Playing YOUR Decks with Maldhound and Megan | EDH Gameplay Ep 33

Deck Strategies

• Alenda and Azor

  Leverages life payment and manipulation with effects like Lich's Mastery to survive high life loss, redistributing life totals to create a winning advantage through life manipulation and attrition.

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  Karn, Legacy Reforged

  Generates massive mana and ramps artifacts aggressively to create large artifact creatures, then uses Karn’s scaling power to attack hard and close out the game quickly.

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  Falco Spara, Pactweaver

  Focuses on accumulating shield and +1/+1 counters on creatures, converting these counters into card advantage and board presence to outvalue opponents.

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  Runo Stromkirk // Krothuss, Lord of the Deep

  Transforms Runo into Krothuss to produce multiple token copies of large sea creatures with evasion and enter-the-battlefield triggers, leveraging value and beatdown through big evasive threats.

Gameplay Insights

• 1

  Using Runo's transform ability to consistently generate powerful token copies of large sea creatures proved critical for board presence and pressure.

• 2

  The Karn deck’s artifact ramp and synergy with cards like Chief of the Foundry allowed Karn to quickly become a large threat, emphasizing the importance of artifact interaction.

• 3

  The Alenda and Azor deck’s life manipulation combo with Lich's Mastery enabled survival through massive life payments and effectively redistributed life totals, influencing player dynamics.

• 4

  Players balanced mana development and card advantage carefully, with the Falco Spara deck delaying early deployment to avoid removal and ensure a strong start with counters.

• 5

  The use of artifact ramp tools like Manifold Key and Everflowing Chalice supported flexible plays and tempo, demonstrating the value of efficient mana acceleration in Commander.

Notable Cards

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  Lich's Mastery

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  Runo Stromkirk // Krothuss, Lord of the Deep

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  Karn, Legacy Reforged

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  Manifold Key

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  Chief of the Foundry

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  Everflowing Chalice

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  Likeness Looter

Summary

The Commander game featured four community-submitted decks, each with distinct strategies. Early turns saw players ramping mana and developing board states, with key plays including casting of Runo Stromkirk who was quickly flipped into Krothuss, Lord of the Deep, enabling the creation of multiple token copies of large sea creatures to generate value and board presence. Another pivotal moment was the casting of Karn, Legacy Reforged, whose power and toughness scaled with the largest artifact on the battlefield, quickly becoming a significant threat supported by artifact synergy. Meanwhile, the deck helmed by Alenda and Azor focused on paying life to amass large totals with a life manipulation combo involving Lich's Mastery to avoid losing by life total and redistribute life totals among players. Players with the Falco Spara deck focused on counters to gain card advantage, and the Karn deck aimed to produce huge artifact creatures for aggressive combat.