WNL 77 | Big Beaters & Artifact Heaters! | Live MTG EDH | Commander Gameplay

Deck Strategies

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  Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider

  Focuses on doubling +1/+1 counters and other counters on permanents to create huge threats while disrupting opponents by doubling their negative counters. The deck aims to crush opponents quickly with large creatures and resource denial.

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  Jan Jansen, Chaos Crafter

  Utilizes treasure tokens and sacrifice outlets to generate value and chaotic board states. The deck leverages treasure generation to ramp into powerful spells and create advantage through artifact synergies and random effects.

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  Gargos, Vicious Watcher

  A green-focused deck that plays a lot of big creatures and uses graveyard interactions, including sacrificing creatures to trigger Gargos’s ability to grow and deal damage, maintaining board presence and pressure throughout the game.

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  Xenagos, God of Revels

  A red-green aggro ramp deck that boosts creatures with haste and +X/+X effects, aiming to quickly create large creatures and attack immediately to overwhelm opponents before they stabilize.

Gameplay Insights

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  Xenagos’s ability to grant haste and boost creatures was used to deliver a decisive alpha strike, catching opponents off guard.

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  Vorinclex’s doubling of counters significantly slowed down opponents’ ability to develop their board while accelerating the player’s own threats.

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  Jan Jansen’s treasure generation and sacrifice outlet synergy provided continuous resources and value, enabling flexibility in casting spells and activating abilities.

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  Gargos leveraged creature deaths and graveyard recursion to maintain pressure even after board wipes or heavy trading of creatures.

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  Players balanced between smashing opponents’ artifacts and treasures to disrupt their ramp and value engines, highlighting the importance of artifact hate in the meta.

Notable Cards

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  Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider

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  Jan Jansen, Chaos Crafter

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  Gargos, Vicious Watcher

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  Xenagos, God of Revels

Summary

The game began with four players piloting aggressive and synergistic decks, each leveraging their commanders' unique strengths. Early turns focused on ramping mana and establishing board presence, with Xenagos, God of Revels facilitating powerful and large creatures to attack aggressively. Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider applied pressure by doubling counters and disrupting opponents' resource growth, while Gargos, Vicious Watcher ramped into big threats and utilized graveyard interactions. Jan Jansen, Chaos Crafter focused on generating and sacrificing treasures to fuel value engines and chaotic board states. Throughout the game, players exchanged blows with combat and strategic removal, with treasure token generation and artifact synergies playing a key role in resource accumulation and tempo swings. A pivotal moment occurred when Xenagos enabled a massive alpha strike by pairing with a large creature, forcing opponents to respond quickly or face lethal damage. Vorinclex’s ability to double counters further amplified threats, severely hampering opponents’ defenses and board development. Jan Jansen’s treasure generation provided additional resources for spells and abilities, keeping the deck versatile and resilient. Gargos’s ability to take advantage of creature deaths and graveyard recursion helped maintain pressure late into the game. Ultimately, the game was decided through a combination of overwhelming combat power and resource denial, with Xenagos’s aggressive beatdown proving decisive in closing out the match.