I played Forced Fruition for the first time today after much debate about it’s inclusion in my pillowfort deck. It helped that due to a lucky draw I ramped it out on my 4th turn. I then let my opponents happily sculpt their hands for a few turns before playing reforge the soul while they were both tapped out (Which also made me discard Ulamog, the infinite gyre). I won the game with a nearly full library while my opponents’ decked themselves a few turns later.
I think Forced Fruition earned it’s slot on the very first outing.
Yesterday, I was playing my silver-bordered Happy Holiday deck, which I recently added the Ponies: the Galloping charity cards to.
Princess Twilight Sparkle's activated ability wants you to "control" the rest of the Mane Six, not control "cards named" or "creatures named".
Mishra's Toy Workshop requires using toys to represent the tokens created by a spell/ability cast/activated with its mana.
I think you know where I'm going with this.
I cast a kicked Rite of Replication with Toy Workshop mana, and started pulling a series of Pony toys out of my pocket; the table started laughing, since I hadn't used them at all earlier in the day (I had never drawn Rarity, and previous uses of Toy Workshop I had used a Barrel of Monkeys). I didn't also have the mana to activate Twilight's ability on the same turn, but the RoR had targeted an Ulvenwald Hydra, so it was a good play even if I got board-wiped.
The goblin tribal player had a Sulfuric Vortex out, and was able to knock me down to 1 life on his turn. Of course, Twilight's ability can be activated in response to the Vortex upkeep trigger. Everypony wins!
(Side note: I have so far cast Nightmare Moon with this deck three times. Every single time, she dies before I even untap with her. )
Yesterday, I was playing my silver-bordered Happy Holiday deck, which I recently added the Ponies: the Galloping charity cards to.
Princess Twilight Sparkle's activated ability wants you to "control" the rest of the Mane Six, not control "cards named" or "creatures named".
Mishra's Toy Workshop requires using toys to represent the tokens created by a spell/ability cast/activated with its mana.
I think you know where I'm going with this.
I cast a kicked Rite of Replication with Toy Workshop mana, and started pulling a series of Pony toys out of my pocket; the table started laughing, since I hadn't used them at all earlier in the day (I had never drawn Rarity, and previous uses of Toy Workshop I had used a Barrel of Monkeys). I didn't also have the mana to activate Twilight's ability on the same turn, but the RoR had targeted an Ulvenwald Hydra, so it was a good play even if I got board-wiped.
The goblin tribal player had a Sulfuric Vortex out, and was able to knock me down to 1 life on his turn. Of course, Twilight's ability can be activated in response to the Vortex upkeep trigger. Everypony wins!
(Side note: I have so far cast Nightmare Moon with this deck three times. Every single time, she dies before I even untap with her. )
I love everything about this post, I wish I had been a player in this game or at the very least a spectator.
I took a photo of my board as best as I could. I've got Mishra's Toy Workshop, Scrying Sheets, Mouth of Ronom, and all five of the snow duals (Tresserhorn Sinks/etc.) cut off on the left. (You can also see the corner of my Sol Ring on the left.) The two face-down unsleeved cards on the left are Elf Warrior tokens from Rhys the Redeemed. The nontoken Ulvenwald Hydra can just barely be seen behind Applejack's head, and the face-down unsleeved card under it is a 6th Ulvenwald Hydra token (created by Supplant Form). My library and graveyard are cut off on the right (you can see the corner of Rite of Replication in my grave). The pile of face-down sleeved cards in the top left is my hand.
It mostly ends up playing like a token deck, with a little bit of chaos and group-hugginess thrown in thanks to the Happy Holiday promos (don't yet own a Decorated Knight // Present Arms, although it's probably the worst of the HHO cards when it comes to a themed deck like this). The meanest thing I can do is Evil Presents with Phage the Untouchable (though I also like putting Fruitcake Elemental in an Evil Present). That said, Urza can occasionally be mean too; one game on Sunday, I played T5 Doubling Season followed by T6 Urza, Academy Headmaster, using his -6 and getting the ultimate of Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker. Both of my opponents had 6 or fewer cards in hand and 6 permanents. Trying to be slightly nice, I targeted the guy who had played Academy Rector the previous turn, so that at least he could get an enchantment into play after losing everything else.
Naughty // Nice and Gifts Given tend to be tutors for answers to a problematic board state. Princess Luna's wishboard includes narrow answers, removal, card draw, and recursion. Spirit Link and friends can do lots of work with Fruitcake Elemental.
A Barrel of Monkeys (actually two Barrels with all the pieces fitting into one container, giving me two colors of monkey to choose from), for Mishra's Toy Workshop
A set of My Little Pony toys, for Rarity and for combining Mishra's Toy Workshop with Princess Twilight Sparkle (specifically, the toys are the "Rainbow Tail Surprise" set, which have tails that change colors when wet)
Several packs of cards (currently using Modern Horizons, in large part because it's got snow cards), for Stocking Tiger
My phone (not that I'd be running around without it anyway), for Urza himself
On top of my normal MTG accessories, of course. I also only play during the month of December, for Some Disassembly Required.
Late game, I connect with Stocking Tiger and open a pack of Modern Horizons. Among the other cards in the pack, I get Goblin War Party. I also have Spore Frog in play from the pack, Yule Ooze with zero counters, and Chromatic Lantern fixing my mana (though I've got at least two of each basic in play already, thanks to P3's Solemn Simulacrum imprinted on my Mimic Vat).
On my end step, P2 casts Demonic Consultation to find Laboratory Maniac, exiling about half his library. On his turn, he casts Laboratory Maniac and Balustrade Spy to mill the rest of his deck (remember: 0 lands). However, he mis-sequenced his play and wasn't able to also draw a card on the same turn. (In order to get the correct colors, he had to use Chromatic Star before milling himself, but he could have used the Manamorphose in his hand to filter his green mana instead and still have the Star available for card draw.) Of course, P3 had Executioner's Capsule and 1B open, so the misplay was somewhat of a moot point. P2 passes the turn with an empty library, Laboratory Maniac in play, Manamorphose in hand (though the rest of us don't know at the time), and an untapped Copper Myr among other less relevant cards.
On P3's turn, he durdles a bit, but sets up to start doing a lot of life loss to the rest of us on his following turn with Marionette Master. The fact that his Marionette Master is foil and I played Super Secret Tech a few turns before helps.
P4 casts Boros Charm on his turn to make his board indestructible (though his only creature at the time was Akiri with two +1/+1 counters and Lightning Greaves), and follows it up with Phyrexian Rebirth.
I respond with sacrificing my Spore Frog, regenerating Yule Ooze, and creating a Solemn Simulacrum token. P3 responds with using Executioner's Capsule on Yule Ooze to consume the regen shield (and I don't have enough mana for another).
Unfortunately for P4, not only did I fog, preventing him from getting in for damage with his indestructible Akiri, but P3 points all of his Marionette Master triggers at P4 after the wrath, which ends up being exactly lethal. P4 out of the game.
My turn, there are no creatures in play (except for a Fruitcake Elemental under P2's control which is tapped because it attacked P3). I draw Phage for turn, and count my mana. Cast Phage, cast Goblin War Party for +1/+1 and haste, hit P3 with Phage. P3 out of the game.
Pass my turn, P2 has an empty library and Laboratory Maniac died in the wrath. P2 out of the game, I win.
This is also the first time I've ever actually cast Phage in this deck. Every other game I either never see her, she gets binned by discard or mill, or she enters play with Evil Presents.
I’m playing my persistent petitioners deck, and landed a mindcrank, thinking it’d help me end the game via mill (for once).
Then in response to my mill 12 (tap 4 petitioners), someone flashes in a syr konrad. I’d never seen the card before, but it instantly ended the game there and then when syr Konrad basically drained the table for 30 each, chaining his ability with mindcrank.
So, this happened at the table next to mine when I was playing at a fairly casual EDH tournament this weekend. One mill-based deck had been steadily grinding down all decks in the game, to the point that most graveyards had 70 cards or more in them, and most decks where down tho the last 5 cards or so. The tournament judge walks by and casually quips that that would be a great moment to play a living death. He moves on to the next table, the turn gets passed, and the next player promptly complies with the judge's suggestion.
And then another player promptly reverberates the living death for even more chaos. The judge hurries back to the table, as even a pod of experienced players would need some help resolving that board state. What follows is a massive cluster of creatures entering the battlefield, triggering all kinds of effects, including for two players 'must draw' effects that take them out (this includes the player of the living death before it een gets to resolve, simplifying things).
Then, while the stack for the remaining two players is still in the process of resolving, the goblin player sacrifices some goblins for mana to get off a massive raid to finish off the last player.
The whole thing was absolutely glorious, and required about 10 minutes to resolve.
I was playing a Breya deck focused on making treasures and thopters. I found myself holding a Mechanized Production but with none of my usual targets to put it on. Oh wait, I have an Idol of Oblivion out that's been doing nothing since I haven't drawn much in the way of token producers and Breya has been killed so much that she now costs 10 mana. I cast Mechanized Production on the Idol and assume it will get destroyed by my next turn.
It makes it around to me, so I produce another Idol, and draw...Smothering Tithe and Anointed Procession. Are you kidding me?!?! I slam those bad boys into play and start taking some serious attacks from the rest of the table. Luckily I had several thopters left over from previous Breya castings, but my life drops below 10, I'm out of blockers, with no cards in hand.
One player destroys the Tithe before my next turn, but I have 8 treasures due to people drawing cards. On my upkeep I get two more Idols. My draw step nets only a mana rock...I tap another Idol to dig deeper and see...Inventors' Fair! I play the Fair and sac it to find Brudiclad. I use my remaining mana and three treasures to sac an Idol and create two 10/10 Eldrazi tokens. Brudiclad generates two Myr tokens. Then the Myrs, my Idol tokens, and the treasures all become 10/10 Eldrazis. I'm able to attack for over 100 damage and kill everyone.
I was playing a Breya deck focused on making treasures and thopters. I found myself holding a Mechanized Production but with none of my usual targets to put it on.
<snip>
One player destroys the Tithe before my next turn, but I have 8 treasures due to people drawing cards.
I drew the Tithe after I'd already played Mechanized Production on Idol of Oblivion. The extra Idols drew me extra cards which allowed me to find the Tithe.
Before playing the Tithe I had no treasures in play.
I drew the Tithe after I'd already played Mechanized Production on Idol of Oblivion. The extra Idols drew me extra cards which allowed me to find the Tithe.
Before playing the Tithe I had no treasures in play.
I think the question is more about you having Mechanized Production and 8 artifacts with the same name. If you still have the Production in play, and you also still had 8 treasures, it doesn't matter what happened to Smothering Tithe: you won from the Production because you had 8 artifacts with the same name ("Treasure" in this case). Was the Production removed as well?
Hah, I see it now. I guess we thought it had to be eight of the same artifact that was enchanted by Mechanized Production. I missed it at the time, and if my opponents knew the wording, they certainly didn't say anything. =)
A while back I was playing my Zurgo Helmsmasher voltron/equipment deck and was on the back foot the entire game. I was playing against a Meren of clan nel toth and had a spore frog in his graveyard, so I was at his mercy the entire game. There was another player who was playing Neheb, the eternal and another who got a quick L (don't remember what that person was playing). The game is coming to a close and things weren't looking good. The Neheb player attacked with a massive board and got a ridiculous amount of manna from Neheb's ability. He winds up with a giant earthquake which is enough to kill both me and the Meren playing and leave him with about 5 points of life.
Thinking that I might be able to go out in a blaze of glory, I tap my commander's sphere and sacrifice it to draw a card... What happened next was the funniest top-deck I've ever had.
From the top of my deck slips into my hand a deflecting palm and nearly exploding with excitement, I play it naming earthquake. A long pause happened after that, after some faint chuckling and the subtle sigh of 'you got me'.
I made a pretty crazy (read 'stupid') play with my alesha, who smiles at death deck. In that deck, the only card with power more than 2 is reveillark. I had that card in my hand, as well as a boardwipe and some other stuff, and I had enough many to wipe the board and play reveilalrk to get my cards back.
And so I did, putting everything in my graveyard...including my commander. 'After all, everything in this deck can be returned with reveillark', or so I thought. It was only when I played Reveillark that I remembered that my commander had power 3, not power 2, and was now stuck in my graveyard, in a deck whose main piece of graveyard recurring was my commander.
Luckily, I was able to steal a bit of graveyard recursion from another player with mindclaw shaman, but still, not exactly my proudest moment
Managed this over the weekend, probably our last in person play session for a while.
I can't recall off the top of my head turn for turn, but this win was on maybe turn 4 or 5 if I remember right. It was about as close to "god hand" as I could get since the vast majority of that board was out by turn 2, maybe 3. Ultimated Tezz and hit all three combo pieces in my top 10 (plus Sad Robot) for the win on the spot. Good Magics.
I think Forced Fruition earned it’s slot on the very first outing.
This past Thursday, I was able to increase my record number of Etali's from 12 to 32! Fun times all around!
*Table despairs*
*Reveals Sol Ring, 4 lands, Chromatic Lantern, Ashiok, Dream Render, Dragon Tempest, and Steely Resolve*
*Table laughs at me*
*Self mills with Ashiok and then casts Patriarch's Bidding and all instantly goes silent*
Princess Twilight Sparkle's activated ability wants you to "control" the rest of the Mane Six, not control "cards named" or "creatures named".
Mishra's Toy Workshop requires using toys to represent the tokens created by a spell/ability cast/activated with its mana.
I think you know where I'm going with this.
I cast a kicked Rite of Replication with Toy Workshop mana, and started pulling a series of Pony toys out of my pocket; the table started laughing, since I hadn't used them at all earlier in the day (I had never drawn Rarity, and previous uses of Toy Workshop I had used a Barrel of Monkeys). I didn't also have the mana to activate Twilight's ability on the same turn, but the RoR had targeted an Ulvenwald Hydra, so it was a good play even if I got board-wiped.
The goblin tribal player had a Sulfuric Vortex out, and was able to knock me down to 1 life on his turn. Of course, Twilight's ability can be activated in response to the Vortex upkeep trigger. Everypony wins!
(Side note: I have so far cast Nightmare Moon with this deck three times. Every single time, she dies before I even untap with her. )
Two Score, Minus Two or: A Stargate Tail
(Image by totallynotabrony)
I love everything about this post, I wish I had been a player in this game or at the very least a spectator.
The entire deck is in fact foil, for Super Secret Tech. Even the lands, in case they get animated by something (even though the list can't animate lands on its own). My biggest frustration is that Infernal Spawn of Evil doesn't come in foil, though I do have Infernal Spawn of Infernal Spawn of Evil.
Christmas in Dominaria
It mostly ends up playing like a token deck, with a little bit of chaos and group-hugginess thrown in thanks to the Happy Holiday promos (don't yet own a Decorated Knight // Present Arms, although it's probably the worst of the HHO cards when it comes to a themed deck like this). The meanest thing I can do is Evil Presents with Phage the Untouchable (though I also like putting Fruitcake Elemental in an Evil Present). That said, Urza can occasionally be mean too; one game on Sunday, I played T5 Doubling Season followed by T6 Urza, Academy Headmaster, using his -6 and getting the ultimate of Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker. Both of my opponents had 6 or fewer cards in hand and 6 permanents. Trying to be slightly nice, I targeted the guy who had played Academy Rector the previous turn, so that at least he could get an enchantment into play after losing everything else.
Naughty // Nice and Gifts Given tend to be tutors for answers to a problematic board state. Princess Luna's wishboard includes narrow answers, removal, card draw, and recursion. Spirit Link and friends can do lots of work with Fruitcake Elemental.
When I play this deck, I bring with me:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Played this deck again today (12/18) and was highly amused.
Me: Urza, Academy Headmaster holidays deck
P2: Silas Renn, Seeker Adept+Tana, the Bloodsower Oops All Spells
P3: Glissa, the Traitor artifact shenanigans
P4: Silas Renn+Akiri, Line-Slinger voltron
Late game, I connect with Stocking Tiger and open a pack of Modern Horizons. Among the other cards in the pack, I get Goblin War Party. I also have Spore Frog in play from the pack, Yule Ooze with zero counters, and Chromatic Lantern fixing my mana (though I've got at least two of each basic in play already, thanks to P3's Solemn Simulacrum imprinted on my Mimic Vat).
On my end step, P2 casts Demonic Consultation to find Laboratory Maniac, exiling about half his library. On his turn, he casts Laboratory Maniac and Balustrade Spy to mill the rest of his deck (remember: 0 lands). However, he mis-sequenced his play and wasn't able to also draw a card on the same turn. (In order to get the correct colors, he had to use Chromatic Star before milling himself, but he could have used the Manamorphose in his hand to filter his green mana instead and still have the Star available for card draw.) Of course, P3 had Executioner's Capsule and 1B open, so the misplay was somewhat of a moot point. P2 passes the turn with an empty library, Laboratory Maniac in play, Manamorphose in hand (though the rest of us don't know at the time), and an untapped Copper Myr among other less relevant cards.
On P3's turn, he durdles a bit, but sets up to start doing a lot of life loss to the rest of us on his following turn with Marionette Master. The fact that his Marionette Master is foil and I played Super Secret Tech a few turns before helps.
P4 casts Boros Charm on his turn to make his board indestructible (though his only creature at the time was Akiri with two +1/+1 counters and Lightning Greaves), and follows it up with Phyrexian Rebirth.
I respond with sacrificing my Spore Frog, regenerating Yule Ooze, and creating a Solemn Simulacrum token. P3 responds with using Executioner's Capsule on Yule Ooze to consume the regen shield (and I don't have enough mana for another).
Unfortunately for P4, not only did I fog, preventing him from getting in for damage with his indestructible Akiri, but P3 points all of his Marionette Master triggers at P4 after the wrath, which ends up being exactly lethal. P4 out of the game.
My turn, there are no creatures in play (except for a Fruitcake Elemental under P2's control which is tapped because it attacked P3). I draw Phage for turn, and count my mana. Cast Phage, cast Goblin War Party for +1/+1 and haste, hit P3 with Phage. P3 out of the game.
Pass my turn, P2 has an empty library and Laboratory Maniac died in the wrath. P2 out of the game, I win.
This is also the first time I've ever actually cast Phage in this deck. Every other game I either never see her, she gets binned by discard or mill, or she enters play with Evil Presents.
Two Score, Minus Two or: A Stargate Tail
(Image by totallynotabrony)
Then in response to my mill 12 (tap 4 petitioners), someone flashes in a syr konrad. I’d never seen the card before, but it instantly ended the game there and then when syr Konrad basically drained the table for 30 each, chaining his ability with mindcrank.
Was epic, and I learned that power creep is real!
Legacy - Solidarity - mono U aggro - burn - Imperial Painter - Strawberry Shortcake - Bluuzards - bom
And then another player promptly reverberates the living death for even more chaos. The judge hurries back to the table, as even a pod of experienced players would need some help resolving that board state. What follows is a massive cluster of creatures entering the battlefield, triggering all kinds of effects, including for two players 'must draw' effects that take them out (this includes the player of the living death before it een gets to resolve, simplifying things).
Then, while the stack for the remaining two players is still in the process of resolving, the goblin player sacrifices some goblins for mana to get off a massive raid to finish off the last player.
The whole thing was absolutely glorious, and required about 10 minutes to resolve.
It makes it around to me, so I produce another Idol, and draw...Smothering Tithe and Anointed Procession. Are you kidding me?!?! I slam those bad boys into play and start taking some serious attacks from the rest of the table. Luckily I had several thopters left over from previous Breya castings, but my life drops below 10, I'm out of blockers, with no cards in hand.
One player destroys the Tithe before my next turn, but I have 8 treasures due to people drawing cards. On my upkeep I get two more Idols. My draw step nets only a mana rock...I tap another Idol to dig deeper and see...Inventors' Fair! I play the Fair and sac it to find Brudiclad. I use my remaining mana and three treasures to sac an Idol and create two 10/10 Eldrazi tokens. Brudiclad generates two Myr tokens. Then the Myrs, my Idol tokens, and the treasures all become 10/10 Eldrazis. I'm able to attack for over 100 damage and kill everyone.
Wouldn't you have won right there though?
Before playing the Tithe I had no treasures in play.
Thinking that I might be able to go out in a blaze of glory, I tap my commander's sphere and sacrifice it to draw a card... What happened next was the funniest top-deck I've ever had.
From the top of my deck slips into my hand a deflecting palm and nearly exploding with excitement, I play it naming earthquake. A long pause happened after that, after some faint chuckling and the subtle sigh of 'you got me'.
Still my favorite win I've gotten yet.
And so I did, putting everything in my graveyard...including my commander. 'After all, everything in this deck can be returned with reveillark', or so I thought. It was only when I played Reveillark that I remembered that my commander had power 3, not power 2, and was now stuck in my graveyard, in a deck whose main piece of graveyard recurring was my commander.
Luckily, I was able to steal a bit of graveyard recursion from another player with mindclaw shaman, but still, not exactly my proudest moment
I can't recall off the top of my head turn for turn, but this win was on maybe turn 4 or 5 if I remember right. It was about as close to "god hand" as I could get since the vast majority of that board was out by turn 2, maybe 3. Ultimated Tezz and hit all three combo pieces in my top 10 (plus Sad Robot) for the win on the spot. Good Magics.
UBBreya's Toybox (Competitive, Combo)WR
RGodzilla, King of the MonstersG
-Retired Decks-
UBLazav, Dimir Mastermind (Competitive, UB Voltron/Control)UB
"Knowledge is such a burden. Release it. Release all your fears to me."
—Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver