Post the biggest blunders you've made and/or seen!
I'll start. Last night I was playing my Dakkon deck against a Riku of Two Reflections deck and a Nekusar, the Mindrazer deck. The Nekusar had a strong position and I was trying to get something going. I cast Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir. The Nekusar player countered. I then cast Temporal Mastery. The Nekusar player responded with Time Stop. Both of us forgot that his Stranglehold prevented me from taking an extra turn anyway!
A while back, I was playing a 4-way ffa with Vorel of the hull Clade against a super competitive The Mimeoplasm, casual Riku of two reflections, and another super competitive something I don't remember because he got knocked out really quickly. Later in the game, after Riku got knocked out. I had Vorel, Doubling season, Liquimetal Coating, and bunches of lands out with Jace Beleren in hand. Mimeoplasm player just tutored up Tooth&Nail with me not playing counters, so he wins next turn if I don't do something. I topdeck Jace, Architect of Thought. I cast Architect and immediately -8, but the only game changing thing he's got left is Jace, the Mindsculptor. So i'm thinking out what I need to do to win and I'm hyped up with pulling a win out of nowhere and I start rehearsing my moves in my head to try to keep from misplaying. I cast his Mindsculptor, make it an artifact, and double its counters to 12. All I have to do is -12 Mindsculptor, play Beleren and +2. That's all I have to do and I mess it up. I'm overexcited, tired cause it's 1am, there's too many freaking Jaces, and I go to cast Beleren before -12'ing Mindsculptor.
2011. Playing a three way: Oona, Queen of the Fae, Damia, Sage of Stone and Teneb, the Harvester. The game went through two points where a player was going to win the game, but both times the two other players stopped the other. The Teneb player casts Genesis Wave, X=27. The Damia players looks at the Oona player who has four Blue sources open. The Wave wins the game.
Damia player says, "Too bad you didn't have the counter."
Oona player reveals a Cryptic Command from his hand and says, "I wanted to see what a G. Wave for 27 did."
Damia player quips, "It wins games."
I frequently have a few people play a wrath effect when I'm playing with Green Kamahl with a TON of green mana open.
I don't kill their lands - they do. I just help them do it.
It usually elicits a huge roar from the table and the mention that they'll never do that again.
you're my new favorite.
I am constantly killing myself with my own Intervention Pact. I have a terrible memory and can never remember to pay the upkeep costs, but the card has won me as many games as it's lost so I can't justify taking it out.
Playing against someone who flipped Enter the Infinite and Omniscience off Narset. Then proceeded to cast a G -Probe and a time warp. No win con with haste. Took the extra turn with no cards in library lol
I also was playing a 2HG game where the other team ripped a craterhoof with like 30 tokens on the field. I cast a pact of negation knowing full well I only had 4 mana. I losing on my own terms damnit
EDH:ShatterStax, Only The Strong Survive
Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir Mono-U Control
Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath
Sen Triplets
Mizzix of the Izmagnus
Derevi Stax
VolThrun
Marchesa, The Black Rose
Olivia Voldaren, Vampire Tribal
I swing with Nefarox, my opponent sacrifices the elf, and then declares no blocks.
I pay 20-some life into Necro (taking me below 6) and then swap life totals with him.
Wasn't me that played terribly, but nonetheless. We were in a 4 man pod. Roon, Krajj, Mono White Anafenza, and I piloting Wort, the raid mother. Game proceeds as normal, then the Krajj player plays Defense of the Heart and says go. Roon and myself had just ramped so no creatures yet, Anafenza has a Soul Sister and some other weenie. His turn and he plays a creature and says ok guys deal with it. Roon and I exchange baffled looks and groan. So I say tomyself, "Well its all or nothng," and play my own defense. Roon at this point is colored screwed, and passes.
We all cringe as Krajj pops Defense. Roon and I glare menacingly at the Anafenza player. Relieved as Krajj only gets prophet and Oracle and is cardless, butRoon player (who is actually a buddy of mine) groans as he sees my face light up with joy. Anafenza plays some creature and passes. I then proceed to trigger Heart and proceed to win with Conscripts and Kiki, with conscript trigger grabbing the soul sister. My buddy groans, as the Anafenza player gets mad ate for combo-ing(I failed to.mention this a a slayer pod. 2-Packs per kill, 5 dollar entry )
T5 was when this happened. As cheesy as it sounds, sometimes you just have to play around something that you can't answer immediately.
Wasn't me that played terribly, but nonetheless. We were in a 4 man pod. Roon, Krajj, Mono White Anafenza, and I piloting Wort, the raid mother. Game proceeds as normal, then the Krajj player plays Defense of the Heart and says go. Roon and myself had just ramped so no creatures yet, Anafenza has a Soul Sister and some other weenie. His turn and he plays a creature and says ok guys deal with it. Roon and I exchange baffled looks and groan. So I say tomyself, "Well its all or nothng," and play my own defense. Roon at this point is colored screwed, and passes.
We all cringe as Krajj pops Defense. Roon and I glare menacingly at the Anafenza player. Relieved as Krajj only gets prophet and Oracle and is cardless, butRoon player (who is actually a buddy of mine) groans as he sees my face light up with joy. Anafenza plays some creature and passes. I then proceed to trigger Heart and proceed to win with Conscripts and Kiki, with conscript trigger grabbing the soul sister. My buddy groans, as the Anafenza player gets mad ate for combo-ing(I failed to.mention this a a slayer pod. 2-Packs per kill, 5 dollar entry )
T5 was when this happened. As cheesy as it sounds, sometimes you just have to play around something that you can't answer immediately.
I am constantly killing myself with my own Intervention Pact. I have a terrible memory and can never remember to pay the upkeep costs, but the card has won me as many games as it's lost so I can't justify taking it out.
We're a laid back crew - most people here are fine if you put your Necropotence, Sylvan Library, any Pact or Rebounding spell face up on your library as a reminder.
Barring that, leave the Pact on the battlefield with the tapped mana to pay for it underneath the card. In casual multiplayer, it probably shouldn't be a "gotcha" type card.
When Surrak Dragonclaw was still new, I would often completely crush opponents who simply forgot how his abilities worked. If try to cast Prophet of Kruphix or whatever, and an opponent fires off a counter. Then I shrug and flash in Surrak, effectively Negateing their counterspell.
I've also had games where I'm smashing in with a bunch of Malignuses or whatever and the opponent starts bragging about how easy it is to chump block these threats. He throws a bunch of 1/1s in front of my 20/20s and I just flash in Surrak and trample over for lethal. Opponent facepalms and groans about how he failed to leave up mana for his removal spell.
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I am constantly killing myself with my own Intervention Pact. I have a terrible memory and can never remember to pay the upkeep costs, but the card has won me as many games as it's lost so I can't justify taking it out.
We're a laid back crew - most people here are fine if you put your Necropotence, Sylvan Library, any Pact or Rebounding spell face up on your library as a reminder.
Barring that, leave the Pact on the battlefield with the tapped mana to pay for it underneath the card. In casual multiplayer, it probably shouldn't be a "gotcha" type card.
my group's pretty cool too, but I'm the jerk that slays worlds on a regular basis so they don't mind letting me kill myself every now and then.
Barring that, leave the Pact on the battlefield with the tapped mana to pay for it underneath the card. In casual multiplayer, it probably shouldn't be a "gotcha" type card.
You could also leave it face up on top of your library as a reminder before you draw. I know of only one person, no longer in our playgroup, who would have been a stickler for the trigger.
My friends and I were in a 3-player game awhile ago, so I don't remember all the generals, but the important one is Jolrael, Empress of Beasts. One of us has out a Magma Phoenix. At one point the Jolrael player turns his lands into 3/3 creatures and then continues to do a bunch of other stuff. He then decides to blow up the Phoenix before moving onto combat....He'd obviously forgotten about his 3/3 land-creatures that were going to die horrible deaths to the phoenix.
This happened in a 5-man table. Me with Nissa, Vastwood Seer vs Karametra, God of Harvests, Marrow-Gnawer, Teneb, the Harvester and Mayael the Anima (In that order). I had Seedborn Muse and Vedalken Orrery out, and it was known that the Karametra player had a Path to Exile. The Teneb player (the most experienced one of the opposition) told him to hold on to it until I tapped out, as I might have a way to blank the Path. He was wrong but couldn't know that. Anyway, during their turns I play some small stuff, just advancing my board position a bit, setting up a big alpha strike. At the end of Mayael's turn, I flash in my Deadwood Treefolk, get a card back, at which point....Karametra Paths the Deadwood.
Facepalms all around.
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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.
my favorite was a while ago; I used captain sisay's ability and someone responded by casting chaos warp on her. She got shuffled in and when her ability went off, the legendary card she tutored for was...captain sisay.
Recently one player was at one life and while focusing intently on every card in his hand and graveyard, he decided to use a fetchland and died.
We have an incredibly overconfident guy in our group who is notorious for stating he's got a plan...and not having one but somehow convinced he did when he loses...that said...
On 2 occasions we are playing an optimized Narset (you know turn 1-4 win). On both occassions this guy vampiric tutors after Narset is cast. We assume he's got a board wipe or some answer? Nope...both times he grabs a clone. Needless to say we all die after he passes his turn to the Narset that no longer has summoning sickness...And to top it off, I untapped his lands to let him tutor.
I love to tutor and cast Bane of Progress. Without thinking, I dropped him into play against an enchantress player, who had Karmic Justice on the table. He got to blow up all my permanents.
The most fabulous backfire I've ever seen was when my Zedruu had Shared Fate in it, it was me against my friend effectively playing each other's decks and he tries to do the Memnite/Dissipation Field/Pandemonium combo I was very proud of at the time, only to realize as soon as he tried to do it that my Memnite would be returned to my hand. My next turn was just play Zedruu, donate Dissipation Field, and win the game.
The dumbest thing I ever did with Zedruu was against a mono-gray deck. I played a tapped land, he plays Mishra's Workshop, I play Mox Diamond and a basic to cast Vedalken Plotter to take his Workshop in exchange for the basic. He continued playing the game. I died before I got to 3 mana because I ran out of land drops and I never drew another land or artifact worth playing. I had Mana Flare and Time Spiral in my hand.
The worst thought out play I've ever seen is a Nekusar deck with Mirari out decides it wants to draw a ton, so he double casts Windfall and then Plagiarizes two opponents. Someone had 7 cards in hand, so he discarded and drew 21, and then discarded those and drew 63 and died.
But I think the play I judged most in EDH was a gruul player who had a 3 land hand and then got mana screwed from there on out, so on his 5th turn he decided to Beast Within his own swiftfoot boots so that he wouldn't have to discard at the end step.
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Zedruu: "This deck is not only able to go crazy - it also needs to do so."
Since some people are mentioning other player's dismal failures in addition to their own, my buddy playing Naya Tokens fogs my attempted worldslaying, and takes his turn after mine. Casts insurrection, hits me with Avacyn (still equipped with 'Slayer), kills one player, and brings everyone else down to under ten.
Hands me back my Avacyn and notes that 'Slayer is still on the field. He was completely unaware that Worldslayer destroys all permanents other than itself, and gave me the game because nobody else could answer the future triggers.
God bless Worldslayer, so many silly games have ended because of that piece of scrap.
I have a few too many "hyper causal" players with choas decks, so deliberately sabotaging yourself and/or accidental kingmaking is a regular play.
*Plays Abyssal Persecutor*, *giggles*.
Sooon: *Everyone else on negative 10 life*
"you know you could of won this a long time ago"
"I like this" *giggles*
It's not to bad just know what you are in for, they at least don't complain about infinite combos or anything.
An actually trying.. but fail. I was playing bird tribal and I was in a commanding position with edric and a swarm of birds in play although I couldn't find any anthems to actually win the game. One of my opponent exclaimed "finally!, 7th land" and cast Duneblast. I saced my judge's familiar...
I let the Jarad player resolve a Twilight's Call because I had rout in hand, oh #@$% eternal witness...oh @#$% Terastodon blergh. I lost quickly afterwards after having had complete control of the game for so long. I knew he had Lord of extinction in hand and I was holding a dissipate just for it. The other player was Kiki, so I was trying to hold back two combo decks and eventually ran out of resources.
There have also been a large number of massive fails with the use of Mass land destruction (Which makes me very against it's use).
Jhoira, unsuspends Jokulhaups... sacs everything to get Greater gargadon to 1 counter which he removes after land wipe, I float mana and Selesnya charm it. Realm razer bounced in response to its own trigger for the lolz by another player, lands exiled. Vandalblast + hive mind with mycosynth lattice in play destory everything?. Although I am pretty sure we played this wrong and the player to the right of the player who cast vandalblast gets to keep his non artifact perminates since the lattice is destoried.. so it would have to be shatterstorm/creeping corrosion to have the same effect.
Post the biggest blunders you've made and/or seen!
I'll start. Last night I was playing my Dakkon deck against a Riku of Two Reflections deck and a Nekusar, the Mindrazer deck. The Nekusar had a strong position and I was trying to get something going. I cast Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir. The Nekusar player countered. I then cast Temporal Mastery. The Nekusar player responded with Time Stop. Both of us forgot that his Stranglehold prevented me from taking an extra turn anyway!
Later in evening I forgot to dredge Life from the Loam and ended up casting it with flashback via Past in Flames to get back a Reliquary Tower when I had a bunch of cards in hand.
WBG Karador, Ghost Chieftain
B Toshiro Umezawa
BG Pharika, God of Affliction - Necromancy and Politics
WWW The Church of Heliod
WBR Zurgo, Helmsmasher
RG Wort, the Raidmother
UBR Jeleva, Nephalia's Scourge
UG Vorel of the Hull Clade
Damia player says, "Too bad you didn't have the counter."
Oona player reveals a Cryptic Command from his hand and says, "I wanted to see what a G. Wave for 27 did."
Damia player quips, "It wins games."
Keep brewing.
I don't kill their lands - they do. I just help them do it.
It usually elicits a huge roar from the table and the mention that they'll never do that again.
I am constantly killing myself with my own Intervention Pact. I have a terrible memory and can never remember to pay the upkeep costs, but the card has won me as many games as it's lost so I can't justify taking it out.
WWWAvacyn: We Can Make The World StopWWW
I also was playing a 2HG game where the other team ripped a craterhoof with like 30 tokens on the field. I cast a pact of negation knowing full well I only had 4 mana. I losing on my own terms damnit
Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir Mono-U Control
Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath
Sen Triplets
Mizzix of the Izmagnus
Derevi Stax
VolThrun
Marchesa, The Black Rose
Olivia Voldaren, Vampire Tribal
Modern: Fish, JUND/Junk
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RIP Twin
Opponent: Elvish Visionary, Resolute Archangel
I swing with Nefarox, my opponent sacrifices the elf, and then declares no blocks.
I pay 20-some life into Necro (taking me below 6) and then swap life totals with him.
Two Score, Minus Two or: A Stargate Tail
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We all cringe as Krajj pops Defense. Roon and I glare menacingly at the Anafenza player. Relieved as Krajj only gets prophet and Oracle and is cardless, butRoon player (who is actually a buddy of mine) groans as he sees my face light up with joy. Anafenza plays some creature and passes. I then proceed to trigger Heart and proceed to win with Conscripts and Kiki, with conscript trigger grabbing the soul sister. My buddy groans, as the Anafenza player gets mad ate for combo-ing(I failed to.mention this a a slayer pod. 2-Packs per kill, 5 dollar entry )
T5 was when this happened. As cheesy as it sounds, sometimes you just have to play around something that you can't answer immediately.
Sorry for the wall and poor grammar.
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We're a laid back crew - most people here are fine if you put your Necropotence, Sylvan Library, any Pact or Rebounding spell face up on your library as a reminder.
Barring that, leave the Pact on the battlefield with the tapped mana to pay for it underneath the card. In casual multiplayer, it probably shouldn't be a "gotcha" type card.
I've also had games where I'm smashing in with a bunch of Malignuses or whatever and the opponent starts bragging about how easy it is to chump block these threats. He throws a bunch of 1/1s in front of my 20/20s and I just flash in Surrak and trample over for lethal. Opponent facepalms and groans about how he failed to leave up mana for his removal spell.
Modern: Kiki ChordWBRG
TokensWB
EDH: Kuon, Ogre AscendantBBB
#FreeContractfromBelow
Turn rotation is Krajj, anafenza, me, roon.
T4 Was defense, 3rd creature, defense, Roon tapping out on a ramp spell.
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WWWAvacyn: We Can Make The World StopWWW
You could also leave it face up on top of your library as a reminder before you draw. I know of only one person, no longer in our playgroup, who would have been a stickler for the trigger.
Facepalms all around.
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.
Recently one player was at one life and while focusing intently on every card in his hand and graveyard, he decided to use a fetchland and died.
My G Yisan, the Bard of Death G deck.
My BUGWR Hermit druid BUGWR deck.
On 2 occasions we are playing an optimized Narset (you know turn 1-4 win). On both occassions this guy vampiric tutors after Narset is cast. We assume he's got a board wipe or some answer? Nope...both times he grabs a clone. Needless to say we all die after he passes his turn to the Narset that no longer has summoning sickness...And to top it off, I untapped his lands to let him tutor.
I was confused as well
The dumbest thing I ever did with Zedruu was against a mono-gray deck. I played a tapped land, he plays Mishra's Workshop, I play Mox Diamond and a basic to cast Vedalken Plotter to take his Workshop in exchange for the basic. He continued playing the game. I died before I got to 3 mana because I ran out of land drops and I never drew another land or artifact worth playing. I had Mana Flare and Time Spiral in my hand.
The worst thought out play I've ever seen is a Nekusar deck with Mirari out decides it wants to draw a ton, so he double casts Windfall and then Plagiarizes two opponents. Someone had 7 cards in hand, so he discarded and drew 21, and then discarded those and drew 63 and died.
But I think the play I judged most in EDH was a gruul player who had a 3 land hand and then got mana screwed from there on out, so on his 5th turn he decided to Beast Within his own swiftfoot boots so that he wouldn't have to discard at the end step.
Hands me back my Avacyn and notes that 'Slayer is still on the field. He was completely unaware that Worldslayer destroys all permanents other than itself, and gave me the game because nobody else could answer the future triggers.
God bless Worldslayer, so many silly games have ended because of that piece of scrap.
WWWAvacyn: We Can Make The World StopWWW
*Plays Abyssal Persecutor*, *giggles*.
Sooon: *Everyone else on negative 10 life*
"you know you could of won this a long time ago"
"I like this" *giggles*
It's not to bad just know what you are in for, they at least don't complain about infinite combos or anything.
An actually trying.. but fail. I was playing bird tribal and I was in a commanding position with edric and a swarm of birds in play although I couldn't find any anthems to actually win the game. One of my opponent exclaimed "finally!, 7th land" and cast Duneblast. I saced my judge's familiar...
I let the Jarad player resolve a Twilight's Call because I had rout in hand, oh #@$% eternal witness...oh @#$% Terastodon blergh. I lost quickly afterwards after having had complete control of the game for so long. I knew he had Lord of extinction in hand and I was holding a dissipate just for it. The other player was Kiki, so I was trying to hold back two combo decks and eventually ran out of resources.
There have also been a large number of massive fails with the use of Mass land destruction (Which makes me very against it's use).
Jhoira, unsuspends Jokulhaups... sacs everything to get Greater gargadon to 1 counter which he removes after land wipe, I float mana and Selesnya charm it.
Realm razer bounced in response to its own trigger for the lolz by another player, lands exiled.
Vandalblast + hive mind with mycosynth lattice in play destory everything?. Although I am pretty sure we played this wrong and the player to the right of the player who cast vandalblast gets to keep his non artifact perminates since the lattice is destoried.. so it would have to be shatterstorm/creeping corrosion to have the same effect.
Pioneer:UR Pheonix
Modern:U Mono U Tron
EDH
GB Glissa, the traitor: Army of Cans
UW Dragonlord Ojutai: Dragonlord NOjutai
UWGDerevi, Empyrial Tactician "you cannot fight the storm"
R Zirilan of the claw. The solution to every problem is dragons
UB Etrata, the Silencer Cloning assassination
Peasant cube: Cards I own
Buddy of mine is playing my old Grimgrin deck. He casts Rune-Scarred Demon and finds..Demonic Tutor.
Tutor for a tutor has become a running joke in our playgroup.
UBBreya's Toybox (Competitive, Combo)WR
RGodzilla, King of the MonstersG
-Retired Decks-
UBLazav, Dimir Mastermind (Competitive, UB Voltron/Control)UB
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