I started out playing Yawgmoth's will beacause one of my opponents milled me for 15 or so cards. I had about 12 cards in hand.
Then i played Hive mind, followed up by Liliana's Caress, and i had Windfall and Winds of Change if my graveyard. So they lost 1 life for every card i drew, every card they drew, and lose 2 life for every card they discarded.
Vish Kal player casts Exsanguinate for 8 or so as a game-ender when everyone is low on life. The Prossh player and I both cast Reverberate in response, so he ends up dying before his spell can even resolve. The Vish Kal players said that had to be one of his best deaths of all time.
My Turn Killspire on 3. I use it to cast Collective Blessing turning my deveri, Warden of Evo's isle and 3/3 Beast token (Marath had beast within my Kangee the turn before). Into lethal for Nekusaur (I had a gavony township).. who had his shrouded Neku on the board a couple turns and had been taking chunks of everyone HP. I forced him to chump the beast with Neku. I play a Raven familiar and pass. Marath puts Marath into play, his only creature and trys to roll away from Kilnspire District hoping to find a boardwipe plane. doesn't.
So I am at 22... Neku's turn.. Toil and trouble for 9.. putting me to 13. Then he uses Phthisis targeting my 6/7 Deveri. I had to Oblation my own.. always 4 mana from the command zone general D:...not to die. argh!. But I live. Thats all that matters. I have a Mirror entity in hand and enough mana to pump to 15 (thanks to blessing) and to keep rootbound defences up. I play mirror entity pump to 15... Beast at Neku, bird at Marath. I look at Marath expectantly. he taps mana and...... cycles Krosan Tusker leaving up a basic plains. gets his land shuffles, I cut and he reveals.... Path to exile.... and he doesn't die. He untaps with Kilnspire at 7. and starts rolling the planar dice... miss... miss.... choas... taps all his mana and burns me straight to the face for 13, some people are so lucky.
So I had Xenagos, God of Revels and Aggravated Assault, along with 11 lands out on the field. This was after a Wrath had cleaned the field, and we were in rebuild mode, so to say. Stonebrow would've cost 9 mana at this point due to Commander Tax. I only have 1 card in hand, that being Charging Badger. I then draw the card for my turn...and at that point I really wished I had an evil goatee and a moustache to twirl, because I just drew into Bear Umbra. So I drop the Badger, follow it up with the Bear Umbra. Attack with a 6/6 trample. Untap. Repeat. Get 12/12. 24/24. 48/48. First player dead. 96/96. Second player dead. 192/192. Third player dead. 384/384. Game.
Chandra, Torch of Defiance - Oops! All Chandras. Prime Speaker Zegana - Draw for Power. Pir & Toothy - Counterpalooza. Arcades, the Strategist - Another Brick in the Wall. Zacama, Primal Calamity - Calamity of Double Mana. Edgar Markov - Vampires Don't Die. Child of Alara - Dreamcrusher.
I forgot the order in which he dropped them but on his first turn in a game last night my buddy dropped: land, Sol Ring, Mana Vault, Grim Monolith, Chrome Mox (imprint Jace's Archivist) then cast Timetwister. It was pretty freaking epic. Empty your hand then immediately refill on turn 1? Also, my brother and I ended up getting a little mana screwed on our draws off twister.
Best thing i've ever done in edh: My board was grave pact, Shattergang Brothers(my general) whip of erebos, urborg thespian stage(coffers #2), coffers, kessig wolf run and around 20 or so lands. I cast liliana of the veil, recure reasembling skeleton, use lilana's -2 on myself sac'ing my skel clearing away some blockers and leaving someone wide open. I then tapped out and kessiged the most threatening person on the board with my general for 50~ lifelink trample.
Modern: UUUBlue Man Group
Legacy: UWBMiracles
Edh: UUUThassa Control WWWHokori Stax GGGJolrael, Empress of Land Stompy BBBGriselbrand French List RBGShattergang(Super Villians) RWGHazezon Flicker UBRMarchesa Aggro URGMaelstom Wanderer (Maelstorm)
I was playing with Yeva, Nature's Herald last night, and had a board of her with 6 +1/+1 counters, Mana Reflection, Perilous Forays, Primeval Bounty, Hornet Queen, and her tokens, with only a Constant Mists in hand. The Kaalia player had just knocked out the Reaper King player, and I was holding him off with fogs. I drew Overwhelming Stampede, so end of his turn I sacced everyone but Yeva for lands, cast Mists five times to put 15 more counters on Yeva, then untapped and cast Stampede to get in for lethal general.
Edit: To clarify that I didn't swing while fogged.
I don't get it. How does this end the game? It's chaotic as hell, but the game is not over.
Well, you play a spell. It goes into exile. Then Possiblity resolves and spell with same type comes out. She can decide if she will counter it or not.
And Mind over matter combos with many cards. So, If you want to destroy Isochron or Mind over Matter, you need to pass through Possibility storm, Counterspell, another Counterspell (untaped isochron via Mind over Matter) and so on. If she got cards in hands, you wont play anything.
I had a game about a week back against a guy playing Animar, Soul of Elements and another playing Mayael the Anima. I was using Tymaret, the Murder King and we were on like turn 8-9 with both their boards developed and me with only Tymaret left on my side. The Animar guy went infinite with Palinchron and dumped his hand which included Woodfall Primus, Ogre Battledriver and Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, then attacked us both which put Tymaret into the grave and took down a chunk of mine and Mayael's life. On my next turn, I played a Blasphemous Act to clear the board except for the 1000/1000 Animar, used Zealous Conscripts to steal Animar for the turn and rolled a dice to determine who to kill between Animar and Mayael. Ended up swinging at Mayael, then at EOT I sacked Animar to Tymaret's effect from the graveyard to return him to my hand. The next turn I topdecked an Animate Dead, got Animar's Kiki-Jiki from the grave and swung with a Zealous Conscript Army for the win. It was pretty sweet.
I don't get it. How does this end the game? It's chaotic as hell, but the game is not over.
Well, you play a spell. It goes into exile. Then Possiblity resolves and spell with same type comes out. She can decide if she will counter it or not.
And Mind over matter combos with many cards. So, If you want to destroy Isochron or Mind over Matter, you need to pass through Possibility storm, Counterspell, another Counterspell (untaped isochron via Mind over Matter) and so on. If she got cards in hands, you wont play anything.
So this was a duel? I didn't realize that, but you didn't actually mention other players.
If it was not a duel, there's a good chance she'll eventually run out of cards. Countering one spell per turn cycle isn't that frightening. Well, she draws one card per turn, so she could theoretically counter each and every one of your spells in a 3 player ffa, but that works only if she was already ahead on board.
Nope, It was free for all game, we were 4.
And yes, there is chance she run out of cards. But that didn't matter, her commander is Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind. So she would draw whole library, kill 2 players in the process, play Laboratory maniac and win the game by drawing the rest of library.
I don't get it. How does this end the game? It's chaotic as hell, but the game is not over.
Well, you play a spell. It goes into exile. Then Possiblity resolves and spell with same type comes out. She can decide if she will counter it or not.
And Mind over matter combos with many cards. So, If you want to destroy Isochron or Mind over Matter, you need to pass through Possibility storm, Counterspell, another Counterspell (untaped isochron via Mind over Matter) and so on. If she got cards in hands, you wont play anything.
So this was a duel? I didn't realize that, but you didn't actually mention other players.
If it was not a duel, there's a good chance she'll eventually run out of cards. Countering one spell per turn cycle isn't that frightening. Well, she draws one card per turn, so she could theoretically counter each and every one of your spells in a 3 player ffa, but that works only if she was already ahead on board.
Nope, It was free for all game, we were 4.
And yes, there is chance she run out of cards. But that didn't matter, her commander is Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind. So she would draw whole library, kill 2 players in the process, play Laboratory maniac and win the game by drawing the rest of library.
Won't help you because of Possibility storm. You cast split second, but it exiles itself and you turn cards from your library until you cast another instant. Which can be countered.
And also, nobody had krosan. There was Lazav, Oloro and preconstructed Marath.
I don't get it. How does this end the game? It's chaotic as hell, but the game is not over.
Well, you play a spell. It goes into exile. Then Possiblity resolves and spell with same type comes out. She can decide if she will counter it or not.
And Mind over matter combos with many cards. So, If you want to destroy Isochron or Mind over Matter, you need to pass through Possibility storm, Counterspell, another Counterspell (untaped isochron via Mind over Matter) and so on. If she got cards in hands, you wont play anything.
So this was a duel? I didn't realize that, but you didn't actually mention other players.
If it was not a duel, there's a good chance she'll eventually run out of cards. Countering one spell per turn cycle isn't that frightening. Well, she draws one card per turn, so she could theoretically counter each and every one of your spells in a 3 player ffa, but that works only if she was already ahead on board.
Nope, It was free for all game, we were 4.
And yes, there is chance she run out of cards. But that didn't matter, her commander is Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind. So she would draw whole library, kill 2 players in the process, play Laboratory maniac and win the game by drawing the rest of library.
Won't help you because of Possibility storm. You cast split second, but it exiles itself and you turn cards from your library until you cast another instant. Which can be countered.
And also, nobody had krosan. There was Lazav, Oloro and preconstructed Marath.
No, I mean you cast a random instant and hope to get the split second one after the trigger resolves. As "Son_of_the_Suns" said, the game's not over, there is still hope
oh, i didn't get that.
Well, we still lost when she pulled out curiosity. all 3 of us.
Essentially you add an ability to every card you cast (for free with Omniscience)...
"Tap a Land: Gain X life where X equals the number of opponents. Opponents each lose 2 life. Draw a Card."
Normally this wouldn't matter because you win right after resolving Omniscience but I resolved an early one with few cards in hand and bricked on my draws. So I cast Oloro with Ghast already out and went to town.
I pulled a fun turn in my Marath deck to win with a modest board. Played against Nekusar precon, Ghave non combo, and another B/W/X deck that was aggro oriented. This was only really mid game for our usual games, but someone was running away with it early, so I had to make something happen or die. I was at 13 life or so.
I didn't have enough land to play the Avenger + Battle Driver to win. So I go to Academy Rector for something good.
Cast Academy Rector, sac, search... Warstorm Surge? No. search... Vicious Shadows? No. search... Sneak Attack? No... wait YES!.
Slam Sneak attack in play. Drop Battledriver for R, cast Saffi (low on red), Drop Avenger (18 tokens)
Sac saffi to protect avenger. Sac Avenger, comes back (18 more tokens). I wasnt able to pump the tokens with a Karametra search because I wanted to drop Avenger last in case of any removal.
36 2/1 haste tokens kill 2 out of three players. Last one has no mass removal and concedes.
This play was fun because up until that point Sneak Attack was always a "why do I play this card" kind of thing. After that game, I will leave it in for a little while to see if I can get any more explosive plays out of it. Plus I run Survival of the Fittest, so that would be living the dream.
Karametra only triggers when you cast a creature spell, so the tokens couldn't have gotten you lands anyways. Nice use of Sneak Attack.
wording fixed.
I meant the tokens couldn't grow from Karametra because I played avenger last in the sequence. I don't think I mis-played during that game. But I did word it wrong the first time. Thanks for catching that.
Sneak Attack might be good in my Marath deck because I don't need to keep the creatures around long, I just need their effect for making tokens, or drawing cards. More testing is needed tho because if you topdeck it without a good hand its not as good.
My first infinite combo in a Commander game wasn't too special aside from the circumstances. My Commander circle plays with modified versions of the precons. Well, it turns out that Behemoth Sledge and Boros Charm are both included in the Marath deck, and I stuck a Boros Reckoner I got out a box in for some poops and giggles. Well, during a game, post-overloaded Cyclonic Rift, I'm mulling over what my best options to build back up would be when I realize "Wait. I have this... and this... and this?!" Using my nine mana, I played the Reckoner and the Sledge and equipped and it managed to live to block something. What the attacking player thought would take out the super-sized Divinity of Pride ended up with a ten-digit life total, to which everyone scooped. I know, not really that memorable aside from the fact that the deck wasn't built with that combo in mind, but you never forget your first.
Not supremely crazy, but hilarious none-the-less, I had a great suicide last night in a league game. We had a 4 man pod, with me playing Zedruu(chaos), and everybody else playing commanders that include black. Around turn 4 I cast Hive mind and get one groan, and two cheers. The groan player thinks for a second and casts slaughter pact... Needless to say, I couldn't produce the black mana needed to not lose the game on my next upkeep. The best part was even though they went another 8-10 turns or so, I got the most league points out of the game.
So, we had the Four Horsemen rule come up in an EDH game Sunday night.
RUG player (Animar goodstuff I think?) gets Deadeye Navigator out and has Zealous Conscripts in play. Playing my Mayael deck, I don't feel like letting my fatties get stolen, so I throw down an Archetype of Endurance with Chord of Calling so my army of fatties can be left alone. We both have Seedborn Muses. I flip up Gisela, Blade of Goldnight with a Mayael activation, and suddenly, I have 42 damage worth of flying creatures to attack with. RUG player has some random dude with Hypnotic Siren on it, but Iroas is preventing that dude from blocking. There's a five-color planeswalker deck we all got sick of, so I moved to combat, triggering Xenagos, God of Revels on Worldspine Wurm, ready to kill them both. There was a Derevi player doing mostly nothing due to not getting double white for most of the game, but he was mostly irrelevant. Keyword: mostly.
The 30/30 trampler goes at planeswalker dude, and my 42 damage in flying guys go at the RUG player with 16 mana and a Deadeye Navigator. He flickered out his Conscripts looking for a flying guy to block with, but the only flying guy I didn't control was his! After scanning the board for a while, he decided to gain control of my Madblind Mountain, which let him shuffle the top of his deck for Magus of the Future to possibly find him an answer. After shuffling three times in this fashion, he realized that the Derevi player had a Nykthos. He gained control of that, then thought about things for a bit and realized he had infinite mana, and as such, could shuffle his library as many times as he wanted. He explained that he would use this infinite mana to flicker Conscripts and shuffle his library until Cyclonic Rift was on top. We argued over whether he could do that for a while. Ultimately we decided that because he could shuffle his library infinitely, and there was a nonzero, not ridiculously miniscule chance Cyclonic Rift would be on top of his library, we allowed him to shortcut the shuffles until the card was on top of his library. He killed the table on his next turn with his giant board of everyone else's stuff.
Yeah. I mean, the alternative is you just make him shuffle until he hits it, which he will. It's casual, and not letting him just wastes everyone's time. It's casual, so I feel like just letting him is fine.
My meta was pretty casual at first, then became an arms race, any ways so I was playing Karn, turn one ancient tomb, tap for two go to 38, drop sol ring, tap sol ring for two, drop voltaic key, tap key to untap ring, tap for two more, drop basalt monolith. Pass. Turn 2 play springjack pasture, play smokestack, and planar portal. Turn 3 smokestack at one counter, pass, every one sacks a land. Guy before me plays collective voyage and every one else dumped all the mana they could into it which pulled 5 lands into play tapped. I tapped planar portal and pulled out winterorb, every one scoops.
Then there was turn one dustbowl, mana crypt, trinisphere, turn two smokestack, turn three trading post, everyone quits again. I stopped playing that deck for a few months.
I had one Psychosis Crawler and my Nekusar in play.
I started out playing Yawgmoth's will beacause one of my opponents milled me for 15 or so cards. I had about 12 cards in hand.
Then i played Hive mind, followed up by Liliana's Caress, and i had Windfall and Winds of Change if my graveyard. So they lost 1 life for every card i drew, every card they drew, and lose 2 life for every card they discarded.
That was quite alot of damage.
Who needs Colours?
My most played EDH deck:
X Kozilek, the Great Distortion
UBR Nekusar, the Mindrazer
Vish Kal player casts Exsanguinate for 8 or so as a game-ender when everyone is low on life. The Prossh player and I both cast Reverberate in response, so he ends up dying before his spell can even resolve. The Vish Kal players said that had to be one of his best deaths of all time.
Deveri(me, Bird tribal) on 24, Marath(tokens) on 15, and Nekusaur(wheels) on 19
Ok we are currently on Kilnspire District.
My Turn Killspire on 3. I use it to cast Collective Blessing turning my deveri, Warden of Evo's isle and 3/3 Beast token (Marath had beast within my Kangee the turn before). Into lethal for Nekusaur (I had a gavony township).. who had his shrouded Neku on the board a couple turns and had been taking chunks of everyone HP. I forced him to chump the beast with Neku. I play a Raven familiar and pass. Marath puts Marath into play, his only creature and trys to roll away from Kilnspire District hoping to find a boardwipe plane. doesn't.
So I am at 22... Neku's turn.. Toil and trouble for 9.. putting me to 13. Then he uses Phthisis targeting my 6/7 Deveri. I had to Oblation my own.. always 4 mana from the command zone general D:...not to die. argh!. But I live. Thats all that matters. I have a Mirror entity in hand and enough mana to pump to 15 (thanks to blessing) and to keep rootbound defences up. I play mirror entity pump to 15... Beast at Neku, bird at Marath. I look at Marath expectantly. he taps mana and...... cycles Krosan Tusker leaving up a basic plains. gets his land shuffles, I cut and he reveals.... Path to exile.... and he doesn't die. He untaps with Kilnspire at 7. and starts rolling the planar dice... miss... miss.... choas... taps all his mana and burns me straight to the face for 13, some people are so lucky.
Pioneer:UR Pheonix
Modern:U Mono U Tron
EDH
GB Glissa, the traitor: Army of Cans
UW Dragonlord Ojutai: Dragonlord NOjutai
UWGDerevi, Empyrial Tactician "you cannot fight the storm"
R Zirilan of the claw. The solution to every problem is dragons
UB Etrata, the Silencer Cloning assassination
Peasant cube: Cards I own
I won with a 384/384 Charging Badger.
EDH Decks:
WUBOloro, Combo ControlWUB
UBOona Reanimator ComboUB
BRGProssh, Eater of the Blue MageBRG
UBRGrixis StormUBR
Rebuilding Jenara (stealyourstuff.dec)
Pauper Deck:
UBInspired SirenUB
It was glorious.
Draft it Here!
UUUBlue Man Group
Legacy:
UWBMiracles
Edh:
UUUThassa Control
WWWHokori Stax
GGGJolrael, Empress of Land Stompy
BBBGriselbrand French List
RBGShattergang(Super Villians)
RWGHazezon Flicker
UBRMarchesa Aggro
URGMaelstom Wanderer (Maelstorm)
T0 reveal Chancellor of the Spires and each opponent mills 7. Notable mills:
Mayael - Avacyn,Angel of Hope, Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Kresh - Seprulchal Primordial, Madrush Cyclops
Phenax - Phantasmal Image, Grave Titan
T1 (me) - Swamp, Reanimate the Primordial getting back everything of note.
Why yes, it does snow here in Magical Christmas land for me!
Then I proceeded to get roflstomped the next game for it, couldn't really be mad at them for it.
UBX - Milling Zombie Horde (now with spliced mana!)
Edit: To clarify that I didn't swing while fogged.
Fogs were cast EOT so were not in effect for the lethal swing.
Aaaand, game over. Was "real fun"...
Well, you play a spell. It goes into exile. Then Possiblity resolves and spell with same type comes out. She can decide if she will counter it or not.
And Mind over matter combos with many cards. So, If you want to destroy Isochron or Mind over Matter, you need to pass through Possibility storm, Counterspell, another Counterspell (untaped isochron via Mind over Matter) and so on. If she got cards in hands, you wont play anything.
Nope, It was free for all game, we were 4.
And yes, there is chance she run out of cards. But that didn't matter, her commander is Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind. So she would draw whole library, kill 2 players in the process, play Laboratory maniac and win the game by drawing the rest of library.
Won't help you because of Possibility storm. You cast split second, but it exiles itself and you turn cards from your library until you cast another instant. Which can be countered.
And also, nobody had krosan. There was Lazav, Oloro and preconstructed Marath.
oh, i didn't get that.
Well, we still lost when she pulled out curiosity.
Crypt Ghast + Oloro, Ageless Ascetic + Omniscience (with Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth out)
Essentially you add an ability to every card you cast (for free with Omniscience)...
"Tap a Land: Gain X life where X equals the number of opponents. Opponents each lose 2 life. Draw a Card."
Normally this wouldn't matter because you win right after resolving Omniscience but I resolved an early one with few cards in hand and bricked on my draws. So I cast Oloro with Ghast already out and went to town.
EDH Decks:
WUBOloro, Combo ControlWUB
UBOona Reanimator ComboUB
BRGProssh, Eater of the Blue MageBRG
UBRGrixis StormUBR
Rebuilding Jenara (stealyourstuff.dec)
Pauper Deck:
UBInspired SirenUB
In play
Karametra
Doubling Season (flashed in off red hideaway land before my turn)
Spawning pit
Indrek Stomphowler
9 lands
In hand
I didn't have enough land to play the Avenger + Battle Driver to win. So I go to Academy Rector for something good.
Cast Academy Rector, sac, search... Warstorm Surge? No. search... Vicious Shadows? No. search... Sneak Attack? No... wait YES!.
Slam Sneak attack in play. Drop Battledriver for R, cast Saffi (low on red), Drop Avenger (18 tokens)
Sac saffi to protect avenger. Sac Avenger, comes back (18 more tokens). I wasnt able to pump the tokens with a Karametra search because I wanted to drop Avenger last in case of any removal.
36 2/1 haste tokens kill 2 out of three players. Last one has no mass removal and concedes.
This play was fun because up until that point Sneak Attack was always a "why do I play this card" kind of thing. After that game, I will leave it in for a little while to see if I can get any more explosive plays out of it. Plus I run Survival of the Fittest, so that would be living the dream.
wording fixed.
I meant the tokens couldn't grow from Karametra because I played avenger last in the sequence. I don't think I mis-played during that game. But I did word it wrong the first time. Thanks for catching that.
Sneak Attack might be good in my Marath deck because I don't need to keep the creatures around long, I just need their effect for making tokens, or drawing cards. More testing is needed tho because if you topdeck it without a good hand its not as good.
Isaac
RUG player (Animar goodstuff I think?) gets Deadeye Navigator out and has Zealous Conscripts in play. Playing my Mayael deck, I don't feel like letting my fatties get stolen, so I throw down an Archetype of Endurance with Chord of Calling so my army of fatties can be left alone. We both have Seedborn Muses. I flip up Gisela, Blade of Goldnight with a Mayael activation, and suddenly, I have 42 damage worth of flying creatures to attack with. RUG player has some random dude with Hypnotic Siren on it, but Iroas is preventing that dude from blocking. There's a five-color planeswalker deck we all got sick of, so I moved to combat, triggering Xenagos, God of Revels on Worldspine Wurm, ready to kill them both. There was a Derevi player doing mostly nothing due to not getting double white for most of the game, but he was mostly irrelevant. Keyword: mostly.
The 30/30 trampler goes at planeswalker dude, and my 42 damage in flying guys go at the RUG player with 16 mana and a Deadeye Navigator. He flickered out his Conscripts looking for a flying guy to block with, but the only flying guy I didn't control was his! After scanning the board for a while, he decided to gain control of my Madblind Mountain, which let him shuffle the top of his deck for Magus of the Future to possibly find him an answer. After shuffling three times in this fashion, he realized that the Derevi player had a Nykthos. He gained control of that, then thought about things for a bit and realized he had infinite mana, and as such, could shuffle his library as many times as he wanted. He explained that he would use this infinite mana to flicker Conscripts and shuffle his library until Cyclonic Rift was on top. We argued over whether he could do that for a while. Ultimately we decided that because he could shuffle his library infinitely, and there was a nonzero, not ridiculously miniscule chance Cyclonic Rift would be on top of his library, we allowed him to shortcut the shuffles until the card was on top of his library. He killed the table on his next turn with his giant board of everyone else's stuff.
Would you have allowed him to do what he did?
Emille, Seven-Sting Dancer Shalin Nariya
Then there was turn one dustbowl, mana crypt, trinisphere, turn two smokestack, turn three trading post, everyone quits again. I stopped playing that deck for a few months.
RIP Karn EDH