Best MTG win stories.
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Posted on Nov. 5, 2015, 7:33 p.m. by Crayfish
I love winning. Winning is great. I love winning close games even more. I love wins that make great stories for a long time. Winning wins.
I want to hear some of your closest/best mtg win stories. They can be absurd, extremely close, fun, whatever you want to share. I'm going to share two of my favorite matchups here for y'all to read, if you want. :)
CLOSEST WIN!
Me and my friend Darthsmitt] were bored in our engineering class, so we decided to play a quick game. He pulled out his Simic-Eldrazi deck, and I grabbed my new Mono-red burn brew.
Multiple turns in, and this is the board state.
DARTH: A Mist Intruder that had 2 +1/+1 counters on it.
ME: Nothing.
He had 2 life, I had 1. My turn comes. I pray to topdeck something good, anything good. I close my eyes and grab the top card. We both tense up. This card decides the fate of the game.
Pulse of the Forge!
Cast it, Win. Closest match I have ever won.
MOST ABSURD MATCH
Me, Darth, and my bud john decided to play a round of magic. John pulls out his competitive Simic Counters deck. Darth grabs his Token Overload deck. I, not looking for a serious game, ask Darth for his sunburst deck,
Darth: "Sunburst? Really? Its my joke deck dude. It never wins."
Me: "I don't care, get me Sunburst."
The game starts. John and Darth quickly make huge boards, and I'm left lacking white mana. Seeing that I was no threat, they decided to pursue eachother. I would pump out a creature every once in a while. Etched Monstrosity, Skyrider Elf, Lunar Avenger all get dropped. Darth and John don't mind. They are locked in a blood feud, generally ignoring my board. I arrange my cards into a person, then a dog, not really caring anymore. Then, I see it. A perfect plan. Darth is at around 7 life. John is at 18 or so. Darth has an army of tokens. John does not. I convince Darth to swing with his army and pump with his Sunblade Elf. Knowing my judgement is usually good, he proceeds. Boom. John drops to 4. Johns turn. He finishes out Darth. Darth shoots me a look.
"You knew I was going to die if I did that..."
Nods
Darth wanders off. Its me and john. I have assembled a ton of huge creatures. Most of John's creatures are tapped. I swing in. Boom. Game over.
John: "Wait a minute..."
Me: "Yes?"
John: "You just won a COMPETITIVE game against both Simic and Tokens..."
Me: "Hell yes I did. Its called persuasion."
In the distance Darth: "YOU WON? WITH SUNBURST? WAT?"
The joke deck just won a competitive game. It was glorious. Darth had a good comparison for this event.
"Its like I trained a horse with 1 leg, and you took it to the Kentucky Derby... and won."
"I feel like I need to make a politics deck now."
Well, those are my stories. I would love to hear yours!
---Crayfish
4 Player Commander game - Sharuum Combo vs my Ezuri deck vs Rhys the Redeemed token/elfball vs Phelddagrif stacks
We start the game with every player other than me casting a T1 Sol Ring. I just play a forest and Fyndhorn Elves. Phelddagrif Paths my elf and I find another forest.
By turn 15, All I have done is cast my commander and succesfully gotten wrathed 4 times.
By turn 30, I have Genesis Waved into a CBM, It That Betrays, and Oldamog. I proceed to cast Overwhelming Stampede giving +16/+16 (Beastmaster Ascension), and kill everybody.
November 5, 2015 8:03 p.m.
VampireArmy says... #4
Something like 2 years ago i beat a legacy delver deck (cant remember what version) with a mono black "no rares" deck on mtgo while in the tournament practice room. Somehow i resolved 2 Consume Spirit for a bunch while needling his life away with whatever creatures.
November 5, 2015 8:19 p.m.
There was a custom commander tournament on here a while back, where I won my bracket by casting a Genesis Wave for 32, finding an Eternal Witness, getting the Wave back, Genesis Wave for 33 with the lands I got, found my Concordant Crossroads, Avenger of Zendikar (with 36 lands on the battlefield) and a Craterhoof Behemoth with a 25/25 something-or-other on the battlefield. With my army of creatures and only 1 opponent, I ended up swinging with 99+ creatures for over 11000 damage.
I guess that's a thing.
November 5, 2015 8:21 p.m.
InfiniteParadoX says... #6
taurbeer you dont lose the game for having no cards, you lose for trying to draw one when you can't. I don't know if you had a way to get out of it if you had until your next turn, but if you didn't tap the Temple Bell you would have lived.
November 5, 2015 8:22 p.m.
InfiniteParadoX Would've died anyways, he could go through my 1/8 wall easily :P (Plus, I'm quite sure I killed myself as a last resort, so maybe there was more to it than just using temple bell, I don't remember. :3)
November 5, 2015 8:25 p.m.
JoshRigone says... #8
One of my most memorable wins came at a recent Modern event at my LGS. I was playing a Bant Company deck and my opponent was on the Mono- Devotion build that powers out a Prime Time or Craterhoof Behemoth on T-3. My opening hand is pretty abysmal, so I mulligan only to find a worse 6. Reluctantly, I drop down to 5 (pre-Vancouver mind you) and am welcomed by 2 lands, 2 Birds of Paradise, Path to Exile and Phantasmal Image - so I'm not particularly thrilled, but I'll keep it rather than going to 4. I'm on the play, so I drop a land and Birds and pass, and my opponent leads off with an Arbor Elf. I untap and draw another Birds of Paradise, so needless to say I'm feeling pretty beaten at this point. I play a Breeding Pool untapped (going to 18) and play out both Birds in my hand. My opponent then plays a Utopia Sprawl, a land and a Garruk Wildspeaker. I untap, rip a land off the top and pass my miserable turn back, only to see my opponent play Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx, generate a ton of mana and cast Tooth and Nail Entwined to find 2 Craterhoof Behemoths. Since he has three creatures, each Hoof gets +3/+3, letting him swing for 16 that turn. Well, suddenly I realize how awesome this game is about to get as I start to crack a smile. I path one Hoof, taking 8 and going down to 10. My opponent is ok with all of this because he still has excellent board position and rightfully thinks the game is in the bag. I untap, slam Phantasmal Image copying Hoof. At this point I have 4 creatures, so my 3 Birds of Paradise are now 4/5's and Craterhoof is a 9/9. I swing for 21 and watch his disbelief at his 0-1 hole in the match. That was by far the most unexpected win I have ever had and it really exemplifies the principle of never scooping until you're opponent strikes the killing blow.
November 5, 2015 8:51 p.m.
JoshRigone says... #9
Edit: Remembered the Path to Exile wasn't in my opening hand, but was drawn on T-2 lol.
November 5, 2015 10:30 p.m.
gnarlicide says... #10
My favorite, most recent clutch victory came from a Super IQ in Raleigh. It was round 3 and I already have 1 loss. 2 sends you home.
I was playing modern Jund. We are shuffling for game 1. My opponent must have had new sleeves and his deck exploded all over the table. I see Tron lands. Fuck.
We play it out any ways. I go for the blitz game 1 and win off the back of bob giving me 2 bolts in one turn.
But game 2 is the fun part. Tron player is doing his thing and being all salty about the game 1 loss. He missed a land drop on turn three, but plays an Expedition Map and passes.
I untap, and immediately cast Infinite Obliteration, targeting Wurmcoil Engine. He sinks in his chair, and shows his hand has two of them. All the copies are gone now, and I pass.
He cracks the map on his turn and gets an Urza's Mine, so now he has Tron. plays a couple cantrips and finds nothing of note, passes.
I untap and draw. I top deck Sowing Salt. cast it on his Tower. Now he is pissed. Dude is on full tilt and isn't even playing anything. Just draws and barks, "GO!". I untap and cast nothing, but instead activate Raging Ravine. and rode that beast to victory.
The best part was that there were a bunch of people watching at this point, like it was a feature match. The judge called the head judge over to hang out and also watch the systematic destruction of Tron at the hands of Jund. Tom Ross even made an appearance and gave a nod that looked a lot like, "I will allow it" and moved on.
It was probably the most gangster I felt playing MTG in a while.
Even though I missed top 8 to breakers from my round 1 loss.
November 5, 2015 10:31 p.m.
themindxyz says... #11
I don't have many great wins (besides top-decking my singleton Vigor the draw after my opponent spent three spells to kill it with -1/-1 counters), but I do have some spectacular losses.
One of those was 1v1 EDH game. I was playing Kresh the Bloodbraided and my opponent was on Ezuri, Renegade Leader. He started off with a turn 2 Silhana Ledgewalker, and I got stuck on 3 land the entire game (and I think I was missing green too). Now, my Kresh deck is built around killing everything on the battlefield except for Kresh by continuously board wiping. This normally means that cheap Hexproof creatures mean nothing to me, but board wipes tend to be expensive and I only had 3 mana. Luckily for me he started off slow and didn't elf-ball all over me. Instead he was limited to about one lord per turn. I was able to keep killing his lords with targeted removal, but obviously he was pulling ahead. I ran out of removal spells for about 2 turns and he was able to keep a few lords out. By this time he had decided to kill me solely using the Ledgewalker. He was finally able to do it in a few turns. That's how I lost a game of EDH through being dealt damage solely by a 1/1.
November 6, 2015 8:18 a.m.
gnarlicide, Infinite Obliteration and Sowing Salt over Crumble to Dust is something new for Jund. I see the reasoning, but I can't say I've seen that before.
November 6, 2015 9:56 a.m.
McSleuthburger says... #13
be me
make my first deck (Mirrodin white equipment deck)
decides to play in a 8 person free for all
everyone is using their expensive competitive decks
so me being a new guy they work on killing each other and leave me alone
I could only seem to keep a Loxodon Punisher (with a Whispersilk Cloak) on the field....everything else keep getting killed
down to three of us, I had like 3 life
get attacked by an 8/8
panics at first but had an Awe Strike
defeats other 2 players with a 22/24 unblockable, hexproof Punisher with about 7-8 equipments on it
November 7, 2015 8:27 a.m.
gnarlicide says... #14
JA14732, I had sowing salt over crumble to dust because BFZ had not been released yet at the time. But rest-assured, I run crumble now.
taurbeer says... #2
Okay, so... My weirdest winning moment wasn't me winning, but it was caused by me. It was a commander game with five people (Already up for stupid things to happen, I know). We had a guy playing Control, one playing Bounce, one playing Purpheros, one playing a Simic Counter Deck and me with a Phelldagriff Group hug deck.
The game starts off as you'd expect, everyone goes for the one playing Purpheros, killing him before turn 5. Through this time, I've managed to get almost nothing done, just build my little fort of pillows to throw presents from. The Control guy falls next to the Bounce Guy because those two had a personal duel.
By this time, I've managed to thin out everyone's decks, neither me nor them having any basic lands left in our decks and being on around 50 cards each. It becomes my turn and I start my 'winning' combo where I draw everyone out, including myself with Hivemind and draw cards. Lo and behold, I don't have enough mana to draw myself out, nor the bounce guy! The one who plays a simic deck draws himself out though. I however end up on only having one card left in my deck, whilst the bouncer has around 6, so I refuse to give up my turn and instead do the only sensible thing possible! I tap my Temple Bell and say GG.
November 5, 2015 7:51 p.m.