We've all seen the crazy plays thread, or gotten to brag about a cool winning board state... But a lot of these flash in the can moments can simply vanish into the obscurity without really being memorable. Your big creature finish might just vanish into obscurity with other similar overrun stories.
What moments are truly memorable to you?
Here are a few of mine to get things started:
I was playing Kurkesh, Onakke Ancient. This was early in construction, so I was often taking votes on cards to add/remove. One player voted in The Hive. In the subsequent game, I managed to cast The Hive, and thanks to Bludgeon Brawl equipped the hive onto its own wasp token, and beat people up with a wasp bludgeoning people with it's own hive.
Another Kurkesh, Onakke Ancient game, I managed to put a Gauntlet of Might onto a Prototype Portal, but unfortunately had no cards in hand, so was unable to do anything with my massive amounts of mana, except make more and more Gauntlet of Might tokens. Finally, about 17 Gauntlets of Might later I drew a Power Matrix, and was able to start one-shotting people with a very scary commander.
Finally, the most infamous one was me piloting my Chainer, Dementia Master deck, and having a very rough time, getting beat down by pretty much everybody. Down to 5 life, with no cards in hand, an opponent decides to take pity and spare me going "I'll give him one more turn, what's the worst that could happen?" One lucky topdeck, and and I rebuild an insane board presence, drain everyone for 20+ life, (but fail to kill anyone), and it takes all 3 players conspiring together to make a Commander large enough and unblockable to kill me. Since then "One more turn, what's the worst that could happen" has become a lasting catch-phrase at my LGS, for several years now.
A fairly long drawn out game went down. The details of which aren't really relevant. I managed to kill Sharuum right before she combo'd off with heartless hidetsugu and curse of bloodletting. Heartless hidetsugu was activated I believe 3 times total and the Sen Triplets died to some burn or another from me. So now I'm staring down the worst EDH deck I have ever seen (or will ever see again) with less than 6 health and no hand to speak of. I end up dying to a Squire that had been powered up to a 3/4 using Dragon Blood which evaded my blockers with Flying Carpet. I couldn't just burn the player out either because he'd gained too much life with Planeswalker's Mirth.
That's a four card combo to effectively resulted in creating a Vampire Sovereign or Archway Angel and I died to it. All four of those cards are easily the worst cards I've ever seen cast in a game of EDH. They were all cast in the same game of EDH and on top of that each of them were vital to my loss. I'm not even mad, I'm actually kind of sad that I'll never again lose to such a hilariously terrible combination of cards.
3 way match. I convince my opponent (A) to kill the third player. (B) so we can "Duke it out like men"
So he kills him off (A kills B) and then I slaver lock player A.
I was playing my Prossh, Skyraider of Kher deck. I was horribly mana screwed early game and doing very little to impact the game. I finally get to 6 mana with Poison-tip Archer and Pawn of Ulamog on board. I cast Food Chain to try and combo out with prossh and win the game on the spot but one of my opponents Counterspells it.sadness
About 5 years ago, on a kitchen table far far away, a long 4 player game was coming to an and. I was playing my Tymaret, the Murder King sacrifice deck, and I ended up in a 2 v 1 against Daretti, Scrap Savant artifacts, and Azami, Lady of Scrolls wizard tribal/combo. I was stopping Azami from comboing with Mind over Matter thanks to Grave Pact and self recurring creatures, and a Gate to Phyrexia was slowing Daretti down. But I wasn't going to survive many more turns against them both. Daretti started going off, and cast Scrap Mastery. A small stack battle followed and I was unable to stop it. Then Azami, helping out Daretti, casts Brain Freeze, to give him more artifacts in his yard. As this was a long game, Daretti didn't have many cards left, and ended up milling the rest of his deck. Then the Scrap Mastery resolved and we all went through our yards. Daretti had a huge pile to go through, but eventually came across Ichor Wellspring, and had no way of putting a card into his library. Azami's plan to help his mate back fired, and left him in a 1 v 1 with me, and thanks to Scrap Mastery, I rode a Wurmcoil Engine to victory.
I was playing a five player game and one of the guys was playing prime Speaker zegana. They turn one forest into burgeoning which results in playing five lands because of sprouting vines and someone plays a fetch. They then play Sylvan primordial turn two and everyone scoops.
The time I vomited out all 28 relentless rats and proceeded to swing them at everyone only to get foged, followed by when we played planechase I kept a hand of 6 swamp and a nightmare because I was younger and not very smart and the plane we started on was naya followed by another planecahse game when one of the other guys was playing my 99 Ashling the Pilgrim mountain deck and naturally we started on naya
Then I don't remember the full details as to how it happened but I had a aura thief/enchanted evening trigger stolen out from under me,so instead of me ending up with all the things,another player did...I think the other player was running a reaper king deck of some sort
EDIT: Oh there was also one game again planechase and we were Shiv....and well I'm no longer allowed to roll on that plane...due to one turn and very lucky chaos rolls like five I think
The time I countered my own spell so I could put it higher on the stack.
I was playing Mr. Bones, and I was set to go off next turn. My opponents knew this, but they didn't have any way to stop me. So, rather than giving me the satisfaction of trapping them all on the Ride, they tried to kill themselves before it got back to me. I was having none of that.
With two opponents having no cards left in their libraries, the third cast Minds Aglow for lethal. I respond by flashing in Abyssal Persecutor off Vedalken Orrery to save them. My opponent then activates Geier Reach Sanitarium before my demon resolves. At this point, I'm cursing under my breath. I had missed the Sanitarium completely, and my only counterspell, Retard, can't counter activated abilities, putting me in a bit of a bind. Luckily, I had found my out. With everything still on the stack, I cast Retard and exile my Abyssal Persecutor. From there, I activate Mirror of Fate and build a new library with Abyssal Persecutor on top. Then I activate Scroll Rack, redraw the Persecutor, and cast it a second time. The Persecutor resolves, and everyone is thoroughly impressed with my ability to jump hoops.
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The thing about plays that stick with me forever, they're usually the one's where I lose by the thinnest margin. I'm not sure if I have the details on all these exact, but I know how I lost.
The most memorable play will always be "go to kill you with Memnite?" "Tragic Slip, not even morbid."
In one game, I had Mind Over Matter quantities of mana, I had Warstorm Surge, Zedruu the Greathearted, and Academy Rector in play, and I had Memnite in my hand. So all I need to perform my dumb Memnite combo and win the game is to kill Academy Rector and fetch out Dissipation Field. But I couldn't find a way to kill Academy Rector. I had Venser, the Sojourner as well, so I could flicker Zedruu to come back and Warstorm Surge Academy Rector to death, but it would be at end of turn, and I didn't have flash, and I wasn't getting another untap. I sat there for like 10 minutes before conceding and going to class. And then a couple hours later I found the line I was missing: Exile Zedruu with Venser, choose to send to the command zone, then recast her from there.
One time I thought it reasonable to cut Shimmer Myr from Zedruu to try out new cards (I have since cut Shimmer Myr, but only cause it got swapped for Raff Capashen, Ship's Mage). My selesnya opponent has a super wide board from a Monastery Mentor, and plays The Great Aurora. In response, I cast a few creatures, then Mirrorweave the mentor, then cast a few noncreatures, and by the time the Aurora resolved, I shuffled in and drew 70. The card I was playing instead of Shimmer Myr was right there in my hand, and while I could cast my actual instants, they were little more than minor interaction, so I'm sitting there with my whole deck waiting for my turn, and they prepare to kill me asap. I do get a turn though, and on my upkeep the boros angels player pings me for 1 with Aurelia's Fury. I can't cast things at instant speed cause my flash enablers are in hand but sorcery speed. I can't cast my no maximum hand size spells cause they're also artifacts. I can cast a couple dopey creatures and pass the turn, discarding 60 cards to hand size. And then they murdered me before my next turn anyways not trusting I wouldn't still come back somehow.
And I guess I'll throw in a winner cause I'm not letting arrogantAxolotl out-Mirror of Fate me: I had an opponent manage to gravestorm his Bitter Ordeal enough to exile every other deck at the table. On my upkeep I flash in Shimmer Myr and then flash in Mirror of Fate , and thank him for sacrificing all his creatures, killing the other players, and then letting me cast Doomsday.
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Zedruu: "This deck is not only able to go crazy - it also needs to do so."
The Persecutor resolves, and everyone is thoroughly impressed with my ability to jump hoops.
No one ever thinks of the engineers behind the Wild Ride.
Most of my games blur together for one reason or another but I do remember Chaos Warping into Platinum Emperion in my Daretti deck in response to lethal combat damage. At one life. Suck it, Madcap Experiment.
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A long drawn out game with 5 players. At least 10 board wipes had been cast, and everyone had at least 25-30% of their decks in their graveyards. I had been mana-screwed all game (only at 5 mana), and except for a timely Blasphemous Act, had done nothing to really impact the game.
On the final turn sequence, a player had ticked Liliana Vess up to 8, ready to ultimate the next turn. Oh, and had wiped AGAIN to keep her there. Everyone was groaning and whining about the game, but they had nothing they could do. On my turn, I used Word of Seizing to grab the Liliana and ultimate her. It caused a big cheer, and as I started to sort through the endless ETB triggers, everyone just agreed it was over given my Urabrask the Hidden being among the returnees.
I've got 3 that come to me right away. Part of what's memorable about the first two is they both involve either me or my opponent eating our own words.
One was a game with my Nin, the Pain ArtistErratic Explosion deck playing a casual pickup 1v1 game against a stranger's Angus Mackenzie Superfriends deck. I was able to burn most of his walkers out, but he's managed to stick a Jace of one sort and an Ajani of another while I've just got a Psychosis Crawler and a lot of mana. I'm mostly untouched and he's at 19. We've both been holding up our mana representing counterspells for a turn or two, but on his next turn he decides to go for it. He casts Time Warp and tries to Twincast it with both his walkers nearing ultimate, still with plenty of mana untapped. I decide to go for it as well. I cast Brainstorm, which he lets resolve, pinging him down to 16 with Psychosis Crawler. I then cast Riddle of Lightning targeting him, and I'm ready for the counter war, but instead he responds with these words: "I mean, it's not like that'll kill me."
No need to scry: I just flip over Draco. We're both laughing like madmen.
A second story was another 1v1 game, this time against a friend (my decks are all built for multiplayer, but the unique, memorable moments only seem to happen in 1v1). He asks if I've got a deck that's more midrange in competitiveness to play against his newly built Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire tokens deck, so I pull out my own newly built Reyhan, Last of the Abzan+Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper deck. I tell him it's mostly just a goodstuffish big value dudes + removal deck with some +1/+1 counter and lifegain synergies, but it's a slow deck with no infinite combos or super mean cards and it shouldn't kill you out of nowhere.
Of course, I kill him on turn 4. We're back to standard of a year ago with turn 2 Winding Constrictor into turn 3 Walking Ballista (killing his Llanowar Elves) and then turn 4 I play Unspeakable Symbol. I'm at 38 from fetchlands and don't believe in half measures, so I pay 36 life into the Symbol to put 24 counters on my 1/1 Ballista making it a 25/25, then remove 2 counters to kill his only blocker, Falkenrath Noble (which drains me down to 1). I attack with both for 25, then remove 23 counters to ping him for an unnecessary amount of overkill. Pretty incredible first game for the deck, pretty bad look for me when I follow up "shouldn't kill you out of nowhere" with that godhand.
My last memorable story is a story (or rather, an entire game) I've already posted years ago in the "Crazy Plays" thread, but the fact that it's the only "crazy play" I've deemed "crazy" enough to post in that thread should indicate just how memorable it is to me. It's a bit long as it's condensing an intense 9-10 turn 2HG game, but it's a pretty wild ride if I may say so. Spoiler'd to avoid making this post into a giant wall of text:
Had a fairly epic game last Friday where every time I untapped, I thought there was no way I was going to untap again. There is no one "crazy play" here; it's just a series of neat plays that were enough to overcome a massive early game disadvantage.
It was a 2-headed giant game with me piloting a Nin, the Pain ArtistErratic Explosion-based deck paired up with a Malfegor deck (which looked like it did Malfegor things) against a generic Nahiri, the Lithomancer deck teamed up with goodstuff The Mimeoplasm running a bunch of 2-card combos. We are immediately put on the back foot at they both draw Sol Rings very early and start ramping up mana and putting down threats. Mimeoplasm copies a Triskelion that gets milled with Dreamborn Muse to shoot down my general as well as one of Malfegor's creatures. Meanwhile, we are both having slow draws with only a couple removal spells to help stabalize, where the most impactful cards on our side of the board are my Scroll Rack and suspended Reality Strobe along with Malfegor's Bottled Cloister. It culminates to the point where they attack with 2 creatures each, with Nahiri using Jazal Goldmane to give itself and a Stonehewer Giant +4/+4, and the giant fetching Loxodon Warhammer to deal us 25 damage in one swing, which put us down to 1, and our opponents up to 51. It is turn 5.
At this point, I am forced to pull the trigger on the Temporal Mastery in my hand (which I use Scroll Rack to set up). This gives us a turn where I am able to drop Pyromancer's Goggles and Malfegor plays Sarkhan the Mad, which sets up for next turn, where I get to remove the last counter on Reality Strobe to bounce Plasm's Golgari Rot Farm to stifle his mana development (which ended up being crucial), where I use Goggles to cast Riddle of Lightning killing off 2 of our opponent's creatures, and where Malfegor uses Zealous Conscripts to steal the Stonehewer Giant that had the Loxodon Warhammer to put us back up to 8 and to give ourselves a dragon by killing the Giant with Sarkhan's -2 (though we go down to 7 life after a cracked fetchland).
Mimeoplasm tries to come down, but I am ready with Traumatic Visions (heh), and next turn I ease some of our pain by finding and cracking a Relic of Progenitus. Nahiri makes things difficult for us by coming down and grabbing an Argentum Armor that was milled by Dreamborn Muse (which has still been milling everyone), and we have neither artifact nor creature removal handy, but we luckily have the next best thing. Malfegor plays Molten Primordial to steal the token equipped with Armor, and I use Vesuvan Shapeshifter to copy Zealous Conscripts to steal the Argentum Armor, enabling us to use Armor to destroy itself (if I didn't steal it, Nahiri would get the trigger). Malfegor also plays Withered Wretch, getting rid of Nahiri's equipment and most of Plasm's scary graveyard stuff. We also used Molten Primordial to steal and subsequently dragonifyMelira, Sylvok Outcast, which was very lucky for us as Plasm's next play is Woodfall Primus with a Greater Good on board (Primus hits Bottled Cloister). We even deal with the Primus without much trouble, as we play Malfegor to wipe their board and use Wretch to exile Primus in response to Persist (Plasm forgot about the trick and didn't sac Primus to Greater Good, thinking he'd get it back).
The next few turns have us gaining traction, with Malfegor drawing more cards off of Sarkhan and my Reality Strobe bouncing Golgari Rot Farm a second time (Plasm hasn't ever gotten past 8 mana), till finally we get smacked down yet again by an overloaded Cyclonic Rift, with a 3/3 flier equipped with Warhammer putting us back down to 1 once more. At first it looks like we won't be able to get rid of the trampling flying creature due to Malfegor's mana constraints thanks to Rift bouncing his mana rocks, but I find the line: Malfegor plays Sol Ring, taps it to cast Zealous Conscripts, then uses Conscripts to untap it. With Conscripts in play, I can use Vesuvan Shapeshifter to copy Conscripts, stealing our opponent's Warhammer'd up creature. Finally, after attacking and getting a life buffer, Malfegor has exactly enough mana to play Sarkhan and kill the creature I stole, giving me a dragon. At this point, because we've dealt our opponents so much damage from stolen creatures and dragons, and because our opponents know exactly what cards are in our hand that got bounced from the Rift (Molten Primordial most notably), they both scoop.
Playing a FFW pod between Mayael the Anima(myself), Mathas, Fiend Seeker, The Scorpion God and a commander I can't remember. I'd been getting thoroughly mana screwed, and out of sympathy, I'd been mostly ignored most of the game, while I'd been pitching some creatures to my graveyard because I can't cast them and can't cheat them into play with Mayael.
Scorpion gets his commander out, and looks through graveyards. He salivates at seeing my Craterhoof Behemoth and a couple of other big fatties in my graveyard, and decides to make a move to end the game. I see him making calculations in his head, and I'm making a few calculations of my own.
He manages to swing in for lethal at the one player, NEARLY gets Mathas in one swing(he was able to pull some chump blocks, and there were a few 'bounty creatures that died and saved him), and decides to swing his 19/19 Scorpion God at me.
I then play Deflecting Palm on Scorpion God. The crestfallen look on his face was priceless as he realized that he was pulled into a trap so thoroughly as to be killed by it. I still ended up losing, but the table readily agreed that that was the play of the night, because of how it worked, and yes...I admit that I did 'discard play' to Scorpion God's ability to try and entice him into shenanigans. I did not expect it to go so well, however.
we were playing against The Locust God. the locust God player casts Gamble. He had 13 cards in hand after the gamble and the one discarded was the one he gambled for
I'll never forget the one time I managed to beat a cedh animar deck by repeatedly stealing his commander with chamber of manipulation and eating it with a barrin, master wizard. I beat a zur deck back in 2014 the same way.
Probably my most memorable (and infamous in my playgroup) was when I was playing my Kozilek, Butcher of Truth deck and got to attack with the general on turn 2. IIRC it was something like T1: Sol Ring, Mana Crypt, Lightning Greaves. T2: Topdeck and play Metalworker, equip greaves, tap, revealing 5 artifacts, cast Kozilek, equip greaves, swing. 2 turns later, no-one has been able to kill a shrouded Kozi and they've all taken an Annihilator 4 hit. Bonus points for the first land I drew in the game coming from Kozi's cast trigger.
A few years ago I made a Jeleva, Nephalia's Scourge budget burn deck. The idea was funny but really bad. When the deck was fairly new and I was bringing it around to one of my tables, one of my buddies kept talking about how bad the idea was and how it was never going to work. First game, a completely average start by ramping fire diamond on turn-2 to a turn-3 Jeleva with Sorin's Vengeance under it. Everyone wonders why I don't attack on turn-4 and just pass, but when the last opponent ends their turn I flash out dictate of the twin gods, go to my turn and cast furnace of rath and proceed to poke the trash-talking friend for 40 on turn-5 He even showed that he could have killed Jeleva on their previous turn had they thought it was actually a threat, but instead wanted to ramp.
While silly and bizarre, the story won't stop resurfacing whenever this guy tries to tell someone they have a "bad idea."
Another common story that has turned into a bit of a local meme, involved a night where I was hanging with three buddies, two which were brothers. The younger brother tends to get trolled very easily, especially by his older brother, so when everyone at the table saw that the younger brother had basically won if he could just count his combat math correctly, the trolling kicks in pretty hard. He actually ends up getting so confused that he doesn't think he can take more than one person out, and the confusion turns to anger as he realized he is being trolled. While still processing the math (which he was verbally counting over and over), the rest of us end up sending seseme street Count von Count memes over the facebook group chat. Now every time he shows hesitancy when counting anything it's almost automatic that someone chimes in with the Count von Count reference "one ah-ha-ha..." etc.
Once was running a Ruric Thar deck in a 6 player game at an LGS. Had Defense of the Heart in play but nobody had more than two creatures. Then one guy plays a creature or two to turn that on, including Ob Nixilis, Unshackled. And I don't have anything like Avenger + Craterhoof or anything. I fetch for Homura, Human Ascendant and Giant Adephage, then sacrifice Homura who comes right back turned so that my Adephages would be 9/9 fliers. Somebody Noped the entire board of creatures before it got back around to me, though.
I move to his side of the table, examine his hand and the field and formulate a plan in my mind. That plan went out of the window as I drew Tooth and Nail. Casting it entwined, grabbing Avenger of Zendikar and Regal Force, causing him to deck out due to the double tokens followed by double Force draw. Calmly handed him his cards back and went to sit back down while he just looked at me going "You can't do that..."
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My Commander decks:
Chandra, Torch of Defiance - Oops! All Chandras.
Prime Speaker Zegana - Draw for Power.
Pir & Toothy - Counterpalooza.
Arcades, the Strategist - Another Brick in the Wall.
Zacama, Primal Calamity - Calamity of Double Mana.
Edgar Markov - Vampires Don't Die.
Child of Alara - Dreamcrusher.
I move to his side of the table, examine his hand and the field and formulate a plan in my mind. That plan went out of the window as I drew Tooth and Nail. Casting it entwined, grabbing Avenger of Zendikar and Regal Force, causing him to deck out due to the double tokens followed by double Force draw. Calmly handed him his cards back and went to sit back down while he just looked at me going "You can't do that..."
Way back when, there was one player who ran a mindslaver - no lock, no recursion or anything. Just a literal one shot effect to mess with a boardstate. Coincidentally, 3 times in a row that he aimed it at my Nemata deck, I had a Chain of Acid in hand. He was kind enough to leave me my lands, but that was it.
Way back when, there was one player who ran a mindslaver - no lock, no recursion or anything. Just a literal one shot effect to mess with a boardstate. Coincidentally, 3 times in a row that he aimed it at my Nemata deck, I had a Chain of Acid in hand. He was kind enough to leave me my lands, but that was it.
I've had the opposite happen to me. I used to run Glacial Crevasses in Jaya and had it in hand two games where I was hit with a value Mindslaver before I cut it.
My most memorable game was also using Jaya, far enough back that I don't remember all of the specifics. I know someone played a Static Orb that more or less shut down everyone else at the table. I was able to play around it with a Coalition Relic and a Goblin Welder. I think ended up winning that game by decking the Orb player with repeated Memory Jar activations and a couple wheels while his own Orb kept him from doing anything meaningful with the cards he was seeing.
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[Pr]Jaya | Estrid | A rotating cast of decks built out of my box.
Ah man, so many great memories with this format. The forum's on fire for various nostalgia trips recently, what with that weird red scourge beast in random card of the day getting me thinking of my old mono green fat deck and now this
The oldest one I recall explicitly was one of the first games of a papered out Patron of the Orochi. It was my second deck, and the first case of me brewing something explicitly from the ground up. I set down the Patron, I got out the Ant Queen, I was making bodies in everybody else's turn, everything was going according to plan. And then a guy lets rip a wipe. Whoops? I promptly tapped some ants, ripped Chord of Calling, got out Kamahl, Fist of Krosa and animated all my foes' lands. The mixture of confusion, disgust and awe on the wrath caster's face in response to the grossest play of my EDH career served as a testament to me having figured out how to do this whole "put cardboard together" thing to some degree. The game was closed out in short order.
Creatively breaking out of locks, like what Weebo describes, is some of the coolest stuff you can do in the format. Daxos the Returned did a fair share of zany interactions with the sort of stax nonsense that runs around unchecked on Cockatrice. A Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur deck was wreaking havoc on a game, and a Mindslicer was living in someone's bin (probably as a result of the Jin Gitface hand size clause). I had Debtors' Knell and Attrition out. Oh yeah and there was also a Winter Orb, courtesy of Jin Gitface. I kept picking up the Mindslicer with the Knell, waiting until Jin's end step, and popping the Jin with the Attrition, making him ship his hand. The Jin revealed himself to be a dreadful pilot, repeatedly recasting the Jin into the same exact setup without any sort of interaction mana or anything left up. He lost that game.
My favourite stax juke came courtesy of a different Cockatrice game, wherein some Kozilek variant had all the rocks and various stax pieces to make everybody's life difficult while circumventing it himself a bit, you know the shtick. I was the last one up as Daxos just wasn't that scary within the confines of the room. For some reason, a bunch of nice things were in my bin, and then I skilfully acquire Replenish off the top. Oh would you look at that Skybind and Thoughtrender Lamia. And other friends. The guy's hand got burnt to a crisp, I was able to start flicking the lock pieces in his end step so I'd escape from under them, and he was still stuck suffering their full effect. Asymmetric they may have been, he was still somewhat tangled up by them. Felt good to whip the game around on him like that.
Sometimes it's nice to watch other people do stuff too. I remember a game in the paper meta where the meagre Kemba, Kha Regent managed to take the game by slapping various equipments... onto a goat token. Nobody could do anything about Rambo Goat, and we all succumbed to its power. Another time, a friend got the absolute nut draw in his Marchesa, the Black Rose robot tribal list and combo killed the table turn three. This hadn't happened to him yet, and it was entertaining watching him offer stumbling renditions of "I'm sorry, guys, this draw was just unbelievable". I pointed out that those were similar loops to what I'd put on repeat when one of my decks would do a stupid and a further degree of mutual understanding was achieved.
What moments are truly memorable to you?
Here are a few of mine to get things started:
So what are YOUR truly lasting memorable stories?
Retired EDH - Tibor and Lumia | [PR]Nemata |Ramirez dePietro | [C]Edric | Riku | Jenara | Lazav | Heliod | Daxos | Roon | Kozilek
A fairly long drawn out game went down. The details of which aren't really relevant. I managed to kill Sharuum right before she combo'd off with heartless hidetsugu and curse of bloodletting. Heartless hidetsugu was activated I believe 3 times total and the Sen Triplets died to some burn or another from me. So now I'm staring down the worst EDH deck I have ever seen (or will ever see again) with less than 6 health and no hand to speak of. I end up dying to a Squire that had been powered up to a 3/4 using Dragon Blood which evaded my blockers with Flying Carpet. I couldn't just burn the player out either because he'd gained too much life with Planeswalker's Mirth.
That's a four card combo to effectively resulted in creating a Vampire Sovereign or Archway Angel and I died to it. All four of those cards are easily the worst cards I've ever seen cast in a game of EDH. They were all cast in the same game of EDH and on top of that each of them were vital to my loss. I'm not even mad, I'm actually kind of sad that I'll never again lose to such a hilariously terrible combination of cards.
The Ur-Dragon (WUBRG) - Changeling Combo Tribal
Chromium (WUB) - Artifact Beats
Progenitus (WUBRG) - Dredge
Damia, Sage of Stone (GBU) - Elf-storm Tendrils
My Cube Unpowered
My Peasant-ish/Tribal-ish Cube
So he kills him off (A kills B) and then I slaver lock player A.
This has happened more times than I would like to admit.
The Unidentified Fantastic Flying Girl.
EDH
Xenagos, the God of Stompy
The Gitrog Monster: Oppressive Value.
Marchesa, Marionette Master - Undying Robots
Yuriko, the Hydra Omnivore
I make dolls as a hobby.
Then I don't remember the full details as to how it happened but I had a aura thief/enchanted evening trigger stolen out from under me,so instead of me ending up with all the things,another player did...I think the other player was running a reaper king deck of some sort
EDIT: Oh there was also one game again planechase and we were Shiv....and well I'm no longer allowed to roll on that plane...due to one turn and very lucky chaos rolls like five I think
I was playing Mr. Bones, and I was set to go off next turn. My opponents knew this, but they didn't have any way to stop me. So, rather than giving me the satisfaction of trapping them all on the Ride, they tried to kill themselves before it got back to me. I was having none of that.
With two opponents having no cards left in their libraries, the third cast Minds Aglow for lethal. I respond by flashing in Abyssal Persecutor off Vedalken Orrery to save them. My opponent then activates Geier Reach Sanitarium before my demon resolves. At this point, I'm cursing under my breath. I had missed the Sanitarium completely, and my only counterspell, Retard, can't counter activated abilities, putting me in a bit of a bind. Luckily, I had found my out. With everything still on the stack, I cast Retard and exile my Abyssal Persecutor. From there, I activate Mirror of Fate and build a new library with Abyssal Persecutor on top. Then I activate Scroll Rack, redraw the Persecutor, and cast it a second time. The Persecutor resolves, and everyone is thoroughly impressed with my ability to jump hoops.
Trap your friends in an endless game with this 23-card combo!
The most memorable play will always be "go to kill you with Memnite?" "Tragic Slip, not even morbid."
In one game, I had Mind Over Matter quantities of mana, I had Warstorm Surge, Zedruu the Greathearted, and Academy Rector in play, and I had Memnite in my hand. So all I need to perform my dumb Memnite combo and win the game is to kill Academy Rector and fetch out Dissipation Field. But I couldn't find a way to kill Academy Rector. I had Venser, the Sojourner as well, so I could flicker Zedruu to come back and Warstorm Surge Academy Rector to death, but it would be at end of turn, and I didn't have flash, and I wasn't getting another untap. I sat there for like 10 minutes before conceding and going to class. And then a couple hours later I found the line I was missing: Exile Zedruu with Venser, choose to send to the command zone, then recast her from there.
One time I thought it reasonable to cut Shimmer Myr from Zedruu to try out new cards (I have since cut Shimmer Myr, but only cause it got swapped for Raff Capashen, Ship's Mage). My selesnya opponent has a super wide board from a Monastery Mentor, and plays The Great Aurora. In response, I cast a few creatures, then Mirrorweave the mentor, then cast a few noncreatures, and by the time the Aurora resolved, I shuffled in and drew 70. The card I was playing instead of Shimmer Myr was right there in my hand, and while I could cast my actual instants, they were little more than minor interaction, so I'm sitting there with my whole deck waiting for my turn, and they prepare to kill me asap. I do get a turn though, and on my upkeep the boros angels player pings me for 1 with Aurelia's Fury. I can't cast things at instant speed cause my flash enablers are in hand but sorcery speed. I can't cast my no maximum hand size spells cause they're also artifacts. I can cast a couple dopey creatures and pass the turn, discarding 60 cards to hand size. And then they murdered me before my next turn anyways not trusting I wouldn't still come back somehow.
And I guess I'll throw in a winner cause I'm not letting arrogantAxolotl out-Mirror of Fate me: I had an opponent manage to gravestorm his Bitter Ordeal enough to exile every other deck at the table. On my upkeep I flash in Shimmer Myr and then flash in Mirror of Fate , and thank him for sacrificing all his creatures, killing the other players, and then letting me cast Doomsday.
Most of my games blur together for one reason or another but I do remember Chaos Warping into Platinum Emperion in my Daretti deck in response to lethal combat damage. At one life. Suck it, Madcap Experiment.
[Primer] Erebos, God of the Dead
HONK HONK
1:
Turn One
Me: Mountain
Player A: Land, Sol Ring
Player B: Land, Sol Ring, Mana Vault
Player C: Seat of the Synod, Memnite, Expedition Map
Turn Two
Me: Mountain, Meltdown for 1
2:
A long drawn out game with 5 players. At least 10 board wipes had been cast, and everyone had at least 25-30% of their decks in their graveyards. I had been mana-screwed all game (only at 5 mana), and except for a timely Blasphemous Act, had done nothing to really impact the game.
On the final turn sequence, a player had ticked Liliana Vess up to 8, ready to ultimate the next turn. Oh, and had wiped AGAIN to keep her there. Everyone was groaning and whining about the game, but they had nothing they could do. On my turn, I used Word of Seizing to grab the Liliana and ultimate her. It caused a big cheer, and as I started to sort through the endless ETB triggers, everyone just agreed it was over given my Urabrask the Hidden being among the returnees.
One was a game with my Nin, the Pain Artist Erratic Explosion deck playing a casual pickup 1v1 game against a stranger's Angus Mackenzie Superfriends deck. I was able to burn most of his walkers out, but he's managed to stick a Jace of one sort and an Ajani of another while I've just got a Psychosis Crawler and a lot of mana. I'm mostly untouched and he's at 19. We've both been holding up our mana representing counterspells for a turn or two, but on his next turn he decides to go for it. He casts Time Warp and tries to Twincast it with both his walkers nearing ultimate, still with plenty of mana untapped. I decide to go for it as well. I cast Brainstorm, which he lets resolve, pinging him down to 16 with Psychosis Crawler. I then cast Riddle of Lightning targeting him, and I'm ready for the counter war, but instead he responds with these words: "I mean, it's not like that'll kill me."
No need to scry: I just flip over Draco. We're both laughing like madmen.
A second story was another 1v1 game, this time against a friend (my decks are all built for multiplayer, but the unique, memorable moments only seem to happen in 1v1). He asks if I've got a deck that's more midrange in competitiveness to play against his newly built Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire tokens deck, so I pull out my own newly built Reyhan, Last of the Abzan+Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper deck. I tell him it's mostly just a goodstuffish big value dudes + removal deck with some +1/+1 counter and lifegain synergies, but it's a slow deck with no infinite combos or super mean cards and it shouldn't kill you out of nowhere.
Of course, I kill him on turn 4. We're back to standard of a year ago with turn 2 Winding Constrictor into turn 3 Walking Ballista (killing his Llanowar Elves) and then turn 4 I play Unspeakable Symbol. I'm at 38 from fetchlands and don't believe in half measures, so I pay 36 life into the Symbol to put 24 counters on my 1/1 Ballista making it a 25/25, then remove 2 counters to kill his only blocker, Falkenrath Noble (which drains me down to 1). I attack with both for 25, then remove 23 counters to ping him for an unnecessary amount of overkill. Pretty incredible first game for the deck, pretty bad look for me when I follow up "shouldn't kill you out of nowhere" with that godhand.
My last memorable story is a story (or rather, an entire game) I've already posted years ago in the "Crazy Plays" thread, but the fact that it's the only "crazy play" I've deemed "crazy" enough to post in that thread should indicate just how memorable it is to me. It's a bit long as it's condensing an intense 9-10 turn 2HG game, but it's a pretty wild ride if I may say so. Spoiler'd to avoid making this post into a giant wall of text:
Scorpion gets his commander out, and looks through graveyards. He salivates at seeing my Craterhoof Behemoth and a couple of other big fatties in my graveyard, and decides to make a move to end the game. I see him making calculations in his head, and I'm making a few calculations of my own.
He manages to swing in for lethal at the one player, NEARLY gets Mathas in one swing(he was able to pull some chump blocks, and there were a few 'bounty creatures that died and saved him), and decides to swing his 19/19 Scorpion God at me.
I then play Deflecting Palm on Scorpion God. The crestfallen look on his face was priceless as he realized that he was pulled into a trap so thoroughly as to be killed by it. I still ended up losing, but the table readily agreed that that was the play of the night, because of how it worked, and yes...I admit that I did 'discard play' to Scorpion God's ability to try and entice him into shenanigans. I did not expect it to go so well, however.
EDH 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)
we were playing against The Locust God. the locust God player casts Gamble. He had 13 cards in hand after the gamble and the one discarded was the one he gambled for
While silly and bizarre, the story won't stop resurfacing whenever this guy tries to tell someone they have a "bad idea."
Another common story that has turned into a bit of a local meme, involved a night where I was hanging with three buddies, two which were brothers. The younger brother tends to get trolled very easily, especially by his older brother, so when everyone at the table saw that the younger brother had basically won if he could just count his combat math correctly, the trolling kicks in pretty hard. He actually ends up getting so confused that he doesn't think he can take more than one person out, and the confusion turns to anger as he realized he is being trolled. While still processing the math (which he was verbally counting over and over), the rest of us end up sending seseme street Count von Count memes over the facebook group chat. Now every time he shows hesitancy when counting anything it's almost automatic that someone chimes in with the Count von Count reference "one ah-ha-ha..." etc.
Links to my most current deck lists;
Primary EDH; Rakka Mar Token Perfection, Crosis Mnemonic Betrayal, Cromat Villainous, Judith Gravestorm, Rakdos Empty Storm, Exava Artifacts, Bant Trash, & Fumiko Voltron!
EDH kept at home; Ruzzian Isset & Rakdos LoR!
EDH (nostalgic/pimp/retired) in storage;
Latulla Burns, Akroma Smash, Jeska Voltron, Rakdos Storm, Bladewing Darghans, Lyzolda Worldgorger, Xantcha Steals your Heart, Jori Storm, Wydwen Permission, Gwendlyn Paradox, Jeleva Warps, & Sigarda Brick!
Legacy Showanimator and High Tide!
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R Zada Arcane Storm
RBU Marchesa
GWU Estrid
GWR Samut?
URB Kess
(R/W)(U/B) Akiri & Silas
BWR Alesha
R Neheb Dragons
G Nylea Wurms
W Darien
U Tetsuko
I move to his side of the table, examine his hand and the field and formulate a plan in my mind. That plan went out of the window as I drew Tooth and Nail. Casting it entwined, grabbing Avenger of Zendikar and Regal Force, causing him to deck out due to the double tokens followed by double Force draw. Calmly handed him his cards back and went to sit back down while he just looked at me going "You can't do that..."
Chandra, Torch of Defiance - Oops! All Chandras.
Prime Speaker Zegana - Draw for Power.
Pir & Toothy - Counterpalooza.
Arcades, the Strategist - Another Brick in the Wall.
Zacama, Primal Calamity - Calamity of Double Mana.
Edgar Markov - Vampires Don't Die.
Child of Alara - Dreamcrusher.
EDH 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)
Way back when, there was one player who ran a mindslaver - no lock, no recursion or anything. Just a literal one shot effect to mess with a boardstate. Coincidentally, 3 times in a row that he aimed it at my Nemata deck, I had a Chain of Acid in hand. He was kind enough to leave me my lands, but that was it.
Retired EDH - Tibor and Lumia | [PR]Nemata |Ramirez dePietro | [C]Edric | Riku | Jenara | Lazav | Heliod | Daxos | Roon | Kozilek
My most memorable game was also using Jaya, far enough back that I don't remember all of the specifics. I know someone played a Static Orb that more or less shut down everyone else at the table. I was able to play around it with a Coalition Relic and a Goblin Welder. I think ended up winning that game by decking the Orb player with repeated Memory Jar activations and a couple wheels while his own Orb kept him from doing anything meaningful with the cards he was seeing.