Game 2 of a Splinter Twin Mirror Match on MTGO. I've sided out all my copies of Splinter Twin. I'm ahead (I think I had Keranos out), but the game is not over. I do have a Deceiver Exarch out. My opponent goes for the combo and I Redirect his twin onto my Exarch. He conceded.
He was really chill about it. He said (earlier in the match) that it was his first time playing the mirror; he definitely got a skewed introduction to it.
That is already 8 cards you have listed assuming the "bunch of equipment" is one other equipment. I count 12 damage as the most you can do in this scenario.
I assume he used the plains and Mox Opal to drop a Puresteel Paladin before dropping equipment to keep his hand full.
Just yesterday I played against some GR Ramp deck. I was on Jund.
It was game 1 so I had of course no idea what he was on. I cast Inquisition of Kozilek and see a hand with lands, those mana-adding land auras, a Garruk Wildspeaker and a Karn Liberated. I take one of the auras since I didn't really have a choice to take something else. I play a Tarmogoyf and my plan is to keep killing his mana creatures to keep him of his big stuff. Sadly didn't work out that way and he got a Garruk Wildspeaker on the field. On his next turn he casts Obliterate(!!!) and his Garruk was the only permanent remaining on the battlefield. I played a land and passed.
He minuses him to make a beast token trying to kill me while I don't have stuff. I play a second land and a Dark Confidant.
Want to know how the game ended? I had a Dark Confidant, a Tarmogoyf and 4 lands in play with more cards in hand while he only had a single Forest on the field as he died.
Mine aren't as good as some of these, but were... memorable, at least.
The first was from my very first Modern tournament. I was playing Jeskai Ascendancy combo vs Burn. I start my combo, eventually getting all 4 Fatestitchers on the field, and activate 2 Faerie Conclaves. They are pretty large by this point, since I want to make sure that I can still kill him in one shot if he has Lightning Helix or something. My opponent says nothing, just leaning back and looking smug the whole time. Another player walks by and this exchange happens:
Bystander: "Whoa, this guy has an army over here!" Opponent: "It's fine, he just played them. They can't attack." Bystander: "Uh, Unearth gives haste." Opponent: *dawning realization, no longer smug* "Oh. I scoop."
It wasn't really his fault though, my local game store only started doing Modern recently. Some local players aren't familiar with Modern decks, or even what gets played in Modern. That was part of why I picked a lesser known deck, so most of my opponents wouldn't know what the heck I was up to. I also had a transformational sideboard, to morph into UR Delver on game 2. It would have been a great mind-game, except...
A friend walks by right after game 1 of round 1. I am in process of boarding into Delver, but trying to make it look like I am considering each card. He says, right in front of my opponent: "Whatcha playing? Looks like UR Delver..."
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The other was from another tourney a few weeks later. I was playing 8 Rack in the finals vs Scapeshift. We had two really close games and ended up going to game 3. I control him all game, eventually backing him into a corner with 2 racks on him and no cards in hand. He untaps and goes to 2. I am still at 18 or 19. He draws his last card... and, with a huge smile, shows me Scapeshift for the win. I usually consider myself a gracious loser, but that was the closest I have ever been to flipping a table.
I'm playing UR Gift Storm. I've quite a few of epic moments, of stealing wins from the narrowest line with this new line of play (although it won't work against all decks...)
1. Either set up ascension, or sandbag a Goblin Electromancer. And of course all the necessary diggings via cantrips
2. Throughout each of opponent's turn, I'll plan and calculate 2-3 turns ahead to see when they'll be able to kill me off.
3. Once I've identified the pivot turn, i.e. they will most definitely kill me the next turn, I'll cast Gifts Ungiven end of their turn, and storm off on my turn.
But this has got to be my favourite so far;
>playing against G/u Infect
>Game 2
>I sided in Lightning Bolts (4 in deck now), Unburial Rites + Elesh Norn, and 2 Empty the Warrens
>Sided out 4 Gitaxian Probe, 1 Past in Flames, 1 Grapeshot, 1 Pyromancer Ascension
>tl;dr summary of game progression is as such
>>he casts few infect creatures, with 1 dryad arbor. I Lightning bolted twice and grapeshot x2 to remove them
>>He also has a Relic of Progenitus in play, while i have non-active Pyromancer Ascension in play, while Elesh Norn in graveyard
>>He tries his best to leave 1 mana open to exile my graveyard before any shenanigans
>>Game is tight
>>I have 2 goblin electromancers, and bringing the beat down with them
>>Opp down to 7, fetch a forest and down to 6.
>>I've 5 lands in play, 2 Goblin Electromancers in play, 2 lightning bolts in graveyard. Past in Flames and Gifts Ungiven in hand
>>I was calculating a lot, and decided casts PiF, fully anticipating him to exile my graveyard in response. And I'll cast gifts ungiven after that to try to storm off (which is difficult as ascension is inactive. But he's left 6 life so should still be ok)
>>But he lets my PiF resolves.
>>I literally went "Wat? Resolves?"
>>"Yeap. Go ahead"
>>"Serious??"
>>"Do your *****s man go ahead"
>>"Ok lol double lightning bolt to you"
Another time was also against G/u Infect. I sided in Unburial Rites + Elesh Norn package.
>Opp: Drops land. Casts Glistening Elf. Go
>Me: Drop land. Bolt. Go
>Opp: Drops land. Casts Blighted Agent. Go
>Me: Drop land. Cantrip. Bolt. Go
>Opp: Drops Dryad arbor. Go
>Me: Drop land. Go (Opp: "Eh? Nothing doing?")
>Opp: Drops another infect crit. I can't remember as i was grinning away as he casted that
>Me: End of your turn, casts Pyretic Ritual. Tap Island for blue, i have URRR. Gifts Ungiven for Elesh Norn + Unburial Rites
>My turn: Drop land. Manamorphos for UW, draw a card, taps 2 land, I have UWRR. Flashback Unburial Rites for Elesh Norn.
His board was cleared, with only 1 Inkmoth and 1 forest left.
Definitely 2 of my more memorable moments. There are plenty more but it's boring to write out here; UR Storm is fun for the pilot, but very unfun for opponent. haha
I was playing RG Tron at a Modern fnm. 4th and last round against Grixis Cruel Control, but with 4 Snapcaster and 4 Bolts. 3rd game. He casted 2 Slaughter Games, removing Karn and somewhat, Wurmcoil or O-Stone. Game drags on long, he finally pressures me with a Creeping Tarpit and Bolts. Gets me down to 1 Life, while he was at 15. He had 6 Lands in play, that is all his permanents. (You see it? ). Then he passes the turn. I have 2 lands in hand, Tron online and 12 mana, one of the handcards being another Urza's Tower. Opponent calculates my mana, we both see that only Emrakul can save the day, if I would have another Tower. I show him my cards in hand, we both laugh. Then I flip the top card of my library instead of drawing it.
He sees doom first, his smile disappears.
Last weekend I took my one-drop zoo build to my first modern FNM at the LGS. I was up against RG tron in game 3 round 3 to go to the finals.
The game was back and forth with me getting the early beats with a thalia (from the sideboard) in play. He then used a board wipe to give him time to build up tron next turn because he had just used a map. Luckily, the board wipe killed thalia which let me cast molten rain to keep him off tron for 1 more turn. I top-decked boros charm the next turn for the win.
In the finals the other guy and I draw-split for in-store credit and the promo (we played for fun after the submission and he demolished me with grixis twin). I was pretty stoked that my first event with the modern deck i had been building for months ended in a finals placing.
Last PPTQ with my Rakdos deck, we were 1-1 in the match, we're both at 6, I have 2 Dark Confidants on the board, and I choose to go all-in by casting a 3rd. Guy chuckles, plays a dude holding back a card in hand. Passes the turn, I resolve my 3 triggers, revealing 3 lands (!), then draw a removal for his only creatures, he looks at his hand then scoops, signs off and silently walk away. Thanks, Bob!
At this point my opponent smiles and says "Sorry, bud, I had the god draw, you're dead on your upkeep" (or something to that effect). In retrospect he may have been cheating, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt for now. At this point I calmly tell him "My copy of Pact targets your Pact. Copy on the stack: activate Æther Vial. Do you have any responses?" When he says no, I put my trusty 1-drop into play. "Copy still on the stack: sacrifice Judge's Familiar targeting my copy of Pact. I choose not to pay. My copy is countered. Your copy resolves. My turn? Pass turn. Good game."
Escaping a Mindslaver lock while playing against mono-U tron.
I am playing my own brew, an Abzan dredge-Unburial Rites deck with Knight of the Reliquary and I just played Knight on the field when my opponent has the Academy Ruins and mana open to 'slaver lock me.
He says as much and I say to play through at least a turn and see what happens. He takes my turn, tapping my Boseiju to ping me and something else fairly irrelevant with my mana, then says end the turn and puts the 'slaver back on top of his deck. He did not activate my Knight.
During his upkeep, I activate my Knight to sacrifice a Godless Shrine and search up a Ghost Quarter to destroy the Academy Ruins. He admits the misplay and for the rest of the night says "always tap the Knight."
I'v been brewing an abzan Ghostway deck which does some hilarious playlines sometimes.
My favourite game so far was vs Tron (I hate tron). I have a eternal witness in play and 4 mana open. On hist turn 4 he plays Ugin, the spirit dragon in his otherwise empty board, probably expects me to scoop, I don't, and then +ugin bolts the witness. I save it with a restoration angel. My turn I play tectonic edge break his tron and attack ugin for 5. His turn he minus 4's ugin (killing it) to wipe the board, I play ghostway, saving my creatures, eternal witness returns ghostway, resto blinks witness returning tec edge and then he scoops.
Alright, so I was a PPTQ and was up against the regional champion (At the time), G2, and he was at 11 health. I was experimenting with Grixis Delver pre-Khans, and had managed to flip a Delver of Secrets.
As I was entering Combat, he payed four life to kill my Insectile Aberration with Dismember, I countered it with Countersquall (6 life loss, 5 total now), swung with my bug (9, 2 left) and then Bolted him for the win.
The look on his face was priceless
Almost Top 8ed that with a never-before-played brew, too. Came down to me and Murican Control seeing who could Bolt eachother first and he drew it before I did :/
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Also because you can always fail to find a land effectively destroying all the plains/forests.
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Or grab said Ghost Quarter and kill two lands at a time by failing to find on the Ghost Quarter trigger. Mindslaver is really brutal once its pilot understands your deck.
I draw into Island, Arcbound Ravager, and Mox Opal. Beating down with my 5/1 memnite is enough to race his Tarmogoyf, and I'm able to use the ravager to make Nexus huge when he is able to Maelstrom Pulse the plating. Eventually, I'm presenting lethal on the board. He still hasn't hit his fourth land drop. He untaps, draws... and plays a Treetop Village. After the game, he showed me the Creeping Corrosion that had been in his hand the whole time.
2 rounds later at that same tournament, I'm on the draw game 1 against the mirror. He plays a Vault Skirge and passes.
game 2 vs jank at a gpt. i am on rug twin and keep a garbage 7 card, 5 land anger + combust hand vs a horrid gw deck.
Her turn two play was nyx fleece ram. I draw exarch and tap a land on turn 3. She then plays an aura on the nyx fleece ram. It gets bigger ang bigger and bigger over many turns whilst I brick and draw lands due to her also playing a sunbound on it. Then a lifelink enchantmet. She starts swinging and my garbage hand obviously can't kill it. I draw huntmaster and start flipping it back and forth with bolts and stuff continuing to chump this 40 power nyx fleece ram. I never find a twin or cryptic to bounce it with 6 outs in the deck and she eventually finds a rancor to trample over me for the win.
TLDR, I keep a bad seven rationalizing its a good keep because the deck I was playing against was jank and die to a 40 power nyx fleece ram.
I also been milled down to 1 card left with archive trap in my deck and beating my opponent to four with a clique. I untap and need a burn spell or something. I flip snapcaster over and kill him with clique and snapcastering one of the numerous burn spells in my gy to win the match. That same match I also crypticed seven times through 4 natural ones and three snapcasters. cryptic stopped his onslaught of jace's phantasms and manlands while clique battled in the air
My opponent gets Door to Nothingness into play and activates it, only to finally notice the Leyline of Sanctity I've had in play the whole time. This was online.
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Things WotC cares about:
-making certain Standard cards can be played in Modern, therefore increasing their value and increasing WotC's profit margin
Things WotC does not care about:
-keeping the ban list as short as possible
-taking chances with an entire format for the benefit of a single card
-catering to play styles that newer players generally don't like and will lose them more players than it will gain
-keeping the meta balanced between archetypes/colors/whatever
-keeping cards on the secondary market cheap (available yes, but not cheap)
-keeping the meta diverse (as long as a single deck doesn't threaten the popularity of the format)
Today against R/G Tron at a PPTQ ( I was on Junk Midrange) I Fulminator Mage 'd his Urza's Tower into Surgical Extraction on the tower. No tron for you.
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This happened yesterday. Game two - I'm on Soul Sisters and my opponent is Grixis Twin. I have him locked out of the combo win with two Ghostly Prison and a Suppression Field. I cast Archangel of Thune, which he Vedalken Shackles next turn and drops a Splinter Twin on. I top deck Sundering Growth to break the shackles and take back the (still tapped) Archangel. He drops Rending Volley, promptly screams something a profanity filter would catch when he realizes I have an Honor of the Pure out and drops a second twin onto a Snapcaster Mage to Rending Volley again.
Back in my bogles days, I was having one of my poorer performances, going 1-2 heading into the final round of a local tournament. My opponent was very friendly, complimenting my shirt and joking around a bit with me while we shuffled. We drew our hands and both kept -- I didn't have a bogle in my opener, but I had quite a few good auras and a couple lands, including a fetchland that could get dryad arbor. I played my fetch and passed, then he played a tapped celestial collonade and passed. I smiled, as I figured this meant he was on UWR Control, a very good matchup for bogles. End of his turn I fetched for my arbor. I then topdecked a bogle, and tapped my arbor to play it. My opponent then promptly said "Yeah, I concede the round." I later heard him say that he didn't feel like playing against bogles and he figured it was only to see who went 2-2 anyways, though jokes on him, 2-2 is the store credit cutoff. Ahh, I miss bogles...
At a Modern GP Side Event. I play Tron (I love it), and I am on the draw. It is round 3, played against delver and scapeshift (Cruise and Dig were legal back then).
My starting hand is Tower, Plant, O-Stone, Emrakul, Ulamog on a mull to 5. I keep it because I'm tired and annoyed by the previous rounds (though it's a virtual mull to three). He plays Forest and passes. I draw a Grove, play Plant and pass. Opponent fetches with Scalding Tarn for a Steam Vents and plays Chalice of the Void on one. I see I am up against some sick Scapeshift brew. I draw the Mine (Tron in hand now), play it and pass. Opponent just plays a land and passes. I complete Tron (drew Map) and resolve Oblivion Stone. He plays a land and passes. Now I draw another Tower (10 mana), crack O-Stone against Chalice, search another Tower with Map (13 mana). He plays another land and passes. I cast Ulamog, it resolves and kills a green source. He Digs EOT, plays a land in his turn and passes again! I draw another Plant (15 mana) and cast Emrakul. He scoops.
Game 2 I resolve Ulamog again. Next turn, I attack, Annihilator 4 wrecks his lands, he Snapcaster-Digs before blockers and is tapped out. With his three Islands and one UG Filterland, I play Boil (I love Tron and I love this card). He rages like "you are having all of the top-deck fun" and scoops again.
2 - 0 against a Dig through Time powered Scapeshift. Amongst my sweetest memories of Tron games.
He was really chill about it. He said (earlier in the match) that it was his first time playing the mirror; he definitely got a skewed introduction to it.
I assume he used the plains and Mox Opal to drop a Puresteel Paladin before dropping equipment to keep his hand full.
That game was just so hilarious.
The first was from my very first Modern tournament. I was playing Jeskai Ascendancy combo vs Burn. I start my combo, eventually getting all 4 Fatestitchers on the field, and activate 2 Faerie Conclaves. They are pretty large by this point, since I want to make sure that I can still kill him in one shot if he has Lightning Helix or something. My opponent says nothing, just leaning back and looking smug the whole time. Another player walks by and this exchange happens:
Bystander: "Whoa, this guy has an army over here!"
Opponent: "It's fine, he just played them. They can't attack."
Bystander: "Uh, Unearth gives haste."
Opponent: *dawning realization, no longer smug* "Oh. I scoop."
It wasn't really his fault though, my local game store only started doing Modern recently. Some local players aren't familiar with Modern decks, or even what gets played in Modern. That was part of why I picked a lesser known deck, so most of my opponents wouldn't know what the heck I was up to. I also had a transformational sideboard, to morph into UR Delver on game 2. It would have been a great mind-game, except...
A friend walks by right after game 1 of round 1. I am in process of boarding into Delver, but trying to make it look like I am considering each card. He says, right in front of my opponent: "Whatcha playing? Looks like UR Delver..."
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The other was from another tourney a few weeks later. I was playing 8 Rack in the finals vs Scapeshift. We had two really close games and ended up going to game 3. I control him all game, eventually backing him into a corner with 2 racks on him and no cards in hand. He untaps and goes to 2. I am still at 18 or 19. He draws his last card... and, with a huge smile, shows me Scapeshift for the win. I usually consider myself a gracious loser, but that was the closest I have ever been to flipping a table.
1. Either set up ascension, or sandbag a Goblin Electromancer. And of course all the necessary diggings via cantrips
2. Throughout each of opponent's turn, I'll plan and calculate 2-3 turns ahead to see when they'll be able to kill me off.
3. Once I've identified the pivot turn, i.e. they will most definitely kill me the next turn, I'll cast Gifts Ungiven end of their turn, and storm off on my turn.
But this has got to be my favourite so far;
>playing against G/u Infect
>Game 2
>I sided in Lightning Bolts (4 in deck now), Unburial Rites + Elesh Norn, and 2 Empty the Warrens
>Sided out 4 Gitaxian Probe, 1 Past in Flames, 1 Grapeshot, 1 Pyromancer Ascension
>tl;dr summary of game progression is as such
>>he casts few infect creatures, with 1 dryad arbor. I Lightning bolted twice and grapeshot x2 to remove them
>>He also has a Relic of Progenitus in play, while i have non-active Pyromancer Ascension in play, while Elesh Norn in graveyard
>>He tries his best to leave 1 mana open to exile my graveyard before any shenanigans
>>Game is tight
>>I have 2 goblin electromancers, and bringing the beat down with them
>>Opp down to 7, fetch a forest and down to 6.
>>I've 5 lands in play, 2 Goblin Electromancers in play, 2 lightning bolts in graveyard. Past in Flames and Gifts Ungiven in hand
>>I was calculating a lot, and decided casts PiF, fully anticipating him to exile my graveyard in response. And I'll cast gifts ungiven after that to try to storm off (which is difficult as ascension is inactive. But he's left 6 life so should still be ok)
>>But he lets my PiF resolves.
>>I literally went "Wat? Resolves?"
>>"Yeap. Go ahead"
>>"Serious??"
>>"Do your *****s man go ahead"
>>"Ok lol double lightning bolt to you"
Another time was also against G/u Infect. I sided in Unburial Rites + Elesh Norn package.
>Opp: Drops land. Casts Glistening Elf. Go
>Me: Drop land. Bolt. Go
>Opp: Drops land. Casts Blighted Agent. Go
>Me: Drop land. Cantrip. Bolt. Go
>Opp: Drops Dryad arbor. Go
>Me: Drop land. Go (Opp: "Eh? Nothing doing?")
>Opp: Drops another infect crit. I can't remember as i was grinning away as he casted that
>Me: End of your turn, casts Pyretic Ritual. Tap Island for blue, i have URRR. Gifts Ungiven for Elesh Norn + Unburial Rites
>My turn: Drop land. Manamorphos for UW, draw a card, taps 2 land, I have UWRR. Flashback Unburial Rites for Elesh Norn.
His board was cleared, with only 1 Inkmoth and 1 forest left.
Definitely 2 of my more memorable moments. There are plenty more but it's boring to write out here; UR Storm is fun for the pilot, but very unfun for opponent. haha
He sees doom first, his smile disappears.
Most epic win I had, I love Tron.
The game was back and forth with me getting the early beats with a thalia (from the sideboard) in play. He then used a board wipe to give him time to build up tron next turn because he had just used a map. Luckily, the board wipe killed thalia which let me cast molten rain to keep him off tron for 1 more turn. I top-decked boros charm the next turn for the win.
In the finals the other guy and I draw-split for in-store credit and the promo (we played for fun after the submission and he demolished me with grixis twin). I was pretty stoked that my first event with the modern deck i had been building for months ended in a finals placing.
My Turn 1: Plains, Æther Vial, pass turn.
Opponent's Turn 1: Gemstone Mine, Amulet of Vigor, pass turn.
My Turn 2: counter on Vial, Plains, Leonin Arbiter, pass turn.
Opponent's Turn 2: I don't remember the exact cards, but it was basically: Gemstone Mine, Summer Bloom, Simic Growth Chamber making six mana (for those unfamiliar, the Growth Chamber ETBs, untap from Amulet, tap for mana, bounce itself, do this 2 more times because of Summer Bloom), Hive Mind. Exile Simian Spirit Guide, cast Amulet of Vigor, hold priority, cast Pact of Negation on it.
At this point my opponent smiles and says "Sorry, bud, I had the god draw, you're dead on your upkeep" (or something to that effect). In retrospect he may have been cheating, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt for now. At this point I calmly tell him "My copy of Pact targets your Pact. Copy on the stack: activate Æther Vial. Do you have any responses?" When he says no, I put my trusty 1-drop into play. "Copy still on the stack: sacrifice Judge's Familiar targeting my copy of Pact. I choose not to pay. My copy is countered. Your copy resolves. My turn? Pass turn. Good game."
Escaping a Mindslaver lock while playing against mono-U tron.
I am playing my own brew, an Abzan dredge-Unburial Rites deck with Knight of the Reliquary and I just played Knight on the field when my opponent has the Academy Ruins and mana open to 'slaver lock me.
He says as much and I say to play through at least a turn and see what happens. He takes my turn, tapping my Boseiju to ping me and something else fairly irrelevant with my mana, then says end the turn and puts the 'slaver back on top of his deck. He did not activate my Knight.
During his upkeep, I activate my Knight to sacrifice a Godless Shrine and search up a Ghost Quarter to destroy the Academy Ruins. He admits the misplay and for the rest of the night says "always tap the Knight."
I went on to win the match.
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My favourite game so far was vs Tron (I hate tron). I have a eternal witness in play and 4 mana open. On hist turn 4 he plays Ugin, the spirit dragon in his otherwise empty board, probably expects me to scoop, I don't, and then +ugin bolts the witness. I save it with a restoration angel. My turn I play tectonic edge break his tron and attack ugin for 5. His turn he minus 4's ugin (killing it) to wipe the board, I play ghostway, saving my creatures, eternal witness returns ghostway, resto blinks witness returning tec edge and then he scoops.
T2 stony silence followed by a turn 3 blood moon.
Modern : Huh?
EDH : UBGW Thrasios / Tymna Combo UBGW // GRW Mayael Big Stuff GRW // GU Edric Timewalkers GU
Also because you can always fail to find a land effectively destroying all the plains/forests.
- L
"The problem isn't when Scissors says Rock is overpowered, it's when Paper says it is."
-Mark Rosewater
As I was entering Combat, he payed four life to kill my Insectile Aberration with Dismember, I countered it with Countersquall (6 life loss, 5 total now), swung with my bug (9, 2 left) and then Bolted him for the win.
The look on his face was priceless
Almost Top 8ed that with a never-before-played brew, too. Came down to me and Murican Control seeing who could Bolt eachother first and he drew it before I did :/
Or grab said Ghost Quarter and kill two lands at a time by failing to find on the Ghost Quarter trigger. Mindslaver is really brutal once its pilot understands your deck.
I topdeck Cranial Plating.
I draw into Island, Arcbound Ravager, and Mox Opal. Beating down with my 5/1 memnite is enough to race his Tarmogoyf, and I'm able to use the ravager to make Nexus huge when he is able to Maelstrom Pulse the plating. Eventually, I'm presenting lethal on the board. He still hasn't hit his fourth land drop. He untaps, draws... and plays a Treetop Village. After the game, he showed me the Creeping Corrosion that had been in his hand the whole time.
2 rounds later at that same tournament, I'm on the draw game 1 against the mirror. He plays a Vault Skirge and passes.
I draw up to 8 cards in hand, then play:
- Inkmoth Nexus
- 2 Memnite
- 2 Ornithopter
- Mox Opal, tap it to float a blue
- Mox Opal, sac the tapped one, tap it to play
- Master of Etherium.
That's a 6/6 (7/7 if Inkmoth is active), 2 1/3 fliers, and 2 2/2s, a total of 12 power, on TURN 1.
Her turn two play was nyx fleece ram. I draw exarch and tap a land on turn 3. She then plays an aura on the nyx fleece ram. It gets bigger ang bigger and bigger over many turns whilst I brick and draw lands due to her also playing a sunbound on it. Then a lifelink enchantmet. She starts swinging and my garbage hand obviously can't kill it. I draw huntmaster and start flipping it back and forth with bolts and stuff continuing to chump this 40 power nyx fleece ram. I never find a twin or cryptic to bounce it with 6 outs in the deck and she eventually finds a rancor to trample over me for the win.
TLDR, I keep a bad seven rationalizing its a good keep because the deck I was playing against was jank and die to a 40 power nyx fleece ram.
I also been milled down to 1 card left with archive trap in my deck and beating my opponent to four with a clique. I untap and need a burn spell or something. I flip snapcaster over and kill him with clique and snapcastering one of the numerous burn spells in my gy to win the match. That same match I also crypticed seven times through 4 natural ones and three snapcasters. cryptic stopped his onslaught of jace's phantasms and manlands while clique battled in the air
Modern:
RUGScapeshift[RUG...Occasionally with goyfs
RUGTarmotwinRUG(RIP)
Legacy:
UWxuwr miracles and stonebladeUWx
Commander:
UWRShu Yun/Ruhan SmashUWR
-making certain Standard cards can be played in Modern, therefore increasing their value and increasing WotC's profit margin
Things WotC does not care about:
-keeping the ban list as short as possible
-taking chances with an entire format for the benefit of a single card
-catering to play styles that newer players generally don't like and will lose them more players than it will gain
-keeping the meta balanced between archetypes/colors/whatever
-keeping cards on the secondary market cheap (available yes, but not cheap)
-keeping the meta diverse (as long as a single deck doesn't threaten the popularity of the format)
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Mtgo Modern
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As an affinity player as well, this 1st turn play just feels so good
We drew after time because his Engineered Explosives were buried and I couldn't keep enough threats to kill through his Jace, Architect of Thought.
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UBR Grixis Control
U Merfolk
Pauper
U Mono U Delver
Ancestral Visions is freed
My starting hand is Tower, Plant, O-Stone, Emrakul, Ulamog on a mull to 5. I keep it because I'm tired and annoyed by the previous rounds (though it's a virtual mull to three). He plays Forest and passes. I draw a Grove, play Plant and pass. Opponent fetches with Scalding Tarn for a Steam Vents and plays Chalice of the Void on one. I see I am up against some sick Scapeshift brew. I draw the Mine (Tron in hand now), play it and pass. Opponent just plays a land and passes. I complete Tron (drew Map) and resolve Oblivion Stone. He plays a land and passes. Now I draw another Tower (10 mana), crack O-Stone against Chalice, search another Tower with Map (13 mana). He plays another land and passes. I cast Ulamog, it resolves and kills a green source. He Digs EOT, plays a land in his turn and passes again! I draw another Plant (15 mana) and cast Emrakul. He scoops.
Game 2 I resolve Ulamog again. Next turn, I attack, Annihilator 4 wrecks his lands, he Snapcaster-Digs before blockers and is tapped out. With his three Islands and one UG Filterland, I play Boil (I love Tron and I love this card). He rages like "you are having all of the top-deck fun" and scoops again.
2 - 0 against a Dig through Time powered Scapeshift. Amongst my sweetest memories of Tron games.
Now think of this...
Batterskull'd Emrakul. Yep. It happened.
Modern:
BR Control
Grixis Bloo
EDH:
Food Chain Prossh
Land Wipe Maelstrom Wanderer
Selvala, Hearth of the Wilds Eldrazi