I haven't managed this yet, but all the cards are in one of my decks. Rest assured it will happen. Because 4 card combos that are absolutely awful make me feel so good inside
I haven't managed this yet, but all the cards are in one of my decks. Rest assured it will happen. Because 4 card combos that are absolutely awful make me feel so good inside
I'm sure this has been done a few times, but it's always a great feeling.
Four player game and I'm playing with Arcum Dagsson. We all had a decent board state (about turn 6 or 7) I've got a voltaic key, gilded lotus, grim monolith, thran foundry (lots of mana), I transmute artifact'd for a Winter Orb for me to set everything up how I like it. Next turn use Arcum's ability twice thanks to Minamo to get mycrosynth lattice and darksteel forge. With the mana floating I Time Warped. Following turn I get Nev's disc, untap with voltaic key and blow up everything apart from my side. Everyone else auto-conceded.
It's fun, but makes me feel like a bit of a jerk I'll have to put together a funner deck when I get some more money.
So of course I cast the Rite of Replication targeting Magmatic Force and kicked it. I then copied the Rite with Mirari and then copied it again with Riku. That gave me 16 Magmatic Force. I passed the turn and killed the guy to my left with 48 damage on the beginning of his upkeep. Did the same thing to the next guy. And then did it again to the next guy. And then I won. The entire table was laughing hysterically the whole time. It was fan-freaking-tastic.
I was playing Niv-Mizzet in a four person game. The other opponents were playing Sliver Overlord (and getting SEVERLY mana screwed), Grand Arbiter Augustin IV, and Sharuum the Hegemon. It is Sharuum's 6th turn and he has Sharuum out, Disciple of the Vault wearing Lighting Greaves. He taps 4 mana and tries to cast Phyrexian Metamorph targeting the Sharuum. He then looks at the new player (Sliver Overlord) and starts explaining how his combo works and will kill everyone. I tap 2 red mana and 2 blue and say in response to the Metamorph, I cast Starstorm for one killing his Disciple and that he basically just killed his general for us. The look on his face was PRICELESS!!!
Was about 14 turns into a very intense 6 player game, everyone had assembled out impressive fields. I was sitting on a very awesome collection of mana rocks (Thran Dynamo, Sol Ring, Izzet Signet, Ingot and Gilded Lotus). And after checking the board no one else had 3 artifacts so my combo could proceed uninhibited.
First thing was I played Hive Mind (blue player attempts a counterspell but I Reverberate it to save my enchantment). Then played Wheel of Fortune (copied with Hive Mind 6 times so we drew 42 cards by the time my last one resolved. My original plan was to dig for my Ulamog and just cast him but sitting in my hand was the key to victory, I play Molten Psyche and burn the table for 84 damage.
Sounds like something I would do if I had Hive Mind in my Niv-Mizzet deck...
Yeah I love hand reshufflers in my Niv-Mizzet deck, copied with Reverberate or Twincast or whatever else you do usually means death by Niv death ray
It's even better with Psychosis Crawler on the field!! I won the game I was referring to above by Twincasting a Wheel of Fortune with Niv and the Crawler out!! GOOD TIMES (for me)!!!!
The other day I was playing 5 color good stuff Scion of the Ur Dragon. I had a mana reflection in play with a Gilded Lotus on the field and I was currently searching for a target for my Body Double. The last graveyard I looked through was Azami's....I immediately knew what my target was. I windmill slam the double, saying this was the game changer. They all were like, "Lol whut?" So I told them my double was copying the Filigree Sages in Azami's yard. They still didn't understand what was going on, so it resolved. Then I created infinite mana of each color with my sages and Gilded Lotus, then dropped my Scion and turned him into a Hellkite Charger. If you think making infinite mana is awesome, then you must try doing it with your opponent's cards. Feels so much better
"Some of the other guys dared me to go out, but I knew it weren't no ordinary giant giga-blasting blaze of unending flames that would scorch the whole world."
—Norin the Wary
The other day I was playing 5 color good stuff Scion of the Ur Dragon. I had a mana reflection in play with a Gilded Lotus on the field and I was currently searching for a target for my Body Double. The last graveyard I looked through was Azami's....I immediately knew what my target was. I windmill slam the double, saying this was the game changer. They all were like, "Lol whut?" So I told them my double was copying the Filigree Sages in Azami's yard. They still didn't understand what was going on, so it resolved. Then I created infinite mana of each color with my sages and Gilded Lotus, then dropped my Scion and turned him into a Hellkite Charger. If you think making infinite mana is awesome, then you must try doing it with your opponent's cards. Feels so much better
I was confused at first I hadn't seen that you had a mana reflection out.
Playing multiplayer today with damia as my general. Mikaeus the Unhallowed is in play along with Puppeteer clique. I tutor up alter of dementia and mill one guy to nothing, take all his creatures and swing FTW. Ironically, I built the deck to hate on infinite combos.
Because conservative bias is a far, far worse thing. Liberal bias doesn't, statistically speaking, make people stupid. Conservative bias (or at least Fox's version of it) does.
Yesterday, I hit an Instant-speed card in response to an opponent's Sensei's Divining Top following his playing Knowledge Pool. A free Ulamog for me destroying the Pool was quite satisfying at the cost of a Krosan Grip. I am in fact only fairly certain that this works the way that we decided, but either way, it was an interesting scenario.
Yesterday, I hit an Instant-speed card in response to an opponent's Sensei's Divining Top following his playing Knowledge Pool. A free Ulamog for me destroying the Pool was quite satisfying at the cost of a Krosan Grip. I am in fact only fairly certain that this works the way that we decided, but either way, it was an interesting scenario.
It does. KP instructs you to cast the spell, and Ulamog triggers off of being cast.
The other day I was in a five player game, the generals were Grimgrin (me), Azusa, Darien, Scion, and Arcanus.
Azusa has Seedborne Muse and Ant Queen and has just made a stupid amount of ants on Arcanus, Darien, and my turns.
It gets to Scion's turn and he knows Azusa plans to swing him out, so he needs to deal with the ants. He plays Heartbeat of Spring and using it plus Doubling Cube puts 48 mana into his pool. He then casts Insurrection. In response Darien pops a soldier to Knight-Captain of Eos fogging the field for the turn. Scion can't kill Azusa with combat, so now he needs a new plan. With 40 mana left, he Genesis Waves for 20, which puts a Savage Twister into his grave and a Leyline of Anticipation into play along with a an Oracle of Mul-Daya.
Then, while the Relic's ability is still on the stack, he casts Demonic Tutor fetching Praetor's Counsel and casts it. In response Arcanus casts Mindbreak Trap exiling the Counsel and the Snapcaster Mage. Finally the Relic resolves.
The turn ends with a wiped board except for my Geralf's Messenger whose Undying dodged the exile.
It does. KP instructs you to cast the spell, and Ulamog triggers off of being cast.
Well, it was more that I was uncertain of Split Second (though realistically, I should listen to common sense). The argument was made following the successful casting of Ulamog that Split Second no longer applied, where I'd have argued that Split Second applies until the trigger resolves. There was ultimately no need; no one else tried to cast a spell following the grip anyway.
Well, it was more that I was uncertain of Split Second (though realistically, I should listen to common sense). The argument was made following the successful casting of Ulamog that Split Second no longer applied, where I'd have argued that Split Second applies until the trigger resolves. There was ultimately no need; no one else tried to cast a spell following the grip anyway.
Split second only applies while Krosan Grip is on the stack, and doesn't affect triggered abilities anyway.
Split second only applies while Krosan Grip is on the stack, and doesn't affect triggered abilities anyway.
Right, but it does prevent anyone from casting a spell and beating me to the punch for the first crack at knowledge pool, save for other relatively uncommon circumstances. My point is that according to Split Second and the triggered ability of the pool, no one is casting anything until I have the chance to cast Ulamog.
The potential confusion from my group seemed to be that the triggered ability somehow removed Krosan Grip's disabling my opponents in casting Instants to access the Pool's cards before I could via Split Second. They seemed to misunderstand that even with Krosan Grip removed, I am in the middle of a triggered ability and must resolve it in full—that is, remove Krosan Grip and cast a spell. They cannot, for example, let Krosan Grip be removed, cast a spell, take Ulamog, then let the second half of my triggered ability pass. They thought the triggered ability was a two-step process between the parts of which they could respond and thus have the chance to cast a spell before I got the chance.
This just happened on Cockatrice and I wish I had been running fraps or something to vid-cap this.
It's turn 7ish of a multiplayer game, I'm playing an Aikido/Spellslinger Riku styled deck that I've been working on against Wrexial, Geth, and Azusa... This quickly turned into a haymaker for haymaker match.
Geth had been trying to combo off the entire game for arbitrary mana amounts and milling peoples decks and Wrexial had been playing control, firing off many a counter and graveyard hate card to try and keep Geth under control. Azusa... well.. Azusa ramped land and played Prime time, that's what started this whole thing off.
All I have on board is Crystal Shard, Rhystic Study, Riku, Sol Ring, and 9 lands as I hadn't missed a land drop on top of my 2 ramp spells. I was holding a twincast and divert for trying to protect Riku but I didn't have much else. Turn passes to me and I draw Rite of Replication... I lay land, putting me at 11 mana. I cast Rite of Replication targeting the Prime Time and pay for the Copy Trigger... They resolve. (!!!).. I pass my turn as I search out all of my lands. Wrexial untaps, draws, passes... I assumed holding something to stop my army. Geth cast Damnation and follows up with Mikaeus the Unhallowed, Azusa passes turn.
I untap wondering what the hell anyone has in hand and drap my card- Eternal Dominion. Look at the Twincast and Divert in hand and go for it. Cast Eternal Dominion and Copy with Riku targeting the Wrexial player, Cryptic Command flies out, I twincast it to draw a card and counter the original Cryptic, Imp's Mischief comes from the now tapped out Geth player on my Cryptic which gets Diverted to the Divert.... Nothing else, the stack resolves and I begin to look through Wrexial's library. I was laughing hysterically on my end taking a Mirror-Mad Phantasm and Labratory Maniac, copying the Phantasm. Activate the copy, mill my deck, and flashback my own Deep Analysis to win the game with Wrexial's combo.
I was just playing a test game earlier today using my proxy Maelstrom Wanderer deck... Maelstrom Wanderer and Thada Adel, Acquisitor both got a Chancellor of the Spires+Rite of Replication loop out for an arbitrary number of Chancellors (both had RoR in the 'yard, Wanderer cast Chancellor, and Thada managed to flashback the RoR via Snapcaster Mage afterward). Unfortunately, Wanderer had Vicious Shadows, and an Oblivion Stone underneath a Mosswort Bridge. 120+ triggers off Vicious Shadows kills the table assuming everyone has a hand
(At least the 5C deck at the table didn't try to cast Decree of Pain while there were that many Chancellors in play.)
Long story but worth a read, It fact I enjoyed this game so much I made an account just to post this. The outcome is shown in the pic below, though it is low quality.
This was one of the weirdest games of EDH I have ever had. The players were Jhoria( Top left), White Akroma(Top Right), and Merieke(Bottom right), and me playing my favorite general Riku. The game started off pretty normal until Akroma got a Battlegrace angel out and put a Quietus Spike on it. He hit Jhoria and Merieke to my surprise since I had a Swiftfoot boots on Riku, doubling season , and Krosan restorer( Def a hidden gem in my deck).I knew I was next so I EOT Mystical Tutor for Green Sun's Zenith. I had exactly enough mana to cast GSZ for my Hornet Queen(Favorite card in my deck this thing does EVERYTHING I need it to).
Things stabilized with Jhoria suspending a Scourge of Kher Ridges and a Blightsteel colossus, but im not too worried since Merieke has a Prison Term out. Then Jhoria Clones Battlegrace Angel to heal up some, which I liked(at first) since Riku lives. Jhoria casts Followed Footsteps on my hornet queen, to which I smirk. On my turn I play and copy Blatant thievery stealing some mana rocks and Akroma from Akroma, some land and Prison term from Merieke and of course Followed footsteps from Jhoria. Game goes on with little happening since at some point I had Vorinclex out for a little and locked down their mana before he died. Merieke plays Etherwrought Page and passes. My turn comes around and I get my 2 hornet queens and 16 tokens thanks to Doubling Season. Jhoria's turn the blightsteel comes into play and move prison term onto it.
Then the crazy happened, Jhoria attacked with Scourge alone to get lifelink( Shoulda stolen that angel but I knew it would die from when he killed my tokens with Scourge) which was not too bad until she activated the second ability. At first I didnt notice since I was sad that the Hornet empire's reign has ended but I got over it when I realized that the dragon still had lifelink. She went from like 25 to 180 in one turn. Merieke has been mana starved most of this time but we saw him tutor for a Magister Sphinx( Originally planned for revenge for Quietus spike which died somewhere up there due to a steel hellkite). After this sometime Jhoria suspended Time Stretch......
The game now is can Meri get the Sphinx out in time with the backup plan being general damage from my stolen hexproof Akroma(Prot Red to get past the dragon). I keep drawing bad things like land, but I eventually get doubling cube and then I play and copy my Avatar of Fury for 3 total(Side note Island of Wak-Wak doesn't affect firebreathing effects as I just found out). Jhoria used Neurok Stealthsuit and put it on Scourge to keep it safe since it is her MVP for sure. Well, Meri gets Master Transmuter out and thinks she has it, until I laugh and Jhoria taps mana for Scourge's first ability and bashes Merieke. Merieke is now at 2 or so life and uses Etherwrought Page to look at the top card, she tells us it is Sensei's Top and asks if she should keep it. I tell her no, she is 1 mana away from the Sphinx and without it she dies next turn to scourge. She bins the top like I said and drew a land! Yay! Oh wait, it is a CIPT land. Boo! Merieke dies.
Here is where it gets scary,Jhoria suspends Time Stretch and oh yeah, remember that prison term I stole? Yup I had it on Blightsteel this whole time, when Merieke died she brought along her the prison term. I and stuck with a land of 1-2 lands and nothing else since I have been getting screwed over. My draw Mulldrifter,perfect. I tap all my land and all my mana rocks and doubling cube it. I evoke Mulldrifter , and copy it with Riku for 2 perma drifters and 6 cards. First 2 cards , Land and mana vault. ****. Second two cards land and Rite of replication, YAY I WIN. But no Blightsteel has the stealthsuit on him now so I may have to settle for a dragon and hope for no wrath. Last draw 2 cards land and Terastadon. **** YEAH. I play the Elephant but don't copy him( Though afterwards I did notice I had 2 mana left over but meh) and use the elephant to kill some trash and the stealthsuit. Then I kick rite of replication and copy it. Yup with doubling season that is 20 Blightsteel Colossi. I pass the turn as everyone is laughing, including a spectator or two we attracted to the game, and trying to figure out what can stop this. Jhoria kills Akroma's only blocker and swings with her colossus . Akroma plays Angel's Grace knowing he would just die on his next end step. I swing with all my Colossi and hit the Jhoria player for 220 infect damage,even if it wasnt infect she only had 116 life and I had more guys to swing with.
TL;DR Riku is fun, Rite of replication is fun, Blightsteel colossus is fun. Also, when 19 Blightsteels are just not enough, go for 20.
A discussion ensued, started by the third player, of how he hates Blightsteel Colossus and thinks poison damage should be higher, while I explained to him that it had to survive to attack, and you had to not have had two toughness worth of guys to survive, and if you did then an additional round of turns would give you time to deal with it, etc. The third player doesn't draw an out, and it comes to my turn. I topdecked like a champ: Sculpting Steel, to kill my buddy who got the Blightsteel in the first place. Urabrask did double duty there, we were all laughing quite hard.
A discussion ensued, started by the third player, of how he hates Blightsteel Colossus and thinks poison damage should be higher, while I explained to him that it had to survive to attack, and you had to not have had two toughness worth of guys to survive, and if you did then an additional round of turns would give you time to deal with it, etc. The third player doesn't draw an out, and it comes to my turn. I topdecked like a champ: Sculpting Steel, to kill my buddy who got the Blightsteel in the first place. Urabrask did double duty there, we were all laughing quite hard.
Nice dude, there is nothing more satisfying then taking out a player with their own stuff (or a copy of it!)
1. Conspiracy
2. March of the Machines
3. Elbrus, the Binding Blade
4. Moonmist
5. Profit
The Ur-Dragon (WUBRG) - Changeling Combo Tribal
Chromium (WUB) - Artifact Beats
Progenitus (WUBRG) - Dredge
Damia, Sage of Stone (GBU) - Elf-storm Tendrils
My Cube Unpowered
My Peasant-ish/Tribal-ish Cube
So let me get this strait, you are adding 3 cards to transform Elbrus, the Binding Blade as opposed to paying (1) and attacking?
Four player game and I'm playing with Arcum Dagsson. We all had a decent board state (about turn 6 or 7) I've got a voltaic key, gilded lotus, grim monolith, thran foundry (lots of mana), I transmute artifact'd for a Winter Orb for me to set everything up how I like it. Next turn use Arcum's ability twice thanks to Minamo to get mycrosynth lattice and darksteel forge. With the mana floating I Time Warped. Following turn I get Nev's disc, untap with voltaic key and blow up everything apart from my side. Everyone else auto-conceded.
It's fun, but makes me feel like a bit of a jerk I'll have to put together a funner deck when I get some more money.
So of course I cast the Rite of Replication targeting Magmatic Force and kicked it. I then copied the Rite with Mirari and then copied it again with Riku. That gave me 16 Magmatic Force. I passed the turn and killed the guy to my left with 48 damage on the beginning of his upkeep. Did the same thing to the next guy. And then did it again to the next guy. And then I won. The entire table was laughing hysterically the whole time. It was fan-freaking-tastic.
Whatever I build from my Box-o-EDH stuff
Legacy
Sneak and Show
UR Delver
Scapeshift Nic Fit
Modern
Merfolk
I collect pre-release Stone-Tongue Basilisk
Sounds like something I would do if I had Hive Mind in my Niv-Mizzet deck...
now. Just to find a copy...
I collect pre-release Stone-Tongue Basilisk
It's even better with Psychosis Crawler on the field!! I won the game I was referring to above by Twincasting a Wheel of Fortune with Niv and the Crawler out!! GOOD TIMES (for me)!!!!
I collect pre-release Stone-Tongue Basilisk
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It does. KP instructs you to cast the spell, and Ulamog triggers off of being cast.
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Azusa has Seedborne Muse and Ant Queen and has just made a stupid amount of ants on Arcanus, Darien, and my turns.
It gets to Scion's turn and he knows Azusa plans to swing him out, so he needs to deal with the ants. He plays Heartbeat of Spring and using it plus Doubling Cube puts 48 mana into his pool. He then casts Insurrection. In response Darien pops a soldier to Knight-Captain of Eos fogging the field for the turn. Scion can't kill Azusa with combat, so now he needs a new plan. With 40 mana left, he Genesis Waves for 20, which puts a Savage Twister into his grave and a Leyline of Anticipation into play along with a an Oracle of Mul-Daya.
Scion casts Snapcaster Mage, and we all know it's going for Savage Twister. While Snapcaster is on the stack, Darien pops his Relic of Progenitus. Scion now needs another way to cast the twister. He can see the top of his library is an All Sun's Dawn thanks to Mul-Daya, so he Unburial Rites a Sakura-Tribe Elder to trigger the Mentor of the Meek he stole from Darien, allowing him to draw it. He then casts it returning the Savage Twister and using it at x=7 to kill everything on the board.
Then, while the Relic's ability is still on the stack, he casts Demonic Tutor fetching Praetor's Counsel and casts it. In response Arcanus casts Mindbreak Trap exiling the Counsel and the Snapcaster Mage. Finally the Relic resolves.
The turn ends with a wiped board except for my Geralf's Messenger whose Undying dodged the exile.
EDH Decks
BGGlissa, the TraitorGB
URTibor and LumiaRU
WUBOloro, Ageless AsceticBUW
UBSygg, River CutthroatBU
RGXenagos, God of RevelsGR
UGVorel of the Hull CladeGU
GBSavra, Queen of the GolgariBG
URGMaelstrom WandererGRU
Well, it was more that I was uncertain of Split Second (though realistically, I should listen to common sense). The argument was made following the successful casting of Ulamog that Split Second no longer applied, where I'd have argued that Split Second applies until the trigger resolves. There was ultimately no need; no one else tried to cast a spell following the grip anyway.
Split second only applies while Krosan Grip is on the stack, and doesn't affect triggered abilities anyway.
EDH Decks:
RBG Kresh, the Bloodbraided RBG
GW Rhys, the Redeemed GW
Legacy:
RGW Enchantress RGW
Right, but it does prevent anyone from casting a spell and beating me to the punch for the first crack at knowledge pool, save for other relatively uncommon circumstances. My point is that according to Split Second and the triggered ability of the pool, no one is casting anything until I have the chance to cast Ulamog.
The potential confusion from my group seemed to be that the triggered ability somehow removed Krosan Grip's disabling my opponents in casting Instants to access the Pool's cards before I could via Split Second. They seemed to misunderstand that even with Krosan Grip removed, I am in the middle of a triggered ability and must resolve it in full—that is, remove Krosan Grip and cast a spell. They cannot, for example, let Krosan Grip be removed, cast a spell, take Ulamog, then let the second half of my triggered ability pass. They thought the triggered ability was a two-step process between the parts of which they could respond and thus have the chance to cast a spell before I got the chance.
It's turn 7ish of a multiplayer game, I'm playing an Aikido/Spellslinger Riku styled deck that I've been working on against Wrexial, Geth, and Azusa... This quickly turned into a haymaker for haymaker match.
Geth had been trying to combo off the entire game for arbitrary mana amounts and milling peoples decks and Wrexial had been playing control, firing off many a counter and graveyard hate card to try and keep Geth under control. Azusa... well.. Azusa ramped land and played Prime time, that's what started this whole thing off.
All I have on board is Crystal Shard, Rhystic Study, Riku, Sol Ring, and 9 lands as I hadn't missed a land drop on top of my 2 ramp spells. I was holding a twincast and divert for trying to protect Riku but I didn't have much else. Turn passes to me and I draw Rite of Replication... I lay land, putting me at 11 mana. I cast Rite of Replication targeting the Prime Time and pay for the Copy Trigger... They resolve. (!!!).. I pass my turn as I search out all of my lands. Wrexial untaps, draws, passes... I assumed holding something to stop my army. Geth cast Damnation and follows up with Mikaeus the Unhallowed, Azusa passes turn.
I untap wondering what the hell anyone has in hand and drap my card- Eternal Dominion. Look at the Twincast and Divert in hand and go for it. Cast Eternal Dominion and Copy with Riku targeting the Wrexial player, Cryptic Command flies out, I twincast it to draw a card and counter the original Cryptic, Imp's Mischief comes from the now tapped out Geth player on my Cryptic which gets Diverted to the Divert.... Nothing else, the stack resolves and I begin to look through Wrexial's library. I was laughing hysterically on my end taking a Mirror-Mad Phantasm and Labratory Maniac, copying the Phantasm. Activate the copy, mill my deck, and flashback my own Deep Analysis to win the game with Wrexial's combo.
(At least the 5C deck at the table didn't try to cast Decree of Pain while there were that many Chancellors in play.)
Two Score, Minus Two or: A Stargate Tail
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This was one of the weirdest games of EDH I have ever had. The players were Jhoria( Top left), White Akroma(Top Right), and Merieke(Bottom right), and me playing my favorite general Riku. The game started off pretty normal until Akroma got a Battlegrace angel out and put a Quietus Spike on it. He hit Jhoria and Merieke to my surprise since I had a Swiftfoot boots on Riku, doubling season , and Krosan restorer( Def a hidden gem in my deck).I knew I was next so I EOT Mystical Tutor for Green Sun's Zenith. I had exactly enough mana to cast GSZ for my Hornet Queen(Favorite card in my deck this thing does EVERYTHING I need it to).
Things stabilized with Jhoria suspending a Scourge of Kher Ridges and a Blightsteel colossus, but im not too worried since Merieke has a Prison Term out. Then Jhoria Clones Battlegrace Angel to heal up some, which I liked(at first) since Riku lives. Jhoria casts Followed Footsteps on my hornet queen, to which I smirk. On my turn I play and copy Blatant thievery stealing some mana rocks and Akroma from Akroma, some land and Prison term from Merieke and of course Followed footsteps from Jhoria. Game goes on with little happening since at some point I had Vorinclex out for a little and locked down their mana before he died. Merieke plays Etherwrought Page and passes. My turn comes around and I get my 2 hornet queens and 16 tokens thanks to Doubling Season. Jhoria's turn the blightsteel comes into play and move prison term onto it.
Then the crazy happened, Jhoria attacked with Scourge alone to get lifelink( Shoulda stolen that angel but I knew it would die from when he killed my tokens with Scourge) which was not too bad until she activated the second ability. At first I didnt notice since I was sad that the Hornet empire's reign has ended but I got over it when I realized that the dragon still had lifelink. She went from like 25 to 180 in one turn. Merieke has been mana starved most of this time but we saw him tutor for a Magister Sphinx( Originally planned for revenge for Quietus spike which died somewhere up there due to a steel hellkite). After this sometime Jhoria suspended Time Stretch......
The game now is can Meri get the Sphinx out in time with the backup plan being general damage from my stolen hexproof Akroma(Prot Red to get past the dragon). I keep drawing bad things like land, but I eventually get doubling cube and then I play and copy my Avatar of Fury for 3 total(Side note Island of Wak-Wak doesn't affect firebreathing effects as I just found out). Jhoria used Neurok Stealthsuit and put it on Scourge to keep it safe since it is her MVP for sure. Well, Meri gets Master Transmuter out and thinks she has it, until I laugh and Jhoria taps mana for Scourge's first ability and bashes Merieke. Merieke is now at 2 or so life and uses Etherwrought Page to look at the top card, she tells us it is Sensei's Top and asks if she should keep it. I tell her no, she is 1 mana away from the Sphinx and without it she dies next turn to scourge. She bins the top like I said and drew a land! Yay! Oh wait, it is a CIPT land. Boo! Merieke dies.
Here is where it gets scary,Jhoria suspends Time Stretch and oh yeah, remember that prison term I stole? Yup I had it on Blightsteel this whole time, when Merieke died she brought along her the prison term. I and stuck with a land of 1-2 lands and nothing else since I have been getting screwed over. My draw Mulldrifter,perfect. I tap all my land and all my mana rocks and doubling cube it. I evoke Mulldrifter , and copy it with Riku for 2 perma drifters and 6 cards. First 2 cards , Land and mana vault. ****. Second two cards land and Rite of replication, YAY I WIN. But no Blightsteel has the stealthsuit on him now so I may have to settle for a dragon and hope for no wrath. Last draw 2 cards land and Terastadon. **** YEAH. I play the Elephant but don't copy him( Though afterwards I did notice I had 2 mana left over but meh) and use the elephant to kill some trash and the stealthsuit. Then I kick rite of replication and copy it. Yup with doubling season that is 20 Blightsteel Colossi. I pass the turn as everyone is laughing, including a spectator or two we attracted to the game, and trying to figure out what can stop this. Jhoria kills Akroma's only blocker and swings with her colossus . Akroma plays Angel's Grace knowing he would just die on his next end step. I swing with all my Colossi and hit the Jhoria player for 220 infect damage,even if it wasnt infect she only had 116 life and I had more guys to swing with.
TL;DR Riku is fun, Rite of replication is fun, Blightsteel colossus is fun. Also, when 19 Blightsteels are just not enough, go for 20.
Hrm. So you're right, it doesn't. None of us caught that, woopsie.
Epic story is suddenly much less awesome
A discussion ensued, started by the third player, of how he hates Blightsteel Colossus and thinks poison damage should be higher, while I explained to him that it had to survive to attack, and you had to not have had two toughness worth of guys to survive, and if you did then an additional round of turns would give you time to deal with it, etc. The third player doesn't draw an out, and it comes to my turn. I topdecked like a champ: Sculpting Steel, to kill my buddy who got the Blightsteel in the first place. Urabrask did double duty there, we were all laughing quite hard.
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Nice dude, there is nothing more satisfying then taking out a player with their own stuff (or a copy of it!)
Two Score, Minus Two or: A Stargate Tail
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