FOR THE GREATER GOOD!!! Commander / EDH Gameplay 111 - Ziatora VS Ur Dragon VS Zabaz VS Szat & Tana

Deck Strategies

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  Zabaz, the Glimmerwasp

  Focuses on the modular combo archetype, leveraging Arcbound Ravager and Scrap Trawler to move +1/+1 counters around and recur artifacts, enabling explosive board states and combo potential.

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  Ziatora, the Incinerator

  A sacrifice-based deck that generates value from sacrificing creatures and lands, using Deathrite Shaman for mana and disruption, and leveraging creatures like Titan of Death's Hunger for card advantage.

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  The Ur-Dragon

  A dragon tribal deck that ramps aggressively to cast large dragons and dragon synergies, drawing cards off dragon triggers and attacking with high-impact creatures to overwhelm opponents.

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  Tana, the Bloodsower & Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools

  A sacrifice and token-focused deck that generates saplings and draws cards by sacrificing creatures, utilizing planeswalker abilities to draw cards and recur threats with cards like Victimize.

Gameplay Insights

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  The Szat & Tana player effectively used sacrifice triggers and planeswalker abilities to maintain card advantage and board presence, enabling multiple value plays per turn.

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  Zabaz's player maximized modular synergy by repeatedly activating Mishra's Factory and Arcbound Ravager, setting up for explosive artifact recursion.

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  The Ur-Dragon player leveraged card draw from dragon tribal synergies to maintain hand size and pressure opponents with large flying creatures.

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  Greater Good combined with sacrifice outlets provided huge card draw swings, allowing the sacrifice decks to refill hands and maintain tempo.

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  Use of exile effects on opponents' graveyards and libraries, such as with Deathrite Shaman and Gonti, created disruption and resource denial across the table.

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  Careful timing of combat attacks and removal spells, including destroying key creatures like Brainstealer Dragon, helped control the board and limit opponents' threats.

Notable Cards

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  Deathrite Shaman

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  Arcbound Ravager

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  Scrap Trawler

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  Tana, the Bloodsower

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  Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools

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  Greater Good

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  Gonti, Lord of Luxury

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  Victimize

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  Dragonlord Dromoka

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  Brainstealer Dragon

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  Scrap Trawler

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  Ignoble Hierarch

Summary

The game featured a multi-player Commander battle with Zabaz, the Glimmerwasp; Ziatora, the Incinerator; The Ur-Dragon; and a Tana & Tevesh Szat combo deck. Early turns saw players developing their boards with mana sources and key creatures, including Deathrite Shaman on multiple sides, which helped with mana ramp and graveyard interaction. Zabaz's player focused on modular synergy with Arcbound Ravager and Scrap Trawler, steadily building a board and preparing for a modular combo. Meanwhile, the Szat & Tana deck exploited sacrifice mechanics, generating tokens and drawing cards by sacrificing creatures and using planeswalker abilities, establishing card advantage and board presence. The Ur-Dragon deck played a classic dragon tribal strategy, ramping quickly with Seekers and Dragonlord cards, drawing cards from Dragonlord's triggers, and attacking aggressively with big flyers. A pivotal moment came with the use of Gonti, Lord of Luxury to exile and use opponents' cards, and the casting of powerful sorceries like Greater Good to refill hands. The game saw notable interactions involving sacrifice outlets, graveyard recursion, and resource denial, such as exiling cards from graveyards and land-fetching strategies. The Szat & Tana player made effective use of Victimize to recur threats and maintain pressure. Later in the game, players began animating artifacts and utilizing powerful creatures like Hamlet Buck Goliath and Terror of the Peak to gain board control, setting up for potential game-winning damage or combos.