Whats the Most fun you have had piloting a deck?
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Posted on Aug. 7, 2016, 12:49 a.m. by Ledian
Doesn't have to be a modern deck. Just a fun time you have had with a deck.
Not modern, but first FNM in Standard. Let's just say I resolved Gift of Immortality on Festering Newt with Bubbling Cauldron and Bogbrew Witch already on the field. My opponent started to cry.
August 7, 2016 1:05 a.m.
A really fun experience happened last Friday at FNM. His Awoken Horror Flip had just bounced all of my elves. He attacked for 7, then I played some dorks from my hand, he attacked for 7 again, then things got complicated. I resolved Collected Company and got out Heritage Druid and Dwynen's Elite, now being completely tapped out. I used them to play the 2 Nettle Sentinels in my hand and proceeded to combo out the rest of my hand. Then, my Elvish Visionary drew me a black mana which I used to cast Shaman of the Pack. You know what the best part was? I had 12 elves out at that point, and he had 12 life. I hit him for his exact life total. Take that you stupid storm deck. I outstormed you.
August 7, 2016 1:15 a.m.
one of my favorite matches was when i piloted Salt Sisters against a netdeck top 8 merfolk list. i currently have a Blood Seeker, a Suture Priest, and a Soul's Attendant. he was at 16 life and i was at something reasonable. it was turn 4 and he was on the draw. he was debating wether or not to swing out with his team of unblockable merfolk for something around 10, or to keep back a single blocker. he decides he needs to get the damage in now, because i can slowly build up life, and out race him if he doesnt stay aggressive. besides "its not like you could kill me on the back swing". i untap and play a land. i play Hunted Phantasm. 10 damage total from seeker and priest. this was also during the time when my deck played Zealous Persecution. i used it. all of the new tokens died. i swung with my 3 creatures that i had on the field before. for 6 damage. guess i killed him on the back swing. gg one of the most entertaining reactions from an opponent that i've ever had.
August 7, 2016 3:05 a.m.
Gidgetimer says... #6
Every game I ever played with TitanBloom. The deck had so many different lines to get to one of the two combos that win or lose I was having a blast every single game. Too bad people don't want to play instant speed Magic in modern.
August 7, 2016 3:06 a.m.
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August 7, 2016 3:12 a.m.
I always appreciate playing with or against a good Delver deck. Theyre exceedingly intricate and really punish both you and the opponent for any misplays. It leads to good slow magic, lots of thinking, and some very memorable games.
When it comes to synergies i always have a lot of fun piloting my GW Emeria Control deck. Making plays like 2 Voice of Resurgence into Wrath of God next turn (so you end up with the tokens) then into a Sun Titan the turn after to reanimate your Voice of Resurgence
August 7, 2016 3:16 a.m.
VampireArmy says... #9
taking down the LGS owner's $2,500 Animar deck with my Prossh premade with very little edits was severely satisfying.
I had secondhand bliss from watching this cute "goth" chick destroy an entire FNM with her little budget rakdos deck. Context: The place was full of neckbeards who used "you got beat by a girl!" as an unironic insult. You go goth girl, whomever you are.
August 7, 2016 5:44 a.m.
Whenever I find a way to kill or bounce all of my opponent's stuff (especially lands) and lock them out of the game. It's so satisfying.
August 7, 2016 5:50 a.m.
Innistrad standard. Red Black Zombies, versus Green Black Trading Post.
It was a magical time. You had Trading Post, Thragtusk and Wurmcoil Engine were all in standard. The GB Trading Post deck aimed to use lands and artifacts to ramp into a fast Thragtusk or Wurmcoil, backed up with the best removal in GB and big threats, and it would over turns loop its useless artifacts into draw, turn thragtusks into wurmcoils and the wurmcoils into a thragtusk again.
RB Zombies was a pile of powerful zombies, backed up with sacrifice effects and Morbid cards. You would do aristocrat like things, saccing for value etc.
Game 1-2 were fairly good but game 3 was intense. The amount of tricks I had to do to secure the win, such as Dismembering my own Geralf's Messenger to stop him gaining 6 off a wurmcoil, to trigger 2 damage, to trigger morbid for 5, to put him on 2, so next turn he would have to activate trading post to gain life or hope his top deck would save him, unable to attack in because I had a Diregraf Ghoul equipped with Mortarpod that would prevent him dealing damage, and stuff.
August 7, 2016 7 a.m.
I took this to FNM: Tipping the Scale. It was hillarious :). I did pretty good, but alot of games were draw due to time ;). I played against D&T, reanimate and BUG and some other homebrews. The moment when my opponent grins and plays Serra Avenger thinking he will win because of Vigilance and i tap it with Ral Zarek.. Priceless. Thats when I realized the deck is pretty powerful but needs a faster wincon, so i added Black Vise.
August 7, 2016 7:15 a.m.
T1 kill against 12 post using Cheerios on untap.
Opponent: cloud post tapped past turn
Me: [32ish actuons]
Me: grapeshot for 26
Opponent: ...
Opponent: gg
August 7, 2016 11:17 a.m.
Every single game I have ever played with my Merieke commander deck (Bad People doing Bad Things - Merieke Thievery), but the best (read: funniest) moment for me was taking control of a Worldspine Wurm in response to Prime Speaker Zeganna, making it a 6-mana Elvish Visionary.
August 7, 2016 11:17 a.m.
My Rafiq EDH when my opponent was trying to lock down Rafiq. Top decked a Putrefax, board wipe, play Putrefax, gains double strike, win.
August 7, 2016 11:17 a.m.
Onion_duck says... #16
Back when I played standard I played a RUG deck for a time and it was probably one of the most enjoyable decks I played. Most notably when I played 2 Frost Titans on Turn 3. So Satisfying.
August 7, 2016 12:56 p.m.
I was playing And I'll Pay a Red | Only 5 Red Spells! in a four-man commander game. I was one of the slower progressing players at the time, and the undeniable target at the table was the Omnath, Locus of Rage, across from me, with at the time 3 of its elemental tokens, a Pathbreaker Ibex and Rampaging Baloths. He attempted to cast an enchantment to, if I recall, give his creatures double strike. I had an untapped Temple Bell and Clock of Omens, with enough mana and artifacts to use and copy the bell up to 3 times, so I look to the Kruphix, God of Horizons player beside Omnath, and ask what the chances are he'll draw countermagic if I give everyone some draws. He responds with pretty well, so I start off with giving us all two cards, and as predicted, Kruphix is able to counter the enchantment, and the Meren of Clan Nel Toth to my right casts a victimize to kill the Ibex and Baloths, also saccing Spore Frog.
Not over yet, though. He passes, though no one really accomplishes anything. Once more it's Omnath's turn, and at this point I have Kurkesh, Onakke Ancient, Temple Bell, Slobad, Goblin Tinkerer, Myr Battlesphere with all 4 tokens, Krark-Clan Ironworks, Clock of Omens, and Planar Portal. He attacks me with everything and casts a spell to give his creatures double strike, and get another combat step after this one. No countermagic this time, I have no choice but to start saccing things off to Slobad, choosing a Myr and the Clock to give a Myr and the Battlesphere indestructible. He kills the battlesphere before it resolves, but I'm able to end up with 19, though losing all but one Myr Token. Next combat, he only sends one at me, which I feel I have to block with Slobad. After his turn, he claims he didn't want to kick a man while he's down, but as I look at my mana, I realize that as long as Kurkesh and Planar Portal stay, with the amount of mana I have, I can win next turn.
Kruphix seems to be worried about this too, however believes that Kark-Clan Ironworks is the key to getting the mana I need to do so, and destroys it. Meren does nothing overly relevant, so it's my turn.
I activate the Portal and copy it to get Gilded Lotus and Voltaic Key, casting them both, and by tapping the lotus, then activating the key, with one copy targeting itself and the other targeting the lotus, I generate 700,000,000 mana and untap the Portal. Then I search and cast Decimator Web.
As I predicted, I can win this turn. However, earlier Kruphix had been complaining about the last game he played, in which he allowed a player to get infinite mana early in the game, curious what he'd use it for, but was disappointed that it was just a Comet Storm. So I decide I will not win this turn.
Instead, I use the Decimator Web to kill Omnath for because, then search Mycosynth Golem, Shimmer Myr, Darksteel Reactor, and Darksteel Forge, cast them, and pass, declaring I will do nothing offensive for the remainder of the game, but if you try to stop me or the Darksteel Reactor, I will search for and cast an artifact at instant speed to answer it, or, if I don't have one, kill you outright. Thus the puzzle begins.
Several turns pass as the reactor ticks up, neither is able to do much. They try to play permanents to break up my lock, but I search cards such as Lux Cannon, Myr Turbine, and Steel Hellkite to keep them under control. After about five turns, Meren attempts to cast a Living Death. Looking back on it, I could have survived it well enough, but I didn't want to risk anything shady happening that I couldn't forsee, so I Web him to death.
Just me and Kruphix now, perfect. This show was for him anyway.
Once more I simply pass my turn after ticking the reactor up. Kruphix, as evidence by his actions, more or less decides to try to test his limits. At this point, I am more or less a god within the game, as he understands all of the cards and effects I have at my disposal. I need only say "I'll destroy that," or "I'll make this many tokens," and it would be so. I let him draw and cast a number of spells including Vedalken Orrery that don't bother me, even letting him keep a Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur on board for several turns.
Finally, he pulls out his Cyclonic Rift. Alright, that's enough of that, time to die. 10 Decimator Webs on the stack against him now, but it's not over yet. He continues to cast spells and activate abilities to draw cards, looking for more answers. He has very few cards left in his library now, and when he casts a Mystic Confluence set to draw 3, with an Alhammarret's Archive and Thought Reflection in play, I know he's going for a Laboratory Maniac. Again, in hindsight I could have killed the maniac once he played it, but I didn't want him to invest too many resources on a false victory. I Lux Cannon away his Archive and Relfections. He thinks for a moment and almost casts another spell - keep in mind, his death is on the stack, so if he can't win, he needs a Stifle to not lose. However, he concedes.
I'd built an unsolvable puzzle for him, and by attempting to solve it, he only hastened his failure.
August 7, 2016 5:42 p.m.
Oh, yeah. While not strictly speaking MTG, I had a lot of fun with D&B in DOTP 2014. I was in a 2HG mirror match or something, and one opponent was going to attack for lethal, but the other opponent tried to Banefire us for 5. Each team being at 5 and our team with practically no resources, I was delighted to use my last card on them: Swerve.
August 7, 2016 6:40 p.m.
SwaggyMcSwagglepants says... #19
I was playing Orzhov Humans, Ghosts and... a Kitty King? and I was facing a G/W Sphere of Safety Pillow Fort/Constellation deck. During that game, I ultimated my single Elspeth multiple times, had a boardstate too big for the table, and watched as my opponent decked myself to Eidolon of Blossoms. He scooped the next game fairly quickly after that.
August 7, 2016 7:34 p.m.
Dredge4life says... #20
One specific FNM match in which I crashed a 14/14 Rakshasa Deathdealer into a Hornet Queen 6 times while digging for a one-of Nylea, God of the Hunt with Erebos, God of the Dead and Whip of Erebos.
August 8, 2016 6:21 a.m.
titanreaver says... #21
My best game honestly had less to do with the specific deck but the game as a whole. We were playing some kitchen table magic, playing, Archenemey, Vanguard, and Planeschase simultaneously. I was playing a tawnos and a mud stax deck, as the Archenemy against five players playing Lands, Maverick, Gruul survival Zoo, Venser control, and The Rock, and I won. The game was nuts and took almost two hours, I had to restart the game with Karn Liberated three times before I could claim victory. One other thing, the decks were built using a modified version of the vintage banned/restricted list, and the venser player was using Shahrazad. So needless to say, it was insane.
MADMatt7777 says... #2
My turn 2 kill with Eggs against a friend at an FNM, immediately followed by a Turn 3 kill to win the match. Good Times
August 7, 2016 12:51 a.m.