My board of a nettle drone and kozilek's sentinel against my opponents board of eldrazi skyspawner and ulamog's nullifier. I'm at 14 he is at 17. He swings in with the fliers to bring me to 10, and second main phase taps out and sacs the scion token to cast breaker of armies and is feeling pretty good about himself... I tap nettle drone to bring him to 16 on his end step. Main phase tap nettle drone to bring him to 15 and cast... turn against stealing breaker of armies untapping nettle drone and adding +1 to the sentinel to attack for lethal.
In game 2, he has Stasis Snare on my Kor Entanglers. The rest of my board is Kor Bladewhirl, Felidar Cub and Ghostly Sentinel. He has Wave-Wing Elemental, Ulamog's Reclaimer and Malakir Familiar. I have zero cards in hand. I'm at 4 life and he's at 8. He attacks with the Familiar to push through 2 in the air while holding up defense because he's already seen my deck pull some combat tricks. Guess he missed the obvious one on board. I pop the cub to kill Stasis Snare, returning Entanglers and triggering Rally on both it and Bladewhirl, tapping the Wave-Wing. I block the Familiar with a first-striking Sentinel. I untap, topdeck and drop some generic Ally triggering Rally again, tapping the Reclaimer and swinging for 8 into no blockers. Oops?
"NO! READ THE CARD!" I shout at him while trying to repress my burst of evil laughter. I pick up the card and shows him the "Can't be countered"-clause. The panic spreads on his face, and he untaps his lands, to tap another amount of lands, this time two swamps among them. This time I can't hold back the laughter while forcefully bellowing at him to read the card again. He does so, and untaps. The sweet look of surrender replaces the panicked looks and when I go to combat he puts forth his puny Scryfish to block my monster, but due to the other creatures, 4 damage still go through. I pass the turn, he draws a card and looks down at my Gaea's Revenge. A few seconds of silence follows. And then he concedes.
Ha! Personally, I would've let him target it with some counterspells.
The problem with defining this format by what is "fun" is that everyone seems to define fun as what they don't lose to. If you keep losing to easily answered cards, that means you should improve your deck. If you don't want to improve your deck, then you should come to peace with the idea that you are going to lose because you chose to not interact with better strategies.
BFZx3 Draft. Round 2. I'm running a nasty R/G landfall deck and have him at 6. I haven't taken any damage. He's running G/W allies and splashing red for some removal. I have a Scythe Leopard, Pilgrim's Eye, Makindi Sliderunner, Nettle Drone, a Retreat to Valakut and five lands--one of them being a Blighted Gorge. His side of the field consists of an Ondu Champion, Reckless Cohort, and Grove Rumbler. On his turn he plays Chasm Guide and passes. I don't have any lands to play, so I cast a second Nettle Drone, attack with the Pilgrim's Eye, and pass. 20-5. He plays a land, casts Tajuru Warcaller, gives his board +2/+2, trample, and haste. I go from 20 to -2 after blocks.
Triple Innistrad Halloween draft, playing around Dissipate, Gnaw to the Bone, and a previously-unseen Devil's Play like a boss. My opponent was splashing red, had been holding onto something all game, and had been attacking, after a lot of thought, with their Moon Heron despite an extremely precarious board position and life total. Note that on my turn, the Wildblood Pack hadn't flipped yet, I had a Mentor of the Meek in play (now sacced to the Cultist), and my opponent had mana open.
For the 5th time, I've baited someone into getting greedy with Nettle Drone and attacking into a Grave Birthing for the 2.5-for-1 (usually following up with a processor in the next two turns). The best was when it was followed directly by Wasteland Strangler. Opponent SO far behind.
This was more of a self-pwn, but I had Quarantine Field and Planar Outburst in hand, two of the most powerful cards in the set, the mana to cast them...and lost to a 3/3 land that neither could hit.
Today I drafted two Rx decks, and both times I faced a BG scions deck (multiple Call of Scions, multiple Eyeless Watcher, various mass pump effects). The first time I had 2 Boiling Earth in the board and drew both in game 2, awakening the second, to win 2-0. The second time around I got stomped game 1 but then boarded 2 Rising Miasma + 1 Boiling Earth. Game 2 I played all 3, no doubt causing much facepalming of my opponent. Game 3 I just stalled for a long time, topdecked and awakened Rising Miasma late to clear the board, then later awakened Boiling Earth onto the same land. Needless to say, opponent didn't get to block much.
I'm in a matchup with my RG landfall/allies aggro deck against an opponent's BR Eldrazi aggro deck. They have a Skitterskin out, but no other creatures. I have enough power to trade with it when they attack.
They play a Grave Birthing during the declare blockers step even though I don't have anything in my graveyard to exile. They get a Scion... which means that they can regenerate Skitterskin and I lose two creatures. It's such a brilliant play that I can't even be mad about it.
Those 4 creatures in his grave all died to The Abyss. I lost a Managorger Hydra and nothing else.
I went T3 Managorger, T4 Thrun and he went T4 Abyss. He probably looked at the "can't be regenerated" clause but not the "target creature" clause. Good old Thrun.
After he realized it can't kill Thrun, it actually locked him out of the game. He had to cast a creature every turn just to stop me from hitting him for 4, only to have the creature fall into the Abyss on his upkeep anyway.
Eventually I got bored and put him out of his misery (you can see the kill in hand -> 6 mana for Scavenging Ooze + Natural Order into Craterhoof).
This is one my opponent pulled off - I was playing a Sanctum of Ugin in my deck with no way to trigger it, since I had an Endbringer and some colorless activated abilities with not enough colorless sources from the OGW packs. My round 2 opponent goes:
This is one my opponent pulled off - I was playing a Sanctum of Ugin in my deck with no way to trigger it, since I had an Endbringer and some colorless activated abilities with not enough colorless sources from the OGW packs. My round 2 opponent goes:
My friend in another pod drafted a sweet mono-black Inverter of Truth deck with four copies of Corpse Churn. He went 0-3 as well, but his deck was a lot more interesting than mine.
The problem with defining this format by what is "fun" is that everyone seems to define fun as what they don't lose to. If you keep losing to easily answered cards, that means you should improve your deck. If you don't want to improve your deck, then you should come to peace with the idea that you are going to lose because you chose to not interact with better strategies.
T1 Mountain, Insolent Neonate.
T2 Mountain, Ravenous Bloodseeker, attack with Neonate (opponent at 19)
T3 Swamp, Skin Invasion on Neonate, attack. (opponent at 18). He plays Dauntless Cathar. End of opponent's turn: sac Neonate, madness Bloodmad Vampire, draw a card, get Skin Shedder.
T4 Mountain, attack, on declare attackers blast off Cathar by Fiery Temper off the Bloodseeker, play Uncaged Fury on the Bloodmad Vampire. Attack for 3+3+5+6= 17, ending up with a 3/4, 1/3 and 6/3. He draws his card and scoops.
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T1 Mountain, Insolent Neonate.
T2 Mountain, Ravenous Bloodseeker, attack with Neonate (opponent at 19)
T3 Swamp, Skin Invasion on Neonate, attack. (opponent at 18). He plays Dauntless Cathar. End of opponent's turn: sac Neonate, madness Bloodmad Vampire, draw a card, get Skin Shedder.
T4 Mountain, attack, on declare attackers blast off Cathar by Fiery Temper off the Bloodseeker, play Uncaged Fury on the Bloodmad Vampire. Attack for 3+3+5+6= 17, ending up with a 3/4, 1/3 and 6/3. He draws his card and scoops.
Why did you end up with anything other than a turn 4 win? Forget to attack with Bloodseeker on T3 to put him to 17?
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In game 2, he has Stasis Snare on my Kor Entanglers. The rest of my board is Kor Bladewhirl, Felidar Cub and Ghostly Sentinel. He has Wave-Wing Elemental, Ulamog's Reclaimer and Malakir Familiar. I have zero cards in hand. I'm at 4 life and he's at 8. He attacks with the Familiar to push through 2 in the air while holding up defense because he's already seen my deck pull some combat tricks. Guess he missed the obvious one on board. I pop the cub to kill Stasis Snare, returning Entanglers and triggering Rally on both it and Bladewhirl, tapping the Wave-Wing. I block the Familiar with a first-striking Sentinel. I untap, topdeck and drop some generic Ally triggering Rally again, tapping the Reclaimer and swinging for 8 into no blockers. Oops?
Ha! Personally, I would've let him target it with some counterspells.
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Opponent plays Turn Against on my 9/9 Ulamog's Despoiler and then swung out with everything.
I was holding Encircling Fissure - and was exactly at 6 mana untapped.
Sometimes, it's just good to be lucky.
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Coming back from way behind against a BW allies deck (6 life vs 26-ish life).
His board: 9/9 Bloodbond Vampire, 2 Kalastria Healer, Makindi Patrol, Courier Griffin
My board: 2 Courier Griffin + Kozilek's Channeler on D
Me: Breaker of Armies
Opponent: Bricks, no attacks, casts Silent Skimmer
Me: Break his army (kill the 3 Allies + Griffin). Postcombat Emeria Shepherd + Plains returning Breaker.
Opponent: *facepalm*. Land.
Me: Break his Vampire. Land, returning breaker to hand and recasting it.
Opponent: Demon's Grasp Emeria.
No unlimited loop, but Breaker #3 still breaks his face in.
Attacks with bigger guys.
I chump with Zulaport Cutthroat and 2 Kalastria Healer with a third Kalastria Healer on the table. I take 0, opponent loses 3. I untap and March from the Tomb. 9 triggers = opponent drained to 0.
Healers march to victory!!
Today I drafted two Rx decks, and both times I faced a BG scions deck (multiple Call of Scions, multiple Eyeless Watcher, various mass pump effects). The first time I had 2 Boiling Earth in the board and drew both in game 2, awakening the second, to win 2-0. The second time around I got stomped game 1 but then boarded 2 Rising Miasma + 1 Boiling Earth. Game 2 I played all 3, no doubt causing much facepalming of my opponent. Game 3 I just stalled for a long time, topdecked and awakened Rising Miasma late to clear the board, then later awakened Boiling Earth onto the same land. Needless to say, opponent didn't get to block much.
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See the below screenshot. Notice the stack and the number of lands in play. This was his second turn.
Turn 1 - Forest, Fastbond, Breeding Pool, Island
Turn 2 - Swamp, suspend Lotus Bloom, Lion's Eye Diamond, Timetwister popping LED while on the stack. We draw a new 7.
He plays 4 more lands. Time Spiral, untapping 6 lands. We draw a new 7.
1 more land, Brainstorm, High Tide, another land, Cabal Ritual, Timetwister. We draw a new 7.
High Tide, Mana Crypt, Trinket Mage into Sol Ring, Cabal Ritual, Tendrils of Agony.
Pretty sure I accidentally walked into a Vintage match against Pitch Long.
They play a Grave Birthing during the declare blockers step even though I don't have anything in my graveyard to exile. They get a Scion... which means that they can regenerate Skitterskin and I lose two creatures. It's such a brilliant play that I can't even be mad about it.
Those 4 creatures in his grave all died to The Abyss. I lost a Managorger Hydra and nothing else.
I went T3 Managorger, T4 Thrun and he went T4 Abyss. He probably looked at the "can't be regenerated" clause but not the "target creature" clause. Good old Thrun.
After he realized it can't kill Thrun, it actually locked him out of the game. He had to cast a creature every turn just to stop me from hitting him for 4, only to have the creature fall into the Abyss on his upkeep anyway.
Eventually I got bored and put him out of his misery (you can see the kill in hand -> 6 mana for Scavenging Ooze + Natural Order into Craterhoof).
T2: Whisperer of the Wilds
T3: Surrak, the Hunt Caller
T4: Stampeding Elk Herd
T5: Torrent Elemental
Probably one of the fastest scoops I've ever got in limited.
T6: Oblivion Sower, take Sanctum of Ugin.
T7: Bane of Bala Ged, sacrifice your sanctum, find Endbringer
T8: Endbringer
And I thought I was basically just playing a non-basic Wastes...
Wow, that's great thinking on the fly right there.
Other wow: Dude had some great cards rye chair.
I just pulled off the Thought-Knot Seer / Eldrazi Displacer combo after taking Chandra, Flamecaller from his hand on the first TKS cast.
My round 1 opponent is playing UBc with Mindmelter, Prophet of Distortion, three Blinding Drones, THREE Walker of the Wastes, and FIVE Wastes.
Turns out it's pretty tough to beat three copies of a five mana 6/6 or 7/7 trampler.
Then my round 2 opponent has a DISGUSTING GW Support deck with Linvala, the Preserver, Oath of Gideon, and then Nissa, Voice of Zendikar AND Gideon, Ally of Zendikar to complement the Oath.
Needless to say, I lost that one too.
My friend in another pod drafted a sweet mono-black Inverter of Truth deck with four copies of Corpse Churn. He went 0-3 as well, but his deck was a lot more interesting than mine.
T1 Mountain, Insolent Neonate.
T2 Mountain, Ravenous Bloodseeker, attack with Neonate (opponent at 19)
T3 Swamp, Skin Invasion on Neonate, attack. (opponent at 18). He plays Dauntless Cathar. End of opponent's turn: sac Neonate, madness Bloodmad Vampire, draw a card, get Skin Shedder.
T4 Mountain, attack, on declare attackers blast off Cathar by Fiery Temper off the Bloodseeker, play Uncaged Fury on the Bloodmad Vampire. Attack for 3+3+5+6= 17, ending up with a 3/4, 1/3 and 6/3. He draws his card and scoops.
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Why did you end up with anything other than a turn 4 win? Forget to attack with Bloodseeker on T3 to put him to 17?