Okay, so I paraphrased a little. In any case, thesis, evidence, conclusion sounds like a good format to me. We all use examples familiar to us to make our points!
Anyway, the craziest play I've done in a while was with my Rasputin Dreamweaver deck. Sorry if it's a little vauge; it was last week.
Turn 5: Tap lots of stuff for lots of mana, play Rasputin and remove counters, activate Doubling Cube, do some generic blue stuff, Temporal Fissure for 9 to bounce all the opposing threats, plus some lands.
Turn 6: Recharge my Basalt Monolith and stuff. Opponents replay some cards.
Turn 7: Tap everything for mana again, Momentary Blink Rasputin twice, activate Doubling Cube, Trinket Mage for Voltaic Key, play the Key to untap Doubling Cube, activate Doubling Cube, draw some cards, Recall back Temporal Fissure and Flicker, Flicker the Cube, activate the Cube, Temporal Fissure back by own Doubling Cube and Voltaic key and nothing else, replay then and reactivate them, Stroke of Genius... MYSELF for 191 cards!
Two of my friends were playing the other day, one with Uril, the Miststalker and the other with Teysa, Orzhov Scion. The Uril player had just swung in for 13 damage or something and even though it got chumped, we know he's going to play Runes of the Deus the following turn and just win on the spot. Even with a Phyrexian Arena in play, the Teysa player has only one turn to draw an out.
Another good one: One of my friends piloting Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind against the same Teysa player from earlier. Niv-Mizzet went:
T1: Sol Ring, Grim Monolith
T2: Gilded Lotus, untap Grim Monolith
T3: Time Stretch?
I know some people reading this thread are going to think "but that's not fun!" or something, and they're probably right. It was such a bullcrap opening, it didn't even really count as a game. It was pretty funny, though
Last game I played with Heartless Hidetsugu as General. I already had a Furnace of Rath on the table. I wanted to cast my General, but couldn't find any haste effects, and I knew he would be hated off the table directly, probably by targeted removal (my opponents already showed me some cards in their hands). So I draw a card...Grip of Chaos! Ha, that would protect him! I cast it, and then Hidetsugu.
It resolves and directly after that one of my opponents wants to Putrefy it. I laugh hard, because there were about 20 targets. We number them, HH being 11. He rolls his d20....and damnit! 11! That lucky [censored] The next couple of turns they beat me to death to ensure my General wouldn't enter the battlefield anymore
That's hilarious! I hate it when I roll a die to see who goes first, and I roll a 20. I'm thinking, "Yes! I'm on the play!" when they roll a 20, too.
On a semi-related note, I was just watching The Price is Right and saw a 3-way tie at 95 cents on the spin for showcases. Freaking crazy odds.
Tap lands and Sol Ring for mana, remove all counters from Rasputin (9UUW floating)
Activate Doubling Cube (12UUUUWW floating)
Use Voltaic Key to untap Doubling Cube (11UUUUWW floating)
Activate Doubling Cube (16UUUUUUUUWWWW floating)
Play Hurkyl's Recall, targeting myself (15UUUUUUUWWWW floating)
Replay Sol Ring, Voltaic Key, and Doubling Cube (11UUUUUUUWWWW)
Tap Sol Ring for mana, activate Doubling Cube (18 colorless, 14 blue, 8 white floating)
Untap Doubling Cube with Key, tap Doubling Cube (28 colorless, 28 blue, 16 white) Mind Spring into Grim Monolith + Power Artifact, win.
I think I got the numbers right. Gah, that felt dirty. It'll probably never happen again, either.
This thread constantly irritates me. The vast majority of posts are people bragging about assembling their obnoxious combos that completely go against the spirit of the format. Good job erayo lock turn 3. Iona lock turn 6. Congratulations. You made a bunch of people trying to have fun unhappy. People like this have ruined my local EDH league and basically killed the format.
I had a Mana reflection in play and a ridiculous amount of lands after a horrible land flood. I had a Godsire token, a witness, and an activated treetop Village. I was at less than 10 life. I Titanic Ultimatumed then Naya charmed it back and cast it again to kill two players and go on to later win the game.
See. No infinite combo. Just cool interactions that would be highly unlikely in other formats. EDH wasn't created as a place for combo decks that don't work in normal magic to dominate every game.
Man, lighten up bit! The title of the thread is "Crazy Plays in EDH," and I'd say someone locking me out with Arcum Dagsson on turn 3 is pretty insane. Yes, your play was pretty nice, too, but you can't just discount stuff like infinite tokens on turn 2 or Eye of the Storm + Hive Mind stacks. Those plays are just as crazy.
We were playing 6-player EDH with Planechase. I decided to keep a one-lander (Dreadship Reef, at that) with Sol Ring. I'm going first, and the opening plane turns out to be Eloren Wilds (everything taps for double mana). I play the Dreadship Reef, tap for two and play Sol Ring, tap it for three and play the Coalition Relic I just drew, tap it for two and play Rhystic Study using the one mana I had floating. Then I planeswalk away.
I won, but the crazy opener didn't end up mattering because everyone else just died to Naar Isle.
@Dosu - You know, I was just talking to friends about the Hive Mind + Eye of the Storm + Grip of Chaos combo. Good to know it causes many headaches.
You're telling me. I don't mind the crazy, outlandish stuff as much as most people do; I think it's fun and interesting. It's nice to hear of someone else trying to figure out how to break the game
I got a Time Stretch to stick under Eye of the Storm. I kept drawing instants and sorceries, so I was able to keep Eye of the Storm triggering and got infinite turns going.
Hey, I've got a deck built around that! Eye of the Storm just starts so much crap it's not funny. Well, it is funny.
Two days in a row, we've somehow gotten to a gamestate that involved Memory Plunder on Eye of the Storm....the explosion that ensues is just nuts, since someone gets a TON of copies of just about every spell in every graveyard. The most notable game was just a few minutes ago, however, when my friend was testing out his new Intet, the Dreamer deck:
First, Hive Mind. A round passes with the table drawing some cards, I think. Then, Dream Halls hits play. Then Eye of the Storm. Then Harrow, followed by Time Spiral. Some shenanigans ensued (a round of Time Spirals/Harrows, to begin with), then he played Grip of Chaos. After responding with some random instants and trying to sort it out, we quit the game with six copies of Time Spiral on the stack. I promise I'm not making this up.
These are some awesome stories. Keep posting new ones! =D
My friends told me about a 3-player EDH game with Planechase that happened over the weekend:
After a long a drawn out game, the current plane was Glimmervoid Basin (essentially, all instants and sorceries get Radiated). One player played a Memory Plunder, expecting to win on the spot with all the copies and the massive graveyards all around the table. Then another player responded with Wild Ricochet -- the first Wild Ricochet/Memory Plunder copy targeted Beacon of Unrest, grabbing every artifact and creature in every graveyard. All of the other fifty-something copies targeted Corrupt when he controlled about 12 Swamps thanks to Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth.
Needless to say, he won long before all of the copies resolved.
Okay, so I paraphrased a little. In any case, thesis, evidence, conclusion sounds like a good format to me. We all use examples familiar to us to make our points!
Anyway, the craziest play I've done in a while was with my Rasputin Dreamweaver deck. Sorry if it's a little vauge; it was last week.
Turn 5: Tap lots of stuff for lots of mana, play Rasputin and remove counters, activate Doubling Cube, do some generic blue stuff, Temporal Fissure for 9 to bounce all the opposing threats, plus some lands.
Turn 6: Recharge my Basalt Monolith and stuff. Opponents replay some cards.
Turn 7: Tap everything for mana again, Momentary Blink Rasputin twice, activate Doubling Cube, Trinket Mage for Voltaic Key, play the Key to untap Doubling Cube, activate Doubling Cube, draw some cards, Recall back Temporal Fissure and Flicker, Flicker the Cube, activate the Cube, Temporal Fissure back by own Doubling Cube and Voltaic key and nothing else, replay then and reactivate them, Stroke of Genius... MYSELF for 191 cards!
Take that, Bennie! I'm not a douchebag after all!
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As it turns out, the top 3 cards of the Teysa player's deck were Chainer's Edict, Anowon, the Ruin Sage, and Wrath of God. GG, Uril player.
Another good one: One of my friends piloting Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind against the same Teysa player from earlier. Niv-Mizzet went:
T1: Sol Ring, Grim Monolith
T2: Gilded Lotus, untap Grim Monolith
T3: Time Stretch?
I know some people reading this thread are going to think "but that's not fun!" or something, and they're probably right. It was such a bullcrap opening, it didn't even really count as a game. It was pretty funny, though
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That's hilarious! I hate it when I roll a die to see who goes first, and I roll a 20. I'm thinking, "Yes! I'm on the play!" when they roll a 20, too.
On a semi-related note, I was just watching The Price is Right and saw a 3-way tie at 95 cents on the spin for showcases. Freaking crazy odds.
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Correct; from that point, I could win in a variety of ways:
1. Fabricate for Planar Portal, then Planar Portal for Beacon of Tomorrows;
2. Mycosynth Lattice to fix mana, then Memnarch and take everything
3. Stroke of Genius for the rest of my deck, Future Sight + Sensei's Divining Top, Brangeyser someone, Time Spiral, Braingeyser and Stroke someone, Diminishing Returns, repeat
4. Bounce everyone's permanents forever with Tidespout Tyrant, then win with Rasputin Dreamweaver beats
5. Probably some stuff I haven't discovered I can do, yet.
I guess I should've been more explicit, but if you have half your deck in your hand with infinite mana and can't win, I think you're doin it wrong
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It's turn 4 with the following in play:
2 Island
1 Plains
1 Sol Ring
1 Voltaic Key
1 Doubling Cube
1 Rasputin Dreamweaver (with 7 counters)
Tap lands and Sol Ring for mana, remove all counters from Rasputin (9UUW floating)
Activate Doubling Cube (12UUUUWW floating)
Use Voltaic Key to untap Doubling Cube (11UUUUWW floating)
Activate Doubling Cube (16UUUUUUUUWWWW floating)
Play Hurkyl's Recall, targeting myself (15UUUUUUUWWWW floating)
Replay Sol Ring, Voltaic Key, and Doubling Cube (11UUUUUUUWWWW)
Tap Sol Ring for mana, activate Doubling Cube (18 colorless, 14 blue, 8 white floating)
Untap Doubling Cube with Key, tap Doubling Cube (28 colorless, 28 blue, 16 white)
Mind Spring into Grim Monolith + Power Artifact, win.
I think I got the numbers right. Gah, that felt dirty. It'll probably never happen again, either.
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And boy did they get moving.
The immediate next turn, the Intet player goes:
Thought Reflection
Copy Enchantment
Time Spiral
Dream Halls
Time Stretch + Reiterate + Wild Ricochet
Nostalgic Dreams
...to which we all scoop. It was hilarious.
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Man, lighten up bit! The title of the thread is "Crazy Plays in EDH," and I'd say someone locking me out with Arcum Dagsson on turn 3 is pretty insane. Yes, your play was pretty nice, too, but you can't just discount stuff like infinite tokens on turn 2 or Eye of the Storm + Hive Mind stacks. Those plays are just as crazy.
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I won, but the crazy opener didn't end up mattering because everyone else just died to Naar Isle.
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You're telling me. I don't mind the crazy, outlandish stuff as much as most people do; I think it's fun and interesting. It's nice to hear of someone else trying to figure out how to break the game
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Hey, I've got a deck built around that! Eye of the Storm just starts so much crap it's not funny. Well, it is funny.
Two days in a row, we've somehow gotten to a gamestate that involved Memory Plunder on Eye of the Storm....the explosion that ensues is just nuts, since someone gets a TON of copies of just about every spell in every graveyard. The most notable game was just a few minutes ago, however, when my friend was testing out his new Intet, the Dreamer deck:
First, Hive Mind. A round passes with the table drawing some cards, I think. Then, Dream Halls hits play. Then Eye of the Storm. Then Harrow, followed by Time Spiral. Some shenanigans ensued (a round of Time Spirals/Harrows, to begin with), then he played Grip of Chaos. After responding with some random instants and trying to sort it out, we quit the game with six copies of Time Spiral on the stack. I promise I'm not making this up.
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My friends told me about a 3-player EDH game with Planechase that happened over the weekend:
After a long a drawn out game, the current plane was Glimmervoid Basin (essentially, all instants and sorceries get Radiated). One player played a Memory Plunder, expecting to win on the spot with all the copies and the massive graveyards all around the table. Then another player responded with Wild Ricochet -- the first Wild Ricochet/Memory Plunder copy targeted Beacon of Unrest, grabbing every artifact and creature in every graveyard. All of the other fifty-something copies targeted Corrupt when he controlled about 12 Swamps thanks to Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth.
Needless to say, he won long before all of the copies resolved.
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I was playing my Gaddock Teeg deck against my friend piloting my Zur deck. I managed to get Sacred Mesa, Fertile Ground, Earthcraft, and Martyr's Cause in play for infinite tokens and damage prevention. Unfortunately, he had Energy Field and Forbidden Crypt in play, so he had infinite damage prevention as well. We just kind of sat there and topdecked for a few turns until he got Enlightened Tutor and assembled an Enchanted Evening/Aura Fracture/Aura Thief combo ftw. I drew Skullclamp one turn too late ='(
I've seen another friend playing Wort, the Raidmother entwine a Reap and Sow and proceed to Radiate it. Yeah, he won that game. Also, lots of shenanigans with Early Harvest and Reiterate.
Oh yeah, and watch out for getting Phthisis played on your Lord of Extinction. I hear that sucks big time.
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