Playing Mizzix of the Izmagnus storm, toned down a little towards my usual group so it's not completely busted. After a longish game that included Jeleva, Nephalia's Scourge exiling all of my spell recursion and most of my large card draw, I was going off. I ended up drawing a ridiculous grip of cards, had 8 experience, and ran out of colored mana. Passed turn with Guttersnipe, Mizzix, Propaganda, and Jace's Sanctum on board. Neither of the two remaining players could kill me through Propaganda, so I got a second shot at it. My 7 included Mind's Desire, various card draw spells, and some protection. Storm off again, killing one player with Guttersnipe (remaining player was on a lifegain deck, so Guttersnipe wasn't going to get there) drawing out of my diminished library the whole time, and cast 11 Mind's Desires as part of the process. Sadly, I didn't think to count cards in deck before starting this turn. I only had 10 cards left and my only remaining kill card was Empty the Warrens. I ended up passing the turn with no nonlands on the board but an 8/8 octopus and 34 1/1 goblins on my side, then my remaining opponent just had to pass the turn back and I decked myself.
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[Pr]Jaya | Estrid | A rotating cast of decks built out of my box.
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.
You got to live the dream. I always wanted to do that in my Intet, the Dreamer Dragons deck. I'll probably rebuild it next year. Maybe someday I'll be able to pull it off.
My plan was to burn LTP to go get a Gilded Lotus to continue ramping into a self-Traumatize. But at the start of my first main phase, the Sisay player first Beast Within's my Mind Stone hoping to make me tap the transmuter, and then throws Swords to Plowshares at the Transmuter when I float a mana off it and don't take the bait. He's hoping to shut me out before I can land any stax pieces, because he's been burning green ramp for four turns.
Change of plans. Irritated, I cast LTP in response, grabbing an artifact and putting it third from the top. I use Top to set it on top of my deck and then draw it. I pay my last blue and tap the transmuter, bouncing it to my hand...
And plop down the Blightsteel Colossus that I tutored up with LTP. And then said "bet you wish you had that Swords back right about now, huh?"
I killed him first. Sometimes its best to not try to back the guy slow-rolling the game into a corner. A stax deck doesn't have to kill you slowly for twenty turns, you know.
i would sometimes the best play is in the form of the political factor.
I am at 59, anoteh rplayer at 14 and active player at 33.
I do teh math of what the active player has and it is 66 damage.
Since i have no idea i might win (Literally about to scoop) i tell active player he wins this game, he can in fact kill one of us and neuter the other rplayer. Surprisingly enough though he lets me live, killing off the player at 14, and knocks me down to 14.
it is my turn all I have is a lot of mana, equipment and a Stonehewer giant. I make sure i have 2 mana in reserve and then equip some things. Sword of Feast and Famine, O-Naginata, Masterwork of Ingenuity (Copying o-naginata), and Loxodon Warhammer, My stonehewer is now a 15/7. No way am I killing him but i Swing and as I swing activate stone's ability to go find something else in hopes that i can kill him. A double strike that gives me +2/+X would be nice. But instead while searching i find a card that helps m win.
Krenko lead strong, but got cut down by Maralen with Profane Command killing Goblin Chirurgeon and Deadly Tempest wiping the board. Unfortunately, Krenko had Siege-Gang Commander, Skirk Prospector, and Boggart Shenanigans, so every 3 goblins sacrificed was 5 damage to Maralen's face. Krenko lost no life, and Maralen went from 45 to 19. Fortunately, the Prospector was the only thing actually keeping Krenko afloat, as he was stuck on 3 mountains for the rest of the game.
Nylea came around next, building up an elf army and swinging into Krenko's open board, eliminating the goblins. As the Nylea player turned his attention to Maralen, Maralen panicked; after I cast my own board wipe (which didn't affect Nylea as much as I had hoped it would), Maralen tapped out for Exsanguinate, X=35 (he had two Cabal Coffers, I had Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth). Nylea was at 33, and Maralen thought he had won, until he noticed my life total sitting at 4 after removing the 35 life lost.
I started my turn, lost 3 life to Maralen (tutoring Phyrexian Altar), killed Maralen, sacrificed everything on my board for mana, and cast the Living Death that had been sitting in my hand since before Krenko was eliminated. Maralen's graveyard had Burnished Heart. My graveyard had every single spirit in my decklist, thanks to an Iname, Death Aspect.
Unfortunately, I had no haste source, so I sacrificed my two Zuberas to He Who Hungers, reanimated them with Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker, and passed the turn. I also gained 5 life that turn, so I was at 6.
Maralen drew his topdeck, exiled my Altar, and re-cast his general. At my upkeep, I said "*****".
6 life
Losing 3 to Maralen at my draw step.
Losing 2 to Seizan, Perverter of Truth trigger on the stack.
Losing 1 to Graveborn Muse trigger on the stack.
No cards in hand.
Phyrexian Altar is gone.
He Who Hungers is a sorcery-speed sac outlet. Phyrexian Tower had been destroyed early game. High Market wasn't on the board.
I stared at my board, hard. Then I realized I had Lifespinner, and Graveborn Muse only counts the number of zombies on resolution. I sacrificed two spirit tokens from Dripping-Tongue Zubera and my Muse (failing to find anything, since all of my spirits were in play), and had 1 life after Maralen's trigger resolved. I tutored for Footsteps of the Goryo, wanting an Arcane spell to trigger Kodama of the South Tree, and realized I also had Kokusho, the Evening Star in play. I sacrificed her to He Who Hungers (Maralen @ 84), reanimated her with Footsteps, sacrificed her again with he Who Hungers (Maralen @ 79), and swung for 90 trample (with 5 total toughness on Maralen's board).
Turn: 1-3 Set-up (The most diplomatic rounds I participated in): I (Zur player) started the rounds and solely ramped so I could have six mana on turn 4. A first turn, Mishra's Workshop allowed for optimum Kozilek mana. Rafiq stumbled a bit but held blue mana open.
Kozilek player casts his general, but I Pact of Negation it. Kozilek draws four and passes.
The Rafiq player casts Return to Dust, targeting my mana rocks and it resolves. The Kozilek player laughs and garbles, "You have four mana; you going to lose to Pact." Sheepishly, I look at my mana. Both players laugh with tears of joy in their eyes. The Rafiq player apologizes.
Turn 5:
I untap. Move into upkeep, Pact ability on the stack, I Stifle it, draw, drop a land and enter combat before the Kozilek player realizes it. I search for Stoney Silence and deal one commander to Rafiq. Pass.
Kozilek stops laughing and returns to the game. Untaps, draws and attempts to play more rocks by tapping his mana rocks before I draw his attention to Stoney Silence.
Conversation:
"Hey, you're suppose to be dead," his demeanor changed.
"Yeah, but I stifled that," I stated before reviewing my turn.
The Rafiq player begins to cackle before a genuine laugh.
"Your turn."
"I don't have a turn. You have S.S. out," he quipped.
"It would be Jesus (My name) to stifle death," the Rafiq player blurted before laughing.
"But he shouldn't have casted the first stone, though," a spectator commented.
"I tutored; it's the truth." I said to a much annoyed Kozilek player.
We all start the setup phase, with Narset getting greedy and keeping a 0-land hand with a ton of rocks and a Land Tax in it. T2 he topdecks a land and drops tax. I topdeck an island and T3 Fabricate for Planar Portal. T4 draw a Sol Ring and drop the Lotus, following it with Traumatize on the Narset player, who is ready to cast her next turn. I get something like 5 extra turn spells, 4 or 5 extra combat spells, his Sword of Feast and Famine which is half his main combo, and all his recursion spells. He scoops on the spot. Now its me vs Rafiq and Grimgrin.
I drop Planar Portal and a Rings of Brighthearth, but don't have the mana to activate either. Rafiq comes down wearing boots and punches the Grimgrim player for ten because he has a Gravecrawler and his commander out and is drawing lots of cards. He chumps with Grim, who dies. I pass with all my mana up, and Rafiq played a couple things that buff him and give hexproof and swings 12 at me only to be introduced to the fact that Prahv, Spires of Order does not say target. On my turn I play another rock and pass again. Grim tries to recast his commander, but Rafiq counters and then smacks him for 12. At his end step I activate Portal and copy the ability, grabbing Starfield of Nyx and Energy Field. I pass with just enough mana to Prahv, so this time Rafiq kills Grimgrin. On my turn I drop Starfield and Energy Field and become effectively immortal. Rafiq drops a creature that destroys the Energy Field and swings, but I Prahv again. On my turn I activate Portal and copy it again, grabbing Basalt Monolith and Sensei's Top. I play the Monolith, activate the infinite mana combo with rings, play Top and draw/play my deck FTW.
I'm playing my mono-G control deck (see sig) against Skullbrair aggro and Daretti, which is also pretty aggresive. We going late-game after a hectic game with some boardwipes, and we're all getting low on cards. Skullbriar keeps coming back and is now getting big off of all the creatures in his yard - and since he also got trample, he can now easily one shot. I'm at 15, and seems like the biggest thread, so Skullbriar attacks me for lethal. I have Kamalh, Fist of Krosa and Seedborn Muse on board, so I cast Crop Rotation, finding Glacial Chasm.
The Daretti player is now struggling to find a solution, but can't and on Skullbriars next round he's dead. On my turn I lose 4 life, so I'm now down to 9, draws nothing of importence, but plays Karametra's Acolyte and passes the turn. Same thing next round, I'm now down to 3 life, so I only have one round left. Upkeep, letting go of Chasm, draws Rude Awakening. Taps Acolyte for 10, plays Rude Awakening entwined, with enough lands to pump all my creatures 3 times, attack Skullbriar with 15 11/11 land creatures, Seedborn and Kamahl himself dealing a total of 187 damage.
I was playing my Xira Arien infect deck, and am the only one left against the infinite combo girl w/Oloro, Ageless Ascetic. She had just gone off with Sword of the Meek / Thopter Foundry / Ashnod's Altar to gain infinite life and infinite flying 1/1s and is tapped out. The other players scooped at this, but I hung in there mainly to pretend I could do something. Due to all the shenanigans, I had a ton of land, a Captive Flame, and nothing else.
She has that awful smug grin, but I try not to get salty and plan to just draw my last card and scoop. I draw, look down at my lands, and thank the top deck gods.
There was much shock and hollering after that sequence. She also tried to give me crap about infect, but the other players were quick to point out that infinite combo.dek doesn't exactly have the moral high ground..
Table with me as Olivia, Mobilized for War, Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, Norin the Wary and Karador, Ghost Chieftain.
Norin gets an early Genesis Chamber out and proceeds to drop Sculpting Steel on it. So tokens galore for everyone. Kiki snipes Olivia out of the air, Olivia gets back, survives the turn...and then with an evil grin I throw down Hellkite Tyrant which gets haste from Olivia. Why yes, I would like your 24 Myr tokens and your 2 Genesis Chambers. None of the players had a direct answer for the Tyrant so I proceeded to get my first ever win from the artifact-stealing dragon. Felt good.
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.
There's enough to cast Daretti, Violence, Godo, equip Basilisk Collar (which I searched for) and the Plate to Jaya, and to activate her Inferno. My opponents scoop.
Gaining 168 life in a mono-red deck is nothing to scoff at.
The majority of the beginning of the game is just a lot of card draw and mana rocks for all of us. Then we get to a turn where I land Noyan Dar, Roil Shaper and Jeskai Ascendancy (with Alhammarret's Archive) and try to go to town but get met by a Path to Exile from the Sen Triplets player. I still get two animated lands though, so I puke out a bunch of things that cost two or less and try to discard in such a way as to minimize the Sen Triplets damage. Sen Triplets targets me and plays a couple little things (including a Paradox Haze that would let him target both opponents each turn) and then passes the turn, hesitant to tap any more lands. The Surrak player goes and says "this probably gets taken by Sen Triplets next if I don't play it and somebody has to win sometime" and casts Primal Surge with me aware he has no other non-permanents and sharing this information with the Sen Triplets player who taps the 6 mana he was holding open and plays Aethersnatch on the Primal Surge. His deck isn't built for it, but he managed to pull out a couple lands, a couple mana dorks, and a Mindslaver before whiffing. Surrak plays what he can and kills Zedruu, which would have drawn me 8 cards on my turn. Both my opponents are effectively tapped out.
I do still draw 5 to start my turn just based on the Howling Mine effects I've got, and in those 5 there's March of the Machines, Eye of the Storm, and Angel's Grace. I already had Mirrorweave in hand. It takes a minute or two of thinking (mostly about how to draw the most cards with Jeskai Ascendancy) before the game winner occurs to me. I play March of the Machines and my two land creatures untap. I tap out for Eye of the Storm and both my land creatures and my signet creature untap. I play Angel's Grace which gets eaten and recast by Eye of the Storm, netting 5 mana from creature untaps. I play Mirrorweave targeting something arbitrary because it gets eaten by Eye of the Storm and recast followed by Angel's Grace again netting me 5 more mana. The recast Mirrorweave targets Mindslaver. I use 8 of my 13 available mana to sacrifice Expedition Map Mindslaver and Vedalken Orrery Mindslaver to control both of my opponents turns. Then we decide as a group, considering the many cards I was drawing each turn, the remaining sorcery in my hand, and my deck's ability to recur infinitely from exile, that they were never going to get to control a turn again until the end of time and we called it a day.
tl;dr - I've done many a thing with Mirrorweave, but full table Mindslaver lock is not something I ever saw coming.
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Zedruu: "This deck is not only able to go crazy - it also needs to do so."
Folks were doing the typical ramping, tutoring, and other value players. I countered a Blatent Thievery from the Melek player but otherwise tried to hold back. The climax came when the Selenia player went for Grand Abolisher with a bunch of mana open.
I thought about it for a moment and decided I had to try the combo to draw into some way to stop the Grand Abolisher. I had Increasing Vengeance in case the Melek player had a counter, though thankfully that wasn't necessarily. I drew 60 cards, using Mystical Tutor to find Reset during the process. I then had exactly enough mana to cast Reset.
Near the end of the game, I managed to pull out Memnarch and started stealing blockers to fight against the swarm of monsters Karametra had out. Of course, that meant that Anafenza and Dromoka didn't have blockers to fend off Karametra. At one point, Karametra was about to swing lethal at me despite my best efforts, but he tapped out during precombat to cast more creatures (and a Concordant Crossroads), so I stole Dromoka's Ghostly Prison to save myself. Both Dromoka and Anafenza died.
The next turn, I topdecked Future Sight and cast it, revealing Phyrexian Metamorph on top of my library. I realized I was saved, cast Metamorph, copied Archetype to get rid of everyone's hexproof, and then started stealing monsters.
Unfortunately, it didn't end up being enough, and I got sent to -10 life the following turn thanks to a lucky topdeck Worldspine Wurm on Karametra's part, but turning the Archetype around felt really good.
Playing Mizzix of the Izmagnus storm, toned down a little towards my usual group so it's not completely busted. After a longish game that included Jeleva, Nephalia's Scourge exiling all of my spell recursion and most of my large card draw, I was going off. I ended up drawing a ridiculous grip of cards, had 8 experience, and ran out of colored mana. Passed turn with Guttersnipe, Mizzix, Propaganda, and Jace's Sanctum on board. Neither of the two remaining players could kill me through Propaganda, so I got a second shot at it. My 7 included Mind's Desire, various card draw spells, and some protection. Storm off again, killing one player with Guttersnipe (remaining player was on a lifegain deck, so Guttersnipe wasn't going to get there) drawing out of my diminished library the whole time, and cast 11 Mind's Desires as part of the process. Sadly, I didn't think to count cards in deck before starting this turn. I only had 10 cards left and my only remaining kill card was Empty the Warrens. I ended up passing the turn with no nonlands on the board but an 8/8 octopus and 34 1/1 goblins on my side, then my remaining opponent just had to pass the turn back and I decked myself.
Ezuri, Claw of Progress and Forgotten Ancient make for a fun combi.
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.
You got to live the dream. I always wanted to do that in my Intet, the Dreamer Dragons deck. I'll probably rebuild it next year. Maybe someday I'll be able to pull it off.
Turn 1: forest. Exploration. Island. Mana crypt. Simic signet. Brainstorm. Pass.
Turn 2. Land. Time spiral. Land. Sylvan library.
Turn 3. Land. Land. Tooth and nail entwined. Palinchron. Deadeye. Play Zegana from command zone.
VOMIT DECK.
i think there was also a bribery and a frantic search in there somewhere but whatever it was stupid.
It was turn 5. My board consisted of four lands, a top, a Mind Stone, and a Master Transmuter that I cast on turn 3. In my hand are a couple lands, a Long-Term Plans, Traumatize, and an Archangel of Tithes.
My plan was to burn LTP to go get a Gilded Lotus to continue ramping into a self-Traumatize. But at the start of my first main phase, the Sisay player first Beast Within's my Mind Stone hoping to make me tap the transmuter, and then throws Swords to Plowshares at the Transmuter when I float a mana off it and don't take the bait. He's hoping to shut me out before I can land any stax pieces, because he's been burning green ramp for four turns.
Change of plans. Irritated, I cast LTP in response, grabbing an artifact and putting it third from the top. I use Top to set it on top of my deck and then draw it. I pay my last blue and tap the transmuter, bouncing it to my hand...
And plop down the Blightsteel Colossus that I tutored up with LTP. And then said "bet you wish you had that Swords back right about now, huh?"
I killed him first. Sometimes its best to not try to back the guy slow-rolling the game into a corner. A stax deck doesn't have to kill you slowly for twenty turns, you know.
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 [
Opponent plays Cyclonic rift Overload
I play Red Elemental blast
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I am at 59, anoteh rplayer at 14 and active player at 33.
I do teh math of what the active player has and it is 66 damage.
Since i have no idea i might win (Literally about to scoop) i tell active player he wins this game, he can in fact kill one of us and neuter the other rplayer. Surprisingly enough though he lets me live, killing off the player at 14, and knocks me down to 14.
it is my turn all I have is a lot of mana, equipment and a Stonehewer giant. I make sure i have 2 mana in reserve and then equip some things.
Sword of Feast and Famine, O-Naginata, Masterwork of Ingenuity (Copying o-naginata), and Loxodon Warhammer, My stonehewer is now a 15/7. No way am I killing him but i Swing and as I swing activate stone's ability to go find something else in hopes that i can kill him. A double strike that gives me +2/+X would be nice. But instead while searching i find a card that helps m win.
GRAFTED EXOSKELETON
ll because he didn't nuke me and instead nuked the oter guy, I won. There is a saying at my game shop. DON'T LET BRYAN LIVE!
This is why...
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This Elf deck was about to go off, comes to my turn
I have on board
Seedborn Muse
Titania, Protector of Argoth
Oracle of Mul Daya
2 Elementals
2 Freylise Druids
I think well it is now or never so I tap out for 12 for a X=9 Genesis Wave and flip
Eye of Ugin
Snow Forest
Evolving Wilds
Food Chain
Craterhoof Behemoth
Vigor
Sylvan Safekeeper
Evolutionary Leap
Extraplanar Lens
I don't have enough damage on board to kill everyone so I decide to risk it
Chain Oracle of Mul Daya into Garruk's Packleader, crack evolving wilds make Elemental draw Regal Force
Chain Vigor into Regal Force Draw 16
Draw Concordant Crossroads, Tap forest for 2, play it
Chain Garruk's Packleader into Karametra's Acolyte tap for a bunch of green
play
Akroma's Memorial
Sac all my lands and fly over everyone.
Krenko lead strong, but got cut down by Maralen with Profane Command killing Goblin Chirurgeon and Deadly Tempest wiping the board. Unfortunately, Krenko had Siege-Gang Commander, Skirk Prospector, and Boggart Shenanigans, so every 3 goblins sacrificed was 5 damage to Maralen's face. Krenko lost no life, and Maralen went from 45 to 19. Fortunately, the Prospector was the only thing actually keeping Krenko afloat, as he was stuck on 3 mountains for the rest of the game.
Nylea came around next, building up an elf army and swinging into Krenko's open board, eliminating the goblins. As the Nylea player turned his attention to Maralen, Maralen panicked; after I cast my own board wipe (which didn't affect Nylea as much as I had hoped it would), Maralen tapped out for Exsanguinate, X=35 (he had two Cabal Coffers, I had Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth). Nylea was at 33, and Maralen thought he had won, until he noticed my life total sitting at 4 after removing the 35 life lost.
I started my turn, lost 3 life to Maralen (tutoring Phyrexian Altar), killed Maralen, sacrificed everything on my board for mana, and cast the Living Death that had been sitting in my hand since before Krenko was eliminated. Maralen's graveyard had Burnished Heart. My graveyard had every single spirit in my decklist, thanks to an Iname, Death Aspect.
Unfortunately, I had no haste source, so I sacrificed my two Zuberas to He Who Hungers, reanimated them with Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker, and passed the turn. I also gained 5 life that turn, so I was at 6.
Maralen drew his topdeck, exiled my Altar, and re-cast his general. At my upkeep, I said "*****".
6 life
Losing 3 to Maralen at my draw step.
Losing 2 to Seizan, Perverter of Truth trigger on the stack.
Losing 1 to Graveborn Muse trigger on the stack.
No cards in hand.
Phyrexian Altar is gone.
He Who Hungers is a sorcery-speed sac outlet.
Phyrexian Tower had been destroyed early game.
High Market wasn't on the board.
I stared at my board, hard. Then I realized I had Lifespinner, and Graveborn Muse only counts the number of zombies on resolution. I sacrificed two spirit tokens from Dripping-Tongue Zubera and my Muse (failing to find anything, since all of my spirits were in play), and had 1 life after Maralen's trigger resolved. I tutored for Footsteps of the Goryo, wanting an Arcane spell to trigger Kodama of the South Tree, and realized I also had Kokusho, the Evening Star in play. I sacrificed her to He Who Hungers (Maralen @ 84), reanimated her with Footsteps, sacrificed her again with he Who Hungers (Maralen @ 79), and swung for 90 trample (with 5 total toughness on Maralen's board).
Two Score, Minus Two or: A Stargate Tail
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Turn: 1-3 Set-up (The most diplomatic rounds I participated in): I (Zur player) started the rounds and solely ramped so I could have six mana on turn 4. A first turn, Mishra's Workshop allowed for optimum Kozilek mana. Rafiq stumbled a bit but held blue mana open.
Turn 4:
I cast Zur, Rafiq responds with Counterspell and I stack Mana Leak on top. I pass.
Kozilek player casts his general, but I Pact of Negation it. Kozilek draws four and passes.
The Rafiq player casts Return to Dust, targeting my mana rocks and it resolves. The Kozilek player laughs and garbles, "You have four mana; you going to lose to Pact." Sheepishly, I look at my mana. Both players laugh with tears of joy in their eyes. The Rafiq player apologizes.
Turn 5:
I untap. Move into upkeep, Pact ability on the stack, I Stifle it, draw, drop a land and enter combat before the Kozilek player realizes it. I search for Stoney Silence and deal one commander to Rafiq. Pass.
Kozilek stops laughing and returns to the game. Untaps, draws and attempts to play more rocks by tapping his mana rocks before I draw his attention to Stoney Silence.
Conversation:
"Hey, you're suppose to be dead," his demeanor changed.
"Yeah, but I stifled that," I stated before reviewing my turn.
The Rafiq player begins to cackle before a genuine laugh.
"Your turn."
"I don't have a turn. You have S.S. out," he quipped.
"It would be Jesus (My name) to stifle death," the Rafiq player blurted before laughing.
"But he shouldn't have casted the first stone, though," a spectator commented.
"I tutored; it's the truth." I said to a much annoyed Kozilek player.
I butchered my opponents soon after.
Keep brewing.
I keep an opening hand consisting of 2 plains, a Prahv, Spires of Order, a Traumatize, a Fabricate, and a Gilded Lotus.
We all start the setup phase, with Narset getting greedy and keeping a 0-land hand with a ton of rocks and a Land Tax in it. T2 he topdecks a land and drops tax. I topdeck an island and T3 Fabricate for Planar Portal. T4 draw a Sol Ring and drop the Lotus, following it with Traumatize on the Narset player, who is ready to cast her next turn. I get something like 5 extra turn spells, 4 or 5 extra combat spells, his Sword of Feast and Famine which is half his main combo, and all his recursion spells. He scoops on the spot. Now its me vs Rafiq and Grimgrin.
I drop Planar Portal and a Rings of Brighthearth, but don't have the mana to activate either. Rafiq comes down wearing boots and punches the Grimgrim player for ten because he has a Gravecrawler and his commander out and is drawing lots of cards. He chumps with Grim, who dies. I pass with all my mana up, and Rafiq played a couple things that buff him and give hexproof and swings 12 at me only to be introduced to the fact that Prahv, Spires of Order does not say target. On my turn I play another rock and pass again. Grim tries to recast his commander, but Rafiq counters and then smacks him for 12. At his end step I activate Portal and copy the ability, grabbing Starfield of Nyx and Energy Field. I pass with just enough mana to Prahv, so this time Rafiq kills Grimgrin. On my turn I drop Starfield and Energy Field and become effectively immortal. Rafiq drops a creature that destroys the Energy Field and swings, but I Prahv again. On my turn I activate Portal and copy it again, grabbing Basalt Monolith and Sensei's Top. I play the Monolith, activate the infinite mana combo with rings, play Top and draw/play my deck FTW.
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 [
The Daretti player is now struggling to find a solution, but can't and on Skullbriars next round he's dead. On my turn I lose 4 life, so I'm now down to 9, draws nothing of importence, but plays Karametra's Acolyte and passes the turn. Same thing next round, I'm now down to 3 life, so I only have one round left. Upkeep, letting go of Chasm, draws Rude Awakening. Taps Acolyte for 10, plays Rude Awakening entwined, with enough lands to pump all my creatures 3 times, attack Skullbriar with 15 11/11 land creatures, Seedborn and Kamahl himself dealing a total of 187 damage.
"I'll go get a Golgari Guild Gate, go."
That alliteration, tho
Draft my Mono-Blue Cube!
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She has that awful smug grin, but I try not to get salty and plan to just draw my last card and scoop. I draw, look down at my lands, and thank the top deck gods.
Play Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon, and give it haste.
Enchant it with Snake Cult Initiation.
Use the flame to pump Skithy to 7 power.
Cast the card I drew with the last of mana, Predatory Focus and attack to deal 10 poison exactly.
There was much shock and hollering after that sequence. She also tried to give me crap about infect, but the other players were quick to point out that infinite combo.dek doesn't exactly have the moral high ground..
Nothing was getting done that game.
At one point, Oloro sacrificed Codex Shredder targeting Humility, using Rings of Brighthearth to copy the ability, targeting Codex Shredder. In response, I activate Sensei's Divining Top to re-order the top 3 cards of my deck. I pay 1UR to turn Mizzium Transreliquat (currently an Unwinding Clock) into a Vedalken Orrery. I draw a card with Sensei's Top, and cast Nihil Spellbomb. I exile Oloro's graveyard, draw Sensei's Top off the trigger, flash in Sensei's Top, and turn Transreliquat back into an Unwinding Clock.
Justified payback for Oloro exiling my Codex Shredder a few turns earlier.
Two Score, Minus Two or: A Stargate Tail
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Norin gets an early Genesis Chamber out and proceeds to drop Sculpting Steel on it. So tokens galore for everyone. Kiki snipes Olivia out of the air, Olivia gets back, survives the turn...and then with an evil grin I throw down Hellkite Tyrant which gets haste from Olivia. Why yes, I would like your 24 Myr tokens and your 2 Genesis Chambers. None of the players had a direct answer for the Tyrant so I proceeded to get my first ever win from the artifact-stealing dragon. Felt good.
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.
There's enough to cast Daretti, Violence, Godo, equip Basilisk Collar (which I searched for) and the Plate to Jaya, and to activate her Inferno. My opponents scoop.
Gaining 168 life in a mono-red deck is nothing to scoff at.
The majority of the beginning of the game is just a lot of card draw and mana rocks for all of us. Then we get to a turn where I land Noyan Dar, Roil Shaper and Jeskai Ascendancy (with Alhammarret's Archive) and try to go to town but get met by a Path to Exile from the Sen Triplets player. I still get two animated lands though, so I puke out a bunch of things that cost two or less and try to discard in such a way as to minimize the Sen Triplets damage. Sen Triplets targets me and plays a couple little things (including a Paradox Haze that would let him target both opponents each turn) and then passes the turn, hesitant to tap any more lands. The Surrak player goes and says "this probably gets taken by Sen Triplets next if I don't play it and somebody has to win sometime" and casts Primal Surge with me aware he has no other non-permanents and sharing this information with the Sen Triplets player who taps the 6 mana he was holding open and plays Aethersnatch on the Primal Surge. His deck isn't built for it, but he managed to pull out a couple lands, a couple mana dorks, and a Mindslaver before whiffing. Surrak plays what he can and kills Zedruu, which would have drawn me 8 cards on my turn. Both my opponents are effectively tapped out.
I do still draw 5 to start my turn just based on the Howling Mine effects I've got, and in those 5 there's March of the Machines, Eye of the Storm, and Angel's Grace. I already had Mirrorweave in hand. It takes a minute or two of thinking (mostly about how to draw the most cards with Jeskai Ascendancy) before the game winner occurs to me. I play March of the Machines and my two land creatures untap. I tap out for Eye of the Storm and both my land creatures and my signet creature untap. I play Angel's Grace which gets eaten and recast by Eye of the Storm, netting 5 mana from creature untaps. I play Mirrorweave targeting something arbitrary because it gets eaten by Eye of the Storm and recast followed by Angel's Grace again netting me 5 more mana. The recast Mirrorweave targets Mindslaver. I use 8 of my 13 available mana to sacrifice Expedition Map Mindslaver and Vedalken Orrery Mindslaver to control both of my opponents turns. Then we decide as a group, considering the many cards I was drawing each turn, the remaining sorcery in my hand, and my deck's ability to recur infinitely from exile, that they were never going to get to control a turn again until the end of time and we called it a day.
tl;dr - I've done many a thing with Mirrorweave, but full table Mindslaver lock is not something I ever saw coming.
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Yidris
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Yidris
Whoopsies.
It was my Intet, the Dreamer deck versus Progenitus versus Melek, Izzet Paragon versus Selenia, Dark Angel versus Child of Alara. I drew into Fire // Ice and Radiate, so I was just waiting for the right moment to pull the trigger.
Folks were doing the typical ramping, tutoring, and other value players. I countered a Blatent Thievery from the Melek player but otherwise tried to hold back. The climax came when the Selenia player went for Grand Abolisher with a bunch of mana open.
I thought about it for a moment and decided I had to try the combo to draw into some way to stop the Grand Abolisher. I had Increasing Vengeance in case the Melek player had a counter, though thankfully that wasn't necessarily. I drew 60 cards, using Mystical Tutor to find Reset during the process. I then had exactly enough mana to cast Reset.
That led to Quicken, Past in Flames, Reset plus Increasing Vengeance, and Reiterate with buyback for an arbitrary amount of mana. I eliminated the Progenitus, Melek, and Child players with Fire // Ice copied by Reiterate.
The Selenia cast Angel's Grace to survive temporarily. I countered Grand Abolisher with Forbid from my graveyard and destroyed all of the Selenia player's mana-producing permanents with Beast Within copied and bounced all the Beasts for good measure. The Selenia player had mana floating and went for Exquisite Blood plus Sanguine Bond/card]. I bounced the Exquisite Blood with the Sanguine Bond on the stack. The Selenia player cast Profane Command for 1 at my face and scooped because an his Phyrexian Arena was going to kill him next turn.
Both the Melek player and the Progenitus player said they were ready to win with Omniscience on their next turns.
I had been controlling most of the game with an early Gauntlet of Power, a Caged Sun stolen from Anafenza, a Sword of the Animist stolen from Anafenza, and Capsize. I couldn't actually do much to Karametra, unfortunately, when he cast Chord of Calling for Archetype of Endurance and rarely had many noncreatures on the board.
Near the end of the game, I managed to pull out Memnarch and started stealing blockers to fight against the swarm of monsters Karametra had out. Of course, that meant that Anafenza and Dromoka didn't have blockers to fend off Karametra. At one point, Karametra was about to swing lethal at me despite my best efforts, but he tapped out during precombat to cast more creatures (and a Concordant Crossroads), so I stole Dromoka's Ghostly Prison to save myself. Both Dromoka and Anafenza died.
The next turn, I topdecked Future Sight and cast it, revealing Phyrexian Metamorph on top of my library. I realized I was saved, cast Metamorph, copied Archetype to get rid of everyone's hexproof, and then started stealing monsters.
Unfortunately, it didn't end up being enough, and I got sent to -10 life the following turn thanks to a lucky topdeck Worldspine Wurm on Karametra's part, but turning the Archetype around felt really good.
Two Score, Minus Two or: A Stargate Tail
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