Deck & Commander Strategies
Green Goblin Revenant
Discard cards to draw more cards, generating value and disrupting opponents while applying pressure with a flying, deathtouch threat.
Miles Morales // Ultimate Spider-Man
Incrementally place +1/+1 counters on creatures to grow them larger, aiming to transform Miles into the ultimate Spider-Man for a powerful combat boost.
Mister Negative
Use life-total exchange to gain card advantage and life, while leveraging lifelink and board presence to outlast opponents.
Lady Octopus, Inspired Inventor
Generate ingenuity counters to cast artifact spells for free, rapidly building a board full of artifacts and gaining incremental advantage.
Gameplay Insights
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Early casting of Lady Octopus allowed quick accumulation of ingenuity counters, enabling free artifact casts that accelerated her board state significantly.
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Miles Morales's ability to double counters placed on creatures made incremental creature growth a sustainable and threatening strategy.
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The villain capture mechanic forced players to balance immediate threats with long-term hero ability activation, adding strategic depth to decision-making.
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Soul Stone provided powerful recursion, allowing players to bring back creatures from the graveyard and maintain board presence even after board wipes.
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Discarding cards with Green Goblin Revenant to draw multiple cards created a strong card advantage engine that kept pressure on opponents.
Notable Cards
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Miles Morales // Ultimate Spider-Man
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Lady Octopus, Inspired Inventor
Gameplay Summary
The game began with each player setting up their unique hero and villain commanders, establishing their initial board states and preparing to capture villains to trigger their hero abilities.
Early turns saw Lady Octopus quickly cast her commander and start building ingenuity counters to cast artifact spells for free, setting up for explosive plays.
Miles Morales arrived early, boosting creatures with +1/+1 counters and preparing to transform into the ultimate Spider-Man, leveraging his ability to double the counters placed on creatures.
Green Goblin Revenant focused on discarding cards to draw more, aiming to gain value and pressure opponents.
Mr. Negative brought a life-total exchange gimmick with card draw and lifelink, while the villain deck introduced ongoing threats like Shocker, forcing players to manage damage and capture counters carefully. As the game progressed, the capture counter mechanic from the villain deck became a critical pivot, with players weighing whether to capture villains to unlock powerful hero abilities or to cycle through villains for more favorable effects.
Lady Octopus’s ability to cheat out artifacts for free rapidly accelerated her board state, while Miles Morales’s incremental counters steadily buffed his creatures, threatening to overwhelm the table once transformed.
Green Goblin Revenant's discard-draw synergy fueled consistent card advantage, enabling resilience and pressure.
Key moments included the casting of powerful artifacts and creatures from the graveyard, particularly with cards like the Soul Stone enabling recursion, and the incremental growth of board presence through counters and tokens.
The game was a dynamic interplay of attrition, board development, and villain capture, with each player leveraging their commander’s unique strategy to gain an advantage.
