Last night was one of the most funnest games I ever had.
We all played u/x decks and we all started off by casting gilded drake, stealing each other's generals. And we all played decks that were highly dependent on our generals (sliver overlord, edric, and animar).
After that the gilded drakes were copied by clone effects (phyrexian metamorph and the like), bounced and recasted, killed and reanimated, and after an hour and a half, gilded drake hit the board over a dozen times and we spent the entire time playing with each other's generals. It was awesome.
Plus, my favorite play was when I finally got my sliver overlord for a turn, someone borrowed it with zealous conscripts, then paid 3 mana to take control of target sliver, targeting the overlord himself to keep it.
Last night I was playing ghave and I had a great blocker in play, an academy rector with skullclamp on it. The last thing people wanted was to give me a free enchantment and card draw.
The next turn I cast pattern of rebirth on the rector followed by diabolic intent.
So when the rector died, she gave me an enchantment from my library and put it on the battlefield, a creature from my library and put it on the battlefield, she let me tutor for any card, and she gave me 2 free cards to boot. That was the most profitable creature death I've ever seen, and it gave me all the combo pieces I needed to win that turn.
In a multiplayer game the ulamog player had tons on the battlefield and he popped a memory jar, lending us 7 temporary cards. He cast all kinds of stuff and when he said he was done and told us to discard our hands, that's when I cast cyclonic rift with overload that the jar gave me.
I played my azami lady of scrolls deck yesterday for the first time in a while. It is really good on drawing cards and making mana, but not so great at actually killing people. But I put in a diviner's wand to see how it did. I equipped azami with it, drew mind over matter, then did draw-untap-draw 21 times and killed the guy with general damage.
Next game I had tunnel vision in hand and casted vendilion clique, hoping to put one of his cards on the bottom and milling his entire library. I flashed it in on his turn but he casted spell crumple on my clique. I started my turn and casted tunnel vision and named spell crumple, which he had put on the bottom of his library when he casted it.
after a sweep, my friend springjack pastured a bunch of goat tokens thanks to earthcraft in his elf deck as well as a bunch of mana rocks for ramp. next turn, he plays coat of arms and he swings with a bunch of 10/10 goats with trample(primal rage was also on his field)
So I'm playing Arcum dagsson last night in a 4-player multiplayer game that quickly became archenemy against me. It is about round 7 and I have been hit with spot removal and discard effects all game long. I have no cards in hand and all I have in play are Arcum, rings of brighthearth, and a bunch of islands. I'm hoping to draw an artifact creature so I can at least use arcum but no such luck, I draw mycosynth lattice instead.
The guy next to me has a tapped nevinyrral's disk in play and nothing else other than lands, and the other two players have a ton of creatures and other permanents in play and both present big threats. I cast mycosynth lattice and pass the turn.
He untaps his disk and stuff and I inform him that now that since lattice makes everything an artifact, if he blows the disk then all the lands, enchantments, and everything else will be destroyed. He looks at the other two players and decides to blow it anyway. I said "thanks" and sacked arcum to his own ability (since he is now an artifact creature), put darksteel forge into play, and started petting my indestructible lands while all of theirs hit the graveyard.
The other day i was playing captain sisay and a turn 1 sol ring helped me cast her on turn 2. On turn 3 I used her ability and someone responded by casting chaos warp on her - which put a land in play. When her ability went off it fetched....captain sisay.
I'm playing captain sisay which was killed multiple times. I have 5x forests and 1x savannah in play as well as thousand-year elixir. In hand I have vorinclex, voice of hunger and a combo that my opponents just LOVE to see me play, living plane and elesh norn, grand cenobite. I was praying for mana, preferably one that could be tapped for white so I could cast elesh.
Instead, on my draw step I get a gaea's cradle which was kind of disappointing since I had no creatures in play. Although its interaction with living plane is nice, if I cast it then the cradle would have summoning sickness.
Before reading further, can you guess what I did?
I casted living plane and laid the cradle, and since the cradle was a creature, the 1000-year elixir let me use its ability as though it had haste. I tapped it for 7 mana, then used the elixir to untap it and use it again, putting 13 in my pool. I used 8 of it to cast vorinclex then tapped the savannah for WW to cast elesh norn. My lands were 3/3 creatures, theirs were all dead.
There was a rivalry between me (and my well-tuned arcum dagsson deck) against my good buddy (and his equally tuned Kaalia of the vast deck). 4 of us sat down for a game and he said something I've never heard anyone say before (for good reason) "hey you should play your arcum deck."
....a deafening silence filled the room after those strange words were spoken.
I knew he recently filled his deck with combo and artifact hate but I didn't back down. 4 generals took the field but the other two players knew the game was essentially 1vs1.
We both had an average start and casted our generals on turn 3. On turn 4 he was about to attack and had a glint in his eye - I could just imagine the disgusting demon/dragon/angel that would be coming my way. I could see part of his spirit die when I responded with...
"Before you attack I'll sac my manakin for vedalken shackles, and take control of Kaalia."
Next turn, he starts to cast something and I interrupt him...
"I'll cast demonic tuto..." "...OH MY GOD ARCUM GIVE IT TO ME GIVE IT TO ME!!!!" Everybody's laughing as I'm rubbing my general card on Kaalia in an obscene manner.
He tutors for something to kill the shackles. Another part of his soul was sucked away as...
"In response I'll sac my mishra's factory for darksteel forge." Followed by.... "BITE THE PILLOW KAALIA....I'M GOING IN DRY!!!"
Next turn he attempted to exile the shackles. I had a counterspell for it and added "OHHHHH ARCUM YOU'RE SO WELL ENDOWED FOR AN OLD GUY!!!!" and thrusted my card against his repeatedly.
This continued for the rest of the game. I don't remember who won but I remember it was the best game ever.
If you had destroyed it somehow that would have been something. But seeing as how he gave up that card to draw another card - that's basically nothing.
No offense but what has me stunned is that you used your legacy weapon and gave up great card draw so that he could shuffle away a 1cmc permanent to draw a card, and you see that as a great play. If I was him I would have loved to see you waste your resources like that.
Had a player at the table today carrying on like a bit of a douche, so I targeted his Sensei's Divining Top with my Legacy Weapon. He tapped it in response, and drew a card, fair enough. But then I used Jace, the Mind Sculptor's +2 and put it on the bottom of his library. He wasn't happy.
If I was him I would be very happy. You wasted all that mana, you wasted your legacy weapon, you gave up your card draw with Jace, and all he lost was...basically nothing.
Putting it on the bottom reminds me of a great game I had once. Somebody put a card on the bottom of my library with vendillion clique, then casted tunnel vision on me to empty my library. Fortunately I had a blightsteel colossus in my deck which got shuffled back in. I was playing arcum dagsson and had plenty of mana. Each turn I casted the blightsteel, swung with it (I had swiftfoot boots in play), then sacked the blightsteel to arcum to fetch nothing but putting the blightsteel back so I had a card to draw next turn. I had a strong defensive position so nobody was able to kill me and even though I didn't have a library to draw cards from I was able to kill everyone eventually with the blightsteel.
^ he might not have meant infinite myr tokens. Just lots of them.
I had a funny exchange the other day. It was a battle of two powerful monoblue generals that are very dependent on their commanders - I was playing arcum dagsson against azami, lady of scrolls.
On turn 3 I casted arcum.
azami player stole it with gilded drake.
I swung with the drake and copied it with phyrexian metamorph to steal arcum back.
azami player casted sower of temptation and stole arcum again.
I casted sculpting steel to copy the phyrexian metamorph/gilded drake and stole arcum back.
azami player casted treachery to steal arcum and casted azami.
I casted vedalken shackles and used it to get arcum back.
Azami player said ok fine, you can have him.
I stole Krenko with Grab the Reins which I was going to Entwine to just kill it and his Goblin Cheiftain, but I figured out that I could make infinite goblins using Krenko by using the goblin tokens (which are artifacts thanks to Lattice) to untap Krenko over and over using Clock of Omens. Once I had an abundance of untapped Goblin tokens, I used them to untap a Gilded Lotus over and over to generate a ton of mana which I used to kill him with Bosh activations.
ha ha, nice play.
I almost had a sweet play the other day, also involving mycosynth lattice.
I had arcum dagsson and rings of brighthearth in play, I drew lightning greaves on my draw step and had lattice in my hands.
Someone used targetted removal on arcum and I responded by using arcum to get basalt monolith and made infinite mana with the rings. With infinite mana in my pool I dropped the lattice, greaves, re-played arcum, equipped him with the greaves so he had haste, and was about to sacrifice arcum to himself (since lattice makes him an artifact) and simply keep re-casting him from the command zone to tinker every artifact out of my deck.
But there was one problem....the greaves gave him haste but it also made it so he can't target himself.
I had an amazing hand for my arcum dagsson deck the other day.
Turn 1: laid an island. Tapped it for no reason. Scratched myself.
Turn 2: mana crypt -> tap, laid an island -> tapped both to cast grim monolith and power artifact for infinite mana.
Casted memory jar, used it, ending up with a bunch of great blue cards that I couldn't cast and a planar portal. Used the portal to fetch me a clock of omens.
I casted the clock and tapped it and grim monolith to untap planar portal, then used the portal to fetch basalt monolith. With the 2 monoliths, clock of omens, and infinite mana in my pool I was able to use my planar portal endlessly to fetch whatever I wanted - starting with mycosynth lattice so I could cast it all. I had a few options to go with to kill everyone, but I decided on sands of delirium, a sculpting steel to clone it, and rings of brighthearth to make each effect happen twice.
Everyone had their decks shuffled up for the next game by the time that happened.
We all played u/x decks and we all started off by casting gilded drake, stealing each other's generals. And we all played decks that were highly dependent on our generals (sliver overlord, edric, and animar).
After that the gilded drakes were copied by clone effects (phyrexian metamorph and the like), bounced and recasted, killed and reanimated, and after an hour and a half, gilded drake hit the board over a dozen times and we spent the entire time playing with each other's generals. It was awesome.
Plus, my favorite play was when I finally got my sliver overlord for a turn, someone borrowed it with zealous conscripts, then paid 3 mana to take control of target sliver, targeting the overlord himself to keep it.
My G Yisan, the Bard of Death G deck.
My BUGWR Hermit druid BUGWR deck.
The next turn I cast pattern of rebirth on the rector followed by diabolic intent.
So when the rector died, she gave me an enchantment from my library and put it on the battlefield, a creature from my library and put it on the battlefield, she let me tutor for any card, and she gave me 2 free cards to boot. That was the most profitable creature death I've ever seen, and it gave me all the combo pieces I needed to win that turn.
My G Yisan, the Bard of Death G deck.
My BUGWR Hermit druid BUGWR deck.
My G Yisan, the Bard of Death G deck.
My BUGWR Hermit druid BUGWR deck.
Next game I had tunnel vision in hand and casted vendilion clique, hoping to put one of his cards on the bottom and milling his entire library. I flashed it in on his turn but he casted spell crumple on my clique. I started my turn and casted tunnel vision and named spell crumple, which he had put on the bottom of his library when he casted it.
This deck is kinda fun actually.
My G Yisan, the Bard of Death G deck.
My BUGWR Hermit druid BUGWR deck.
My G Yisan, the Bard of Death G deck.
My BUGWR Hermit druid BUGWR deck.
How'd he untap the springjack pasture to keep making goats? And don't say earthcraft.
My G Yisan, the Bard of Death G deck.
My BUGWR Hermit druid BUGWR deck.
The guy next to me has a tapped nevinyrral's disk in play and nothing else other than lands, and the other two players have a ton of creatures and other permanents in play and both present big threats. I cast mycosynth lattice and pass the turn.
He untaps his disk and stuff and I inform him that now that since lattice makes everything an artifact, if he blows the disk then all the lands, enchantments, and everything else will be destroyed. He looks at the other two players and decides to blow it anyway. I said "thanks" and sacked arcum to his own ability (since he is now an artifact creature), put darksteel forge into play, and started petting my indestructible lands while all of theirs hit the graveyard.
My G Yisan, the Bard of Death G deck.
My BUGWR Hermit druid BUGWR deck.
My G Yisan, the Bard of Death G deck.
My BUGWR Hermit druid BUGWR deck.
Instead, on my draw step I get a gaea's cradle which was kind of disappointing since I had no creatures in play. Although its interaction with living plane is nice, if I cast it then the cradle would have summoning sickness.
Before reading further, can you guess what I did?
I casted living plane and laid the cradle, and since the cradle was a creature, the 1000-year elixir let me use its ability as though it had haste. I tapped it for 7 mana, then used the elixir to untap it and use it again, putting 13 in my pool. I used 8 of it to cast vorinclex then tapped the savannah for WW to cast elesh norn. My lands were 3/3 creatures, theirs were all dead.
My G Yisan, the Bard of Death G deck.
My BUGWR Hermit druid BUGWR deck.
....a deafening silence filled the room after those strange words were spoken.
I knew he recently filled his deck with combo and artifact hate but I didn't back down. 4 generals took the field but the other two players knew the game was essentially 1vs1.
We both had an average start and casted our generals on turn 3. On turn 4 he was about to attack and had a glint in his eye - I could just imagine the disgusting demon/dragon/angel that would be coming my way. I could see part of his spirit die when I responded with...
"Before you attack I'll sac my manakin for vedalken shackles, and take control of Kaalia."
Next turn, he starts to cast something and I interrupt him...
"I'll cast demonic tuto..." "...OH MY GOD ARCUM GIVE IT TO ME GIVE IT TO ME!!!!" Everybody's laughing as I'm rubbing my general card on Kaalia in an obscene manner.
He tutors for something to kill the shackles. Another part of his soul was sucked away as...
"In response I'll sac my mishra's factory for darksteel forge." Followed by.... "BITE THE PILLOW KAALIA....I'M GOING IN DRY!!!"
Next turn he attempted to exile the shackles. I had a counterspell for it and added "OHHHHH ARCUM YOU'RE SO WELL ENDOWED FOR AN OLD GUY!!!!" and thrusted my card against his repeatedly.
This continued for the rest of the game. I don't remember who won but I remember it was the best game ever.
My G Yisan, the Bard of Death G deck.
My BUGWR Hermit druid BUGWR deck.
No offense but what has me stunned is that you used your legacy weapon and gave up great card draw so that he could shuffle away a 1cmc permanent to draw a card, and you see that as a great play. If I was him I would have loved to see you waste your resources like that.
My G Yisan, the Bard of Death G deck.
My BUGWR Hermit druid BUGWR deck.
Putting it on the bottom reminds me of a great game I had once. Somebody put a card on the bottom of my library with vendillion clique, then casted tunnel vision on me to empty my library. Fortunately I had a blightsteel colossus in my deck which got shuffled back in. I was playing arcum dagsson and had plenty of mana. Each turn I casted the blightsteel, swung with it (I had swiftfoot boots in play), then sacked the blightsteel to arcum to fetch nothing but putting the blightsteel back so I had a card to draw next turn. I had a strong defensive position so nobody was able to kill me and even though I didn't have a library to draw cards from I was able to kill everyone eventually with the blightsteel.
My G Yisan, the Bard of Death G deck.
My BUGWR Hermit druid BUGWR deck.
I had a funny exchange the other day. It was a battle of two powerful monoblue generals that are very dependent on their commanders - I was playing arcum dagsson against azami, lady of scrolls.
On turn 3 I casted arcum.
azami player stole it with gilded drake.
I swung with the drake and copied it with phyrexian metamorph to steal arcum back.
azami player casted sower of temptation and stole arcum again.
I casted sculpting steel to copy the phyrexian metamorph/gilded drake and stole arcum back.
azami player casted treachery to steal arcum and casted azami.
I casted vedalken shackles and used it to get arcum back.
Azami player said ok fine, you can have him.
My G Yisan, the Bard of Death G deck.
My BUGWR Hermit druid BUGWR deck.
I almost had a sweet play the other day, also involving mycosynth lattice.
I had arcum dagsson and rings of brighthearth in play, I drew lightning greaves on my draw step and had lattice in my hands.
Someone used targetted removal on arcum and I responded by using arcum to get basalt monolith and made infinite mana with the rings. With infinite mana in my pool I dropped the lattice, greaves, re-played arcum, equipped him with the greaves so he had haste, and was about to sacrifice arcum to himself (since lattice makes him an artifact) and simply keep re-casting him from the command zone to tinker every artifact out of my deck.
But there was one problem....the greaves gave him haste but it also made it so he can't target himself.
My G Yisan, the Bard of Death G deck.
My BUGWR Hermit druid BUGWR deck.
Turn 1: laid an island. Tapped it for no reason. Scratched myself.
Turn 2: mana crypt -> tap, laid an island -> tapped both to cast grim monolith and power artifact for infinite mana.
Casted memory jar, used it, ending up with a bunch of great blue cards that I couldn't cast and a planar portal. Used the portal to fetch me a clock of omens.
I casted the clock and tapped it and grim monolith to untap planar portal, then used the portal to fetch basalt monolith. With the 2 monoliths, clock of omens, and infinite mana in my pool I was able to use my planar portal endlessly to fetch whatever I wanted - starting with mycosynth lattice so I could cast it all. I had a few options to go with to kill everyone, but I decided on sands of delirium, a sculpting steel to clone it, and rings of brighthearth to make each effect happen twice.
Everyone had their decks shuffled up for the next game by the time that happened.
My G Yisan, the Bard of Death G deck.
My BUGWR Hermit druid BUGWR deck.