Granted this was my girlfirend's 8 year old little brother but I had her down to 9 life I was at 16 and she handed her hand over to him thinking he would be able to salvage something out of the situation she was in.
It was her turn and all she did was lay a land and hand over the cards. He gets the hand and lays Treetop Village and draws his card for the turn. At this point I'm thinking "So he took a second turn lets see what he can do". He plays Test of Faith on my Bogardan Rager, I'm nice and tell him that it doesn't do anything for him right now since no damage is being delt, if it was combat I would have told him to hit his own creature. He then played Reprisal with the biggest creature being a 3/3. His sister then had to tell him that his turn was done. I used Cone of Flame to hit my goblin, his knight, and him for 3 damage and attacked with the Rager and Prospecter for the win, he never even got to play the Reprisal.
My girlfriend keeps trying to tell me that her brother is a good player but from what I've seen he needs to wait at least another 2 years to start playing but I seem to be the only one who feels like that. Then again according to their mom, who now also has a deck, Banishment Decree is a really good card :facepalm:.
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i watched a game where the entire game was just one big missplay...
i proxied up some fun legacy decks for the LGS, to let people play who otherwise wouldnt be able to, which included vengevine survival at the time of their proxy-ing up, but not 2 weeks ago. a newbish highschooler wants to use one, so im like "any of them besides the one marked "vengevine", telling him it is banned.
so of course he uses it, but something odd happens. As i walk by, i see him not winning, but losing. His opponent is a friend of mine playing his noncompetetive life gain deck. Against vengevine-survival. Felidar sovereign wins the game...
i watched the second half... i think he was under the impression that survival of the fittest was sort of useless, and that vengevine was the "powerful card" and so was not to be discarded, but rather, hardcasted. He discarded things like aquamoeba and wild mongrel, and he never madness casted a rootwalla...
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Leonin Arbiter on board. The guy has 7 lands. He casts Green Sun's Zenith. I ask him "For how much?". He says "X is 6". I say "Resolves..." ^^'
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On Friday, I was playing Bant Pod and I copied my Acidic Slime with Phantasmal Image with a Sun Titan on board. I podded only to realize that the deck had no more Sun Titans and I had failed to search. After the match I realized that there was a Wurmcoil which I could have fetched but skimmed past it- twice.
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Went to an SCG IQ yesterday. The whole event was full of nonsense.
I'm playing Valakut Ramp. We have 6 rounds, then cut to top 8.
Round 1: RDW
Game 3, board is clear except for my Primeval Titan. I'm at 10, he's playing Act of Aggression and Teetering Peeks. He stares at the board for about 5 minutes, which I don't interrupt because I can't imagine there's anything about the 4 cards in his hand that is that involved. He either wins, or kills my titan, or loses, but I don't want to interrupt him if he's thinking himself into a hole.
He plays Act of Aggression. He swings. He says, "So you're at 4?" All day, every day. And he just shortcut himself out of the game because Primeval Titan is a 'may' trigger, which I remind him of when he picks up his library a moment later.
Round 5: Mono-Black Obliterator
Game 1, he goes turn 3 Vampire Nighthawk. Turn 4, Lashwrithe, swing, equip. I win the game at 3 life. Game 2 I run him over with Inferno Titans.
Round 6: R/B Vampires
Game 1, my opponent is top of the 10 pointers, while I'm top of the 9 pointers. I have a very outside chance of being in top 8 if I win (like, 2%). If he wins, he's in. He doesn't seem to have any real problem with playing it out. Until I mull to 4 on the play and blow him out with turns 4 and 5 Inferno Titan (with an Edrazi Spawn as proof against Gatekeeper of Malakir).
He tries to convince me to concede before game 2, but I don't know him so I've no reason not to play for my 2%. After a very close game, won be me doing some good playing to odds, he tries to convince me to wait until the other people in contention for top 8 report. Yay collusion! I ignore that, and go report.
I end up 10th. Two people are disqualified for collusion. I make top 8...
Round 1: Tempered Steel
Game 1, he gets turn 2 Tempered Steel and I just lose.
Game 2, he activates Contested War Zonebefore attacking with two creatures. I end the game at two life.
Game 3, I keep a hand of Khalni Heart Expedition, Creeping Corrosion, and lands (several of them fetches of some sort). He's going first, but if I can last till turn 4 (or topdeck an Explore/Rampant Growth), play Corrosion, and follow with titans I'm good to go. This requires him to not have a really great hand or I just won't live that long...
Turn 1: Vault Skirge, Memnite, Ornithopter
Turn 2: I go to 18, Signal Pest (I play Khalni Heart Expedition)
Turn 3: I go to 13, Steel Overseer, Ornithopter (I play Growth Spasm)
Turn 4: Activate Overseer, swing. I block Memnite with Eldrazi Spawn and go to 5. He is representing 16 damage next turn. He plays Steel Overseer. (I play Explore, then Creeping Corrosion)
ooh i got one I was playing an affinity mirror in modern my opp had amazing board position i had a bunch of lands including inkmoth nexus and plating He swings with signal pest ravager 2 ornithopters. I go down to 4 then he plays steel overseer and plays his final card a pithing needle. He names blinkmoth nexus and I onboard kill him with inkmoth nexus + plating. All he had to do was hold an ornithopter back/name an actual card with needle.
This was a casual game but the most stupidest misplay ive ever done. Im playing Vamps and hes playing a U/W precursor/phyrexian metamorph golem deck. Its turn 6 or 7 cant remember. Im at 5 health hes at 3
Me: Draw "Sorin Markov" I have 6 lands in play. On my field I have 2 Kalastria Highborn and a nighthawk. I decided to PLAY the Sorin Markov. I use sorins shock ability and hes at 1 now. I attack for 6.
Him: I block both the kalastria highborns and vampire nighthawk. (He has precursor golem with both the tokens and the phyrexian metamorph morphed on to the other golem.)
Me: Well then ill just tap a B and you die.
Him: "Uhh you cant your tapped out.
me: I smile, stand up and then repeatedly knock my head on the table.
Him: draw phyrexian metamorph morph on to precursor
So now i know never play sorin late game.
I had Progenitus out and he had a field full of exalted creatures along with Worship. And so i was like "crap if he attacks with everthing ill die" so i used Sign in blood on myself and he's like "ok". then next turn he killed me and was laughing "you know you could have sign in blood on me and i would have lost right......so i facepalmed and went on to the next match.
My biggest misplay in recent memory was against a G/U/R ramp that sided in exarch/twin as alternate win con. He misplays and lays down exarch on his turn. Passes to me. He is pretty low on health and it's looking good for me. Play my land, have 6 mana open. Hero of Bladehold in my hand, along with O. Ring and another card or two. Instead of o-ring on the exarch, I play hero leaving bluffed leak mana open and pass turn. He twins and wins and I shake my head and wonder what I was thinking. If I had won that match me and my friend would have drew out for 1-2. I ended up losing the next round and not placing at all
NPH release draft, playing mono green fast poison. Five round swiss, I had won 2 of my rounds, this was round three. Opponent was playing blue white poison control.
I had him at 7 poison, he had me at like 2-3. I had two guys locked down by forced worship, and three mutagenic growth, a triumph of the hordes and an Apostle's Blessing, and plenty of land and life.
He had a couple of white creatures, Lost Leonin or something.
I know right? I win. Except I don't because there aren't many playable enchants in Scars block, and I hadn't played in 12 years prior to Scars, so I completely forgot that protection knocks off Auras... so I sat there hoping to draw a creature while he played a blue flyer of some sort and slowly beat me down to nothing.
Worst part is I didn't realize until I showed my hand and HE told me my mistake. Also this was game 2, and I'd won game 1. I lost game 3 handily, won my next round but failed to place overall. Would have placed and walked out with a prize if I had have not made an epic misplay.
Playing for an invite to the Pro Tour the life totals are 18-11 in my favor with me having a spellskite and a hero of bladehold in play. He O-rings my Hero and I snap respond "Ok" followed by quite a few curse words on my end. I end up ripping consecutive lands and he rips Gideon followed by Hero and wins game 3 of the match. Had I correctly responded I would have been in Nagoya. I had Hero in play with a colonnade and spellskite. Had I just redirected it to spellskite I would be on my way....
In an M12 draft I punted a game by making a bunch of Pentavite tokens with Pentavus when my opponent had multiple Blood Seekers in play. Derp. Still managed to take the match though since my opponent was playing garbage like Flight and a singleton Jace's Erasure. #PlayBadWinAnyways
In a Scars block draft, I played Suture Priest and forgot one trigger, and my opponent won with 1 life.
More than one person has forgotten that Black Knight has protection from white. The worst was when a guy played O-ring when it was my only non-land permanent. We had to call the judge, since he did not believe that he had to exile one of his own things.
It is odd, since why else would a person play Black Knight?
Playing an EDH game, I drop a Mindslaver, and I plan to use it that turn. But feeling I had enough mana, I decide that taking two turns is better than one, so I drop a Phyrexian Metamorph to copy my Mindslaver.
Yeah, that didn't work out so well.
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Playing in the Conflux Prerelease, I played a Malfegor (hardcast.) I wiped out my opponent's field, by discarding pretty much a full hand. All that was left was a Broodmate Dragon (or it's token, I don't recall...) My opponent's turn rolls around? He bounces Malfegorm and pokes me for 4. I cast Malfegor next turn, and fully scrubbed his field.
I saw a guy target himself with Esper Charm at a tournament once. A judge had to explain to him that since the only ability on Esper Charm that targets a player is "discard 2 cards" that he had to discard 2 cards.
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redthirst is redthirst, fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse. He was the leader of the Fires of Salvation, the only clan I'm aware of to get modded off the forums so hard they made their own forums.
Degenerate? Sure. Loudmouth? You bet. Law abiding? No ****ing way.
Biggest misplay recently was showing up at FNM with a burn deck and having to face white every single round. I went 2-2 ironically beating a life gain deck and one that ended game 3 with 4 Kor Firewalkers on the board (Shrine is the best burn card ever) but losing to more straight up aggro match ups. Biggest misplay of the night was forgetting Blade Splicer gives golems first strike. My whole game fell apart from there.
Luckily this wasn't in a tourney but I felt like a pretty big idiot. I'm playing Merfolk and he is playing hypergenesis.
Him: Ok I elvish spirit dancer, and w/e the red ones called and go first turn violent outburst any response?
Me: No...
Him: Ok violent outburst hits hypergenesis any response?
Me: No?
Him: Ok I play emrakul and you're emptying your hand...
Me: Yeah so?
Him: You realize you could've cursecatchered my hypergenesis?
Me: I had a curse catcher out?
Him: ...
Me: ****!
I attack with goblin chieftain and goblin guide. Goblin guide reveals day of judgment. My opponent uses into the roil on my chieftain. Main phase 2 I play chieftain.
My stupidest misplay was during a draft when I technically allowed a Quicksilver Gargantuan to resolve because I asked "What is it becoming a copy of?" to see if it was worth using my Stoic Rebuttal on. At that point it was already in play since it has to enter the battlefield to choose a target. Oops. The 7/7 copied my Skinrender and put me in a tricky position.
Fortunately I had a Chancellor of the Dross the next turn, used some blue instant to give Quicksilver -2/-0, blocked with Dross to gain 6 life, then attacked for a 12-point swing that caused me to barely win when time was called D:
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I'm playing UB merfolk against dredgestill. my sideboard tech is sower of temptation. I have vial at 3, and I let dreadnaught resolve, force a stifle. he plays a second stifle, and I tap him out using Daze. i've got the sower, and all i have to do is vial it in. so I untap, draw my card and then ah christ. and yeah, he had the force for my sower.
I swing with my Gravedigger, forgetting what the Obliterator does. He tells me to sac 12 permanents. Good thing it was a casual game and I could take that one back. *facepalm*
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Then Damia activates the ability of Gravespawn targeting my Keiga, the Tide Star, and complains that Gather Specimens is unfair for lasting the whole turn. (Apparently he didn't notice the NewGameZone window still floating on his screen.)
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Then Damia activates the ability of Balthor...
There was some ****ing that Gather Specimens should be banned, and I was practically speechless.
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Bogardan Rager
1/1 goblin from Dragon Fodder
Skirk Prospector with Shiv's Embrace
It was her turn and all she did was lay a land and hand over the cards. He gets the hand and lays Treetop Village and draws his card for the turn. At this point I'm thinking "So he took a second turn lets see what he can do". He plays Test of Faith on my Bogardan Rager, I'm nice and tell him that it doesn't do anything for him right now since no damage is being delt, if it was combat I would have told him to hit his own creature. He then played Reprisal with the biggest creature being a 3/3. His sister then had to tell him that his turn was done. I used Cone of Flame to hit my goblin, his knight, and him for 3 damage and attacked with the Rager and Prospecter for the win, he never even got to play the Reprisal.
My girlfriend keeps trying to tell me that her brother is a good player but from what I've seen he needs to wait at least another 2 years to start playing but I seem to be the only one who feels like that. Then again according to their mom, who now also has a deck, Banishment Decree is a really good card :facepalm:.
There's no proof she's being chased
by ninja squirrels either. - Dr. Wilson
i proxied up some fun legacy decks for the LGS, to let people play who otherwise wouldnt be able to, which included vengevine survival at the time of their proxy-ing up, but not 2 weeks ago. a newbish highschooler wants to use one, so im like "any of them besides the one marked "vengevine", telling him it is banned.
so of course he uses it, but something odd happens. As i walk by, i see him not winning, but losing. His opponent is a friend of mine playing his noncompetetive life gain deck. Against vengevine-survival. Felidar sovereign wins the game...
i watched the second half... i think he was under the impression that survival of the fittest was sort of useless, and that vengevine was the "powerful card" and so was not to be discarded, but rather, hardcasted. He discarded things like aquamoeba and wild mongrel, and he never madness casted a rootwalla...
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Leonin Arbiter on board. The guy has 7 lands. He casts Green Sun's Zenith. I ask him "For how much?". He says "X is 6". I say "Resolves..." ^^'
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I'm playing Valakut Ramp. We have 6 rounds, then cut to top 8.
Round 1: RDW
Game 3, board is clear except for my Primeval Titan. I'm at 10, he's playing Act of Aggression and Teetering Peeks. He stares at the board for about 5 minutes, which I don't interrupt because I can't imagine there's anything about the 4 cards in his hand that is that involved. He either wins, or kills my titan, or loses, but I don't want to interrupt him if he's thinking himself into a hole.
He plays Act of Aggression. He swings. He says, "So you're at 4?" All day, every day. And he just shortcut himself out of the game because Primeval Titan is a 'may' trigger, which I remind him of when he picks up his library a moment later.
Round 5: Mono-Black Obliterator
Game 1, he goes turn 3 Vampire Nighthawk. Turn 4, Lashwrithe, swing, equip. I win the game at 3 life. Game 2 I run him over with Inferno Titans.
Round 6: R/B Vampires
Game 1, my opponent is top of the 10 pointers, while I'm top of the 9 pointers. I have a very outside chance of being in top 8 if I win (like, 2%). If he wins, he's in. He doesn't seem to have any real problem with playing it out. Until I mull to 4 on the play and blow him out with turns 4 and 5 Inferno Titan (with an Edrazi Spawn as proof against Gatekeeper of Malakir).
He tries to convince me to concede before game 2, but I don't know him so I've no reason not to play for my 2%. After a very close game, won be me doing some good playing to odds, he tries to convince me to wait until the other people in contention for top 8 report. Yay collusion! I ignore that, and go report.
I end up 10th. Two people are disqualified for collusion. I make top 8...
Round 1: Tempered Steel
Game 1, he gets turn 2 Tempered Steel and I just lose.
Game 2, he activates Contested War Zone before attacking with two creatures. I end the game at two life.
Game 3, I keep a hand of Khalni Heart Expedition, Creeping Corrosion, and lands (several of them fetches of some sort). He's going first, but if I can last till turn 4 (or topdeck an Explore/Rampant Growth), play Corrosion, and follow with titans I'm good to go. This requires him to not have a really great hand or I just won't live that long...
Turn 1: Vault Skirge, Memnite, Ornithopter
Turn 2: I go to 18, Signal Pest (I play Khalni Heart Expedition)
Turn 3: I go to 13, Steel Overseer, Ornithopter (I play Growth Spasm)
Turn 4: Activate Overseer, swing. I block Memnite with Eldrazi Spawn and go to 5. He is representing 16 damage next turn. He plays Steel Overseer. (I play Explore, then Creeping Corrosion)
I win the game at 1 life.
Good job aaron forsythe
Me: Draw "Sorin Markov" I have 6 lands in play. On my field I have 2 Kalastria Highborn and a nighthawk. I decided to PLAY the Sorin Markov. I use sorins shock ability and hes at 1 now. I attack for 6.
Him: I block both the kalastria highborns and vampire nighthawk. (He has precursor golem with both the tokens and the phyrexian metamorph morphed on to the other golem.)
Me: Well then ill just tap a B and you die.
Him: "Uhh you cant your tapped out.
me: I smile, stand up and then repeatedly knock my head on the table.
Him: draw phyrexian metamorph morph on to precursor
So now i know never play sorin late game.
My friends life; 1
My Life; 5
I had Progenitus out and he had a field full of exalted creatures along with Worship. And so i was like "crap if he attacks with everthing ill die" so i used Sign in blood on myself and he's like "ok". then next turn he killed me and was laughing "you know you could have sign in blood on me and i would have lost right......so i facepalmed and went on to the next match.
I had him at 7 poison, he had me at like 2-3. I had two guys locked down by forced worship, and three mutagenic growth, a triumph of the hordes and an Apostle's Blessing, and plenty of land and life.
He had a couple of white creatures, Lost Leonin or something.
I know right? I win. Except I don't because there aren't many playable enchants in Scars block, and I hadn't played in 12 years prior to Scars, so I completely forgot that protection knocks off Auras... so I sat there hoping to draw a creature while he played a blue flyer of some sort and slowly beat me down to nothing.
Worst part is I didn't realize until I showed my hand and HE told me my mistake. Also this was game 2, and I'd won game 1. I lost game 3 handily, won my next round but failed to place overall. Would have placed and walked out with a prize if I had have not made an epic misplay.
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More than one person has forgotten that Black Knight has protection from white. The worst was when a guy played O-ring when it was my only non-land permanent. We had to call the judge, since he did not believe that he had to exile one of his own things.
It is odd, since why else would a person play Black Knight?
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Yeah, that didn't work out so well.
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Him: Ok I elvish spirit dancer, and w/e the red ones called and go first turn violent outburst any response?
Me: No...
Him: Ok violent outburst hits hypergenesis any response?
Me: No?
Him: Ok I play emrakul and you're emptying your hand...
Me: Yeah so?
Him: You realize you could've cursecatchered my hypergenesis?
Me: I had a curse catcher out?
Him: ...
Me: ****!
Friend B @ 10 life
Friend A(6): Chain lighting, take 3
Friend B(7): Chain Lighting back!
Friend A(3): Chain Lightning, take another 3
Friend B(4): Chain, take 3 more
Friend A(0): :uhh:...
Friend B(4)::rofl:
Group of B, me and C: What the hell where you thinking?:confused:
Fortunately I had a Chancellor of the Dross the next turn, used some blue instant to give Quicksilver -2/-0, blocked with Dross to gain 6 life, then attacked for a 12-point swing that caused me to barely win when time was called D:
"Of course you should fight fire with fire. You should fight everything with fire." - Jaya Ballard
Me: Lashwrithe on a Gravedigger with 12 swamps in play.
Him: Phyrexian Obliterator under a Mimic Vat (and has the mana untapped to play make the token)
I swing with my Gravedigger, forgetting what the Obliterator does. He tells me to sac 12 permanents. Good thing it was a casual game and I could take that one back. *facepalm*
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Damia has Balthor the Defiled, Gravespawn Sovereign and a lot of other zombies in play (including a few lords and Endless Ranks of the Dead). Scion and I both have clear boards. Damia plays Undead Alchemist and I respond with Gather Specimens, because I really don't want to mill dozens of cards. Damia reads over the card and comments that it's pretty cool.
Then Damia activates the ability of Gravespawn targeting my Keiga, the Tide Star, and complains that Gather Specimens is unfair for lasting the whole turn. (Apparently he didn't notice the NewGameZone window still floating on his screen.)
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Then Damia activates the ability of Balthor...
There was some ****ing that Gather Specimens should be banned, and I was practically speechless.
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