The last time I won a game, the first thing I said in the game winning sequence was
"phyrexian metamorph, copying nothing".
I got a few eyebrows over that one.
The relevant permanents on board were: Mirari's Wake, Gilded Lotus, Eternal Witness, Rings of Brighthearth, Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker (11 loyalty), and several untapped lands.
I tapped the Lotus and 3 lands to add UUUUUUUUU to my pool and announced Rite of Replication, with kicker, targeting the Phyrexian Metamorph.
(there was a small counterwar, which I won)
4 copies came into play, and copied Gilded Lotus. The 5th came in as a Witness, and got my Rite back. Lather, rinse, repeat, I had infinite mana (actually, I had 100^100^100^100^100^100^100^100^100^100th mana, but whatever). I then substituted Rings of Brighthearth for Gilded Lotus in my copy extravaganza. Finally, I announced Nicol Bolas' ultimate - copied once by each copy of Rings (999,999, plus the original).
each player had to sacrifice 7,000,000 permanents, discard 7,000,000 cards.... or would have but for the 7,000,000 damage. Lolz
I love that combo.
That's the most incredible crazy play I've heard in a long time. That's pretty impressive.
That's the most incredible crazy play I've heard in a long time. That's pretty impressive.
Thanks!
A few asked some questions. It's not really 5 color "goodstuff" per se, it has an ETB and recursion theme, but it's close enough I guess. The list is in my sig, though it's off by a card or two I think.
Yeah, I actually went through it (with shortcuts, of course). Most folks I play with prefer to see the win.
The deck usually wins with some sort of crazy play, but this is the only true infinite combo (the actual kill can vary of course, but the core mechanism of Rite + Metamorph, lotus, wake, and witness) is the only abitrary loop in the deck. There are other fairly stupid, but mana-constrained combos.
Day of the Dragons recursion to recurr ETB effects is my second favourite thing to do. It can get pretty silly.
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Played my first Commander game today, i borrowed a UR deck based on drawing cards with "Maro" type effect. On turn 8 i think, i went Boots, Niz-Mizzet, Curiosity, kill 2 players, draw 58 cards and drop the Venser's Journal. All this in a turn because of a huge Everflowing Chalice the previous turn.
Then there was one opponent left that died to my Molten Psyche the following turn.
I'm hooked! I will be building my first EDH in the following weeks. It's like good old Highlanders games we use to play 13 years ago.. But just better
Played my first Commander game today, i borrowed a UR deck based on drawing cards with "Maro" type effect. On turn 8 i think, i went Boots, Niz-Mizzet, Curiosity, kill 2 players, draw 58 cards and drop the Venser's Journal. All this in a turn because of a huge Everflowing Chalice the previous turn.
Then there was one opponent left that died to my Molten Psyche the following turn.
I'm hooked! I will be building my first EDH in the following weeks. It's like good old Highlanders games we use to play 13 years ago.. But just better
....Wait... if you did niv+curiosity then you should have been able to kill the entire table.
On topic: Hosing the entire board with turn 2 Ward of Bones
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annoying blue horsmenship guy gets some infect equipment on the board and gets Darien up to 8 poison counters. Then he quits because he has company or something. I didn't mind because picking a horsemanship general and strapping infect on him is kinda bleh anyway.
so at this point I had cast primeval titan and put on him whispersilk cloak. I'm still kind of annoyed having all this juice on the table and he gets to sac one token to make it all go away.
right when I finally complete my infinite mana combo, I mosswort bridge into Spawnsire of Ulamog.
Used garuuk to untap the bridge and temple, Activate the bridge. he stops me by activating Catapult Master to pop my Spawnsire of Ulamog. in response I sac him to ashnod's altar to prevent him from getting RFG-ed and then sac moldgraf monstrosity to get him back. and then he invited some friends to come over:
he was confused at this point and sitting there not destroying his stuff, so I made a mistake and put my moldgraf back in and kept him alive even though all is dust would've would've resolved after artisan of kozilek that and killed him again, which would still have been a even more EPIC play, hah!
As I am writing this I know it almost sounds like I'm just making it up in my head like what the perfect game scenario would be. I even had crucible of worlds out to recur my tomb of the false god if I needed to. I was playing online so I took a screenshot: http://cl.ly/3H3D3C3C2l310j3E2O2u
I suck for not capturing his stuff too. I'm retarded. that kinda saps my credibility a bit. but It's dorky enough to post about cool magic plays, let alone fictionalized ones.
oh and here's a link to my deck: http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/mana-mana-mana-1/
I currently own about $220 worth of the cards for this deck, with about $150 more to go. I don't have some of the expensive stuff, namely; crucible of worlds, elesh norn, flooded strand, misty rainforest, knight of the reliquary, and consecrated sphinx.
actually if anyone's want's some cash for cards, let me know. there's a bunch of random worthless junk I need too.
here's a list of what I need: http://pastie.org/3172426
Played my first Commander game today, i borrowed a UR deck based on drawing cards with "Maro" type effect. On turn 8 i think, i went Boots, Niz-Mizzet, Curiosity, kill 2 players, draw 58 cards and drop the Venser's Journal. All this in a turn because of a huge Everflowing Chalice the previous turn.
Then there was one opponent left that died to my Molten Psyche the following turn.
I'm hooked! I will be building my first EDH in the following weeks. It's like good old Highlanders games we use to play 13 years ago.. But just better
So you're first EDH game ended in you comboing out and THAT is what got you hooked?
So you're first EDH game ended in you comboing out and THAT is what got you hooked?
That's depressing.
this, this so much.
I'm depressed too.
Anyway, good luck with building your new EDH deck.
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Used garuuk to untap the bridge and temple, Activate the bridge. he stops me by activating Catapult Master to pop my Spawnsire of Ulamog. in response I sac him to ashnod's altar to prevent him from getting RFG-ed and then sac moldgraf monstrosity to get him back. and then he invited some friends to come over:
Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
Pathrazer of Ulamog
Ulamog's Crusher
Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
Artisan of Kozilek
Eldrazi Conscription
Hand of Emrakul
It That Betrays
Skittering Invasion
and then finally at the very end...
All Is Dust
You say you put moldgraf back in. But you sacced it before, don't you need to exile it when you sack it? How did you get it back?
Could you also explain how the infinite mana works with just temple, rings, mana reflection and some lands. You can't copy mana abilities with rings. And i don't see any untap stuff in there that would make you able to untap mana producers.
Also i think you should not criticize someone for playing a blue horseman general with infect slapped on if you play spawnsire of ulamog and slap a load of eldrazi on the table that you didn't care enough about to put in your deck.
I finally finished off my Monowhite enchantment combo deck for EDH, with cho-manno, revolutionary as my general.
I won for the first time with the deck last night in a 4 player game. It was an interesting game, facing off against Thada Adel artifact beatdown, Atogatog crazyness and a typical Zedruu deck.
The game stared off fast, with 3 of us gangbanging the Thada player to death since he kept stealing artifacts from our decks.
Then at one point the Atogatog player mentioned how he built a random deck full of flavourfull creatures because he is bored with people winning with the same methods all the time, genesis wave, exsanguinate, etc.
After 1 hour later I pull off the victory by milling the Zedruu player to death and then killing off atogatog with karma+urborg, tomb of yawgmoth! That's right, karma. I hope he enjoyed the non-conventional win cons in my deck!
You say you put moldgraf back in. But you sacced it before, don't you need to exile it when you sack it? How did you get it back?
Could you also explain how the infinite mana works with just temple, rings, mana reflection and some lands. You can't copy mana abilities with rings. And i don't see any untap stuff in there that would make you able to untap mana producers.
Also i think you should not criticize someone for playing a blue horseman general with infect slapped on if you play spawnsire of ulamog and slap a load of eldrazi on the table that you didn't care enough about to put in your deck.
It's not infinite. You can only do as much damage as you draw cards, which is usually about two players depending on late in the game it is.
There should be a time spiral or something to refill the library for a continued assault -_-. Keeping in mind that the deckbuilder should know that weakness in the combo.
Drawing 50-60 cards is equivalent to i win basically.
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There should be a time spiral or something to refill the library for a continued assault -_-. Keeping in mind that the deckbuilder should know that weakness in the combo.
Drawing 50-60 cards is equivalent to i win basically.
The deck was borrowed and he/she may not have known how that deck functioned: -
Anyway, good luck with building your new EDH deck.
That's how some people are they like things like that and it gets them hooked. It's not depressing it's just what they view as fun. There is someone here on the forums that actually has an edh valakut deck. no offence to the creator but, do you know how linear and simple that is? But hey to each to their own.
I have a great idea. Lets not criticize people for the things they find fun. Combos can be fun too if you have the right attitude. It was someone else's deck that he borrowed, so at least one other person found the combo fun. If this is what he enjoys, who are we to hate him for it?
The problem with defining [EDH] by what is "fun" is that everyone seems to define fun as what they don't lose to. If you keep losing to easily answered cards, that means you should improve your deck. If you don't want to improve your deck, then you should come to peace with the idea that you are going to lose because you chose to not interact with better strategies.
My turn starts, and I topdeck Thoughtpicker Witch. Drop that, and notice an overly complicated combo. In order,
A - Activate Skeleton.
B - Genesis Chamber makes me a myr, Death Match kills Skeleton, putting a counter on Black Market.
C - Sac the myr to Witch for another counter and control Saffi's topdecks.
D - Repeat.
Final result is 3 mana to put two counters on Black Market, as well as keep my opponent from drawing anything other than lands for the rest of the game. There's never an opportunity for him to Cypt the Skeleton, because Black Market means I can leave lands up to activate in response. After the third turn of drawing a basic, he scooped, at which point Black Market had 40 counters. Definitely didn't expect that deck to be able to lock and mill someone out.
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My turn starts, and I topdeck Thoughtpicker Witch. Drop that, and notice an overly complicated combo. In order,
A - Activate Skeleton.
B - Genesis Chamber makes me a myr, Death Match kills Skeleton, putting a counter on Black Market.
C - Sac the myr to Witch for another counter and control Saffi's topdecks.
D - Repeat.
Final result is 3 mana to put two counters on Black Market, as well as keep my opponent from drawing anything other than lands for the rest of the game. There's never an opportunity for him to Cypt the Skeleton, because Black Market means I can leave lands up to activate in response. After the third turn of drawing a basic, he scooped, at which point Black Market had 40 counters. Definitely didn't expect that deck to be able to lock and mill someone out.
Black Market's mana ability only triggers 1/turn...
Black Market's mana ability only triggers 1/turn...
I know that. First turn I exile 3 cards. Next turn, after he draws and plays his land, I exile 5 cards. Next turn, after he draws and plays his land, I exile 8 cards. It doesn't win on the spot, which is why it's lock/mill and not just mill.
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So you're first EDH game ended in you comboing out and THAT is what got you hooked?
That's depressing.
Well the store was also closing in 5 minutes.. so the timing was perfect. I played my fair share of "highlander" format back in the days... now the format is just better and more evolved.
Okay, I don't think I've told this one yet...
I was in a one-on-one game against Kaalia, playing Dralnu.
Kaalia dropped a Stranglehold pretty early on, which completely screwed my deck over.
Then, a turn or two later, Kaalia swung in and invited her good pal Rakdos to the party.
Oh boy, here we go.
However, this time around, my friend didn't stop with just one Rakdos swing like he usually does. He decided to keep the pressure on, wiping half of my board each turn while sacrificing lands of his own. Fortunately, he didn't have much else to cheat out with Kaalia, so she and Rakdos were the only ones hitting me.
Before I know it, I'm at less than 15 life and I have only one or two mana sources left. However, my opponent was also running out of permanents, and then he made a very crucial error.
He sacrificed Stranglehold.
At the end of his turn, I cast the Mystical Tutor in my hand to search for my only answer to Rakdos - Pongify.
I drew the Pongify for my turn, and simply passed.
The idea of losing half of his dwindling board with no payout kept him from attacking, and we started playing draw-go. Thankfully, I started drawing into more lands, and began to rebuild while he simply passed his turns with no action.
Enter mistake number two: Not swinging with Rakdos.
Had he attacked with Rakdos, he would have forced my removal spell, leaving him with a 3/3 to diminish my life total unimpeded and put me on a clock while I would desperately try to find another out with almost no board presence.
I steadily edged further in board development, always making sure to leave one blue mana open, until I eventually managed to win by reanimating a huge fatty with enough open mana for counter backup.
I'm not sure if this took place in the same game, but I managed to turn the tables on Kaalia with but a single Reins of Power.
Kaalia had an army of giant creatures (and several small ones), and I had only Dralnu and mana producers. I cast Reins of Power, attacked him with his own creatures (but ultimately sacrificed them to Rakdos), then made him sacrifice half of his remaining permanents.
I wasn't able to get rid of Rakdos, but I was able to get rid of nearly everything else!
The last time I won a game, the first thing I said in the game winning sequence was
"phyrexian metamorph, copying nothing".
I got a few eyebrows over that one.
The relevant permanents on board were: Mirari's Wake, Gilded Lotus, Eternal Witness, Rings of Brighthearth, Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker (11 loyalty), and several untapped lands.
I tapped the Lotus and 3 lands to add UUUUUUUUU to my pool and announced Rite of Replication, with kicker, targeting the Phyrexian Metamorph.
(there was a small counterwar, which I won)
4 copies came into play, and copied Gilded Lotus. The 5th came in as a Witness, and got my Rite back. Lather, rinse, repeat, I had infinite mana (actually, I had 100^100^100^100^100^100^100^100^100^100th mana, but whatever). I then substituted Rings of Brighthearth for Gilded Lotus in my copy extravaganza. Finally, I announced Nicol Bolas' ultimate - copied once by each copy of Rings (999,999, plus the original).
each player had to sacrifice 7,000,000 permanents, discard 7,000,000 cards.... or would have but for the 7,000,000 damage. Lolz
I love that combo.
Now this is a perfect example of a crazy play. Bravo.
The problem with defining this format by what is "fun" is that everyone seems to define fun as what they don't lose to. If you keep losing to easily answered cards, that means you should improve your deck. If you don't want to improve your deck, then you should come to peace with the idea that you are going to lose because you chose to not interact with better strategies.
One game, I was having rotten luck- all the cards in the world with nothing to cast.
I had out a Lotus Bloom, a Darksteel Ingot, an Extraplanar Lens, only two mountains, a Sensei's Divining Top, and a Grim Monolith. My plan was to stick a Keldon Firebombers to even the field, since my hand of Molten Psyche, Insurrection, and Word of Seizing was useless.
Then, the person in front of me stuck a Hive Mind and passed turn!
I decided to try to live the dream. I cast Molten Psyche, with Metalcraft. it hit two people for 12 and one person for 16, and I had 7 mana left. I psychied into... Past in Flames!
I cast it again, killing everyone on turn 5 or 6 (I can't remember). Kill 3 people at once in mono-red without going infinite, woohoo!
He tapped out for a Future Sight and something else. There's a Gauntlet of Power out, so I have 8x2 mountains, plus a memory jar, a couple mana rocks, and a Goblin Welder.
I cast an Ignorant Bliss, exiling my hand to get a little mileage from the jar later, and then I goblin welder the Memory Jar back into play. We each draw:
7
Out of this hand, I cast a few random artifacts, including a Mana Vault, and a Wheel of Fortune. We discard, and I put Recoup into the GY. We each draw:
I finally drew it! And with Mana Vault, a tapped Grim Monolith, and a Mimic Vat giving me metalcraft, I windmill slammed Molten Psyche, which shuffled his hand in and forced another 7. He took 42 damage to his 40 life total.
Rite of Replication kicked on a Quicksilver Gargantuan, copying Solemn Simulacrum. Not the flashiest play on here by far (like I even looked at 1/10th of the posts...), but the 5 giant robots crashing to the ground to end the game seemed appropriately anime-esque at the time.
Two stories involving Phage. The first was a run of the mill Helm of Obedience activation targeting my opponent. He flips Phage, the Untouchable, game over, I lose. In another game, we'd been playing for like an hour or so and everyone had huge graveyards. I cast Living Death and low and behold, he had his Phage in the yard. This time, he dies. Not so crazy just entertaining.
That's the most incredible crazy play I've heard in a long time. That's pretty impressive.
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:symr::symb: I hate your deck(Kaervek the Merciless)
Wait, how do I even hide it as a name title?
Kemba, Kostume
Ka...Oh god that's not a good alliteration.Wait, how do I even hide it as a name title?
Thanks!
A few asked some questions. It's not really 5 color "goodstuff" per se, it has an ETB and recursion theme, but it's close enough I guess. The list is in my sig, though it's off by a card or two I think.
Yeah, I actually went through it (with shortcuts, of course). Most folks I play with prefer to see the win.
The deck usually wins with some sort of crazy play, but this is the only true infinite combo (the actual kill can vary of course, but the core mechanism of Rite + Metamorph, lotus, wake, and witness) is the only abitrary loop in the deck. There are other fairly stupid, but mana-constrained combos.
Day of the Dragons recursion to recurr ETB effects is my second favourite thing to do. It can get pretty silly.
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Then there was one opponent left that died to my Molten Psyche the following turn.
I'm hooked! I will be building my first EDH in the following weeks. It's like good old Highlanders games we use to play 13 years ago.. But just better
....Wait... if you did niv+curiosity then you should have been able to kill the entire table.
On topic: Hosing the entire board with turn 2 Ward of Bones
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It's not infinite. You can only do as much damage as you draw cards, which is usually about two players depending on late in the game it is.
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annoying blue horsmenship guy gets some infect equipment on the board and gets Darien up to 8 poison counters. Then he quits because he has company or something. I didn't mind because picking a horsemanship general and strapping infect on him is kinda bleh anyway.
I was doing pretty good...
I resolved a defense of the heart, tooth and nail, and green sun's zenith in this game.
It didn't matter a lot thought because he was playing solder tokens and had Darksteel Plate on Knight-Captain of Eos, and Door of Destinies making his tokens pretty big.
I had moldgraf monstrosity, blazing archon, vigor, ashnod's altar, garuuk wildspeaker... maybe some other stuff. He had just removed my blightsteel colossus with Catapult Master and had enough soldiers to exile again.
so at this point I had cast primeval titan and put on him whispersilk cloak. I'm still kind of annoyed having all this juice on the table and he gets to sac one token to make it all go away.
so I swing with titan anyway just for the fetch. I go get temple of the false god and mosswort bridge.
I just laid down a temple of the false god with with mana reflection, a couple of lands that produce 2 mana and rings of brighthearth. so that means infinite mana of any of my generals colors.
I've never been this lucky in a game:
right when I finally complete my infinite mana combo, I mosswort bridge into Spawnsire of Ulamog.
Used garuuk to untap the bridge and temple, Activate the bridge. he stops me by activating Catapult Master to pop my Spawnsire of Ulamog. in response I sac him to ashnod's altar to prevent him from getting RFG-ed and then sac moldgraf monstrosity to get him back. and then he invited some friends to come over:
and then finally at the very end...
All Is Dust
he was confused at this point and sitting there not destroying his stuff, so I made a mistake and put my moldgraf back in and kept him alive even though all is dust would've would've resolved after artisan of kozilek that and killed him again, which would still have been a even more EPIC play, hah!
As I am writing this I know it almost sounds like I'm just making it up in my head like what the perfect game scenario would be. I even had crucible of worlds out to recur my tomb of the false god if I needed to. I was playing online so I took a screenshot: http://cl.ly/3H3D3C3C2l310j3E2O2u
I suck for not capturing his stuff too. I'm retarded. that kinda saps my credibility a bit. but It's dorky enough to post about cool magic plays, let alone fictionalized ones.
oh and here's a link to my deck: http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/mana-mana-mana-1/
I currently own about $220 worth of the cards for this deck, with about $150 more to go. I don't have some of the expensive stuff, namely; crucible of worlds, elesh norn, flooded strand, misty rainforest, knight of the reliquary, and consecrated sphinx.
actually if anyone's want's some cash for cards, let me know. there's a bunch of random worthless junk I need too.
here's a list of what I need: http://pastie.org/3172426
So you're first EDH game ended in you comboing out and THAT is what got you hooked?
That's depressing.
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this, this so much.
I'm depressed too.
Anyway, good luck with building your new EDH deck.
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You say you put moldgraf back in. But you sacced it before, don't you need to exile it when you sack it? How did you get it back?
Could you also explain how the infinite mana works with just temple, rings, mana reflection and some lands. You can't copy mana abilities with rings. And i don't see any untap stuff in there that would make you able to untap mana producers.
Also i think you should not criticize someone for playing a blue horseman general with infect slapped on if you play spawnsire of ulamog and slap a load of eldrazi on the table that you didn't care enough about to put in your deck.
I finally finished off my Monowhite enchantment combo deck for EDH, with cho-manno, revolutionary as my general.
I won for the first time with the deck last night in a 4 player game. It was an interesting game, facing off against Thada Adel artifact beatdown, Atogatog crazyness and a typical Zedruu deck.
The game stared off fast, with 3 of us gangbanging the Thada player to death since he kept stealing artifacts from our decks.
Then at one point the Atogatog player mentioned how he built a random deck full of flavourfull creatures because he is bored with people winning with the same methods all the time, genesis wave, exsanguinate, etc.
After 1 hour later I pull off the victory by milling the Zedruu player to death and then killing off atogatog with karma+urborg, tomb of yawgmoth! That's right, karma. I hope he enjoyed the non-conventional win cons in my deck!
I'm pretty sure he means Deserted Temple not Temple of the False God.
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There should be a time spiral or something to refill the library for a continued assault -_-. Keeping in mind that the deckbuilder should know that weakness in the combo.
Drawing 50-60 cards is equivalent to i win basically.
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The deck was borrowed and he/she may not have known how that deck functioned: -
Even if it isn't borrowed, not all decks are designed to be optimised or even afford to be optimised.
That's how some people are they like things like that and it gets them hooked. It's not depressing it's just what they view as fun. There is someone here on the forums that actually has an edh valakut deck. no offence to the creator but, do you know how linear and simple that is? But hey to each to their own.
My turn starts, and I topdeck Thoughtpicker Witch. Drop that, and notice an overly complicated combo. In order,
A - Activate Skeleton.
B - Genesis Chamber makes me a myr, Death Match kills Skeleton, putting a counter on Black Market.
C - Sac the myr to Witch for another counter and control Saffi's topdecks.
D - Repeat.
Final result is 3 mana to put two counters on Black Market, as well as keep my opponent from drawing anything other than lands for the rest of the game. There's never an opportunity for him to Cypt the Skeleton, because Black Market means I can leave lands up to activate in response. After the third turn of drawing a basic, he scooped, at which point Black Market had 40 counters. Definitely didn't expect that deck to be able to lock and mill someone out.
Black Market's mana ability only triggers 1/turn...
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I know that. First turn I exile 3 cards. Next turn, after he draws and plays his land, I exile 5 cards. Next turn, after he draws and plays his land, I exile 8 cards. It doesn't win on the spot, which is why it's lock/mill and not just mill.
Well the store was also closing in 5 minutes.. so the timing was perfect. I played my fair share of "highlander" format back in the days... now the format is just better and more evolved.
I was in a one-on-one game against Kaalia, playing Dralnu.
Kaalia dropped a Stranglehold pretty early on, which completely screwed my deck over.
Then, a turn or two later, Kaalia swung in and invited her good pal Rakdos to the party.
Oh boy, here we go.
However, this time around, my friend didn't stop with just one Rakdos swing like he usually does. He decided to keep the pressure on, wiping half of my board each turn while sacrificing lands of his own. Fortunately, he didn't have much else to cheat out with Kaalia, so she and Rakdos were the only ones hitting me.
Before I know it, I'm at less than 15 life and I have only one or two mana sources left. However, my opponent was also running out of permanents, and then he made a very crucial error.
He sacrificed Stranglehold.
At the end of his turn, I cast the Mystical Tutor in my hand to search for my only answer to Rakdos - Pongify.
I drew the Pongify for my turn, and simply passed.
The idea of losing half of his dwindling board with no payout kept him from attacking, and we started playing draw-go. Thankfully, I started drawing into more lands, and began to rebuild while he simply passed his turns with no action.
Enter mistake number two: Not swinging with Rakdos.
Had he attacked with Rakdos, he would have forced my removal spell, leaving him with a 3/3 to diminish my life total unimpeded and put me on a clock while I would desperately try to find another out with almost no board presence.
I steadily edged further in board development, always making sure to leave one blue mana open, until I eventually managed to win by reanimating a huge fatty with enough open mana for counter backup.
I'm not sure if this took place in the same game, but I managed to turn the tables on Kaalia with but a single Reins of Power.
Kaalia had an army of giant creatures (and several small ones), and I had only Dralnu and mana producers. I cast Reins of Power, attacked him with his own creatures (but ultimately sacrificed them to Rakdos), then made him sacrifice half of his remaining permanents.
I wasn't able to get rid of Rakdos, but I was able to get rid of nearly everything else!
Now this is a perfect example of a crazy play. Bravo.
So, I'm playing Diaochan, Artful Beauty.
One game, I was having rotten luck- all the cards in the world with nothing to cast.
I had out a Lotus Bloom, a Darksteel Ingot, an Extraplanar Lens, only two mountains, a Sensei's Divining Top, and a Grim Monolith. My plan was to stick a Keldon Firebombers to even the field, since my hand of Molten Psyche, Insurrection, and Word of Seizing was useless.
Then, the person in front of me stuck a Hive Mind and passed turn!
I decided to try to live the dream. I cast Molten Psyche, with Metalcraft. it hit two people for 12 and one person for 16, and I had 7 mana left. I psychied into... Past in Flames!
I cast it again, killing everyone on turn 5 or 6 (I can't remember). Kill 3 people at once in mono-red without going infinite, woohoo!
Different game: My brother is playing Hanna, Ship's Navigator.
He tapped out for a Future Sight and something else. There's a Gauntlet of Power out, so I have 8x2 mountains, plus a memory jar, a couple mana rocks, and a Goblin Welder.
I activate Memory Jar and we each draw:
7
I cast an Ignorant Bliss, exiling my hand to get a little mileage from the jar later, and then I goblin welder the Memory Jar back into play. We each draw:
7
Out of this hand, I cast a few random artifacts, including a Mana Vault, and a Wheel of Fortune. We discard, and I put Recoup into the GY. We each draw:
7
I flashback the Wheel of Fortune with Recoup, and we each draw:
7
I draw into Thousand-year Elixir, cast it, untap my Goblin Welder, and re-buy Memory Jar using the elixir as sacrifice fodder.
We each draw:
7
I finally drew it! And with Mana Vault, a tapped Grim Monolith, and a Mimic Vat giving me metalcraft, I windmill slammed Molten Psyche, which shuffled his hand in and forced another 7. He took 42 damage to his 40 life total.
Good times with Broken Jar.
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