I had a pretty good opener last night that felt more like a modern play than an EDH one. Playing Jaya against Mazirek and Ruhan, turns 2→3→4 were Torpor Orb, Blood Moon (which slowed both opponents down and took Mazirek off of black entirely), and then Chandra, Torch of Defiance onto a creatureless board thanks to everyone opening on mana rocks and card draw. Ruhan has to swing into players and didn't have any other creatures, so he can't threaten Chandra. I was able to hold off Mazirek by running out Jaya and a Goblin Welder as blockers for a couple mana dorks and Vandalblasting a Steel Hellkite, which let me ult Chandra. Followed up with Repercussion a couple turns later to keep boards clear and burn everyone out with the emblem. Probably only the third or fourth time I've gotten a walker emblem by just ticking up turn after turn until they were ready to go in EDH.
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The big one was the game end, though. Tuvasa and I are both sitting on mana doublers (Mirari's Wake and Caged Sun, respectively). Roon was getting low on cards and tapped out so I decided to go for the mill kill by chaining wheels together. Cast Wheel of Fortune, which forces Tuvasa to fire off Open the Vaults and packs both mine and her board with artifacts and enchantments, including a Memory Jar to go along with my Rings of Brighthearth. I pop the Jar and copy the activation. First resolves and draws Tuvasa into Approach of the Second Sun. She casts that, then the second Jar activation resolves and puts it right back into her hand to win the game.
Perfectly bizarre EDH win to cap off a very long (but entertaining) game.
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I was playing Mairsil, the Pretender and had Tree of Perdition, Quicksilver Elemental, and Aetherling caged. The mono black player played a boardwipe, so I tap out of blue mana to put the flicker ability of aetherling and tree's ability on the stack. My friend playing an Animar, soul of elements morph deck flipped Jeering Instigator gaining control of my Mairsil, activated the tree ability, setting me to four, and then let the boardwipe resolve, killing me with the mono black player's Blood Artist.
Worth knowing for the future that this wouldn't work. If another player steals Mairsil he loses all abilities because his second ability refers to the controller. Unless the new controller has their own Mairsil caging cards, he's not going to be anything but a vanilla 4/4.
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Also, with Neheb, the Eternal, does that actually count a life total exchange via Soul Conduit as a loss of life? My thinking is, you were the one that lost the life by paying it, then you would just swap totals resulting in the opponent not actually losing life. Maybe I'm missing something.
CR 118.5: If an effect sets a player’s life total to a specific number, the player gains or loses the necessary amount of life to end up with the new total.
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Had an only in EDH boardstate last night. Playing Olivia, Mobilized for War reanimator against Riku of Two Reflections goodstuff, Intet, the Dreamer dragons/topdecks, and Phelddagrif politics. Late in the game, I had a boardstate that included Ghirapur Orrery, Bazaar of Baghdad, Crucible of Worlds, and Key to the City → start turn, draw 3, draw for turn, draw 2, discard lands, play lands from yard, do something with the remaining 3 cards in hand, then repeat next turn (using Key to keep things moving if necessary). Basically a free wheel each turn. I still died thanks to a pro-deck Oversoul of Dusk from Phelddagrif, but it was fun while it lasted.
In the continuing theme of Bazaar "fair" use, I used it in the following game to turn on Hazoret the Pervert the turn I played her so I could swing. I think it's one of the least broken things you can do with the card.
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I had a fun couple of turns in a 3 player game with Tana, the Bloodsower/Reyhan, Last of the Abzan last night. Played Tana, followed with Wolfir Silverheart the next turn, paired and hit player A for 6 and 6 saprolings. Following turn, activate Mosswort Bridge to put Fallen Ideal on Tana, sac the 6 saprolings for lethal on player A and 18 more saprolings. Following turn, sac 18 saprolings for lethal on player B. I'm omitting where a couple attempted removal spells met some protection, but it was a nice sequence of turns.
The game after that I got pretty brutally ground out thanks to Breya, Etherium Shaper keeping me from ever getting things moving, but the first game was nice.
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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.
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I was playing against Gonti, Lord of Luxury and Odric, Lunarch Marshal. Almost all of the above happened after Gonti got knocked out and it was 1v1 against Odric. If she had wanted to punch me after that game, I wouldn't really have blamed her.
Playing Mizzix of the Izmagnus storm, toned down a little towards my usual group so it's not completely busted. After a longish game that included Jeleva, Nephalia's Scourge exiling all of my spell recursion and most of my large card draw, I was going off. I ended up drawing a ridiculous grip of cards, had 8 experience, and ran out of colored mana. Passed turn with Guttersnipe, Mizzix, Propaganda, and Jace's Sanctum on board. Neither of the two remaining players could kill me through Propaganda, so I got a second shot at it. My 7 included Mind's Desire, various card draw spells, and some protection. Storm off again, killing one player with Guttersnipe (remaining player was on a lifegain deck, so Guttersnipe wasn't going to get there) drawing out of my diminished library the whole time, and cast 11 Mind's Desires as part of the process. Sadly, I didn't think to count cards in deck before starting this turn. I only had 10 cards left and my only remaining kill card was Empty the Warrens. I ended up passing the turn with no nonlands on the board but an 8/8 octopus and 34 1/1 goblins on my side, then my remaining opponent just had to pass the turn back and I decked myself.
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Later on, got to live the dream with Thrasios/Ikra when I stuck Underrealm Lich and Sylvan Library. Went through most of my deck and narrowly lost to Iroas, God of Victory, Fervent Charge, and double strikers despite having 18 worms on board thanks to Worm Harvest and countermagic in hand.
- Chaos Warping my own Basilisk Collar into a Torpor Orb in response to the first of many, many uses of Acidic Slime/Reclamation Sage from Roon.
- Casting Kozilek, the Great Distortion off of a bunch of mountains, Buried Ruin, and an Imprisoned in the Moon Jaya.
- Activating Scroll Rack and copying it with Rings of Brighthearth to rearrange the top 8 cards of my deck for Experimental Frenzy.
- Tuvasa responding to Dire Fleet Daredevil targeting Open the Vaults with a flashed in Eternal Witness thanks to Leyline of Anticipation.
The big one was the game end, though. Tuvasa and I are both sitting on mana doublers (Mirari's Wake and Caged Sun, respectively). Roon was getting low on cards and tapped out so I decided to go for the mill kill by chaining wheels together. Cast Wheel of Fortune, which forces Tuvasa to fire off Open the Vaults and packs both mine and her board with artifacts and enchantments, including a Memory Jar to go along with my Rings of Brighthearth. I pop the Jar and copy the activation. First resolves and draws Tuvasa into Approach of the Second Sun. She casts that, then the second Jar activation resolves and puts it right back into her hand to win the game.Perfectly bizarre EDH win to cap off a very long (but entertaining) game.
CR 118.5: If an effect sets a player’s life total to a specific number, the player gains or loses the necessary amount of life to end up with the new total.
In the continuing theme of Bazaar "fair" use, I used it in the following game to turn on Hazoret the Pervert the turn I played her so I could swing. I think it's one of the least broken things you can do with the card.
The game after that I got pretty brutally ground out thanks to Breya, Etherium Shaper keeping me from ever getting things moving, but the first game was nice.
- Played Plasm Capture into a 4 or 5 color Bring to Light 4 times
- Time Stopped someone on upkeep 3 times (edit: not actually possible. Oops.)
- Arachnogenesised a lethal swing 4 times and
- Used those spider tokens, Fable of Wolf and Owl, and Mana Reflection to fuel 30+ casts of Sprout Swarm over a couple turns.
I was playing against Gonti, Lord of Luxury and Odric, Lunarch Marshal. Almost all of the above happened after Gonti got knocked out and it was 1v1 against Odric. If she had wanted to punch me after that game, I wouldn't really have blamed her.Jaya Ballard, Task Mage against Kresh the Bloodbraided, Glissa, the Traitor, and The Mimeoplasm. I somehow managed to get a Daretti, Scrap Savant emblem earlyish, which let me set up relatively unmolested. Board was Caged Sun, Torpor Orb, Basilisk Collar, Journeyer's Kite, Rings of Brighthearth, and about a dozen mountains. Gambled for Crucible of Worlds (discarding one of 5 mountains in hand), played it, played Inventors' Fair from the yard, used Fair to tutor up Akroma's Memorial, played that, and passed. Took a couple little hits down to 19, mostly from Kresh's Dragon Broodmother and token. Next turn I use Fair to tutor up and play Gauntlet of Might, then play Jaya. In response, Glissa cracks a Ratchet Bomb that he had inexplicably ticked up to 7 a couple turns earlier to take out Memorial. Equip Jaya with Collar and go to end step. In response to Memorial coming back in, Mimeo Reality Shifts Jaya and I lose to Pathbreaker Ibex and a bunch of dragon tokens.
I fully expect that to be the only time I ever see Ratchet Bomb used to take out Akroma's Memorial.
Playing Mizzix of the Izmagnus storm, toned down a little towards my usual group so it's not completely busted. After a longish game that included Jeleva, Nephalia's Scourge exiling all of my spell recursion and most of my large card draw, I was going off. I ended up drawing a ridiculous grip of cards, had 8 experience, and ran out of colored mana. Passed turn with Guttersnipe, Mizzix, Propaganda, and Jace's Sanctum on board. Neither of the two remaining players could kill me through Propaganda, so I got a second shot at it. My 7 included Mind's Desire, various card draw spells, and some protection. Storm off again, killing one player with Guttersnipe (remaining player was on a lifegain deck, so Guttersnipe wasn't going to get there) drawing out of my diminished library the whole time, and cast 11 Mind's Desires as part of the process. Sadly, I didn't think to count cards in deck before starting this turn. I only had 10 cards left and my only remaining kill card was Empty the Warrens. I ended up passing the turn with no nonlands on the board but an 8/8 octopus and 34 1/1 goblins on my side, then my remaining opponent just had to pass the turn back and I decked myself.