In a multiplayer game the ulamog player had tons on the battlefield and he popped a memory jar, lending us 7 temporary cards. He cast all kinds of stuff and when he said he was done and told us to discard our hands, that's when I cast cyclonic rift with overload that the jar gave me.
Last weekend I was at a table using my Riku of two ReflectionsClone tribal deck. The game became extra grindy but eventually all my opponents tried to win, but were disrupted and tapped out. I was ramping consistently so I untapped with a lot of lands but not much other permanents. There was a Nekusar, the Mindrazer player on the table with Nekusar and a Diluvian Primordial in play. I played Sneak Attack and then sneaked two clone effects into play, copying Nekusar and Diluvian Primordial, and playing the Nekusar player's Wheel of Fortune effect in the graveyard with the ETB ability. In the next 7 cards I drew I got another clone effect, and the Nekusar player discarded another wheel effect so I sneaked the clone effect copying Diluvian Primordial again, and playing the wheel effect with the ETB ability and kept doing this until everyone was dead.
I managed to resolve a Boundless Realms by protecting it with Reiterate (no buyback) in response to the Riku player's Muddle the Mixture. I then hit the Riku player with a Rakdos's Return for 7, emptying his hand. However, the Kruphix player cast Minds Aglow and we all drew 9 cards.
I attacked with Xira in order to cast Howl of the Horde into Chaos Warp, targeting the Riku player's three blue sources. The gambit succeeded and he lost to the pact trigger.
After a Forced Fruition and another Windfall effect or two, I left the game. The Jenara player made a lethal attack on the Kruphix player, but he'd drawn a few too many cards and lost to another Jace's Archivist activation.
Nobody lost to life below 1 or to commander damage the whole game and nobody comboed out.
I attacked with Xira in order to cast Howl of the Horde into Chaos Warp, targeting the Riku player's three blue sources. The gambit succeeded and he lost to the pact trigger.
That amuses me greatly. Reminds me of a game a few years back, where the player to my left (turn immediately after mine) cast Pact of Negation targeting something another opponent did, while I had a dominant board position and Armageddon in hand. Good times.
I am curious who was playing Kruphix though - Glen?
The Ayli player played some exiling board wipe that escapes me, so I sacrificed all the creatures I owned to Ayli for a metric butt-ton of life and allowed the rest to be exiled. At EOT I cracked Cephalid Coliseum to draw 6/discard 3, then used Sensei's Top to stack Strip Mine/Crucible/Island on top of my deck.
My turn, I re-cast my general, sitting on something in the neighborhood of 15 mana, equip with Lightning Greaves, and hit Ayli (16 commander damage to Ayli from Thada), stealing Hero's Blade.
Karador's turn, he taps out for Rise of the Dark Realm, but is unable to pay the tax for Rhystic. I draw 2, and I'm about to pop Relic of Progenitus (which was Karador's intent, since I'd been targeting him with the tap ability pretty much all game). Then I pause a moment, and use Sensei's Top. The third card is Commandeer, which I draw from the Top and hard-cast, instead of cracking the Relic. Karador put sadness on the stack and passed. Ayli puts out Torpor Orb and Opaline Unicorn to block Thada and passed.
My turn, I move Greaves to another creature, use Whim of Volrath to change Thada's Islandwalk to Plainswalk, re-equip Greaves, and swing at Ayli for lethal general, pointing the rest of the creatures at Karador for lethal.
All thanks to Rhystic+Archive+Top, as missing any one of those three cards could have drastically changed the game.
Last weekend I was at a table using my Riku of two ReflectionsClone tribal deck. The game became extra grindy but eventually all my opponents tried to win, but were disrupted and tapped out. I was ramping consistently so I untapped with a lot of lands but not much other permanents. There was a Nekusar, the Mindrazer player on the table with Nekusar and a Diluvian Primordial in play. I played Sneak Attack and then sneaked two clone effects into play, copying Nekusar and Diluvian Primordial, and playing the Nekusar player's Wheel of Fortune effect in the graveyard with the ETB ability. In the next 7 cards I drew I got another clone effect, and the Nekusar player discarded another wheel effect so I sneaked the clone effect copying Diluvian Primordial again, and playing the wheel effect with the ETB ability and kept doing this until everyone was dead.
That amuses me greatly. Reminds me of a game a few years back, where the player to my left (turn immediately after mine) cast Pact of Negation targeting something another opponent did, while I had a dominant board position and Armageddon in hand. Good times.
Yeah, it was entertaining. A potentially better play would have been Fork the Violent Ultimatum in response to the first Jace's Archivist activation, targeting the Riku player's three blue sources. That would have presumably prevented the Pact of Negation line. I opted to keep more mana open in the hopes that I would draw into something worthwhile.
I am curious who was playing Kruphix though - Glen?
Brandon. Does Glen's Kruphix also run Forced Fruition and Jace's Archivist? Those cards ain't easy to get to work right, but it's cool when they do.
Turn 3:
Zur player casts Zur. Pass.
Kozi player casts Kozi. The Kozi player looks at Zur. Zur says, "Turn order." Oloro throws his hands up, so Zur casts Pact of Negation. Kozi player draws four and passes.
Oloro player casts Rhystic Study and Winter Orb. Pass.
At that moment, the Kozi player laughs. "You are going to die to Pact; you do not even have the five mana available on your upkeep." The Zur player looks at his lands and counted his available mana rocks. His upright posture slumped slightly. "Yup." Then he adjusted himself.
Suddenly, the Oloro player explodes into laughter. The Kozi player reaches over the Zur player and grabs Stifle. Everyone knew the Kozi player knew the card, but he had to read it.
Zur attacks and finds Stony Silence. The Zur player quotes Arcane Teachings: "[I] may [learn] at the speed of stone, but [my] results are solid." The Oloro player falls for the atrocious reference and continues to laugh as the Kozi player attempted to figure out why it was much funnier than another solid pun.
The Kozi player scoops, and the Oloro player plays until he lost. Zur got a free Winter Orb while in play.
Last night I was playing ghave and I had a great blocker in play, an academy rector with skullclamp on it. The last thing people wanted was to give me a free enchantment and card draw.
The next turn I cast pattern of rebirth on the rector followed by diabolic intent.
So when the rector died, she gave me an enchantment from my library and put it on the battlefield, a creature from my library and put it on the battlefield, she let me tutor for any card, and she gave me 2 free cards to boot. That was the most profitable creature death I've ever seen, and it gave me all the combo pieces I needed to win that turn.
The table was a relatively new kid with Kalemne, Disciple of Iroas (Basically a modified starter deck, he improves every week we see him), me with Grenzo, Dungeon Warden, and two others with Sen Triplets (Not a hypertuned list) and Meren of Clan Nel Toth.
The Meren player didn't really do much throughout the game due to his deck whiffing a bit on him, and I got off to a somewhat slow start as well but I did have Blood Artist and Falkenrath Noble out on the field with a decent bit of mana, but it was the Kalemne kid who had taken over the game. Sen Triplets however had been building a rather steady board presence as well and was poised to become at least second best, which the Kalemne player recognized and he swung his army of giants into the Triplets player. He responded with Cyclonic Rift and with the Kalemne player tapped out, Meren being mostly screwed out of the game already and my board state not looking so hot either, I decided to at least go for something hilarious. So I told him "I'm gonna counter that Rift." "How? You don't play Blue do you?" (Nevermind Pyroblast, I don't play that one in the deck)
A few Grenzo activations later and I had Viscera Seer, Pia and Kiran Nalaar, Marsh Flitter, Triskelion, and Puppeteer Clique who grabbed Inferno Titan from Kalemne's graveyard. Viscera seer first sacced the Titan, then the Clique, Clique persisted, Inferno Titan goes back to me, all the damage from it and Triskelion went to Sen Triplet's head, and then I sacced most of my field. With Blood Artist and Falkenrath Noble, this was enough damange to take the Triplets player out before the Rift could resolve.
"See, Rift countered."
I didn't end up winning the game (Kalemne did), but man did it feel good.
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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.
Earlier on in the game, turn 6 or so I could've easily one before, but I misplay Kataki, War's Wage, which was disrupting my opponents' artifact based ramp by forgetting to pay for a Birthing Pod that would have sacrificed my Avenger of Zendikar to find Craterhoof Behemoth and swing with 10 12/12 plant tokens. with trample to kill the whole table. So, I had to think creatively to try to find the win. I play Mangara of Corondor and pass the turn, feeling pretty dejected. Couple turns later, one of my opponents, playing an Oona, Queen of the Fae casts Grand Architect then attempts to cast Pili-Pala. I respond by tapping Mangara to wipe the Grand Architect off the face of the battlefield. He notes that he forgot about Mangara. Later, I cast Shaman of the Forgotten Ways. I still have my tokens, and Gaddock Teeg is very effectively preventing anyone from wrathing. Next turn, I activate the Shaman and swing with my team to kill everyone who is at most at 4 life.
In another game, I have Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite, and Avacyn, Angel of Hope on the battlefield, along with Voice of Resurgence and a near complete lockdown of hatebears, most of which are 2/2 except for Linvala, Keeper of Silence. A Nicol Bolas player casts Bribery and gets my Academy Rector, which dies instantly thanks to Elesh Norn. He puts Omniscience into play, and this is where things get bad. He immediately casts Blatant Thievery, stealing my Elesh Norn and some other huge beaters which I don't remember. I think, ok, I'll Wrath of God next turn. Nope, next thing he does is cast Dack's Duplicate copying Avacyn, so his permanents are indestructable too. Later in the game, I topdeck Path to Exile after failing to get my Mangara of Corondor that I searched up through permission. At this point in the game, I have over 25 mana thanks to a player's Zhur-Taa Ancient and my Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx. This whole game I have been slowly milled by a Phenax, God of Deception player, so I have over half of my library in the grave. The first thing I do on the huge turn is cast Sun Titan, returning Eternal Witness to the battlefield, which dies thanks to Elesh Norn. I get Rout from my graveyard, and Path the copied Avacyn, which resolves finally. I try to cast Rout, but he responds with a quickened Rite of Replication , targeting my sun titan, which returns among other things a Phantasmal Image which copies Avacyn and Snapcaster Mage, targeting Quicken, which he uses for Spelltwine, casting the Rite again and kicking it, and casting my Path. So, I wrathed myself and the table loses horribly.
Last weekend I was at a table using my Riku of two ReflectionsClone tribal deck. The game became extra grindy but eventually all my opponents tried to win, but were disrupted and tapped out. I was ramping consistently so I untapped with a lot of lands but not much other permanents. There was a Nekusar, the Mindrazer player on the table with Nekusar and a Diluvian Primordial in play. I played Sneak Attack and then sneaked two clone effects into play, copying Nekusar and Diluvian Primordial, and playing the Nekusar player's Wheel of Fortune effect in the graveyard with the ETB ability. In the next 7 cards I drew I got another clone effect, and the Nekusar player discarded another wheel effect so I sneaked the clone effect copying Diluvian Primordial again, and playing the wheel effect with the ETB ability and kept doing this until everyone was dead.
Did you have more life than the Nekusar player? Because his damage triggers would resolve before yours would.
Hey, you're right. I was supposed to remove my opponent's Nekusar with a removal spell from another opponent's graveyard, but I forgot to declare it and just kept on wheeling. It wasn't until after I went through enough wheels that we remembered that my opponent still had his Nekusar in play and we just assumed that I inadvertently killed myself along with the table. We never checked the stacking of the triggers.
Turn 4 or 5, Ezuri drops Vernal Bloom. Phenax mills someone for a few cards with her snakes, Mizzix is digging for cards, and I follow up with another Vernal Bloom and a Keeper of Progenitus. Forests are now worth four G, and I've been ramping up my land count. I felt safe ramping out those doublers a little early because Ezuri was light on forests and Mizzix was light on mountains.
I pass the turn, and Ezuri taps out for Kaho, Minamo Historian and grabs some board wipes. Phenax doesn't have any open blue mana (don't remember why) and Mizzix spends all blue mana on Thought Reflection. No blue mana? Time to go for it.
Primal Surge, hit probably 40 permanents, among them are 14 lands for 14 more snakes, a Champion of Lambholt, and some other goodies. The only thing I hit for haste is my Swiftfoot Boots. My biggest creature is the 29/29 Champion, but now everyone knows I'm going to win on my next turn if they don't wipe me out. I managed to get one of those great games where my wincons are all at the bottom of my deck...
At this point, my forests are worth 6 each and plains are worth 3 each. I've also only a few cards left in my library and Phenax is getting ready to mill me out. I need to win, but I don't have it yet. With 73+ mana available, I could cast some creatures to hopefully draw into something. Instead, I draw out all of my mana and cast The Great Aurora. Phenax sighs and mills 13 before she loses all of her permanents. Ezuri laughs and starts to shuffle up. Mizzix asks to see my library before I shuffle: "Sure?"
He counts. "You only have 16 cards left in your library." Okay? "You have 20 snake tokens." Crap. I shuffle up and fail to draw.
Background: A friend and I play traditional competitive 1v1 EDH among our competitive group. No proxy cards allowed. We have had an ongoing series with a W/L count for the past two years. Game one:
Friend's Turn three: My friend casts Bribery; I got up to get a beer while he searched. I returned to him deciding on Iona, Shield of Emeria; he names White as his color of choice. When he enters his End Phase, I cast Chaos Warp targeting Iona. He gives me Iona and lifts his deck. I stop him, and I have him read the card. He smiled as I shuffle in Iona. He cuts, and I reveal Gisela, Blade of Goldnight.
My turn four: I cast Kaalia and attach Swiftfoot Boots. I enter combat, toss Hellkite Tyrant and hit for 26.
My friend lost my following turn, but he ended up buying two Warps.
I played Talrand the other night in a game that included Tasigur as one of my opponents' commanders. The Tasigur player casts Living Death which makes the other players groan. Until I cast Twincast.
I recently completed a new 5 color deck that I got to play in a four person pod for the first time this afternoon.
I was able to White Sun's Zenith at end of turn for 10. Then on my turn play Deceiver of Form, move to combat and with Deceiver trigger on the stack, cast Worldly Tutor and search up and put Biovisionary on top of library. All cats become Biovisionary, declare no attackers, move to main two, move to end step with nobody able to stop me and win game.
The entire deck is premised around tutoring for Deceiver and playing it, generating tokens, and doing then tutoring overpowered creatures to top of library.
I got ganged up on early with two tutors being countered and my Sol Ring and Phyrexian Arena blown up before they left me alone to focus on eachother. I was forced to rely on my little bit of counters, Bitterblossom tokens, and Attrition to try and keep some sort of control over the board and the game was going long. Around turn 12 or so I still hadn't drawn anything useful despite having like 10 mana available.
And then I topdecked Knowledge Exploitation. Most of the time this is a marginally useful card. A bit expensive to cast for its CMC and usually used to grab someone else's removal for a problem. Well, one of the guys at the table was playing Captain Sisay, so I pointed it at him and hit paydirt about halfway through his deck: Tooth and Nail.
I cast it for free and tapped lands to pay its Entwine cost, searching my deck and plopping Deadeye Navigator and Palinchron onto the field, followed by Oona for the win. This wasn't too epic apart from two of the players making a big deal out of "neutering" me early on and having a good laugh about it. Coming back to kill the table from nowhere after ten turns of durdle felt amazing.
In another game with Nicol Bolas I was testing Corrupted Conscience as an addition while doing some deck fiddling, and drew into it near the end of a long game. An opponent was running two mana doublers in an Omnath deck, and made the mistake of hardcasting a Desolation Twin. When my turn came up I promptly stole it with Corrupted Conscience, before using my dirth of extra mana to play a Clever Impersonator as a copy of Corrupted Conscience, stealing the 10/10 eldrazi token, too. Turns made it around the table with me countering a removal attempt, and I proceeded to murder the table with a pair of giant 10/10 infect creatures and a Rogue's Passage!
This happened a while back but it's still one of my favorite plays ever....
I have a friend that runs a infect deck, so I included Spiteful Shadows just to be able to convince him not to swing or block with his Blightsteel Colossus.
Really awesome the first time he swung out with it and I flashed out my own Blightsteel to block his (thanks to Savage Summoning). His Blightsteel died but mine survived because of the +1/+1 counter from Savage Summoning, but the reflected damage took him out of the game. I sat there unscathed smiling while he looked at me like "wait, what just happened". Especially when I paid the BB to sac Vampire Hexmage and remove the -1/-1 counters from my Blightsteel during my upkeep, played Rogue's Passage as my land for turn, and won with my Blightsteel dealing the 11 poison counters to the other remaining player. (we play 15 poison counters is kill, my friend had already dealt the guy 7)
Never again will I luck into things playing out just how perfectly they did that first time with it.
5 player game - the important commanders are Uril, the Miststalker and mine, Sharuum the Hegemon. Uril has Shield of the Oversoul and another aura on him making him a 13/13 indestructible flying hexproof wall of fury. Juxtapose targeting that player swapped my Sharuum for his Uril, then swapped Sharuum back to me for my Unwinding Clock. Ever since I discovered Juxtapose was a card I dreamed of the moment when I would do something just like that. We all lost to Narset, Enlightened Master though.
Got to play a really sweet game with Titania today that I think teaches an important lesson. It went like this:
T1: Fetch for Forest, Green Sun's Zenith for Dryad Arbor.
T2: Forest, Birthing Pod (paying 2 life).
T3: Forest, Tempt with Discovery. Each of my opponents accepted the tempting offer. Fetched Nykthos, Strip Mine, Forest, and Crystal Vein. Crack Vein, tap the other three lands, play Titania. Returns Fetch, fetch for Forest (make a 5/3). Tap Forest, pay 2 life, Pod Arbor (make a 5/3) for Sylvan Safekeeper.
At the last end step before my next turn, sac all my lands for 7 more 5/3s.
I managed to aggro down two players before the 3rd found an infinite. Based on the other decks at the table, I was pretty confident I wouldn't see a wrath.
The lesson here is, of course, NEVER ACCEPT THE TEMPTING OFFER. LIKE EVER.
I can see why it happened, though. 1st opponent was 5c Allies, and appreciated the fixing. The 2nd accepted and searched for his own Strip Mine, with the logic that letting me search for another land was worth killing my first tutor target (he really didn't have any way of knowing I'm too poor to have a Cradle in my deck, after all), and the last, I assume, didn't want to be the only one who didn't ramp.
So my friend plays Ashling the Pilgrim, right? He runs like 6 different Fork effects, so someone casts a Tooth and Nail. My friend asks, "Are you sure you want to do that?"
"Yes?"
"Are you ABSOLUTELY POSITIVE?"
"Yes!"
"Okay."
Then he copies it, searches up Dualcaster Mage and Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker. Dualcaster Mage copies Tooth and Nail, the second copy searches up Zealous Conscripts and Purphoros, God of the Forge, and he kills everyone with Purphoros triggers before the original Tooth and Nail leaves the stack.
Everyone else groans about how busted his deck is, and he laughs and says "I'M NOT THE ONE PLAYING THE TOOTH AND NAIL"
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.
The lesson here is, of course, NEVER ACCEPT THE TEMPTING OFFER. LIKE EVER.
Generally good advice. Although since you get to see the first land fetched before making your decision to take the temptation or not, sometimes I'll see someone fetch something like Nykthos or Cradle and say, "Sure, I'll tutor up Strip Mine!"
One time, playing my Wort deck (with nearly every Fork effect available), I cast Tempt with Discovery 4 times (using Regrowth-type effects on it) and Forked it twice over the course of 6 turns, Conspiring most of the Tempts and Forks. All three of my opponents took the first two temptations, before two of my opponents realized it was a bad idea to let me ramp so much. One of my opponents refused to take the hint and took every single temptation I offered him, despite only fetching 5 nonbasics from the whole pile of TwDs.
It was a 4 player game with my playing Riku (warp world build) with Athreos (shadowborn/cleric tribal), Animar (morphs) and Teneb (reanimator).
It's relatively late game and Teneb is in a commanding presence between Sheoldred, Whispering One, Teneb out, and a rather large flying army of angels and beaters. Animar has 8 morphs out and face down, and Athreos just played his 6th apostle. I've been playing draw-go with alchemist's refuge and have cloned Teneb, but otherwise have been paying, copying, and reanimating sakura-tribe elder during the last two end steps.
It's now Teneb's end step and I go for warp world with 20 permanents (2 had been stolen by teneb), while Athreos had ~12, Animar had ~14 and Teneb had ~20. The plan was to set up for a lethal next turn with mana untapped.
I activate refuge, cast, copy with Riku. Animar copies with Mischievous Quanar. I float 4 mana and everything goes horribly wrong.
On the first copy to resolve I warp into some combination of 4 clones (that die), kiki-jiki, lotus cobra, and other good things to produce extra permanents and mana. Animar drops to 5 lands with ~14 creatures and cloudstone curio. Teneb's army becomes less threatening ..slightly.
The lesson here is, of course, NEVER ACCEPT THE TEMPTING OFFER. LIKE EVER.
Generally good advice. Although since you get to see the first land fetched before making your decision to take the temptation or not, sometimes I'll see someone fetch something like Nykthos or Cradle and say, "Sure, I'll tutor up Strip Mine!"
Yeah, that's why I usually get something pretty innocuous (though still useful obviously) the first time, then save the heavy hitters for after they've taken you up on the offer and not gone for Strip Mines. My typical one for Titania is to get a fetchland - nothing too scary, but very useful given my general - then, assuming no-one's gotten land destruction, follow up with Thespian's Stage, Dark Depths and either Gaea's Cradle (if I have creatures in play) or Ancient Tomb. Maybe one day people will learn not to fall to temptation. Until they do though, they're gonna get a 20/20 indestructible flyer to the face...
My G Yisan, the Bard of Death G deck.
My BUGWR Hermit druid BUGWR deck.
TL;DR I killed everyone using Nekusar, the Mindrazer while playing my Riku of Two Reflections deck.
WBR: Kaalia of the Vast
GWU: Rafiq of the Many
WUB: Sydri, Galvanic Genius
URG: Riku of Two Reflections
BRG: Kresh the Bloodbraided
WUBRG: Sliver Overlord
I managed to resolve a Boundless Realms by protecting it with Reiterate (no buyback) in response to the Riku player's Muddle the Mixture. I then hit the Riku player with a Rakdos's Return for 7, emptying his hand. However, the Kruphix player cast Minds Aglow and we all drew 9 cards.
I attempted Violent Ultimatum plus Increasing Vengeance with enough mana to flash it back. The Riku player convinced the Kruphix player to activate his Jace's Archivist so that the Riku player could dig for Pact of Negation to counter my Violent Ultimatum. The first activation didn't get the job done, so the Kruphix player activated a second one (Phantasmal Image). The Riku player cast Pact of Negation, preventing me from destroying various nonsense on the board: Mana Reflection, Swiftfoot Boots, etc.
I attacked with Xira in order to cast Howl of the Horde into Chaos Warp, targeting the Riku player's three blue sources. The gambit succeeded and he lost to the pact trigger.
The Jace's Archivist activations had put a lot of my deck in the graveyard. I was hoping to win with Past in the Flames, but the Jenara player cast Tormod's Crypt and that dream died.
After a Forced Fruition and another Windfall effect or two, I left the game. The Jenara player made a lethal attack on the Kruphix player, but he'd drawn a few too many cards and lost to another Jace's Archivist activation.
Nobody lost to life below 1 or to commander damage the whole game and nobody comboed out.
That amuses me greatly. Reminds me of a game a few years back, where the player to my left (turn immediately after mine) cast Pact of Negation targeting something another opponent did, while I had a dominant board position and Armageddon in hand. Good times.
I am curious who was playing Kruphix though - Glen?
A Dying Wish
To Rise Again
Chainer, Dementia Master
Muldrotha, the Gravetide
Atraxa, Praetors' Voice
The Ayli player played some exiling board wipe that escapes me, so I sacrificed all the creatures I owned to Ayli for a metric butt-ton of life and allowed the rest to be exiled. At EOT I cracked Cephalid Coliseum to draw 6/discard 3, then used Sensei's Top to stack Strip Mine/Crucible/Island on top of my deck.
My turn, I re-cast my general, sitting on something in the neighborhood of 15 mana, equip with Lightning Greaves, and hit Ayli (16 commander damage to Ayli from Thada), stealing Hero's Blade.
Karador's turn, he taps out for Rise of the Dark Realm, but is unable to pay the tax for Rhystic. I draw 2, and I'm about to pop Relic of Progenitus (which was Karador's intent, since I'd been targeting him with the tap ability pretty much all game). Then I pause a moment, and use Sensei's Top. The third card is Commandeer, which I draw from the Top and hard-cast, instead of cracking the Relic. Karador put sadness on the stack and passed. Ayli puts out Torpor Orb and Opaline Unicorn to block Thada and passed.
My turn, I move Greaves to another creature, use Whim of Volrath to change Thada's Islandwalk to Plainswalk, re-equip Greaves, and swing at Ayli for lethal general, pointing the rest of the creatures at Karador for lethal.
All thanks to Rhystic+Archive+Top, as missing any one of those three cards could have drastically changed the game.
Did you have more life than the Nekusar player? Because his damage triggers would resolve before yours would.
Two Score, Minus Two or: A Stargate Tail
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Yeah, it was entertaining. A potentially better play would have been Fork the Violent Ultimatum in response to the first Jace's Archivist activation, targeting the Riku player's three blue sources. That would have presumably prevented the Pact of Negation line. I opted to keep more mana open in the hopes that I would draw into something worthwhile.
Brandon. Does Glen's Kruphix also run Forced Fruition and Jace's Archivist? Those cards ain't easy to get to work right, but it's cool when they do.
Turn order: Zur, Kozi and Oloro.
Turn 3:
Zur player casts Zur. Pass.
Kozi player casts Kozi. The Kozi player looks at Zur. Zur says, "Turn order." Oloro throws his hands up, so Zur casts Pact of Negation. Kozi player draws four and passes.
Oloro player casts Rhystic Study and Winter Orb. Pass.
At that moment, the Kozi player laughs. "You are going to die to Pact; you do not even have the five mana available on your upkeep." The Zur player looks at his lands and counted his available mana rocks. His upright posture slumped slightly. "Yup." Then he adjusted himself.
Turn 4:
Zur casts Stifle and pays his taxes.
Suddenly, the Oloro player explodes into laughter. The Kozi player reaches over the Zur player and grabs Stifle. Everyone knew the Kozi player knew the card, but he had to read it.
Zur attacks and finds Stony Silence. The Zur player quotes Arcane Teachings: "[I] may [learn] at the speed of stone, but [my] results are solid." The Oloro player falls for the atrocious reference and continues to laugh as the Kozi player attempted to figure out why it was much funnier than another solid pun.
The Kozi player scoops, and the Oloro player plays until he lost. Zur got a free Winter Orb while in play.
Keep brewing.
The next turn I cast pattern of rebirth on the rector followed by diabolic intent.
So when the rector died, she gave me an enchantment from my library and put it on the battlefield, a creature from my library and put it on the battlefield, she let me tutor for any card, and she gave me 2 free cards to boot. That was the most profitable creature death I've ever seen, and it gave me all the combo pieces I needed to win that turn.
My G Yisan, the Bard of Death G deck.
My BUGWR Hermit druid BUGWR deck.
Turn 2: Scroll Rack
Turn 3: Rack 7 for a land Reforge the Soul & Far Wanderings in hand
Turn 4: Draw Cast Explosive Vegetation
Turn 5: Upkeep Rack Far Wanderings under Reforge the Soul on top, 5 cards in hand 1 in yard. Miracle the wheel, cast Far Wanderings with threshold.
Turn 6: Take a Tempt with Discovery for a Temple of the False God
Play Land Faithless Looting, dropping Manamorphose Rending Vines, Overload Mizzix's Mastery
Cast:
Far Wanderings
Explosive Vegetation
Rending Vines
Manamorphose
Faithless Looting
Tormenting Voice
Wheel of Fortune
(Draw and cast Early Harvest)
Reforge the Soul
(Wheel Past in Flames)
Draw into The Great Aurora(for backup) and Reiterate have 14 basic lands untapped.
Flashback Past in Flames + Early Harvest + Reiterate + Comet Storm = Game
The Meren player didn't really do much throughout the game due to his deck whiffing a bit on him, and I got off to a somewhat slow start as well but I did have Blood Artist and Falkenrath Noble out on the field with a decent bit of mana, but it was the Kalemne kid who had taken over the game. Sen Triplets however had been building a rather steady board presence as well and was poised to become at least second best, which the Kalemne player recognized and he swung his army of giants into the Triplets player. He responded with Cyclonic Rift and with the Kalemne player tapped out, Meren being mostly screwed out of the game already and my board state not looking so hot either, I decided to at least go for something hilarious. So I told him "I'm gonna counter that Rift." "How? You don't play Blue do you?" (Nevermind Pyroblast, I don't play that one in the deck)
A few Grenzo activations later and I had Viscera Seer, Pia and Kiran Nalaar, Marsh Flitter, Triskelion, and Puppeteer Clique who grabbed Inferno Titan from Kalemne's graveyard. Viscera seer first sacced the Titan, then the Clique, Clique persisted, Inferno Titan goes back to me, all the damage from it and Triskelion went to Sen Triplet's head, and then I sacced most of my field. With Blood Artist and Falkenrath Noble, this was enough damange to take the Triplets player out before the Rift could resolve.
"See, Rift countered."
I didn't end up winning the game (Kalemne did), but man did it feel good.
Both of these are with Captain Sisay
Earlier on in the game, turn 6 or so I could've easily one before, but I misplay Kataki, War's Wage, which was disrupting my opponents' artifact based ramp by forgetting to pay for a Birthing Pod that would have sacrificed my Avenger of Zendikar to find Craterhoof Behemoth and swing with 10 12/12 plant tokens. with trample to kill the whole table. So, I had to think creatively to try to find the win. I play Mangara of Corondor and pass the turn, feeling pretty dejected. Couple turns later, one of my opponents, playing an Oona, Queen of the Fae casts Grand Architect then attempts to cast Pili-Pala. I respond by tapping Mangara to wipe the Grand Architect off the face of the battlefield. He notes that he forgot about Mangara. Later, I cast Shaman of the Forgotten Ways. I still have my tokens, and Gaddock Teeg is very effectively preventing anyone from wrathing. Next turn, I activate the Shaman and swing with my team to kill everyone who is at most at 4 life.
In another game, I have Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite, and Avacyn, Angel of Hope on the battlefield, along with Voice of Resurgence and a near complete lockdown of hatebears, most of which are 2/2 except for Linvala, Keeper of Silence. A Nicol Bolas player casts Bribery and gets my Academy Rector, which dies instantly thanks to Elesh Norn. He puts Omniscience into play, and this is where things get bad. He immediately casts Blatant Thievery, stealing my Elesh Norn and some other huge beaters which I don't remember. I think, ok, I'll Wrath of God next turn. Nope, next thing he does is cast Dack's Duplicate copying Avacyn, so his permanents are indestructable too. Later in the game, I topdeck Path to Exile after failing to get my Mangara of Corondor that I searched up through permission. At this point in the game, I have over 25 mana thanks to a player's Zhur-Taa Ancient and my Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx. This whole game I have been slowly milled by a Phenax, God of Deception player, so I have over half of my library in the grave. The first thing I do on the huge turn is cast Sun Titan, returning Eternal Witness to the battlefield, which dies thanks to Elesh Norn. I get Rout from my graveyard, and Path the copied Avacyn, which resolves finally. I try to cast Rout, but he responds with a quickened Rite of Replication , targeting my sun titan, which returns among other things a Phantasmal Image which copies Avacyn and Snapcaster Mage, targeting Quicken, which he uses for Spelltwine, casting the Rite again and kicking it, and casting my Path. So, I wrathed myself and the table loses horribly.
Hey, you're right. I was supposed to remove my opponent's Nekusar with a removal spell from another opponent's graveyard, but I forgot to declare it and just kept on wheeling. It wasn't until after I went through enough wheels that we remembered that my opponent still had his Nekusar in play and we just assumed that I inadvertently killed myself along with the table. We never checked the stacking of the triggers.
WBR: Kaalia of the Vast
GWU: Rafiq of the Many
WUB: Sydri, Galvanic Genius
URG: Riku of Two Reflections
BRG: Kresh the Bloodbraided
WUBRG: Sliver Overlord
I've got a Chorus of the Conclave deck that just wants to double mana and throw down +1/+1 counters on big creatures. I was playing against Ezuri, Claw of Progress Snake tribal, Phenax, God of Deception mill, and Mizzix of the Izmagnus unmodified. Turn 3 we get Seed the Land from Ezuri. Being all about mana ramp I was pretty excited, and got a few snakes from it.
Turn 4 or 5, Ezuri drops Vernal Bloom. Phenax mills someone for a few cards with her snakes, Mizzix is digging for cards, and I follow up with another Vernal Bloom and a Keeper of Progenitus. Forests are now worth four G, and I've been ramping up my land count. I felt safe ramping out those doublers a little early because Ezuri was light on forests and Mizzix was light on mountains.
I pass the turn, and Ezuri taps out for Kaho, Minamo Historian and grabs some board wipes. Phenax doesn't have any open blue mana (don't remember why) and Mizzix spends all blue mana on Thought Reflection. No blue mana? Time to go for it.
Primal Surge, hit probably 40 permanents, among them are 14 lands for 14 more snakes, a Champion of Lambholt, and some other goodies. The only thing I hit for haste is my Swiftfoot Boots. My biggest creature is the 29/29 Champion, but now everyone knows I'm going to win on my next turn if they don't wipe me out. I managed to get one of those great games where my wincons are all at the bottom of my deck...
At this point, my forests are worth 6 each and plains are worth 3 each. I've also only a few cards left in my library and Phenax is getting ready to mill me out. I need to win, but I don't have it yet. With 73+ mana available, I could cast some creatures to hopefully draw into something. Instead, I draw out all of my mana and cast The Great Aurora. Phenax sighs and mills 13 before she loses all of her permanents. Ezuri laughs and starts to shuffle up. Mizzix asks to see my library before I shuffle: "Sure?"
He counts. "You only have 16 cards left in your library." Okay? "You have 20 snake tokens." Crap. I shuffle up and fail to draw.
Background: A friend and I play traditional competitive 1v1 EDH among our competitive group. No proxy cards allowed. We have had an ongoing series with a W/L count for the past two years. Game one:
Friend's Turn three: My friend casts Bribery; I got up to get a beer while he searched. I returned to him deciding on Iona, Shield of Emeria; he names White as his color of choice. When he enters his End Phase, I cast Chaos Warp targeting Iona. He gives me Iona and lifts his deck. I stop him, and I have him read the card. He smiled as I shuffle in Iona. He cuts, and I reveal Gisela, Blade of Goldnight.
My turn four: I cast Kaalia and attach Swiftfoot Boots. I enter combat, toss Hellkite Tyrant and hit for 26.
My friend lost my following turn, but he ended up buying two Warps.
Keep brewing.
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
I was able to White Sun's Zenith at end of turn for 10. Then on my turn play Deceiver of Form, move to combat and with Deceiver trigger on the stack, cast Worldly Tutor and search up and put Biovisionary on top of library. All cats become Biovisionary, declare no attackers, move to main two, move to end step with nobody able to stop me and win game.
The entire deck is premised around tutoring for Deceiver and playing it, generating tokens, and doing then tutoring overpowered creatures to top of library.
Most of my decks: http://tappedout.net/users/thraashman/
I got ganged up on early with two tutors being countered and my Sol Ring and Phyrexian Arena blown up before they left me alone to focus on eachother. I was forced to rely on my little bit of counters, Bitterblossom tokens, and Attrition to try and keep some sort of control over the board and the game was going long. Around turn 12 or so I still hadn't drawn anything useful despite having like 10 mana available.
And then I topdecked Knowledge Exploitation.
I cast it for free and tapped lands to pay its Entwine cost, searching my deck and plopping Deadeye Navigator and Palinchron onto the field, followed by Oona for the win. This wasn't too epic apart from two of the players making a big deal out of "neutering" me early on and having a good laugh about it. Coming back to kill the table from nowhere after ten turns of durdle felt amazing.
In another game with Nicol Bolas I was testing Corrupted Conscience as an addition while doing some deck fiddling, and drew into it near the end of a long game. An opponent was running two mana doublers in an Omnath deck, and made the mistake of hardcasting a Desolation Twin. When my turn came up I promptly stole it with Corrupted Conscience, before using my dirth of extra mana to play a Clever Impersonator as a copy of Corrupted Conscience, stealing the 10/10 eldrazi token, too. Turns made it around the table with me countering a removal attempt, and I proceeded to murder the table with a pair of giant 10/10 infect creatures and a Rogue's Passage!
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
I have a friend that runs a infect deck, so I included Spiteful Shadows just to be able to convince him not to swing or block with his Blightsteel Colossus.
Really awesome the first time he swung out with it and I flashed out my own Blightsteel to block his (thanks to Savage Summoning). His Blightsteel died but mine survived because of the +1/+1 counter from Savage Summoning, but the reflected damage took him out of the game. I sat there unscathed smiling while he looked at me like "wait, what just happened". Especially when I paid the BB to sac Vampire Hexmage and remove the -1/-1 counters from my Blightsteel during my upkeep, played Rogue's Passage as my land for turn, and won with my Blightsteel dealing the 11 poison counters to the other remaining player. (we play 15 poison counters is kill, my friend had already dealt the guy 7)
Never again will I luck into things playing out just how perfectly they did that first time with it.
Building: Varina
WUBRGReaper King - Superfriends
WUBRGChild of Alara - The Nauseating Aurora
WUBSharuum the Hegemon - Christmas In Prison
WUBZur the Enchanter - Ow My Face
WRJor Kadeen, the Prevailer - Snow Goats
BRGrenzo, Dungeon Warden - International Goblin All Purpose Recycling Facility Number 12
WGSaffi Eriksdotter - Saffi Combosdotter
UPatron of the Moon - The Age of Aquarius
BHorobi, Death's Wail - Bring Out Your Dead
GSachi, Daughter of Seshiro - Sneks
T1: Fetch for Forest, Green Sun's Zenith for Dryad Arbor.
T2: Forest, Birthing Pod (paying 2 life).
T3: Forest, Tempt with Discovery. Each of my opponents accepted the tempting offer. Fetched Nykthos, Strip Mine, Forest, and Crystal Vein. Crack Vein, tap the other three lands, play Titania. Returns Fetch, fetch for Forest (make a 5/3). Tap Forest, pay 2 life, Pod Arbor (make a 5/3) for Sylvan Safekeeper.
At the last end step before my next turn, sac all my lands for 7 more 5/3s.
I managed to aggro down two players before the 3rd found an infinite. Based on the other decks at the table, I was pretty confident I wouldn't see a wrath.
The lesson here is, of course, NEVER ACCEPT THE TEMPTING OFFER. LIKE EVER.
I can see why it happened, though. 1st opponent was 5c Allies, and appreciated the fixing. The 2nd accepted and searched for his own Strip Mine, with the logic that letting me search for another land was worth killing my first tutor target (he really didn't have any way of knowing I'm too poor to have a Cradle in my deck, after all), and the last, I assume, didn't want to be the only one who didn't ramp.
Draft my Peasant Cube.
"Yes?"
"Are you ABSOLUTELY POSITIVE?"
"Yes!"
"Okay."
Then he copies it, searches up Dualcaster Mage and Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker. Dualcaster Mage copies Tooth and Nail, the second copy searches up Zealous Conscripts and Purphoros, God of the Forge, and he kills everyone with Purphoros triggers before the original Tooth and Nail leaves the stack.
Everyone else groans about how busted his deck is, and he laughs and says "I'M NOT THE ONE PLAYING THE TOOTH AND NAIL"
One time, playing my Wort deck (with nearly every Fork effect available), I cast Tempt with Discovery 4 times (using Regrowth-type effects on it) and Forked it twice over the course of 6 turns, Conspiring most of the Tempts and Forks. All three of my opponents took the first two temptations, before two of my opponents realized it was a bad idea to let me ramp so much. One of my opponents refused to take the hint and took every single temptation I offered him, despite only fetching 5 nonbasics from the whole pile of TwDs.
Two Score, Minus Two or: A Stargate Tail
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It's relatively late game and Teneb is in a commanding presence between Sheoldred, Whispering One, Teneb out, and a rather large flying army of angels and beaters. Animar has 8 morphs out and face down, and Athreos just played his 6th apostle. I've been playing draw-go with alchemist's refuge and have cloned Teneb, but otherwise have been paying, copying, and reanimating sakura-tribe elder during the last two end steps.
It's now Teneb's end step and I go for warp world with 20 permanents (2 had been stolen by teneb), while Athreos had ~12, Animar had ~14 and Teneb had ~20. The plan was to set up for a lethal next turn with mana untapped.
I activate refuge, cast, copy with Riku. Animar copies with Mischievous Quanar. I float 4 mana and everything goes horribly wrong.
On the first copy to resolve I warp into some combination of 4 clones (that die), kiki-jiki, lotus cobra, and other good things to produce extra permanents and mana. Animar drops to 5 lands with ~14 creatures and cloudstone curio. Teneb's army becomes less threatening ..slightly.
Athreos warps into Teysa, Orzhov Scion, grave pact, attrition and rotlung reanimator. Nearly everything dies and his count goes from ~12 to ~20. 2 warp worlds later Athroes is warping at over 60 permanents and we only shuffle counts in the single digits. Athroes flips out phyrexian altar, Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim, and ancestor's prophet. More cards are exiled.
Cabal Archon and Pestilence Demon kill us fueled by phyrexian altar.
Kemba | Linvala | Talrand | Geth | Krenko | Zada | Patron of the Orochi | Medomai | Athreos | Gisela | Trostani | Nin | Silumgar | Kaervek | Jarad | Xenagos | Sydri | Narset | Roon | Zurgo | Ghave | Marath | Uril | Tasigur | Animar | Riku | Riku | Sek'Kuar | Cromat
Yeah, that's why I usually get something pretty innocuous (though still useful obviously) the first time, then save the heavy hitters for after they've taken you up on the offer and not gone for Strip Mines. My typical one for Titania is to get a fetchland - nothing too scary, but very useful given my general - then, assuming no-one's gotten land destruction, follow up with Thespian's Stage, Dark Depths and either Gaea's Cradle (if I have creatures in play) or Ancient Tomb. Maybe one day people will learn not to fall to temptation. Until they do though, they're gonna get a 20/20 indestructible flyer to the face...
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