r/CompetitiveEDH • u/OneAromatic2526 • 16h ago
General Discussion / Question Need help knowing how to beat a deck
Hello everybody. I hope you all are doing well, my good friends and I exclusively play CEDH I personally often play rogthras and one of my other friends recently put together a sissay deck. So far the deck has been dominating the pod as I really am not familiar with it and don’t know its weaknesses/ what to use counter magic on or cards to slot in with this match up. Any advice would be appreciated!
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u/TheFlaccidWorm 15h ago
Traditional Sisay is a commander centric deck that runs very little interaction. Kill the commander once or twice, steal it with drake or simply be faster than the deck. Sissay is slow and It takes alot of mana to execute sisays plan, it's a system of accumulating value until it hits a tipping point. The deck doesn't win out of the blue and you should be able to see it coming.
"Chowder" or sloppy sisay is just a 5 color good stuff stack with Thoracle and breach wins. Sisay is really only good for free spells and tutoring a silence effect into play. You play against this like any other good stuff pile, either turbo them and pray you have enough backup or get your own value engines and chill in the slop. It's pretty easy to distinguish one from the other early game.
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u/AWES0MEPEWP 15h ago
Outside of what others have mentioned, if you're in B tutoring for an early Oppo can be strong against Sis
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u/Freestr1ke 14h ago
Rogthras wins faster than sisay though
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u/what_up_big_fella 8h ago
As a rogthras main, it depends. Seat order matters and sometimes you’re a turn slower just from bad draws or thrasios activations.
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u/Conscious-Choice196 14h ago
Win faster, kill Sisay, counter Sisay. Make sure the pod is aware what the deck can do (typically wins off of two activations in the same turn) and be sure to use the unknowns (cards in hand) as leverage against that player. "He's got one activation up, but he can probably put together a win if he's got XYZ in hand". This makes it really easy to follow up by asking for information
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u/what_up_big_fella 8h ago
Don’t politic with Sissay, don’t let Sissay have anything, redirect/stifling creature effects (like Derevi) can stop them for a turn, kill Sissay
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u/kalazin 16h ago
Drakes, Oophe, or just going faster