Opponents were Anafenza, the Foremost and Dragonlord Atarka. Anafenza does a great job of keeping down small creature recursion decks like mine, so I was having trouble getting anything going. Anafenza was also a lands deck and had a huge mana advantage - 20 lands on the board towards the end of the game, which is a very relevant number for this story. Atarka died pretty early, so Anafenza and I were grinding things out. After the second Ad Nauseam, I got a chance to discard about a dozen creatures without Anafenza on the board due to hand size. I followed it up with Living Death the following turn, Anafenza reanimating Sigarda, Host of Herons to save his board in response. Relevant creatures on board are Kothophed, Soul Hoarder and Mangara of Corondor (to remove Anafenza), with Karlov in the command zone, about a dozen tapped lands including Phyrexian Tower, Academy Rector and Rite of Consumption in hand, and Righteous Cause in my 21 card deck. My plan was to play Karlov and Rector, remove Anafenza with Mangara, sac Rector for Righteous Cause, then swing with the team and Rite of Consumption Karlov for lethal. I was still at a pretty comfortable 40 life, so I could just eat the 20-30 point swing from Anafenza's board.
Anafenza topdecked Squandered Resources, popped an Evolving Wilds, then sacrificed 20 lands to force me to draw exactly the number of cards left in my library with Kothophed triggers.
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On my turn, I eat two to the face from Mogis, make two more soldiers, and then move to attacks. It's even enough that I don't want to focus one player down, so I split 3 creatures at Sakashima who has two available blockers and 5 creatures at Horde who has 4, that way a soldier gets through on each side pretty guaranteed. All avalable blocks are made except for Knight of New Alara out of fear I'll flash in a +1/+1 pump, but I've got way better than that. I've got Mirrorweave! Here's the part where I throw the game. If I target Knight of New Alara, My field becomes a bunch of 26/26 monsters that one-shot Horde while putting Sakashima into the single digits and killing both his blockers. Chances are pretty good for me winning that game. Instead I aim my Mirrorweave at Maelstrom Archangel. 3 triggers go on the stack and the first one plays The Great Aurora. After we resolve that, the other two triggers happen putting down a Leyline of Anticipation and a True Conviction. With my newly acquired mana, I drop the rest of my hand and pass, really to smash face the next turn.
Then Sakashima gets his turn. He plays High Tide, then he plays Chancellor of the Spires targeting the Turnabout in my graveyard. Then he Sakashima clones the Chancellor. Then he Rite of Replications the Chancellor. Then he Infinite Reflections the Chancellor. Then he proceeds to go off with all the creatures in his deck and a Treasure Trove. He establishes a perfect cycle with his own Turnabout, a Cackling Counterpart, and an Elixir of Immortality, makes infinite mana, and kills us with Blue Sun's Zenith. It was a spectacular ending.
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Zedruu: "This deck is not only able to go crazy - it also needs to do so."
Grenzo keeps humoring me. Was the last person standing against a Drana, Liberator of Malakir deck which had blown out of the gates and eliminated the two other players (One Edric, Spymaster of Trest standard weenie stuff, the other Derevi, Empyrial Tactician stax), and I had barely enough flying blockers to stop the assault. Yet he had enough to finally push the final damage through, with my three flying blockers not nearly enough to stop the onslaught of his team loaded with a total of 27 +1/+1 counters. I only have 4 mana to spend on Grenzo's ability, so I do so. First one I whiff, hitting a land.
Now if it wasn't for the storeowner's wife gazing down at him, I'm quite sure the table would've been flipped.
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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.
I don't have too much going on: I'm sitting on a hand of Primal Command, Dark Petition, Tribute to Hunger, and a land. Xira has been cast once and costs 2BRG. I feel I need to play conservatively because I've taken 6 from Jenera. The Melek and Tasigur players mostly tap out. The Jenara player seizes the opportunity and slams Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger. I float BRG. The Melek and Tasigur players pass. Vorinclex resolves. In response to Lightning Greaves equip, I cast Tribute to Hunger, but the Jenara player has Plasm Capture. I get smacked for 7.
I loathe Vorinclex.
On my turn, I topdeck Reiterate. I think for a moment, realize I have enough mana, and use to Dark Petition to find Rude Awakening. I go for the combo. Nobody has an answer, so I make an arbitrary amount of mana and use Primal Command to put all opposing noncreature permanents on the top of their owner's library and search for each creature card in my deck. My opponents scoop. The Tasigur player says he was going to cast Sunder if he got to untap.
So the table consists of me with Omnath, Locus of Rage, opponent #1 with Kaseto, Orochi Archmage and #2 with Mayael the Anima. Kaseto has been building up snakes but doesn't do much with them, and I had Perilous Forays and Omnath going, so naturally Mayael's Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre was aimed at me and was beating me down. Thanks to Forays I could at least blunt the assault a bit, but then he got Xenagos, God of Revels and Kessig Wolf Run out and I knew I'd be toast soon. Especially with Kaseto building up his army as well.
I then draw into Sylvan Scrying, and take stock of my board and hand. I then get the biggest *****-eating grin one could imagine and tutor up Gaea's Cradle, get to exactly 8 mana. Which I use to drop Ezuri's Predation, getting a total of 21 tokens out of the deal. A few of them die due to Ulamog and Xenagos, but most live. Mayael goes for a hail mary and attacks me with all he's got while Kaseto is getting ready to kill me (I'm at 4 life). I just toss all the surviving beasts and a few elementals in front of Ulamog, have enough left to still get a boatload of mana, then drop Warstorm Surge and start chain-saccing elementals to kill Mayael and leave Kaseto low enough to finish him off with an attack.
Never thought I'd actually win a game from Ezuri's Predation.
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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.
The play that was crazy enough to mention here was my Zedruu the Greathearted against his Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger Mill deck. By my turn 5 I've got lands, a Vedalken Orrery, and Gilded Lotus. His turn 5 he's already slapping down Ulamog and eating both my non-land permanents. I get myself drawing with a Howling Mine and an Alhammarret's Archive and play Time Spiral to draw up to 14 with 10 general damage on me and a small enough library to die in 2 turns or so. I stall the damage for a little with March of the Machines, and then with a couple cards left in my deck, I land Shared Fate and Swans of Bryn Argoll. Then a Blasphemous Act kills every creature but Swans and Ulamog. There are no more cards in my library to draw, he can't play anything of value from the cards he got from me, we can't mill out because of Shared Fate and he can't swing through the invincible Swans. Because he exiled my library so thoroughly, he got stuck in place for eternity by Shared Fate.
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Zedruu: "This deck is not only able to go crazy - it also needs to do so."
The last commander game I played ended with one of the last two players hitting himself in the face. He activated his Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief for 17 and then targeted it with Rogue's Passage to attack for an unblockable 21 points of commander damage. The defending player had a Dictate of the Twin Gods in play and cast a Deflecting Palm. The attacking player wound up taking 42 points of damage from his own commander, and losing the game.
The last commander game I played ended with one of the last two players hitting himself in the face. He activated his Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief for 17 and then targeted it with Rogue's Passage to attack for an unblockable 21 points of commander damage. The defending player had a Dictate of the Twin Gods in play and cast a Deflecting Palm. The attacking player wound up taking 42 points of damage from his own commander, and losing the game.
Technically, Deflecting Palm was the source of the damage. 42 damage is enough to kill anyone that hasn't been gaining life, of course, but if the Drana player had more life it wouldn't have been a kill via general damage. Replace Deflecting Palm with something like Reflect Damage, Mirrorstrike, Glarecaster, or Shining Shoal and it would have been lethal no matter what the Drana player's life total was at.
Also, it should be 84 damage. Drana is at 21 power, doubled to 42 damage by Dictate. That 42 damage is prevented by Deflecting Palm, which attempts to deal 42 to Drana's player, which is then doubled by Dictate again.
Was playing yesterday in a 4 person pod. I had out Keeper of Progenitus, Candelabra of Tawnos, Doubling Cube, and a couple mana rocks. Then on my turn I played Gauntlet of Might and tapped out using all the mana adding effects to have 42 red mana and 18 green mana in my pool. The other 3 players were at 40, 40, and 26. I had Fall of the Titans and Kaervek's Torch in hand with a 8/8 Lifeblood Hydra on board. I go down to 1 red and Fall the two players at 40 with the intent of Torching the other then attacking. The player at 26 however is playing Melek, Izzet Paragon and uses his Sensei's Divining Top to dig and thanks to my mana doubling effect has enough mana to cast Reiterate off the top, buy it back, and cast it again. Thus turning my own 40 damage Fall of the Titans into killing all other players... I couldn't even be mad that I lost.
Out come the Consecrated Sphinx and Tidespout Tyrant and a number of cloning effects such that I end up with three sphinxes, two tidespout tyrants, and a smattering of other blue creatures. The game ended after I Cyclonic Rift all their blockers and swing.
Out come the Consecrated Sphinx and Tidespout Tyrant and a number of cloning effects such that I end up with three sphinxes, two tidespout tyrants, and a smattering of other blue creatures. The game ended after I Cyclonic Rift all their blockers and swing.
If the cloning effects were cards such as clone or clever impersonator you wouldn't have been able to clone the sphinxs or tyrants since they would enter the battlefield at the same time.
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I can see that possibly happening if you had some doubling effects in play when you put Hazezon Tamar and if you had a minimum of 12 lands on board. But, Ghostway would have done you more harm than good here seeing how it would have exiled all of your tokens permanently.
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I play Standard, EDH, and a very tiny bit of Modern.
Cant you blink Hazezon Tamar on your turn several times before the upkeep token generator trigger happens?
Yep. He's got a delayed trigger, so it's possible to stack a number of them and ideally end without him in play to better protect your army.
Yeah I play a number of flicker and copy cards, plus some sac outlets like High Market.
I run Restoration Angel, sometimes Flameshadow Conjuring, and my personal favorite Blade of Selves. With the blade or conjuring out I can make bonus Hazezons, and then sacrifice the real one. The blade's equip cost is often too high to do it the first time I play Hazezon, but I usually have no problem sacrificing my first round of warriors to something like Evolutionary Leap, Perilous Forays, or Goblin Bombardment. Granted ideally I'd just have one of my 6 or so haste anthems and win on the spot, but that's not always possible.
If the cloning effects were cards such as clone or clever impersonator you wouldn't have been able to clone the sphinxs or tyrants since they would enter the battlefield at the same time.
The extra clones of the Sphinx came from a Cackling Counterpart (or rather two) at that same end step, and Jalira polymorphed Azami into a more useful Clever Impersonator the turn after. The counterparts swung on that turn with the rest of my flyers/island walkers but the Tidespout impersonator couldn't.
Most of this was fueled by the earlier Knowledge Exploitation on the Omnath player's Boundless Realms. I had like 18 lands at that point, to everyone else's ~8-9.
I probably should have laid out everything in the first post but the fun part for me was the Rite of Replication and Synthetic Destiny and I really didn't want to write a long post, like this one. And to be fair I'd forgotten I'd played Cackling Counterpart at that end step, but now I do distinctly remember the extra sphinxs being tokens
The last commander game I played ended with one of the last two players hitting himself in the face. He activated his Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief for 17 and then targeted it with Rogue's Passage to attack for an unblockable 21 points of commander damage. The defending player had a Dictate of the Twin Gods in play and cast a Deflecting Palm. The attacking player wound up taking 42 points of damage from his own commander, and losing the game.
Technically, Deflecting Palm was the source of the damage. 42 damage is enough to kill anyone that hasn't been gaining life, of course, but if the Drana player had more life it wouldn't have been a kill via general damage. Replace Deflecting Palm with something like Reflect Damage, Mirrorstrike, Glarecaster, or Shining Shoal and it would have been lethal no matter what the Drana player's life total was at.
Also, it should be 84 damage. Drana is at 21 power, doubled to 42 damage by Dictate. That 42 damage is prevented by Deflecting Palm, which attempts to deal 42 to Drana's player, which is then doubled by Dictate again.
We did know that it would not count as general damage seeing as how the source was Deflecting Palm, and yes...we did the math afterward and determined it should be doubled again. At the time though, it didn't matter because his life total was more than low enough.
I've been tweaking my new Oona, Queen of the Fae deck for several days now, and got a turn 5 kill last night that caused a lot of butthurt. It would have been turn 4 had I drawn my colors earlier.
I dropped an Island and the Bloom T1 and then drew all black cards and no lands. One of those cards, however, was Dance of the Dead... T4 I crack the lotus for three black, spend UB for Cabal Rit for 4 black in the pool, casy Buried Alive and throw Deadeye, Palinchron, and Jin Gitaxias in the graveyard. Cast Dance on Jin and reanimate him to the field tapped, and use the last black mana for Bitterblossom. End my turn, draw 7 cards, discard and pass.
It goes around the table with the first two guys losing their hands and one playing a Rhystic Study to try and keep some cards around. Another gets lucky and topdecks Reliquary Tower on his draw step. The second-to-last guy before me drops a Rec Sage and blows up Dance, sending Jin back to the GY. Fair enough, right?
It was just a pity he didn't get Bitterblossom too. Seeing as I had drawn Victimize off of Jin at my earlier end step. -1 faerie, +infinite mana. GG as soon as my turn came up.
We can post the other guy's crazy play, here right?
4-player game: Me, playing Jalira, Gisela, combo Riku, and a Zedruu player who hasn't played in a couple years.
The game goes pretty long, me and the Gisela player end up running out of cards, and it looks like if the Riku player untaps one more time, they win the game. Zedruu player starts their turn, untaps, draws, stares at the card they drew for a minute, then casts Mirror Gallery. He waits to see if it resolves, but neither of the other two blue players want to counter it; we're both waiting to see what jank comes out of this. After it resolves, Zedruu casts a kicked Rite of Replication targeting Gisela. Riku tries to counter it, but Zedruu had Misdirection + spare blue card in hand. Zedruu gets his 5 Giselas.
And then he casts Acorn Catapult. It resolves, and Zedruu proceeds to use it to deal 32 damage to the Riku player, killing him.
Of course, it's always hilarious when your evil plans get foiled by opponents.
Like when I cast All is Dust with It that Betrays on the field...and Mayael replied by using Worldly Tutor, then using Mayael's effect to cheat Sigarda, Host of Herons onto the field. That was tech.
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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.
This WOULD have been a pretty crazy play - by my meager standards, anyway - but I thought I'd post it anyway. I'm trying out my General Tazri five-color ally deck against my kid's Avacyn, Angel of Hope lifegain deck. He played a Serra Avatar with like 50 life, but the next turn I got out an Angelic Overseer and blocked for a few turns (had a human). By then I had played Sorin, Lord of Innistrad had three plus-ones on him, so next turn I'd be able to use his minus-six, and Serra Avatar would be mine, hot dang. Little buddy had been stuck at seven mana, so no Avacyn. He needs to learn how to lose gracefully, right?
He drew a plain and played Avacyn. I was super annoyed, which was mostly overshadowed by how proud I was of him, since he's only seven. Mostly overshadowed.
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I had 3 wins tonight but the one that I liked most was the last one. I was playing Sliver Queen Superfriends, guy to my left was playing Prossh, and the guy on my right was playing Meren. Prossh opened up with Altar of the Brood and milled us a little bit until he dropped Prossh, which milled us quite a bit. He then plays Bojuka Bog targeting Meren's graveyard which is important because I had Creeping Renaissance milled by the Prossh player. At this point the important cards I have are Chromatic Lantern, and Gilded Lotus in play, with Humility and The Chain Veil in hand. When my turn came around again, I dropped Humility and hopped that would stall Prossh's nastiness a bit, because he had Birthing Pod on the field and could grab something nasty, possibly game ending with it. I pass, and the Prossh player pods him away into Avenger of Zendikar which didn't get any tokens because of Humility. He plays Mana Flare for the heck of it and passes to Meren who passes to me because they haven't been able to do much this game. On my turn, I drop a land, flashback Creeping Renaissance, naming planeswalkers, getting back quite a few cards, the most important ones being Elspeth, Sun's Champion, Teferi, Temporal Archmage, Kiora, the Crashing Wave, Garruk, Primal Hunter, and Garruk, Apex Predator. Because of Mana Flare, I cast Teferi, use his -1 to untap lands and the lotus, play Elspeth, +1 Elspeth, play the Chain Veil and activate it, plusing Elspeth and using Teferi's -1 to untap the Chain Veil, the Lotus, and two lands until Teferi dies and I ult with Elspeth. After that I dropped Kiora, and activate her enough times to ult with her, and do the same with Primal Hunter Garruk, and Garruk, Apex Predator. My opponents conceded after Apex Garruk's ult.
It's games like this that remind me why I built the deck.
This WOULD have been a pretty crazy play - by my meager standards, anyway - but I thought I'd post it anyway. I'm trying out my General Tazri five-color ally deck against my kid's Avacyn, Angel of Hope lifegain deck. He played a Serra Avatar with like 50 life, but the next turn I got out an Angelic Overseer and blocked for a few turns (had a human). By then I had played Sorin, Lord of Innistrad had three plus-ones on him, so next turn I'd be able to use his minus-six, and Serra Avatar would be mine, hot dang. Little buddy had been stuck at seven mana, so no Avacyn. He needs to learn how to lose gracefully, right?
He drew a plain and played Avacyn. I was super annoyed, which was mostly overshadowed by how proud I was of him, since he's only seven. Mostly overshadowed.
Opponents were Anafenza, the Foremost and Dragonlord Atarka. Anafenza does a great job of keeping down small creature recursion decks like mine, so I was having trouble getting anything going. Anafenza was also a lands deck and had a huge mana advantage - 20 lands on the board towards the end of the game, which is a very relevant number for this story. Atarka died pretty early, so Anafenza and I were grinding things out. After the second Ad Nauseam, I got a chance to discard about a dozen creatures without Anafenza on the board due to hand size. I followed it up with Living Death the following turn, Anafenza reanimating Sigarda, Host of Herons to save his board in response. Relevant creatures on board are Kothophed, Soul Hoarder and Mangara of Corondor (to remove Anafenza), with Karlov in the command zone, about a dozen tapped lands including Phyrexian Tower, Academy Rector and Rite of Consumption in hand, and Righteous Cause in my 21 card deck. My plan was to play Karlov and Rector, remove Anafenza with Mangara, sac Rector for Righteous Cause, then swing with the team and Rite of Consumption Karlov for lethal. I was still at a pretty comfortable 40 life, so I could just eat the 20-30 point swing from Anafenza's board.
Anafenza topdecked Squandered Resources, popped an Evolving Wilds, then sacrificed 20 lands to force me to draw exactly the number of cards left in my library with Kothophed triggers.
3 player game. I'm Derevi, Empyrial Tactician, to my left is Sakashima the Impostor, to my right is Horde of Notions. Sakashima had stolen my Derevi, made a Sakashima copy of his own, and had a few other tapped creatures from an attack intended to untap some lands. Horde of Notions had Horde, a Maelstrom Archangel, a Knight of New Alara, an active Mogis, God of Slaughter, and a tapped Deathrite Shaman. I had Azami, Lady of Scrolls, Sakiko, Mother of Summer, a Steward of Valeron, and 6 soldier tokens from a Kjeldoran Outpost next to a Parallel Lives.
On my turn, I eat two to the face from Mogis, make two more soldiers, and then move to attacks. It's even enough that I don't want to focus one player down, so I split 3 creatures at Sakashima who has two available blockers and 5 creatures at Horde who has 4, that way a soldier gets through on each side pretty guaranteed. All avalable blocks are made except for Knight of New Alara out of fear I'll flash in a +1/+1 pump, but I've got way better than that. I've got Mirrorweave! Here's the part where I throw the game. If I target Knight of New Alara, My field becomes a bunch of 26/26 monsters that one-shot Horde while putting Sakashima into the single digits and killing both his blockers. Chances are pretty good for me winning that game. Instead I aim my Mirrorweave at Maelstrom Archangel. 3 triggers go on the stack and the first one plays The Great Aurora. After we resolve that, the other two triggers happen putting down a Leyline of Anticipation and a True Conviction. With my newly acquired mana, I drop the rest of my hand and pass, really to smash face the next turn.
Then Sakashima gets his turn. He plays High Tide, then he plays Chancellor of the Spires targeting the Turnabout in my graveyard. Then he Sakashima clones the Chancellor. Then he Rite of Replications the Chancellor. Then he Infinite Reflections the Chancellor. Then he proceeds to go off with all the creatures in his deck and a Treasure Trove. He establishes a perfect cycle with his own Turnabout, a Cackling Counterpart, and an Elixir of Immortality, makes infinite mana, and kills us with Blue Sun's Zenith. It was a spectacular ending.
The second hits Thief of Blood.
Now if it wasn't for the storeowner's wife gazing down at him, I'm quite sure the table would've been flipped.
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 don't have too much going on: I'm sitting on a hand of Primal Command, Dark Petition, Tribute to Hunger, and a land. Xira has been cast once and costs 2BRG. I feel I need to play conservatively because I've taken 6 from Jenera. The Melek and Tasigur players mostly tap out. The Jenara player seizes the opportunity and slams Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger. I float BRG. The Melek and Tasigur players pass. Vorinclex resolves. In response to Lightning Greaves equip, I cast Tribute to Hunger, but the Jenara player has Plasm Capture. I get smacked for 7.
I loathe Vorinclex.
On my turn, I topdeck Reiterate. I think for a moment, realize I have enough mana, and use to Dark Petition to find Rude Awakening. I go for the combo. Nobody has an answer, so I make an arbitrary amount of mana and use Primal Command to put all opposing noncreature permanents on the top of their owner's library and search for each creature card in my deck. My opponents scoop. The Tasigur player says he was going to cast Sunder if he got to untap.
I then draw into Sylvan Scrying, and take stock of my board and hand. I then get the biggest *****-eating grin one could imagine and tutor up Gaea's Cradle, get to exactly 8 mana. Which I use to drop Ezuri's Predation, getting a total of 21 tokens out of the deal. A few of them die due to Ulamog and Xenagos, but most live. Mayael goes for a hail mary and attacks me with all he's got while Kaseto is getting ready to kill me (I'm at 4 life). I just toss all the surviving beasts and a few elementals in front of Ulamog, have enough left to still get a boatload of mana, then drop Warstorm Surge and start chain-saccing elementals to kill Mayael and leave Kaseto low enough to finish him off with an attack.
Never thought I'd actually win a game from Ezuri's Predation.
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.
The play that was crazy enough to mention here was my Zedruu the Greathearted against his Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger Mill deck. By my turn 5 I've got lands, a Vedalken Orrery, and Gilded Lotus. His turn 5 he's already slapping down Ulamog and eating both my non-land permanents. I get myself drawing with a Howling Mine and an Alhammarret's Archive and play Time Spiral to draw up to 14 with 10 general damage on me and a small enough library to die in 2 turns or so. I stall the damage for a little with March of the Machines, and then with a couple cards left in my deck, I land Shared Fate and Swans of Bryn Argoll. Then a Blasphemous Act kills every creature but Swans and Ulamog. There are no more cards in my library to draw, he can't play anything of value from the cards he got from me, we can't mill out because of Shared Fate and he can't swing through the invincible Swans. Because he exiled my library so thoroughly, he got stuck in place for eternity by Shared Fate.
I run it in my Kresh, the Boodbraided deck. Sometimes I'll try to get Death Pits of Rath in play and I'll tutor up and cast (or try to) Ezuri's Predation. Death Pits of Rath turns Ezuri's Predation into board wipe.
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Also, it should be 84 damage. Drana is at 21 power, doubled to 42 damage by Dictate. That 42 damage is prevented by Deflecting Palm, which attempts to deal 42 to Drana's player, which is then doubled by Dictate again.
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St someone's end step (or rather just before), Synthetic Destiny
Out come the Consecrated Sphinx and Tidespout Tyrant and a number of cloning effects such that I end up with three sphinxes, two tidespout tyrants, and a smattering of other blue creatures. The game ended after I Cyclonic Rift all their blockers and swing.
Or the time I had 72 sand warriors from Hazezon Tamar thanks to Eternal Witness and Ghostway. Lovisa Coldeyes ends the game shortly thereafter.
If the cloning effects were cards such as clone or clever impersonator you wouldn't have been able to clone the sphinxs or tyrants since they would enter the battlefield at the same time.
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I can see that possibly happening if you had some doubling effects in play when you put Hazezon Tamar and if you had a minimum of 12 lands on board. But, Ghostway would have done you more harm than good here seeing how it would have exiled all of your tokens permanently.
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GBIshkanah, Grafwidow ~ BWGRTymna the Weaver & Tana, the Bloodsower ~ UGRashmi, Eternities Crafter ~ RGAtarka, World Render
Yeah I play a number of flicker and copy cards, plus some sac outlets like High Market.
I run Restoration Angel, sometimes Flameshadow Conjuring, and my personal favorite Blade of Selves. With the blade or conjuring out I can make bonus Hazezons, and then sacrifice the real one. The blade's equip cost is often too high to do it the first time I play Hazezon, but I usually have no problem sacrificing my first round of warriors to something like Evolutionary Leap, Perilous Forays, or Goblin Bombardment. Granted ideally I'd just have one of my 6 or so haste anthems and win on the spot, but that's not always possible.
The creatures I got from the end step Synthetic Destiny were: Consecrated Sphinx, Tidespout Tyrant, Jalira, Master Polymorphist, Stormtide Leviathan, Glen Elendra Archmage, Sphinx of Uthuun, and Azami, Lady of Scrolls. The extra creatures were from my Talrand, Sky Summoner (Commander of the deck), and a few drakes (some of which whiffed from low remaining creatures in my deck).
The extra clones of the Sphinx came from a Cackling Counterpart (or rather two) at that same end step, and Jalira polymorphed Azami into a more useful Clever Impersonator the turn after. The counterparts swung on that turn with the rest of my flyers/island walkers but the Tidespout impersonator couldn't.
Most of this was fueled by the earlier Knowledge Exploitation on the Omnath player's Boundless Realms. I had like 18 lands at that point, to everyone else's ~8-9.
I probably should have laid out everything in the first post but the fun part for me was the Rite of Replication and Synthetic Destiny and I really didn't want to write a long post, like this one. And to be fair I'd forgotten I'd played Cackling Counterpart at that end step, but now I do distinctly remember the extra sphinxs being tokens
"I attack with my 71/71 Raging Goblin."
"Well, I guess I'll chump block with my 52/52 Fathom Mage."
Starting the game on Goldmeadow and getting stuck there for three turn cycles before planeswalking to Jund leads to a silly game.
We did know that it would not count as general damage seeing as how the source was Deflecting Palm, and yes...we did the math afterward and determined it should be doubled again. At the time though, it didn't matter because his life total was more than low enough.
I've been tweaking my new Oona, Queen of the Fae deck for several days now, and got a turn 5 kill last night that caused a lot of butthurt. It would have been turn 4 had I drawn my colors earlier.
Opening hand was 3 Islands, a Buried Alive, a Lotus Bloom, a Cabal Ritual and a Bitterblossom.
I dropped an Island and the Bloom T1 and then drew all black cards and no lands. One of those cards, however, was Dance of the Dead... T4 I crack the lotus for three black, spend UB for Cabal Rit for 4 black in the pool, casy Buried Alive and throw Deadeye, Palinchron, and Jin Gitaxias in the graveyard. Cast Dance on Jin and reanimate him to the field tapped, and use the last black mana for Bitterblossom. End my turn, draw 7 cards, discard and pass.
It goes around the table with the first two guys losing their hands and one playing a Rhystic Study to try and keep some cards around. Another gets lucky and topdecks Reliquary Tower on his draw step. The second-to-last guy before me drops a Rec Sage and blows up Dance, sending Jin back to the GY. Fair enough, right?
It was just a pity he didn't get Bitterblossom too. Seeing as I had drawn Victimize off of Jin at my earlier end step. -1 faerie, +infinite mana. GG as soon as my turn came up.
Nicol Bolas Dragon Dick
Hanna, Ship's Navigator Heart-attack Stax
Oona, Queen of the Fae Fairy Dance
Vhati Il-Dal Tree of Woe
Scion of the Ur-Dragon Durgensturm
Jolrael, Empress of Beasts Jamuraa's Army
Liliana, Heretical Healer Rise from your Graves and Proliferate
Tariel, Reckoner of Souls Angelic Judgment [
4-player game: Me, playing Jalira, Gisela, combo Riku, and a Zedruu player who hasn't played in a couple years.
The game goes pretty long, me and the Gisela player end up running out of cards, and it looks like if the Riku player untaps one more time, they win the game. Zedruu player starts their turn, untaps, draws, stares at the card they drew for a minute, then casts Mirror Gallery. He waits to see if it resolves, but neither of the other two blue players want to counter it; we're both waiting to see what jank comes out of this. After it resolves, Zedruu casts a kicked Rite of Replication targeting Gisela. Riku tries to counter it, but Zedruu had Misdirection + spare blue card in hand. Zedruu gets his 5 Giselas.
And then he casts Acorn Catapult. It resolves, and Zedruu proceeds to use it to deal 32 damage to the Riku player, killing him.
EDH Decks:
G Jugan
U Budget Jalira Battlecruiser
Like when I cast All is Dust with It that Betrays on the field...and Mayael replied by using Worldly Tutor, then using Mayael's effect to cheat Sigarda, Host of Herons onto the field. That was tech.
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.
He drew a plain and played Avacyn. I was super annoyed, which was mostly overshadowed by how proud I was of him, since he's only seven. Mostly overshadowed.
"YOU ARE A PLANESWALKER," so let me draw you as one. Check out my art-for-cards trade thread here: http://www.mtgsalvation.com/trading-post/details/1564-you-are-a-planeswalker-and-i-will-draw-you-as
It's games like this that remind me why I built the deck.
Is that a Patron of the Kitsune I see?
"YOU ARE A PLANESWALKER," so let me draw you as one. Check out my art-for-cards trade thread here: http://www.mtgsalvation.com/trading-post/details/1564-you-are-a-planeswalker-and-i-will-draw-you-as