Commander Clash: Revenge Week | S9 E17 | Rakdos vs. Ramos vs. Tasigur vs. The Ur-Dragon

Deck Strategies

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  Tasigur, the Golden Fang

  Skip your own turns to avoid negative effects and extra turn synergies from opponents, while using key permanents to maintain board presence and card advantage despite limited active turns.

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  Ramos, Dragon Engine

  Utilize Wild Pair to tutor and double the number of creatures entering the battlefield, focusing on creatures with power and toughness sums of two or four to maximize value and card draw, aiming for overwhelming board presence.

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  Rakdos, the Showstopper

  Deploy a powerful Demon tribal deck that leverages high-impact demons and a robust mana base to apply early pressure and maintain control, aiming to close out the game with aggressive threats.

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  The Ur-Dragon

  Leverage tribal synergies with dragons and a diverse tribal toolbox to ramp into large threats and generate overwhelming board states, utilizing tribal support to maximize value from creatures.

Gameplay Insights

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  Richard's deck required assembling key permanents to effectively skip turns while maintaining board presence, highlighting the challenge and payoff of this unconventional strategy.

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  Seth focused on improving tutor density and card draw to reliably find Wild Pair, addressing the main weakness from his previous iteration and enabling consistent value generation.

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  Crim's decision to increase the land count and include newer Zendikar Rising cards allowed his demon deck to function more smoothly and aggressively than before.

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  Tomer's adjustments to his Tribal Tribal deck, especially swapping commanders and updating the list, showed an effort to improve consistency and synergy while respecting playgroup bans.

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  Early game tempo was crucial, as several players struggled with slow starts due to mana or card draw issues, impacting their ability to establish board presence quickly.

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  The interaction between creature tutoring and tribal synergies proved pivotal in developing board states capable of pressuring opponents effectively.

Notable Cards

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  Wild Pair

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  Tasigur, the Golden Fang

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  Rakdos, the Showstopper

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  The Ur-Dragon

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  Gilded Goose

Summary

The game featured a highly diverse and thematic four-player Commander clash, with each player piloting a previously underperforming deck aiming for redemption. Richard brought back his unique 'No More Bad Turns' skip-turn strategy deck led by Tasigur, the Golden Fang, aiming to disrupt the flow of the game by skipping his own turns and leveraging key cards to maintain board presence despite limited actions. Seth returned with a creature value and tribal synergy deck focused on Wild Pair and bear creatures, looking to capitalize on consistent tutoring and card draw to overwhelm opponents with incremental advantage. Crim played a revamped Rakdos Demon Tribal deck, more streamlined and powerful than before, aiming to leverage high-impact demons and strong mana base to assert pressure and control the game. Tomer ran his personal favorite, a Tribal Tribal deck led by The Ur-Dragon, aiming to leverage the powerful dragon tribal synergies and a broad tribal toolbox for strong board development.