The craziness begins when, for some reason, Drana allows Ajani Steadfast to set off his ultimate. I had an Omniscience in my hand the entire game and figured I just needed to stall long enough to set it off. That proved to be incredibly easy, as when I did finally get it off, I was still at 40 life and had just blown up the board of all creatures with an Austere Command. After revealing my hand to a person sitting at another table, she broke out into hysterical laughter.
...and everyone scooped. The next two cards on top of my deck were Temporal Trespass and Part the Waterveil. Absolute insanity that will probably never happen again.
A few weeks back I was playing in a rather odd game. I was playing Kalemne, Disciple of Iroas, another player had Zedruu, and I don't recall what the other two decks were.
Last weekend I managed to squeeze out a surprise win despite having endured a fairly poor game. Though it ended up being part thanks to how my opponent played.
The game consisted of a precon Meren of Clan Nel Toth with minor tweaks, Ruhan of the Fomori, Purphoros, God of the Forge and me with my Riku of Two Reflections. Purphoros player came out blazing, a near perfect start that painted a big target on him and lead to the guy being taken out first. I on the other hand did poorly, draws didn’t go in my favor, I was flooding out and any real threat I got out was usually swiftly sent to the bin.
So it was mostly me maintaining a meager board state that just allowed me to hang in there as Meren and Ruhan went at each other. The Meren player eventually lost out as Ruhan managed to take care of her, but he had to commit enough so that he didn’t feel comfortable enough to go at me as well. So with some mana still up he passed the turn over to me.
At that point I had seven 2/2 wolf tokens, two 1/1 bird tokens, Goblin Bombardment and a Feldon of the Third Path which the Ruhan player had been tapping down for the bigger part of my turns, so I couldn’t pull anything good from the yard. In hand I had a forest and Eternal Witness, though didn’t play it knowing that it was likely going to be countered. So most turns I had just spent trying to hang in there , creating chump blockers where things were allowed to live, since I couldn’t attack profitably enough. Not even at that point as Ruhan had me covered enough to not worry.
Drawing for the turn I pull Furystoke Giant, deciding to cast it I run into the counterspell I had been fearing, sending it to the yard. Taking my chances I resort to casting Eternal Witness which also got countered. So yeah, things looked doomed at that point, until I realize that the Ruhan player used his tapper to deal with Meren, so for once Feldon is free to use. So using him I make a copy of Eternal Witness, which brings Furystoke Giant back to my hand. I recast and tap down the board to try and do maximum damage, before sacking the board to Goblin Bombardment since I’d be dead if Ruhan got to have another turn with how things look.
We go to calculate the damage done and I manage to hit for 32, which ends up being exactly enough to take Ruhan out. The thing being that if he hadn’t countered my Giant or the Witness when I played them first time around, I probably would have forgotten about Feldon and have been just short of having lethal damage.
A few weeks back I was playing in a rather odd game. I was playing Kalemne, Disciple of Iroas, another player had Zedruu, and I don't recall what the other two decks were.
Boros Charm is such a blowout in Kalemne. Usually it clears the way for you when someone else tries to wrath your stuff away. I swear this deck is pretty good with Sunforger and reliable ways to get it out. It kind of folds to spot removal but if you get a Whispersilk Cloak and a Sunforger you're basically killing people at will.
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I had Arcane Lighthouse in play. Activated Arcane Lighthouse, bit Lazav, Dimir Mastermind and took control of him and then swung with Oliva Voldaren. He milled 10 and my new Lazav turned into Consuming Aberration with about 30+ cards in all opponent's graveyards and a Sword of Body and Mind equipped (the Lazav, Dimir Mastermind player had his own copy in play equipped when I took control of him)
Best play I've seen yet with my deck. Needless to say it was a short game.
I kept the deck in it's box for the rest of the evening, as everyone else was pissed af.
I fixed that for you. It's a minor change, but it's one that will keep everyone else from being so upset, and then you don't have to put the deck away.
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Zedruu: "This deck is not only able to go crazy - it also needs to do so."
This was a fun one. I'm playing my Kalemne, Hero of Iroas against Karador, Jenara, Omnath (Locus of Rage), and Grenzo. It's fairly late in the game, Omnath has the clearly superior board presence. Most of us are just trying to keep up. He's got things like Burgeoning, Elemental Bond and Greater Good, so he's drawing lots of cards and growing a huge army. I'm hoping to draw into an Austere Command or Return to Dust to put a dent in his value engine, but so far I'm just drawing moderately useful reactive instants: Angel's Grace, Comeuppance, Razor Barrier.
Instead, he plays a Triumph of the Hordes and attacks everyone for at least 16 poison damage. Everyone groans and goes to scoop. I say I'm going to play this out and cast Comeuppance, leaving only me and him.
He decides he wants to burn me out and sacrifices ten of his 5/5 Elemental tokens to Greater Good during my upkeep, dealing me 30 damage... and finding out that he has only 39 cards left in his deck. I only wish he'd gone for lethal so I could have cast Angel's Grace.
Not a "crazy" play exactly, but it turned the game on its head in one turn.
Was playing Liliana, Heretical Healer against counter-Niv, tuned Narset, Oloro and Tazri. I got mana screwed early on, going a few turns with nothing but three swamps and a Cabal Coffers. Topdecked Contamination and used it as a sac outlet with a skullclamp to draw some cards and slow the table down til I got caught up. Niv was countering Narset and Oloro every time they cast. After three turns I lost Contamination, but had caught my lands back up and had dropped a Throne of Geth, a Contagion Clasp, and a Grimoire of the Dead just to get them out of my hand.
With my newfound mana I cast Lili and a couple of cheap skeletons and passed. It goes around and the Oloro player boardwipes, clearing my board and a bunch of allies out. I hit on an idea and put Lili in the graveyard. On my opponent's end step I activated the Grimoire to put a counter on it, then sacced a Library of Leng to the Throne to proliferate once, and then used the Clasp on my upkeep. Popped the Grimoire, got a massive board with several ally triggers plus my commander, a Burnished Hart, and a Solemn Simulacrum out of it. I sacced the Hart for 2 lands and a lili flip, ticking her up and passing with an army of blockers. Lili took no damage, and on my opponent's next end step I used the Throne to sac Solemn and tick her up plus drawing a card. At my upkeep I sacced the Thone to itself, used the Clasp again, and Ulted Lili for her emblem.
I put out a Plagued Rusalka and went to town drawing cards off of Skullclamp until I topdecked a bunch of mana doublers and Gray Merchant of Asphodel and killed the table by saccing it to Rusalka on everyone's turns with a bunch of creatures out. Oloro tried to Merciless Eviction once. but I was able to sac 90% of my board to Rusalka in response. It was pretty killer.
Not sure if this belongs in the Crazy Plays or Hidden Gems (since TWO hidden gems combo'd here) thread, but this was the first one I came to.
Playing Phelddagrif (Purple Hippos and Maro Sorcerers), I had a reasonably large grip already and Psychosis Crawler on the battlefield. Unfortunately, the table was facing a swarm of Plant tokens (maybe 20 or so) from Shea, who upped the ante by peeling a fetch land, cracking it, hard-casting Craterhoof Behemoth and swinging with the team which included Sun Titan. He got back the fetch and cracked it again. He laid out who he was attacking with which. I then cast Keep Watch, drawing 20-something cards (and doming everyone because of Psychosis Crawler). Then I cast (which was already in my hand before I drew) Equal Treatment to save the table (leaving them for me to kill).
Opponent: "Wait what why what are you...Why not Ulamog what are you doing?! What?!"
Me: Shall I begin my turn? Upkeep, Draw, float my mana rocks, and cast Akroma's Vengeance. I get my stuff back in my hand and I recast Karmic Guide bringing back my recently deceased Angel of Serenity and I exile your Ulamog.
Opponent: "...You know what I scoop and I also hate you."
Next turn, Opponent A sends all 8 manifests at me. I arbitrarily choose one and block it with a 4/4.
Opponent A flips it up to reveal...Phyrexian Obliterator. X_X
Just had one of the best games I have ever played. A few really awesome plays were made by people in the game. We're playing a 6 player king variant.
Scenario 1: It's getting to turn 4-5. Player across from me (Zedruu) has an assemble the legion out and plays enduring ideal and grabs dovescape. So now all non-creature removal is off. Next go around he grabs humility. He's pretty pillow fort-ed up and it's looking like no one can break the lock. I'm on marath, will of the wild. Zedruu already has some commander damage from marath and now has a lightmine field in play. So I do the only thing I can, start swinging with my 1/1 with counters on it. Luckily for me I have a mirari's wake in play then top deck....kessig wolf run. I end up exactsie-ing him with Marath commander damage through his legion tokens. Glorious.
Scenario 2: It's near the end of the game. I'm in it with some big dudes in play, the player next to me (the king) is playing Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest and has 13 2/2 zombies from army of the damned with 5 1/1 counters on them each. The last player (a fellow assassin like myself) has krenko, mob boss and a few goblins. I try to gun down the zombies with marath and a basilisk collar but it's not enough and I die.
Krenko goes to Mazirek "how much life are you at?"
Mazirek responds "43...and 7 untapped zombie blockers."
Krenko sits for a minute thinking then goes "Ok Krenko for a bunch of goblins. Attack you" 9 damage gets through. Then he follows it with goblin war strike for 28 and burn trail conspired for 6 to win. I near lost my ish...I freakin love this game
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I also had Mana Vault, Sol Ring, Lotus Petal, and Nihil Spellbomb in play. I cranked the Smokestack up to 5 soot counters, and my board stayed exactly the same through every Smoke Stack trigger. It also allowed me to draw a ton of cards off the Spellbomb.
Same deck, different game:
T5: Pithing Needle naming Lethal Vapors, followed by Lethal Vapors.
Later: Trading Post + Mizzium Transreliquat + Sculpting Steel + Static Orb. For 6 mana and 1 life per round, I get to draw an extra card and make Static Orb one-sided. Super fair. I was killing people slowly with Honden of Infinite Rage and Dimir Keyrune until I overloaded Cyclonic Rift and followed it with Tezzeret the Seeker's -5. I didn't have enough artifacts to kill every opponent, but I cleared away two of them. Postcombat I cast Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas and won the following turn.
In my Nicol Bolas deck I was doing some hardcore fiddling, going for a less creature-focused, more spell based deck. I had put in a Dream Halls for early commander shenanigans, and I threw in an Enter the Infinite because if you have Halls, then why not?
Well I landed it. And I put my deck in my hand. All according to plan, right? Except I had forgotten about one little thing: The deck had no wincon built into it! I could play half my deck out off Dream Halls, but there was nothing there to seal the deal in even three or four turns, let alone right then. The table eyerolled at me a bunch while I flipped through my cards over and over going "Crap!"
Then I hit on an idea, and I'm pretty sure this is in the running for "jankiest wincon in a deck ever." Here we go:
The game was between me with Chorus of the Conclave and a The Mimeoplasm deck, with the other two opponents having gone (One eliminated, one conceded early on). So I have a field of moderate sized creatures and a few dorks. In total about 30 power worth of stuff, and I also have a Wild Beastmaster with 2 +1/+1 counters (Courtesy of the Chorus) but my opponent just cast an Avenger of Zendikar with Doubling Season on board, hitting 18 tokens, and proceeds to crack a fetch, so I'm staring down a suddenly massive army of plants. To make matters worse, I'm in topdeck mode.
I proceed to draw Traverse the Ulvenwald. Now, I don't run Craterhoof Behemoth in the deck, but I realize something else I slotted in just last friday. I check, have Delirium and cast it...and grab Champion of Lambholt, which enters with 11 +1+1 counters, and swing with my Wild Beastmaster-backed army for the game. Felt great to actually win thanks to Chorus' ability.
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.
Our Heroic Captain vs. Jenara +1 counter synergy, Child of Alara tribal gods (YES!), Selvala ramp and life gain.
Opening hand as 2 lands (Ghost Quarter, mountain) and a Stigma Lasher, so we pray for a second mountain and keep. Lead off with the mountain, and a Scrabbling Claws for the draw option. Jenara leads with a Hardened Scales, so everyone immediately knows what's up. Others play lands. Turn 2 gets us only a thawing glaciers, so it's going to take us some time to get that Lasher out... (although in hindsight I realize I could have tapped my mountain, then ghost quartered it for another mountain for the fun play), so a Pyrite Spellbomb joins our claws for our bauble-y fun.
Jenara ramps up and then gets out a Forgotten Ancient, which gets counters fast. Child pull out a turn 3 Urza's Incubator naming God. Yes. This ***** is legit. He follows that up with Phenax, God of Deception. Selvala drops his commander. I follow the next turn by dropping Stigma Lasher, and Selvala cries a bit that he can't even risk tapping Selvala now.
In the end, he activates Selvala anyways, drops a Rampagin Baloths off of her, and also Banishing Lights my Lasher. Well, that's a thing. I drop an O-stone 'for protection' and pass. I also pass on the next turn, leaving my mana open. By this time, Jenara has dropped a Spike Feeder and moved the Forgotten Ancient counters onto it, so it's a 20/20. Selvala moves to Swords it, so Jenara eats it for 40 life.
I plan to pop the O-Stone on the end of Selvala's turn, but he forces the issue with that green spell that hits ench/art/land, and aims at the Hardened Scales, Oblivion Stone, and my Thawing Glaciers (meanie). I thaw and Ghost Quarter my glaciers in response (I want mountains, because I have Gauntlet of Might in hand), and nuke the O-Stone. Selvala realizes this returns my Lasher, and quickly bribes me with granting everyone lands. I accept the dirty bribe, and end up Lashing Jenara instead. I drop a Mirrorworks, and also drop a Welding Jar and copy it, this way I can protect the works, and also my gauntlets next turn.
Jenara taps out, and Altered Egos my Stigma Lasher. With 8 +1/+1 counters on it. Child drops a Purphoros, God of the Forge, and a Thassa. God count = 4.
I drop my gauntlet, copy it, and drop Kurkesh. Let the fun begin. I also drop a Thopter Squadron, copy it, and pop off a single token for chumps vs the Ego. The Altered Stigma Lasher hits Child, so he's lashed as well! Child starts doing dumb stuff with Eternal Witness and Demonic Tutor, and culminates with a havengul Lich which reanimates Jenara's Avenger of Zendikar, which has been milled by Phenax. Purphoros kills of selvala, and drops me into unhappy territory.
I go into combat, and revenge upon Child for 25 damage with my thopter squadrons. Jenara unblockables his team, hits child for another 10, and then wraths. With an actual Wrath of God. Boo! No regen. Then follows with a doubling season. Child casts Child.
I re-drop Kurkesh, drop an Unstable Obelisk (I think I forgot to copy), and a Pentavus (and copy). Pass. Jenara goes to drop Ajani with doubling season out, and makes waves as if to gain a hundred life. I move to explode the Obelisk on Child, then learn that child ALSO prevents regen (darn it!), so we backtrack a bit, I activate my Pentavus and copy a lot, and with the trigers on the stack explode the child.
The we remember that Jenara had been Stigma Lashered and it wouldn't have made a difference. It was hilarious. You should have been there. So boards are clear, again, (except for Gods) and I have ~18ish pentavites. Get there!
Child unfortunately manages to drop his own Avenger of Zendikar, and the onslaught of Purphoros Triggers takes him the game. Well played!
The second was my Intet deck versus Horde of Notions, Progenitus, and Karlov of the Ghost Council. The Horde player had cast Avenger of Zendikar with Doubling Season out and then cast Second Harvest. So he had forty-eight 4/5 Plant tokens. The Karlov player cast Knight-Captain of Eos and left three Plains untapped. I had a Dragon attack that could have killed the Horde player. I ask the Karlov player if he would fog me. He said he would. I passed the turn. The Progenitus player cast Ugin, the Spirit Dragon and the Karlov player cast Lapse of Certainty, taping out to do so and leaving himself dead to the Horde player's horde. The Horde player proceeded to win, making the Plants even bigger and attack us for over 700 damage total.
I was playing a 3 person game of EDH on Xmage with my chaos deck vs group hate(Mogis) and eldrazi. I cast warp world when everybody had about 10 cards. group hate gets nothing good, eldrazi flips tons of eldrazi(shocker), I manage to get an Ulamog, Stormtide Leviathan, Perplexing Chimera, and Possibility Storm. after my Chimera and Storm trigger I wind up with group hate's ensnaring bridge and I only have 3 cards in hand! We find out that if you use Chimera to take the spell before the Storm trigger it will cascade your library then the other person can Chimera your card, essentially cascading with the other persons library. This was how group hate got my Prison Term, but he put it on my Ulamog instead of my Leviathan! group hate cascaded into spell shock and eldrazi dies to his Mogis. After another round of Storm and Chimera I wind up with my own Conjured Currency(he must have screwed up somewhere again). I get to swing with my Leviathan at this point and he goes down to 2. On my upkeep I steal Mogis with Conjured Currency and pass turn, killing him with his own commander.
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I just curious, did you ever flicker Iona, Shield of Emeria in that game?
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[The Zedruu player plays Enchanted Evening.]
Me: What, you gonna follow that up with Cleansing Meditation or something?
Zedruu: [counts up cards in graveyard; doesn't have Threshold. Glances over the board.] You know what, I might as well. [casts it]
Me: Boros Charm.
The game consisted of a precon Meren of Clan Nel Toth with minor tweaks, Ruhan of the Fomori, Purphoros, God of the Forge and me with my Riku of Two Reflections. Purphoros player came out blazing, a near perfect start that painted a big target on him and lead to the guy being taken out first. I on the other hand did poorly, draws didn’t go in my favor, I was flooding out and any real threat I got out was usually swiftly sent to the bin.
So it was mostly me maintaining a meager board state that just allowed me to hang in there as Meren and Ruhan went at each other. The Meren player eventually lost out as Ruhan managed to take care of her, but he had to commit enough so that he didn’t feel comfortable enough to go at me as well. So with some mana still up he passed the turn over to me.
At that point I had seven 2/2 wolf tokens, two 1/1 bird tokens, Goblin Bombardment and a Feldon of the Third Path which the Ruhan player had been tapping down for the bigger part of my turns, so I couldn’t pull anything good from the yard. In hand I had a forest and Eternal Witness, though didn’t play it knowing that it was likely going to be countered. So most turns I had just spent trying to hang in there , creating chump blockers where things were allowed to live, since I couldn’t attack profitably enough. Not even at that point as Ruhan had me covered enough to not worry.
Drawing for the turn I pull Furystoke Giant, deciding to cast it I run into the counterspell I had been fearing, sending it to the yard. Taking my chances I resort to casting Eternal Witness which also got countered. So yeah, things looked doomed at that point, until I realize that the Ruhan player used his tapper to deal with Meren, so for once Feldon is free to use. So using him I make a copy of Eternal Witness, which brings Furystoke Giant back to my hand. I recast and tap down the board to try and do maximum damage, before sacking the board to Goblin Bombardment since I’d be dead if Ruhan got to have another turn with how things look.
We go to calculate the damage done and I manage to hit for 32, which ends up being exactly enough to take Ruhan out. The thing being that if he hadn’t countered my Giant or the Witness when I played them first time around, I probably would have forgotten about Feldon and have been just short of having lethal damage.
Boros Charm is such a blowout in Kalemne. Usually it clears the way for you when someone else tries to wrath your stuff away. I swear this deck is pretty good with Sunforger and reliable ways to get it out. It kind of folds to spot removal but if you get a Whispersilk Cloak and a Sunforger you're basically killing people at will.
EDH: -UG Ezuri-UGZegana-BRMogis-WUBRGRamos-WBREdgar-URLocust God-WUBRBreya-BMacar-WUBrago-WEvra-
I had Arcane Lighthouse in play. Activated Arcane Lighthouse, bit Lazav, Dimir Mastermind and took control of him and then swung with Oliva Voldaren. He milled 10 and my new Lazav turned into Consuming Aberration with about 30+ cards in all opponent's graveyards and a Sword of Body and Mind equipped (the Lazav, Dimir Mastermind player had his own copy in play equipped when I took control of him)
Best play I've seen yet with my deck. Needless to say it was a short game.
T1: Mountain + Sol Ring
T2: Forest + Skyshroud Claim + Gruul Signet
T3: Omnath, Locus of Rage + Mosswort Bridge (Tokens:1)
T4: Mountain + Primal Growth + Harrow + Animist's Awakening (X=5,3 Lands) + Boundless Realms via Mosswort Bridge (Tokens:20)
T5: Genesis Wave (X=24) ->
I kept the deck in it's box for the rest of the evening, as everyone else was pissed af.
I fixed that for you. It's a minor change, but it's one that will keep everyone else from being so upset, and then you don't have to put the deck away.
Instead, he plays a Triumph of the Hordes and attacks everyone for at least 16 poison damage. Everyone groans and goes to scoop. I say I'm going to play this out and cast Comeuppance, leaving only me and him.
He decides he wants to burn me out and sacrifices ten of his 5/5 Elemental tokens to Greater Good during my upkeep, dealing me 30 damage... and finding out that he has only 39 cards left in his deck. I only wish he'd gone for lethal so I could have cast Angel's Grace.
When in doubt, play it out!
Was playing Liliana, Heretical Healer against counter-Niv, tuned Narset, Oloro and Tazri. I got mana screwed early on, going a few turns with nothing but three swamps and a Cabal Coffers. Topdecked Contamination and used it as a sac outlet with a skullclamp to draw some cards and slow the table down til I got caught up. Niv was countering Narset and Oloro every time they cast. After three turns I lost Contamination, but had caught my lands back up and had dropped a Throne of Geth, a Contagion Clasp, and a Grimoire of the Dead just to get them out of my hand.
With my newfound mana I cast Lili and a couple of cheap skeletons and passed. It goes around and the Oloro player boardwipes, clearing my board and a bunch of allies out. I hit on an idea and put Lili in the graveyard. On my opponent's end step I activated the Grimoire to put a counter on it, then sacced a Library of Leng to the Throne to proliferate once, and then used the Clasp on my upkeep. Popped the Grimoire, got a massive board with several ally triggers plus my commander, a Burnished Hart, and a Solemn Simulacrum out of it. I sacced the Hart for 2 lands and a lili flip, ticking her up and passing with an army of blockers. Lili took no damage, and on my opponent's next end step I used the Throne to sac Solemn and tick her up plus drawing a card. At my upkeep I sacced the Thone to itself, used the Clasp again, and Ulted Lili for her emblem.
I put out a Plagued Rusalka and went to town drawing cards off of Skullclamp until I topdecked a bunch of mana doublers and Gray Merchant of Asphodel and killed the table by saccing it to Rusalka on everyone's turns with a bunch of creatures out. Oloro tried to Merciless Eviction once. but I was able to sac 90% of my board to Rusalka in response. It was pretty killer.
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 [
Playing Phelddagrif (Purple Hippos and Maro Sorcerers), I had a reasonably large grip already and Psychosis Crawler on the battlefield. Unfortunately, the table was facing a swarm of Plant tokens (maybe 20 or so) from Shea, who upped the ante by peeling a fetch land, cracking it, hard-casting Craterhoof Behemoth and swinging with the team which included Sun Titan. He got back the fetch and cracked it again. He laid out who he was attacking with which. I then cast Keep Watch, drawing 20-something cards (and doming everyone because of Psychosis Crawler). Then I cast (which was already in my hand before I drew) Equal Treatment to save the table (leaving them for me to kill).
Me: "I use Belbe's Portal to drop Angel of Serenity and I exile Karmic Guide from my graveyard, Radiant, Archangel from my battlefield and my Angel of Jubilation from my battlefield.
Opponent: "Wait what why what are you...Why not Ulamog what are you doing?! What?!"
Me: Shall I begin my turn? Upkeep, Draw, float my mana rocks, and cast Akroma's Vengeance. I get my stuff back in my hand and I recast Karmic Guide bringing back my recently deceased Angel of Serenity and I exile your Ulamog.
Opponent: "...You know what I scoop and I also hate you."
As a side note, Opponent C has an Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth on the field.
Next turn, Opponent A sends all 8 manifests at me. I arbitrarily choose one and block it with a 4/4.
Opponent A flips it up to reveal...Phyrexian Obliterator. X_X
Scenario 1: It's getting to turn 4-5. Player across from me (Zedruu) has an assemble the legion out and plays enduring ideal and grabs dovescape. So now all non-creature removal is off. Next go around he grabs humility. He's pretty pillow fort-ed up and it's looking like no one can break the lock. I'm on marath, will of the wild. Zedruu already has some commander damage from marath and now has a lightmine field in play. So I do the only thing I can, start swinging with my 1/1 with counters on it. Luckily for me I have a mirari's wake in play then top deck....kessig wolf run. I end up exactsie-ing him with Marath commander damage through his legion tokens. Glorious.
Scenario 2: It's near the end of the game. I'm in it with some big dudes in play, the player next to me (the king) is playing Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest and has 13 2/2 zombies from army of the damned with 5 1/1 counters on them each. The last player (a fellow assassin like myself) has krenko, mob boss and a few goblins. I try to gun down the zombies with marath and a basilisk collar but it's not enough and I die.
Krenko goes to Mazirek "how much life are you at?"
Mazirek responds "43...and 7 untapped zombie blockers."
Krenko sits for a minute thinking then goes "Ok Krenko for a bunch of goblins. Attack you" 9 damage gets through. Then he follows it with goblin war strike for 28 and burn trail conspired for 6 to win. I near lost my ish...I freakin love this game
Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir Mono-U Control
Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath
Sen Triplets
Mizzix of the Izmagnus
Derevi Stax
VolThrun
Marchesa, The Black Rose
Olivia Voldaren, Vampire Tribal
Modern: Fish, JUND/Junk
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RIP Twin
T4: Salvaging Station
T5: Mizzium Transreliquat, copy Salvaging Station
T6: Sculpting Steel, copy Salvaging Station
T7: Bitterblossom
T8: Smokestack
T9: Phyrexian Metamorph, copy Salvaging Station
T10: Copy Artifact, copy Salvaging Station
I also had Mana Vault, Sol Ring, Lotus Petal, and Nihil Spellbomb in play. I cranked the Smokestack up to 5 soot counters, and my board stayed exactly the same through every Smoke Stack trigger. It also allowed me to draw a ton of cards off the Spellbomb.
Add Torpor Orb, Sphere of Resistance, and Feroz's Ban in play, and Forbid in my hand (ending every turn with a full grip), and things were pretty much inevitable. Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas was used for victory.
Same deck, different game:
T5: Pithing Needle naming Lethal Vapors, followed by Lethal Vapors.
Later: Trading Post + Mizzium Transreliquat + Sculpting Steel + Static Orb. For 6 mana and 1 life per round, I get to draw an extra card and make Static Orb one-sided. Super fair. I was killing people slowly with Honden of Infinite Rage and Dimir Keyrune until I overloaded Cyclonic Rift and followed it with Tezzeret the Seeker's -5. I didn't have enough artifacts to kill every opponent, but I cleared away two of them. Postcombat I cast Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas and won the following turn.
Two Score, Minus Two or: A Stargate Tail
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Turn 2: Arcane Lighthouse, summon Sakura-Tribe Elder and sacrifice it at the end of the turn for a forest before my next one
Turn 3: Get Mountain from search, play Temple of the False God, cast Nissa's Renewal for 3 mountains.
Turn 4: Cast Regrowth and recast Nissa's Renewal for 3 more mountains.
Turn 5: Cast Zendikar Resurgent, cast Boundless Realms.
Turn 6: Cast Harmonize, summon Coalhauler Swine, cast Earthquake because my entire group including myself deserves to die for letting me pull that off.
Another game I used Necropotence to draw 20 cards, used Mind Over Matter to twiddle my Thawing Glaciers 10 times during my end step, which gave me enough mana the following turn to Nefarious Lich + Donate + Cyclonic Rift two people out of the game.
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In my Nicol Bolas deck I was doing some hardcore fiddling, going for a less creature-focused, more spell based deck. I had put in a Dream Halls for early commander shenanigans, and I threw in an Enter the Infinite because if you have Halls, then why not?
Well I landed it. And I put my deck in my hand. All according to plan, right? Except I had forgotten about one little thing: The deck had no wincon built into it! I could play half my deck out off Dream Halls, but there was nothing there to seal the deal in even three or four turns, let alone right then. The table eyerolled at me a bunch while I flipped through my cards over and over going "Crap!"
Then I hit on an idea, and I'm pretty sure this is in the running for "jankiest wincon in a deck ever." Here we go:
Cast Sphinx of the Final Word off Dream Halls.
Cabal Conditioning, making sure they had no answers to stop me.
Inexorable Tide
Tamiyo, the Moon Sage
Cast 5 random spells to proliferate. Ulted Tamiyo for her Emblem. Infinite discards.
Cast Mind Over Matter with Halls.
Cast Nicol Bolas with Halls.
Cast Dragon Breath on Bolas with Halls.
Discard cards to Mind over Matter to tap and untap a mountain to pump Bolas to over9000 with Dragon Breath.
Cast Chandra's Ignition on Bolas to deal lethal to the entire table at once.
Giant exploding Elder Dragon of doom = best wincon ever.
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 proceed to draw Traverse the Ulvenwald. Now, I don't run Craterhoof Behemoth in the deck, but I realize something else I slotted in just last friday. I check, have Delirium and cast it...and grab Champion of Lambholt, which enters with 11 +1+1 counters, and swing with my Wild Beastmaster-backed army for the game. Felt great to actually win thanks to Chorus' ability.
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.
Our Heroic Captain vs. Jenara +1 counter synergy, Child of Alara tribal gods (YES!), Selvala ramp and life gain.
Opening hand as 2 lands (Ghost Quarter, mountain) and a Stigma Lasher, so we pray for a second mountain and keep. Lead off with the mountain, and a Scrabbling Claws for the draw option. Jenara leads with a Hardened Scales, so everyone immediately knows what's up. Others play lands. Turn 2 gets us only a thawing glaciers, so it's going to take us some time to get that Lasher out... (although in hindsight I realize I could have tapped my mountain, then ghost quartered it for another mountain for the fun play), so a Pyrite Spellbomb joins our claws for our bauble-y fun.
Jenara ramps up and then gets out a Forgotten Ancient, which gets counters fast. Child pull out a turn 3 Urza's Incubator naming God. Yes. This ***** is legit. He follows that up with Phenax, God of Deception. Selvala drops his commander. I follow the next turn by dropping Stigma Lasher, and Selvala cries a bit that he can't even risk tapping Selvala now.
In the end, he activates Selvala anyways, drops a Rampagin Baloths off of her, and also Banishing Lights my Lasher. Well, that's a thing. I drop an O-stone 'for protection' and pass. I also pass on the next turn, leaving my mana open. By this time, Jenara has dropped a Spike Feeder and moved the Forgotten Ancient counters onto it, so it's a 20/20. Selvala moves to Swords it, so Jenara eats it for 40 life.
Child has added a Divinity of Pride to the mix, as well as Athreos, God of passage, and is leaching life off of people while milling Jenara with Phenax.
I plan to pop the O-Stone on the end of Selvala's turn, but he forces the issue with that green spell that hits ench/art/land, and aims at the Hardened Scales, Oblivion Stone, and my Thawing Glaciers (meanie). I thaw and Ghost Quarter my glaciers in response (I want mountains, because I have Gauntlet of Might in hand), and nuke the O-Stone. Selvala realizes this returns my Lasher, and quickly bribes me with granting everyone lands. I accept the dirty bribe, and end up Lashing Jenara instead. I drop a Mirrorworks, and also drop a Welding Jar and copy it, this way I can protect the works, and also my gauntlets next turn.
Jenara taps out, and Altered Egos my Stigma Lasher. With 8 +1/+1 counters on it. Child drops a Purphoros, God of the Forge, and a Thassa. God count = 4.
I drop my gauntlet, copy it, and drop Kurkesh. Let the fun begin. I also drop a Thopter Squadron, copy it, and pop off a single token for chumps vs the Ego. The Altered Stigma Lasher hits Child, so he's lashed as well! Child starts doing dumb stuff with Eternal Witness and Demonic Tutor, and culminates with a havengul Lich which reanimates Jenara's Avenger of Zendikar, which has been milled by Phenax. Purphoros kills of selvala, and drops me into unhappy territory.
I go into combat, and revenge upon Child for 25 damage with my thopter squadrons. Jenara unblockables his team, hits child for another 10, and then wraths. With an actual Wrath of God. Boo! No regen. Then follows with a doubling season. Child casts Child.
I re-drop Kurkesh, drop an Unstable Obelisk (I think I forgot to copy), and a Pentavus (and copy). Pass. Jenara goes to drop Ajani with doubling season out, and makes waves as if to gain a hundred life. I move to explode the Obelisk on Child, then learn that child ALSO prevents regen (darn it!), so we backtrack a bit, I activate my Pentavus and copy a lot, and with the trigers on the stack explode the child.
The we remember that Jenara had been Stigma Lashered and it wouldn't have made a difference. It was hilarious. You should have been there. So boards are clear, again, (except for Gods) and I have ~18ish pentavites. Get there!
Child unfortunately manages to drop his own Avenger of Zendikar, and the onslaught of Purphoros Triggers takes him the game. Well played!
Retired EDH - Tibor and Lumia | [PR]Nemata |Ramirez dePietro | [C]Edric | Riku | Jenara | Lazav | Heliod | Daxos | Roon | Kozilek
In the first, it was my Xira deck against Melek, Izzet Paragon, Derevi, Empyrial Tactician, and Karlov of the Ghost Council. The game had gone back and forth. I tried to combo off with Dark Petition into Rude Awakening plus Increasing Vengeance into Treasonous Ogre into Exsanguinate for 20, flashing back Increasing Vengeance. The Melek player had Future Sight in play, an Island and two Mountains untapped, and responded with Mystical Tutor. He initially searched up his own Increasing Vengeance, which didn't work at all. After looking through his library a bit, he eventually decided on Mindbreak Trap. That got the job done. I'd gone down to 4 life but nobody bothered to finish me off immediately. I stole and ulted the Derevi player's Venser, the Sojourner but was at 2 life didn't see a way to avoid losing to the Karlov player's Cliffhaven Vampire plus various cards that gained life. The Melek player had Mizzix's Mastery on top of his library. The Karlov player had a Tormod's Crypt but sacrificed it to Trading Post or some such. He then cast Sun Titan but the Melek player saw what was going on and cast Rewind. On his turn, he cast Mizzix's Mastery and won.
The second was my Intet deck versus Horde of Notions, Progenitus, and Karlov of the Ghost Council. The Horde player had cast Avenger of Zendikar with Doubling Season out and then cast Second Harvest. So he had forty-eight 4/5 Plant tokens. The Karlov player cast Knight-Captain of Eos and left three Plains untapped. I had a Dragon attack that could have killed the Horde player. I ask the Karlov player if he would fog me. He said he would. I passed the turn. The Progenitus player cast Ugin, the Spirit Dragon and the Karlov player cast Lapse of Certainty, taping out to do so and leaving himself dead to the Horde player's horde. The Horde player proceeded to win, making the Plants even bigger and attack us for over 700 damage total.
In the third, I was playing Selenia against Krenko, Mob Boss, Progenitus, and Phenax, God of Deception. Krenko deck killed the other two players on his turn six. On my turn six, which I started at 5 life, I cast Repay in Kind and attacked for lethal.
My opponent has a Memnarch on the stack and infinite mana. I can't let it resolve.
I had a Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir out so I could cast my Chancellor of the Spires which I use to Acquire a Vedalken Orrery so that I could cast my Knowledge Exploitation at instant speed, using it to find a Praetor's Counsel just so I could get back my Bribery and search their library for a Draining Whelk. All of this in order to counter the Memnarch.
Yeah.