Probably my quickest win to date with any deck, which is cool considering I try to avoid combo. I felt like a jerk dominating the game so early, but all the pieces came together perfectly, and I had plenty of gas in hand too - I cast Brutalizer Exarch to fetch Rampaging Baloths with a Collective Voyage in hand and there was literally no board presence.
Donated a Lich's Mirror to an opponent then hit them with lethal commander damage, putting them in an endless cycle of death that I got to savor.
You do realize that you would have won the game if you hadn't done this, right?
Infinite unbreakable loop!
That's not necessarily true, if epoa couldn't kill the other player(s) at the table. Forcing a draw is better than taking a loss. Also, forcing a draw is funny.
I got to live the dream this weekend. We were in our 3rd hour in a 5-player game. The mono white angels deck was in a good position, and he landed Avacyn, Angel of Hope. The table had seen most of what I’d drawn into my 7 card hand from some triggers off Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign and Sphinx of Uthuun. The only card that the table hadn’t seen was the card I drew the turn prior, Swords to Plowshares. After the angel deck resolved Avacyn, he promptly tried to cast Armageddon...and in response I used the Swords on his Avacyn. Felt great, and I finished off the table with my sphinxes.
Did he sputter? Or hit his head on the table in despair? It would be SO much better if he sputtered, though.
He’s very thorough, and he’d talked out loud through options. I had UWB mana open, so he noted I didnt have UU for Counterspell. I said I could have Swords to Plowshares but said “I’ve seen 6 of your 7 cards, I think the odds are in my favor”. Once I used Swords on his Avacyn, he kind of chuckled, like the laugh you do when you’re at your wits’ end.
The deck was built to accelerate the table to their win conditions, and, if they take too long to win, it wins with overwhelming card draw. Now, with all of this in mind, the deck has some extremely brutal lines of play. Most recently, I dropped a T3 Notion Thief and cast Whispering Madness on T4, Ciphered on to Notion Thief. The entire table scooped.
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I also play an Atraxa artifact tokens combo deck. I got out Revel in Riches and Mechanized Production out (enchanting my Platinum Angel while I had out Platinum Emperion and Darksteel Forge), and was generating a TON of Treasure tokens off of Doubling Season + Smothering Tithe. At one point, I ended up with 35 Treasure tokens, with my opponents doing everything in their power to keep my Revel and Production off the board to prevent me from winning on my next turn. Eventually, my Forge got bounced, my Angel wiped, and my Revel bounced, and I lost after they destroyed my Emperion, but it was an epic game, overall. At one point, I turned all of my Treasure into 5/5's with Tezzeret the Seeker, but somebody cast Evacuation and that set me back a couple of turns.
2011: Best Mafia Performance (Individual) - Best Newcomer
2012: Best (False?) Role Claim - Worst Town Performance (Group) - Best Mafia Performance (Group) - Best SK Performance - Best Overall Player
2013: Best Non-SK Neutral Performance
2014: Best Town Performance (Individual) - Best Town Performance (Group) - Most Interesting Role - Best Game - Best Overall Player
2015: Worst Mafia Performance (Group) - Best Read
2016: Best Town Performance (Group) - Best Town Player - Best Overall Player
It’s not a matter of winning and losing. It’s savoring the helplessness of your enemies and enjoying them entering an infinite loop of death.
I did that before, except that a third player had rain of gore in play (which meant that he goes on an infinite loop LOSING life while being unable to actually die.
It’s weird going +infinite life while losing, but that’s pretty funny either way.
Funny game in that it went literally from 0-100 for me very, very quickly. It helped getting a magical christmas land hand for explosive plays, so that's probably why.
"Restriction breeds creativity." - Sheldon Menery on EDH / Commander in Magic: The Gathering
"Cancel Culture is the real reason why everyone's not allowed to have nice things anymore." - Anonymous
"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" - Mark 8:36
"Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"Every life decision is always a risk / reward proposition." - Sanjay Gupta
Well, i had 9 mana. One (Muldrotha Landfall) of my two opponents killed the other (Zedru) with 13 triggers from Ob-Nixilis, the Fallen after a Splendid Reclamationand shot me (Child of Alara Enchantress) down to 27 from 36.
I had 9 mana, Enchanter's Prescence and Argothian Enchantress in play. Managed to find the last land and i played my omniscience. Started playing card for card, drawing my deck and dumping out enchantments.
I looked at his board, thought how the hell im gonna win with this deck since it was newly built. Someone mentions he has Glacial Chasm in play. Started thinking and i had a Strip Mine in the Graveyard. Played Seasons Past and picked up Maelstrom Wanderer, Grim Feast, Wrath of God and Demonic Tutor. I could wrath his board and get a bunch of life since the Ob-nixilis was like, a 42/42.
Well, i had 9 mana. One (Muldrotha Landfall) of my two opponents killed the other (Zedru) with 13 triggers from Ob-Nixilis, the Fallen after a Splendid Reclamationand shot me (Child of Alara Enchantress) down to 27 from 36.
I had 9 mana, Enchanter's Prescence and Argothian Enchantress in play. Managed to find the last land and i played my omniscience. Started playing card for card, drawing my deck and dumping out enchantments.
I looked at his board, thought how the hell im gonna win with this deck since it was newly built. Someone mentions he has Glacial Chasm in play. Started thinking and i had a Strip Mine in the Graveyard. Played Seasons Past and picked up Maelstrom Wanderer, Grim Feast, Wrath of God and Demonic Tutor. I could wrath his board and get a bunch of life since the Ob-nixilis was like, a 42/42.
The next bunch of interactions on my turn were very very complicated but the end result was me dealing with the opposing Niv, casting a Jund Charm 3 times to completely wipe the board and then proceeding to use everyones graveyard with the Spellweaver Volute to dig my way to a ritual or two and an X spell to finish off the game.
The rest of the table was mainly agressive decks, most notable Tuvasa the Sunlit that got pretty big real fast. I started with a pretty good hand consisting of lands, Mana Reflection and Ring of Three Whishes. So for the first couple of turns, I didn't do anything crazy - just playing lands and ramping a bit. After a while a got low on life (think I went down to 17) and thought I had to do something. I flashed in Sasaya with Winding Canyons, sacced a Wind-Field Scarecrow to get 7 lands in hand. Proceed to turn, play Mana Reflection, then Ring of Three Wishes only to find out an opponent had Blind Obedience in play. Luckily noone was able to kill me, so next turn I try and get things going but needed a drawengine. Book of Rass felt awkward with such low life, so went for Recycle, but that didn't draw me into any other wincon either, so I had to wait a full turn. Luckily I had drawn Glacial Chasm. Next turn I tutored for Praetor's Counsel getting back at least 30 cards back from the yard. After playing Lifegift and dropping first land (now had 8 forests in play so the all tapped for 16 each) I draw Aatherflux Reservoir from the top, which I played - and well, we didn't want to play it out
Kinda amazed I lived throu all three turns before pulling the win, but it felt great pulling off a win with a monogreen storm-deck! (Think the others also enjoyed it, they certainly didn't expect it).
now had 8 forests in play so the all tapped for 16 each
This is wrong. Each Forest tapped for 2 (thanks to Mana Reflection), and then Sasaya's trigger gives you an additional 7, for 9 total. Mana Reflection does not double the mana from Sasaya's Essence.
now had 8 forests in play so the all tapped for 16 each
This is wrong. Each Forest tapped for 2 (thanks to Mana Reflection), and then Sasaya's trigger gives you an additional 7, for 9 total. Mana Reflection does not double the mana from Sasaya's Essence.
I would guess it would fall under this rule:
5/1/2008 If you have Mana Reflection on the battlefield and tap a permanent for mana, but another replacement effect would change the type and/or amount of mana it would produce (such as Contamination, which says “If a land is tapped for mana, it produces Black instead of any other type and amount”), you decide what order to apply those effects in. In this example, applying Mana Reflection first and Contamination second would result in B; applying Contamination first and Mana Reflection second would result in BB.
So it would depend on how that player stacks the triggers.
There is only one trigger here: Sasaya's. Reflection applies only to the mana the land is producing. That is, the land always taps for {G} even with Sasaya. Reflection just changes it to {GG}. Then Sasaya triggers and generates 7 additional mana. It is important to note that Sasaya generates the additional mana; not the land which is why the 7 mana is, in no way, affected by Mana Reflection.
The rule quoted above explains what happens when there are 2 (or more) replacement effects going on but that doesn't apply here.
So, yesterday i was in a heads up with Gonti, Lord of Luxury against Child of Alara lands goodstuff.
With Omnath, Locus of Rage on the board my opponent cast Splendid Reclamation for some 15-ish Elemental tokens without a haste enabler. So it all came down to my next turn.
I top decked Necropotence, but no wrath - and even if i had, that would've killed me. I went through my hand - nothing. Went through my graveyard - nothing. Went through the cards exiled with my commander - noth... wait.
A few turns back i exiled Borborygmos Enraged off the same players deck! So i decided to go all in, cast Necropotence, then Borborygmos Enraged, "drew" down to 1 life remaining, hit just enough land cards to discard to Borborygmos Enraged to get my opponent to -2 life.
Despite being a simple 2 card interaction that was one memorable play and win for sure.
T1 - Burgeoning with 4 lands in hand - 2 forests, Warped Landscape and Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx. Additionally, Green Sun's Zenith and Wood Elves. Play Forest, Burgeoning, pass turn, 3 land drops for the turn cycle and sac Landscape end of last player's turn for 4 total lands.
T2 - Draw Growing Rites of Itlimoc. Cast Wood Elves, then Zenith finding Wirewood Symbiote, end of turn cycle bouncing elves. 5 lands in play.
T3 - Draw Shaman of Forgotten Ways. Cast Elves again for 6 lands, cast Nissa fetching a forest and drop to play to flip Nissa. +1 for another land, making 8. Cast Shaman. End of turn cycle bounce Elves again.
T4 - Draw Splendid Reclamation, and Collective Voyage from Nissa. Cast Itlimoc, revealing Brutalizer Exarch as the only creature. Cast Elves again. -2 Nissa to create Ashaya, the Awoken World, flipping to Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun. Cast Shaman of Forgotten Ways.
T5 - By this point, one player has 2 creatures in play, other 2 players have nothing. Activate formidable trigger on Shaman of Forgotten Ways, table sweeps.
Probably my quickest win to date with any deck, which is cool considering I try to avoid combo. I felt like a jerk dominating the game so early, but all the pieces came together perfectly, and I had plenty of gas in hand too - I cast Brutalizer Exarch to fetch Rampaging Baloths with a Collective Voyage in hand and there was literally no board presence.
Dragon tempest, scourge of valkas, dragon broodmother, panharmonicon and a copy of broomother using clever impersonator
In just a few turns i was doing upwards of 40 damage at each upkeep. So i won...
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You do realize that you would have won the game if you hadn't done this, right?
Infinite unbreakable loop!
Deal with it.
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Currently Playing:
Multiplayer EDH Lists (click italics for a link to the thread!)
[Primer] Lord of Tresserhorn - Don't Tell Me What I Can't Do[Primer] Roon of the Hidden Realm - Rhino Blink
5 Color Tribal Guide (Slivers, Atogs, Allies, Spirits)
Also Playing (most decklists can be found on my profile)
MarathGeistKamahlGrenzoBolasThassaGitrog
PiratesZurVial Smasher&ThrasiosYennettJhoira(cEDH)Strix(Pauper)
Legacy: Maverick
Modern:
Melira PodRIP 1/19/15GWHatebearsEDH decks: 1. RGWMayael's Big BeatsRETIRED!
2. BUWMerieke Ri Berit and the 40 Thieves
3. URNiv's Wheeling and Dealing!
4. BURThe Walking Dead
5. GWSisay's Legends of Tomorrow
6. RWBRise of Markov
7. GElvez and stuffz(W)
8. RCrush your enemies(W)
9. BSign right here...(W)
He’s very thorough, and he’d talked out loud through options. I had UWB mana open, so he noted I didnt have UU for Counterspell. I said I could have Swords to Plowshares but said “I’ve seen 6 of your 7 cards, I think the odds are in my favor”. Once I used Swords on his Avacyn, he kind of chuckled, like the laugh you do when you’re at your wits’ end.
Currently Playing:
Multiplayer EDH Lists (click italics for a link to the thread!)
[Primer] Lord of Tresserhorn - Don't Tell Me What I Can't Do[Primer] Roon of the Hidden Realm - Rhino Blink
5 Color Tribal Guide (Slivers, Atogs, Allies, Spirits)
Also Playing (most decklists can be found on my profile)
MarathGeistKamahlGrenzoBolasThassaGitrog
PiratesZurVial Smasher&ThrasiosYennettJhoira(cEDH)Strix(Pauper)
Legacy: Maverick
Modern:
Melira PodRIP 1/19/15GWHatebearsNormally, the deck fuels the entire table, using cards like Master of the Feast, Dictate of Kruphix, Howling Mine, Font of Mythos, Seizan, etc.. There's a Kozilek in there to prevent myself from decking out until I have Lab Man, which is my primary win condition (though I also utilize each of the Bolas Planeswalker cards, Rise of the Dark Realms, Insurrection, and Awaken the Erstwhile as alternate win cons).
The deck was built to accelerate the table to their win conditions, and, if they take too long to win, it wins with overwhelming card draw. Now, with all of this in mind, the deck has some extremely brutal lines of play. Most recently, I dropped a T3 Notion Thief and cast Whispering Madness on T4, Ciphered on to Notion Thief. The entire table scooped.
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I also play an Atraxa artifact tokens combo deck. I got out Revel in Riches and Mechanized Production out (enchanting my Platinum Angel while I had out Platinum Emperion and Darksteel Forge), and was generating a TON of Treasure tokens off of Doubling Season + Smothering Tithe. At one point, I ended up with 35 Treasure tokens, with my opponents doing everything in their power to keep my Revel and Production off the board to prevent me from winning on my next turn. Eventually, my Forge got bounced, my Angel wiped, and my Revel bounced, and I lost after they destroyed my Emperion, but it was an epic game, overall. At one point, I turned all of my Treasure into 5/5's with Tezzeret the Seeker, but somebody cast Evacuation and that set me back a couple of turns.
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2012: Best (False?) Role Claim - Worst Town Performance (Group) - Best Mafia Performance (Group) - Best SK Performance - Best Overall Player
2013: Best Non-SK Neutral Performance
2014: Best Town Performance (Individual) - Best Town Performance (Group) - Most Interesting Role - Best Game - Best Overall Player
2015: Worst Mafia Performance (Group) - Best Read
2016: Best Town Performance (Group) - Best Town Player - Best Overall Player
I did that before, except that a third player had rain of gore in play (which meant that he goes on an infinite loop LOSING life while being unable to actually die.
It’s weird going +infinite life while losing, but that’s pretty funny either way.
Legacy - Solidarity - mono U aggro - burn - Imperial Painter - Strawberry Shortcake - Bluuzards - bom
T1: Hallowed Fountain untapped, Ponder, drawing Paradox Engine
T2: Island, Lavinia, Azorius Renegade, Mox Amber, EOT Enlightened Tutor for Mana Crypt
T3: Darksteel Citadel, Mana Crypt, Paradox Engine, Aether Spellbomb (untap Crypt and Mox)
Timetwister (free due to PE trigger)
Frantic Search (free due to PE trigger, then untap 3 lands)
Auriok Salvagers (net cost 1 due to PE trigger)
Trinket Mage (free due to PE trigger), tutor Lion's Eye Diamond
Infinite colored mana and infinite storm (Salvagers+LED), infinite card draw (infinite mana+Salvagers+Spellbomb). Aetherflux Reservoir for game
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Nissa, Vastwood Seer (me) vs Grand Arbiter Augustin IV and Lord Windgrace
Started badly with mulling down to 4 to hit land drops. I got locked out of the first 8-10 turns with just a Mirage Mirror in play by Hokori, Dust Drinker, Norn's Annex and Iona, Shield of Emeria at various points. Windgrace finally lands a Savage Twister for 2 to kill Hokori, then next turn cycle casts Necromantic Selection, choosing Iona with Blue as her colour. My next turn I play Karametra's Acolyte and Nacatl War-Pride, pass turn. GAAIV passes after a land drop, then Windgrace plays Sylvan Awakening for 13 lands, swinging at me for 26. I block 2, take 22 down to 14, pass turn to me. I copy War-Pride with Mirage Mirror, swing with both at Windgrace, creating 26 tokens to alpha strike him for 84. Second main, I tap Karametra's Acolyte for 84 G, cast Regal Force to draw 27, then land Glacial Chasm and cast Squall Line for 70, leaving 12 floating. Squall line gets countered, so I cast Bramble Sovereign, cast Rampaging Baloths and copy it, discarding 12 lands and sundry to 7. GAAAIV casts two clones, one of Acolyte and one of Regal, hoping to draw into an answer. Finds nothing, passes. I cast Wave of Vitriol, sac 5 nonbasics for 10 beasts, then cast Splendid Reclamation. Augustin concedes.
Funny game in that it went literally from 0-100 for me very, very quickly. It helped getting a magical christmas land hand for explosive plays, so that's probably why.
Oddly enough I still managed to win the game with Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest when I cast Boros Charm to give him double strike since I was trying to preserve the 2 Boros mana I had for my other cantrip spells. The two Commander decks I went up against at the time were Pir, Imaginative Rascal / Toothy, Imaginary Friend and Nicol Bolas, the Ravager.
"Restriction breeds creativity." - Sheldon Menery on EDH / Commander in Magic: The Gathering
"Cancel Culture is the real reason why everyone's not allowed to have nice things anymore." - Anonymous
"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" - Mark 8:36
"Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"Every life decision is always a risk / reward proposition." - Sanjay Gupta
I had 9 mana, Enchanter's Prescence and Argothian Enchantress in play. Managed to find the last land and i played my omniscience. Started playing card for card, drawing my deck and dumping out enchantments.
I looked at his board, thought how the hell im gonna win with this deck since it was newly built. Someone mentions he has Glacial Chasm in play. Started thinking and i had a Strip Mine in the Graveyard. Played Seasons Past and picked up Maelstrom Wanderer, Grim Feast, Wrath of God and Demonic Tutor. I could wrath his board and get a bunch of life since the Ob-nixilis was like, a 42/42.
Then i noticed i could loop Seasons Past and Demonic Tutor so i could find the Seasons Past, pick up my Strip Mine from the graveyard (missed it the first time) and played my Oracle of Mul'Daya that has been in my hand since the beginning because i got locked down under a Aggressive Mining before.
PLayed it, strip mined the Glacial Chasm, played Maelstrom Wanderer and played Opalescence. Swung for leathal. When i put in Maelstrom Wanderer, i just wanted to live the dream with Maelstrom Nexus + Estrid's Invocationhaha ( which i did, it was amazing with Bloom Tender (((which i sadly have to sell now )))) )
Who needs Colours?
My most played EDH deck:
X Kozilek, the Great Distortion
UBR Nekusar, the Mindrazer
Do you have a list forthis 5 Color Enchantress deck?
I Replenished a Thousand-Year Storm
Cast Rite of Flame for 4
Cast Desperate Ritual for 9
Cast a Ramos, Dragon Engine
then a Wargate X = 6 with the Rest of my mana Getting
Niv-Mizzet, Parun, Jeskai Ascendancy, Spellweaver Volute (enchanted onto the Gush in my grave yard)
One Opponent was out of resources
One Opponent cast a Clever Impersonator copying Niv
The final opponent Worldly Tutor'd for a Alms Collector and then passed the turn with mana up.
The next bunch of interactions on my turn were very very complicated but the end result was me dealing with the opposing Niv, casting a Jund Charm 3 times to completely wipe the board and then proceeding to use everyones graveyard with the Spellweaver Volute to dig my way to a ritual or two and an X spell to finish off the game.
I always meant to make a Spellweaver Volute deck to get Pyromancer Ascension off the ground but with the printings of Bonus Round and Thousand-Year Storm that seems so quaint now.
The rest of the table was mainly agressive decks, most notable Tuvasa the Sunlit that got pretty big real fast. I started with a pretty good hand consisting of lands, Mana Reflection and Ring of Three Whishes. So for the first couple of turns, I didn't do anything crazy - just playing lands and ramping a bit. After a while a got low on life (think I went down to 17) and thought I had to do something. I flashed in Sasaya with Winding Canyons, sacced a Wind-Field Scarecrow to get 7 lands in hand. Proceed to turn, play Mana Reflection, then Ring of Three Wishes only to find out an opponent had Blind Obedience in play. Luckily noone was able to kill me, so next turn I try and get things going but needed a drawengine. Book of Rass felt awkward with such low life, so went for Recycle, but that didn't draw me into any other wincon either, so I had to wait a full turn. Luckily I had drawn Glacial Chasm. Next turn I tutored for Praetor's Counsel getting back at least 30 cards back from the yard. After playing Lifegift and dropping first land (now had 8 forests in play so the all tapped for 16 each) I draw Aatherflux Reservoir from the top, which I played - and well, we didn't want to play it out
Kinda amazed I lived throu all three turns before pulling the win, but it felt great pulling off a win with a monogreen storm-deck! (Think the others also enjoyed it, they certainly didn't expect it).
Two Score, Minus Two or: A Stargate Tail
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I would guess it would fall under this rule:
So it would depend on how that player stacks the triggers.
The rule quoted above explains what happens when there are 2 (or more) replacement effects going on but that doesn't apply here.
If you happen to be missing it, Doubling Cube is the doubling effect you want with Sasaya.
With Omnath, Locus of Rage on the board my opponent cast Splendid Reclamation for some 15-ish Elemental tokens without a haste enabler. So it all came down to my next turn.
I top decked Necropotence, but no wrath - and even if i had, that would've killed me. I went through my hand - nothing. Went through my graveyard - nothing. Went through the cards exiled with my commander - noth... wait.
A few turns back i exiled Borborygmos Enraged off the same players deck! So i decided to go all in, cast Necropotence, then Borborygmos Enraged, "drew" down to 1 life remaining, hit just enough land cards to discard to Borborygmos Enraged to get my opponent to -2 life.
Despite being a simple 2 card interaction that was one memorable play and win for sure.
I won another match with Lazav, the Multifarious who was a Slippery Scoundrel for 10-12 turns via Commander Damage because Hokori, Dust Drinker was "too efficient" at locking down the board. Aweful round, memorable sequence.