But supposing this is the case he has no reason to expect the double block will achieve this. Even if the opponent's Surge is common knowledge he's likely to be made very suspicious by the double block and won't play it.
Oh, I agree. Maybe he was bluffing, trying to make the impression that he didn't remember the Knights' first strike, and therefore the double block. Still should have made the opponent suspicious, though.
That seems like an odd play. Had you not noticed the Knights have first strike?
Oh, you're right. Well then it was something that was flying that I could kill with two Mulldrifters. It was a long time ago. *shrug* I just know that both my Mulldrifters died.
My opponent's 7 point Profane Command elected to kill a creature of mine and lose me 7 life. My Wild Ricochet disagreed. I won next turn.
Oh, and a week or so ago my friends and I played a Lorwyn/Future Sight/Onslaught Draft. Clone copying my own Thundercloud Shaman won me a game or two.
I've drafted faeries and flash in a pestermite to tap down one of my opponent's Cloudcrown Oak and go to 1 life from the rest of his attacks. I'm dead next turn if a miracle doesn't come. I draw my card.... Cryptic Command! I swing with my team, halving his life total then tap his guys on his combat step so i can swing for exactly lethal next turn.
2HG, I play Moonglove Changeling, auto-equip Thornbite Staff, and start nuking their entire side of the board for 2B apiece. Bye bye Gametrail Changeling, Taurean Mauler, and Brion.
I was taking quite a beating in a game in a sealed tournament. By turn 6 I was down at 6 life with just a 1/1 chump (I think it was Mothdust Changeling). My opponent is at 19, has Springjack Knight, and another 2/1 and 1/1.
I have four lands in play, and a Final Revels in hand, which will wipe out his board if I can get the 5th land.
His turn: Attack with everything, clash Springjack Knight. We both reveal lands, I chose to keep the land on top while he sent it to the bottom. I block the Knight with my only creature, letting the other two through. He plays Fistful of Force on one of the unblocked guys. Clash again. I reveal a (no surprise here) land and he reveals.... another land. I go down to 1.
Then on my turn I play the land, play Final Revels and proceed to draw every piece of removal I have to kill whatever he drops, and win the game by seven swings of Fencer Clique.
Yesterday I was playing some idiot who managed to pick up a Chameleon Colossus. I had a Moonglove Changeling, an Elvish Branchbender, Boggart Loggers, and a few other elves out, plus some black removal in my hand (which I couldn't take out the Colossus with obviously). He gets scared of the black creature's deathtouch, but he attacks on the turns that I didn't have aB open, which I chump block with a tiny forest turned treefolk via the Branchbender.
Mind you, he has other creatures out and he's attacking some, but I stave those off. I continuously hack away with my unblockable Loggers, finally managing to get lethal in before I lose all of my forests. Afterwards (this was my 2nd win this game) I tell him pro black means he can't be blocked or dealt damage by black creatures, among other things. He says "Oh." PWNED!
Yeah, no one likes that kid, except that he's the reason why I got 2nd of 6 on my first ever draft and my 2nd tournament!
During the Lorwyn Prerealease, I buffed a Hearthcage Giant for lethal damage. It was a crazy complex board, but I have Brion in play. I just swang with the Giant and buffed the pants off the guy. Yes, I will sac my 3/1 elementals, and then throw the giant with Brion.
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At the Shadowmoor Prerelease I was playing in the fourth round against someone with a white-green monstrosity of a deck. He was beating me down severly with a blight-sickle wielding Mossbridge troll and some guy he just plopped steel of the Godhead on. I was digging frantically for my only out.
On my last turn, I am at 1, he is at 22, with a Juvenile Gloomwidow and a Shielddare untapped, his Troll and and Raven Run Dragoons tapped. I have a Wingrattle and a Watchwing, both with flying, and a puresight Merrow and scrapbasket. My draw for the turn: Mirrorweave, my only out.
I swing with my two flyers, he blocks one. Before damage, Mirrorweave targeting the Troll, tap my now untapped 10 power worth of guys to pump the unblocked 'troll' Swing for 25. He looked so flabbergasted I almost felt bad.
The next game a similiar thing is happening, but with a hungry spriggan instead. I build up enough guys, make everyone a spriggan, and swing for lethal through his previously 13 toughness with my previously 8 power. Bam, take 14.
My last Mirrorweave blowout was earlier in the day. I was being out raced by a Red-Black deck with Ashenmoor Gouger and Demigod of Revenge. He's at 16, I have this turn to win, and with four guys up, I make everyone a Gouger (Hehe, 'can't block' FTL) and swing in.
Scuttlemutt is insane.
I'm at 5, my opponent is dead on board. He slams Steel of the Godhead on his Thistledown Duo and sends it, and says, "game?"
I tap my Scuttlemutt and say "red." Then I block it.
Scuttlemutt is so awesome. He's like the bastard son of Amoeboid Changeling and Birds of Paradise.
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I just played a Modo LLM draft and made a pretty sweet deck...
In the final matchup, the opponent had a Lightning Crafter and Changeling Beserker in his deck. He tried to champion a total of three times in the match, and every time I killed his creature, (or creatures!) not allowing it to stick.
In the second match, I topdecked a tarfire to off the opponent one game, and then killed him with it in a similar fashion the next game. (but I didn't topdeck it...but he didn't know that)
I snapped up so much removal in this draft that I wasn't even playing all of it. (Festercreep, Pack's distain, Shard volley were all sided out in favor of 2 tarfire 2 nameless 1 lash out and 1 fodder launch...and other quasi-removal.)
To add to an above poster and Mirrorweave...
I watched a game where a played went to time, then played Mirrorweave making everything a leige. He did the math out so every one of his guys lived, but he still drew.
He played me next round, of course. He Mirrorweaved me ftw more than once.
This is a card that will never pass by me in SHM draft. For sure.
But yeah, Hungry Spriggan and Ashenmoor Gouger really get around the 'Wahhh Wahh I can't outnumber your d00ds' issue.
At last week's FNM I ended up drafting a pretty beefy treefolk/elf deck which included Wren's Run Vanquisher, two Final Revels, and a third pick (second pack) Dauntless Dourbark. My second round opponent was the only other green drafter at the table. His deck had both Nath of the Gilt-Leaf and Wren's Run Packmaster. It's the third game and he's got two decent sized guys on the board (3/3s I think). All I've got is my Dauntless Dourbark and a ton of Forests. He's down to 2 life, but I can't trample through becaus I don't have any other treefolk. So, I swing in anyway. He blocks and impatiently sweeps his guys away. "Hold up" I tell him as I respond to his blockers by casting Makeshift Mannequin getting back my previously deceased Orchard Warden to trample through for the win, and then some.
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So I'm at the Prerelease in Syracuse, NY and I already lost the Sealed with an awful B/R build. I'm in the first draft and I draft U/G (I know, not allied/hybrid colors) because it was coming around and I was getting good cards late. My deck was solid with strong ground creatures and fairly costed creatures flying. Tricks to boot made me believe I could out tempo most decks. First game I lost a long game, but I clobbered the opponent the next two. Second game I was up against a better player. We both lose a game to mana screw. It's game three. He keeps a hand and misses several land drops. I'm not too far ahead as I've missed a couple two. Our two drops trade and I play Wildslayer Elves. It's turn 6 at this point and he finally hits a third land, but passes the turn. So I swing in and he casts Plumeveil. So I state, "if I was going to run into that thing with any creature, I'd want it to be this one." I place my guy in the yard and he puts three counters on his veil. Then I look at my hand to see what I want to play, and in it (from the opening hand mind you) was the Gloomwidow's Feast. Me = PWNED! The game stalls forever and I get some big beaters down, but he has the answers to keep them tapped (Curse of Chains) or inactive (Prison Term). He ends up winning through the air.
I have two plays, one from me and one from opponents. Both of these were at the Shadowmoor prerelease.
I'm sitting at 5 mana, sealed deck, my opponent is roughly the same (irrelevant). I have out a Wilt-Leaf Liege, Scuttlemutt, and Rune-Cervin Rider, to his two random 3 power guys with irrelevant abilities. He is at 15 or so with no cards in hand to my 16 with 1 card in hand. His EOT:
Tap Scuttlemutt to make Rider both green and white.
Tap two to pump Rider once. It's now a 5/5.
Play Mercy Killing on my Rider, putting 5 3/3 elves (green and white, get double pump from liege) into play.
Untap, win.
Second one here is from 2 headed giant sealed.
I'm green-red-black, my partner is blue-white, and we are up against black-blue-red and blue-white. We have a better board position but we have stalled because of Plumeveil + Kithkin Shielddare on each side. Time is called, and we have 28 life to their 16. (At the end of extra turns, whoever has the most life wins at our PR) They play Windbrisk Raptor on turn 1 of extra turns. Ug. They alpha strike on turn 3 of extra turns, and we have no removal. The attack gets butchered, and we end up going down to 20 and they go up to 24, with all of their blockers dead, and our entire board intact. Then they play Worldpurge as the last card in blue-white's hand. (WHY WHY WHY play that card?!) When we failed to draw at least 4 points of burn castable from 2 mana with one deck being non-red, we lost at the end of extra turns.
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The Final Round of 2HG Swiss, the winner takes home packs, the loser does not:
Opponent: 14 life
Personal Team: 6 life
Board Position: Clogged, time has been called.
Play: Wort, The Raidmother.
Play: Burn Trail, and conspire twice.
Play: Corrupt ( 6 Swamps in play. )
-WIN PACKS!
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The Final Round of 2HG Swiss, the winner takes home packs, the loser does not:
Opponent: 14 life
Personal Team: 6 life
Board Position: Clogged, time has been called.
Play: Wort, The Raidmother.
Play: Burn Trail, and conspire twice.
Play: Corrupt ( 6 Swamps in play. )
-WIN PACKS!
My knowledge of the rules says you should not have won that match. To my knowledge, you can only conspire a spell once. Someone let me know if I am wrong here. Otherwise, props on the victory and having your opponent not catch that mistake.
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My knowledge of the rules says you should not have won that match. To my knowledge, you can only conspire a spell once. Someone let me know if I am wrong here. Otherwise, props on the victory and having your opponent not catch that mistake.
Burn trail already has conspire on it, and then Wort adds another Conspire on it. So multiple versions of it stack and you can conspire twice, but normally you are right and he can only conspire once.
Over the next many boring turns I accumulate....2,000,000+ saprolings, which I then sac to a mycologist. My opponent was going to be decked first, and thus scooped.
My opponent attacks with Swans of Bryn Argoll. I flash in... Cloudhtresher
Another one: I have 9 or so Islands and Plains, empty hand , 1 life, Brigid and Thornbite staff, I equip it to Brigid and pass turn. My opponent has a 3/2 Pestermite (Ajani counters), 5/5 Veteran of the Depths and 4/4 Inkfathom Divers (islandwalk!). He draws, plays a land, and attacks with everyone
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Just did this in a shadowmoor draft. My opponent is tapped out with a Tattermunge witch, Tattermunge Duo, and a Chainbreaker with two counters on it, while I have a Somnomancer, and Leech Bonder with two counters. I declare attacks with the bonder, and somnomancer to which he attempts to block the bonder with all three creatures. Before damage went on the stack I used a Fate Transfer to move the bonders counters onto the duo. I then use the leech bonder to move a counter from the duo to the witch allowing me to kill all three of his creatures, and lose none of mine.
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Oh, I agree. Maybe he was bluffing, trying to make the impression that he didn't remember the Knights' first strike, and therefore the double block. Still should have made the opponent suspicious, though.
Oh, you're right. Well then it was something that was flying that I could kill with two Mulldrifters. It was a long time ago. *shrug* I just know that both my Mulldrifters died.
My opponent's 7 point Profane Command elected to kill a creature of mine and lose me 7 life. My Wild Ricochet disagreed. I won next turn.
Oh, and a week or so ago my friends and I played a Lorwyn/Future Sight/Onslaught Draft. Clone copying my own Thundercloud Shaman won me a game or two.
I've drafted faeries and flash in a pestermite to tap down one of my opponent's Cloudcrown Oak and go to 1 life from the rest of his attacks. I'm dead next turn if a miracle doesn't come. I draw my card.... Cryptic Command! I swing with my team, halving his life total then tap his guys on his combat step so i can swing for exactly lethal next turn.
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I have four lands in play, and a Final Revels in hand, which will wipe out his board if I can get the 5th land.
His turn: Attack with everything, clash Springjack Knight. We both reveal lands, I chose to keep the land on top while he sent it to the bottom. I block the Knight with my only creature, letting the other two through. He plays Fistful of Force on one of the unblocked guys. Clash again. I reveal a (no surprise here) land and he reveals.... another land. I go down to 1.
Then on my turn I play the land, play Final Revels and proceed to draw every piece of removal I have to kill whatever he drops, and win the game by seven swings of Fencer Clique.
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Turn 2 Bramblewood Paragon
Turn 3 Wren's Run Vanquisher
Turn 4 Elvish Warrior
Turn 5, he tries to flash out Faerie Harbinger to block, in response to her ability I Fistful of Force my Paragon and win the clash. He scoops
Mind you, he has other creatures out and he's attacking some, but I stave those off. I continuously hack away with my unblockable Loggers, finally managing to get lethal in before I lose all of my forests. Afterwards (this was my 2nd win this game) I tell him pro black means he can't be blocked or dealt damage by black creatures, among other things. He says "Oh." PWNED!
Yeah, no one likes that kid, except that he's the reason why I got 2nd of 6 on my first ever draft and my 2nd tournament!
Something of an odd story image, no?
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On my last turn, I am at 1, he is at 22, with a Juvenile Gloomwidow and a Shielddare untapped, his Troll and and Raven Run Dragoons tapped. I have a Wingrattle and a Watchwing, both with flying, and a puresight Merrow and scrapbasket. My draw for the turn: Mirrorweave, my only out.
I swing with my two flyers, he blocks one. Before damage, Mirrorweave targeting the Troll, tap my now untapped 10 power worth of guys to pump the unblocked 'troll' Swing for 25. He looked so flabbergasted I almost felt bad.
The next game a similiar thing is happening, but with a hungry spriggan instead. I build up enough guys, make everyone a spriggan, and swing for lethal through his previously 13 toughness with my previously 8 power. Bam, take 14.
My last Mirrorweave blowout was earlier in the day. I was being out raced by a Red-Black deck with Ashenmoor Gouger and Demigod of Revenge. He's at 16, I have this turn to win, and with four guys up, I make everyone a Gouger (Hehe, 'can't block' FTL) and swing in.
I love Mirrorweave.
I'm at 5, my opponent is dead on board. He slams Steel of the Godhead on his Thistledown Duo and sends it, and says, "game?"
I tap my Scuttlemutt and say "red." Then I block it.
Scuttlemutt is so awesome. He's like the bastard son of Amoeboid Changeling and Birds of Paradise.
To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness; though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless."
-Gustave Flaubert
In the final matchup, the opponent had a Lightning Crafter and Changeling Beserker in his deck. He tried to champion a total of three times in the match, and every time I killed his creature, (or creatures!) not allowing it to stick.
In the second match, I topdecked a tarfire to off the opponent one game, and then killed him with it in a similar fashion the next game. (but I didn't topdeck it...but he didn't know that)
I snapped up so much removal in this draft that I wasn't even playing all of it. (Festercreep, Pack's distain, Shard volley were all sided out in favor of 2 tarfire 2 nameless 1 lash out and 1 fodder launch...and other quasi-removal.)
To add to an above poster and Mirrorweave...
I watched a game where a played went to time, then played Mirrorweave making everything a leige. He did the math out so every one of his guys lived, but he still drew.
He played me next round, of course. He Mirrorweaved me ftw more than once.
This is a card that will never pass by me in SHM draft. For sure.
But yeah, Hungry Spriggan and Ashenmoor Gouger really get around the 'Wahhh Wahh I can't outnumber your d00ds' issue.
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My brother had 4 creatures.
My his opponent had 3.
My brother had only managed to sneak in 5 damage, before being put on the back pedal by an Ashenmoor gouger. A turn away from lethal he got to say:
'All of my guys are 4/4s, and all of your guys can't block. gg'
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I'm sitting at 5 mana, sealed deck, my opponent is roughly the same (irrelevant). I have out a Wilt-Leaf Liege, Scuttlemutt, and Rune-Cervin Rider, to his two random 3 power guys with irrelevant abilities. He is at 15 or so with no cards in hand to my 16 with 1 card in hand. His EOT:
Tap Scuttlemutt to make Rider both green and white.
Tap two to pump Rider once. It's now a 5/5.
Play Mercy Killing on my Rider, putting 5 3/3 elves (green and white, get double pump from liege) into play.
Untap, win.
Second one here is from 2 headed giant sealed.
I'm green-red-black, my partner is blue-white, and we are up against black-blue-red and blue-white. We have a better board position but we have stalled because of Plumeveil + Kithkin Shielddare on each side. Time is called, and we have 28 life to their 16. (At the end of extra turns, whoever has the most life wins at our PR) They play Windbrisk Raptor on turn 1 of extra turns. Ug. They alpha strike on turn 3 of extra turns, and we have no removal. The attack gets butchered, and we end up going down to 20 and they go up to 24, with all of their blockers dead, and our entire board intact. Then they play Worldpurge as the last card in blue-white's hand. (WHY WHY WHY play that card?!) When we failed to draw at least 4 points of burn castable from 2 mana with one deck being non-red, we lost at the end of extra turns.
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Opponent: 14 life
Personal Team: 6 life
Board Position: Clogged, time has been called.
Play: Wort, The Raidmother.
Play: Burn Trail, and conspire twice.
Play: Corrupt ( 6 Swamps in play. )
-WIN PACKS!
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Me (Turn 1): Forest
Opponent (Turn 1): Forest
Me (Turn 2): Mountain, Fertile Ground on Forest
Opponent (Turn 2): Plains
Me (Turn 3): Forest, Chameleon Colossus
Opponent (Turn 3): Forest, Winnower Patrol
Me (Turn 4): Attack for 4 (no blocks), Mountain, Lowland Oaf
Opponent (Turn 4): Plains, Cloudcrown Oak
Me (Turn 5): Plains, attack with Colossus, opponent declares no blocks, activate Oaf targetting Colossus, Earthbrawn targetting Colossus, activate Colossus (now 16/15) FTW!
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My knowledge of the rules says you should not have won that match. To my knowledge, you can only conspire a spell once. Someone let me know if I am wrong here. Otherwise, props on the victory and having your opponent not catch that mistake.
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Burn trail already has conspire on it, and then Wort adds another Conspire on it. So multiple versions of it stack and you can conspire twice, but normally you are right and he can only conspire once.
First round of the top 8, I win game one.
Game 2, my opponent plays teferois moat set to green...stopping all of my saprolings.
However, I had Two Doubling Seasons in play, and a Sprout swarm in hand
Over the next many boring turns I accumulate....2,000,000+ saprolings, which I then sac to a mycologist. My opponent was going to be decked first, and thus scooped.
Another one: I have 9 or so Islands and Plains, empty hand , 1 life, Brigid and Thornbite staff, I equip it to Brigid and pass turn. My opponent has a 3/2 Pestermite (Ajani counters), 5/5 Veteran of the Depths and 4/4 Inkfathom Divers (islandwalk!). He draws, plays a land, and attacks with everyone
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