In game 3 of the second round of an 8-4 with R/W garbage vs. an opposing Mardu midrange deck, I'm at 2 and my opponent is at a comfortable 12. He has Noxious Dragon, Abzan Falconer with a counter on it and a Mardu Warshrieker all coming at my Abzan Skycaptain and Lotus-Eye Mystics. I also control a tapped Gore Swine. I have 1 card in hand and my opponent has 2. I put the Captain on his Falconer and the Mystic on his Shrieker, then cast the Deflecting Palm that appears to buy me a turn, selecting the Dragon. My opponent, with the spell and the prowess trigger still on the stack, taps 3 mana and casts... Trumpet Blast!!!
Damage resolves, my opponent takes 6 from his own Dragon, knocking him to 6, the Orc and my Mystics trade (which they were going to anyway, but I have to assume my opponent thought my Mystics was living), and my Skycaptain dies, putting 2 +1/+1 counters on my Pig.
Which makes it a 6/3.
How convenient.
(If my opponent realized his mistake, he probably doubly kicked himself, because I only stole game 2 off a topdecked Act of Treason for exact damage to begin with.)
I went back and forth on whether to post this in the venting thread or this one, but I decided to go ahead and just tip my hat to my opponent.
I'm playing 5C Morph, my opponent is playing Temur. He opens with a Leaping Master, I follow up with a Jeskai Infiltrator. Next turn he kills it with Bathe in Dragonfire. I lay down a face down Rattleclaw Mystic and pass. He attacks into the Mystic, I don't block, and then he hardcasts Goblin Heelcutter. On my turn I flip up the Mystic to hardcast Woolly Loxodon on turn 5. I'm at 17 (2 Leaping Masters and 1 lifegain land), have a Throttle in hand with the mana to cast it next time I untap, and I'm feeling decent about the game. With his colors there's not a ton he can do about the Loxodon, and most of it would open him up to a 2-for-1 with Throttle.
On his Turn 5, while I'm still tapped out from the Loxodon, he plays Act of Treason, stealing the Loxodon, then casts Temur Battle Rage on the Loxodon, dealing exactly 17.
Naturally the game wouldn't be complete without some cocky chat from him as he made the play.
Journey Into Nyx Pre-Release.
Opponent has 18 life and a bunch of creatures.
I have 3 life and have a 16/16 Heroes' Bane, Vortex Elemental, and Ravenous Leucrocota.
Things look bleak, but then I topdecked a Nimbus Naiad.
Bestow the naiad on my bane, swing with him and vortex elemental,
Opponent only has one flier. Force him to block the vortex elemental. Takes 18.
Most satisfying victory ever.
Got 2 Crucible of the Spirit Dragon in the last couple picks and ended up not just playing them, but winning because of them! My opponent was beating me down pretty badly and I had 6 lands, one of which was a crucible. I was able to get 2 counters on the crucible and used it to allow me to cast Ojutai, the Winter's Soul, with Hero's Blade out, to stabilize.
2HG at prerelease, stalled board, both flyers and ground. 26-28 on life. We are playing GW bolster and UW "prowess" against GR and UW. Everybody has one card in hand. I cast EOT Anticipate and seeing that my pal has 3/3 Aven Sunstriker available, I decide to keep Taigam's Strike. In draw step, I draw Artful Maneuver. Our opponents are tapped out. I cast both spells on the Sunstriker and they are hit by 7/7 unblockable doublestriker for 14. They untap, and surprisingly they have nothing to interact with it, so they are killed by another attack for 14 next turn thanks to the rebounded spells.
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Let this great clan rest in peace (2001-2011)
You really just need to embrace the rage. I keep a small colony of hamsters next to my computer and every time I lose a match to mana screw I throw one against the wall.
My opponent was playing a white weenie deck and got me down to 2 life. On the previous turn I had flipped up Atarka Efreet to get him down to 15, but it looked like all was lost. The turn before I was going to die, I attacked him with the Efreet. He blocked with an Abzan Skycaptain. I then cast Temur Battle Rage and Butcher's Glee to make the Efreet a 9/2 with lifelink, double strike, trample, and regeneration, knocked him from 15 to -1, and won the match!
I'm playing U/B Exploit in a DTK draft and have Silumgar, the Drifting Death out, along with a Rakshasa Gravecaller, which exploited a Sultai Emissary. He has an Elusive Spellfist and a Gurmag Drowner on the field and has gotten in for some damage while I sat there with just the Emissary in play. It's a mirror match and he's lamenting his inability to deal with Silumgar and I make some offhand comment like "yeah, I pretty much have to play stupid." He lands a Ruthless Deathfang and passes the turn with one Swamp open. I drop my eighth land, cast Silumgar Butcher, exploiting a Zombie to -3/-3 the Deathfang. Then, I declare attack and swing in win Silumgar. With the -1/-1 trigger on the stack, he casts Coat With Venom, blocks and says "aha! this is how I deal with him."
I tap 3 and cast Butcher's Glee. He just looked at it dumbfounded, slumped his shoulders and sighed. "Seriously?"
I have both of the Impact Tremors in play, and an Elusive Spellfist. Cast Lose Calm on their Jeskai Infiltrator. Swing and activate the Infiltrator's manifest, putting two manifest cards into play, triggering the Impact Tremors for a total of four times, and keeping both manifest cards, since there's no Jeskai Infiltrator to give back to him. Eight damage in one turn, and I've totally changed the board in my favor.
Also had a Living Lore in the deck and wanted to use it with the red damage spells, but never was able to pull off the trick.
Noticing that people aren't drafting the enemy color pairs that much in Dragons, even though there's really only 22 gold cards that would push the allied color pairs, and if you don't open them in your pack you're probably not going to get passed them. Also Red is amazing.
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Game 3 of a match during a 5-person friendly draft in a pub. I played crazy WBgu concoction, basically control with splashing for Pristine Skywise and two Enduring Scalelords. Definitely nothing I would ever attempt at a normal draft.
I am facing lethal attack from a Rageform-ed manifest, Summit Prowler and Hand of Silumgar. I have only two Enduring Scalelords on the table. I have to block one of the 4-damage attackers, so one Scalelord trades for the manifest (that happened to be a land, of course). I fall to 2. My opponent is at 10.
I draw and topdeck...Fearsome Awakening. I reanimate the fallen Scalelord and swing with 1,000,000/1,000,000 flying dragon FTW.
Mission accomplished
In another match, I won a game where I cast only four spells. Enduring Victory, Qarsi Sadist, Marang River Skeleton and Dragonscale General. In the end, the Skeleton was 9/9 and the General 11/12.
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We had a conspiracy draft today, and i've got a really fun GUr list.
Picture this: I play Edric, Spymaster of Trest on turn 6. Turn 7 I play Pelakka Wurm and gain 7 life. Turn 8, I topdeck a mountain, play Dack's Duplicate copying the wurm, gain another 7 life and attack two players. Both wurm die and trample over for some damage, Drawing me four cards because of Edric. I didn't win that game, But god was that fun.
MM'15.
Opponent has multiple flyers. I control a 6/6 Lorescale Coatl and arrested Swans of Bryn Argoll. Draw for my turn (snake goes to 7/7), then Savage Twister the board for 6. Draw 6 off Swans, wipe out his army, swing with the now 13/13 coatl for lethal.
Responded to Mob Rule by Flattening my own Kologhan. Would have been lethal.
Did you otherwise have him dead on board if his Mob Rule didn't happen? 2-for-1ing yourself to simply not die is good I guess, but doesn't seem like a PWNED. In fact, seems more like the guy casting Mob Rule got a PWNED, because him casting it forced you to either lose or use up a top quality removal spell on your own top quality creature.
Well, the Flatten wouldn't kill Kolaghan, it would just keep it on pops side as a 2/1 or 0/1 depending on whichKolaghan he had. Depending on the board state, this could have been enough to effectively counter the Mob Rule completely.
Turn 4: Gurmag Drowner, seeing Living Lore, Clone Legion and two other cards, take the Lore and put the Legion in my graveyard.
Turn 5: Play Living Lore exiling Clone Legion for a 9/9.
Turn 6: Attack, my opponent blocks, I clone his board, getting a Merciless Executioner and a Dutiful Attendant. I sacrifice the Dutiful Attendant, get the Lore back, and play it again exiling Clone Legion.
I still lost the game somehow, from misplaying and trading my Lore for a deathtouch creature and gradually having to trade off all my threats with his creatures.
get the Lore back, and play it again exiling Clone Legion.
This strikes me as unlikely barring a bug.
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It's a little unfair to post these from Holiday Cube matches, but I just beat a turn 2 Black Lotus in two straight games that my opponent scooped on my following turn, so it won't even be that hard for me!
What bug? I sacrifice Living Lore, casting Clone Legion. It puts Merciless Executioner and Dutiful Attendant into play for me. Once it goes to the graveyard, the etb-effects trigger. I sacrifice Dutiful Attendant to the Executioner trigger and get back Living Lore.
get the Lore back, and play it again exiling Clone Legion.
This strikes me as unlikely barring a bug.
It's not a bug. When you sacrifice the Lore you "cast" the spell from exile. There is no further clause after specifying that the card gets exiled after casting. So after resolving it just goes to the graveyard as normal. Therefore, when you get the Lore back from the grave and drop it again, you can target the same card again...
I just had someone wipe my entire board consisting of 2 3/1s and 4 2/2s using that all non-elfs get -2/-2 right after I stabilized and I felt pretty bad man.
Was drafting with some friends using a mix of Return to Ravnica and Dragons of Tarkir. I got passed Pack Rat as the 4th pick in the first and picked it up in spite of being in G/W at the time. I then proceeded to win the draft while using the rat to beat two of players who passed it.
Damage resolves, my opponent takes 6 from his own Dragon, knocking him to 6, the Orc and my Mystics trade (which they were going to anyway, but I have to assume my opponent thought my Mystics was living), and my Skycaptain dies, putting 2 +1/+1 counters on my Pig.
Which makes it a 6/3.
How convenient.
(If my opponent realized his mistake, he probably doubly kicked himself, because I only stole game 2 off a topdecked Act of Treason for exact damage to begin with.)
I'm playing 5C Morph, my opponent is playing Temur. He opens with a Leaping Master, I follow up with a Jeskai Infiltrator. Next turn he kills it with Bathe in Dragonfire. I lay down a face down Rattleclaw Mystic and pass. He attacks into the Mystic, I don't block, and then he hardcasts Goblin Heelcutter. On my turn I flip up the Mystic to hardcast Woolly Loxodon on turn 5. I'm at 17 (2 Leaping Masters and 1 lifegain land), have a Throttle in hand with the mana to cast it next time I untap, and I'm feeling decent about the game. With his colors there's not a ton he can do about the Loxodon, and most of it would open him up to a 2-for-1 with Throttle.
On his Turn 5, while I'm still tapped out from the Loxodon, he plays Act of Treason, stealing the Loxodon, then casts Temur Battle Rage on the Loxodon, dealing exactly 17.
Naturally the game wouldn't be complete without some cocky chat from him as he made the play.
Opponent has 18 life and a bunch of creatures.
I have 3 life and have a 16/16 Heroes' Bane, Vortex Elemental, and Ravenous Leucrocota.
Things look bleak, but then I topdecked a Nimbus Naiad.
Bestow the naiad on my bane, swing with him and vortex elemental,
Opponent only has one flier. Force him to block the vortex elemental. Takes 18.
Most satisfying victory ever.
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I lost g1 (finals of an 8-4) to Mastery of the Unseen, so I did some creative sideboarding... and it totally worked out.
Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
I tap 3 and cast Butcher's Glee. He just looked at it dumbfounded, slumped his shoulders and sighed. "Seriously?"
I have both of the Impact Tremors in play, and an Elusive Spellfist. Cast Lose Calm on their Jeskai Infiltrator. Swing and activate the Infiltrator's manifest, putting two manifest cards into play, triggering the Impact Tremors for a total of four times, and keeping both manifest cards, since there's no Jeskai Infiltrator to give back to him. Eight damage in one turn, and I've totally changed the board in my favor.
Also had a Living Lore in the deck and wanted to use it with the red damage spells, but never was able to pull off the trick.
Noticing that people aren't drafting the enemy color pairs that much in Dragons, even though there's really only 22 gold cards that would push the allied color pairs, and if you don't open them in your pack you're probably not going to get passed them. Also Red is amazing.
"I cannot tune a harp or play a lyre, but I know how to make a small city great." - Themistocles
I am facing lethal attack from a Rageform-ed manifest, Summit Prowler and Hand of Silumgar. I have only two Enduring Scalelords on the table. I have to block one of the 4-damage attackers, so one Scalelord trades for the manifest (that happened to be a land, of course). I fall to 2. My opponent is at 10.
I draw and topdeck...Fearsome Awakening. I reanimate the fallen Scalelord and swing with 1,000,000/1,000,000 flying dragon FTW.
Mission accomplished
In another match, I won a game where I cast only four spells. Enduring Victory, Qarsi Sadist, Marang River Skeleton and Dragonscale General. In the end, the Skeleton was 9/9 and the General 11/12.
Let this great clan rest in peace (2001-2011)
Picture this: I play Edric, Spymaster of Trest on turn 6. Turn 7 I play Pelakka Wurm and gain 7 life. Turn 8, I topdeck a mountain, play Dack's Duplicate copying the wurm, gain another 7 life and attack two players. Both wurm die and trample over for some damage, Drawing me four cards because of Edric. I didn't win that game, But god was that fun.
My opponent has Necrogenesis in play and has slowly built up an army of 7 saprolings. All I have is an Alloy Myr with Kitesail after trading stuff away. He plays Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder and Daggerclaw Imp. On my turn I cast Savage Twister for 3 after attacking him. I get a 12 for 2, but still lose to Necrogenesis making 3 saprolings while he had Mutagenic Growth and Vines of Vastwood to get in for 10 in 2 turns through my Ant Queen and token that came 1 turn too late.
I lost after a 12 for 2. Not many people can say that.
Opponent has multiple flyers. I control a 6/6 Lorescale Coatl and arrested Swans of Bryn Argoll. Draw for my turn (snake goes to 7/7), then Savage Twister the board for 6. Draw 6 off Swans, wipe out his army, swing with the now 13/13 coatl for lethal.
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Did you otherwise have him dead on board if his Mob Rule didn't happen? 2-for-1ing yourself to simply not die is good I guess, but doesn't seem like a PWNED. In fact, seems more like the guy casting Mob Rule got a PWNED, because him casting it forced you to either lose or use up a top quality removal spell on your own top quality creature.
"He didn't even gain control of it" isn't because it was dead, it was because it no longer had 4 or more power.
Turn 5: Play Living Lore exiling Clone Legion for a 9/9.
Turn 6: Attack, my opponent blocks, I clone his board, getting a Merciless Executioner and a Dutiful Attendant. I sacrifice the Dutiful Attendant, get the Lore back, and play it again exiling Clone Legion.
I still lost the game somehow, from misplaying and trading my Lore for a deathtouch creature and gradually having to trade off all my threats with his creatures.
This strikes me as unlikely barring a bug.
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It's a little unfair to post these from Holiday Cube matches, but I just beat a turn 2 Black Lotus in two straight games that my opponent scooped on my following turn, so it won't even be that hard for me!
Game 1 my opponent uses Lotus to power out a turn 2 Mirari's Wake. I untap, play a land and a Mox Sapphire and Tinker for Blightsteel Colussus.
My opponent scoops.
In game 2 I Mishra's Workshop a Signet in on turn 1 and my opponent plays Lotus and casts... Eureka.
Here are what the boards looked like after that finished resolving.
Opponent: 2 lands, Sun Titan, Silverblade Paladin (paired with) Iona, Shield of Emeria (naming blue), Black Lotus. 1 card in hand.
Me: 3 Signets, Mishra's Workshop, 2 other lands, Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre, Ral Zarek, Memory Jar. No cards in hand.
Yeeeeeeeah, probably shoulda sided that out, buddy.
It's not a bug. When you sacrifice the Lore you "cast" the spell from exile. There is no further clause after specifying that the card gets exiled after casting. So after resolving it just goes to the graveyard as normal. Therefore, when you get the Lore back from the grave and drop it again, you can target the same card again...
Yes, Living Lore would be rather silly with a card like Cruel Ultimatum.
Well, you learn something new every day.
In another match I managed to have both Trostani, Selesnya's Voice and Pack Rat in play at the same time for hilarious overkill.