The other night in a 3 player vs. Thada Adel and Wort the Raid Mother I was piloting my Mimeoplasm reanimator. Thanks to an absolutely massive amount of mana from my Cabal Coffers, Urborg combo backed with a Mana Reflection thanks to a T2 Primeval Titan; somewhere around T9 or 10? I was able to cast Rune-Scarred Demon search for Rites of Replication; cast it kicked targeting Rune-Scarred Demon; tutoring for 5 more things. One was an Eternal Witness, the other was a Spitting Image the other three were just generic answers/defensive cards/reanimation targets. I Eternal Witnessed to bring back Rites of Replication; casted it again on RSD; tutoring for even more cards; and then finally Spitting Imaged Eternal Witness to bring it back to my hand; for next turn.
This was all done at 6 life left; with The Mimeoplasm as a Flipped Nezumi Graverobber -> Nighteyes the Desecrator on board; Sheoldred, Wrexial, and Puppeteer Clique that had Grabbed a Memnarch (which stole me a crawlspace and a sol ring during the same turn.
Scion Living Death'd up the armies of Mimeoplasm(me) and himself, popping in my terastodon and massacre wurm.
After nuking his lands, my eternal witness trigger got my back mystical tutor, which i used to fetch a wipe and clear his total down to zero off massacre wurm triggers.
Good way to end it.
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During one of my opponent's turn he plays All is Dust. While it is on the stack I remove the divinity counter from my Myojin which gives my Vulturous around 30 counters or so making it a 35/35 when all is said in done. Then I cast Momentous Fall targeting my Zombie.
After everything resolved the board was wiped, as were my opponents had no cards in hand while I had a cool 69 life and a hand with 40+ cards in it. Since I had a Reliquary Tower in play my opponents conceded on the spot.
It was a cool combo that I didn't realize I could even do until I was forced to do it.
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If you couldn't tell I hate greedy blue decks.
Not that ridiculous a play, but probably my favorite game ever:
I am running Angus Mackenzie. I built it as kind of a fog/life gain deck that wins with Felidar Soveregin or Test of Endurance. At this point, I'm at 68 life, facing off against a 5cc deck and two others that aren't really important, but I don't have my win cons yet.
The 5cc deck cast a Warp World, and found Pestermite and Kiki-Jiki. Someone tried to kill Kiki-Jiki but he made 500,000,000 tokens in response - Kiki-Jiki died, however. He asked the table to scoop, and the other two players did, but luckily I had flipped up a Propaganda. The entire table burst out laughing. I had just 1 card in hand - Cradle of Vitality, completely worthless - and 6 lands, and nothing else of consequence on the board, though. However, one of my lands was a Saltcrusted Steppe. He dealt me 4 to move me to 64 and passed the turn, and I played my cradle just in case I'd need it. The whole table was now rooting for me to somehow pull it off.
I drew an Angelsong and passed the turn (Angus was buried deep in my library somewhere). He cast some stuff but didn't have the mana to attack, and I put a counter on the Steppe. I drew a Dawn Charm and passed the turn. He attacked for 13, but I cast the Charm. He passed and I put another counter on. I drew a land and played it, and passed the turn. He attacked for 13 again, I cast Angelsong. He passes, I put a counter on the Steppe - now 3 counters. I drew a Sol Ring, cast it, and passe. He attacked me for 13, putting me down to 51, and I added a counter to the Steppe - I now had 11 mana.
I flipped over the next card.
Storm Herd. I made 51 tokens, and my opponent conceded with an amazed look on his face. This is my new favorite deck despite the fact that I have been playing it for all of a week.
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During one of my opponent's turn he plays All is Dust. While it is on the stack I remove the divinity counter from my Myojin which gives my Vulturous around 30 counters or so making it a 35/35 when all is said in done. Then I cast Momentous Fall targeting my Zombie.
After everything resolved the board was wiped, as were my opponents had no cards in hand while I had a cool 69 life and a hand with 40+ cards in it. Since I had a Reliquary Tower in play my opponents conceded on the spot.
It was a cool combo that I didn't realize I could even do until I was forced to do it.
I'm amazed you let an opponent get to his main phase with cards in his hand.
Not that ridiculous a play, but probably my favorite game ever:
I am running Angus Mackenzie. I built it as kind of a fog/life gain deck that wins with Felidar Soveregin or Test of Endurance. At this point, I'm at 68 life, facing off against a 5cc deck and two others that aren't really important, but I don't have my win cons yet.
The 5cc deck cast a Warp World, and found Pestermite and Kiki-Jiki. Someone tried to kill Kiki-Jiki but he made 500,000,000 tokens in response - Kiki-Jiki died, however. He asked the table to scoop, and the other two players did, but luckily I had flipped up a Propaganda. The entire table burst out laughing. I had just 1 card in hand - Cradle of Vitality, completely worthless - and 6 lands, and nothing else of consequence on the board, though. However, one of my lands was a Saltcrusted Steppe. He dealt me 4 to move me to 64 and passed the turn, and I played my cradle just in case I'd need it. The whole table was now rooting for me to somehow pull it off.
I drew an Angelsong and passed the turn (Angus was buried deep in my library somewhere). He cast some stuff but didn't have the mana to attack, and I put a counter on the Steppe. I drew a Dawn Charm and passed the turn. He attacked for 13, but I cast the Charm. He passed and I put another counter on. I drew a land and played it, and passed the turn. He attacked for 13 again, I cast Angelsong. He passes, I put a counter on the Steppe - now 3 counters. I drew a Sol Ring, cast it, and passe. He attacked me for 13, putting me down to 51, and I added a counter to the Steppe - I now had 11 mana.
I flipped over the next card.
Storm Herd. I made 51 tokens, and my opponent conceded with an amazed look on his face. This is my new favorite deck despite the fact that I have been playing it for all of a week.
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Why did your opponent concede? Didn't he still have 500,000 flying pestermites?
Why did your opponent concede? Didn't he still have 500,000 flying pestermites?
Probably not anymore. If I am not wrong, Kiki-Jiki's 500,000 Perstermites has haste and are sacrificed at the beginning of the next end step where they were "cloned".
In another game - Thraximundar tried to give Child of Alara the extra turns it would take to kill me, so he cast Time Stretch on him.
However, i had the mana open to weld out an artifact and bring back Sol Ring, and then wild richochet the time stretch to give ME 4 turns. My, that was fun.
I proceeded to use these four turns to Cast a Sundering Titan, then weld it in and out four times, wrecking everyone's mana bases. Woo hoo.
Thursday night, a couple friends and I were playing a three player game, and I was piloting my new Riku of Two Reflections deck. The game had stalemated badly, and we were all digging for some sort of sweep effect. I was at 15 (up from one, thanks to Riku doubling Primal Command) and my two opponents were at 23 and 45. Collective Voyage had also been cast twice, so we were all sitting on 20+ mana.
My turn, I topdecked Rite of Replication, played it with kicker targeting Inferno Titan, copied it with Riku, and then played Anarchist to get it back and do it all over again in the same turn. If anyone cares to count, that is 60 damage divided as I choose plus 20 Inferno Titans in play.
My favorite one was when I was playing multiplayer. Had someone running Kaalia, someone running Ghave, a third running Karador, and the fifth player was running Ur Drago with Wrexial in his deck. I was the 4th, and I was running The Mimeoplasm.
Karador had just boardwiped everyone with Damnation because Ghave was going to win the next turn, and then passed to me. I had just lost Lhurgoyf to the wipe, and was kind of mad. I had my Greaves out, and finally drew my forest via Rhystic Study from the wipe. I play Buried Alive, grave tutored Szadek, Mortivore, and Sewer Nemesis. I then proceeded to cast Mimeoplasm for the first time, and had to stop and think about the 2 that were being exiled. Then it hit me, Szadek and Lhurgoyf! There were about 40 creatures in all graveyards, and it was only fair to get Ghave out of there asap. So, I did just that, then equipped my Greaves, and bashed him, forcing him to mill 45 cards, and boosting Mimeoplasm +45/+45, making him a 90/90, not including what was just placed in the graveyard. And the best part was that everyone was tapped out.
After that, it is safe to say that I was pointed out as a threat. The next turn that came around for me, I was at 5 life, and drew 1 card that made my day. I had just drawn Gruesome Encore, and saw that Draco had his lands tapped out again. I cast it, pulled Wrexial out of his graveyard, swung with both of them against Kaalia, and then pulled out World at War from her graveyard, cast it, and then beat down Karador, and then got beat down by Draco.
All in all, it was quite fun.
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I'm in a 4 person game and someone has just used Survival of the Fittest to get Avenger of Zendikar, with Doubling Season out, to get a ton of nasty plants. And when we board wipe discards an Eldrazi, to recur the graveyard, to get Avenger, to do it again.
He had to do it several times because the entire time I'm going.
Turn 1 after he does this, All is Dust.
Turn 2, Eternal Witness, get back All is Dust, All is Dust.
Turn 3, Sun Titan, recur Eternal Witness, get back All is Dust, All is Dust.
Turn 4, DOJ, Praetor's Council, get back graveyard.
Turn 5, All is Dust.
After this the other players manage to kill him, then me as they're tired of the 5 consecutive turns board wiping.
In another game with 3 players left. I'm playing a Uril, the Miststalker deck and someone else is borrowing my Sharuum, the Hegemon deck. I load multiple auras on Uril with the intent to eliminate a player, forgetting he has Ghostly Prison out I don't leave enough open to attack. Before my next turn he Insurrections and kills me with my own Uril. He then tells me to feel free to help the guy playing my other deck. That guy uses Tezzeret 2.0 and I see Mindslaver and tell him to take it. I look at the board and realize that because he has a Master Transmuter out, he can infinitely recur Mindslaver for the rest of the game if he wants and start explaining to him how to do it. At this point the player who killed me is all of a sudden less ok with me helping out the guy playing my other deck.
I'm in a 4 person game and someone has just used Survival of the Fittest to get Avenger of Zendikar, with Doubling Season out, to get a ton of nasty plants. And when we board wipe discards an Eldrazi, to recur the graveyard, to get Avenger, to do it again.
He had to do it several times because the entire time I'm going.
Turn 1 after he does this, All is Dust.
Turn 2, Eternal Witness, get back All is Dust, All is Dust.
Turn 3, Sun Titan, recur Eternal Witness, get back All is Dust, All is Dust.
Turn 4, DOJ, Praetor's Council, get back graveyard.
Turn 5, All is Dust.
After this the other players manage to kill him, then me as they're tired of the 5 consecutive turns board wiping.
In another game with 3 players left. I'm playing a Uril, the Miststalker deck and someone else is borrowing my Sharuum, the Hegemon deck. I load multiple auras on Uril with the intent to eliminate a player, forgetting he has Ghostly Prison out I don't leave enough open to attack. Before my next turn he Insurrections and kills me with my own Uril. He then tells me to feel free to help the guy playing my other deck. That guy uses Tezzeret 2.0 and I see Mindslaver and tell him to take it. I look at the board and realize that because he has a Master Transmuter out, he can infinitely recur Mindslaver for the rest of the game if he wants and start explaining to him how to do it. At this point the player who killed me is all of a sudden less ok with me helping out the guy playing my other deck.
Question, what was the guy's General? Did he have a way to recur Survival itself? Because if not, 1 All is Dust is all that was needed.
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Nothing, I have just gotten back after a long hiatus, and am just now starting to rebuild my collection.
Question, what was the guy's General? Did he have a way to recur Survival itself? Because if not, 1 All is Dust is all that was needed.
I can't remember how he got the Survival back. I think it was something like in response to the first he sacrificed the Avenger to something, then pitched a creature to the surivival to get Ulamog, then pitched Ulamog to recur graveyard and get back Avenger. Then Praetor's Counciled himself one turn to recur graveyard. I can't remember the entire thing, and I don't remember if Avenger was the threat more than 2 or 3 of those 5 turns. But I know it required me to keep board wiping to keep him from winning. And I don't remember what he had that let him sac Avenger. But it was something like that.
Long story short, Skithiryx does what it's meant to (thanks to a turn 3 Necropotence) and kills off Riku and Savra. I try to stop her with a 26/26 Trench Gorger, but it gets Terrored. Other than that I've been just playing mana artifacts until now, plus Unwinding Clock; now I land a Mind Over Matter with one card left in hand. I threaten to pitch it to tap Skithiryx unless she promises to attack Jenara and not me, and so now Jenara is out. EOT I use Nin for x = 9 on a miscellaneous creature, so I have a mitt full of cards.
We now enter a precarious balance. For several turns, back and forth, I keep Skithy at bay by spending most of my hand to tap her creatures, untap some of my mana, make a new creature, and use Nin to refill. Then she plays Karn Liberated and exiles my Mind Over Matter.
On my turn, I go for a Reins of Power to finish it and kill Skithyrx with her own infect creatures, but she uses the black fog. Before ending and passing back her creatures, however, I kick a Rite of Replication on her Royal Assassin and pass a Lightning Greaves around to destroy most of her creatures, including the original assassin.
Eventually, I manage to stall her and get a really big hit with nin - I draw 17 cards, leaving me with 5 left in my library. She is at 35 life, myself at 29. I make Psychosis Crawler and use Nin to draw 1 card, putting her at 34... so that I can then use Dream Halls, Coalition Relic, and Clock of Omens to be able to cast Furnace of Rath and Heartless Hidetsugu, move Greaves, and activate him, leaving myself at 1 and her at 0. GG.
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.
During my 1st main phase, player 2 tried to Terror my general which was met with a Force of Will. I tried to equip my Neurok Stealthsuit to my Psychosis Crawler which in response player 4 tried to Slaughter Pact. In response, I attached the Stealthsuit via the UU cost so it fizzled. after all that, I cast Molten Psyche with active metalcraft and 24 cards in hand. Everyone lost 24 life due to me redrawing, then since everyone else had at least 10 cards in hand, took 10 more each, and the 2 players that were still alive, I shot with Niv-Mizzet FTW!!!
Saw my all-time favorite Mindslaver play last night.
Playing a four way with 8.5 Tails (me), two Ghaves, and Memnarch. One of the Ghaves starts off strong, accidentally creating more or less perfect creature control with Ghave, Devoted Druid, and Blade of the Bloodchief looping an arbitrary number of saprolings in and out of play with Butcher of Malakir on the field. After a trip around the table where no one can stick a creature, he drops a Protean Hydra and pumps it up to 5 mil/5 mil. Another trip around the table, and I, as the person whose turn immediately precedes his, and with plenty of fanfare leading up to the draw, peel Austere Command off the top to wipe all his creatures.
After the game goes for a while, one Ghave has 24 life with 12 tokens out, one of which is a 24/24, and the other has 18 pegasi and 4 life. Memnarch is hanging out with a full grip due to Consecrated Sphinx and more lands than anyone really cares to count, because that's almost all he can seem to draw. I'm feeling pretty safe from the token decks behind Norn's Annex, Whipgrass Entangler, 8.5 Tails, and Reya Dawnbringer. When Memnarch's turn rolls around, he drops Treasure Mage and starts searching, eventually coming up with Mindslaver. He and teh pegasi Ghave had been working together to some degree for most of the game, and that Ghave was pretty set on what he was going to do. I'm just turtled up, making some soldiers with Kjeldoran Outpost, so he grabs the other Ghave's next turn. When that turn rolls around, he aims all 12 tokens towards me. If you remember from earlier, he's also at 24 life. I've also got Norn's Annex sitting pretty on my board.
The way it actually played out was him staying at 2 so I would have to deal with the incoming tokens, but suiciding the token deck into Annex for the exact amount of life left is my new favorite slaver play.
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today I had a pretty secure board position. I had put a privileged position fairly early in the game. The next turn I put a lurking predators on the battlefield and got a couple of dudes as the turns went on. At some point I was being teamed up on, though ineffectually. One player had a Grand Arbiter Augustin IV and a sen triplets, didn't matter too much because I was green white and I had plenty of mana. Eventually I played a Novablast wurm. I should also mention that I had other creatures including moss bridge troll. I had a rancor that I attached to the wurm. This made me wish that moss bridge troll didn't get removed from combat when it regenerates. Revealed during my opponents last turn with lurking predators, I played True conviction. This is pretty much where the game ends. The only thing that would have hurt me there was a board wipe, but I had still had the troll.
Turn two, GAAIV drops a Leonin Arbiter, shutting down all fetches and tutors, lawl.
Tibor, once more, drops a Jace's Archivist. Clearly, out hands are not sacred.
Zedruu gets hit with an early disconnect, and is gone turn 2.
Gwafa's turn 3 is Mind's Aglow. Players add mana till it gets to three.
Turn 3 for Tibor... Teferi's Puzzle box! Chaos, go! Archivist taps and we windfall for ten.
My turn 5- Confusion in the ranks, stealing Megrim, then erayo!
An archivist activation with a mindcrank on the field means everyone but me and the mindcranker start hurting. Then Windfall to kill everyone else. lawl.
Just Tibor at 5 life... and he Molten Pscyhe's me for the win. Damn.
We're pretty sure he died from megrim, but whatever.
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Upon realizing all five of us pulled out mono-colored decks at the same time, my friends and I decided to try out a game of Star Magic the other night (five mono-colored decks, your allied colors are your allies and you can only attack your enemy colors). Green is Omnath, Black is Geth, White is Patron of the Kitsune, Blue is Thada Adel, Acquisitor and I am leading the brave Red armies of Marton Stromgald into battle. It's gonna be an uphill battle against life-gain happy Patron and counter-happy Thada, but Marton has beaten better decks than these.
Said uphill battle begins when Thada sticks a turn two Mana Drain on an Isochron Scepter. Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh. He counters a few spells from Omnath and I until Omnath finally casts an Acidic Slime is desperation. Thada taps his two Islands and smirks, but it's mono-Red to the rescue with a Reiterate on the copy, ending the tyrannical reign of the Scepter for good!
Nothing super exciting happens after that until turn 8-ish when Geth drops a Memory Jar, giving himself a fresh stock of goodies in graveyards. Luckily, Patron puts a stop to this with a Tormod's Crypt that he can recur every turn with Argivian Archaeologist. He and Geth are now pretty much at each other's throats, as are Omnath and Thada. Poor mono-Red is all alone in the corner...for now.
In all the chaos, nobody seems to notice that an innocuous little Firecat Blitz has made it into my graveyard. Problem is, Patron still has that pesky Crypt sitting around. My turn rolls around and I ask Patron specifically if I can move to my main phase. He agrees, and I flashback the Blitz, saccing my entire land base and getting 10 fiery Kitties. Both of my enemies have spent all their blockers and relevant answers killing each other. Marton turns those 10 1/1s into 10 11/11s and I end the game out of nowhere in over 100 power of flaming feline death.
This was all done at 6 life left; with The Mimeoplasm as a Flipped Nezumi Graverobber -> Nighteyes the Desecrator on board; Sheoldred, Wrexial, and Puppeteer Clique that had Grabbed a Memnarch (which stole me a crawlspace and a sol ring during the same turn.
I won that game.
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After nuking his lands, my eternal witness trigger got my back mystical tutor, which i used to fetch a wipe and clear his total down to zero off massacre wurm triggers.
Good way to end it.
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
I have a Vulturous Zombie in play as well as a Myojin of Night's reach.
During one of my opponent's turn he plays All is Dust. While it is on the stack I remove the divinity counter from my Myojin which gives my Vulturous around 30 counters or so making it a 35/35 when all is said in done. Then I cast Momentous Fall targeting my Zombie.
After everything resolved the board was wiped, as were my opponents had no cards in hand while I had a cool 69 life and a hand with 40+ cards in it. Since I had a Reliquary Tower in play my opponents conceded on the spot.
It was a cool combo that I didn't realize I could even do until I was forced to do it.
Modern:
UWUW TronUW
Legacy:
WDeath N TaxesW
CEldrazi C
If you couldn't tell I hate greedy blue decks.
Vintage
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I am running Angus Mackenzie. I built it as kind of a fog/life gain deck that wins with Felidar Soveregin or Test of Endurance. At this point, I'm at 68 life, facing off against a 5cc deck and two others that aren't really important, but I don't have my win cons yet.
The 5cc deck cast a Warp World, and found Pestermite and Kiki-Jiki. Someone tried to kill Kiki-Jiki but he made 500,000,000 tokens in response - Kiki-Jiki died, however. He asked the table to scoop, and the other two players did, but luckily I had flipped up a Propaganda. The entire table burst out laughing. I had just 1 card in hand - Cradle of Vitality, completely worthless - and 6 lands, and nothing else of consequence on the board, though. However, one of my lands was a Saltcrusted Steppe. He dealt me 4 to move me to 64 and passed the turn, and I played my cradle just in case I'd need it. The whole table was now rooting for me to somehow pull it off.
I drew an Angelsong and passed the turn (Angus was buried deep in my library somewhere). He cast some stuff but didn't have the mana to attack, and I put a counter on the Steppe. I drew a Dawn Charm and passed the turn. He attacked for 13, but I cast the Charm. He passed and I put another counter on. I drew a land and played it, and passed the turn. He attacked for 13 again, I cast Angelsong. He passes, I put a counter on the Steppe - now 3 counters. I drew a Sol Ring, cast it, and passe. He attacked me for 13, putting me down to 51, and I added a counter to the Steppe - I now had 11 mana.
I flipped over the next card.
Storm Herd. I made 51 tokens, and my opponent conceded with an amazed look on his face. This is my new favorite deck despite the fact that I have been playing it for all of a week.
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Standard:
GGGRDungrove Wolf RunGGGR
Modern:
URExarchMite KikiTwinUR
EDH:
GGGOmnathGGG
WWWDarienWWW
GGGEzuriGGG
I'm amazed you let an opponent get to his main phase with cards in his hand.
Standard
GWB Junk Rites GWB
Brewing
GWBU 4-Color Rites/Aggro GWBU
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Like I said I honestly wasn't aware of the interaction before I was forced to do it. It was nifty and I was excited that deck had surprised me.
Modern:
UWUW TronUW
Legacy:
WDeath N TaxesW
CEldrazi C
If you couldn't tell I hate greedy blue decks.
Vintage
WWhite Trash
I am running Angus Mackenzie. I built it as kind of a fog/life gain deck that wins with Felidar Soveregin or Test of Endurance. At this point, I'm at 68 life, facing off against a 5cc deck and two others that aren't really important, but I don't have my win cons yet.
The 5cc deck cast a Warp World, and found Pestermite and Kiki-Jiki. Someone tried to kill Kiki-Jiki but he made 500,000,000 tokens in response - Kiki-Jiki died, however. He asked the table to scoop, and the other two players did, but luckily I had flipped up a Propaganda. The entire table burst out laughing. I had just 1 card in hand - Cradle of Vitality, completely worthless - and 6 lands, and nothing else of consequence on the board, though. However, one of my lands was a Saltcrusted Steppe. He dealt me 4 to move me to 64 and passed the turn, and I played my cradle just in case I'd need it. The whole table was now rooting for me to somehow pull it off.
I drew an Angelsong and passed the turn (Angus was buried deep in my library somewhere). He cast some stuff but didn't have the mana to attack, and I put a counter on the Steppe. I drew a Dawn Charm and passed the turn. He attacked for 13, but I cast the Charm. He passed and I put another counter on. I drew a land and played it, and passed the turn. He attacked for 13 again, I cast Angelsong. He passes, I put a counter on the Steppe - now 3 counters. I drew a Sol Ring, cast it, and passe. He attacked me for 13, putting me down to 51, and I added a counter to the Steppe - I now had 11 mana.
I flipped over the next card.
Storm Herd. I made 51 tokens, and my opponent conceded with an amazed look on his face. This is my new favorite deck despite the fact that I have been playing it for all of a week.
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Why did your opponent concede? Didn't he still have 500,000 flying pestermites?
Kiki tokens only stick around until end of turn, and Kiki was already gone.
Probably not anymore. If I am not wrong, Kiki-Jiki's 500,000 Perstermites has haste and are sacrificed at the beginning of the next end step where they were "cloned".
EDH
Azami (video)
:symw::symb::symg: Teneb (video)
Drana (video) (retired)
:symw::symr: Brion (video)
:symb::symr: Wort (video)
Arcum (video) (retired)
:symr::symg: Stonebrow (video)
B Shirei (video)
WU Rasputin (video) (retired)
R Urabrask (video)
WUR Zedruu (video) (retired)
W Isamaru
UB Grimgrin
U Mistform Ultimus (video)
UBR Gwendlyn (video)
URG Animar (video)
RG Thromok
WB Selenia
Standard
WU Geist of Saint Traft standard EDH (video) (retired)
WUB Battle of Wits!
Game over turn 3. I was then asked if this was legacy -_-
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In another game - Thraximundar tried to give Child of Alara the extra turns it would take to kill me, so he cast Time Stretch on him.
However, i had the mana open to weld out an artifact and bring back Sol Ring, and then wild richochet the time stretch to give ME 4 turns. My, that was fun.
I proceeded to use these four turns to Cast a Sundering Titan, then weld it in and out four times, wrecking everyone's mana bases. Woo hoo.
Sadly, Child still had enough after this to Cast Sins of the Past to get Memory Plunder to get Time Stretch, then deal lethal damage to everyone before mortifying his own Abyssal Persecutor.
That was entertaining.
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
Thursday night, a couple friends and I were playing a three player game, and I was piloting my new Riku of Two Reflections deck. The game had stalemated badly, and we were all digging for some sort of sweep effect. I was at 15 (up from one, thanks to Riku doubling Primal Command) and my two opponents were at 23 and 45. Collective Voyage had also been cast twice, so we were all sitting on 20+ mana.
End of last opponent's turn: Sac Terrastrodon to Greater Good to get an answer. Draw into Inferno Titan and Quicksilver Gargantuan, Anarchist and chaff.
My turn: Play Titan and Gargantual copying Titan for value, taking the opponent at 45 to 39. I also played Riku.
The table wheels with people just playing chaff.
My turn, I topdecked Rite of Replication, played it with kicker targeting Inferno Titan, copied it with Riku, and then played Anarchist to get it back and do it all over again in the same turn. If anyone cares to count, that is 60 damage divided as I choose plus 20 Inferno Titans in play.
I also cast Rite of Replication kicked on Sphinx of Uthuun in two out of three games that night. Once was with Riku and the other was with my Rasputin Dreamweaver blink deck.
My last story involves the dangers of group hug. I was playing my very spikey Geth, Lord of the Vault deck at a table with Riku, The Mimeoplasm, and Pheldagriff group hug. All of us got off to a fast start, and, due to Pheldagriff playing Collective Voyage and getting Rites of Flourishing, Howling Mine, and Font of Mythos into play quickly, we were all quite set up. He also cast Eureka! at one point.
My board turn 8 was 23 lands (including Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth, Deserted Temple, and Cabal Coffers), Caged Sun, Gauntlet of Power, and Magus of the Coffers. I used Demonic Tutor to grab an Exsanguinate for over 100 on turn 8.
Karador had just boardwiped everyone with Damnation because Ghave was going to win the next turn, and then passed to me. I had just lost Lhurgoyf to the wipe, and was kind of mad. I had my Greaves out, and finally drew my forest via Rhystic Study from the wipe. I play Buried Alive, grave tutored Szadek, Mortivore, and Sewer Nemesis. I then proceeded to cast Mimeoplasm for the first time, and had to stop and think about the 2 that were being exiled. Then it hit me, Szadek and Lhurgoyf! There were about 40 creatures in all graveyards, and it was only fair to get Ghave out of there asap. So, I did just that, then equipped my Greaves, and bashed him, forcing him to mill 45 cards, and boosting Mimeoplasm +45/+45, making him a 90/90, not including what was just placed in the graveyard. And the best part was that everyone was tapped out.
After that, it is safe to say that I was pointed out as a threat. The next turn that came around for me, I was at 5 life, and drew 1 card that made my day. I had just drawn Gruesome Encore, and saw that Draco had his lands tapped out again. I cast it, pulled Wrexial out of his graveyard, swung with both of them against Kaalia, and then pulled out World at War from her graveyard, cast it, and then beat down Karador, and then got beat down by Draco.
All in all, it was quite fun.
Currently Running:
Nothing, I have just gotten back after a long hiatus, and am just now starting to rebuild my collection.
I'm in a 4 person game and someone has just used Survival of the Fittest to get Avenger of Zendikar, with Doubling Season out, to get a ton of nasty plants. And when we board wipe discards an Eldrazi, to recur the graveyard, to get Avenger, to do it again.
He had to do it several times because the entire time I'm going.
Turn 1 after he does this, All is Dust.
Turn 2, Eternal Witness, get back All is Dust, All is Dust.
Turn 3, Sun Titan, recur Eternal Witness, get back All is Dust, All is Dust.
Turn 4, DOJ, Praetor's Council, get back graveyard.
Turn 5, All is Dust.
After this the other players manage to kill him, then me as they're tired of the 5 consecutive turns board wiping.
In another game with 3 players left. I'm playing a Uril, the Miststalker deck and someone else is borrowing my Sharuum, the Hegemon deck. I load multiple auras on Uril with the intent to eliminate a player, forgetting he has Ghostly Prison out I don't leave enough open to attack. Before my next turn he Insurrections and kills me with my own Uril. He then tells me to feel free to help the guy playing my other deck. That guy uses Tezzeret 2.0 and I see Mindslaver and tell him to take it. I look at the board and realize that because he has a Master Transmuter out, he can infinitely recur Mindslaver for the rest of the game if he wants and start explaining to him how to do it. At this point the player who killed me is all of a sudden less ok with me helping out the guy playing my other deck.
Most of my decks: http://tappedout.net/users/thraashman/
Question, what was the guy's General? Did he have a way to recur Survival itself? Because if not, 1 All is Dust is all that was needed.
Currently Running:
Nothing, I have just gotten back after a long hiatus, and am just now starting to rebuild my collection.
I can't remember how he got the Survival back. I think it was something like in response to the first he sacrificed the Avenger to something, then pitched a creature to the surivival to get Ulamog, then pitched Ulamog to recur graveyard and get back Avenger. Then Praetor's Counciled himself one turn to recur graveyard. I can't remember the entire thing, and I don't remember if Avenger was the threat more than 2 or 3 of those 5 turns. But I know it required me to keep board wiping to keep him from winning. And I don't remember what he had that let him sac Avenger. But it was something like that.
Most of my decks: http://tappedout.net/users/thraashman/
Long story short, Skithiryx does what it's meant to (thanks to a turn 3 Necropotence) and kills off Riku and Savra. I try to stop her with a 26/26 Trench Gorger, but it gets Terrored. Other than that I've been just playing mana artifacts until now, plus Unwinding Clock; now I land a Mind Over Matter with one card left in hand. I threaten to pitch it to tap Skithiryx unless she promises to attack Jenara and not me, and so now Jenara is out. EOT I use Nin for x = 9 on a miscellaneous creature, so I have a mitt full of cards.
We now enter a precarious balance. For several turns, back and forth, I keep Skithy at bay by spending most of my hand to tap her creatures, untap some of my mana, make a new creature, and use Nin to refill. Then she plays Karn Liberated and exiles my Mind Over Matter.
On my turn, I go for a Reins of Power to finish it and kill Skithyrx with her own infect creatures, but she uses the black fog. Before ending and passing back her creatures, however, I kick a Rite of Replication on her Royal Assassin and pass a Lightning Greaves around to destroy most of her creatures, including the original assassin.
Eventually, I manage to stall her and get a really big hit with nin - I draw 17 cards, leaving me with 5 left in my library. She is at 35 life, myself at 29. I make Psychosis Crawler and use Nin to draw 1 card, putting her at 34... so that I can then use Dream Halls, Coalition Relic, and Clock of Omens to be able to cast Furnace of Rath and Heartless Hidetsugu, move Greaves, and activate him, leaving myself at 1 and her at 0. GG.
During my 1st main phase, player 2 tried to Terror my general which was met with a Force of Will. I tried to equip my Neurok Stealthsuit to my Psychosis Crawler which in response player 4 tried to Slaughter Pact. In response, I attached the Stealthsuit via the UU cost so it fizzled. after all that, I cast Molten Psyche with active metalcraft and 24 cards in hand. Everyone lost 24 life due to me redrawing, then since everyone else had at least 10 cards in hand, took 10 more each, and the 2 players that were still alive, I shot with Niv-Mizzet FTW!!!
I collect pre-release Stone-Tongue Basilisk
Playing a four way with 8.5 Tails (me), two Ghaves, and Memnarch. One of the Ghaves starts off strong, accidentally creating more or less perfect creature control with Ghave, Devoted Druid, and Blade of the Bloodchief looping an arbitrary number of saprolings in and out of play with Butcher of Malakir on the field. After a trip around the table where no one can stick a creature, he drops a Protean Hydra and pumps it up to 5 mil/5 mil. Another trip around the table, and I, as the person whose turn immediately precedes his, and with plenty of fanfare leading up to the draw, peel Austere Command off the top to wipe all his creatures.
After the game goes for a while, one Ghave has 24 life with 12 tokens out, one of which is a 24/24, and the other has 18 pegasi and 4 life. Memnarch is hanging out with a full grip due to Consecrated Sphinx and more lands than anyone really cares to count, because that's almost all he can seem to draw. I'm feeling pretty safe from the token decks behind Norn's Annex, Whipgrass Entangler, 8.5 Tails, and Reya Dawnbringer. When Memnarch's turn rolls around, he drops Treasure Mage and starts searching, eventually coming up with Mindslaver. He and teh pegasi Ghave had been working together to some degree for most of the game, and that Ghave was pretty set on what he was going to do. I'm just turtled up, making some soldiers with Kjeldoran Outpost, so he grabs the other Ghave's next turn. When that turn rolls around, he aims all 12 tokens towards me. If you remember from earlier, he's also at 24 life. I've also got Norn's Annex sitting pretty on my board.
The way it actually played out was him staying at 2 so I would have to deal with the incoming tokens, but suiciding the token deck into Annex for the exact amount of life left is my new favorite slaver play.
My Saffi deck
Norin vs Riku vs Oona vs Gwafa Hazid vs Celestial Kirin vs Scion vs Ashling the Pilgrim vs Zedruu vs Tibor and Lumia. Oh, and GAAIV.
Turn 1 for Tibor - Wheel of Fortune. REALLY?!
Turn two, GAAIV drops a Leonin Arbiter, shutting down all fetches and tutors, lawl.
Tibor, once more, drops a Jace's Archivist. Clearly, out hands are not sacred.
Zedruu gets hit with an early disconnect, and is gone turn 2.
Gwafa's turn 3 is Mind's Aglow. Players add mana till it gets to three.
Turn 3 for Tibor... Teferi's Puzzle box! Chaos, go! Archivist taps and we windfall for ten.
Turn 4.. Oona drops Megrim!
Riku drops Magus of the moon!
My turn 5- Confusion in the ranks, stealing Megrim, then erayo!
An archivist activation with a mindcrank on the field means everyone but me and the mindcranker start hurting. Then Windfall to kill everyone else. lawl.
Just Tibor at 5 life... and he Molten Pscyhe's me for the win. Damn.
We're pretty sure he died from megrim, but whatever.
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
Said uphill battle begins when Thada sticks a turn two Mana Drain on an Isochron Scepter. Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh. He counters a few spells from Omnath and I until Omnath finally casts an Acidic Slime is desperation. Thada taps his two Islands and smirks, but it's mono-Red to the rescue with a Reiterate on the copy, ending the tyrannical reign of the Scepter for good!
Nothing super exciting happens after that until turn 8-ish when Geth drops a Memory Jar, giving himself a fresh stock of goodies in graveyards. Luckily, Patron puts a stop to this with a Tormod's Crypt that he can recur every turn with Argivian Archaeologist. He and Geth are now pretty much at each other's throats, as are Omnath and Thada. Poor mono-Red is all alone in the corner...for now.
In all the chaos, nobody seems to notice that an innocuous little Firecat Blitz has made it into my graveyard. Problem is, Patron still has that pesky Crypt sitting around. My turn rolls around and I ask Patron specifically if I can move to my main phase. He agrees, and I flashback the Blitz, saccing my entire land base and getting 10 fiery Kitties. Both of my enemies have spent all their blockers and relevant answers killing each other. Marton turns those 10 1/1s into 10 11/11s and I end the game out of nowhere in over 100 power of flaming feline death.
Feels good man.
Chainer, Dementia Master:symb:-MBC/Graveyard shenanigans ------> Primer!
Rasputin Dreamweaver:symw:-Big mana/blink
Marton Stromgald:symr:-Token aggro
Animar, Soul of Elements:symug:-Combo/big dorks
Nath of the Gilt-Leaf:symb:-Discard/Elves
Grimgrin, Corpse-Born-Tribal zombies/Voltron
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