I was playing against Krenko with Sharuum the other day. He had lethal on board with about ~20 untapped Goblins and about the same number tapped. They were 3/3's due to Goblin King and Caged Sun. He had already used Krenko on his turn, and had killed our Omath player.
I untap, and topdeck Day of Judgment for great justice. He has Goblin Chirurgeon, however, but I cast it anyways. He keeps his nontoken Goblins and plenty of the tokens survive, still a pretty nice army. I use Artificer's Intuition to tutor up Meekstone and slam it down. Everyone else at the table is a little confused for a moment, until somebody reminds them that regenerating causes creatures to tap.
That's just the first time in a LONG time I've seen that part of regenerate be relevant, so I thought I'd share.
I was playing Chainer, Dementia Master against Jhoira of the Ghitu. I was off to a really bad start, having mulliganned to 5. By turn 6 or so, he's managed to stick Jhoira and has suspended Omniscience. I have Black Market, Disciple of Griselbrand and a reassembling skeleton. While Omniscience counts down, I loop Reassembling skeleton a few times, so that on my turn with omniscience at 2 suspend counters I'm able to Diabolic revelation for Buried Alive, Phyrexian Altar, Cabal Coffers, and Bitter Ordeal. I then play Coffers and use it to cast Altar, and Buried alive tutoring for Grave titan, Kokusho, and Dross harvester. I then pass the turn. My opponent Time warps, and unsuspends omniscience early. He then plays Platinum Angel, and Platinum Emperion, and puts Whispersilk Cloak on the Angel. He passes with 2 cards in hand. On my turn, I wrath the board to bait a counter, then cast chainer, recur dross harvester, recur grave titan and then loop it an arbitrary amount of times. I then play Bitter Ordeal and exile his library. He then tucks Chainer. (He did it in response, but I responded to him responding to me.) I was ready for a game of him beating down with his soon to be unsuspending Kozilek to eventually eradicate all of my permanents and general damage me out with Jhoira (I was at ~15 trillion life) but I drew infernal tribute, and was able to use the 15 trillion black mana from black market to loop reassembling skeleton until I drew mutilate to kill his angel.
Using Blatant Thievery to take 4 Planeswalkers at once, including an Elspeth with 8 counters.
Using Stolen Goods on a player after they had put Sensei's Divining Top on top of their deck.
Using Insurrection in an 8 player game, and taking my opponent's Vish Kal. Sacrificed every opponent's creature to Vish Kal, and murdered a player with it, gaining 200-odd life.
One of those many times where I have gotten all of my lands into play, with Riku in play, and Blue Sun's Zenith in hand. The game devolved into "do what I say, or you lose the game at instant speed." (I'd make them draw their entire deck with Zenith).
The only thing I have left in my hand is Dual Nature, so I cast it. He tutors up Muscle Sliver, makes a pair (thanks to my Dual Nature) and swings; I fog with Weaver. I'm really hoping for any creature over here, and on my turn, I topdeck...
Dryad Arbor. Huh. Well, I play it; Dual Nature makes a copy, which Doubling Season makes into 2. I pass. Sliver queen tutors up more slivers and swings; I fog, and at end of turn use both Trostani and Gavony. I now have 5 Dryad Arbors, each with 2 +1/+1 counters on them. Next turn that goes up to 5 5/5s and 2 3/3s, then 5 7/7s, 2 5/5s, and 2 3/3s...
Long story short: I kill the other guy with an army of Dryad Arbors.
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.
Late in a 4 player edh game after a bunch of boardwipes and a Time Spiral, playing Riku against Ulamog, Gwendolyn and Mimeoplasm. Mimeoplasm has Liliana of the Veil, lightning greaves, 6 tidespout tyrants, and the enchantment that lets you get other's creatures when they die. He and I are at 9, the Gwendolyn player is at 11, and the Ulamog player is at 36 (after Austere Command wrecked his artifact mana, we didn't pay much attention to him). Gwendolyn has lands, I have lands and Inferno Titan on board, Riku, SoFaI, Survival of the Fittest and lands in hand. Ulamog has lands and Batterskull.
Gwendolyn kickes RoR on Tidespout and bounces all his tokens, by playing Portcullis, so things start to look grim.
I draw Flash, so I play Sword on Titan and swing at Mimeoplasm, bringing him down to 1, and hitting Gwendolyn for 5, bringing her down to 6, and I draw Phantasmal Image, just what I need.
I play image, copying titan and hitting Gwendolyn for 3, then it gets exiled by Portcullis. I play survival, and discard Riku to find Phyrexian Metamorph. I play it, it gets exiled, and I deal 3 to Gwendolyn. Portcullis leaves play, and I get my clones back. I deal 1 to Mimeoplasm 4 to Bskull and 1 to Ulamog. Mimeo's out of the game, and I'm feeling pretty good.
That's awesome. I once saved a player from a Yosei lock with Time Reversal. I love those rare moments when you get to windmill slam jank. Time Spiral isn't jank, but Quicken is kind of nifty.
We were testing some of our 15 dollar decks that we finally got the other day in a 5 player game. I had a couple funny board states (urza's armor, furnace of rath, mana barbs was one), but the best had to be when I dropped storm cauldron mid/late game (I had a sisay's ring, signet, and some other mana rock). The two players after me were mono blue and had a little fight over someone's caged sun and ended up with 1 land in play between the two of them. The other two players passed without doing anything (portcullis, taken from my deck by thada, had soft locked them). On my turn I used two mountains, replayed them, and into the cored the caged sun and my storm cauldron. Was pretty funny at least (one of those players went on to win the game... thada adel + vanishing, pretty good :P).
At the PR, I was playing Karrthus. I cast some fat dragon. Guy to my right casts Evil Twin, copying it. I cast Karrthus and took his Evil Twin AND his Chameleon Colossus. On-board tricks ftw.
I'm pretty sure that this is actually incorrect. Portcullis leaving play puts a triggered ability on the stack to return your stuff. The triggered ability is controlled by the person who controlled the Portcullis; that person is dead, so all of their things on the stack go away and don't resolve. End result, anything that was exiled by Portcullis stays exiled. Things like Oblivion Ring and Journey to Nowhere work in the same way if their controller is eliminated.
This isn't the craziest play, but one of my opponent's plays Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker, and one the next turn casts Obliterate. I am playing Omnath and use some floated mana to cast Briarhorn after the world is destroyed. On my turn, I draw a forest and drop Rancor onto the Briarhorn, taking out Nicol and eventually winning the game.
And to think I was going to take out Briarhorn for never doing much..
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Six player game (Riku, Thrax, Rhys the Redeemed, Krenko, Jarad and Niv). I am playing Riku and answering the majority of the threats on the board as our meta seems to have shifted away from spot control (don't ask me why and hopefully this game brought us back to our senses). I like to pack my decks with a fair suite of answers and Riku especially likes them for the added mileage he can eke out of them.
Anyways, the Niv player had cast Recurring Insight and copied it, targeting the Jarad player who had a full grip. Niv has Reliquary Tower out and thanks to the copied Insight, next turn proceeds to draw 14 cards in addition to the other 14 he had previously drawn. The whole table is fairly certain he has drawn into Omniscience and everyone is looking ready to scoop, except for myself. After he casts the potential game-ending enchantment, I reveal Krosan Grip, stopping his plans in their tracks. The Jarad player, when his turn comes around, perceives that I am at that point the biggest threat due to the mass of mana and more than full hand, and after wisely killing the Krenko player with a filthy Sewer Nemesis, sacrifices it to Alter of Dementia to try and mill me out of the game. He gets damn near close, but not enough. So, at the end of his turn, I brainstormed for the one card that could save my ass that wasn't in my GY already, Praetor's Council. I found it, showed everyone the card and the two extra turn spells in my GY and pointed out that with Riku out, the Pact of Negation, Arcane Denial and two recursion spells that I was now in possession of, guaranteed me enough turns and resources to pull off the win.
Opponent A suspended Wheel of Fate several turns ago with his Tibor and Lumia instant/sorcery deck.
Opponent B most recent play was Maul Splicer with Parallel Lives on the battlefield in a Rhys token deck.
On turn 6 I play Consecrated Sphinx in my Jenara enchantress deck. Opponent A's turn happens and he doesnt have any removal or counters for Sphinx or Fate. I draw 35 cards from the wheel then proceed to vaporize everyone's permanents on turn 7.
This won't do, I need to be able to keep Geist down and drop a Sword of Fire and Ice on him, but with mana open and these I'll just kill myself. So on my turn I drop Oblivion Ring, exiling Pyrohemia, and then Leonin Relic-Warder removing the Repercussion. Time to stabilize, right?
No. Doran now drops an Avenger of Zendikar for something like 12 tokens, his board having been wiped earlier through a bit of Ashling Rampage, so I don't die//am forced to block anything.
How can I beat this? I can't. I do, however, have a Restoration Angel in hand. I tell the Ashling player he can do anything he likes provided he keeps up at least three mana. He leaves up six.
Six player game (Riku, Thrax, Rhys the Redeemed, Krenko, Jarad and Niv). I am playing Riku and answering the majority of the threats on the board as our meta seems to have shifted away from spot control (don't ask me why and hopefully this game brought us back to our senses). I like to pack my decks with a fair suite of answers and Riku especially likes them for the added mileage he can eke out of them.
Anyways, the Niv player had cast Recurring Insight and copied it, targeting the Jarad player who had a full grip. Niv has Reliquary Tower out and thanks to the copied Insight, next turn proceeds to draw 14 cards in addition to the other 14 he had previously drawn. The whole table is fairly certain he has drawn into Omniscience and everyone is looking ready to scoop, except for myself. After he casts the potential game-ending enchantment, I reveal Krosan Grip, stopping his plans in their tracks. The Jarad player, when his turn comes around, perceives that I am at that point the biggest threat due to the mass of mana and more than full hand, and after wisely killing the Krenko player with a filthy Sewer Nemesis, sacrifices it to Alter of Dementia to try and mill me out of the game. He gets damn near close, but not enough. So, at the end of his turn, I brainstormed for the one card that could save my ass that wasn't in my GY already, Praetor's Council. I found it, showed everyone the card and the two extra turn spells in my GY and pointed out that with Riku out, the Pact of Negation, Arcane Denial and two recursion spells that I was now in possession of, guaranteed me enough turns and resources to pull off the win.
Copies can't rebound. For a few reasons. They aren't cast, and rebound triggers off of being cast. Copies are placed onto the stack. The second being copies can only exist on the stack. So rebound is a no go. He would have drawn 21 cards, not 28.
I'm not sure why none of us posted it here, but Mindsculptor ultimate going off with Grip of Chaos on the board = Random target player loses the game.
Then the targeted player proceeded to not lose the game for many turns, due to his last card being Top, and the rest of us stealing his Top every turn and drawing a card, putting Top back onto its owner's empty deck.
Copies can't rebound. For a few reasons. They aren't cast, and rebound triggers off of being cast. Copies are placed onto the stack. The second being copies can only exist on the stack. So rebound is a no go. He would have drawn 21 cards, not 24.
Ah, thank you for clarifying that. I doubt it would have changed the end result of the play, but who knows? Maybe he wouldn't have drawn that Omniscience.
@Son of Suns: Well, I am not all too surprised that these mistakes slip through the cracks from time to time. We are dealing with a multiplayer format with a lot of interactions, triggers and spells on the stack. I wouldn't say this story was a result of playing against the rules, but more a result of a rule accidentally being overlooked. Besides, the focus of the story wasn't the rule infraction, but how awesome my epicness is
Playing 3 two-headed giant teams. Turn two, one of the players was like "Screw it! I'm going to lose this game!" and casts final fortune. Reaperking deck was like "Screw you! You're not losing! WE ARE!" commandeer
5 player FFA. Me (U Briads), Brion, Rafiq, Rith, and monoU Ertai. Rafiq and Ertai start with Leyline of Anticipation. I cry for my copy. I start. Lands everywhere. Brion has a signet T2. Rafiq casts Show and Tell. 0_o ok...I choose Caged Sun. Brion - Hamletback Goliath, Rafiq - Omniscience. Rith - R/G Karoo, >_> Ertai - Dissipation Field. Rafiq passes. Rith and Ertai. Before my turn, Rafiq plays Archon of Justice and tells me my Caged Sun is destory. RTFC bro, it's not, but I try to Cryptic Command it for good measure. Ertai taps out for Counterspell. Excellent. I untap, lay down a land. tap 8 for Blatant Thievery. Brion wants his Goliath, so I take his signet. and I grab Omniscience, Leyline of Anti, and Rith's Karoo. I pass. Eventually I play Fact or Fiction revealing:
At some point I draw into Burning Wish. Looking at the huge amount of mana I have, I cast it double and go into my sideboard to fetch the usual suspect (Warp World) as well as a mean (not so little) surprise: Denying Wind. Which of course I planned to cast and double up just before casting Warp World.
Of course, he scooped as soon as he read Denying Wind, but I shuffled my stuff anyway to see what the Warp World would have done...
(For those interested, amonst the Warped cards, would have appeared a bunch of lands, two haste enablers, an Avenger of Zendikar, a Craterhoof Behemot and a bunch of different clones. I could't event count how much dammage I would have attacked for).
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I untap, and topdeck Day of Judgment for great justice. He has Goblin Chirurgeon, however, but I cast it anyways. He keeps his nontoken Goblins and plenty of the tokens survive, still a pretty nice army. I use Artificer's Intuition to tutor up Meekstone and slam it down. Everyone else at the table is a little confused for a moment, until somebody reminds them that regenerating causes creatures to tap.
That's just the first time in a LONG time I've seen that part of regenerate be relevant, so I thought I'd share.
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Using Blatant Thievery to take 4 Planeswalkers at once, including an Elspeth with 8 counters.
Using Stolen Goods on a player after they had put Sensei's Divining Top on top of their deck.
Using Insurrection in an 8 player game, and taking my opponent's Vish Kal. Sacrificed every opponent's creature to Vish Kal, and murdered a player with it, gaining 200-odd life.
One of those many times where I have gotten all of my lands into play, with Riku in play, and Blue Sun's Zenith in hand. The game devolved into "do what I say, or you lose the game at instant speed." (I'd make them draw their entire deck with Zenith).
The only thing I have left in my hand is Dual Nature, so I cast it. He tutors up Muscle Sliver, makes a pair (thanks to my Dual Nature) and swings; I fog with Weaver. I'm really hoping for any creature over here, and on my turn, I topdeck...
Dryad Arbor. Huh. Well, I play it; Dual Nature makes a copy, which Doubling Season makes into 2. I pass. Sliver queen tutors up more slivers and swings; I fog, and at end of turn use both Trostani and Gavony. I now have 5 Dryad Arbors, each with 2 +1/+1 counters on them. Next turn that goes up to 5 5/5s and 2 3/3s, then 5 7/7s, 2 5/5s, and 2 3/3s...
Long story short: I kill the other guy with an army of Dryad Arbors.
Gwendolyn kickes RoR on Tidespout and bounces all his tokens, by playing Portcullis, so things start to look grim.
I draw Flash, so I play Sword on Titan and swing at Mimeoplasm, bringing him down to 1, and hitting Gwendolyn for 5, bringing her down to 6, and I draw Phantasmal Image, just what I need.
I play image, copying titan and hitting Gwendolyn for 3, then it gets exiled by Portcullis. I play survival, and discard Riku to find Phyrexian Metamorph. I play it, it gets exiled, and I deal 3 to Gwendolyn. Portcullis leaves play, and I get my clones back. I deal 1 to Mimeoplasm 4 to Bskull and 1 to Ulamog. Mimeo's out of the game, and I'm feeling pretty good.
Then Ulamog untapped and killed me.
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That's awesome. I once saved a player from a Yosei lock with Time Reversal. I love those rare moments when you get to windmill slam jank. Time Spiral isn't jank, but Quicken is kind of nifty.
Draft my Peasant Cube.
I don't play infinite combos in my decks, but if you do, I have no problem killing you with yours.
I'm pretty sure that this is actually incorrect. Portcullis leaving play puts a triggered ability on the stack to return your stuff. The triggered ability is controlled by the person who controlled the Portcullis; that person is dead, so all of their things on the stack go away and don't resolve. End result, anything that was exiled by Portcullis stays exiled. Things like Oblivion Ring and Journey to Nowhere work in the same way if their controller is eliminated.
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And to think I was going to take out Briarhorn for never doing much..
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Anyways, the Niv player had cast Recurring Insight and copied it, targeting the Jarad player who had a full grip. Niv has Reliquary Tower out and thanks to the copied Insight, next turn proceeds to draw 14 cards in addition to the other 14 he had previously drawn. The whole table is fairly certain he has drawn into Omniscience and everyone is looking ready to scoop, except for myself. After he casts the potential game-ending enchantment, I reveal Krosan Grip, stopping his plans in their tracks. The Jarad player, when his turn comes around, perceives that I am at that point the biggest threat due to the mass of mana and more than full hand, and after wisely killing the Krenko player with a filthy Sewer Nemesis, sacrifices it to Alter of Dementia to try and mill me out of the game. He gets damn near close, but not enough. So, at the end of his turn, I brainstormed for the one card that could save my ass that wasn't in my GY already, Praetor's Council. I found it, showed everyone the card and the two extra turn spells in my GY and pointed out that with Riku out, the Pact of Negation, Arcane Denial and two recursion spells that I was now in possession of, guaranteed me enough turns and resources to pull off the win.
Opponent B most recent play was Maul Splicer with Parallel Lives on the battlefield in a Rhys token deck.
On turn 6 I play Consecrated Sphinx in my Jenara enchantress deck. Opponent A's turn happens and he doesnt have any removal or counters for Sphinx or Fate. I draw 35 cards from the wheel then proceed to vaporize everyone's permanents on turn 7.
Opponents were Doran Treefolk and Ashling the Blow Things Up.
The state:
I'm low on life, nearing 6. Doran has been beating on me hard, and I missed a landdrop. Doran's got around 26, and Ashling hasn't been touched.
Ashling has a Repercussion and a Pyrohemia out.
This won't do, I need to be able to keep Geist down and drop a Sword of Fire and Ice on him, but with mana open and these I'll just kill myself. So on my turn I drop Oblivion Ring, exiling Pyrohemia, and then Leonin Relic-Warder removing the Repercussion. Time to stabilize, right?
No. Doran now drops an Avenger of Zendikar for something like 12 tokens, his board having been wiped earlier through a bit of Ashling Rampage, so I don't die//am forced to block anything.
How can I beat this? I can't. I do, however, have a Restoration Angel in hand. I tell the Ashling player he can do anything he likes provided he keeps up at least three mana. He leaves up six.
On my turn I Restoration Angel the Leonin Relic-Warder away, and bring it back exiling my own Oblivion Ring. Guess what's back? Ashling pumps everything into Pyrohemia and the world explodes. That's how you end a game.
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Copies can't rebound. For a few reasons. They aren't cast, and rebound triggers off of being cast. Copies are placed onto the stack. The second being copies can only exist on the stack. So rebound is a no go. He would have drawn 21 cards, not 28.
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Then the targeted player proceeded to not lose the game for many turns, due to his last card being Top, and the rest of us stealing his Top every turn and drawing a card, putting Top back onto its owner's empty deck.
That game was weird.
I've seen/heard quite a few.
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Ah, thank you for clarifying that. I doubt it would have changed the end result of the play, but who knows? Maybe he wouldn't have drawn that Omniscience.
@Son of Suns: Well, I am not all too surprised that these mistakes slip through the cracks from time to time. We are dealing with a multiplayer format with a lot of interactions, triggers and spells on the stack. I wouldn't say this story was a result of playing against the rules, but more a result of a rule accidentally being overlooked. Besides, the focus of the story wasn't the rule infraction, but how awesome my epicness is
Sit down with my Tivadar of thorn, my friend sits down (not seeing my general) and pulls out krenko, mob boss. Turn 1, draw Tivadar's crusade. Krenko player was not pleased.
More 2-headed giant fun. Team 2 casts Rite of Replication kicked on team 1's tine shike (for giggles). Team 1 casts Rite of Replication on it also. Next turn the drop coat of arms and swing for the fences.
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5 player FFA. Me (U Briads), Brion, Rafiq, Rith, and monoU Ertai. Rafiq and Ertai start with Leyline of Anticipation. I cry for my copy. I start. Lands everywhere. Brion has a signet T2. Rafiq casts Show and Tell. 0_o ok...I choose Caged Sun. Brion - Hamletback Goliath, Rafiq - Omniscience. Rith - R/G Karoo, >_> Ertai - Dissipation Field. Rafiq passes. Rith and Ertai. Before my turn, Rafiq plays Archon of Justice and tells me my Caged Sun is destory. RTFC bro, it's not, but I try to Cryptic Command it for good measure. Ertai taps out for Counterspell. Excellent. I untap, lay down a land. tap 8 for Blatant Thievery. Brion wants his Goliath, so I take his signet. and I grab Omniscience, Leyline of Anti, and Rith's Karoo. I pass. Eventually I play Fact or Fiction revealing:
Gave the choice to Rith who let me keep JG, Artisan and Kira. Everyone scoops before I can draw 7 extra cards. Awww T__T
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At some point I draw into Burning Wish. Looking at the huge amount of mana I have, I cast it double and go into my sideboard to fetch the usual suspect (Warp World) as well as a mean (not so little) surprise: Denying Wind. Which of course I planned to cast and double up just before casting Warp World.
Of course, he scooped as soon as he read Denying Wind, but I shuffled my stuff anyway to see what the Warp World would have done...
(For those interested, amonst the Warped cards, would have appeared a bunch of lands, two haste enablers, an Avenger of Zendikar, a Craterhoof Behemot and a bunch of different clones. I could't event count how much dammage I would have attacked for).
Turn 2: extraplanar lens, exanguinate for 1million.
Mono Artifact FTL.