best scoop i've ever seen was when i was running what I like to call my Mega Powers deck, which was a deck build around Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker (Macho Man Randy Savage) and Karn Liberated (Hulk Hogan). I kept blowing up his stuff with Nicol Bolas, exiling his key creatures, exiling planeswalkers from my own hand (including another Nicol Bolas) and then when he had no board left and I exiled everything of value he had, I restarted the game. When we restarted and he saw I was starting with another Nicol Bolas already on the field and then 2 turns later played Karn again, he flipped out, rage quit, threw his deck in the air and punched it.
congratulations on cheating at fnm. i bet you bragged to all your friends.
We were the last match still proceeding. Everyone saw. I was playing against someone who worked at the shop and knows the rules better than me (and genuinely a better player). Everyone acknowledged it was a legitimate play and they thought it was hilarious. At this point of this post I could lie and say I put it into play quickly because I figured he missed the trigger, but in all honesty I did too. I put down Avenger out of excitement that he was at 3 and I had 3 on board. I took out his only blocker with my removal spell. We both forget there would be a blocker after that (although I'm pretty sure I had a Sever the Bloodline in hand so it should of been G.G. either way)
He immediately scooped up his cards and when everyone watching made the observation, epic rage and laughs happened at the same time.
But my city is pretty stupid anyways. Even at weekly events, most of the "pros" will not point out missed triggers for their opponents. If anything it was just karma for this player, after cheating me out of a match-win back in summer when the trigger rules changed (the 2nd time I attacked with Hero of Bladehold, I forgot the tokens, which would of been lethal. He told me after the match "I don't have to tell you anything about missed triggers now.")
The best scoop that was against me was during the Caw/Blade era. It was the very last match of top 8 and game 3. I was playing Elves with Eldrazi Monument. After several Day of Judgments, I was able to make a decent board state, but I was getting milled with Squadron Hawk and Sword of Body and Mind. Once I had a very small stack of card in my library I counted how many I had left. I had exactly 11 card left. My opponent made a comment saying that I had one more turn left do you scoop after I counted my last 10 milled cards and I said no do you scoop because I win. Only one Monument had been milled and I had only one more in my library which happened to be my last card. I tapped 5 lands without even picking up my card and he said I scoop.
Me: "I cast Faith's Shield and use the fateful hour activation. My turn I Faith's shield my guy and call protection from white so you can't block my Sublime Archangel with your other Lingering Souls token. I miracle Revenge of the Hunted, bond the angel with Silverblade Paladin, and hit you for 26 damage. You're at 24 because you cast Thragtusk and I hit you with a mana dork, so you're dead."
Opponent: ...........(seriously he just sat there in silence for like 10 seconds)........... JUDGE!!!!!!!!!!!
This evening during an EDH match, both my deck and the Arcanis' deck was slightly shut down off of the Trostani player's Stony Silence. The Ulasht player had a crapton of tokens, Parallel Lives and was about to go infinite for a kill. He started to combo, puts 9 activation of Ulasht's abilities (for Saprolings) on the stack and I respond with Gather Specimens. He goes "...crap." I get 18 Saprolings and basically shut him down for the turn. This at least kept me alive. A turn later, he drops a Craterhoof, from which the Trigger would give about +45/+45 and Trample to all his stuff. I drop a Trickbind on the trigger. At this point, he just goes and kills the Trostani player.
Then, as a last ditch effort, I drop Lim-dul's Vault while at 17 life. I vault all the way down to 3, since the card I needed happened to be on the very bottom of the library. Plopped Life's Finale on the board to ruin the Ulasht player's board. Several turns of everyone trying to gain ground later, and I decide to scoop to let the Arcanis player combo off so I could go get myself some new cards before the next game.
Tonight on MODO cube. Turn 2 my opponent plays Show and Tell, I have The Abyss in hand, thinking to myself, no big deal I'll just handle whatever he plays with this.
There was one I was watching during Scars-Zendikar Standard.
There was a ruling about Mindslaver and being able to see someones sideboard if you controlled them with it.
The Caw-Blade player called a judge after getting Mind-slavered about the legality of this, the judge said that he either had to show the opposing player his SB or recieve a loss.
He thought for a bit then scooped up his cards and went to game 2
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There was one I was watching during Scars-Zendikar Standard.
There was a ruling about Mindslaver and being able to see someones sideboard if you controlled them with it.
The Caw-Blade player called a judge after getting Mind-slavered about the legality of this, the judge said that he either had to show the opposing player his SB or recieve a loss.
He thought for a bit then scooped up his cards and went to game 2
Well if he was pretty sure he was going to lose that game anyways keeping his surprises a surprise might have been worth scooping.
Not magic (SC2), but IdrA once scooped to a bunch of hallucinated Voidrays in an MLG tournament. He was well mad in the next game, but he seems to rage quit quite a bit.
Reanimator vs Reanimator
Opponent wins roll, decides to play second.
Me: Land, go.
Him: Nothing, discards Sphinx of the Steel Wind.
Me: Land, Animate Dead targeting his Sphinx.
Him: I scoop.
Few nights ago at our weekly modern event, I'm playing Blue Moon vs. All-In Twin. G1 was pretty close (albeit long). G2, I procede to play this terrible string of interactions as follows:
Played Grafdigger's cage thinking it was a torpor orb
Failed to activate 1 of 2(!) Spellskites that I had vedalken schackled when he cast twin (i countered it instead)
This ate my counter, leaving him open to cast kiki jiki.
There were actually more bad plays that I can't remember, and I even had answers after kiki jiki (vapor snap/bolt). However, after I failed to properly activate spellskite for the 2nd time, I just scooped as a good natured gesture to the someone who had clearly outplayed me. I'm not sure who was more frustrated - me for being mad at myself, or him for almost drawing to a clearly terrible player!
May have been the seemingly forever-lasting game, but man I was embarrassed. Honestly, the next 2 rounds I played fine, and finished up 2-2 salvaging my night, but the mistakes are ones I would actually like to forget!
Player A and B were both playing Esper Control. Player A eliminated all of player B's win condition already (whether they were countered, milled, or just killed off). The game was getting close to the end and whoever draws the last of their library was going to lose. Player A looks at B's library (they were stacked close together) and saw that B had a taller stack than A. A said I'll scoop. They go back and count the library and it turns out B had only 7 cards left, while A had a few more than 7. The only reason why B seemed to have a taller stack (and thus more cards in the library) was because B double sleeved his cards while A didn't!
An edh game just a little while ago. Turn 2, Nature's Lore, turn 3 Solemn Simulacrum, turn 4 cast Xenagos, God of Revels my commander. Turn 5 rolls around and I've got 7 lands to play with after ramping up twice. Cast Summoner's Pact for Craterhoof Behemoth. Then cast Tooth and Nail choosing two creatures from hand. Land hoofy and Hydra Omnivore. Xenagos turns on and craterhoof pumps all the boys for 4. Xenagos trigger turns hydra from a 12/12 into a 24/24 and gives him haste. Hydra swings at opponent 1 for 24, and all the others go for player 2 a total of 25 to him. Opponent 1 blocks the hydra with 1 goblin forgetting that hoofy gives trample, and opponent 2 says no blocks since hes at 36 life and can take 25 no problem.
I cast Fiend Hunter, targeting Phage. Since he had no way to stop it, he scooped. (Really? He couldn't let me pay 1 to pop the Fiend Hunter?)
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A guy with whom I had never played a game of Magic before tried casting Phage in a five person multi game (because super casual Cabal Coffers.dec and why not I guess) and he had the largest board state by far at the table, but I was playing my old Standard Pickles deck which was basically Time Spiral block + Cryptic Command and 8 other counter spells (also: Only one playing blue at the whole table). I Delayed his Phage, he read it, re-read Phage, read Delay again, re-read Phage once again, read Delay one more time and said, "Whelp, I don't have to wait around for three turns to know what this means" and scooped.
After he scooped I went, "Awesome!" and flashed in Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir to which everyone else at the table groaned, but one guy in particular said, "Wouldn't that have kept him from dying since Phage would have lost suspend and just been exiled?" I replied yes, and it would have sucked to have to wait 3 turns to cast him, lol. The scooper went, "AW, COME ON" from the other room.
Edit: Wow, I only checked a couple posts above mine to make sure this thread was current. I apparently should have looked a little further because holy crap almost a year and a half old.
Last draft I played was in Shards of Alara, I think.
Most of the games were over for the round so everyone was gathering around the last game playing. It had been close but one of the players had been able to defend a Sarkhan Vol who was just about to go off and release the dragons. When he did, the other played Gathering Specimens.
Much laughter was had by all.
I just want to give kudos to the guy who lurked for seven years before making his first post.
Last I checked, thread necro's aren't against magic general rules (they used to be, but not for a few years).
On topic, yet kinda against topic as it involves not scooping, I just remembered an EDH deck my uni housemate built a while back. The general was Hanna, Ship's Navigator and it only had 2 ways to win - attacking with Hanna or attacking with Purity. What it actually did was try to stall the game in every way - taxing spells, humility plus damage reductions, etc. His usual way of winning was to lock the game, then have his opponents play a few turns, realize that they basically couldn't do anything and scoop. A few people we know got bored of it one evening just before SOM's release. They played a 5 player EDH game. The Hanna deck established its lock around turn 9. They refused to scoop. They kept playing draw/go, periodically discarding legendary eldrazi and just chatting for over four hours. I wasn't in the game because it was at our Uni games club which started at 7:30 and I had to be somewhere at 8:30, so I left around 8:15. I got back to the shared house around 9:45. He got in at 11 looking like he'd just played a 19 round GP in a single day. When I asked him what happened, he said "they never cracked. I was sure they'd crack but they just kept draw/go'ing... we only played that one game... the janitor kicked us out before anyone scooped".
He never played that configuration of the deck again.
True, though it was more of an observtation than a complaint.
Something relevant:
Opponent scoops after drawing straight lands after several mulligans.
EDH game, I'm on Azusa and I blow out the Zur player's lands. Rage quit ensues. I didn't win the game, and I didn't even care about that. But I watched the Zur player antagonize the games he played in before I joined in.
We were the last match still proceeding. Everyone saw. I was playing against someone who worked at the shop and knows the rules better than me (and genuinely a better player). Everyone acknowledged it was a legitimate play and they thought it was hilarious. At this point of this post I could lie and say I put it into play quickly because I figured he missed the trigger, but in all honesty I did too. I put down Avenger out of excitement that he was at 3 and I had 3 on board. I took out his only blocker with my removal spell. We both forget there would be a blocker after that (although I'm pretty sure I had a Sever the Bloodline in hand so it should of been G.G. either way)
He immediately scooped up his cards and when everyone watching made the observation, epic rage and laughs happened at the same time.
But my city is pretty stupid anyways. Even at weekly events, most of the "pros" will not point out missed triggers for their opponents. If anything it was just karma for this player, after cheating me out of a match-win back in summer when the trigger rules changed (the 2nd time I attacked with Hero of Bladehold, I forgot the tokens, which would of been lethal. He told me after the match "I don't have to tell you anything about missed triggers now.")
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RB Olivia
WB Obzedat
UR Melek
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WR Aurelia
GU Kraj
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RGB Prossh
BGW Ghave
GUB Mimeoplasm
WUBRG Sliver Overlord
GWU Treva, the Renewer
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U Azami, Lady of Scrolls
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Me: "I cast Faith's Shield and use the fateful hour activation. My turn I Faith's shield my guy and call protection from white so you can't block my Sublime Archangel with your other Lingering Souls token. I miracle Revenge of the Hunted, bond the angel with Silverblade Paladin, and hit you for 26 damage. You're at 24 because you cast Thragtusk and I hit you with a mana dork, so you're dead."
Opponent: ...........(seriously he just sat there in silence for like 10 seconds)........... JUDGE!!!!!!!!!!!
Then, as a last ditch effort, I drop Lim-dul's Vault while at 17 life. I vault all the way down to 3, since the card I needed happened to be on the very bottom of the library. Plopped Life's Finale on the board to ruin the Ulasht player's board. Several turns of everyone trying to gain ground later, and I decide to scoop to let the Arcanis player combo off so I could go get myself some new cards before the next game.
...That game was ridiculous.
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He plays a Blightsteel Collosus.. I scoop.
There was a ruling about Mindslaver and being able to see someones sideboard if you controlled them with it.
The Caw-Blade player called a judge after getting Mind-slavered about the legality of this, the judge said that he either had to show the opposing player his SB or recieve a loss.
He thought for a bit then scooped up his cards and went to game 2
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Well if he was pretty sure he was going to lose that game anyways keeping his surprises a surprise might have been worth scooping.
My craziest scoop ever was probably this though.
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That's not even his best one. You know you're doing it wrong when hundreds of people are just staring in disbelief.
Opponent wins roll, decides to play second.
Me: Land, go.
Him: Nothing, discards Sphinx of the Steel Wind.
Me: Land, Animate Dead targeting his Sphinx.
Him: I scoop.
Played Grafdigger's cage thinking it was a torpor orb
Failed to activate 1 of 2(!) Spellskites that I had vedalken schackled when he cast twin (i countered it instead)
This ate my counter, leaving him open to cast kiki jiki.
There were actually more bad plays that I can't remember, and I even had answers after kiki jiki (vapor snap/bolt). However, after I failed to properly activate spellskite for the 2nd time, I just scooped as a good natured gesture to the someone who had clearly outplayed me. I'm not sure who was more frustrated - me for being mad at myself, or him for almost drawing to a clearly terrible player!
May have been the seemingly forever-lasting game, but man I was embarrassed. Honestly, the next 2 rounds I played fine, and finished up 2-2 salvaging my night, but the mistakes are ones I would actually like to forget!
Player A and B were both playing Esper Control. Player A eliminated all of player B's win condition already (whether they were countered, milled, or just killed off). The game was getting close to the end and whoever draws the last of their library was going to lose. Player A looks at B's library (they were stacked close together) and saw that B had a taller stack than A. A said I'll scoop. They go back and count the library and it turns out B had only 7 cards left, while A had a few more than 7. The only reason why B seemed to have a taller stack (and thus more cards in the library) was because B double sleeved his cards while A didn't!
Turn 1: Khalni Garden, get a 0/1 Plant token
Turn 2: Island, play Talisman of Dominance
Turn 3: Island, Polymorph the plant into Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
Simultaneous opp scoop.
Then he rereads Hydra Omnivore. And concedes.
I cast Fiend Hunter, targeting Phage. Since he had no way to stop it, he scooped. (Really? He couldn't let me pay 1 to pop the Fiend Hunter?)
On phasing:
After he scooped I went, "Awesome!" and flashed in Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir to which everyone else at the table groaned, but one guy in particular said, "Wouldn't that have kept him from dying since Phage would have lost suspend and just been exiled?" I replied yes, and it would have sucked to have to wait 3 turns to cast him, lol. The scooper went, "AW, COME ON" from the other room.
Edit: Wow, I only checked a couple posts above mine to make sure this thread was current. I apparently should have looked a little further because holy crap almost a year and a half old.
Sig and Avatar drawn by me.
People around the table were amazed at his maturity level
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I just want to give kudos to the guy who lurked for seven years before making his first post.
True, though it was more of an observtation than a complaint.
Something relevant:
Opponent scoops after drawing straight lands after several mulligans.
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opponent t1 thoughtseize and I have
pack rat
pack rat
mutavault
mutavault
swamp
underworld connections
D Demon
He scoops