Deck & Commander Strategies
Winota, Joiner of Forces
Winota's deck focuses on aggressive creature-based tactics that trigger her ability to cheat powerful humans onto the battlefield, aiming to overwhelm opponents with tempo and combat damage.
Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
Kinnan's deck is a big mana ramp and value engine that leverages powerful creatures and mana acceleration to establish a dominant board state and execute combos or overwhelming threats.
Celes, Rune Knight
Celes is a toolbox deck that uses survival and tutoring effects to assemble a suite of creatures and enchantments, aiming to control the board and generate advantage through synergy.
Etali, Primal Conqueror
Etali's deck uses ramp and card advantage to repeatedly cast Etali and generate value from its attack trigger, combined with combo pieces like Basalt Monolith for infinite mana leading to game-ending plays.
Gameplay Insights
- 1
The presence of Stony Silence significantly hampered artifact mana production, forcing players to adapt their mana usage and strategies.
- 2
Etali's player cleverly used Rionya, Fire Dancer to create a copy of Etali, then sacrificed the original to the command zone to reuse Etali's powerful attack trigger.
- 3
The final winning sequence involved generating infinite mana with Basalt Monolith and Basult, bouncing all opponent permanents with Thoracios to remove key disruption like Deafening Silence, and swinging in with Finale of Devastation for lethal damage.
- 4
Winota's aggressive triggers provided early pressure but failed to keep up against the combo finish enabled by Kinnan and Etali's mana ramp and synergy.
- 5
Discarding Pyroblast was a critical point where artifact hate could have disrupted the combo player's key pieces, highlighting the importance of timely interaction in cEDH.
Notable Cards
-
Basalt Monolith
-
Survival of the Fittest
-
Deafening Silence
-
Finale of Devastation
-
Goblin Rabblemaster
-
Hunting Velociraptor
-
Rionya, Fire Dancer
-
Mystic Remora
-
Talisman of Indulgence
-
Crop Rotation
-
Emergence Zone
Gameplay Summary
The game features a competitive four-player cEDH match with Winota, Joiner of Forces, Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy, Celes, Rune Knight, and Etali, Primal Conqueror as commanders.
Early turns involved setup plays including mana rocks, utility lands, and minor creatures.
Kinnan's player quickly established a strong mana base and began leveraging key creatures like Hunting Velociraptor to ramp and generate value.
Winota's deck attempted aggressive creature-based strategies, triggering multiple Winota activations to generate board presence.
Celes focused on assembling a toolbox of noncreature spells and creatures using survival and tutor effects, although Stony Silence disrupted artifact mana.
Etali's player utilized powerful ramp and card draw to set up a game-ending combo involving Basalt Monolith and infinite mana generation through Basalt Monolith and other mana rocks, ultimately using a mass bounce and a fatal swing with Finale of Devastation to close out the game.
