Tymna | Vial Smasher vs Yidris vs Kynaios & Tiro vs Multani EDH / CMDR game play

Deck Strategies

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  Vial Smasher the Fierce and Tymna the Weaver

  This Mardu spellslinger deck leverages incremental damage from Vial Smasher's triggered ability with each instant or sorcery cast, while Tymna provides steady card draw through combat damage. The deck focuses on efficient removal, card draw, and value spells to whittle down opponents and maintain control.

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  Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder

  Yidris aims to maximize cascade triggers by casting multiple spells per turn, generating card advantage and board presence. Utilizing mind's dilation and creature copying, the deck applies pressure through tokens and disruptive spells while maintaining a flexible toolbox.

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  Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis

  This deck plays a group hug and ramp style, focusing on landfall synergies and generating large amounts of mana to cast big spells. It uses spells like Skyshroud Claim and mana artifacts to accelerate mana production and support a midrange to late-game value plan.

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  Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar

  Multani's deck centers on ramping into large creatures and overwhelming the board with big threats. It uses green ramp spells and enchantments such as Sylvan Library to gain card advantage and maintain pressure through massive creatures and tokens.

Gameplay Insights

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  The use of Mind's Dilation by Trevor to repeatedly trigger extra spell casts and card draw created significant tempo and value advantages.

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  Vial Smasher's damage triggers pressured multiple opponents simultaneously, forcing defensive plays and enabling incremental life loss.

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  Trevor's strategic destruction of Vial Smasher with Evil Twin temporarily slowed down the most aggressive damage engine on the board.

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  The Vial Smasher/Tymna player effectively leveraged their mana acceleration and card draw spells to recover and maintain board presence after setbacks.

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  Casting removal spells like Utter End on Mind's Dilation disrupted opponents’ value engines, highlighting targeted disruption as a key strategic element.

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  Creature copying with Progenitor Mimic and Evil Twin allowed Trevor to multiply threats and maximize synergy with token generation and damage triggers.

Notable Cards

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  Vial Smasher the Fierce

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  Tymna the Weaver

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  Mind's Dilation

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  Evil Twin

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  Combustible Gearhulk

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  Sylvan Library

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  Ulvenwald Hydra

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  Dark Petition

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  Faithless Looting

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  Cabal Coffers

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  Chromatic Lantern

Summary

The game opened with each player establishing their mana bases and early board presence. The player piloting Vial Smasher and Tymna developed a strong early board by deploying mana rocks like Mind Stone and Cabal Coffers, and quickly casting Vial Smasher to start dealing incremental damage each turn. Trevor, on Yidris, leveraged his mind's dilation triggers aggressively, generating card advantage and board presence by copying creatures and casting impactful spells such as Evil Twin and Combustible Gearhulk. Matt, on Multani, focused on ramp and big creatures like Garruk Primal Hunter and Ulvenwald Hydra, while Mike on Kynaios and Tiro utilized landfall and mana ramp effects to keep pace. A pivotal moment came when Trevor used Evil Twin to destroy Vial Smasher, temporarily halting the damage output from that deck. However, the Vial Smasher player recovered by casting Tymna and leveraging their spell-slinging synergy with cards like Dark Petition and Faithless Looting to draw and filter through their deck. Mind's Dilation played a critical role across multiple players, providing additional value and interactions that influenced board state and decisions. Combat exchanges focused on incremental damage and chipping away at board presence, with the Vial Smasher deck using damage triggers to pressure opponents while maintaining card advantage. The game showed a dynamic interplay of removal, creature copying, and card draw engines, with the Vial Smasher and Tymna deck aiming for a spellslinger value-combo finish, while Yidris and Multani sought to build overwhelming board states through ramp and creature tokens.