I am down to 12 life, being beaten down by a bunch of kithkin weenies, and brigid, hero of kinsbaile dominating my board. He's got 4 plains, a vivid meadow, and a swamp in play.
Playing a very very weak rogue deck in round 1, trying to get by... game 3 of the match.
Playing against merfolk deck of mediocre quality, but still better than the junk I'm playing.
I had been destroyed game 1, and then game 2, I won only by racing his very slow start with a cloak and daggered prickly boggart that I played on turn 1, and equipped on turn 4...
And now... somehow I'm in the finals with this really... awful deck. I feel almost guilty. I just got god draws on my cloak and dagger and God draws with ridiculous nevermaker/aethersnipe recursions...
He drops a Knacksaw Clique into play turn four. I play the grasp on it showing a hand with the clique, Glamer Spinners, and Isleback Spawn. I make him discard the spinners, and swing with both guys which go unblocked. His turn is to play the clique again which I tether on my turn. He drops down the isleback spawn, and passed the turn. I draw a card, enter declare attack phase, and swing with the lancer, and the clique. No blocks are made, and second main phase I untap the clique revealing a second knacksaw clique which I am able to play. My opponent scoops right there.
Triple Shadowmoor: I play out a turn 3 Knollspine Invocation and sit back, burning out every creature he plays. Eventually he runs out of gas and I sit for a while, getting in only one hit with a Cultbrand Cinder while we stare at each other and build up lands. At the end of turn I burn him with Flame Javelin for 6 (through the invocation :D) and Ashenmoor Leige for 4, untap and do the rest with Rattleblaze Scarecrow and Corrosive Mentor. From 17 to -2 in 3 turn steps.
I think my favorite tournement was in triple shadowmoore. White green deck with zero forms of crowd control.
Round one:
turn 4 getting a spawnwrithe out. Turn 7 playing a spectral possesion giving me 3 1/1 fliers. Turn 8 playing howl of the night pack. Turn 9 swing with everything, in response to combat damage mirrorweave targetting spawnwrithe effectively doubling my army =D.
Round 2:
Same tournement I have a 13/10 flying trample in the form of the 5/2 scuzzback marauders with a armored accention. He's effectively locking me down with a silkbind faerie and presense of gond. I manage to get out a seedcradle witch with an amazing top deck and untap my flying trample with +3/+3 more times then he can tap it and swing for lethal in the air.
Opponent has tapped Scuzzback Marauders enchanted with my curse of chains, and a gloomwidow's feast token (untapped). I attack into him with a 2/2 faerie swarm and a scuttlemutt (this is late game and I'm in topdeck mode, he has 2 cards in hand). He plays mercy killing on his scuzzback marauders, getting them back as a 4/1, plus 5 tokens; my curse of chains goes to the grave, and my faerie swarm becomes 1/1. Blocks the faerie swarm with 1/2 spider token, blocks scuttlemutt with 4/1 (this was a mistake, but he was gonna win this anyway). End turn, now he has 5 1/1's and a 1/2 to an empty board. I lose in short order.
Im against a mono black rouge deck im playing mono green elves and he has a heap of creatues, more than me. im on 2 he's on 17, I can deal 30 but he could still block.
Im dead next turn unless I can create a miricle.
I draw a elvish champion. Thats no good I think, but i play it anyway and he screams "NOOOOO!" I say "whats wrong your mono black." and I look over at his lands and he has a murmoring bosk.
YOU JUST GOT PWND!
what a dumb a**.:D
We were playing an SSS draft. game 3 of the finals. we both had 4-5 creatures on the table but i more or less had the upper hand (i would have won, had i drawn ANY non-land card during the next 3 turns(he had me on an unblockable-clock)) and since i already had about 9 lands lying in front of me, i was pretty sure i'd win this.
now the play: he randomly mills me for 4 with Memory Sluice, because he couldn't do anything else and the card was more or less worthless. he mills a removal spell (would have instantly won me the game if drawn) and 3 creatures (would have been enough to force him to block, kill all his creatures and kill him the next turn).
In the last draft, where I got 3rd and 5th pick Biting Tethers, even though the person on my right was in heavy blue, this happened: I play Biting Tether on my opponent's Valleymaker, next turn drop Leech Bonder. He had an aggro start, so I was on 4 life. I swing with Bonder, and remove a counter from Valleymaker to kill his lonely 1/1 Mudbrawler Raiders. I left Valleymaker at home, because he had haste creatures. He draws, and plays Traitor's Roar on a now 4/4 Valleymaker. Even Magic has double agents.
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I was playing U/B in my last draft. Lost badly to a G/W deck first round 2-0. Lost 2-1 against G/W/B second round. Third round I drew Inkfathom Infiltrator and Helm of the Ghastlord early two games in a row. It was ridiculous. 4/4 unblockable with the discard draw effect going to guarantee all the countermagic, removal, and mana that I needed. I probably could have messed it up, but it would have been really hard.
In the last draft, where I got 3rd and 5th pick Biting Tethers, even though the person on my right was in heavy blue, this happened: I play Biting Tether on my opponent's Valleymaker, next turn drop Leech Bonder. He had an aggro start, so I was on 4 life. I swing with Bonder, and remove a counter from Valleymaker to kill his lonely 1/1 Mudbrawler Raiders. I left Valleymaker at home, because he had haste creatures. He draws, and plays Traitor's Roar on a now 4/4 Valleymaker. Even Magic has double agents.
You didn't have any mountains or forests, did you? (If you're in blue, probably not... :-/) If you did you could have tapped the Valleymaker first, making Traitor's Roar be countered on resolution.
So I'm almost mono green, facing off against blue/black. He's stabilized at 6, with a knacksaw clique keeping my life total from growing past 18(I had the green "gain 1 life" land). The knacksaw clique pulls off the top nothing he can cast for 3 turns, then forest, then presence of gond. The 'gond-y' clique then proceeds to draw all 4 of my outs off the top.. 3 in the same turn. He decked me, through drawing 4-5 of my cards to every one I drew.
On the play I drop Silvergill Dowser on turn two. With my opponent playing a Plains to add to his Forest for his second turn I'm quite happy with my hand, which contains a second Dowser and Broken Ambitions.
On my second turn I have a choice... drop the second Dowser or hold mana open for Ambitions. Seems like a no-brainer. I play the Dowser.
(Actually I went on to win the game and ultimately the draft, but only because the rest of my deck was similarly sick.)
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I was facing a couple of 2/1 ground pounders and a 2/2, and I'm at 10 life... and he is at around 18 life...
I have jaws of stone as well as both Runes of the deus in hand, but only two mountains in play (so I can't conspire the jaws to kill Oona), with a wort, raid mother, her two tokens, and a couple of less important creatures and the 3/3 unblockable by blue guy on the ground...
I swing with the 3/3 unblockable by blue to take him down to 15.
He swings with Oona to take me to 5, then pays 7 for her ability... calls red, and finds 3 red cards producing 3 birds.
I topdeck gloomwidow's feast, kill Oona, and make a spider. He swings with the 3 faeries to take me to 3 life, and loses a faerie to the spider He plays silkbind faerie!
I draw mountain, and conspire jaws of stone to kill his entire board...
You didn't have any mountains or forests, did you? (If you're in blue, probably not... :-/) If you did you could have tapped the Valleymaker first, making Traitor's Roar be countered on resolution.
No, I was UB. In the same draft, I witnessed a play which clearly pwnd the opponent. A guy, which was sitting on my left during the draft, and was solid in RG. So, he has some mountains and forests in play, untaps, plays Elsewhere Flask, sacs it calling islands and drops Oona. In an RG deck with no other colored lands. His only ways of doing that was 2 Flasks and 2 or 3 Morselhoarders.
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I'm in the third game of the first round of a triple Shadowmoor draft. I'm playing G/r/w and my opponent is playing R/B. I have a Safehold Elite, Devoted Druid, and a Pila-Pala out, as well as 2 forests and a mountain. My opponent is sitting back on a growing army of creatures, but he's not attacking since they all have 1 toughness and he's trying to build up enough to kill me in one attack. I sit back and do nothing but attack with the Pila-Pala for about 5 turns while he makes more and more creatures. He probably could have killed me in that time, but if he started to attack, I'd play the Firespout I had in hand. But I also have a hand full of 5/6 cc creatures, and I'm stalling for some lands to make up for the loss of the Druid when I 'spout. So, he's finally built up critical mass, and I know he's gonna attack next turn. I resign myself to 'spouting and losing my Druid, but at least he had nothing left in his hand. I draw my card for the turn, hoping for a land, but it was even better than a land. Barkshell Blessing! I play it on the druid, conspiring with the Druid and Elite, making it a 4/6. I proceed to generate 5 green mana from it, tap a forest to play Morselhoarder, and remove both counters for 2 red mana and tap the mountain for an all-red Firespout, leaving him with an empty board and hand facing down my Pila-Pala, 'Hoarder, and persistant Elite. He conceded.
Now I had been surviving so far by faerie alone and was in trouble because of my mana flood. So I go and attack, and rip off the top of his library with the clique to reveal Jaws of Stone. Now I am jumping up and down thinking I will go ahead and use the flask to cast it and wrath his board. I mean topdecking off his deck for the win would have really been a "pwned" play.
But alas I am playing on v3 MTGO and when I try to cast jaws it counts HIS 2 mountains and not my 9. So I end up losing to the stupid client bug making this my worst pwned play ever.
This was in a TPF Premier Event on MtGO (a while ago, about a year I guess). It's a G/W mirror-match. We split the first two games, and in the third game I started out aggressive, bringing him to single digits before he filled the board with monsters and started to beat me down. I had a Spirit en-Dal which was working on his life total, but he had multiple fatties and I had to start chumpblocking. When he plays Augur il-Vec on 1 life, and having me dead on board next turn, I am about to concede as I didn't think I had any outs (Sunlance, Judge Unworthy and Temporal Isolation were my removal and neither of them would work). I had an Essence Warden and the Spirit en-Dal in play, and no cards in hand. He has at least four guys ready to block.
I draw and attack with both my guys. He blocks Essence Warden with a random 5/5 and the 2/1 shadow with the 1/3 Augur. I play Strength in Numbers for +2/+2. Unforgettable
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I am down to 12 life, being beaten down by a bunch of kithkin weenies, and brigid, hero of kinsbaile dominating my board. He's got 4 plains, a vivid meadow, and a swamp in play.
I have frogtosser banneret, turtleshell changeling with cloak and dagger on him, and that's it. 2 islands, a swamp, and a vivid creek. I have distant melody and mulldrifter in hand.
I play distant melody and draw 3... he plays a creature and says go with 2 cards in hand.
Next turn, I play a swamp, dewdrop spy for UU (he has bitterblossom on deck).
I play thieving sprite for 1B, thieving sprite for 1B... take his coordinated barrage and his dread! dread shuffles into his library and erases his bitterblossom too.
Play mulldrifter... bounce mulldrifter at the end of his turn... play thorntooth witch... he disconnects...
hahaha...
Me: I have a Sickle Ripper, and Wasp Lancer in play with River's Grasp, and Biting Tether in hand with a couple of other cards.
My opponent: Has a Scuttlemutt, Blight Sickle in play, and three cards in hand.
He drops a Knacksaw Clique into play turn four. I play the grasp on it showing a hand with the clique, Glamer Spinners, and Isleback Spawn. I make him discard the spinners, and swing with both guys which go unblocked. His turn is to play the clique again which I tether on my turn. He drops down the isleback spawn, and passed the turn. I draw a card, enter declare attack phase, and swing with the lancer, and the clique. No blocks are made, and second main phase I untap the clique revealing a second knacksaw clique which I am able to play. My opponent scoops right there.
The horror...
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UBGThe MimeoplasmUBG
I have a Gravegill Duo with Helm of the Ghastlord on it. My opponent just played a Silkbind Faerie, and has a tapped Seedcradle Witch and Safehold Elite in play.
I drop an Incremental Blight, wiping his board, and swing through. I drew Midnight Banshee off the Duo.
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UBGThe MimeoplasmUBG
Round one:
turn 4 getting a spawnwrithe out. Turn 7 playing a spectral possesion giving me 3 1/1 fliers. Turn 8 playing howl of the night pack. Turn 9 swing with everything, in response to combat damage mirrorweave targetting spawnwrithe effectively doubling my army =D.
Round 2:
Same tournement I have a 13/10 flying trample in the form of the 5/2 scuzzback marauders with a armored accention. He's effectively locking me down with a silkbind faerie and presense of gond. I manage to get out a seedcradle witch with an amazing top deck and untap my flying trample with +3/+3 more times then he can tap it and swing for lethal in the air.
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Im dead next turn unless I can create a miricle.
I draw a elvish champion. Thats no good I think, but i play it anyway and he screams "NOOOOO!" I say "whats wrong your mono black." and I look over at his lands and he has a murmoring bosk.
YOU JUST GOT PWND!
what a dumb a**.:D
Why don’t you take the test?
now the play: he randomly mills me for 4 with Memory Sluice, because he couldn't do anything else and the card was more or less worthless. he mills a removal spell (would have instantly won me the game if drawn) and 3 creatures (would have been enough to force him to block, kill all his creatures and kill him the next turn).
the next 3 cards i draw are lands. ^^
3rd place instead of 1st. well, still got my sunken ruins, since there were also graven cairns and demigod of revenge that were picked before the ruins.
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You didn't have any mountains or forests, did you? (If you're in blue, probably not... :-/) If you did you could have tapped the Valleymaker first, making Traitor's Roar be countered on resolution.
On the play I drop Silvergill Dowser on turn two. With my opponent playing a Plains to add to his Forest for his second turn I'm quite happy with my hand, which contains a second Dowser and Broken Ambitions.
On my second turn I have a choice... drop the second Dowser or hold mana open for Ambitions. Seems like a no-brainer. I play the Dowser.
My opponent plays a Swamp, then Doran the Siege Tower! Pwn3d!
(Actually I went on to win the game and ultimately the draft, but only because the rest of my deck was similarly sick.)
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I have jaws of stone as well as both Runes of the deus in hand, but only two mountains in play (so I can't conspire the jaws to kill Oona), with a wort, raid mother, her two tokens, and a couple of less important creatures and the 3/3 unblockable by blue guy on the ground...
He plays Oona, queen of the fae,
I swing with the 3/3 unblockable by blue to take him down to 15.
He swings with Oona to take me to 5, then pays 7 for her ability... calls red, and finds 3 red cards producing 3 birds.
I topdeck gloomwidow's feast, kill Oona, and make a spider. He swings with the 3 faeries to take me to 3 life, and loses a faerie to the spider He plays silkbind faerie!
I draw mountain, and conspire jaws of stone to kill his entire board...
Next turn I play runes of the deus, swing for 10...
He draws a chumper.
Then the next turn I play my second runes of the deus just for show, and swing with everybody.
No, I was UB. In the same draft, I witnessed a play which clearly pwnd the opponent. A guy, which was sitting on my left during the draft, and was solid in RG. So, he has some mountains and forests in play, untaps, plays Elsewhere Flask, sacs it calling islands and drops Oona. In an RG deck with no other colored lands. His only ways of doing that was 2 Flasks and 2 or 3 Morselhoarders.
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I witnessed this with Godhead instead of the knight.
Fair enough. In draft I'd definitely agree with you.
...I might have said "PWND!" though.
Drafted a black white deck and swept the whole draft. black-white with Idyllic tutor, weight of conscience, steel of the godhead, armored ascension, Eyeblight's ending, shriekmaw, (sideboarding: aethertow, thoughtweft gambit, inquisitor's snare).
I Shriekmawed so many things, it was SICK.
One game, down to 4 life, with opponent at 20... Turn 5 Shriekmaw to kill their steel of the godheaded flyer, play blocker, attack with shriekmaw, damage on stack, aethertow my own shriekmaw, replay shriekmaw, then swell of courage reinforce for 5 on the shriekmaw on the attack...
Scoop.
Won a foil mutavault, Foil promo lava axe, foil oona's blackguard, foil promo vexing shusher... along with lightning crafter grimoire thief, 6 boosters of crap rares (godhead of awe was the best). Beat 2 guys ranked way, way higher than me, who were just back from playing in regionals, and got the FOIL MUTAVAULT this dude bragged he was going to easily win... pwned by shriekmaw.
Now I had been surviving so far by faerie alone and was in trouble because of my mana flood. So I go and attack, and rip off the top of his library with the clique to reveal Jaws of Stone. Now I am jumping up and down thinking I will go ahead and use the flask to cast it and wrath his board. I mean topdecking off his deck for the win would have really been a "pwned" play.
But alas I am playing on v3 MTGO and when I try to cast jaws it counts HIS 2 mountains and not my 9. So I end up losing to the stupid client bug making this my worst pwned play ever.
I draw and attack with both my guys. He blocks Essence Warden with a random 5/5 and the 2/1 shadow with the 1/3 Augur. I play Strength in Numbers for +2/+2. Unforgettable