There are a lot of people that play heavy black online and they're trying to drop their own uborg asap. When that happens all I need is a black producing land, Dark Depths and the hexmage.
Actually since Urborg is on the field any land will do just fine, even Maze of Ith
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Actually since Urborg is on the field any land will do just fine, even Maze of Ith
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Possible first turn too actually off of either Chrome Mox or Mox Diamond and Depths if there's an existing Urborg That game was fun. Played that and everyone scooped. lulz
I have seen this more time than I can count. Some guy makes an asshat comment, multiple members of the community point out the asshat comment, guy says that MTGsalvation is crap and leaves the forums. So , to continue th cycle, way to be a dick, wompa.
Absolutely insane game, so damn complex I can't remember most of the details.
I was playing Mayael, the Anima against Child of Alara planeswalker-proliferate control. He had gotten off Elspeth, Knight-Errant's ultimate earlier, and was making several 1/1 tokens every turn with Sprout Swarm, so my non-trampling beats were not getting through, and at this point he had enough toughness to stop even my trampling beaters, and I hadn't gotten Skarrg, the Rage Pits out yet. He had gotten off a one-sided Child explosion using Culling Dais earlier, and after proliferating several times and sacrificing some tokens, drawn about 10 cards. Frankly, it was a miracle I had survived this long. However, his Child was still in the yard and I had Where Ancients Tread, so I still had a way through his indestructible blockers. Other cards of note included Inexorable Tide and highly proliferated Saltcrusted Steppe and Everflowing Chalice on his side and Sensei's Divining Top and Greater Good on mine.
I'm at 43, and he's at 27. I've got Mayael, Eternal Witness, Gamekeeper and Spearbreaker Behemoth out, and he's got 20-some tokens at this point. I have eight mana open, and he's got more than he could ever know what to do with, besides make even more tokens. All I need is another turn or two to get him down to zero with WAT, and I figure I have enough time. Then he drops Selesnya Guildmage.
Ohcrapohcrapohcrap...
As he enters combat, I quickly sac the Spearbreaker, the Gamekeeper and the Witness to Greater Good, and Gamekeeper flips up Darksteel Colossus, which would be very, very nice any other time, but now just triggers WAT. Draw no answer. I top, and the third card down is the one I need - Naya Charm! I float it to the top and Top, tapping down his board, saving myself and likely finishing him off next turn!
Before I can untap (I'm a couple mana short of activating Mayael) he goes for her throat, but I'm not too worried, I've got a couple guys, including Godsire in my hand, hopefully I can dig my way into a haste source with my other guys. I untap, draw and replay the top, and swing in with the big metal guy. He blunts the assault.
Well... crap... there goes my win. He's now well out of kill range, and I still die to his army next turn. Time to start digging again.
I sac the DSC to draw 11, and turn up two very nice things: Serra Avatar and Mirari's Wake. I decide I need to go for the Risk Drawing Your Deck Gambit: I drop Wake, then Avatar, hit for five, and sac it to Greater Good, drawing down to 8 cards left in my library. I drop some accel, play Garruk Wildspeaker, untapping two, shuffle my graveyard into my library, and Swords to Plowshares the Guildmage, delaying my demise by one turn. I'm tapped out, so I pass turn, and he cranks out more tokens, bringing his creature count up to 32 Saprolings and a Sakura-Tribe Elder.
He untaps, beats me down to 10, and passes. Phew.
He's at 36 life now. I've got to think for a second to see if I have the mana to kill him, even with wake. I untap, drop Flameblast Dragon and Hellkite Charger hitting him for 10. I drop Fires of Yavimaya, then drop Godsire and make a token, for 10 more. I fire off Garruk's ultimate, killing him, and swing with Flameblast and Charger for 18, gripping Tooth and Nail, a couple big guys, and knowing that there's a Deathless Angel and a Bogardan Hellkite left in my library I can grab to deal 20 more off triggers alone if he can kill both or stop combat somehow, with exactly the 15 mana open that I need. But I don't need to; they get through and finish Child off.
That was one of the most intense games I've played in a while.
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BRG Xira Arien BRG UR Melek, Izzet Paragon UR WUG Jenara, Asura of War WUG WRG Mayael the Anima WRG WB Triad of Fates WB BG Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest BG BR Rakdos, Lord of Riots BR WR Aurelia the Warleader WR WBG Ghave, Guru of Spores WBG WUBRG Horde of Notions WUBRG
Maybe not epic-good because of how short the game really was, no real massive buildup to a massive game-breaking play, but I enjoyed this win-from-nowhere:
The game is Omnath, Me (Bosh), and somebody else. Omnath gets a bunch of mana dorks out and gets an early general + whispersilk cloak and goes crazy on the board. Takes out the other dude in two swings, and is fixing to take me out in one swing next turn. Nobody drew the artifact removal, and its too early for an o-stone even if one of us lucksacked into one.
What do I have? A bunch of lands, some artifacts that won't save me, and greater gargadon with nine counters left. In my hand? Some inconsequential stuff, and grafted exoskeleton. I look at his board. He tapped all his mana dorks to get a perfect 21 points to the other guy. No blockers. Count my permanents. Great, nine. Tap six mana, sac it all, windmill down that exoskeleton and get a hasty infectious win from nowhere.
Maybe not epic-good because of how short the game really was, no real massive buildup to a massive game-breaking play, but I enjoyed this win-from-nowhere:
The game is Omnath, Me (Bosh), and somebody else. Omnath gets a bunch of mana dorks out and gets an early general + whispersilk cloak and goes crazy on the board. Takes out the other dude in two swings, and is fixing to take me out in one swing next turn. Nobody drew the artifact removal, and its too early for an o-stone even if one of us lucksacked into one.
What do I have? A bunch of lands, some artifacts that won't save me, and greater gargadon with nine counters left. In my hand? Some inconsequential stuff, and grafted exoskeleton. I look at his board. He tapped all his mana dorks to get a perfect 21 points to the other guy. No blockers. Count my permanents. Great, nine. Tap six mana, sac it all, windmill down that exoskeleton and get a hasty infectious win from nowhere.
Now it's me and him. At his end of turn (I have Leyline of Anticipation out), I drop my own Steel on a Blightsteel and use Treasure Mage to search out Memnarch. I swing to make him block with his Goblin Assassin and to put him to 9 poison counters and pass. On his turn he swings with both Colossi; when I drop Memnarch and try to steal the Colossus with Sword of Fire and Ice on it, he sacrifices it to Helm of Posession to take Memnarch. I block the other one.
At this point, he still has a couple blockers (including a Godo that fetched him the sword), when what do I topdeck but Copy Artifact! I play it as a copy of Sword of Fire and Ice, equip to my Blightsteel, and trample over my Memnarch for the win.
Tl, dr: My copy of my Blightsteel with my copy of his Sword swings past my Memnarch, my Blightsteel, and his copy of my Blightsteel.
As a connoisseur of fun, interesting matches, I still to this day have not been able to craft that "perfect deck"; the deck that I can play and have fun over time, doesn't get boring, but simultaneously is fun to play against. I honestly don't think it exists. It's like a unicorn. A ninja unicorn.
Now it's me and him. At his end of turn (I have Leyline of Anticipation out), I drop my own Steel on a Blightsteel and use Treasure Mage to search out Memnarch. I swing to make him block with his Goblin Assassin and to put him to 9 poison counters and pass. On his turn he swings with both Colossi; when I drop Memnarch and try to steal the Colossus with Sword of Fire and Ice on it, he sacrifices it to Helm of Posession to take Memnarch. I block the other one.
At this point, he still has a couple blockers (including a Godo that fetched him the sword), when what do I topdeck but Copy Artifact! I play it as a copy of Sword of Fire and Ice, equip to my Blightsteel, and trample over my Memnarch for the win.
Tl, dr: My copy of my Blightsteel with my copy of his Sword swings past my Memnarch, my Blightsteel, and his copy of my Blightsteel.
That was good times. This is the first time I've lost to BSC, and losing with 2 or 3 BSC's on the board is all kinds of epic. And note: Don't cast Acquire on a pauperChild of Alara deck.
Played a 7-way game yesterday after our gameday. Wrexial (me), Geth, Thrun, Cromat, Reya, Kalitas, and Gwafa.
Man new players have terrible threat assessment. Thrun kept dropping beats and spreading the wealth around, 1-2 creature sweepers from reya, and cromat cloned thrun which made everyone else happy. Kalitas dropped a malakir bloodwitch and pinged everyone. I finally hit 9 mana and all the blue peeps are tapped out, and geth is tapped out from getting back online, rite of replication w/kicker on the bloodwitch! 5 tokens, x 5 vampires x 6 opponents = 25 life from each for a +150 life gain. Reya died, and everyone else was crippled.
On Kalitas' turn he swung into thrun with his bloodwitch and proceeded to turn it into a 10/4 with infect and eliminated him. Geth plaguewinds =( all my sexy vamp tokens die. Gwafa counters my beeseech the queen and I end my turn. At EoT geth Moonlight bargain and keeps all 5 and drops to 2 life. On his turn he casts a few spells and swings into Cromat and kills him. I'm at 183 life from the rite, with no creatures out. I gotta kill geth and rip glen elendra liege animate my spawning pool, cast the liege and swing in for 2 to geth. I end my turn with 6 open and a gather specimens in my hand.
It's down to Kalitas, gwafa and myself now. Gwafa passes, and on his turn kalitas gets cast, so I gather him and Kalitas scoops. As it was going to be Gwafa and I left gwafa scoops as well.
long story short, as everyone knows rite with kicker is broken.
I'm just going to give you a full-on game report of what was probably the most fun I've had playing Magic in a while. Some friends and I constructed EDH decks around the Elder Dragon Legends and met up on Cockatrice for a big showdown. The generals were as follows:
I win the die roll and keep a painfully slow but very EDH-acceptable hand of 5 lands, Sharrum the Hedgemon, and Lifeline. I topdeck Lotus Bloom like a champ. The game starts off like a typical slow EDH game, with several players setting up their Phyrexian Arenas. Once Lotus Bloom comes in, I sac it and resolve Sharuum to bring it back, then use it to cast Grave Titan the following turn. I'm definitely the early threat here, and Gaka's Maelstom Pulse puts a quick end to the Titan -- the Titan gets its revenge by making Gaka disconnect temporarily due to slow interents. Telekinesis also lands a Spike Weaver, which turns out to be very relevant.
I go on the beatdown and, thanks to my new Phyrexian Tower, I get Lifeline going, though it isn't anything super powerful (yet). Telekinesis manages to dig out of mana screw. Gaka plays Pernicious Deed -- booo. Nevertheless, I draw Altar of Dementia and feel that it's worthwhile to start playing out my hand. I cast Captain of the Watch and start using my creatures in conjunction with Lifeline to dump large quantities of cards into my graveyard. Sharuum finds a Myr Battlesphere that gets in on the action, Tele drops Primeval Titan, and Hourglass Sakashima's Primeval Titan and Sorin's me down to 10 before Gaka Deeds the board for 8. Now that I have a graveyard of approximately 50 cards, at least I get a Reassembling Skeleton back.
Skeleton takes revenge on Sorin Markov, then I cast Mnemonic Wall bringing back Victimize. I Victimize to bring back Sharuum the Hedgemon and Grave Titan, bringing back Lifeline. EOT, Lifeline brings back Skeleton and Wall, Wall brings back Victimize. See what I did there? But lo and behold, Tele casts Swords to Plowshares on Sharuum the Hedgemon and puts at least a damper on this nonsense.
On his turn, Tele uses Eternal Witness to bring back Primeval Titan. Prime Time abuse is one of the big deciding factors of this game. Hourglass uses tons of mana (courtesy of Coffers + Urbog, courtesy of PT) to play Decree of Pain and wipe my board. Thanks to his Future Sight, we see he draws Insurrection. Watch out for that one. He then plays an 18/18 Detritivore and attempts to give it haste with Lightning Greaves, but policeman Gaka stops it with Slaughter Pact. Disaster averted! That jerk Gaka also blows up my Lifeline.
My turn! I bring back Reassembling Skeleton and do more Victimize + Mnemonic Wall shenanigans, getting Sun Titan, Myr Battlesphere, Yosei, the Morning Star, Phyrexian Altar, and Necromancy (for Reya Dawnbringer). I use Yosei to Time Walk Hourglass since he has a clear mana advantage and a full grip. I also just now realize my deck can do this at least once each turn, though I probably won't choose to. Before long, Gaka has a PT too, which fetches up Bojuka Bog, giving me the shaft. It's about time!
I still have some game, though. On my turn, I cast Entomb for Nim Deathmantle, intending to reanimate it with Sun Titan. Once again, Gaka gives me the hose with Fire Covenant -- his Vaevictis dragon tribal deck is secretly the best at the table. Sitting at 12 life and running out of gas, I start flailing and use Memory Jar. I cast Sol Ring, Dream Halls, Chromium, and Enduring Renewal (countered by Dismiss by Hourglass). Telekinesis uses Dream Halls EOT to Eladamri's Call up a Genesis.
Tele goes to town on Hourglass with PT, then E Wit's back his Spike Weaver. Thank goodness; on his turn, Hourglass casts Insurrection -- the damage is fogged, but he gets 4 lands off of Primeval Titans. Ever the vindictive snob (kidding), Hourglass casts Damnation and ruins all our fun.
Now things get epic: Gaka taps out for Vaevictis Asmadi. I tap out for Chromium. Telekinesis taps out for PT (thanks to Genesis) and Arcades Sabboth! Hourglass undoes our hard work with Barter in Blood (c-c-c-combo breaker!), then casts Thraximundar and Nicol Bolas, suits up Bolas with Lightning Greaves, then smacks Tele around a bit.
I topdeck Demonic Tutor, but I'm a little worried since my deck is only about 25 cards deep. However, it still nets me an epic Living Death, which is so awesome it makes Telekinesis irreparably disconnect (lol!). Lots of shenanigans ensue and I try to go infinite with Phyrexian Altar, Myr Battlesphere, and Nim Deathmantle, but Hourglass has Mimic Vat to stop that nonsense. If I had just waited until his upkeep, APNAP would have let me go off in spite of Mimic Vat. Misplay much?
At this point, Hourglass has an overwhelming lead and just crushes us with superior resources, including a hasty token copy of Myr Battlesphere and Sakashima copying Myr Battlesphere. Gaka makes one final death throe by Worldly Tutoring for a hasty Flameblast Dragon, but Hourglass laughs in his face with a Pestermite. *applause* Well done, m'lord. A noble vict'ry.
This, my friends, just proves that Nicol Bolas rightfully won the original Elder Dragon Wars. The game lasted 2+ hours, and I feel sure Tele would have still been a strong contender had he not DC'd in the middle of the action. Thanks for reading. Tune in next week, when Surging Chaos joins us for an epic Nephilim showdown!
he tucked my general conflux'ed and i had 1 turn to top deck before he double timestretched me and killed me for 21 general.
his life total was at 17 mine at 14 (he magister'ed sphinxed me while i was it 57)
I thought in my head all my outs........kill spell maybe? mind twist?
No, thats not what showed up on top.
My old friend Kaervek found its way into my hand and he mercilessly changed the game for my better.
i then attached my favorite pair of boots (lightning greaves) tightly onto my savior and got in there for 5
hes a 12. his top deck was not as spectacular as mine he played seedborn muse and i dealt the 5 to him
he Blue Sun'ed i dealt the damage to seedborn and mouth of ronom'ed it. went in for lethal.
That was pro tour style runner
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one guy gets off on a fast start up to 70 life or so. I didn't mind....scion was in the game even though he was at 15
i let scion get a little out of hand. allowing him to cast and point his attack to the high lifer. no blocks, in comes dragon tyrannt he firebreathes until its lethal
i get rid of scion drop a few things and start attacking and stealing with geth
he ends up at 3 life a scion in play again after a timestretch where he mass removaled everything
i put him down to 1 with lyzolda
he has a mana crypt out and has to flip for the win
2 or 1 ...heads or tails....he picks heads...
It all comes down to this...
If he wins he gets in for lethal
if he loses he gets three dealt to the face. A fatal blow.
he presses ctrl + F i apprehensively stare at my screen looking for the "1"
However Today, lady luck didnt show for me.
the flip said heads. he ended the game with a triumphant final blow to the chest.....
Testing out Sasaya, Orochi Ascendant against a few of my other decks (Savra, Doran, and Agrus Kos). Regular enchantment wipes from Doran and Agrus are insuring that Sasaya doesn't get to untap flipped, and Savra is controlling creature populations pretty well. The only thing on the board are lands, a few mana rocks, and Candelabra of Tawnos for Sasaya.
Sasaya untaps, drops the general with a handful of lands, flips, and drops a forest (7 total). Uses Candelabra to untap them all (49 mana), then drops Nantuko Cultivator (45 mana) tossing 6 forests (which pretty much means Sasaya isn't going to flip again very easily without some lucky draws). In the new hand, there's Genesis Wave → wave for 42 (no mana). This gets a variety of creatures and 20 more forests (27 total) (540 mana), including Eternal Witness, who recurs a Masticore from earlier to end everyone.
Just because I was curious, I checked to see how much mana I could hit if I untapped with all that, plus the Magus of the Candelabra and the original candelabra. It ended up at 2133 mana, which could have been used to grab Gelatinous Genesis from the yard with Witness instead of Masticore, which could have been copied with Mirari for 2126 1063/1063 slimes, representing well over 2 million damage without going infinite. It would have been stupid, because Doran is almost all board wipes, but it would have been hilarious.
tl,dr: Sasaya is nuts, Genesis Wave is nuts, they're nuts together, and I had a board that could have pumped out 2 million damage.
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Oh yes, Sasaya is fun. It is the deck that asks the question, so rarely asked, "What can you do with 270 mana?"
It's amusing to easily get a few hundred mana, but never go infinite. Sadly, it can take a bit of time playing Journey of Discovery, recurring Journey of Discovery, playing Kamahl, Fist of Krosa and figuring out the max damage you can get with however many forests you have that can attack. Deck is totally fair though.
Testing out Sasaya, Orochi Ascendant against a few of my other decks (Savra, Doran, and Agrus Kos). Regular enchantment wipes from Doran and Agrus are insuring that Sasaya doesn't get to untap flipped, and Savra is controlling creature populations pretty well. The only thing on the board are lands, a few mana rocks, and Candelabra of Tawnos for Sasaya.
Sasaya untaps, drops the general with a handful of lands, flips, and drops a forest (7 total). Uses Candelabra to untap them all (49 mana), then drops Nantuko Cultivator (45 mana) tossing 6 forests (which pretty much means Sasaya isn't going to flip again very easily without some lucky draws). In the new hand, there's Genesis Wave → wave for 42 (no mana). This gets a variety of creatures and 20 more forests (27 total) (540 mana), including Eternal Witness, who recurs a Masticorefrom earlier to end everyone.
Might wanna reread Masticore, no idea how you'd instantly kill an entire table when he can't even target players. That aside, Sayasa is pretty crazy and Genesis Wave is often even more crazy.
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Might wanna reread Masticore, no idea how you'd instantly kill an entire table when he can't even target players. That aside, Sayasa is pretty crazy and Genesis Wave is often even more crazy.
Point. I just threw this together, so I'm still working out the little interactions. Imagine I killed all the lands with Kamahl, Fist of Krosa then. It was a wave for 42, hitting both eldrazi legends and leaving 540 mana open. The game was pretty much wrapped up either way.
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I'm playing Wrexial against Garza Zol. I draw into mindslaver, and I have a diabolic tutor in hand. I tutor for academy ruins and pass the turn. His turn, he does some stuff that doesn't really matter, uses acquire to grab my sol ring. I'm like ok. You're still dead. Hes like "how am I dead?"
My turn, I cast mindslaver, play ruins, and take his next turn. I don't have enough mana for the lock yet though.
My turn, I draw into lighthouse chronologist and cast it. Instead of leveling it up, I cast Wrexial.
His turn, he draws top, plays the treachery to take my Wrexial, and then plays the hellkite and blows up chronologist. End of turn, I put mindslaver back on top of my library.
My turn, I cast mindslaver and take his next turn. End of turn, he uses top to draw a card and put top on top, to make sure I can't cast time stretch that turn. He has exactly 10 mana.
His turn, I draw top, and realize that I don't have enough mana to draw into it and cast it that turn. So instead, I swing at myself with Wrexial, cast diabolic tutor from my graveyard, and tutor for time stretch. I cast it, targeting myself, and we all burst out laughing. In my two extra turns, I draw into enough lands for the mindslaver lock and win the game.
I believe that I have enough social competence to slip into a party or two, potentially wooing some attractive females that would not mind spending the evening performing the booty dance on me.
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Actually since Urborg is on the field any land will do just fine, even Maze of Ith
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Possible first turn too actually off of either Chrome Mox or Mox Diamond and Depths if there's an existing Urborg That game was fun. Played that and everyone scooped. lulz
Do you mean Tunnel Vision? Because Tunnel Vision into Living Death or Open the Vaults is pretty popular already.
me and dave play big boy magic. we would like you to point us to the official sanction rules for elder dragon highlander.
you build your decks and play them and let me do the same.
hence, thanks for the meaningless comment.
Trolling infraction issued. -viper
People might not know you play a variant version of the format. You could try to be a big boy instead of acting like a tool. Kthxbai.
Flaming warning issued. -viper
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I cube, I play EDH, and I can't afford Legacy. The other formats can suck it.
My H/W list
I was playing Mayael, the Anima against Child of Alara planeswalker-proliferate control. He had gotten off Elspeth, Knight-Errant's ultimate earlier, and was making several 1/1 tokens every turn with Sprout Swarm, so my non-trampling beats were not getting through, and at this point he had enough toughness to stop even my trampling beaters, and I hadn't gotten Skarrg, the Rage Pits out yet. He had gotten off a one-sided Child explosion using Culling Dais earlier, and after proliferating several times and sacrificing some tokens, drawn about 10 cards. Frankly, it was a miracle I had survived this long. However, his Child was still in the yard and I had Where Ancients Tread, so I still had a way through his indestructible blockers. Other cards of note included Inexorable Tide and highly proliferated Saltcrusted Steppe and Everflowing Chalice on his side and Sensei's Divining Top and Greater Good on mine.
I'm at 43, and he's at 27. I've got Mayael, Eternal Witness, Gamekeeper and Spearbreaker Behemoth out, and he's got 20-some tokens at this point. I have eight mana open, and he's got more than he could ever know what to do with, besides make even more tokens. All I need is another turn or two to get him down to zero with WAT, and I figure I have enough time. Then he drops Selesnya Guildmage.
Ohcrapohcrapohcrap...
As he enters combat, I quickly sac the Spearbreaker, the Gamekeeper and the Witness to Greater Good, and Gamekeeper flips up Darksteel Colossus, which would be very, very nice any other time, but now just triggers WAT. Draw no answer. I top, and the third card down is the one I need - Naya Charm! I float it to the top and Top, tapping down his board, saving myself and likely finishing him off next turn!
Before I can untap (I'm a couple mana short of activating Mayael) he goes for her throat, but I'm not too worried, I've got a couple guys, including Godsire in my hand, hopefully I can dig my way into a haste source with my other guys. I untap, draw and replay the top, and swing in with the big metal guy. He blunts the assault.
Well... crap... there goes my win. He's now well out of kill range, and I still die to his army next turn. Time to start digging again.
I sac the DSC to draw 11, and turn up two very nice things: Serra Avatar and Mirari's Wake. I decide I need to go for the Risk Drawing Your Deck Gambit: I drop Wake, then Avatar, hit for five, and sac it to Greater Good, drawing down to 8 cards left in my library. I drop some accel, play Garruk Wildspeaker, untapping two, shuffle my graveyard into my library, and Swords to Plowshares the Guildmage, delaying my demise by one turn. I'm tapped out, so I pass turn, and he cranks out more tokens, bringing his creature count up to 32 Saprolings and a Sakura-Tribe Elder.
He untaps, beats me down to 10, and passes. Phew.
He's at 36 life now. I've got to think for a second to see if I have the mana to kill him, even with wake. I untap, drop Flameblast Dragon and Hellkite Charger hitting him for 10. I drop Fires of Yavimaya, then drop Godsire and make a token, for 10 more. I fire off Garruk's ultimate, killing him, and swing with Flameblast and Charger for 18, gripping Tooth and Nail, a couple big guys, and knowing that there's a Deathless Angel and a Bogardan Hellkite left in my library I can grab to deal 20 more off triggers alone if he can kill both or stop combat somehow, with exactly the 15 mana open that I need. But I don't need to; they get through and finish Child off.
That was one of the most intense games I've played in a while.
Currently running:
BRG Xira Arien BRG
UR Melek, Izzet Paragon UR
WUG Jenara, Asura of War WUG
WRG Mayael the Anima WRG
WB Triad of Fates WB
BG Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest BG
BR Rakdos, Lord of Riots BR
WR Aurelia the Warleader WR
WBG Ghave, Guru of Spores WBG
WUBRG Horde of Notions WUBRG
The game is Omnath, Me (Bosh), and somebody else. Omnath gets a bunch of mana dorks out and gets an early general + whispersilk cloak and goes crazy on the board. Takes out the other dude in two swings, and is fixing to take me out in one swing next turn. Nobody drew the artifact removal, and its too early for an o-stone even if one of us lucksacked into one.
What do I have? A bunch of lands, some artifacts that won't save me, and greater gargadon with nine counters left. In my hand? Some inconsequential stuff, and grafted exoskeleton. I look at his board. He tapped all his mana dorks to get a perfect 21 points to the other guy. No blockers. Count my permanents. Great, nine. Tap six mana, sac it all, windmill down that exoskeleton and get a hasty infectious win from nowhere.
Greater Gargadon doesn't have haste...
Experimental Kraj
If it's come off suspend, yes, it does.
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Everything has haste coming off suspend.
edit: nath'd
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Now it's me and him. At his end of turn (I have Leyline of Anticipation out), I drop my own Steel on a Blightsteel and use Treasure Mage to search out Memnarch. I swing to make him block with his Goblin Assassin and to put him to 9 poison counters and pass. On his turn he swings with both Colossi; when I drop Memnarch and try to steal the Colossus with Sword of Fire and Ice on it, he sacrifices it to Helm of Posession to take Memnarch. I block the other one.
At this point, he still has a couple blockers (including a Godo that fetched him the sword), when what do I topdeck but Copy Artifact! I play it as a copy of Sword of Fire and Ice, equip to my Blightsteel, and trample over my Memnarch for the win.
Tl, dr: My copy of my Blightsteel with my copy of his Sword swings past my Memnarch, my Blightsteel, and his copy of my Blightsteel.
Arent copy/steal effects fun?
EDH:
RNorin the WaryR <-Link! (Primer - Mono Red Control)
GUEdric, Spymaster of TrestUG <- Link! (Mini-Primer - Dredge)
Duel Commander:
WUGeist of Saint TraftUW <- Link! (Aggro-Control)
BGSkullbriar, the Walking GraveGB <- Link! (Aggro)
BUGDamia, Sage of StoneGUB <- Link! (Extinction Control)
Church of the Wary
That was good times. This is the first time I've lost to BSC, and losing with 2 or 3 BSC's on the board is all kinds of epic. And note: Don't cast Acquire on a pauper Child of Alara deck.
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The EDH stax primer
When you absolutely, positively got to kill every permanent in the room, accept no substitutes.
Man new players have terrible threat assessment. Thrun kept dropping beats and spreading the wealth around, 1-2 creature sweepers from reya, and cromat cloned thrun which made everyone else happy. Kalitas dropped a malakir bloodwitch and pinged everyone. I finally hit 9 mana and all the blue peeps are tapped out, and geth is tapped out from getting back online, rite of replication w/kicker on the bloodwitch! 5 tokens, x 5 vampires x 6 opponents = 25 life from each for a +150 life gain. Reya died, and everyone else was crippled.
On Kalitas' turn he swung into thrun with his bloodwitch and proceeded to turn it into a 10/4 with infect and eliminated him. Geth plaguewinds =( all my sexy vamp tokens die. Gwafa counters my beeseech the queen and I end my turn. At EoT geth Moonlight bargain and keeps all 5 and drops to 2 life. On his turn he casts a few spells and swings into Cromat and kills him. I'm at 183 life from the rite, with no creatures out. I gotta kill geth and rip glen elendra liege animate my spawning pool, cast the liege and swing in for 2 to geth. I end my turn with 6 open and a gather specimens in my hand.
It's down to Kalitas, gwafa and myself now. Gwafa passes, and on his turn kalitas gets cast, so I gather him and Kalitas scoops. As it was going to be Gwafa and I left gwafa scoops as well.
long story short, as everyone knows rite with kicker is broken.
d0su: Chromium
Gaka: Vaevictis Asmadi
Hourglass: Nicol Bolas
SirNormal: Palladia-Mors(didn't show)Telekinesis: Arcades Sabboth
I go on the beatdown and, thanks to my new Phyrexian Tower, I get Lifeline going, though it isn't anything super powerful (yet). Telekinesis manages to dig out of mana screw. Gaka plays Pernicious Deed -- booo. Nevertheless, I draw Altar of Dementia and feel that it's worthwhile to start playing out my hand. I cast Captain of the Watch and start using my creatures in conjunction with Lifeline to dump large quantities of cards into my graveyard. Sharuum finds a Myr Battlesphere that gets in on the action, Tele drops Primeval Titan, and Hourglass Sakashima's Primeval Titan and Sorin's me down to 10 before Gaka Deeds the board for 8. Now that I have a graveyard of approximately 50 cards, at least I get a Reassembling Skeleton back.
Skeleton takes revenge on Sorin Markov, then I cast Mnemonic Wall bringing back Victimize. I Victimize to bring back Sharuum the Hedgemon and Grave Titan, bringing back Lifeline. EOT, Lifeline brings back Skeleton and Wall, Wall brings back Victimize. See what I did there? But lo and behold, Tele casts Swords to Plowshares on Sharuum the Hedgemon and puts at least a damper on this nonsense.
On his turn, Tele uses Eternal Witness to bring back Primeval Titan. Prime Time abuse is one of the big deciding factors of this game. Hourglass uses tons of mana (courtesy of Coffers + Urbog, courtesy of PT) to play Decree of Pain and wipe my board. Thanks to his Future Sight, we see he draws Insurrection. Watch out for that one. He then plays an 18/18 Detritivore and attempts to give it haste with Lightning Greaves, but policeman Gaka stops it with Slaughter Pact. Disaster averted! That jerk Gaka also blows up my Lifeline.
My turn! I bring back Reassembling Skeleton and do more Victimize + Mnemonic Wall shenanigans, getting Sun Titan, Myr Battlesphere, Yosei, the Morning Star, Phyrexian Altar, and Necromancy (for Reya Dawnbringer). I use Yosei to Time Walk Hourglass since he has a clear mana advantage and a full grip. I also just now realize my deck can do this at least once each turn, though I probably won't choose to. Before long, Gaka has a PT too, which fetches up Bojuka Bog, giving me the shaft. It's about time!
I still have some game, though. On my turn, I cast Entomb for Nim Deathmantle, intending to reanimate it with Sun Titan. Once again, Gaka gives me the hose with Fire Covenant -- his Vaevictis dragon tribal deck is secretly the best at the table. Sitting at 12 life and running out of gas, I start flailing and use Memory Jar. I cast Sol Ring, Dream Halls, Chromium, and Enduring Renewal (countered by Dismiss by Hourglass). Telekinesis uses Dream Halls EOT to Eladamri's Call up a Genesis.
Tele goes to town on Hourglass with PT, then E Wit's back his Spike Weaver. Thank goodness; on his turn, Hourglass casts Insurrection -- the damage is fogged, but he gets 4 lands off of Primeval Titans. Ever the vindictive snob (kidding), Hourglass casts Damnation and ruins all our fun.
Now things get epic: Gaka taps out for Vaevictis Asmadi. I tap out for Chromium. Telekinesis taps out for PT (thanks to Genesis) and Arcades Sabboth! Hourglass undoes our hard work with Barter in Blood (c-c-c-combo breaker!), then casts Thraximundar and Nicol Bolas, suits up Bolas with Lightning Greaves, then smacks Tele around a bit.
I topdeck Demonic Tutor, but I'm a little worried since my deck is only about 25 cards deep. However, it still nets me an epic Living Death, which is so awesome it makes Telekinesis irreparably disconnect (lol!). Lots of shenanigans ensue and I try to go infinite with Phyrexian Altar, Myr Battlesphere, and Nim Deathmantle, but Hourglass has Mimic Vat to stop that nonsense. If I had just waited until his upkeep, APNAP would have let me go off in spite of Mimic Vat. Misplay much?
At this point, Hourglass has an overwhelming lead and just crushes us with superior resources, including a hasty token copy of Myr Battlesphere and Sakashima copying Myr Battlesphere. Gaka makes one final death throe by Worldly Tutoring for a hasty Flameblast Dragon, but Hourglass laughs in his face with a Pestermite. *applause* Well done, m'lord. A noble vict'ry.
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he tucked my general conflux'ed and i had 1 turn to top deck before he double timestretched me and killed me for 21 general.
his life total was at 17 mine at 14 (he magister'ed sphinxed me while i was it 57)
I thought in my head all my outs........kill spell maybe? mind twist?
No, thats not what showed up on top.
My old friend Kaervek found its way into my hand and he mercilessly changed the game for my better.
i then attached my favorite pair of boots (lightning greaves) tightly onto my savior and got in there for 5
hes a 12. his top deck was not as spectacular as mine he played seedborn muse and i dealt the 5 to him
he Blue Sun'ed i dealt the damage to seedborn and mouth of ronom'ed it. went in for lethal.
That was pro tour style runner
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3 player game
one guy gets off on a fast start up to 70 life or so. I didn't mind....scion was in the game even though he was at 15
i let scion get a little out of hand. allowing him to cast and point his attack to the high lifer. no blocks, in comes dragon tyrannt he firebreathes until its lethal
i get rid of scion drop a few things and start attacking and stealing with geth
he ends up at 3 life a scion in play again after a timestretch where he mass removaled everything
i put him down to 1 with lyzolda
he has a mana crypt out and has to flip for the win
2 or 1 ...heads or tails....he picks heads...
It all comes down to this...
If he wins he gets in for lethal
if he loses he gets three dealt to the face. A fatal blow.
he presses ctrl + F i apprehensively stare at my screen looking for the "1"
However Today, lady luck didnt show for me.
the flip said heads. he ended the game with a triumphant final blow to the chest.....
A hard fought victory goes to scion(P1NH3AD) congratz.
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Turn 4 ulamog
Turn 1: Forest, Fyndhorn Elves Pass (2 mana available)
Turn 2: Yavimaya Hollow Priest of Titania, Swing for one and pass (4 mana available)
Turn 3 Gaea's Cradle Tajaru Perserver Skyshroud Poacher Ezuri, Renegade Leader Pass (12 mana available)
Turn 4 Forest, Poach for Fierce Empath for Ulamog destroy Omnath, Locus of Mana alpha swing. (15)
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He scooped.
Sasaya untaps, drops the general with a handful of lands, flips, and drops a forest (7 total). Uses Candelabra to untap them all (49 mana), then drops Nantuko Cultivator (45 mana) tossing 6 forests (which pretty much means Sasaya isn't going to flip again very easily without some lucky draws). In the new hand, there's Genesis Wave → wave for 42 (no mana). This gets a variety of creatures and 20 more forests (27 total) (540 mana), including Eternal Witness, who recurs a Masticore from earlier to end everyone.
Just because I was curious, I checked to see how much mana I could hit if I untapped with all that, plus the Magus of the Candelabra and the original candelabra. It ended up at 2133 mana, which could have been used to grab Gelatinous Genesis from the yard with Witness instead of Masticore, which could have been copied with Mirari for 2126 1063/1063 slimes, representing well over 2 million damage without going infinite. It would have been stupid, because Doran is almost all board wipes, but it would have been hilarious.
tl,dr: Sasaya is nuts, Genesis Wave is nuts, they're nuts together, and I had a board that could have pumped out 2 million damage.
1st turn: Forest, Mana Vault
2nd turn: Plains, Miri's Wake
3rd turn: Mountain, Wild Pair
4th turn: Shenanagens
It's amusing to easily get a few hundred mana, but never go infinite. Sadly, it can take a bit of time playing Journey of Discovery, recurring Journey of Discovery, playing Kamahl, Fist of Krosa and figuring out the max damage you can get with however many forests you have that can attack. Deck is totally fair though.
Might wanna reread Masticore, no idea how you'd instantly kill an entire table when he can't even target players. That aside, Sayasa is pretty crazy and Genesis Wave is often even more crazy.
Point. I just threw this together, so I'm still working out the little interactions. Imagine I killed all the lands with Kamahl, Fist of Krosa then. It was a wave for 42, hitting both eldrazi legends and leaving 540 mana open. The game was pretty much wrapped up either way.
My turn, I cast mindslaver, play ruins, and take his next turn. I don't have enough mana for the lock yet though.
His turn, I do some stuff that doesn't matter much. I use top to see that he has a time stretch coming up soon. I draw a card and put sensei's divining top on top to make sure he doesn't draw into it. He has bogardan hellkite, treachery, and kiega, the tide star in hand.
My turn, I draw into lighthouse chronologist and cast it. Instead of leveling it up, I cast Wrexial.
His turn, he draws top, plays the treachery to take my Wrexial, and then plays the hellkite and blows up chronologist. End of turn, I put mindslaver back on top of my library.
My turn, I cast mindslaver and take his next turn. End of turn, he uses top to draw a card and put top on top, to make sure I can't cast time stretch that turn. He has exactly 10 mana.
His turn, I draw top, and realize that I don't have enough mana to draw into it and cast it that turn. So instead, I swing at myself with Wrexial, cast diabolic tutor from my graveyard, and tutor for time stretch. I cast it, targeting myself, and we all burst out laughing. In my two extra turns, I draw into enough lands for the mindslaver lock and win the game.
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