Another player and I were chatting while waiting for a spot to open up in a nearby pod (two players were about to leave for the day), and I mentioned a game with my Karn, Silver Golem deck where an opponent kept tapping out to cast creatures, and I kept bouncing them with Erratic Portal. That other player had said at the time that my Karn deck was a scary-powerful control deck (it's not a control deck), and the two of us waiting for the game laughed about it.
Eventually we sit down to play, and I decide to play Karn. I even get Erratic Portal on the table. Late game, the player I was talking to taps out to cast Muldrotha (his commander). Then he casts Lion's Eye Diamond from his graveyard. "In response, Erratic Portal Muldrotha."
He felt especially stupid because he had lands he could play from his graveyard after resolving Muldrotha and before casting LED, which would have completely stopped that from happening.
Was playing Dralnu, Lich Lord earlier today. Landed Consecrated Shinx early on, next turn cycle a Zedruu player plays Minds Aglow for 5, then passes turn to me. I draw 10, plus my 5, for a total 21 cards in hand, play Ancient Excavation for a 42 card hand. I draw into a whole lot of rocks plus Paradox Engine and Altar of Dementia, land them, shred my hand of instants and sorceries, and pass turn. Next cycle I cast Dralnu, cast Rise from the Tides for 14, cast it again for 15, resurrect Void Winnower, Archfiend of Ifnir, sac everything including 29 zombies on the altar, and shred libraries.
Long story short, I won and Paradox Engine is grotesquely good.
About the middle of the game, I'm doing good with card draw, I have Niv out, and decide to cast the Memory part of Commit // Memory. Feeling particularly devilish, I use my last card as well on it(Twincast) for a full 'double refresh' of my hand.
So cocky was I, I decided to look at my first hand of seven. And staring me in the face was Curiosity.
The table: Goreclaw (me), Ephara, Zada, and Maelstrom Wanderer
Ephara leads off with some nonbasics and mana rocks; Wanderer does the same. T3, Zada plays Blood Moon, and the two multicolor players are glad they have colored mana rocks out already.
Ephara and Wanderer both had a decent number of basics, but Ephara didn't draw any until the very end of the game, and the only basics Wanderer drew were mountains.
This was also the Ephara player's very first commander game ever, but he had good humor about it and is excited to play more.
The table: Goreclaw (me), Ephara, Zada, and Maelstrom Wanderer
Ephara leads off with some nonbasics and mana rocks; Wanderer does the same. T3, Zada plays Blood Moon, and the two multicolor players are glad they have colored mana rocks out already.
Ephara and Wanderer both had a decent number of basics, but Ephara didn't draw any until the very end of the game, and the only basics Wanderer drew were mountains.
This was also the Ephara player's very first commander game ever, but he had good humor about it and is excited to play more.
I got super hosed by Titania's Song today. I was playing monogreen, trying to not die to a giant flyer, and I end up drawing 3 artifact boardwipes, none of which do anything with that card out.
Next turn Arcades casts Wave of Reckoning, blasting the board - everyone draws from a Fecundity Ghave has on board. In response I sac all 18 of my basic lands to grant my creatures shroud (knowing it achieves nothing), generating 18 5/3 elementals that also die, netting me 37 additional cards in hand.
Next turn cycle passes, and I drew into Reliquary Tower which I play, then cast Wayward Swordtooth and play Glacial Chasm. I pass turn, wait a turn cycle then play Splendid Reclamation to grab my lands back. No one is able to swing for me so Slimefoot is trying his best to bleed the table dry, but I'm up over 70 life at this point and not worried. Arcades is levelling the enchantments in play with Aura Shards, Ghave is keeping up with Martyr's Bond, but no one has anything do get rid of my chasm, so turn swings around again and I pour 23 mana into Squall Line to blast the table, with 9 cards left in my deck.
A predictable win with chasm in play, but I really enjoyed how stupidly explosive the plays got, and Nissa had the right answers exactly when they were needed.
I was playing 1-on-1 with Zedruu against a 5-color superfriends with Sliver Queen for the colors. It was quite notably the sort of game only weirdos like me enjoy.
His deck was packed to the brim with board wipes and creature removal, so the only things I was managing to keep on board were lands, mana rocks, and Teferi, Hero of Dominaria. On the opposite side, he's ticking up Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver and Jace, Unraveler of Secrets. Going for the jugular, I fuse Catch // Release targeting a planeswalker to kill them both (and some other stuff) and tick Teferi up to 8. He decides he doesn't want to lose the game and crack back with Cataclysm , making the board my land and signet vs his land and Nevinyrral's Disk. We both sit around for a bit until we can play spells again. and when I get to 5 mana, I cast Mirror of Fate. He decides to force the issue and pops the disk on that immediately, and I crack it knowing from a reveal earlier that he has Armageddon in his hand as well and stack my deck with 5 lands, a signet, and a Pentad Prism in a way that he can't geddon me off 6 mana forever, and once I got there, I had Time Spiral ready in hand, and after a couple cycles between that and Mirror of Fate, I got myself deterministicly choosing my draws and he conceded.
It's not the typical edh crazy play, but winning with Mirror of Fate to purposely land flood off of cards exiled by an opponent's Ashiok is pretty interesting.
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I was playing Kydele & Vial Smasher and there was a Muldrotha and a Pir&Toothy
The Muldrotha player does a bunch of stuff on turn 6 including play and crack a Lotus Petal
The Pir&Toothy Player with a Seedborn Muse in play taps out playing stuff and passes the turn.
Tap out playing the Yawgmoth's Will and Shaman's Trance from hand.
Proceed to make infinite mana off the Muldrotha player's Lotus Petal
The other player had a Brainstorm in grave which I then used to draw my deck and find the win.
The game dragged on for quite a bit due to some timely boardwipes and I have somewhere north of 15 lands at this point, but my field consisted of Axebane Guardian, Sylvan Cariyatid and Shield Sphere. Gonti had his Coffers nuked (all three of them...) and was flopping about a bit, Brago tried controlling the board but had to tap out and Wasitora seemed to be in the strongest position, building up with a few dragon kitties and some enchantments.
It's at this point that Sen Triplets drops a Mycosynth Lattice and a Nevinnyral's Disc. It was clearly a warning shot; likely he had the Darksteel Forge on hand but with no way to untap the Disc or drop the Forge immediately, he signalled he wanted the game to end. Gonti's turn passes with nothing much happening except Gonti being cast for 10 and hitting Wasitora's deck, and then it's my turn.
Intruder Alarm + Glimpse + Axebane Guardian + Aura Shards vs Mycosynth Lattice. You do the math. (And yes I first cast Arcades for that delicious double draw)
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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.
More a funny little moment than a crazy play, but one of our games comes down to a 1v1. My opponent, playing Edric, Spymaster of Trest, taps out for a Time Warp, and I respond with Negate for lethal.
No, I don't mean the Negate let me untap and beat him on my turn; I mean the Negate was lethal.
I was playing Mairsil, the Pretender and had Tree of Perdition, Quicksilver Elemental, and Aetherling caged. The mono black player played a boardwipe, so I tap out of blue mana to put the flicker ability of aetherling and tree's ability on the stack. My friend playing an Animar, soul of elements morph deck flipped Jeering Instigator gaining control of my Mairsil, activated the tree ability, setting me to four, and then let the boardwipe resolve, killing me with the mono black player's Blood Artist.
I was playing Mairsil, the Pretender and had Tree of Perdition, Quicksilver Elemental, and Aetherling caged. The mono black player played a boardwipe, so I tap out of blue mana to put the flicker ability of aetherling and tree's ability on the stack. My friend playing an Animar, soul of elements morph deck flipped Jeering Instigator gaining control of my Mairsil, activated the tree ability, setting me to four, and then let the boardwipe resolve, killing me with the mono black player's Blood Artist.
Worth knowing for the future that this wouldn't work. If another player steals Mairsil he loses all abilities because his second ability refers to the controller. Unless the new controller has their own Mairsil caging cards, he's not going to be anything but a vanilla 4/4.
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I was playing Mairsil, the Pretender and had Tree of Perdition, Quicksilver Elemental, and Aetherling caged. The mono black player played a boardwipe, so I tap out of blue mana to put the flicker ability of aetherling and tree's ability on the stack. My friend playing an Animar, soul of elements morph deck flipped Jeering Instigator gaining control of my Mairsil, activated the tree ability, setting me to four, and then let the boardwipe resolve, killing me with the mono black player's Blood Artist.
Also, Jeering Instigator's trigger doesn't work on other player's turns...unless the mono-black player somehow flashed in a board wipe on Animar's turn
I was playing Mairsil, the Pretender and had Tree of Perdition, Quicksilver Elemental, and Aetherling caged. The mono black player played a boardwipe, so I tap out of blue mana to put the flicker ability of aetherling and tree's ability on the stack. My friend playing an Animar, soul of elements morph deck flipped Jeering Instigator gaining control of my Mairsil, activated the tree ability, setting me to four, and then let the boardwipe resolve, killing me with the mono black player's Blood Artist.
Also, Jeering Instigator's trigger doesn't work on other player's turns...unless the mono-black player somehow flashed in a board wipe on Animar's turn
Uh... what? You can unmorph a creature any time you have priority (and can pay the cost), and the trigger will go off just fine.
Had another stupid mono green Nissa game. After a certain point almost everything I did rendered a 'whoa what is this'. Vs Kess, Dissident Mage, Cromat golem tribal, and Ruric Thar, the Unbowed Gruul control.
Kess pretty much got nerfed by Ruric and swept when he couldn't find a win con with Lim-Dul's Vault.
Currently in hand I have Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar, Beast Within, Chord of Calling, Realms Uncharted, Crop Rotation, Nostalgic Dreams and Wave of Vitriol. I play Multani, who comes into play as a 20/20 to a resounding 'oh dear' from everyone. I play Arhcetpye of Endurance for its hideaway, then pass turn. Other two players durdle their turns around, and I know I've got game next turn. Before turn is passed to me next, I Chord of Calling for 6, fetching Pathbreaker Ibex. On my turn I cast Wave of Vitriol and Golem player sweeps. I add 3 lands to my field and 3 to graveyard, making Multani 26/26, then swing in with the goat giving everything +26/+26 and trample. We didn't count, but the final swing figure would've been up over 150, most likely. I could've killed both guys even if Cromat hadn't swept.
In a game against my friends Trostoni deck last night playing Riku, I got 35 Primal Wellsprings, I had 6,144 Avenger of Zendikar, 1,038,336 plant tokens, and those plants had at minimum 79,872 +1/+1 counters on them. This would have totaled 82,933,972,992 damage from the plants alone. There's more details to this, but most of this story was a copy+paste of what I sent my friend on facebook.
The game was running way too long and we needed it to end soon, so the Sidri player carelessly fired off an Open the Vaults. He gets a giant pile of artifacts back, but I get a bunch of enchantments, including Opalescence and Warstorm Surge, and since he's public enemy number 1, I aim lethal damage triggers at his face. He looks at field for a way to survive and remembers he just got back Vedalken Orrery, so he looks at his hand and then realizes I just got Possibility Storm back, so he just plays as many artifacts from hand as he can hoping for a miracle. And the second thing he flips into is Aetherflux Reservoir, and a few cast triggers later he aims 50 at my face and kills me to take all my triggers off the stack.
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Zedruu: "This deck is not only able to go crazy - it also needs to do so."
All of the protection leaves me with no answers for an Expropriate from Yennett, who proceeds to take the board apart over 4 turns. Third turn in the Brudiclad player sweeps. Last turn Yennett plays Rise of the Dark Realms, giving him an enormous board....
Tapped Arixmethes for UG, used it for Thrasios with Training Grounds. Scry, hit a land, came into play tapped, used Coralhelm to untap Arixmethes.
I literally got 9 straight lands into play doing this before drawing a card instead. On my turn, I was so insanely ahead that I won with 75 damage on the board between all my sea monsters, 12 of which was my darling.
Third round in, RIGHT after I play Howling Mine, my wife plays Rites of Flourishing on her turn. o.O To be fair, we needed the game to go fast(LGS was closing in one hour).
Final stretch: Ishai had dropped a bunch of +1/+1 counters on his 5 tokens, making them some serious threats(11/11s at least). Amazingly, he only hits me with one(because I tried to stop the combo with Trickbind, which didn't stop the rest of the triggers unfortunately...misread). I have to mill 11 from Phenax's boardstate(Mindcrank), and see Molten Psyche(one of my win-cons) on the top of my GY. Kaalia does some stuff and passes.
1. Cast and equip bracers to Niv(realizing now it was unnecessary).
2. Cast Curiosity to Niv.
3. Tap Niv to draw nearly entire library(two cards left...not sure why I stopped), knock out Kaalia, severely damage Nissa.
4. Pause to see how I can get myself out of this(four opponents is a lot for Niv to deal with, lol).
5. Cast Nahiri's Wrath, wipe out big creatures.
6. Discarded hand has Kozilek, Butcher of Truth; shuffle GY back into library.
7. +1 Dack Fayden for game.
I felt kind of silly later, as I realized I had more flexibility than I realized: I'd been using Library of Leng's ability to discard to the library up to this point, but I kept thinking my last hand HAD to go to my graveyard to get value.
Jodah had been killed a couple times and the Grixis Discard and Simic Merfolk decks were doing a good job being aggressive I had a land a Mystical Tutor and a Conflux in hand, was within lethal range so on end step I cast the Mystical Tutor going for my hail mary.
I put Hazoret's Undying Fury on top of the library and cast it, shuffling a bunch needing something good and knowing a bunch of cards are also more than 5 CMC in the deck.
Eventually we sit down to play, and I decide to play Karn. I even get Erratic Portal on the table. Late game, the player I was talking to taps out to cast Muldrotha (his commander). Then he casts Lion's Eye Diamond from his graveyard. "In response, Erratic Portal Muldrotha."
He felt especially stupid because he had lands he could play from his graveyard after resolving Muldrotha and before casting LED, which would have completely stopped that from happening.
Two Score, Minus Two or: A Stargate Tail
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Long story short, I won and Paradox Engine is grotesquely good.
My Niv deck against my wife's mini-Nissa vs Damia, Sage of Stone vs Oloro, Ageless Ascetic.
About the middle of the game, I'm doing good with card draw, I have Niv out, and decide to cast the Memory part of Commit // Memory. Feeling particularly devilish, I use my last card as well on it(Twincast) for a full 'double refresh' of my hand.
So cocky was I, I decided to look at my first hand of seven. And staring me in the face was Curiosity.
I did not win that game.
EDH decks: 1. RGWMayael's Big BeatsRETIRED!
2. BUWMerieke Ri Berit and the 40 Thieves
3. URNiv's Wheeling and Dealing!
4. BURThe Walking Dead
5. GWSisay's Legends of Tomorrow
6. RWBRise of Markov
7. GElvez and stuffz(W)
8. RCrush your enemies(W)
9. BSign right here...(W)
Ephara leads off with some nonbasics and mana rocks; Wanderer does the same. T3, Zada plays Blood Moon, and the two multicolor players are glad they have colored mana rocks out already.
T4, I play Titania's Song...
Ephara and Wanderer both had a decent number of basics, but Ephara didn't draw any until the very end of the game, and the only basics Wanderer drew were mountains.
This was also the Ephara player's very first commander game ever, but he had good humor about it and is excited to play more.
Two Score, Minus Two or: A Stargate Tail
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I got super hosed by Titania's Song today. I was playing monogreen, trying to not die to a giant flyer, and I end up drawing 3 artifact boardwipes, none of which do anything with that card out.
It is pretty hilarious though to see Rhonas, the Indominable punch out a Boompile
The Unidentified Fantastic Flying Girl.
EDH
Xenagos, the God of Stompy
The Gitrog Monster: Oppressive Value.
Marchesa, Marionette Master - Undying Robots
Yuriko, the Hydra Omnivore
I make dolls as a hobby.
Opponents: Slimefoot, the Stowaway saproling tribal, Arcades, the Strategist wall tribal, Ghave, Guru of Spores infini-counters combo (every Ghave is though, tbh).
Me: Nissa, Vastwood Seer
I landed a T1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx and a slightly later Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun, flip into Nissa, Sage Animist and start dropping lands, with little else to do except stopping Arcades from walling in entirely and Ghave from going off. I also had Abundance in play to smooth draws.
I draw into Rampaging Baloths, cast Boundless Realms for x=12, netting me a sizable beast army, and cast Shamanic Revelation for 17 cards and 60 life. With 5 floating from Itlimoc, I cast Titania, Protector of Argoth.
Next turn Arcades casts Wave of Reckoning, blasting the board - everyone draws from a Fecundity Ghave has on board. In response I sac all 18 of my basic lands to grant my creatures shroud (knowing it achieves nothing), generating 18 5/3 elementals that also die, netting me 37 additional cards in hand.
Next turn cycle passes, and I drew into Reliquary Tower which I play, then cast Wayward Swordtooth and play Glacial Chasm. I pass turn, wait a turn cycle then play Splendid Reclamation to grab my lands back. No one is able to swing for me so Slimefoot is trying his best to bleed the table dry, but I'm up over 70 life at this point and not worried. Arcades is levelling the enchantments in play with Aura Shards, Ghave is keeping up with Martyr's Bond, but no one has anything do get rid of my chasm, so turn swings around again and I pour 23 mana into Squall Line to blast the table, with 9 cards left in my deck.
A predictable win with chasm in play, but I really enjoyed how stupidly explosive the plays got, and Nissa had the right answers exactly when they were needed.
His deck was packed to the brim with board wipes and creature removal, so the only things I was managing to keep on board were lands, mana rocks, and Teferi, Hero of Dominaria. On the opposite side, he's ticking up Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver and Jace, Unraveler of Secrets. Going for the jugular, I fuse Catch // Release targeting a planeswalker to kill them both (and some other stuff) and tick Teferi up to 8. He decides he doesn't want to lose the game and crack back with Cataclysm , making the board my land and signet vs his land and Nevinyrral's Disk. We both sit around for a bit until we can play spells again. and when I get to 5 mana, I cast Mirror of Fate. He decides to force the issue and pops the disk on that immediately, and I crack it knowing from a reveal earlier that he has Armageddon in his hand as well and stack my deck with 5 lands, a signet, and a Pentad Prism in a way that he can't geddon me off 6 mana forever, and once I got there, I had Time Spiral ready in hand, and after a couple cycles between that and Mirror of Fate, I got myself deterministicly choosing my draws and he conceded.
It's not the typical edh crazy play, but winning with Mirror of Fate to purposely land flood off of cards exiled by an opponent's Ashiok is pretty interesting.
I was playing Kydele & Vial Smasher and there was a Muldrotha and a Pir&Toothy
The Muldrotha player does a bunch of stuff on turn 6 including play and crack a Lotus Petal
The Pir&Toothy Player with a Seedborn Muse in play taps out playing stuff and passes the turn.
I Cyclonic Rift the Muse and then Vampiric Tutor for Shaman's Trance on the end of turn.
Tap out playing the Yawgmoth's Will and Shaman's Trance from hand.
Proceed to make infinite mana off the Muldrotha player's Lotus Petal
The other player had a Brainstorm in grave which I then used to draw my deck and find the win.
The game dragged on for quite a bit due to some timely boardwipes and I have somewhere north of 15 lands at this point, but my field consisted of Axebane Guardian, Sylvan Cariyatid and Shield Sphere. Gonti had his Coffers nuked (all three of them...) and was flopping about a bit, Brago tried controlling the board but had to tap out and Wasitora seemed to be in the strongest position, building up with a few dragon kitties and some enchantments.
It's at this point that Sen Triplets drops a Mycosynth Lattice and a Nevinnyral's Disc. It was clearly a warning shot; likely he had the Darksteel Forge on hand but with no way to untap the Disc or drop the Forge immediately, he signalled he wanted the game to end. Gonti's turn passes with nothing much happening except Gonti being cast for 10 and hitting Wasitora's deck, and then it's my turn.
Now I had a few defenders in hand along with some land, and I draw and get greeted by Glimpse of Nature. I decide to cast it, and follow up with Wall of Blossoms to draw 2. Then Jungle Barrier for another 2. And that's an Aura Shards. So I drop the Shards and then Perimeter Captain, which draws into Intruder Alarm.
Intruder Alarm + Glimpse + Axebane Guardian + Aura Shards vs Mycosynth Lattice. You do the math. (And yes I first cast Arcades for that delicious double draw)
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.
No, I don't mean the Negate let me untap and beat him on my turn; I mean the Negate was lethal.
How?
Him at 5 life as the turn started...
I tapped Cryptolith Fragment to cast the Negate: -1 life
My Guttersnipe triggered: 2 damage
My Vial Smasher the Fierce (one of my commanders, the other being Kraum, Ludevic's Opus) triggered: 2 damage
It took us several seconds to realize that I'd managed to shout "NO!" so loud it killed him!
BChainer Sac-Based ControlB
UWOjutai Control/VoltronWU
Also, Jeering Instigator's trigger doesn't work on other player's turns...unless the mono-black player somehow flashed in a board wipe on Animar's turn
Two Score, Minus Two or: A Stargate Tail
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Turn 5: Activate Thran Temporal Gateway, Put Teferi, Temporal Archmage into play, then -1 and do it again, this time with Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh
Turn 7: Play Arena Rector into Bontu's Last Reckoning, fetching Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker.
That game ended relatively soon after that.
Kess pretty much got nerfed by Ruric and swept when he couldn't find a win con with Lim-Dul's Vault.
First turn, I hideaway Archetype of Endurance with Mosswort Bridge. Land Nissa turn 5, next turn play Woodland Bellower fetching Wayward Swordtooth to get my 7th land and flip Nissa. Activate her +1, and again next turn both for lands to play, then cast Boundless Realms turn 7, giving me 18 lands in play.
Ruric plays Possibility Storm, which stalls golem boy and myself, but Ruric doesn't really take charge. Other the course of 3 turns I land through Possibility Storm a Lotus Cobra, Fierce Empath, Sylvan Safekeeper, Farhaven Elf. Basically whiffing. Golem boy casts Master Splicer from hand, storms into Meteor Golem and blasts Possibility Storm with glee then passes turn. Ruric gets an Artisan of Kozilek, grabs himself an Ogre Battledriver and draws two from Garruk's Packleader and Soul of the Harvest, then passes turn. At this point Golem boy has Platinum Emperion and Darksteel Forge in play for a soft fort.
Currently in hand I have Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar, Beast Within, Chord of Calling, Realms Uncharted, Crop Rotation, Nostalgic Dreams and Wave of Vitriol. I play Multani, who comes into play as a 20/20 to a resounding 'oh dear' from everyone. I play Arhcetpye of Endurance for its hideaway, then pass turn. Other two players durdle their turns around, and I know I've got game next turn. Before turn is passed to me next, I Chord of Calling for 6, fetching Pathbreaker Ibex. On my turn I cast Wave of Vitriol and Golem player sweeps. I add 3 lands to my field and 3 to graveyard, making Multani 26/26, then swing in with the goat giving everything +26/+26 and trample. We didn't count, but the final swing figure would've been up over 150, most likely. I could've killed both guys even if Cromat hadn't swept.
If there were resistance I was entirely happy to fetch Triumph of the Hordes from my graveyard with Nostalgic Dreams.
The game was running way too long and we needed it to end soon, so the Sidri player carelessly fired off an Open the Vaults. He gets a giant pile of artifacts back, but I get a bunch of enchantments, including Opalescence and Warstorm Surge, and since he's public enemy number 1, I aim lethal damage triggers at his face. He looks at field for a way to survive and remembers he just got back Vedalken Orrery, so he looks at his hand and then realizes I just got Possibility Storm back, so he just plays as many artifacts from hand as he can hoping for a miracle. And the second thing he flips into is Aetherflux Reservoir, and a few cast triggers later he aims 50 at my face and kills me to take all my triggers off the stack.
I activated the bonus round and ritual cast my way up to 17 mana
I cast Villainous Wealth X=14 one at each of them to be fair.
I end up with 11 creatures including a Hellrider in the second pile along with a Mirrorweave
Dralnu, Lich Lord (me) vs Oona, Queen of the Fae, Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign and Brudiclad Telchor Engineer.
Super quick start for me with t1 Sol into Talisman of Indulgence and t2 Lightning Greaves. Cleansing Nova wrecks the board, and I follow up by Beacon of Unresting Void Winnower. I then spend the next 3 turns protecting the damn thing.
All of the protection leaves me with no answers for an Expropriate from Yennett, who proceeds to take the board apart over 4 turns. Third turn in the Brudiclad player sweeps. Last turn Yennett plays Rise of the Dark Realms, giving him an enormous board....
and my Kederekt Leviathan. And then I laughed, and laughed, and laughed. And he swept. It was the most hilariously silly play since I saw a guy Maelstrom Pulse all of Omnath, Locus of Rage's elementals.
Then I got soundly spanked by Oona. Great game.
I had a board of Thrasios, Triton Hero, Training Grounds, Retreat to Coralhelm and Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle as a creature.
Tapped Arixmethes for UG, used it for Thrasios with Training Grounds. Scry, hit a land, came into play tapped, used Coralhelm to untap Arixmethes.
I literally got 9 straight lands into play doing this before drawing a card instead. On my turn, I was so insanely ahead that I won with 75 damage on the board between all my sea monsters, 12 of which was my darling.
|| UW Jace, Vyn's Prodigy UW || UG Kenessos, Priest of Thassa (feat. Arixmethes) UG ||
Cards I still want to see created:
|| Olantin, Lost City || Pavios and Thanasis || Choryu ||
Third round in, RIGHT after I play Howling Mine, my wife plays Rites of Flourishing on her turn. o.O To be fair, we needed the game to go fast(LGS was closing in one hour).
Final stretch: Ishai had dropped a bunch of +1/+1 counters on his 5 tokens, making them some serious threats(11/11s at least). Amazingly, he only hits me with one(because I tried to stop the combo with Trickbind, which didn't stop the rest of the triggers unfortunately...misread). I have to mill 11 from Phenax's boardstate(Mindcrank), and see Molten Psyche(one of my win-cons) on the top of my GY. Kaalia does some stuff and passes.
My boardstate consists of Niv, Dack Fayden(at 5 loyalty), Library of Leng, Keranos, God of Storms, Jace's Sanctum, and a library of about 50-some cards. Hand has Illusionist's Bracers, Curiosity(I feel so dirty including that, but...), various counterspells, and Nahiri's Wrath.
1. Cast and equip bracers to Niv(realizing now it was unnecessary).
2. Cast Curiosity to Niv.
3. Tap Niv to draw nearly entire library(two cards left...not sure why I stopped), knock out Kaalia, severely damage Nissa.
4. Pause to see how I can get myself out of this(four opponents is a lot for Niv to deal with, lol).
5. Cast Nahiri's Wrath, wipe out big creatures.
6. Discarded hand has Kozilek, Butcher of Truth; shuffle GY back into library.
7. +1 Dack Fayden for game.
I felt kind of silly later, as I realized I had more flexibility than I realized: I'd been using Library of Leng's ability to discard to the library up to this point, but I kept thinking my last hand HAD to go to my graveyard to get value.
EDH decks: 1. RGWMayael's Big BeatsRETIRED!
2. BUWMerieke Ri Berit and the 40 Thieves
3. URNiv's Wheeling and Dealing!
4. BURThe Walking Dead
5. GWSisay's Legends of Tomorrow
6. RWBRise of Markov
7. GElvez and stuffz(W)
8. RCrush your enemies(W)
9. BSign right here...(W)
Jodah had been killed a couple times and the Grixis Discard and Simic Merfolk decks were doing a good job being aggressive I had a land a Mystical Tutor and a Conflux in hand, was within lethal range so on end step I cast the Mystical Tutor going for my hail mary.
I put Hazoret's Undying Fury on top of the library and cast it, shuffling a bunch needing something good and knowing a bunch of cards are also more than 5 CMC in the deck.
I reveal a Reliquary Tower Vampiric Tutor Demonic Tutor Show and Tell
I DT for Omniscience cast the Show and Tell both my opponents putting down creatures with very few to no cards in hand so I cast Conflux getting
Seasons Past Bonus Round and 3 other cards and my opponents see the spiraling infinite that this represents and concede.