Deck Strategies
Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant
This deck aims to gain incremental advantage through Bilbo's ability to draw cards and gain life. It utilizes a suite of disruption cards like Blind Obedience to slow opponents down, while building up a commanding board state.
Aragorn, the Uniter
Aragorn's deck focuses on aggressive beatdown strategy with a subtheme of Voltron. It uses equipment and pump spells to make Aragorn a serious threat, while also benefiting from his ability to generate token creatures.
Sauron, the Dark Lord
Sauron's deck leverages his powerful disruption abilities to control the game while building up a large array of mana rocks and ramp spells. It aims to win through big swings with an equipped Sauron.
Gandalf the White
This deck uses Gandalf's ability to maximize value from artifacts entering and leaving the battlefield. It relies on powerful synergistic interactions between artifacts to generate card draw, mana ramp and eventually overwhelm opponents with large creatures.
Gameplay Insights
- 1
The Dispatch played by Tom to exile Aragorn was a pivotal moment, as it significantly neutered Extra's aggressive strategy.
- 2
The use of Gandalf the White's ability to generate value from artifacts entering and leaving the battlefield was a key element in Tom's victory.
- 3
Jon's decision to equip Sauron with the River Cleaver allowed him to generate a significant amount of treasures, providing a strong base of resources for his strategy.
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Sam's use of Blind Obedience effectively slowed down the game, disrupting his opponents' tempo.
Notable Cards
Dispatch
Scrapyard Recombiner
Swords to Plowshares
Prophetic Prism
Blind Obedience
Whip of Erebos
The One Ring
Summary
The game started off with each player ramping and setting up their board states. Sauron, the Dark Lord, and Aragorn, the Uniter, were the first commanders to hit the field, followed by Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant. Sauron's controller, Jon, had a strong early game, ramping significantly and equipping Sauron with the River Cleaver. Extra, controlling Aragorn, was the first to draw blood, dealing significant damage to Jon. Despite the early aggression, the game took a turn when Aragorn was exiled by Tom's Dispatch, significantly reducing Extra's board presence. However, Extra managed to recast Aragorn and continued pressing the attack, eliminating Jon and Sam from the game. In the end, it was Tom's Gandalf the White deck that claimed victory. Through a series of artifact synergies, he managed to tap down Extra's entire board, skip his untap step, and swing in for lethal damage with a powered-up Scrapyard Recombiner.
