Game 1 and Game 3 of a match went turn 2 Devilthorn Fox. 2 successful attacks later, he drops Triskaidekaphobia. The first time, I just shook my head and moved on. Smashed him game 2. When it happened in game 3, I could have traded my Daring Sleuth, but I had some sweet plays set up and decided to risk it. Of course he had it again.
Almost as bad is the game I was winning 27-4 with a dominant board when my opponent casts Startled Awake and flashes back Geistblast to mill 26.
Losing first round to a beginner player who I had to keep correcting about some gameplay errors (it was a FNM in traditionally very friendly environment). His deck is basically nothing else than 3-4 Stern Constables, 3-4 Devilthorn Foxes, 3-4 Unruly Mobs, two Vessels of Ephemera, three Ethereal Guidances, two Hope Against Hope and two Not Forgotten. I have not seen anything else. Both games he goes Constable, Fox/Mob, stick Hope on Mob or flyer from Vessel, attack, if it is killed, recycle HaH with Not Forgotten. Ultimately he spams the board and he runs me over with Ethereal Guidance.
To add an insult to an injury, his firstpick was Nahiri, lying in his sideboard with absolutely no protection (he did not have sleeves).
Just lost a game two with one of the sickest land recursion engine The Gitrog Monster decks I have ever played in limited, even having good early plays like Dead Weight and Tooth Collector to stabilize and things like Groundskeeper, Stoic BuilderMacabre Waltz , Autumnal Gloom for delirium payoff and to keep the engine going. I was even able to splash white for Declaration in Stone and Silverstrike with 2xFork in the Road and Weirding Wood which helped ramp me and fuel the frog monster. G1 my opponent does nothing and gets destroyed, G2 I narrowly lose to a Sorin, Grim Nemesis. I feel like knowing his bomb I should be fine, just clear the board and beatdown early. Then G3 he plays T4 Nahiri, the Harbinger, T6 or 7 Sorin and the game becomes extremely painful. He tells me he opened both which i don't know is better or worse than if someone passed one to him. Probably the most sad i've been playing magic since starting again after 5-6+ years.
Last week fnm draft I get junk rares but solid uncommon and build red white wolves deck. Was a lot of fun to play but I couldn't put two wins together. My last match playing green black he hits his god hand and steam rolls me. Fine, that happens move on to game 2. He puts the beat on me but makes a mistake in making that fat black land consuming worm and buffing it to 9/9. I have the red card that steals a creature for a Turn and gives +2. With uncaged fury he has 26 life at this time so its enough for lethal. He looks over his hand for mintue and lays that mutagen card that gives the creature lifelink to the caster. What way to be defeated.
Last week fnm draft I get junk rares but solid uncommon and build red white wolves deck. Was a lot of fun to play but I couldn't put two wins together. My last match playing green black he hits his god hand and steam rolls me. Fine, that happens move on to game 2. He puts the beat on me but makes a mistake in making that fat black land consuming worm and buffing it to 9/9. I have the red card that steals a creature for a Turn and gives +2. With uncaged fury he has 26 life at this time so its enough for lethal. He looks over his hand for mintue and lays that mutagen card that gives the creature lifelink to the caster. What way to be defeated.
It's not clear exactly what happened from this post, but lifelink always gives life to the creature's controller, not whoever controls the effect that grants lifelink.
I was running a very good G/W deck against an obviously U/B inexperienced opponent who had a lot of do nothings and multiple copies of the crappy drain 3 spell. He countered my Avacyn and eventually burned me out game 1, got me to 2 game 2, and came closer than he should have game 3. His deck was full of garbage but he seemed to be getting perfect topdecks and was gaining so much life from the drain 3 and mutations that I struggled to finish him off despite constantly being ahead on board.
In the cube draft afterwards he topdecked Torch Fiend the turn after I tapped out for an Isochron with Mana Drain on it.
Played BG Delirium, 16 lands. My opponent was on majority U mill (splashing W). To be clear, I mean mill as in Jace’s Erasure. He was literally trying to mill his opponents for value/wins.
I got mana screwed game one, then managed to pull it out game 2. Game 3 I kept on two lands and a strong curve. He plays Manic Scribe on the second turn and hits two lands plus a creature. I can't play anything passed turn two and get steamrolled by a mediocre ground assault.
What bugs me most is that he's not a dumb or inexperienced player. He shouldn't be playing an archetype like mill in a format like this period, and he knows better. But he did so anyway, probably on a lark. The fact that I was literally the Delirium deck just exacerbated my tilt.
Was I your opponent for that one? I played that deck in draft recently and it was the most fun I've had in a limited format since original Zendikar.
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Almost as bad is the game I was winning 27-4 with a dominant board when my opponent casts Startled Awake and flashes back Geistblast to mill 26.
To add an insult to an injury, his firstpick was Nahiri, lying in his sideboard with absolutely no protection (he did not have sleeves).
Yeah, I managed to live the Startled Awake/Geistblast dream once in a draft as well. Sucks to be the receiving one, I admit.
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It's not clear exactly what happened from this post, but lifelink always gives life to the creature's controller, not whoever controls the effect that grants lifelink.
In the cube draft afterwards he topdecked Torch Fiend the turn after I tapped out for an Isochron with Mana Drain on it.
I got mana screwed game one, then managed to pull it out game 2. Game 3 I kept on two lands and a strong curve. He plays Manic Scribe on the second turn and hits two lands plus a creature. I can't play anything passed turn two and get steamrolled by a mediocre ground assault.
What bugs me most is that he's not a dumb or inexperienced player. He shouldn't be playing an archetype like mill in a format like this period, and he knows better. But he did so anyway, probably on a lark. The fact that I was literally the Delirium deck just exacerbated my tilt.
I'm officially proposing we retire the word "insane" from the MtG vocabulary.
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