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Three Color Treasure Beatdown! | Commander | Nine Fingers v Ognis v Ziatora v Olivia | #5

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Commanders featured in this video Reviewed & Verified

Deck Strategies

  • Nine-Fingers Keene

    Nine-Fingers Keene

    Utilizes a gate-centric landfall strategy to accelerate gate deployment and trigger landfall benefits, aiming for a Maze's End alternate win condition or overwhelming value through land synergy.

  • Ognis, the Dragon's Lash

    Ognis, the Dragon's Lash

    Aggressively generates treasures and hasty creatures to create a fast-paced treasure beatdown, leveraging artifact tokens with sacrifice effects to grow other creatures and deal incremental damage.

  • Ziatora, the Incinerator

    Ziatora, the Incinerator

    Focuses on casting large creatures and then using fling effects to convert their power into direct damage, supported by some treasure synergy for mana acceleration.

  • Olivia, Opulent Outlaw

    Olivia, Opulent Outlaw

    Builds a board of outlaw creatures and generates treasures to fuel Olivia’s ability, distributing +1/+1 counters and applying life link to create a resilient, high-impact attacking force.

Gameplay Insights

  • 1

    Nine-Fingers Keene’s ability to reveal and put gates into play each combat damage step rapidly accelerates her gate count, which is crucial for her Maze's End win condition.

  • 2

    Ognis’s use of Heras Forge to generate growing hasty tokens that are then sacrificed synergizes well with Ravenous Squirrel's counters, enabling a snowballing board state.

  • 3

    The interplay between treasure token generation and sacrifice outlets (like Mayhem Devil) creates constant incremental advantages and damage over time.

  • 4

    Olivia’s utility in producing +1/+1 counters on all creatures by sacrificing treasures leverages treasure generation from outlaws and other synergies to increase board presence and combat effectiveness.

  • 5

    Ziatora’s strategy of casting large creatures and flinging them at opponents provides a strong, flexible removal and damage option that pressures opponents while the treasure synergy supports mana needs.

Notable Cards

  • Nine-Fingers Keene

    Nine-Fingers Keene

  • Maze's End

    Maze's End

  • Ognis, the Dragon's Lash

    Ognis, the Dragon's Lash

  • Ravenous Squirrel

    Ravenous Squirrel

  • Mayhem Devil

    Mayhem Devil

  • Olivia, Opulent Outlaw

    Olivia, Opulent Outlaw

  • Winged Boots

    Winged Boots

  • Expedition Map

    Expedition Map

  • Avenger of Zendikar

    Avenger of Zendikar

Summary

The game begins with each player piloting a distinct three-color deck, focusing on their unique synergies—landfall gates, treasure generation, and aristocrat-style damage. Nine Fingers Keene starts by advancing a gate-based strategy, rapidly deploying gates and leveraging her ability to reveal and put gates into play, aiming for a Maze's End victory. Ognis, the Dragon's Lash presses aggressive treasure and haste synergies, creating quick damage with artifact creatures and tokens that sacrifice themselves to grow other creatures. Ziatora, the Incinerator focuses on casting large creatures and using fling effects to turn those creatures into direct damage, while Olivia, Opulent Outlaw builds a treasure and outlaw tribal board that boosts her team with +1/+1 counters and life link, aiming for a powerful swing turn.

Description

In this episode, each member of the Snap Keep crew brings a three color deck! Alex rushes into battle with haste and treasures led by Ognis, the Dragon’s Lash. Jake flings himself into the fray with aristocrat treasure direct damage led by Ziatora, the Incinerator. Ryan brings the bounty with treasure outlaws led by Olivia, Opulent Outlaw. Al searches for victory with gates landfall led by Nine-Fingers Keene. Who will be the victor?

Check out our Decks: Al - www.moxfield.com/users/ArcaneAlgae Alex - www.moxfield.com/users/Alex_the_Brewer Jake - www.moxfield.com/users/PorygonDust Ryan - www.moxfield.com/users/TobiasRushinzki