I like Scout's warning. It offers pseudo-haste for voltron type commanders, allows silly tricks like that, and even cantrips. And it fits on both Isochron Scepter and Sunforger.
But anyway, that was a pretty cool play from your opponent
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.
Jace finds me a Temporal Mastery, Time Spiral, and another land - leaving temporal mastery on top. Dack grabs an enemy's Sol Ring. Ajani Vengeant locks down the opposing thran Dynamo (preventing a turn 3 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth).
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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)
He tries to counter it...but another player... Melek wants a new hand (looking for combo pieces) and revererates the counter onto itself. To this thassa empties his hand with the help of a great whale into scourge of the fleets to bounce everyones fields into thier hands and then let Reforge resolve . I use Zirilan to tutor.... worldgorger dragon.... which gets bounced and my hand discarded... leaving my field intact.
After a long hard back and forth... I eventually manage to win with the help of Spine of Ish Sha.... Spawn of thraxas + 14 mountains. burning everyone out.
So after a long game of me basically acting like Team America blowing up the threats and stopping people from comboing out ect ect it grinds down the Sliver Queen playing Omniscience with two Consuming Aberration's and procedes to try and kill everyone by mill. The other two concede and Sliver Queen thinks he's got this game in the bag. He forgot the part where he was milling GY deck though. With 4 cards left in my library he passes, I cant remember what I drew but it didn't matter.
So at the point I know that I can get him with the good old Karmic Guide, Mirror Entity and Reveillark combo. The only issue is that I need two to them back on the field at any one point to activate my combo (both are in the GY and Karador only lets me nab one a turn). As im trying to wrack my brain with what to do he decides to Chaos Warp Karador. Forgetting to mill I shuffle him in and windmill slam him from the top (woooo moment right?) he reminds me of the mill and I clench up a little. I start milling and my last card turned out to be my last land so Karador is put on top.
obviously put him in play and then it hits me on how to win. I cast Eternal Witness from my GY grabbing Victimize which i then cast saccing the witness snagging Reveillark and Karmic Guide to win.
I couldn't believe it with no cards left in my library I had to win that turn or not win at all. Go figure the only person at the table not playing blue combos for the win.
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So after a long game of me basically acting like Team America blowing up the threats and stopping people from comboing out ect ect it grinds down the Sliver Queen playing Omniscience with two Consuming Aberration's and procedes to try and kill everyone by mill. The other two concede and Sliver Queen thinks he's got this game in the bag. He forgot the part where he was milling GY deck though. With 4 cards left in my library he passes, I cant remember what I drew but it didn't matter.
So at the point I know that I can get him with the good old Karmic Guide, Mirror Entity and Reveillark combo. The only issue is that I need two to them back on the field at any one point to activate my combo (both are in the GY and Karador only lets me nab one a turn). As im trying to wrack my brain with what to do he decides to Chaos Warp Karador. Forgetting to mill I shuffle him in and windmill slam him from the top (woooo moment right?) he reminds me of the mill and I clench up a little. I start milling and my last card turned out to be my last land so Karador is put on top.
obviously put him in play and then it hits me on how to win. I cast Eternal Witness from my GY grabbing Victimize which i then cast saccing the witness snagging Reveillark and Karmic Guide to win.
I couldn't believe it with no cards left in my library I had to win that turn or not win at all. Go figure the only person at the table not playing blue combos for the win.
I don't understand the combo. Please explain? I play Karador without mirror entity because I didn't know this was a thing.
The combo gives you infinite etb/ltb triggers and each iteration nabs another 2/X creature from your yard. With a sacrifice outlet or Bile Urchin you can kill the table.
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The combo gives you infinite etb/ltb triggers and each iteration nabs another 2/X creature from your yard. With a sacrifice outlet or Bile Urchin you can kill the table.
So you evoke lark to get entity and guide? Is entity the sac outlet here?
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So you evoke lark to get entity and guide? Is entity the sac outlet here?
Yeah, you activate Entity for zero some arbitrary number of times. First one resolves, Lark and everything else you have dies, Lark trigger brings back Guide and something else, Guide trigger brings back Lark, next Entity ability resolves, and the entire process repeats. As many etb/ltb triggers as you need to kill everyone.
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So you evoke lark to get entity and guide? Is entity the sac outlet here?
Yeah, you activate Entity for zero some arbitrary number of times. First one resolves, Lark and everything else you have dies, Lark trigger brings back Guide and something else, Guide trigger brings back Lark, next Entity ability resolves, and the entire process repeats. As many etb/ltb triggers as you need to kill everyone.
ok I got it - so you only need the entity once to activate 1000000 times. gotcha. for some reason I kept thinking you bring entity back too.
nope you only have to do it once, and then go to town on any number of power 2 or less creatures. I used Gray Merchant of Asphodel to kill him. Though I thought about wreaking his board with Acidic Slime it just seemed pointless with the win already in my GY
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Me: Ink-Treader Nephilim - We allow it, other Nephilim are also allowed by rule, though I'm the only one locally to have built one.
After me: Zur the Enchanter - Not a hyper competitive one, but threatening enough to warrant attention
Opposite of me: Circu, Dimir Lobotomist - Basically a deck that plays deck disruption until it storms off into massive Tendrils of Agony.
Before me: Wydwen, the Biting Gale - Basic faeries-based control which uses Wydwen as a flash-swordsbearing-game finisher.
The Wydwen player was the one mostly in charge of the early game following T2 Bitterblossom, though things were far from decided. I had Sunforger attached to Ink-Treader Nephilim, and 4 open mana (1 in each color). Zur had some minor field presence, while Circu had Circu himself and another guy. Wydwen decides he wants to piss off the field, so he aims an un-overloaded Cyclonic Rift to my Nephilim. I respond by unattaching the Sunforger, get Zap which hits the entire field (And draws me a truckload of cards), which I then follow up with Ovinize. Laughter was had.
Later in the same game, following the insanity that Ink-Treader causes, Heat Shimmer proved to be a fun way to suddenly grow a massive army, only to get said army Snapped, giving me a metric truckload of mana, allowing me to storm out. God I love this deck.
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My Commander decks:
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.
T4: Play Treasonous Ogre, opponent plays Jace Beleran on his turn.
T5: Play Swiftfoot Boots.
T6: Draw Sol Ring AND Blightsteel Colossus, play ring, use 5 remaining mana and pay 21 life from Ogre to play BSC and use Ring to equip.
Three immediate Scoops.
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Oath of the Gatewatch; the set that caused the competitive community to freak out over Basic Lands.
T4: Play Treasonous Ogre, opponent plays Jace Beleran on his turn.
T5: Play Swiftfoot Boots.
T6: Draw Sol Ring AND Blightsteel Colossus, play ring, use 5 remaining mana and pay 21 life from Ogre to play BSC and use Ring to equip.
Selvala has an Oath of Druids and some other enchantments, Bros has a couple of creatures, I just played Goblin Recruiter and left Goblin Ringleader above a stack of other goblins.
On his turn Selvala assembles the Earthcraft + Squirrel Nest combo. He also uses Selvala, so I draw my Ringleader.
Shattergang Bros gets to trigger Oath of Druids and flips a Nullmage Shepherd. He has exactly four creatures. I had nothing to stop Squirrel Nest + Earthcraft, so this was a relief for both of us.
On my turn I decide whether to trigger Oath of Druids. I don't remember the next goblin down after Goblin Ringleader, so I decide to just go for it. It's Goblin Assassin. If Shattergang Bros flips tails, we have lost our Nullmage Shepherd protection and will lose. He flips tails.
Player 3 casts rite of replication, targetting the dack's copy of Kozilek and swinging at player 2
player 4 swings at player 3
Player 5 swings at player 2
Needless to say, things went pretty nuclear pretty fast.
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Whether it's a comedy or a tragedy, if there is cheering, the story will continue on.
Just like the many lives.
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- We will continue to walk down this path until eternity.
A while ago, A buddy asked to borrow a deck so we could play 1v1, and I lent him my Jund Infect deck. I was playing my Rune-Tail vigilance.
He asked me as he was shuffling how the matchup was between the decks. I answered (honestly) that I thought mine had the edge because of the damage prevention stopping most infect creatures.
Once he drew his hand, he kind of shot me a funny look, but then shrugged and kept his hand.
The first two turns were uneventful, and on turn 3 he cast Ichor Rats. I had a creature in hand, but figured I'd cast Rune-Tail so that it would be a better blocker. I knew I'd take some poisoning, but I figured I could absorb a few hits.
He then cast Unspeakable Symbol, paid 21 life and swung for the win.
At the time, I didn't really know my deck could do that...
Perhaps this play wasn't as much crazy, it sure was awesome.
Table: Nekusar, Karador and Intet (me).
The Nekusar player has a Dragon Mage out, and drops Waste Not. Karador has a decent boardstate but has nothing that flies while I have Intet out and a few beaters, so naturally, Nekusar aims his Dragon Mage at Karador. I respond by tapping out for an overloaded Cyclonic Rift, intending to take the game home from that point.
16 zombies, 10 black mana and 17 additional cards for Nekusar later (On top of the 7 for Dragon Mage)...
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My Commander decks:
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.
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But anyway, that was a pretty cool play from your opponent
I Tooth and Nailed for Craterhoof Behemoth and Taunting Elf ftw.
Or:
t1: Forest > Sol Ring > Howling Mine
t2: Tap Sol Ring > Mana Vault > Forest > Multani, Maro-Sorcerer
t3: Punch the combo player for lethal.
t1: Mountain, Sol Ring, Azorius Signet
t2: Island, Thran Dynamo, Chromatic Lantern (enemy plays helm of awakening)
t3: Plains, Jace, the Mind Sculptor, Dack Fayden, Ajani Vengeant
Jace finds me a Temporal Mastery, Time Spiral, and another land - leaving temporal mastery on top. Dack grabs an enemy's Sol Ring. Ajani Vengeant locks down the opposing thran Dynamo (preventing a turn 3 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth).
Whether it's a comedy or a tragedy, if there is cheering, the story will continue on.
Just like the many lives.
For the us who are still in it and still in the journey, send warm blessings.
- We will continue to walk down this path until eternity.
EDH
Works in Progress:
WUControlling the ElementsUW C Perfect Insanity C B Anowon, the Ruin Sage B BLiliana, Heretical HealerB
Pauper EDH:
WTallowispW Voltron
Retired:
RDaretti, Scrap SavantR
That's awesome
The other day I was playing Marchesa, the black rose and had her on board, used sneak attack turn 5 to throw in a:
Dack's Duplicate (Copying scourge)
Falkenrath Aristocrat
Instant board state and killed two of 3 opponents. The third one drew his card for turn and scooped.
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)
And things get dumb.
I am playing Zirilan of the claw and he is playing Thassa, god of the sea.
I mircale Reforge the soul.
He tries to counter it...but another player... Melek wants a new hand (looking for combo pieces) and revererates the counter onto itself. To this thassa empties his hand with the help of a great whale into scourge of the fleets to bounce everyones fields into thier hands and then let Reforge resolve . I use Zirilan to tutor.... worldgorger dragon.... which gets bounced and my hand discarded... leaving my field intact.
After a long hard back and forth... I eventually manage to win with the help of Spine of Ish Sha.... Spawn of thraxas + 14 mountains. burning everyone out.
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
So after a long game of me basically acting like Team America blowing up the threats and stopping people from comboing out ect ect it grinds down the Sliver Queen playing Omniscience with two Consuming Aberration's and procedes to try and kill everyone by mill. The other two concede and Sliver Queen thinks he's got this game in the bag. He forgot the part where he was milling GY deck though. With 4 cards left in my library he passes, I cant remember what I drew but it didn't matter.
So at the point I know that I can get him with the good old Karmic Guide, Mirror Entity and Reveillark combo. The only issue is that I need two to them back on the field at any one point to activate my combo (both are in the GY and Karador only lets me nab one a turn). As im trying to wrack my brain with what to do he decides to Chaos Warp Karador. Forgetting to mill I shuffle him in and windmill slam him from the top (woooo moment right?) he reminds me of the mill and I clench up a little. I start milling and my last card turned out to be my last land so Karador is put on top.
obviously put him in play and then it hits me on how to win. I cast Eternal Witness from my GY grabbing Victimize which i then cast saccing the witness snagging Reveillark and Karmic Guide to win.
I couldn't believe it with no cards left in my library I had to win that turn or not win at all. Go figure the only person at the table not playing blue combos for the win.
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
I don't understand the combo. Please explain? I play Karador without mirror entity because I didn't know this was a thing.
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EDH:
GW: Selvala, Let us help YOU.
UB: Mirko Vosk, when outmatched cheat
BW: Vish Kal, The Arbiter of Reanimation
UG: Prime Speaker Zegana, the science of sorcery
RB: Malfegor, Traitor's Haven
UW: Daxos, Control-Fort-Tron
BG: Pharika, Goddess of Stax
RW: Gisela, Boros Control
RG: Ruric Thar, a Primal Surge deck
RU: Niv-Mizzet the Firemind, Spellslinger?!?!
B:(Pauper) Mikaeus the Unhallowed
R: Kurkesh, Onakke Ancient: The Power of Engineering
So you evoke lark to get entity and guide? Is entity the sac outlet here?
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ok I got it - so you only need the entity once to activate 1000000 times. gotcha. for some reason I kept thinking you bring entity back too.
Thanks!
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
Me: Ink-Treader Nephilim - We allow it, other Nephilim are also allowed by rule, though I'm the only one locally to have built one.
After me: Zur the Enchanter - Not a hyper competitive one, but threatening enough to warrant attention
Opposite of me: Circu, Dimir Lobotomist - Basically a deck that plays deck disruption until it storms off into massive Tendrils of Agony.
Before me: Wydwen, the Biting Gale - Basic faeries-based control which uses Wydwen as a flash-swordsbearing-game finisher.
The Wydwen player was the one mostly in charge of the early game following T2 Bitterblossom, though things were far from decided. I had Sunforger attached to Ink-Treader Nephilim, and 4 open mana (1 in each color). Zur had some minor field presence, while Circu had Circu himself and another guy. Wydwen decides he wants to piss off the field, so he aims an un-overloaded Cyclonic Rift to my Nephilim. I respond by unattaching the Sunforger, get Zap which hits the entire field (And draws me a truckload of cards), which I then follow up with Ovinize. Laughter was had.
Later in the same game, following the insanity that Ink-Treader causes, Heat Shimmer proved to be a fun way to suddenly grow a massive army, only to get said army Snapped, giving me a metric truckload of mana, allowing me to storm out. God I love this deck.
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.
T1: Land
T2: Land, Golgari Signet
T3: Buried Alive grabbing Stinkweed Imp, Terastodon, and It That Betrays.
T4: Life // Death Terastodon, destroy two opposing forests and a carnarium. Animate Dead It That Betrays.
T5: Play Swiftfoot Boots.
T6: Draw Sol Ring AND Blightsteel Colossus, play ring, use 5 remaining mana and pay 21 life from Ogre to play BSC and use Ring to equip.
Three immediate Scoops.
So you basically did the classic Moltensteel Dragon + Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon from Scion without having him as your general? That's amazing, kudos to you.
Selvala has an Oath of Druids and some other enchantments, Bros has a couple of creatures, I just played Goblin Recruiter and left Goblin Ringleader above a stack of other goblins.
On his turn Selvala assembles the Earthcraft + Squirrel Nest combo. He also uses Selvala, so I draw my Ringleader.
Shattergang Bros gets to trigger Oath of Druids and flips a Nullmage Shepherd. He has exactly four creatures. I had nothing to stop Squirrel Nest + Earthcraft, so this was a relief for both of us.
On my turn I decide whether to trigger Oath of Druids. I don't remember the next goblin down after Goblin Ringleader, so I decide to just go for it. It's Goblin Assassin. If Shattergang Bros flips tails, we have lost our Nullmage Shepherd protection and will lose. He flips tails.
Turn 5:
Needless to say, things went pretty nuclear pretty fast.
Whether it's a comedy or a tragedy, if there is cheering, the story will continue on.
Just like the many lives.
For the us who are still in it and still in the journey, send warm blessings.
- We will continue to walk down this path until eternity.
He asked me as he was shuffling how the matchup was between the decks. I answered (honestly) that I thought mine had the edge because of the damage prevention stopping most infect creatures.
Once he drew his hand, he kind of shot me a funny look, but then shrugged and kept his hand.
The first two turns were uneventful, and on turn 3 he cast Ichor Rats. I had a creature in hand, but figured I'd cast Rune-Tail so that it would be a better blocker. I knew I'd take some poisoning, but I figured I could absorb a few hits.
He then cast Unspeakable Symbol, paid 21 life and swung for the win.
At the time, I didn't really know my deck could do that...
Hah, yeah, I've had that feeling a couple of times when I've leant my decks to people. Never quite sure how to react...
Table: Nekusar, Karador and Intet (me).
The Nekusar player has a Dragon Mage out, and drops Waste Not. Karador has a decent boardstate but has nothing that flies while I have Intet out and a few beaters, so naturally, Nekusar aims his Dragon Mage at Karador. I respond by tapping out for an overloaded Cyclonic Rift, intending to take the game home from that point.
Nekusar responded with Commandeer.
16 zombies, 10 black mana and 17 additional cards for Nekusar later (On top of the 7 for Dragon Mage)...
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.