I had a pretty ridiculous come-back tonight. It was our usual Vela vs Niv, with some new Gatecrash stuff in the mix. I've started going with the Stalker beat-down route, so I lay down a stalker, a Dimir Keyrune and start swinging in, eventually supplementing it with Exquisite Blood. Well, he didn't like that so much, so he dropped a Quicksilver Gargantuan, copying Invisible Stalker. So now he has a 7/7 Hexproof/Unblockable. This looked to be an amazing asset to him, until I drop a Phyrexian Metamorph, copying the Gargantuan. So, it goes back and forth. Eventually I drop a Shield of Kaldra on my Stalker (I know him to have Mortars in the deck), and, lo and behold, he drops a Balefire Dragon the next turn. Silly stiff happens, like him dropping Thought Prison (Exiling my Rite of Replication) and Gin Gitaxias and Venser's Journal. So, it was looking like he was going to win, until I got my Divining Top. I peek at the top and see three crucial things: Sorin Markov, Swiftfoot Boots and Whispersilk Cloak. So, I drop the cloak and the Sorin, putting him down to 10. This triggers Exquisite Blood and I shoot up to about 65 life from 10 or so. I swing in with my Stalker and my Giant Stalker to put him at 2. His turn comes, he goes up to 12 and starts doing some Psychosis Crawler/Whirlpool Warrior comboing, but this puts him down to 10 off of prison. He manages to put me down to 10. My turn comes, and I just declare "I win". I cast Vela, equip the boots and cloak and swing in for 12. Even if he'd had a counter, Prison would have dropped him to 8, which I'd be swinging for with my unblockables anyways.
I did my pre release at another LGS. My LGS does not have this kind of meta. This was crazy to me. Oh btw. The guys deck was completely foiled out.
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Originally posted by Rywads Having a foiled set of avacyn's pilgrims must be on the same level as a dude who puts expensive spinner hubcaps on an old Honda Civic.
EDH, with sharrum
turn 1, disciple of the vault
turn 2, silver myr
turn 3, semblance anvil, cloud key.
turn 4, vendalken archmage,
turn 5, deck myself exactly by accident with triple mem jar, and 5x vendalken archmage, which were copied by phyrexian metamorph, mirrorworks, and semblance anvil. :D, luckily managed to kill everyone by saccing everything to ironworks.
EDH mimeoplasm
turn 1, land
turn 2, phyrexian tower, virridan emmisianary
turn 3, sac emmisianary, get mirri, swing for 3
turn 4, bury alive
turn 5, i rattlesnake with mimeoplasm( triskelon and death's shadow)
turn 6, putrefax
turn 7, sac mimeoplasm to tower, cast it again with cloudscraper and putrfax, win with an 18/18 infect trample haste
EDH Thromok, played against wort
faced a 40X banefire because of a conspired boundless realms... turn 7 after getting a 125/125 Thromok after devouring 25 tokens(just drew the banefire too :()
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.
Anyay I'm playing Thromok in a 4 way match. Going against Sharuum, Kaalia and Riku. Anyway We are playing and after devouring 13 Creatures Thromok becomes a 169/169. Pretty good except that He has become a target to steal now. Usually I would trust High market, Miren the Moaning Well or even My Ashnod's altar (All 3 of which) are out. However Riku decided to use Tarastadon to blow up my 3 sac outlets. I'm tapped out and Mind control is cast, Target (As you may have guessed) is Thromok.
My friend decided to cast something before all is lost. He has Leyline of anticipation on the field and to save us from the evil Thromok, He casts fleshbag marauder. I sac Thromok and we continue on. (2 turns later i cast Thromok again devouring 17 becoming a 289/289, with Brawn and Anger in the grave)
I'm playing captain sisay which was killed multiple times. I have 5x forests and 1x savannah in play as well as thousand-year elixir. In hand I have vorinclex, voice of hunger and a combo that my opponents just LOVE to see me play, living plane and elesh norn, grand cenobite. I was praying for mana, preferably one that could be tapped for white so I could cast elesh.
Instead, on my draw step I get a gaea's cradle which was kind of disappointing since I had no creatures in play. Although its interaction with living plane is nice, if I cast it then the cradle would have summoning sickness.
Before reading further, can you guess what I did?
I casted living plane and laid the cradle, and since the cradle was a creature, the 1000-year elixir let me use its ability as though it had haste. I tapped it for 7 mana, then used the elixir to untap it and use it again, putting 13 in my pool. I used 8 of it to cast vorinclex then tapped the savannah for WW to cast elesh norn. My lands were 3/3 creatures, theirs were all dead.
The other day to win a game playing Riku, I'm sitting with a consecrated sphinx in play and a fairly full grip of cards.
Going down to like 6 life I boseiju-ed a bribery for a Player#2's vorinclex leaving just 3 lands untapped. Which I used to cast Time spiral it was a 4 player game so I drew 49 cards with 12 mana available and a bunch of shenenigans ensued.
They pass, the froce mulligan caused them to have no land, and they discard.
Turn 2: (Upkeep I lost 2 life) Island, Tap Sol Ring for Grim Monolith, Tap Grim Monolith and mana crypt for Gilded Lotus, tap Gilded Lotus Mox Diamond and Island for Zealous Consrcipts, Conscripts targets Lotus, Tap Lotus and Underground Sea play Splinter Twin on Consripts.
Opening Hand
-Mishra's Workshop
-Sol ring
-Lotus Petal
-Mana Crypt
-Gilded Lotus
-Mox Diamond
-Island
Draw: Mox Opal
I play My hand, They all pass expecting me to have no luck for the rest of the game. I draw Blightsteel and play him. Two scoop.
turn 3 i draw Foresee and scry 4 seeing rite of replication and Akroma's memorial. I can't play both with my board but i also see Mycosynth golem. I grab the golem and Akroma's memorial. I swing with blightsteel taking out one of the two remaining opponents. I had left Rite as my third card while the island had gone to the bottom of the deck. I rite kicked Blightsteel and swing with all 6.
This isn't super crazy, but I thought it was still pretty funny.
To begin, I have a diviner's wand on board with a Vendilion Clique attached, and something like 12 cards in hand with a reliquary tower out. I'm playing Tibor and Lumia, while my opponents are Aurelia and Merike. I also had reverberated Merike's spelltwine to reanimate Aurelia's Silverblade Paladin (attached to Clique).
-I draw my card for the turn, so now Vendilion Clique is a 4/2.
-I cast Blue Sun's Zenith for 11, bringing cards in hand to 23 and Vendilion Clique to a 15/13.
-I follow up by playing a whirlpool warrior, drawing 22 cards, bringing Vendilion Clique to a 37/35 flying, doublestriker.
-Vendilion Clique does 74 damage to Merike and kill him. Merike's a little more dangerous here, because Aurelia can't cast his general next turn (unless he hits land drop and sol ring).
-Aurelia hits a hallowed burial, and sends my clique to the bottom of my deck, lays down a furnace of wrath and a land, and passes.
-I untap, play urabrask and Tibor and Lumia (which gets attached to wand for free). Next, with 22 cards in hand, I cast windfall and swing with a 25/25 Tibor and Lumia.
Again, not super crazy, but I did get some joy out of doing 74 damage in one shot with a Vendilion Clique.
Not really a great play but it made my entire group laugh their ass's off. A guy in my play group with Leyline of Anticipation out flashed in Laboratory Maniac and Thought Lash at the end of my opponents turn. it comes to his turn he fails to pay the upkeep cost and in respsonse to him exiling his library I instant cast Rout and just to add insult to injury I had just enought mana to cast Rootborn Defenses
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I will be typing up deck lists as soon as I an be bothered, I really only play EDH:
The other day I played a game that was really crazy compared to what my deck normally does/is designed to do. I was forced into a really weird reactive control position as my opening hand contained Mages' Contest, Reverberate AND Wild Ricochet. Then on t2 I drew Radiate.
So I spend most of early to mid game sitting back and doing nothing unless someone else does. I use Reverberate on an early game Fact or Fiction. Sweet, I just FoF'ed in mono red, I like this game already. A few turns later I use mages contest to counter a Terastodon that probably wasn't even going to blow up my stuff, but who cares it's Terastodon. Right after that I end up using Radiate on a miracled Banishing Stroke and only lose my two mana artifacts because I still haven't done anything relevant. Two turns later someone casts Genesis Wave for 8, which I use Wild ricochet on which ends up getting me Caged Sun, a mana artifact and five lands.
So alas I have used all of my ridiculous reactive copy spells. The game ends very non spectacularly when burn out one player with my commander for 36 damage and then shoot the other down for more with a Devil's Play the next turn.
All in all, not that crazy, but I certainly wont be forgetting any time soon the day where I got all of my stupid situational reactive spells in my opening hand and used them all.
The other day I played a game that was really crazy compared to what my deck normally does/is designed to do. I was forced into a really weird reactive control position as my opening hand contained Mages' Contest, Reverberate AND Wild Ricochet. Then on t2 I drew Radiate.
So I spend most of early to mid game sitting back and doing nothing unless someone else does. I use Reverberate on an early game Fact or Fiction. Sweet, I just FoF'ed in mono red, I like this game already. A few turns later I use mages contest to counter a Terastodon that probably wasn't even going to blow up my stuff, but who cares it's Terastodon. Right after that I end up using Radiate on a miracled Banishing Stroke and only lose my two mana artifacts because I still haven't done anything relevant. Two turns later someone casts Genesis Wave for 8, which I use Wild ricochet on which ends up getting me Caged Sun, a mana artifact and five lands.
So alas I have used all of my ridiculous reactive copy spells. The game ends very non spectacularly when burn out one player with my commander for 36 damage and then shoot the other down for more with a Devil's Play the next turn.
All in all, not that crazy, but I certainly wont be forgetting any time soon the day where I got all of my stupid situational reactive spells in my opening hand and used them all.
Wild Ricochet would have copied it twice. So top 8 twice.
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Thanks to Heroes of the Plane for the awesome Sig.
We had seven people so we played Two-Headed Giant with three teams with one person by himself getting an advantage. I was playing my Wanderer deck. I cast Acidic Soil followed with Winds of Change to draw five cards and kill off the two other teams thanks to Psychosis Crawler. The lone person left was at three life... until my teammate targeted me with Cephalid Coliseum.
Wild Ricochet would have copied it twice. So top 8 twice.
Not quite. Wild Ricochet allows you to choose new targets for an instant or sorcery spell, and then copy it. Since Genesis Wave doesn't target anything, there are no new targets to choose. So, you'll only get the one Genesis Wave copy provided by Wild Ricochet.
If Gensis Wave said, "target player reveals..." then you would be able to steal the original's effect for yourself. Sadly, this is not the case.
EDH:
Currently Piloting:
Dama, Sage of Stone | Karador, Ghost Chieftan | Sigarda, Host of Herons | Elbrus, the Binding Blade / Withengar Unbound | Grand Arbiter Augustin IV | Genju of the Realm | Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
I added a new achievement to my EDH repertoire tonight while playing Sedris for the first time in a while: winning the game with a Phyrexian Arena trigger on the stack while at 1 life and having no way to gain life, the only instants in my hand being Makeshift Mannequin and a handful of red cards.
I had planned on winning with a giant Living Death, but I couldn't quite get there. I think I got my foe down to 9 or so life (from 52). After having blocked my way down to 1 life thanks to Ghave shenanigans, I'm left with a Quicksilver Amulet, a ton of creatures including a River Kelpie and a Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind. My opponent smiles after his attack and says, "Go."
I take a deep breath, untap, and announce putting the Phyrexian Arena trigger on the stack. Looking at a Makeshift Mannequin in hand, and a Desolate Lighthouse and Nephalia Drownyard on board, I frantically search my giant graveyard for some way to deal 9 damage to him--no dice. I have a Desolate Lighthouse and Niv to draw some cards with, but I couldn't think of anything that I could use at instant speed. Then I checked my graveyard again to see what was left in my six-card library. It was Laboratory Maniac, Urabrask the Hidden, Sundial of the Infinite, and three lands. So Lab Maniac and five bricks. What complicated matters even more was that I only had one pain-free source of red mana (I had a Bloodstained Mire I could not crack, and my other two red sources were pain lands.)
After that, I spend a long time thinking about what the course of action should be. Is it more likely for me to win with the Maniac in my graveyard or my hand? Can I even win if the Maniac is in my graveyard? Can I win with it in my hand? The first solution I thought of was if the Maniac is drawn, pipe it in with the Amulet, Makeshift Mannequin a Mulldrifter to draw three cards (two from 'drifter, one from a River Kelpie trigger), mill the last three cards in my deck, and Loothouse or Niv to win. But with six cards, drawing Maniac was a 50/50 chance. At the time, I couldn't think of a way to win with Maniac in my graveyard. Thankfully, I drew the Maniac off Mulldrifter and proceeded to win the game.
However, there is also a way to win if the Maniac gets put into the graveyard. With six cards in library, let's say you Drownyard at upkeep and the Maniac is milled. You obviously have to Mannequin the Maniac then draw a card. You get a Kelpie trigger to draw a card, then you Loothouse, then you tap Niv-Mizzet to draw a card. Then you let the Phyrexian Arena trigger resolve, drawing from an empty library and going to 0 life--but since you have Lab Maniac out, you win when you draw from an empty library.
The correct play here is actually to Drownyard first, because if you hit it, you win in the above paragraph. If you don't, you Mannequin the Mulldrifter, drawing the remainder of your library. Then you Amulet in the Maniac and tap Niv-Mizzet to draw from an empty library, winning the game. Thankfully I drew the Maniac off the Mulldrifter, and everything worked out.
That was probably the hardest I've had to think for a long time during an EDH game. I think what was more remarkable is that I nearly lost after keeping an opening hand containing Urborg, Coffers, Arena, and Compulsion. Finding that way to win felt like solving a DOTP puzzle.
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A mere ten days after the Mending, a young knight of Valeron and a young ranger of Eos made a discovery that would change Alara forever.
Late in a game, 3 of us left - each with about 15-20 permanents in play. I have Grip of Chaos in play and scads of R in my pool. I play Past in Flames to nab a chaos warp from my 'yard. I play the warp targeting..who knows - because I cast radiate on it to put 50 more copies of randomly targeted chaos warp on the stack. I float a bunch of red mana and roll a D51 to determine the fate of the first cards. But wait - radiate has flashback. So, it gets flashed back targeting a chaos warp (at random, of course)- so there's 101 copies of chaos warp on the stack.
The gravity of the situation begins to sink in. I need to only demonstrate the first three copies resolving before the two of them scoop out of disgust.
I won game 1 tonight in our group with Geth, which immediately made me a huge target even though I switched to jankier Zirilan of the claw. I get targeted pretty relentlessly for damage by Trostani and Brion (brion probably because I used hellkite tyrant to steal her swords of FoF and WaP and nim deathmantle), with hazazon mostly sitting out. After a particularly brutal attack from trostani with odric active that puts me to 19, brion attacks with a +3/+3 (from elspeth) jor kadeen (betcha wish you had those artifacts!) and then flings him with brion to set me to 3. I've got a decent amount of artifacts, not a lot of mana, and she's still got brion on the board, plus Trostani has made it clear that he wants me dead on his next turn and there's nothing I can do about it (I smell instant-speed removal, and it turns out I'm right, plus he's got a rootborn defenses to stop my balefire dragon). Hazazon continues to do nothing much.
Things look bad. Very bad. 3 life, only lifegain is high market. No way I can handle this with mere brawn. Time to go for politics.
Brion just has Brion and Elspeth - although Brion scares me deeply obviously. Trostani has a massive board and tons of life. Hazezon has some enchantments and threatens to be a problem later, but for now, he's the least of my worries.
I flash a big grin. "So, trostani, what'll it take for you to not kill me on your next turn? How about if I kill Brion and Elspeth?" He agrees, so I whip out bogardan hellkite, killing Brion and swinging into elspeth. Sadly this leaves me unable to trigger either of my stolen swords, but I'm alive. I sac hellkite to the market and bring it back with the stolen nim deathmantle, killing a few of hazezon's tokens and providing me a decent blocker for hazezon and Brion, who has anger in the grave. For now, I'm alive. Pass.
Hazezon plays his general then destroys all creatures, mostly as a way to sacrifice his general, even though it's known that trostani has rootborn defenses, which he uses. Zirilan dies as does my only blocker (and anger is still in Brion's grave so, you know, GREAT). Plus, 10 tokens coming next turn. Awesome. He passes.
Trostani doesn't kill me, and does me the big favor of getting continuously scarier, which draws some attention from me. More tokens and such. He passes.
Brion lucklily doesn't play a creature, and passes. Dodged a bullet there.
I have enough to get zirilan back, hit him with swiftfoot boots and get a dragon onto the field. Evidence points to Trostani having removal so I once again throw myself on his mercy.
"what'll it be this time, boss?"
"Hit Hazezon for 10".
I can do 10 (actually I think as high as 14-16) but it leaves me undefended, so luckily he lets me get away with an utvara hellkite for 6, giving me a blocker. Sweet. The choke chain is getting looser and I might be back in the game. Pass.
Hazezon gets his tokens which is plenty scary as it is, plays a few other forgettable cards and passes.
Trostani lays into my enemies and plays some more dudes that become irrelevant soon.
Brion plays flayer of the hatebound. Great, more and more ways to die. But Trostani is drawing lots of worry and no one else seems to have an answer. Time for my gamble.
"If I can wipe trostani's board will you let me live?"
She agrees, although Trostani still seems confident is his position. But it's now or never.
I count my mana. 11. I can tutor balefire, equip it with boots, when he tries to exile it (it's a pte) I can sac to high market and recur with deathmantle, equip with boots again, and swing for blowout. Excellent. Now I just need buyout from hazezon.
It takes a while but I get him to offer my life UNLESS he can kill everyone on his next turn. The fact that he agrees to this is pretty scary but whaddyagonnado. I get my balefire dragon and equip the boots. Trostani already knows I can do the sac-recur-boots so he doesn't bother with the pte, and I wipe his board, gain 2 life from SoWaP (out of range of the flayer), untap my lands, and make him discard. Plus I stll have my 6/6 blocker. Sliiiick. Pass.
Hazezon gets scary. He recurs his rage thrower and plays it, and plays beastmaster ascension. Shoulda seen that coming. His 10x 1/1s are now potential 8/6s with the glory of warfare he already had, plus he's got a sac outlet with the rage thrower. He swings at my enemies only, with enough to kill me postcombat with rage thrower.
I play grab the reins on his rage thrower after he declares attackers. If he sacrifices tokens to kill me in response, it'll break our contract since my enemies will live, plus it'll leave them at pretty solid life and able to respond. He does nothing and I get the rage thrower, which I sac for more life. The tokens almost kill both enemies, putting Brion at 6 and Trostani at 4. Brion offers to kill Trostani with flayer if hazezon will save her for last, which he accepts. Sweet, one down. Hazezon passes.
Brion...plays Brion again I think? Not actually sure. Didn't matter.
Brion's at 6, Hazezon is at 21. Nothing in the skies.
I untap, use zirilan to get dragon tyrant, slap both swords on it, slap the boots onto the 6/6 token in case of removal from Brion, and swing the 6/6 into Brion and the 11/10 double-strike dragon tyrant into Hazezon.
For the WIN!
I've had some pretty hopeless situations before, but being target #1 in a 4-player game with no defense at 3 life - and WINNING - has gotta be just about the most amazing bit of politicking I've ever done.
That game was ridiculously awesome.
Casual Player, Hobbyist Designer.
Percussionist, Composer, Banjo Player
Current Decks:
BG RockStars (Enchantress Midrange)
Modern:
GWU Enduring Ideal
EDH/Commander -
GW Krond, Enchanter
UB Vela, of Doomsday
RG Angry Barbie
WUG Friendly Hugs on Hippo Wings
WBR Oros, the Experiment
T1 Forest, Mana Crypt, Azusa, Lost but Seeking. Play Ancient Tomb, and Vesuva copying Ancient Tomb.
T2 Eye of Ugin, Sol Ring, another Forest and I dont remember the other land. Before Turn 3 Taps an searches for Kozilek, Butcher of Truth.
T3 Plays Kozilek, Butcher of Truth. Game ends because pre-release started.
I did my pre release at another LGS. My LGS does not have this kind of meta. This was crazy to me. Oh btw. The guys deck was completely foiled out.
EDH-
Shattergang BothersGBR Kaalia the Vast RBW Pillowpants the Blackblade, Troll of the PillowfortBUW Jarad Golgari Lich Lord's Pet CemeteryGB (Retired)
Ghave Guru of SporesGBW (Retired)
Jenara, Asura of WarGWU Norin the WayR Rhys the RedeemedGW Oloro, Ageless AsceticBUW
Ezuri, Renegade LeaderG
turn 1, disciple of the vault
turn 2, silver myr
turn 3, semblance anvil, cloud key.
turn 4, vendalken archmage,
turn 5, deck myself exactly by accident with triple mem jar, and 5x vendalken archmage, which were copied by phyrexian metamorph, mirrorworks, and semblance anvil. :D, luckily managed to kill everyone by saccing everything to ironworks.
EDH mimeoplasm
turn 1, land
turn 2, phyrexian tower, virridan emmisianary
turn 3, sac emmisianary, get mirri, swing for 3
turn 4, bury alive
turn 5, i rattlesnake with mimeoplasm( triskelon and death's shadow)
turn 6, putrefax
turn 7, sac mimeoplasm to tower, cast it again with cloudscraper and putrfax, win with an 18/18 infect trample haste
EDH Thromok, played against wort
faced a 40X banefire because of a conspired boundless realms... turn 7 after getting a 125/125 Thromok after devouring 25 tokens(just drew the banefire too :()
Thanks Argentleman;)
WB Teysa token aggroBW (retired)
MAKING (Onmath, Numot, maybe something in Esper)
I'm pretty sure that 25 times 25 is 625, not 125.
That's not a typical start. Turn 1 Azusa is fairly rare, 1 in 12 games or so
BRGrenzo, Dungeon Warden EDH
GAzusa, Always in a Rush EDH
GWUDerevi, Empyrial Warlord EDH
Trade thread on MOTL
Anyay I'm playing Thromok in a 4 way match. Going against Sharuum, Kaalia and Riku. Anyway We are playing and after devouring 13 Creatures Thromok becomes a 169/169. Pretty good except that He has become a target to steal now. Usually I would trust High market, Miren the Moaning Well or even My Ashnod's altar (All 3 of which) are out. However Riku decided to use Tarastadon to blow up my 3 sac outlets. I'm tapped out and Mind control is cast, Target (As you may have guessed) is Thromok.
My friend decided to cast something before all is lost. He has Leyline of anticipation on the field and to save us from the evil Thromok, He casts fleshbag marauder. I sac Thromok and we continue on. (2 turns later i cast Thromok again devouring 17 becoming a 289/289, with Brawn and Anger in the grave)
UB Vela the Night-Clad BUDecklist
WBG Ghave, Guru of Spores GBW
WUBRGThe Ur-DragonWUBRGDecklist
Thanks to Heroes of the Plane for the awesome Sig.
Currently Playing- EDH
GGGOmnath, Locus of the LifestreamGGG
BBBShirei, Lord of PoniesBBB
UWRasputin Dreamweaver, Russia's Greatest Love MachineUW
UBWZur, Killer of FunUBW
UGWTreva, Princess of CanterlotUGW
RWTajic, Master of the Reverse BladeRW
RRRZirilan, How to Train Your DragonRRR
PDH Decks
Gelectrode
Ascended Lawmage
Blaze Commando
didn't know he was gonna play Mind control.
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WBG Ghave, Guru of Spores GBW
WUBRGThe Ur-DragonWUBRGDecklist
Instead, on my draw step I get a gaea's cradle which was kind of disappointing since I had no creatures in play. Although its interaction with living plane is nice, if I cast it then the cradle would have summoning sickness.
Before reading further, can you guess what I did?
I casted living plane and laid the cradle, and since the cradle was a creature, the 1000-year elixir let me use its ability as though it had haste. I tapped it for 7 mana, then used the elixir to untap it and use it again, putting 13 in my pool. I used 8 of it to cast vorinclex then tapped the savannah for WW to cast elesh norn. My lands were 3/3 creatures, theirs were all dead.
My G Yisan, the Bard of Death G deck.
My BUGWR Hermit druid BUGWR deck.
Going down to like 6 life I boseiju-ed a bribery for a Player#2's vorinclex leaving just 3 lands untapped. Which I used to cast Time spiral it was a 4 player game so I drew 49 cards with 12 mana available and a bunch of shenenigans ensued.
Gfast animals slow shildrenG
51-18-4 (retired as of 6-4-11)
you take 3 from mana crypt not 2. lol
Gfast animals slow shildrenG
51-18-4 (retired as of 6-4-11)
-Mishra's Workshop
-Sol ring
-Lotus Petal
-Mana Crypt
-Gilded Lotus
-Mox Diamond
-Island
Draw: Mox Opal
I play My hand, They all pass expecting me to have no luck for the rest of the game. I draw Blightsteel and play him. Two scoop.
turn 3 i draw Foresee and scry 4 seeing rite of replication and Akroma's memorial. I can't play both with my board but i also see Mycosynth golem. I grab the golem and Akroma's memorial. I swing with blightsteel taking out one of the two remaining opponents. I had left Rite as my third card while the island had gone to the bottom of the deck. I rite kicked Blightsteel and swing with all 6.
UB Vela the Night-Clad BUDecklist
WBG Ghave, Guru of Spores GBW
WUBRGThe Ur-DragonWUBRGDecklist
To begin, I have a diviner's wand on board with a Vendilion Clique attached, and something like 12 cards in hand with a reliquary tower out. I'm playing Tibor and Lumia, while my opponents are Aurelia and Merike. I also had reverberated Merike's spelltwine to reanimate Aurelia's Silverblade Paladin (attached to Clique).
-I draw my card for the turn, so now Vendilion Clique is a 4/2.
-I cast Blue Sun's Zenith for 11, bringing cards in hand to 23 and Vendilion Clique to a 15/13.
-I follow up by playing a whirlpool warrior, drawing 22 cards, bringing Vendilion Clique to a 37/35 flying, doublestriker.
-Vendilion Clique does 74 damage to Merike and kill him. Merike's a little more dangerous here, because Aurelia can't cast his general next turn (unless he hits land drop and sol ring).
-Aurelia hits a hallowed burial, and sends my clique to the bottom of my deck, lays down a furnace of wrath and a land, and passes.
-I untap, play urabrask and Tibor and Lumia (which gets attached to wand for free). Next, with 22 cards in hand, I cast windfall and swing with a 25/25 Tibor and Lumia.
Again, not super crazy, but I did get some joy out of doing 74 damage in one shot with a Vendilion Clique.
Thraximundar Control voltron
Darien, King of Dudes The swarm
Karador, Ghost ChieftainJunk graveyard
Erebos, God of the DeadMy BIG BLACK.......deck
Zedruu the kindhearted My take on Pristaxcontrombmodruu!
Roon of the Hidden Realm Bounce house
So I spend most of early to mid game sitting back and doing nothing unless someone else does. I use Reverberate on an early game Fact or Fiction. Sweet, I just FoF'ed in mono red, I like this game already. A few turns later I use mages contest to counter a Terastodon that probably wasn't even going to blow up my stuff, but who cares it's Terastodon. Right after that I end up using Radiate on a miracled Banishing Stroke and only lose my two mana artifacts because I still haven't done anything relevant. Two turns later someone casts Genesis Wave for 8, which I use Wild ricochet on which ends up getting me Caged Sun, a mana artifact and five lands.
So alas I have used all of my ridiculous reactive copy spells. The game ends very non spectacularly when burn out one player with my commander for 36 damage and then shoot the other down for more with a Devil's Play the next turn.
All in all, not that crazy, but I certainly wont be forgetting any time soon the day where I got all of my stupid situational reactive spells in my opening hand and used them all.
Reckless Waif; It's the red Delver of Secrets.
Wild Ricochet would have copied it twice. So top 8 twice.
Thanks to Heroes of the Plane for the awesome Sig.
Currently Playing- EDH
GGGOmnath, Locus of the LifestreamGGG
BBBShirei, Lord of PoniesBBB
UWRasputin Dreamweaver, Russia's Greatest Love MachineUW
UBWZur, Killer of FunUBW
UGWTreva, Princess of CanterlotUGW
RWTajic, Master of the Reverse BladeRW
RRRZirilan, How to Train Your DragonRRR
PDH Decks
Gelectrode
Ascended Lawmage
Blaze Commando
We had seven people so we played Two-Headed Giant with three teams with one person by himself getting an advantage. I was playing my Wanderer deck. I cast Acidic Soil followed with Winds of Change to draw five cards and kill off the two other teams thanks to Psychosis Crawler. The lone person left was at three life... until my teammate targeted me with Cephalid Coliseum.
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Not quite. Wild Ricochet allows you to choose new targets for an instant or sorcery spell, and then copy it. Since Genesis Wave doesn't target anything, there are no new targets to choose. So, you'll only get the one Genesis Wave copy provided by Wild Ricochet.
If Gensis Wave said, "target player reveals..." then you would be able to steal the original's effect for yourself. Sadly, this is not the case.
Commander/EDH Decks:
BRG The Blood of Jund - Kresh the Bloodbraided BRG
WR The Blades of Goldnight - Gisela, Blade of Goldnight WR
Thanks to Heroes of the Plane for the awesome Sig.
Currently Playing- EDH
GGGOmnath, Locus of the LifestreamGGG
BBBShirei, Lord of PoniesBBB
UWRasputin Dreamweaver, Russia's Greatest Love MachineUW
UBWZur, Killer of FunUBW
UGWTreva, Princess of CanterlotUGW
RWTajic, Master of the Reverse BladeRW
RRRZirilan, How to Train Your DragonRRR
PDH Decks
Gelectrode
Ascended Lawmage
Blaze Commando
You sure do I knew what was about to happen and didn't even bother with it.
On my field: Fathom Mage, Forgotten Ancient, Plaxcaster Frogling, Contagion Engine, Corpsejack Menace, and Skullbriar, the Walking Grave.
Rite of replication kicked on Corpsejack Menace followed by activating Contagion Engine. Drawing a LOT of cards and swinging with a VERY large Skullbriar. so awesome. several auto-scoops.
EDH:
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Dama, Sage of Stone | Karador, Ghost Chieftan | Sigarda, Host of Herons | Elbrus, the Binding Blade / Withengar Unbound | Grand Arbiter Augustin IV | Genju of the Realm | Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
I had planned on winning with a giant Living Death, but I couldn't quite get there. I think I got my foe down to 9 or so life (from 52). After having blocked my way down to 1 life thanks to Ghave shenanigans, I'm left with a Quicksilver Amulet, a ton of creatures including a River Kelpie and a Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind. My opponent smiles after his attack and says, "Go."
I take a deep breath, untap, and announce putting the Phyrexian Arena trigger on the stack. Looking at a Makeshift Mannequin in hand, and a Desolate Lighthouse and Nephalia Drownyard on board, I frantically search my giant graveyard for some way to deal 9 damage to him--no dice. I have a Desolate Lighthouse and Niv to draw some cards with, but I couldn't think of anything that I could use at instant speed. Then I checked my graveyard again to see what was left in my six-card library. It was Laboratory Maniac, Urabrask the Hidden, Sundial of the Infinite, and three lands. So Lab Maniac and five bricks. What complicated matters even more was that I only had one pain-free source of red mana (I had a Bloodstained Mire I could not crack, and my other two red sources were pain lands.)
After that, I spend a long time thinking about what the course of action should be. Is it more likely for me to win with the Maniac in my graveyard or my hand? Can I even win if the Maniac is in my graveyard? Can I win with it in my hand? The first solution I thought of was if the Maniac is drawn, pipe it in with the Amulet, Makeshift Mannequin a Mulldrifter to draw three cards (two from 'drifter, one from a River Kelpie trigger), mill the last three cards in my deck, and Loothouse or Niv to win. But with six cards, drawing Maniac was a 50/50 chance. At the time, I couldn't think of a way to win with Maniac in my graveyard. Thankfully, I drew the Maniac off Mulldrifter and proceeded to win the game.
However, there is also a way to win if the Maniac gets put into the graveyard. With six cards in library, let's say you Drownyard at upkeep and the Maniac is milled. You obviously have to Mannequin the Maniac then draw a card. You get a Kelpie trigger to draw a card, then you Loothouse, then you tap Niv-Mizzet to draw a card. Then you let the Phyrexian Arena trigger resolve, drawing from an empty library and going to 0 life--but since you have Lab Maniac out, you win when you draw from an empty library.
The correct play here is actually to Drownyard first, because if you hit it, you win in the above paragraph. If you don't, you Mannequin the Mulldrifter, drawing the remainder of your library. Then you Amulet in the Maniac and tap Niv-Mizzet to draw from an empty library, winning the game. Thankfully I drew the Maniac off the Mulldrifter, and everything worked out.
That was probably the hardest I've had to think for a long time during an EDH game. I think what was more remarkable is that I nearly lost after keeping an opening hand containing Urborg, Coffers, Arena, and Compulsion. Finding that way to win felt like solving a DOTP puzzle.
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The gravity of the situation begins to sink in. I need to only demonstrate the first three copies resolving before the two of them scoop out of disgust.
I won game 1 tonight in our group with Geth, which immediately made me a huge target even though I switched to jankier Zirilan of the claw. I get targeted pretty relentlessly for damage by Trostani and Brion (brion probably because I used hellkite tyrant to steal her swords of FoF and WaP and nim deathmantle), with hazazon mostly sitting out. After a particularly brutal attack from trostani with odric active that puts me to 19, brion attacks with a +3/+3 (from elspeth) jor kadeen (betcha wish you had those artifacts!) and then flings him with brion to set me to 3. I've got a decent amount of artifacts, not a lot of mana, and she's still got brion on the board, plus Trostani has made it clear that he wants me dead on his next turn and there's nothing I can do about it (I smell instant-speed removal, and it turns out I'm right, plus he's got a rootborn defenses to stop my balefire dragon). Hazazon continues to do nothing much.
Things look bad. Very bad. 3 life, only lifegain is high market. No way I can handle this with mere brawn. Time to go for politics.
Brion just has Brion and Elspeth - although Brion scares me deeply obviously. Trostani has a massive board and tons of life. Hazezon has some enchantments and threatens to be a problem later, but for now, he's the least of my worries.
I flash a big grin. "So, trostani, what'll it take for you to not kill me on your next turn? How about if I kill Brion and Elspeth?" He agrees, so I whip out bogardan hellkite, killing Brion and swinging into elspeth. Sadly this leaves me unable to trigger either of my stolen swords, but I'm alive. I sac hellkite to the market and bring it back with the stolen nim deathmantle, killing a few of hazezon's tokens and providing me a decent blocker for hazezon and Brion, who has anger in the grave. For now, I'm alive. Pass.
Hazezon plays his general then destroys all creatures, mostly as a way to sacrifice his general, even though it's known that trostani has rootborn defenses, which he uses. Zirilan dies as does my only blocker (and anger is still in Brion's grave so, you know, GREAT). Plus, 10 tokens coming next turn. Awesome. He passes.
Trostani doesn't kill me, and does me the big favor of getting continuously scarier, which draws some attention from me. More tokens and such. He passes.
Brion lucklily doesn't play a creature, and passes. Dodged a bullet there.
I have enough to get zirilan back, hit him with swiftfoot boots and get a dragon onto the field. Evidence points to Trostani having removal so I once again throw myself on his mercy.
"what'll it be this time, boss?"
"Hit Hazezon for 10".
I can do 10 (actually I think as high as 14-16) but it leaves me undefended, so luckily he lets me get away with an utvara hellkite for 6, giving me a blocker. Sweet. The choke chain is getting looser and I might be back in the game. Pass.
Hazezon gets his tokens which is plenty scary as it is, plays a few other forgettable cards and passes.
Trostani lays into my enemies and plays some more dudes that become irrelevant soon.
Brion plays flayer of the hatebound. Great, more and more ways to die. But Trostani is drawing lots of worry and no one else seems to have an answer. Time for my gamble.
"If I can wipe trostani's board will you let me live?"
She agrees, although Trostani still seems confident is his position. But it's now or never.
I count my mana. 11. I can tutor balefire, equip it with boots, when he tries to exile it (it's a pte) I can sac to high market and recur with deathmantle, equip with boots again, and swing for blowout. Excellent. Now I just need buyout from hazezon.
It takes a while but I get him to offer my life UNLESS he can kill everyone on his next turn. The fact that he agrees to this is pretty scary but whaddyagonnado. I get my balefire dragon and equip the boots. Trostani already knows I can do the sac-recur-boots so he doesn't bother with the pte, and I wipe his board, gain 2 life from SoWaP (out of range of the flayer), untap my lands, and make him discard. Plus I stll have my 6/6 blocker. Sliiiick. Pass.
Hazezon gets scary. He recurs his rage thrower and plays it, and plays beastmaster ascension. Shoulda seen that coming. His 10x 1/1s are now potential 8/6s with the glory of warfare he already had, plus he's got a sac outlet with the rage thrower. He swings at my enemies only, with enough to kill me postcombat with rage thrower.
I play grab the reins on his rage thrower after he declares attackers. If he sacrifices tokens to kill me in response, it'll break our contract since my enemies will live, plus it'll leave them at pretty solid life and able to respond. He does nothing and I get the rage thrower, which I sac for more life. The tokens almost kill both enemies, putting Brion at 6 and Trostani at 4. Brion offers to kill Trostani with flayer if hazezon will save her for last, which he accepts. Sweet, one down. Hazezon passes.
Brion...plays Brion again I think? Not actually sure. Didn't matter.
Brion's at 6, Hazezon is at 21. Nothing in the skies.
I untap, use zirilan to get dragon tyrant, slap both swords on it, slap the boots onto the 6/6 token in case of removal from Brion, and swing the 6/6 into Brion and the 11/10 double-strike dragon tyrant into Hazezon.
For the WIN!
I've had some pretty hopeless situations before, but being target #1 in a 4-player game with no defense at 3 life - and WINNING - has gotta be just about the most amazing bit of politicking I've ever done.
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