MTG Salvation

Mimeo Reanimator vs Child Hypergenesis with the French Banlist

It's turn 3.

I've got a Show and Tell, Griselbrand, Land, Darksteel Fatty, and Violent Outburst. I could Hypergen now for Grisel and a fatty, but if I Show in the Griselbrand, next turn when I hypergen I can in response draw my deck and kill him instantly.

So I cast the Show and Tell.

He puts his card down... and we reveal!

Hey look, another griselbrand! They kill eachother.

If that wasn't funny enough, he "shows" me a card in his hand... Show and Tell. We were both on the same damn game plan!

Playing yesterday; Norin vs Rhys Elfball vs Thraximundar Blue vs Saffi Combo

Rhys and Saffi have a lot of forests, and this is something I just can't have.

I cast Wake of Destruction on a forest. Thraximundar asks if I have anything to do while I still have priority. Like... say.. Reverberate or Reiterate it (I have both in hand and mana up for one.) I decline, either he counters it and I counter it back, still blowing things up, or nothing happens, forests blow up, and I get to keep my forks.

Instead, Thrax Wild Richochets the Wake, redirecting to mah mountains as well. Now, now. This won't do. I reverberate the Richochet so we can have some fun with ALL the lands! I think it's about time to start resolving things.. wait, Saffi has a response?

Saffi casts Beast Within on the targeted Forest, and there is a looong, loooong pause.

I suppose that's one way to end a stackwar.

Borderposts return basic lands, you can't bounce Darkslick with it...

Quote from Wildfire393

Pretty sure five lands isn't enough to make coffers-temple-Rings go infinite.
2 mana to tap coffers for 5
1 mana to activate temple, targeting coffers
2 mana to copy temple's ability, targeting itself.
So each iteration of the cycle costs 5 mana. Unless your coffers produces 6+, you aren't netting anything.

Add in Ancient Tomb or City of Traitors, or even Temple of the False God, and you've got it.

Quote from Poecifer

Tap swamp for two, untap for one, repeat...

Using Candelabra requires you to actually tap the card. It's a mono artifact, not a poly.

{X}, {T}: Untap X target lands.

I decided to play Geist in multiplayer yesterday. Why not.

Opponents were Doran Treefolk and Ashling the Blow Things Up.

The state:

I'm low on life, nearing 6. Doran has been beating on me hard, and I missed a landdrop. Doran's got around 26, and Ashling hasn't been touched.

Ashling has a Repercussion and a Pyrohemia out.

This won't do, I need to be able to keep Geist down and drop a Sword of Fire and Ice on him, but with mana open and these I'll just kill myself. So on my turn I drop Oblivion Ring, exiling Pyrohemia, and then Leonin Relic-Warder removing the Repercussion. Time to stabilize, right?

No. Doran now drops an Avenger of Zendikar for something like 12 tokens, his board having been wiped earlier through a bit of Ashling Rampage, so I don't die//am forced to block anything.

How can I beat this? I can't. I do, however, have a Restoration Angel in hand. I tell the Ashling player he can do anything he likes provided he keeps up at least three mana. He leaves up six.

On my turn I Restoration Angel the Leonin Relic-Warder away, and bring it back exiling my own Oblivion Ring. Guess what's back? Ashling pumps everything into Pyrohemia and the world explodes. That's how you end a game.

I cast Mindblaze and then Forked it with Gisela out ftw. I cannot emphasize enough how satisfying that was.

I finally did it. I cast Warp World and put my entire deck into play.

It was glorious.

Quote from Sinfire Titan

I can understand the Generals being rare, but Orrery/Wake in Pauper?

Just my deck. The other two were regular EDH decks. It's not fun it I can't play with the big boys too.

He had a Vedalken Orrery out, where this entire battle was an attempt to kill it.

First run with Pauper Hanna results in a 7 layer stack battle:

1. Hanna returns Seal of Cleansing from grave and casts it.
2. Rubinia casts mana drain in response to seal
3. Tibor casts twincast in response to mana drain, copying mana drain
4. Rubinia casts Tidings in response to twincast
5. Hanna casts Dismantling Blow on Mirari's Wake in response to Tidings
6. Rubinia cracks Misty Rainforest in response to Dismantling Blow
7. Hanna counters Tidings with Wizard Replica in response to fetchland crack
All resolve.
Seal of Cleansing kill Vedalken Orrery.

Next turn, Tibor sets up an infinite combo and kills us all, but really, who cares?

Quote from muffunz

I don't think it was a matter of him not knowing what Maniac did, I think it was just a misplay...

But everything would have been solved with a little confirmation reading

I think this is a really good case for the following slogan to be posted nonstop on the main page of all card related forums:

RTFC

Quote from destinytrigger

This is THE legitimate use of Shahrazad. Until it was banned, I wanted to get one just to build a "draw the subgame" Teysa.

No love for quadruple Fork?

It can't be Shahrazad without some grief.

Today a player Beast Within'd and Chaos Warp'd.

I had a Radiate in hand.

Faced with a difficult choice, i decided to give everyone an army of 3/3s, and we continued.

...someone then played Ratchet Bomb.

Oh ****?