My opening hand was
Past in Flames, a couple of cantrips, lands in all three colors, and a
Mind Stone. Snap keep for T3 Kykar and future card advantage/explosiveness.
The
God Eternal Oketra player went t2
Blind Obedience t3
Soul's Attendant and
Thraben Inspector t4
Extraplanar Lens, crack the clue t5 Oketra and
Elspeth, Sun's Champion. Yikes! The Blind Obedience proved to be oppressive and annoying all game.
The
Drana, Liberator of Malakir player went t2
Sword of the Animist t3 Drana t4 equip, swing, play
Strionic Resonator t5 swing, copy sword trigger with resonator, get
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx,
Metallic Mimic and
Phyrexian Arena on the battlefield.
All three of us were set up pretty well with our early game plans, but they definitely seemed more threatening. I sat on
Tragic Arrogance for a turn until it had enough good targets and pulled the trigger, which most notably got rid of a huge Drana (that had kindly killed Elspeth for me), Oketra, and Extraplanar Lens. I resolved
Eldrazi Monument giving me Kykar and one spirit in play so I could block Drana, or Oketra and any 4/4 zombie friends, without losing my blockers. The Oketra player saw that as a big enough threat that they burned two exile effects to bring me down to 0 creatures, forcing me to sac the monument on my upkeep.
The Drana player played a
Lashwrithe and did something like 15 commander damage in a single attack to Oketra and also stuck an
Anowon the Ruin Sage and
Malakir Bloodwitch. More yikes!
On my next turn I played
Saheeli, Sublime Artificer,
Skullclamp, then drew into
Aetherflux Reservoir and removal for the Bloodwitch. I played reservoir then jammed a couple of cheap loot spells until I was out of mana, which brought me up to something like 35 life. I had some chump blockers to protect Saheeli, and hoped no one else had a way to get rid of the reservoir. I was set up to minus Saheeli the next turn, making a servo into a copy of reservoir and then storm off with two reservoirs, hopefully for the win.
Oketra ran into the traditional mono white problem of not enough card draw and getting stuck in top deck limbo and, due to the loss of
Extraplanar Lens, didn't have enough mana to both cast the Oketra they drew and kill Drana. They wisely killed Drana so they wouldn't die. While Oketra had the highest life total with blind obedience extort triggers and a
Soul Warden in play to replace the since deceased
Soul's Attendant, they were definitely the least threatening at this point.
Drana recast their commander and dropped a
Meteor Golem smashing my reservoir. Stupid golem.
Since Drana entered tapped b/c of
Blind Obedience I was able to play
Sunforger, equip, unattach it fetching
Boros Charm, give Kykar double strike, and re-equip before swinging at Drana for 14 commander damage. I just wasn't worried about Oketra at this point and prioritized threatening lethal at Drana next turn, but in hindsight this was a lot of mana that I could have just used to crack the
Past in Flames that I looted ages ago and play most of the instant/sorceries in my yard and gotten a ton of spirits and servos.
Drana reassembled a board state, killed Saheeli, and had the shields up, but fortunately Skullclamp had gotten me a handful of cards over the past couple of turns and I had action. The plan was to
Electrodominance for 5, killing Anowon and putting
Metallurgic Summonings into play before casting
Honor the Fallen for some lifegain. That all would have been fine if I'd done it BEFORE Drana's upkeep, or if I didn't have to sac spirits in order to afford it. As it was, I did it all in response to the Anowon trigger and left myself with Kykar and a single spirit to sac to Anowon's trigger. . . but I had forgotten about
Strionic Resonator which hadn't copied anything other than
Sword of the Animist triggers earlier in the game. So, back down to 0 creatures I went, and the lifegain from
Honor the Fallen wasn't enough to keep a massive
Exsanguinate and vampire attack step from taking me out. Drana took out Oketra on the next turn cycle without any issue.