Deck & Commander Strategies
Licia, Sanguine Tribune
Focuses on life gain and drain mechanics combined with aristocrat sacrifice synergies to whittle down opponents while sustaining health.
Korvold, Gleeful Glutton
Utilizes permanents that sacrifice themselves to generate value, ramp, and card advantage through sacrifice triggers without needing extra sacrifice outlets.
Myojin of Cryptic Dreams
Ramp into big blue spells and clone creatures with indestructible counters, aiming for infinite loops by proliferating counters and copying spells repeatedly.
Yuma, Proud Protector
Leverages desert synergies with exploration and ward abilities, focusing on resilience and grinding value through incremental life gain and land interactions.
Gameplay Insights
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Playing permanents that self-sacrifice, as seen in Korvold's deck, reduces the need for additional sacrifice outlets, streamlining sacrifice synergies.
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Wondrous Crucible's ability to cast cards exiled from the graveyard for free can create recursive spellcasting loops, significantly increasing board impact.
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Amalia, Benvitz AG2's exploration and potential mass creature destruction introduces a strategic threat that pressures opponents to respond before she reaches 20 power.
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Incremental life gain triggers on various creatures and enchantments synergize well to build board presence and enable powerful enter-the-battlefield effects.
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The combination of mana ramp and card draw, such as through Summon Titan and Faithless Looting, accelerates the deployment of high-impact spells and creatures.
Notable Cards
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Wondrous Crucible
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Authority of the Consuls
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Elvish Reclaimer
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Faithless Looting
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Cleric Class
Gameplay Summary
The game featured four commanders each with a converted mana cost of eight, creating a dynamic and interactive board state centered around life gain, sacrifice synergies, and powerful mid-to-late game plays.
Early turns focused on ramp and setting up key creatures and lands that synergize with life gain and sacrificing permanents.
Licia, Sanguine Tribune's deck leveraged aristocrat-style life gain and drain effects, while Korvold, Gleeful Glutton's approach revolved around sacrificing permanents that self-sacrifice, bypassing the need for additional sacrifice outlets.
Myojin of Cryptic Dreams brought a blue-based ramp and clone strategy with potential infinite loops through proliferating indestructible counters.
Yuma, Proud Protector capitalized on desert synergies, resilience, and incremental value through exploration and ward effects. Key turning points included the casting of Summon Titan to ramp aggressively and the play of Wondrous Crucible, which allowed casting spells exiled from the graveyard for free, leading to a recursive and taxing board presence.
Amalia, Benvitz AG2’s ability to explore and potentially destroy all other creatures if her power reached 20 was a looming threat that pressured opponents to remove or manage her quickly.
The game showcased a blend of incremental value generation, board presence control, and synergy exploitation, with players carefully managing triggers and interactions to build toward their respective win conditions centered around board dominance, infinite combos, or overwhelming life drain.
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