Deck & Commander Strategies
Sisay, Weatherlight Captain
Sisay’s deck focuses on assembling legendary creatures to leverage powerful value and toolbox effects, aiming to grind out opponents with incremental advantage and key utility creatures.
Narset, Enlightened Master
Narset’s deck aims to generate extra turns and leverage her hexproof to protect her win condition, using spells and attacks to dig for combo pieces and overwhelm opponents once the combo is online.
Tymna the Weaver & Kraum, Ludevic's Opus
This deck uses Tymna and Kraum’s card draw and aggressive potential to apply early pressure while building a resilient board, looking to close out the game via commander damage and efficient disruption.
Atraxa, Grand Unifier
Atraxa’s deck plays a controlling game with taxing effects and stax elements like Dauthi Magistrate to disrupt opponents’ strategies and slow down combo decks, while eventually winning through proliferate synergies and incremental advantage.
Gameplay Insights
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Atraxa’s early Dauthi Magistrate was a pivotal disruption that effectively shut down Narset’s ability to cast noncreature spells, buying Atraxa and the rest of the table crucial time to develop their boards.
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Sisay’s use of Mystic Remora helped generate steady card advantage, allowing a gradual buildup of legendary creatures to outvalue opponents over time.
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Narset’s deck was forced into a defensive posture early on due to the stax effects, illustrating the importance of timing and removal to break early locks in cEDH.
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The interplay between aggressive early plays and controlling stax pieces created a dynamic tension where each player had to carefully choose when to commit resources or wait for key interactions.
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The game underscored the importance of balancing disruption with board development in cEDH, as players like Tymna/Kraum struggled to find their footing against early pressure and taxing permanents.
Notable Cards
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Mystic Remora
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Generator Servant
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Birds of Paradise
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Vampiric Tutor
Gameplay Summary
The final round of the Arcane Series III cEDH tournament featured a highly competitive four-player pod with Sisay, Weatherlight Captain; Narset, Enlightened Master; Tymna the Weaver paired with Kraum, Ludevic's Opus; and Atraxa, Grand Unifier.
The game began with a cautious pace, as Atraxa established early board control with impactful plays like Dauthi Magistrate, significantly hindering Narset's ability to develop her board due to its restriction on casting noncreature spells.
Sisay utilized a Mystic Remora for card advantage, focusing on assembling key legendaries and value pieces to gradually build a resilient board state.
Tymna and Kraum struggled to establish early board presence as well, delayed by the heavy disruption and lack of early commanders, while Narset aimed to survive the early disruption to eventually unleash her potent extra turn combos.
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