Whats the most embarrassing way to WIN?
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Posted on Nov. 24, 2015, 7:02 p.m. by DERPLINGSUPREME
what stories do you guys have of winning, but not really feeling like a winner afterwards?
for me it was an opponent being mana screwed and accidentally killing themselves with their own dark confident.
Serendipitous_Hummingbird says... #3
In my first game playing twin I combo-ed off against a soul sisters player who had a Suture Priest on the battlefield.
November 24, 2015 7:07 p.m.
Serendipitous_Hummingbird says... #4
Needless to say I have been VERY careful with every play after that.
November 24, 2015 7:08 p.m.
Graham Stark in a LRR draft:
Opponent's clock has 1 second on it.
Opponent flunges for the win.
Graham, wanting to help, casts Trumpet Blast.
Opponent's clock runs out.
Graham wins.
"I was trying to help!"
November 24, 2015 7:11 p.m.
VampireArmy says... #6
Any game my opponent flips shit at me feels like a loss. Tilt isn't fun for anyone
November 24, 2015 7:20 p.m.
Ohthenoises says... #7
I feel like this when playing edh sometimes. My playgroup is what I like to call competi-casual. They like being competitive but like to have fun too. Sometimes some of us go a bit far.
Two stories.
One. It was my T3, I have Splinter Twin and Deceiver Exarch in hand. I pass around the table and I see all of the blue players are all tapping out. I go "well, um, sorry guys but anyone got a killspell? Everyone with U is tapped out...." I get a "no, why?" and I just flash in the Exarch and reveal the Twin. People got SUPER salty. It was so bad that I had to sit out.
Two. I was playing Kruphix, God of Horizons elfball edh. It was built around Primal Surge. There wasn't any other non permanents. At one point I had out Leyline of Anticipation and just go "well, sorry guys." I flash cast Primal Surge, make 100 mana, and pump it all into Helix Pinnacle. I felt terrible cause it wasn't meant to win like that.
November 24, 2015 7:27 p.m.
I have a Laboratory Maniac and I've won a few 4+ player games with it just sitting back and waiting until I mill myself out
November 24, 2015 7:34 p.m.
canterlotguardian says... #9
Sat down with a playgroup of people whom I'd never played with before (I was visiting my family out of state). Playing G/B reanimator with Jarad. Everyone else sits down, sleeved decks, game faces on. Earlier, I'd asked the store owner about their EDH playgroup, and he said they knew what they were doing. So, I assumed they knew about most stupid cards in the format. I went first. This was my opening play:
Swamp -> Dark Ritual -> Entomb putting Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger into the graveyard -> Reanimate on Vorinclex.
Everyone asks what he does, so I pass him around. Literally the entire table scoops en masse. I'm left very much confused as to why they did that. Owner then takes that very much opportune time (sarcasm btw) to let me know that even though they knew what they were doing, they'd only been playing EDH for about a week and were all using pre-con decks from that year's Commander set, the 2013 one. I just gave him this look like "Dude, that would have been great to know before I did that." Felt like such a dick.
November 24, 2015 7:41 p.m.
DERPLINGSUPREME says... #10
@canterlotguardian oh god, that is really bad....
just BTW, even if you were in my playgroup (we ACTUALLY know what we're doing) no one would scoop, but we would be very upset with you. we wouldn't do anything about your deck except shoot down the vorinclex, but we would be very upset.
November 24, 2015 7:47 p.m.
canterlotguardian says... #11
Haha true. Worst thing is, it was the first time I'd ever had all those cards in my opening hand, so I was just like "Fuck yeah Imma do this." Turns out... Not the best decision in the world. Lol
November 24, 2015 7:56 p.m.
We were playing a 3 person game of commander. I was playing Mono-Blue Control. My opponent was playing jund and the other was playing mono-black vampires. We were getting wrecked by his commander, Anowon, the Ruin Sage. then the jund player dropped a Master of Cruelties with a Hammer of Purphoros in play, then made in unblockable with Rogue's Passage and swumg against the anowon player. then that next turn, the vampire player dropped a Phyrexian Arena. He realized his mistake the next turn.
November 24, 2015 7:58 p.m.
canterlotguardian says... #13
CheeseBro didn't you post that in the other thread? lol
November 24, 2015 8:08 p.m.
In my The 'facts of the Matter deck (isochron artifacts) I have way to copy Guttersnipe a bunch of times (think Rite of Replication. Then, when I have about seven out, I cast a few spells and win. Never feels good. Everyone is salty
November 24, 2015 8:10 p.m.
Playing against my brother and a friend (neither are very competitive) in three-way EDH, I was playing my Sidisi, Brood Tyrant reanimator/toolbox deck. Played Exploration turn one into turn two Sidisi, milling Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger, Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur, and Sheoldred, Whispering One. Turn three Living Death with no creatures in either of their yards. I felt pretty bad... but also good...
November 24, 2015 8:19 p.m.
avrgeboy123 says... #16
I am playing U/G infect and have a Glistener Elf on board. My opponent is on company elves and has a pretty decent board. My opponent plays his sideboard tech, Elvish Champion in order to swing through unblocked. I read Elvish Champion, look at Glistener Elf and all the pump in my hand and give him a big thumbs up!
November 24, 2015 8:34 p.m.
MindAblaze says... #17
Playing Planechase, I was running my Nekusar build and played a turn one Bloodchief Ascension. The second plane we flip to is Naar Isle and try as we might, we couldn't roll off and I cruised to an easy victory that everyone saw coming
November 24, 2015 8:47 p.m.
Every time I played Restore Balance against someone who didn't know the deck. Turns out people don't like having all their lands, creatures, and cards in hand disappear and then getting durdled out.
So I built a new deck.
Turns out they don't like turn 2 Emrakuls either.
Ya just can't win.
November 24, 2015 8:56 p.m.
Anytime I play lantern control and once I have the lock my opponent makes me play it out since they hate the deck even though they know I don't make mistakes in decks like that once a lock is made.
Side note I watched a dude running u tron activate my friends grave storm combo deck on themselves. As in u tron mindslaver locked my friend and used the turn to trigger my friends combo onto himself. The only time the deck went off.
November 24, 2015 8:58 p.m.
Havok.Bane says... #20
I was playing legacy and I was using death and taxes against miracles, I win game 1 game 2 we go to turns him with jace me with nothing but lands. On the 5th turn his jace is ready to ultimate and he would win but since it was my turn he never actually got to use it and I won the the round
November 24, 2015 9:03 p.m.
ThisIsBullshit says... #21
I was playing 5 player EDH and dropped Kaalia turn 3 with haste, Master of Crueltiesed someone, and just won overwhelmingly in the next two-three turns. It wasn't fun for any of us.
There are also lots of times when I play Azami and I'm basically goldfishing but haven't found my Mind Over Matter yet...that gets to be no fun either - nobody can resolve anything but I haven't actually won yet.
November 24, 2015 9:22 p.m.
FAMOUSWATERMELON says... #23
I had one game where I was playing 4-player casual online with the Overpriced Store. One of the guys was playing tokens, and I just so happened to have The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale in my starting hand. I dropped it T2 after an Urborg and the guy got soooooo pissed, saying that I was playing "banned cards" (this was casual, remember) and that I was just a netdecker who played broken vintage decks (for the record, I was playing this deck, which isn't remotely competitive in any format that it's legal in). Though I didn't actually win that game (some guy playing Superfriends pretty much crushed us), the token guy couldn't really play anything because everytime he got a token out, he had to pay the cost and was blocked the entire game.
November 24, 2015 10:18 p.m. Edited.
Lightpulsar9 says... #24
Ok, so I was playing my mono green Nissa, Vastwood Seer Flip deck vs a mono green elf deck. later in the game he had a bunch of elves out and played Collective Unconscious to draw half his deck. I was about to lose the next turn to a crap ton of elf damage. My turn. I cast The Great Aurora. He picks up the card and reads it. looks at me. looks back at the card. then starts scooping up his massive board and said "lesson learned... never draw over half your deck for no reason". It was hilarious but he was so salty the rest of the day.
November 24, 2015 10:52 p.m. Edited.
Was playing a casual variant of planechase and the last opponant goes infinite on bothe creatures and mana. Cant remember which phenominon it was but my opponant rolls using his infinite mana to planeswalk before he attacks and encouters the phenominon that causes you to put all permanents in play into a pile and draw that many cards then put the pile of permanents into his libray. He had like 1 million creatures out so milled himself out instead of just distroying me.
November 24, 2015 11:29 p.m.
Was playing a vampire tribal deck, player 2 had a ton of tokens out, player 3 had enough of the tokens and boardwiped while I had 3 blood artists out, like 16 things died...
November 25, 2015 12:08 a.m.
gottagetthemhydras says... #27
Long Story short I was running an Abyssal Persecutor deck and got the other guy to less than 0 life then played Bazaar Trader which had haste due to Dragonlord Kolaghan. Traded off the Persecutor with Bazaar Trader. I'm no longer allowed to use that deck at his house anymore...
November 25, 2015 12:25 a.m.
A player who was playing an artifact affinity deck, against my blue deck (with a few artifacts). He was beating me down, until I played a Hurkyl's Recall (which I had in my deck to bounce my artifacts if need be). Basically, I walked over him after that.
I have an embarrassing loss too. I played a pillow fortress deck, against a white/blue weenie deck. I was doing okay until he countered an Elixir of Immortality (or something like that, could have been a cane too). Afterwards, I was reliant on my Soldevi Digger, but he disenchanted that, used his own cane and eventually I milled myself out and he won with one card left in his library.
November 25, 2015 3:21 a.m.
Any time I win with an Oloro, Ageless Ascetic precon. Yes, I still have the un-modified precon.
November 25, 2015 7:21 a.m.
lemmingllama says... #30
So I was playing EDH, and I put about 5 copies of Thieves' Auction on the stack. Some moaning and groaning, but they don't scoop. Then I put 5 copies of Scrambleverse on the stack. They scoop it up.
This was after two and a half hours of me dicking around with my Zedruu deck and making no-one have any cards, permanents, or really anything impactful. I will force people to run Disenchant effects in their decks!
November 25, 2015 7:48 a.m.
Was playing standart yesterday against a big stuff reanimator deck. Opponent has Ulamog and Sidisi both with 2 +1/+1 counters and a zombie, but at 2 life. He attacks, I also go to 2 life and he wipes my board with radiant flames. My turn I play Seeker of the way with 2 impact tremors on the board, he loses to impact tremor triggers.
November 25, 2015 7:54 a.m.
StUrzasBeard says... #32
Any game I win with my blue/white Archangel's Light casual deck.
November 25, 2015 9:10 a.m.
Tales from a pptq:Me: Atarka red; 3 life, Avaricious Dragon alone down, obv no cards in hand.
Opponent: Megamorph; 18 life, 8/8 guy Trample, lifelink.
I'm dead, right?
My turn:
Draw for the dragon... Temur Battle Rage
Draw for the turn...Become Immense
-LOL, Combat, i guess...!-(His face turning red)-WTF!? YOU DREW THAT SHIT? IS IT A JOKE!?-
-...you know, it's the combo...-
-NO! HAI UN CULO SPANATO!- (means: -You have been very lucky drawing the only 2 cards that together would grant you the game- But in a colorful way involving the diameter of my anus [For clarity "Culo" is a slang both for "ass" and "luck"])
November 25, 2015 11:26 a.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #34
I really don't like having to play a harsh mana-denial strategy in order to win. The most recent was a Modern match at FNM between my Tron and my opponent's Living End.
- Turn 3: Karn Liberated, minus 3 to exile Stomping Ground
- Turn 4: Minus 3 to exile Mountain, cast another Karn, (and so on and so forth)
I felt bad.
November 25, 2015 11:39 a.m.
Gather around kiddos and listen to the story of how I won my playmat (which I subsequently lost a few weeks ago).
I was at a convention in Minneapolis, playing in a small "casual" EDH tournament. I had finished my qualifier round by the skin of my teeth with my Can't Touch This by MC Oloro EDH in a prior build, only managing to assemble Avacyn, Angel of Hope + Nevinyrral's Disk at 4 life and won from there. I moved onto the finals, where I was faced with 2 decks being headed by Scion of the Ur-Dragon, a Zur the Enchanter and a Rafiq of the Many. And I, an 18 year-old guy who had been playing this deck for less than a year, was with the big boys now.
I start with an AWFUL hand, 1 land and some other, irrelevant cards, but I notice the Scion players both smile a bit, glace at each other, and grab the die to roll for first. The guy to the left of me ended up winning the roll (a Scion player), and draws for turn.
"Bayou, Mana Crypt, Sol Ring, Mana Vault, exile Elvish Spirit Guide, Lightning Greaves, Hermit Druid, tap the Druid, turn my library upside down, getting back Narcomoeba and playing an Ornithopter, Dread Return for Necrotic Ooze and"
Zur player says 1 word: "Pact" and plays his Pact of Negation targeting the Dread Return. Scion is pissed, doesn't have counterspell support, and scoops. It's Zur's turn next, he loses on upkeep.
Next Scion player, laughing his ass off, plays a Taiga into Mana Crypt, Sol Ring, Gruul Signet, exiles a Simian Spirit Guide, plays a Hermit Druid, Need for Speed, taps the Taiga, sacs it to give the Druid haste, turns his library upside down, gets 2 creatures, Dread Return and smiles like an idiot at us.
Rafiq: "I didn't want the playmat anyways. Fuck you, have a Pact of Negation." Scion2 scoops. Rafiq loses on upkeep.
I win without having even had an upkeep step.
It was awesome, frustrating, hilarious and embarrassing all at the same exact time. But I did get a cool playmat for a while, so it was completely worth it.
November 25, 2015 12:08 p.m.
ThisIsBullshit says... #37
That's so amazing and hilarious that they both happened to have the combo and the other two players happened to have the Pacts, and you didn't play a single card yet won by default.
November 25, 2015 12:18 p.m.
canterlotguardian says... #39
JA wins the thread, guys. We can all go home now.
November 25, 2015 12:27 p.m.
BurnFanatic says... #41
I'm a burn player.
Every time I play against Affinity and my turn one is Mountain Simian Spirit Guide, Eidolon of the Great Revel go.
Or in any other matchup I'll burn them down to 2 life then drop the Eidolon. This happens a lot. Feel like a huge dick.
November 25, 2015 2:35 p.m.
JA14732 that is just hilariously unreal. both players assemble the combo. then both other players counter it. Epochalyptik, after seeing your 0% Basics deck, you might want to take a look at that!
November 25, 2015 7:29 p.m.
DERPLINGSUPREME says... #45
I'd like to take bets as to wether or not epoch has already seen it!
I'm betting yes.
November 25, 2015 10:25 p.m.
gnarlicide says... #46
anytime i play against a random budget deck piloted by some kid at the shop when I play Jund during friday night modern. I always feel bad when its over.
November 26, 2015 8:56 p.m.
jadedflames says... #47
While playing U/B fae, I once kept a hand of four mutavaults. I then proceeded to win playing nothing but mutavaults because he somehow managed to get mana screwed while playing scapeshift.
December 2, 2015 11:24 p.m.
Gidgetimer says... #48
Anyone ever have a kid show up for FNM Modern playing an unsleeved casual deck that must have been at least 100 cards? Now Imagine that kid lost game one to turn 3 Hive Mind, pact. Then game two Turn 1 Amulet of Vigor, Turn 2 Amulet of Vigor, Summer Bloom, Primeval Titan for 20. I felt like such a dick.
December 3, 2015 6:56 a.m.
Gorgosaurusrex says... #49
JA14732 wins this thread. I'm not sure how much I believe that story but you'd have no reason to fabricate it.
I hate Hermit Druid players, lol.
clayperce says... #2
ZOMG DERPLINGSUPREME, that's hilarious! I've got nothing even close to that!
November 24, 2015 7:06 p.m.