timely removal, demonstrating resilience despite the mana issues.

• 6

  Rhys’s use of Bane of Progress to clear artifacts and enchantments, although short-lived, was a pivotal attempt to reset the board against artifact and enchantment-heavy decks.

Notable Cards

• 

  Life from the Loam

• 

  Cabal Coffers

• 

  Grave Pact

• 

  Azusa, Lost but Seeking

• 

  Greater Good

• 

  Ghostly Prison

• 

  Demonic Tutor

• 

  Rakdos Charm

• 

  Shreds of Sanity

• 

  Bane of Progress

• 

  Sarkhan Vol