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.)
I was testing a half-proxied deck with Maelstrom Wanderer at the helm (coming with Planechase 2). I had managed to ramp out the *** that game, and I had 20 lands in play, including 3 fetchlands that I hadn't cracked.
My opponent to my left was tapped out from his previous turn, and he controlled a reanimated Avenger of Zendikar I owned. So I targeted it with Crystal Shard before my turn. Then I cast Avenger, getting 20 0/1 tokens. Then I copied Avenger with Kik-Jiki, getting another 20 tokens. Then I bounced Avenger with Crystal Shard, and cast it again, for a total of 60 0/1 plants. I cracked my three fetchlands, triggering double landfall (Avenger+Kiki copy) each time to make it 60 6/7 plants. And Maelstrom Wanderer was in play, giving them all haste. The player to my right was playing Slivers, so I think he deserved it.
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Playing Thada Adel, Acquisitor, I pulled out a totally nutty opening:
T1: Island, Sol Ring (2U)
T2: Island, Rhystic Study (2UU, +1 draw)
T3: Island, Thran Dynamo, Worn Powerstone (7UUU, +1 draw)
T4: Island, Fabricate->Gilded Lotus, Mystic Remora, Sower of Tempataion->Skithyirx, the Blight Dragon* (7UUUUUUU, +2 draw)
* Cast via Dark Ritual the previous turn
Things got steadily worse for my opponents from there. Rite of Replication with kicker on a Solemn Simulacrum, Gauntlet of Power, Extraplanar Lens, Knowledge Exploitation into a Eureka (I dropped 3 lands, a creature, and 2 artifacts off of it including Mindslaver; the player to my left dropped the Kaldra set; and the player to my right dropped a Basilisk Collar). The only reason the game went on as long as it did was because the player to my left managed to stack up Asceticism, Opal-Eye, Konda's Yojimbo, and Eight-and-a-Half-Tails. Ultimately I had to use Mindslaver to simply get past his defense and push in lethal damage.
At the end of Garza's turn, I activate o-stone to put a fate counter on my Gilded Lotus (I've only got 4 lands, but 12 mana thanks to artifacts; I want some insurance for when I use o-stone). Garza responds with activating Mimic Vat to make a copy of o-stone, but realizes too late that he's one mana short of blowing up the board. So he puts a fate counter on Mimic Vat instead.
I swing at Garza with Thada, to play a Solemn Simulacrum from his deck (need more lands before o-stone goes!).
Grimgrim casts Lord of the Undead and kicks a Rite of Replication on it. Garza and I do what we can to get rid of them, but with me at 13 life, Grimgrim swings at me with an unblocked 15 power, so I have to blow o-stone earlier than I would have liked. Mimic Vat, Gilded Lotus, and Grimgrim survive.
Garza takes me down to 8 (Grimgrim is at 10 and Garza is at 16). I Acquire an Echo Chamber from Garza, and use it to kill off Grimgrim.
Grimgrim casts Living Death, and Garza counters with Twincast, which Grimgrim counters (though in hindsight he realizes he could have sacrificed all his creatures after the first Living Death, to get them back a second time from the second Living Death). Grimgrim has 7 zombies (including Undead Alchemist) plus Wrexial, the Risen Deep.
I draw into a Time Stop and try to use it after Graveborn Muse resolves (putting Grimgrim at 3), but he's got Dralnu, Lich Lord and a counterspell in his graveyard. Grimgrim swings Wrexial at me, and all the zombies at Garza, but Garza uses Memory Plunder to cast my Time Stop.
Garza takes me down to 3 with his general (also putting me at 20 damage from Garza). Grimgrim uses Go for the Throat on his Graveborn Muse to ensure he doesn't kill himself on his upkeep. Then he swings out at Garza, putting the life totals at Grimgrim:3, Me:3, Garza:6. Wrexial casts Diabolic Tutor, which I Spelljack.
Early in the game, Triplets used Oblation on Thada. Later, Triplets uses Tunnel Vision on me as a "gift" to get Thada back. It leaves me with a 14-card deck. I play on, using my Academy Ruins to recur a number of the artifacts that had been milled, including Extraplanar Lens and Crucible of Worlds to get mana (since there were like 4 lands left in my deck)
The Teferi player quits out of impatience when the Sheoldred player disconnects, and Sheoldred starts trying to exile targets from my graveyard. What Sheoldred missed, however, was my Memnarch, which I quickly recurred when Sheoldred tapped out. (Sheoldred was more immediately concerned with getting rid of my Strip effects so that I couldn't do mean things with Crucible.) Then, Sheoldred tried to play his general, which I stole with Desertion. Unfortunately, Triplets used Phyrexian Rebirth before I could reanimate anything.
Still, I pumped out Memnarch, and between the Extraplanar Lens, Crucible, and the Sword of Feast and Famine I had stolen earlier I soon had total control over the game. With 14 cards in my library.
Oblivion Stone later destroyed some of my efforts, but with Academy Ruins, I built up again. Also, stealing a Darksteel Colossus from Triplets helped.
Sheoldred used Elixir of Immortality to get some breathing room from the Colossus, which I took to mean, "Attack me with Thada to get your deck back!" Which I did. And then two turns later, he played Elixir again.
Ashling suspends an early Wheel of Fate, so rather than my normal strategy of playing Thada and stealing things, I'm spitting out my hand as fast as I can (thank goodness I've got several mana rocks). The turn before Wheel will drop, the Ashling player plays Stuffy Doll, choosing me.
My turn, I've ramped up enough mana to play Extraplanar Lens, Duplicant (exiling Stuffy Doll), and Keiga. I've used up all my mana rocks and land drops, and I've just got a couple cards left (though they're nice ones, like Future Sight), and then the Wheel drops. I draw into a bunch of land and Mystical Tutor, as well as Rimefeather Owl.
On my turn, I swing with Keiga at the Ashling player (I'd rather not play Thada, since Ashling is already threatening the board with 3 counters), and I play Rimefeather Owl (a 3/3; most of my mana at the moment is mana rocks). On his turn, Ashling uses Trash for Treasure to get back the Caged Sun he discarded to the Wheel. Fortunately, that means he can't pop Ashling to take out my Owl.
I pump my Owl up to 10, and swing at Ashling for 15. Ashling quits.
The remaining player (Darien) got mana screwed at the beginning of the game, but he's starting to come back. He's got a couple weenies on the board, and passes the turn back to me. I use my tutor to find Rite of Replication. The previous turn, I had drawn Twincast. So, on my turn, rather than activating the Owl's ability, I make 10 copies of him. I swing, pass, and ask, "Got a Wrath? :)"
Thada Adel steals 2 Sol Rings, and I play one
Blatant Thievery steals Grimoire of the Dead (2 counters) and Nevnyrral's Disk (and Kaalia, which is quickly Terminated)
Grimoire Discards Sphinx Ambassador
Float 6 mana off the Sol Rings
Activate Grimoire, respond with Disk. Get ALL THE CREATURES EVERYWHERE.
Use my 5 floating mana to pay the kicker on Rite of Replication, targeting Solemn Simulacrum.
I was playing Planeswalker EDH just the other day; I was running Thada Adel, Acquisitor, to my right was Rhys the Redeemed, and to my left was The Mimeoplasm. My deck is the one I use frequently, because I enjoy it a lot; my two friends were running brand new decks, which had each only been played once prior (against each other in a duel).
We started the game in Lethe Lake, unfortunately powering up Mimeoplasm; my first turn I hit Memnarch, Bribery, and Notorious Throng. Rhys and I ran away from Lethe Lake as fast as possible. Mimeoplasm was gunning for me from turn one, hoping to eliminate me before I could stabilize and take control of the game. Rhys was content to sit back and generate an army of tokens.
Mimeoplasm powered out Wrexial, the Risen Deep, used my Bribery to play my Sower of Temptation and steal Rhys, then used my Notorious Throng to create Faeire tokens, which he then started multiplying with the Rhys he stole. I was fighting an uphill battle, not drawing any fliers to block the Faeries, and not drawing any answers to the islandwalking Wrexial. I managed to Planeswalk to The Eon Fog after Mimeoplasm tapped out to save me for a turn, but he managed to Planeswalk away with his free roll.
Later, Mimeoplasm had me down to 15 life (Rhys and Mimeoplasm were both in their mid-upper 30s), had 20 faerie tokens; he tried to cast his general, and I responded with Cryptic Command, countering the general and tapping his creatures. On my turn, I drew Snapcaster Mage, and tapped Mimeoplasm down again on his next turn.
We were on Horizon Boughs, and I had Extraplanar Lens, Knowledge Exploitation, and Blatant Thievery in my hand. Thievery wasn't much use, since Wrexial had Lightning Greaves and Rhys' field was almost entirely 1/1 tokens. I hit Mimeoplasm with Thada so that I could Prowl Knowledge Exploitation, played Extraplanar Lens, and Exploitation, and found Living Death in Mimeoplasm's deck... which brought back Memnarch... while I had a mana doubler out, while we were on the Seedborn Muse plane. I went from being in the worst position at the table, to stealing 3 permanents on each player's turn.
The most amusing thing about the story is that we were about to set up to play a tabletop RPG, and one member of our group joins remotely via Skype. I talked to her on the phone, and told her I'd be setting up the computer in a minute, since I was almost dead, and then 20 minutes later, I'd won the game.
Game starts off slow, and as I usually do, I try to drop Thada T3, but Teferi Spell Crumples it (since he was the only other person in the game with actual Islands, presumably he was afraid of the Islandwalk). I buff up myself and Teferi with Extraplanar Lens and Gauntlet of Power, and then I drop a Mind Sculptor. Teferi flashes in his general and takes out my Mind Sculptor, the first damage actually dealt the entire game.
Teferi re-casts his general, and drops Knowledge Pool. I comment 'at least wrath-baby is already in play', but next turn Teferi uses Bribery on me, pulling out Gilded Drake, stealing Child of Alara. Then he plays Duplicant to get rid of Keiga, the last possible answer to Teferi+Pool in play already.
Once Olivia and Mayael see what's up, they quit in disgust/frustration, but I stay in the game waiting to see if Teferi will make any mistakes, and Horde stays in, presumably for the same reason. A couple turns later, Future Sight shows Capsize on the top of my deck, so I cast it just to see what's next... and Teferi gets bounced. I re-read Knowledge Pool and see that it's got a "cast from hand" stipulation, meaning that Future Sight is my answer to the combo, without me realizing it.
Another couple turns, and Teferi is back on the field. I play a land from the top of my deck, and see Blatant Thievery... score! I steal Teferi and one of Horde's filter lands, and then Teferi quits in disgust (after asking how I could've cast Blatant, despite me mentioning the loophole when I Capsized Teferi the first time). Best answer to Teferi/Pool combo evar.
Thada Adel, Acquisitor* equipped with Whispersilk Cloak
Karador, Ghost Chieftain enchanted with Control Magic
Sower of Temptation
Extraplanar Lens imprinting Snow-Covered Island
Coldsteel Heart
Sensei's Divining Top ('acquired')
Mind's Eye enchanted with Steal Artifact
Sol Ring ('acquired')
Mystic Remora (1 age counter)
Oblivion Stone ('acquired')
10x Snow-Covered Island
Scrying Sheets
Academy Ruins
Player B (17 life, 1 card in hand):
2x Artisan of Kozilek (one is a token copy)
Indrik Stomphowler
Animar, Soul of Elements* (4 +1/+1 counters)
1/1 flying Spirit creature token
Avatar of Fury
Thorn Elemental
Riku of Two Reflections
3x Mountain
2x Forest
4x Island
Temple of the False God
Simic Growth Chamber
Jungle Basin
Rootbound Crag
Player C (32 life, 3 cards in hand):
Aquastrand Spider (2 +1/+1 counters)
Ghave, Guru of Spores* (9 +1/+1 counters)
Vampire Nighthawk
Sun Ce, Young Conquerer
Sygg, River Guide*
Crovax, Ascendant Hero
4x Plains
7x Island
Forsaken City
Urza's Factory
* Indicates the player's general
Turn 49
Play Snow-Covered Island
Attack player C with Thada, exile Darksteel Ingot
Knowledge Exploitation targeting player D, finding Bribery
Bribery targeting player C, finding Dark Hatchling
Dark Hatchling destroys Riku
Treachery targeting Animar
Rite of Replication with Kicker targeting Artisan
Dream Leash targeting Thorn Elemental
Confiscate targeting Artisan
Duplicant exiling Avatar of Fury
Empress Galina EOT: Tapped out except for Sol Ring
Turn 50
Pay for Mind's Eye trigger, and activate Sensei's Top
Player B attacks Player D with Indrik, Spirit token, and Artisan token
Player D sacrifices 2 Islands
Crovax blocks Indrik, Sun Ce blocks Artisan, player D is down to 20 life
Player B plays Deadwood Treefolk, returning Intet, the Dreamer to his hand
Player B plays Intet
Turn 51
Player C concedes
Turn 52
Player D plays Illusions of Grandeur (now at 40 life), I draw from Remora
Player D plays Expedition Map, I draw from Remora
Player D plays Stasis, I draw from Remora
Player D activates Expedition Map, fetching Glacial Chasm, which he plays
Turn 53
Due to Stasis, I fail to pay the upkeep for Remora
Play Strip Mine, and destroy Glacial Chasm
Animar and one of the Artisans attack player B
5 Artisans and Duplicant attack player D
Player B sacrifices an island and forest; player D sacrifices all of his lands
Intet and Deadwood double-block Animar; Sygg and Crovax each block an Artisan
Sygg, Crovax, and Intet all die. Player B and D are both at 8 life
Discard Teferi's Isle
Turn 54
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Turn 55
With no lands, player D fails to pay Illusions of Grandeur's upkeep, and loses 20 life (-12)
Turn 56
Capsize (with kicker) Deadwood, player B returns Coiling Oracle to his hand
Player B concedes
I play Dark Hatchling, destroying Avatar of Fury. He swings out and after blocking I'm down to 2 life. Riku's still at 40. My turn, I play The Mimeoplasm, cloning Dark Hatchling and exiling Avatar of Fury, taking out Trench Gorger with the hatchling's CiP effect.
The game comes to a standstill, as I can't afford to open myself up to attack, and Riku can't get through my defense any more for those last 2 points. Both of us build up for a while, with things like an evoked Mulldrifter and a Fleshbag Marauder combining with my Grave Pact to keep his numbers lower than mine.
Eventually, I've got an opening with my 9/9 Dark Hatchling (The Mimeoplasm) and I can maintain my defenses. Riku goes down to 31, laughing it off.
The next turn I topdeck Vow of Wilderness to make it a 12/12 Dark Hatchling (The Mimeoplasm), and swing in for the win on 21 general damage.
(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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My opponent to my left was tapped out from his previous turn, and he controlled a reanimated Avenger of Zendikar I owned. So I targeted it with Crystal Shard before my turn. Then I cast Avenger, getting 20 0/1 tokens. Then I copied Avenger with Kik-Jiki, getting another 20 tokens. Then I bounced Avenger with Crystal Shard, and cast it again, for a total of 60 0/1 plants. I cracked my three fetchlands, triggering double landfall (Avenger+Kiki copy) each time to make it 60 6/7 plants. And Maelstrom Wanderer was in play, giving them all haste. The player to my right was playing Slivers, so I think he deserved it.
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Playing Thada Adel, Acquisitor, I pulled out a totally nutty opening:
T1: Island, Sol Ring (2U)
T2: Island, Rhystic Study (2UU, +1 draw)
T3: Island, Thran Dynamo, Worn Powerstone (7UUU, +1 draw)
T4: Island, Fabricate->Gilded Lotus, Mystic Remora, Sower of Tempataion->Skithyirx, the Blight Dragon* (7UUUUUUU, +2 draw)
* Cast via Dark Ritual the previous turn
Things got steadily worse for my opponents from there. Rite of Replication with kicker on a Solemn Simulacrum, Gauntlet of Power, Extraplanar Lens, Knowledge Exploitation into a Eureka (I dropped 3 lands, a creature, and 2 artifacts off of it including Mindslaver; the player to my left dropped the Kaldra set; and the player to my right dropped a Basilisk Collar). The only reason the game went on as long as it did was because the player to my left managed to stack up Asceticism, Opal-Eye, Konda's Yojimbo, and Eight-and-a-Half-Tails. Ultimately I had to use Mindslaver to simply get past his defense and push in lethal damage.
Two Score, Minus Two or: A Stargate Tail
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Two Score, Minus Two or: A Stargate Tail
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Relevant board:
Me: Oblivion Stone (owned by Grimgrim), Thada Adel, Grimgrim (enchanted with Crab Umbra)
Grimgrim: Gilded Lotus (owned by me), enchanted with Steal Artifact, Graveborn Muse, Shepherd of Rot
Garza: Mimic Vat (imprinting Phyrexian Metamorph)
At the end of Garza's turn, I activate o-stone to put a fate counter on my Gilded Lotus (I've only got 4 lands, but 12 mana thanks to artifacts; I want some insurance for when I use o-stone). Garza responds with activating Mimic Vat to make a copy of o-stone, but realizes too late that he's one mana short of blowing up the board. So he puts a fate counter on Mimic Vat instead.
I swing at Garza with Thada, to play a Solemn Simulacrum from his deck (need more lands before o-stone goes!).
Grimgrim casts Lord of the Undead and kicks a Rite of Replication on it. Garza and I do what we can to get rid of them, but with me at 13 life, Grimgrim swings at me with an unblocked 15 power, so I have to blow o-stone earlier than I would have liked. Mimic Vat, Gilded Lotus, and Grimgrim survive.
Garza takes me down to 8 (Grimgrim is at 10 and Garza is at 16). I Acquire an Echo Chamber from Garza, and use it to kill off Grimgrim.
Grimgrim casts Living Death, and Garza counters with Twincast, which Grimgrim counters (though in hindsight he realizes he could have sacrificed all his creatures after the first Living Death, to get them back a second time from the second Living Death). Grimgrim has 7 zombies (including Undead Alchemist) plus Wrexial, the Risen Deep.
I draw into a Time Stop and try to use it after Graveborn Muse resolves (putting Grimgrim at 3), but he's got Dralnu, Lich Lord and a counterspell in his graveyard. Grimgrim swings Wrexial at me, and all the zombies at Garza, but Garza uses Memory Plunder to cast my Time Stop.
Garza takes me down to 3 with his general (also putting me at 20 damage from Garza). Grimgrim uses Go for the Throat on his Graveborn Muse to ensure he doesn't kill himself on his upkeep. Then he swings out at Garza, putting the life totals at Grimgrim:3, Me:3, Garza:6. Wrexial casts Diabolic Tutor, which I Spelljack.
I tutor for Lightning Graves, and use Rite of Replication on Shepherd of Rot. Equip greaves and tap to make everyone lose 12 life.
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Players: Thada Adel, Acquisitor (Me); Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir (left); Sheoldred, Whispering One (across); Sen Triplets (right)
Early in the game, Triplets used Oblation on Thada. Later, Triplets uses Tunnel Vision on me as a "gift" to get Thada back. It leaves me with a 14-card deck. I play on, using my Academy Ruins to recur a number of the artifacts that had been milled, including Extraplanar Lens and Crucible of Worlds to get mana (since there were like 4 lands left in my deck)
The Teferi player quits out of impatience when the Sheoldred player disconnects, and Sheoldred starts trying to exile targets from my graveyard. What Sheoldred missed, however, was my Memnarch, which I quickly recurred when Sheoldred tapped out. (Sheoldred was more immediately concerned with getting rid of my Strip effects so that I couldn't do mean things with Crucible.) Then, Sheoldred tried to play his general, which I stole with Desertion. Unfortunately, Triplets used Phyrexian Rebirth before I could reanimate anything.
Still, I pumped out Memnarch, and between the Extraplanar Lens, Crucible, and the Sword of Feast and Famine I had stolen earlier I soon had total control over the game. With 14 cards in my library.
Oblivion Stone later destroyed some of my efforts, but with Academy Ruins, I built up again. Also, stealing a Darksteel Colossus from Triplets helped.
Sheoldred used Elixir of Immortality to get some breathing room from the Colossus, which I took to mean, "Attack me with Thada to get your deck back!" Which I did. And then two turns later, he played Elixir again.
Two Score, Minus Two or: A Stargate Tail
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Ashling suspends an early Wheel of Fate, so rather than my normal strategy of playing Thada and stealing things, I'm spitting out my hand as fast as I can (thank goodness I've got several mana rocks). The turn before Wheel will drop, the Ashling player plays Stuffy Doll, choosing me.
My turn, I've ramped up enough mana to play Extraplanar Lens, Duplicant (exiling Stuffy Doll), and Keiga. I've used up all my mana rocks and land drops, and I've just got a couple cards left (though they're nice ones, like Future Sight), and then the Wheel drops. I draw into a bunch of land and Mystical Tutor, as well as Rimefeather Owl.
On my turn, I swing with Keiga at the Ashling player (I'd rather not play Thada, since Ashling is already threatening the board with 3 counters), and I play Rimefeather Owl (a 3/3; most of my mana at the moment is mana rocks). On his turn, Ashling uses Trash for Treasure to get back the Caged Sun he discarded to the Wheel. Fortunately, that means he can't pop Ashling to take out my Owl.
I pump my Owl up to 10, and swing at Ashling for 15. Ashling quits.
The remaining player (Darien) got mana screwed at the beginning of the game, but he's starting to come back. He's got a couple weenies on the board, and passes the turn back to me. I use my tutor to find Rite of Replication. The previous turn, I had drawn Twincast. So, on my turn, rather than activating the Owl's ability, I make 10 copies of him. I swing, pass, and ask, "Got a Wrath? :)"
Two Score, Minus Two or: A Stargate Tail
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Blatant Thievery steals Grimoire of the Dead (2 counters) and Nevnyrral's Disk (and Kaalia, which is quickly Terminated)
Grimoire Discards Sphinx Ambassador
Float 6 mana off the Sol Rings
Activate Grimoire, respond with Disk. Get ALL THE CREATURES EVERYWHERE.
Use my 5 floating mana to pay the kicker on Rite of Replication, targeting Solemn Simulacrum.
Two Score, Minus Two or: A Stargate Tail
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We started the game in Lethe Lake, unfortunately powering up Mimeoplasm; my first turn I hit Memnarch, Bribery, and Notorious Throng. Rhys and I ran away from Lethe Lake as fast as possible. Mimeoplasm was gunning for me from turn one, hoping to eliminate me before I could stabilize and take control of the game. Rhys was content to sit back and generate an army of tokens.
Mimeoplasm powered out Wrexial, the Risen Deep, used my Bribery to play my Sower of Temptation and steal Rhys, then used my Notorious Throng to create Faeire tokens, which he then started multiplying with the Rhys he stole. I was fighting an uphill battle, not drawing any fliers to block the Faeries, and not drawing any answers to the islandwalking Wrexial. I managed to Planeswalk to The Eon Fog after Mimeoplasm tapped out to save me for a turn, but he managed to Planeswalk away with his free roll.
Later, Mimeoplasm had me down to 15 life (Rhys and Mimeoplasm were both in their mid-upper 30s), had 20 faerie tokens; he tried to cast his general, and I responded with Cryptic Command, countering the general and tapping his creatures. On my turn, I drew Snapcaster Mage, and tapped Mimeoplasm down again on his next turn.
We were on Horizon Boughs, and I had Extraplanar Lens, Knowledge Exploitation, and Blatant Thievery in my hand. Thievery wasn't much use, since Wrexial had Lightning Greaves and Rhys' field was almost entirely 1/1 tokens. I hit Mimeoplasm with Thada so that I could Prowl Knowledge Exploitation, played Extraplanar Lens, and Exploitation, and found Living Death in Mimeoplasm's deck... which brought back Memnarch... while I had a mana doubler out, while we were on the Seedborn Muse plane. I went from being in the worst position at the table, to stealing 3 permanents on each player's turn.
The most amusing thing about the story is that we were about to set up to play a tabletop RPG, and one member of our group joins remotely via Skype. I talked to her on the phone, and told her I'd be setting up the computer in a minute, since I was almost dead, and then 20 minutes later, I'd won the game.
Two Score, Minus Two or: A Stargate Tail
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Two Score, Minus Two or: A Stargate Tail
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Two Score, Minus Two or: A Stargate Tail
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Game starts off slow, and as I usually do, I try to drop Thada T3, but Teferi Spell Crumples it (since he was the only other person in the game with actual Islands, presumably he was afraid of the Islandwalk). I buff up myself and Teferi with Extraplanar Lens and Gauntlet of Power, and then I drop a Mind Sculptor. Teferi flashes in his general and takes out my Mind Sculptor, the first damage actually dealt the entire game.
Olivia sets up to steal Teferi, but she gets destroyed first. I pull out a Phyrexian Metamorph and clone Teferi to take him out of the picture for a bit. Horde brings Child of Alara to the table, and I drop down Keiga, the Tide Star as well as Future Sight.
Now the game gets interesting.
Teferi re-casts his general, and drops Knowledge Pool. I comment 'at least wrath-baby is already in play', but next turn Teferi uses Bribery on me, pulling out Gilded Drake, stealing Child of Alara. Then he plays Duplicant to get rid of Keiga, the last possible answer to Teferi+Pool in play already.
Once Olivia and Mayael see what's up, they quit in disgust/frustration, but I stay in the game waiting to see if Teferi will make any mistakes, and Horde stays in, presumably for the same reason. A couple turns later, Future Sight shows Capsize on the top of my deck, so I cast it just to see what's next... and Teferi gets bounced. I re-read Knowledge Pool and see that it's got a "cast from hand" stipulation, meaning that Future Sight is my answer to the combo, without me realizing it.
Another couple turns, and Teferi is back on the field. I play a land from the top of my deck, and see Blatant Thievery... score! I steal Teferi and one of Horde's filter lands, and then Teferi quits in disgust (after asking how I could've cast Blatant, despite me mentioning the loophole when I Capsized Teferi the first time). Best answer to Teferi/Pool combo evar.
Two Score, Minus Two or: A Stargate Tail
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Me (59 life, 12 cards in hand):
Player B (17 life, 1 card in hand):
Player C (32 life, 3 cards in hand):
Player D (22 life, 3 cards in hand):
* Indicates the player's general
Turn 49
Play Snow-Covered Island
Attack player C with Thada, exile Darksteel Ingot
Knowledge Exploitation targeting player D, finding Bribery
Bribery targeting player C, finding Dark Hatchling
Dark Hatchling destroys Riku
Treachery targeting Animar
Rite of Replication with Kicker targeting Artisan
Dream Leash targeting Thorn Elemental
Confiscate targeting Artisan
Duplicant exiling Avatar of Fury
Empress Galina
EOT: Tapped out except for Sol Ring
Turn 50
Pay for Mind's Eye trigger, and activate Sensei's Top
Player B attacks Player D with Indrik, Spirit token, and Artisan token
Player D sacrifices 2 Islands
Crovax blocks Indrik, Sun Ce blocks Artisan, player D is down to 20 life
Player B plays Deadwood Treefolk, returning Intet, the Dreamer to his hand
Player B plays Intet
Turn 51
Player C concedes
Turn 52
Player D plays Illusions of Grandeur (now at 40 life), I draw from Remora
Player D plays Expedition Map, I draw from Remora
Player D plays Stasis, I draw from Remora
Player D activates Expedition Map, fetching Glacial Chasm, which he plays
Turn 53
Due to Stasis, I fail to pay the upkeep for Remora
Play Strip Mine, and destroy Glacial Chasm
Animar and one of the Artisans attack player B
5 Artisans and Duplicant attack player D
Player B sacrifices an island and forest; player D sacrifices all of his lands
Intet and Deadwood double-block Animar; Sygg and Crovax each block an Artisan
Sygg, Crovax, and Intet all die. Player B and D are both at 8 life
Discard Teferi's Isle
Turn 54
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Turn 55
With no lands, player D fails to pay Illusions of Grandeur's upkeep, and loses 20 life (-12)
Turn 56
Capsize (with kicker) Deadwood, player B returns Coiling Oracle to his hand
Player B concedes
Two Score, Minus Two or: A Stargate Tail
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GtT: Forest, Mox Diamond discarding Swamp, Leaden Myr, Pass
ItD: Island, Pass
GtT: Forest, Ezuri's Brigade, Pass
ItD: Island, Ponder, Pass
GtT: Swamp, Piston Sledge on Ezuri's Brigade, beatface
The Mimeoplasm (me, Devour for Power) vs. Riku of Two Reflections (Mirror Mastery):
Riku is crushing me under foot as I'm basically getting mana flooded, and yet because of his ramp, Riku has nearly twice as much mana as I do. He's got Avatar of Fury, Trench Gorger, two 4/4 beast tokens, and Magus of the Vineyard in play. I have Grave Pact.
I play Dark Hatchling, destroying Avatar of Fury. He swings out and after blocking I'm down to 2 life. Riku's still at 40. My turn, I play The Mimeoplasm, cloning Dark Hatchling and exiling Avatar of Fury, taking out Trench Gorger with the hatchling's CiP effect.
The game comes to a standstill, as I can't afford to open myself up to attack, and Riku can't get through my defense any more for those last 2 points. Both of us build up for a while, with things like an evoked Mulldrifter and a Fleshbag Marauder combining with my Grave Pact to keep his numbers lower than mine.
Eventually, I've got an opening with my 9/9 Dark Hatchling (The Mimeoplasm) and I can maintain my defenses. Riku goes down to 31, laughing it off.
The next turn I topdeck Vow of Wilderness to make it a 12/12 Dark Hatchling (The Mimeoplasm), and swing in for the win on 21 general damage.
Two Score, Minus Two or: A Stargate Tail
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