Equips it to the Conscripts and attacks me, making a copy that steals the other Platinum Angel. The Daretti player dies.
The Grenzo player, upon his next turn, used Tel-Jilad Stylus to replay Zealous Conscripts and steal my Battletide Alchemist, then attacked with an unblockable Master of Cruelties, putting me from 45 life to 1 life. He passed the turn, I drained him for the rest of his life total, winning the game. Afterwards, he revealed he had Rakdos Charm in hand but didn't play it because he was afraid it would deal him too much damage. I point out that the charm makes each creature deal 1 damage, and he had my Battletide Alchemist. He would have won.
tl;dr, a brilliant play followed by a terrible punt.
Going crazy with kruphix God of horizons by having a board that consisted of seedborn muse, consecrated sphinx, prime speaker zegana soulbond to deadeye navigator, drawing many cards off my library with a reliquary tower in play. Keeping a hand chock full of counterspells and my opponents can't do anything. Furthermore, I was able to store up enough colourless mana at the end of every turn with kruphix's static ability and I was able to flash in huge eldrazis every time I wanted to respond to something while leaving up counterspell mana. Yikes!
That sounds like business as usual for Kruphix or Zegana decks.
I was in a 4-player pod, and one opponent was playing Grenzo, Havoc Raiser, and another was playing Jhoira of the Ghitu. The game was getting into its late stages. The Grenzo player went on his big offensive, sending a bunch of goblins to take down the Jhoira player. He casts a Chaos Warp targeting the Jhoira player's only blocker, a Kederekt Leviathan.
The Jhoira player casts Swerve, changing the target to Sword of Feast and Famine. Then he casts Reiterate, copying the Chaos Warp at Eldrazi Monument. The Grenzo player goes to shuffle them in, but we tell him they have to be done separately. I like to make sure everything's fair, so I request to cut the Grenzo player's deck.
He agrees, shuffles in the Monument. I cut, and he reveals Hanweir Battlements.
I was playing 1v1 with my Garza Zol tribal vampires against a tuned Breya deck. Early game, I use Praetor's Grasp. I have no illusions about my chances in the game, so I pick a card I could have lots of fun with. The game progresses, and the Breya player taps out and Krark-Clan Ironworks his way into a hardcast Blightsteel Colossus.
I cast the card I stole: Dack Fayden. I steal his Blightsteel.
Didn't win that game, but it was still a pretty fun turn of events.
I was playing my Damia, Sage of Stone deck against two Meren decks. I had Damia, a few mana rocks, a few mana dorks, Grave Titan, and about eight zombie tokens when I end up with Villainous Wealth, one of my favorite spells, in hand.
Last week, I was playing in a 5-player game with my Damia, Sage of Stone deck. One of my opponents played his Atraxa, Praetors' Voice superfriends deck, and managed to quickly proliferate Narset Transcendant to 9 Loyalty, and then use her ultimate. My Damia deck is basically screwed, since it's a control deck and only runs about eight creatures. I made a valiant effort, using The Gitrog Monster and lots of clone effects on other creatures to get some good damage in, but I pretty much folded after a Supreme Verdict.
Fast forward to this week. I'm playing my all-multicolour Mayael the Anima deck in another 5-player game with another Atraxa player. It's going quite a while. The Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder and Karrthus, Tyrant of Jund player are both out, leaving me, the Atraxa player, and the Tariel, Reckoner of Souls player. I'm at 40, Atraxa's at 23 and Tariel's at 12. Like last week, the Atraxa player had proliferated up to 9 loyalty on Narset and ultimated her.
The Tariel player has basically no plays on his turn. The Atraxa player taps out so he can cast Ajani Steadfast, uses his -2 and doubles it with Rings of Brighthearth. He has Elspeth, Sun's Champion, Teferi, Temporal Archmage and six soldier tokens from Elspeth. He uses Elspeth's -3 to wipe out my big flyers and sends five of the six soldiers at the Tariel player, eliminating them.
It comes to my turn. I draw a useless Aura Mutation and cast the Zhur-Taa Ancient I've been sandbagging for about four rounds. Go to combat, swing with everything. He blocks the beast and I empty my mana into the Wolf Run to give it +12/+0 and trample, dealing him 25 damage and securing the win through a Narset emblem.
Just curious, but how did you do this? Time Stop is exiled when it resolves (technically it exiles itself during resolution since the turn ended). How did you get it out of exile 2 extra times? You are playing green so I suppose you could have cast Riftsweeper a couple times, but you didn't mention that.
That one's my bad, and I should apologize to the Odric player next time I see her. My fault for running the one without reminder text and not playing it very often.
It's so elegant though. No reminder text, just three simple words.
I had Praetor's Grasped the Atraxa player's Demonic Tutor earlier, so I used it to get Word of Seizing and cast it on the Nissa, Worldwaker, and used her ultimate to search up ten assorted 4/4 basic lands. The Atraxa player got her back, played Inexorable Tide and cast Clockspinning twice, getting her back up to 12 loyalty and using her ultimate to get ten of his own 4/4 basics and drawing ten cards.
The Yidris player was also doing some pretty crazy stuff. He had cascaded from Sol Ring into Wheel of Fate, then on subsequent turns, cast Reforge the Soul, Waste Not and Whispering Madness. By this time, he had 16 cards in hand, and drew more off the Waste Not triggers up to 23 cards. He had dozens of zombie tokens and loads of black mana and cascaded into Windfall, but then he realized he only had about 35 cards left in his library once it and Waste Not resolved, so he had decked himself.
The Atraxa player was down to one card in his library, 26 cards in hand and no mana open. I cast Rune-Scarred Demon to get a Windfall of my own, and cast it, eliminating him, and leaving me with two cards left in my deck. Whew!
I, on the other hand, won a game with Jaya Ballard, Task Mage that, by all rights, I should have lost.
I was playing against Roon of the Hidden Realm, Captain Sisay, Nekusar, the Mindrazer and Maelstrom Wanderer. The game was going badly for me, as I was constantly taking damage and unable to stabilize. I'd been able to take out the Roon player, the Sisay player and Nekusar (the creature) with a 10-damage Comet Storm during my upkeep on an earlier turn. The Maelstrom Wanderer had his commander out and a bunch of burly creatures. I had Gauntlet of Might, Sensei's Divining Top and Rings of Brighthearth. I guess he figured there was no rush to kill me, as he was at 18 life and I was at 2 life, so he took out the Nekusar player first.
I figured I was a goner. In desperation, I started using the Top's draw ability, doubling it with the rings, and recasting it. I drew into Past in Flames and Wild Ricochet, with just enough mana to flashback Comet Storm for 9 damage and double it.
I was able to win through a Deadeye Navigator/Mystic Snake lock. It involved forcing the opponent to empty his mana pool during a second opponent's main phase by aiming Chaos Warp and Valorous Stance at the Deadeye. Come end-of-turn, I dropped down a Rout.
It can be done!
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On his turn, the Grenzo player starts digging for answers. Grenzo has Illusionist's Bracers equipped, so he's getting two shots at creatures every time. He gets Master of Cruelties, Rakdos, Lord of Riots, Sidisi, Undead Vizier, Cryptborn Horror, and Zealous Conscripts. He steals one of the Platinum Angels and thinks about what to get with Sidisi. I suggest Living Death, but he says doesn't run it. He looks at a card in his deck, then looks at the board state, and counts up his mana. He says he has enough mana, and tosses down Blade of Selves.
Equips it to the Conscripts and attacks me, making a copy that steals the other Platinum Angel. The Daretti player dies.
The Grenzo player, upon his next turn, used Tel-Jilad Stylus to replay Zealous Conscripts and steal my Battletide Alchemist, then attacked with an unblockable Master of Cruelties, putting me from 45 life to 1 life. He passed the turn, I drained him for the rest of his life total, winning the game. Afterwards, he revealed he had Rakdos Charm in hand but didn't play it because he was afraid it would deal him too much damage. I point out that the charm makes each creature deal 1 damage, and he had my Battletide Alchemist. He would have won.
tl;dr, a brilliant play followed by a terrible punt.
That sounds like business as usual for Kruphix or Zegana decks.
The Jhoira player casts Swerve, changing the target to Sword of Feast and Famine. Then he casts Reiterate, copying the Chaos Warp at Eldrazi Monument. The Grenzo player goes to shuffle them in, but we tell him they have to be done separately. I like to make sure everything's fair, so I request to cut the Grenzo player's deck.
He agrees, shuffles in the Monument. I cut, and he reveals Hanweir Battlements.
He shuffles in the sword, and I cut once again.
He reveals Hanweir Garrison.
Purphoros, God of the Forge
Eternal Witness
Hornet Queen
Siege-Gang Commander
Omnath, Locus of Rage
Doubling Season
and 12 assorted lands.
We all agreed that I won that game, rather than deal with the number crunching.
I cast the card I stole: Dack Fayden. I steal his Blightsteel.
Didn't win that game, but it was still a pretty fun turn of events.
Being that I can never pass up a chance to cast it, I aim Villainous Wealth for 13 at one of the Meren players and peel a bunch of spells, but most importantly Ashnod's Altar, Nim Deathmantle, and Altar of Dementia. Surprise, instant death!
The Meren player informs me that he also includes a Grave Titan for this exact purpose.
Fast forward to this week. I'm playing my all-multicolour Mayael the Anima deck in another 5-player game with another Atraxa player. It's going quite a while. The Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder and Karrthus, Tyrant of Jund player are both out, leaving me, the Atraxa player, and the Tariel, Reckoner of Souls player. I'm at 40, Atraxa's at 23 and Tariel's at 12. Like last week, the Atraxa player had proliferated up to 9 loyalty on Narset and ultimated her.
I have Fires of Yavimaya, Rith, the Awakener, Razia, Boros Archangel, and nine Saproling tokens from Rith. I also have a Kessig Wolf Run that I haven't used all game, which will be important.
The Tariel player has basically no plays on his turn. The Atraxa player taps out so he can cast Ajani Steadfast, uses his -2 and doubles it with Rings of Brighthearth. He has Elspeth, Sun's Champion, Teferi, Temporal Archmage and six soldier tokens from Elspeth. He uses Elspeth's -3 to wipe out my big flyers and sends five of the six soldiers at the Tariel player, eliminating them.
It comes to my turn. I draw a useless Aura Mutation and cast the Zhur-Taa Ancient I've been sandbagging for about four rounds. Go to combat, swing with everything. He blocks the beast and I empty my mana into the Wolf Run to give it +12/+0 and trample, dealing him 25 damage and securing the win through a Narset emblem.
tl;dr, JUSTICE.
It's so elegant though. No reminder text, just three simple words.
I had Praetor's Grasped the Atraxa player's Demonic Tutor earlier, so I used it to get Word of Seizing and cast it on the Nissa, Worldwaker, and used her ultimate to search up ten assorted 4/4 basic lands. The Atraxa player got her back, played Inexorable Tide and cast Clockspinning twice, getting her back up to 12 loyalty and using her ultimate to get ten of his own 4/4 basics and drawing ten cards.
The Yidris player was also doing some pretty crazy stuff. He had cascaded from Sol Ring into Wheel of Fate, then on subsequent turns, cast Reforge the Soul, Waste Not and Whispering Madness. By this time, he had 16 cards in hand, and drew more off the Waste Not triggers up to 23 cards. He had dozens of zombie tokens and loads of black mana and cascaded into Windfall, but then he realized he only had about 35 cards left in his library once it and Waste Not resolved, so he had decked himself.
The Atraxa player was down to one card in his library, 26 cards in hand and no mana open. I cast Rune-Scarred Demon to get a Windfall of my own, and cast it, eliminating him, and leaving me with two cards left in my deck. Whew!
I was playing against Roon of the Hidden Realm, Captain Sisay, Nekusar, the Mindrazer and Maelstrom Wanderer. The game was going badly for me, as I was constantly taking damage and unable to stabilize. I'd been able to take out the Roon player, the Sisay player and Nekusar (the creature) with a 10-damage Comet Storm during my upkeep on an earlier turn. The Maelstrom Wanderer had his commander out and a bunch of burly creatures. I had Gauntlet of Might, Sensei's Divining Top and Rings of Brighthearth. I guess he figured there was no rush to kill me, as he was at 18 life and I was at 2 life, so he took out the Nekusar player first.
I figured I was a goner. In desperation, I started using the Top's draw ability, doubling it with the rings, and recasting it. I drew into Past in Flames and Wild Ricochet, with just enough mana to flashback Comet Storm for 9 damage and double it.
Sometimes your opponent casts Mutilate while they have Grave Betrayal on the field. Thanks for the upgrade!
It can be done!