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Posted on Dec. 19, 2015, 9:53 p.m. by Mortem

So, the purpose of this is to share and comment about your great plays and stories, or ones you have seen. They should be something weird, that neither you nor your opponent saw coming, in any format.

I'll start off with one of mine: I was playing a 5-player conspiracy draft, and for some reason we all made the teams before even starting. I was on a team with one other player, and was really apprehensive about having them be up a player on us.

Then I saw my ally's move: Turn 1: Play mountain, reveal 3 Brago's Favor, 1 Muzzio's Preparations, 1 Immediate Action, and 1 Secret Summoning- all naming Lizard Warrior. Suddenly, he had a 5/3 with haste turn one, and tutored up 2 more. His next turn, he had attacked one opponent down to 0. All I could think was: "I'm glad he's on my team."

Well, do you have any stories like it? Post them here!

Please don't post obvious infinite combos and stuff- I don't want to see Splinter Twin plus Deceiver Exarch.

ragemaster42 says... #2

My friend attacked me with a Meandering Towershell, and while it was exiled, another friend of mine played a Ruin Processor and dragged that Durtle Turtle down into the graveyard. It was great

December 19, 2015 11:26 p.m.

vampirelazarus says... #3

Innistrad - Return to Ravnica standard.

Playing this dude, it's game two.

Playing my human aggro home brew (essentially it was naya blitz, minus the green, and tribal. Just as fast as naya blitz, and super cool).

He's playing Maze's End build.

I side in 4 Skullcrack. I draw three in my opening hand, and draw the fourth on turn two.

turn four he plays Saruli Gatekeepers, in response Skullcrack.

Turn five, Saruli Gatekeepers, in response Skullcrack.

turn six, Saruli Gatekeepers, in response Skullcrack.

Turn seven, Thragtusk, in response Skullcrack.

(it was a long game, going all the way to turn seven. Either I'm forgetting about ramp, and he was a turn earlier, or I drew nothing but burn spells. Which that deck only ran 8, so.........)

He conceded after that.

December 20, 2015 3:01 a.m.

xavrr says... #4

My Friend played an infinite combo with Avenger of Zendikar, he got them all to 2/2s, I think there were about 50...He was so sure he would win... Anyway, I played an 'all creatures get -2/-2' and all his creatures died.

December 20, 2015 3:14 a.m.

xavrr says... #5

Oh, and my friend played an Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger and on the turn I would die I Turn to Froged it and won :)

December 20, 2015 3:15 a.m.

-Fulcrum says... #6

BFZ prerelease. I'm playing a BG Eldrazi Ramp deck that kinda does stuff. My opponent is playing a UB Eldrazi deck that also kinda does stuff. He plays Desolation Twin. I have that "oh fuck" moment. Topdeck Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger and exiled both twins, leading to a glorious victory. Fun night. That's just the first thing that comes to mind. I play EDH every weekend so ridiculous shit happens all the time, but I can't think right now.

December 20, 2015 4:17 a.m.

kipahlord13 says... #7

Definitely during my most recent 6-person BFZ draft at school. I was playing WR allies, with either black or green sideboarding in and out. My opponent was playing a rude RUB eldrazi deck. He attacks with a Benthic Infiltrator, I obviously cant block, and he is still up on board presence. Off of a whim, I decide to use my Gideon's Reproach(one of the only removal spells in the deck), and kill it. Next turn, I top-deck my first picked Gideon, Ally of Zendikar. He scoops, I win the match 2-0

December 20, 2015 10:07 a.m.

buildingadeck says... #8

I was playing an EDH game with my Phelddagrif deck against an upgrades Daxos the enchanter and Ruric Thar, the Unbowed, and the Daxos deck was beginning to get out of control. I played Cyclonic Rift into Windfall on Ruric Thar's end step thanks to Leyline of Anticipation. Each of us drew 34 cards. I won on Fascination during my next turn.

I also recently prevented Dragonlord Silumgar from stealing my Rhino by killing it with the ETB on the stack with Foul-Tongue Invocation. That was one of my prouder plays.

December 20, 2015 10:20 a.m.

Hjaltrohir says... #9

In commander, I was one 2 life with no board and was going to die next turn. I topdecked an Insurrection and killed all the other players (3 in total!) in one attack. it was pretty great.

Best part is that one of the guys had gone outside for a smoke and when he came back, everyone had left after losing the game and there was only his stuff left. He was kinda pissed.

December 20, 2015 10:49 a.m.

Bovine073 says... #10

Well, I was playing with my, like, ~35$ burn deck against my friend's ~120$ something deck, Dragons I believe. Anyways, I basically won a few times because of Hidetsugu's Second Rite.

All my great stories include that card.

I also once saw this Two-Headed Giant game that one team had a G/W elves, was at like 2 life, other team had 27 life, was tappedout and had all its creatures attack. Anyways, he says (before drawing), "IF I TOPDECK A Rally the Ancestors WE MIGHT JUST WIN"! Then he draws, topdecks a rally, and after about 4 minutes of math and double-checking he hits the other team for EXACTLY 27 damage.

December 21, 2015 1:11 a.m.

BSP says... #11

This isn't exactly a great story, but it's one I'm going to remember because it reminds me of the unwarranted blue hate.

Warning: Wall of Text Show

I'm playing Commander with 4 other people, so a 5 man game. I'm playing my usual Arcanis the Omnipotentmono-blue deck that is specifically built to NOT be a control deck unless you force its hand by directly endangering it, or it's time to end the game. The group was familiar with this deck. It had been played before and proven quite strong. I expected to be targeted, which is fine, but I am not fine with my group mates being unclear on what exactly constitutes "control" and what doesn't, and falsely labeling the deck as such.

So the game starts. I play my land T1, and then on T2 I played another land into Lightning Greaves. Before a rotation completes, Omnath, Locus of Mana player Naturalize'd my greaves, even though someone else had played a Sol Ring. Now the player playing omnath isn't very experienced with magic, but someone having 5 mana turn 3 is pretty hard to miss. Still blows up my greaves. Whatever. Removal/control Count by not blue deck: 1.

My third turn, I play another land into Propaganda. Once again, Omnath player removes it with Reclamation Sage, even though propaganda has near zero effect on a deck like Omnath. The destruction was accompanied with a "THAT needed to be destroyed". Why? The sol ring was still online and it was T3. Are all of you already planning to attack me? Removal/control Count: 2

T4 I play Solemn Simulacrum. He actually lives through a rotation, but only because he's a creature. The Varolz, the Scar-Striped player does something and reanimates Terastodon T4, and blows up the sol ring (finally...), one of my lands (>_>), and another player's land. Removal/control count: 3 Next turn, , Varolz uses Mosswort Bridge to play Sheoldred, Whispering One. Read what Sheoldred does. Removal. Before sheoldred hits me, I Capsize , not buyback because I was 1 mana short, my solemn so I can replay him to make up for my lost land. I sacrifice the elephant from Terastodon to Sheoldread. Anyway, removal/control count: 4 , and re cast solemn to get my land back.

Take a step back for a moment. What is control again? Going by MTG salvation..."A control deck is a term for a deck...that aims to control the opponent's cards and progression with, ideally, the end result where one has full control of everything that is done during the game." (http://mtgsalvation.gamepedia.com/Control_deck)

Alright, so who has done the most control of opponents' cards so far? Not the blue deck! I've been hit by 4 removal spells already and haven't directly messed with anyone.

Back to me after playing solemn again, Varolz pulls another combo that gets my solemn exiled permanently. Removal/control Count: 5, Get a 9/9 swung at me because I'm now wide open. Take it and shrug.

At this point I'm pretty annoyed at the irony of the situation. My deck, labeled the control one, has done absolutely nothing to control anyone, yet every single piece of removal played has affected me so far.

A turn or two later after durdling, Varolz player offers to sacrifice Sheoldred if someone scoops. One player takes up the offer due to being mana screwed and screwed over by Sheoldred. Sheoldred had survived for 2 rotations I think, and had effectively taken someone out of the game with no one else remotely close to winning.

My next turn, I'm at 7 mana. I play Scourge of Fleets and bounce a few things. This is the ONE control aspect I've done, versus the 5 control aspects done to me. I point out that my "removal" just sent everything back to everyone's hand and it's going to come right back out. I get labeled as "the threat". Really? Sheoldred had just survived for TWO rotations and took somebody out of the game via removal with no one close to winning, yet I'm the bad guy? Seriously? W/e with this blue/bounce bias.

I was highly surprised that Karlov of the Ghost Council didn't exile my creature immediately. Anyway, my next turn I play Deadeye Navigator. People grown at the thought of constant bounce, but I promise to them that I won't do it, even if I have spare mana before my next turn, unless someone swings at me. I've never gone back on my word in a game, so I hope they believed me.

Of course, someone else who isn't familiar with the game thinks it'd be hilarious to swing at me. I threaten to bounce most things with scourge and people get annoyed, so the player changes their mind. Good. Coming into my next turn, I have 2 spare mana. I could bounce most things with scourge, but I honor my word and don't.

My next turn I draw into Sphinx of Jwar Isle. I'm thinking great, something that won't get removed easily. After I pass, Karlov player plays Merciless Eviction calling creatures, hitting me the most of course since I had to bounce things to first time I played scourge. Removal/control count: 6. I'm not that annoyed since I knew I had All Is Dust as a top deck coming.

My next turn I play Arcanis hoping to draw some cards since I'm down to 2. Right after, the Karlov player plays Languish, killing basically everything. Removal/control count: 7

At this point, a real blue control deck would've had answers to all of this stuff that has happened. I took all of it, and didn't have a single counter. Yeah, I'm definitely the control player that has been actively denying players their resources.

Another turn happens and the karlov player asks somebody to help him out with something. I point out he hasn't asked me for help ever. Responds with "your deck is evil lol".

Yeah, he was right. I LD'd two players, destroyed two enchantments consecutively, exiled two creatures through a combo, forced everyone to sacrifice a creature while I reanimated mine for two rotations, bounced people's creatures back to their hands, did a battlefield wide exile spell, and did a battlefield wide weakness board wipe.

.....wait, I only did one of those things. The one I did do was by far the easiest to recover from, yet I'm the evil deck.

I'd lost count of the turns at this point and stopped caring. Varolz plays Woodfall Primus and hits one of my lands, without doing any kind of political determination. I scoop and comment on how it's so much fun being stopped from playing the game, and the irony of how much control I've been through and the lack of control I've done. I get responses of "you've done this too in the past", and "your deck right now does it."

Half correct. I've only LD'd when it's down to 1 v 1 and people are out. AKA it's time for the game to end. I don't chip away at people's lands mid game, because that stops them from playing the game. I want you guys to play commander with me. Why would I then try to actively stop you from doing so? LD at end game...ends the game...which is exactly what any game winning strategy does.

Second, my deck stops you from playing the game in two scenarios.

One, you're about to kill me. Of course I'm going to stop you if what you're doing is going to take me out, and even then, I only run 3 hard counters and 1 soft one lol. I'd expect a real control deck to run 10 at minimum and not a 6 CMC slow as crap general.

The second scenario: it stops EVERYONE from playing the game, aka ending/winning the game. You know what else does this? Literally every other game winning strategy.

In my eyes, there is no difference between being up against 11 Tidal Forces that are tapping everyone's lands so that no one can do anything, and somebody killing everyone with Craterhoof Behemoth. Both scenarios effectively end the game, yet my group finds problems with the tidal force win and is fine with the craterhoof win. Mono blue only has so many options. I say w/e and begin remaking my blue/green deck so I can have more responses to the silliness.

I try to make a blue deck that doesn't mess people up until it's time to end the game (which every deck has to do to win....except lab maniac and alt win cons), yet mine is still control...

Sigh. The only reason that game bothered me so much is the hypocrisy. My deck is the one that keeps getting labeled as control, yet everyone runs tons of removal. Does it not occur to people that removal effectively does what Counterspell does in most cases? I didn't even mind being targeted because I knew the deck was strong, but I did mind the blatant hypocrisy.

Oh and then there's the fact that a player that "hates control" has a deck where the commander is quite literally instant speed removal on a body, and another one where 60%+ of the creatures remove things, but I've already written enough. Everyone hates blue.

December 21, 2015 8:09 p.m.

Bovine073 says... #12

BSP, coming from a non-blue, non-control player, I think it is the connotation of control = blue is what is hitting you here. Also, it really depends on someone's definition of control. I think a lot of newer magic players (myself included) believe (or believed) that a blue deck (especially a mono-blue deck) is going to be control, every single time. This is true, most of the time. Other aspects are your card-draw commander, card-draw is often assosciated with control as well.

I think your friends are just stereotypical towards blue, as none of them (it sounds like) play a blue deck.

December 22, 2015 2:33 a.m.

BSP says... #13

Bovine073 thanks for the response. I know the definition of controls varies from person to person, but at the end of the day, it boils down to stopping people from doing whatever they intended to do with a card. Counterspell obviously does this, but so do Murder, Swords to Plowshares, Wrath of God, Terastodon, and loads of other cards that aren't blue. While a deck may not focus on removing things constantly, any piece of removal you put in is a small piece of control in spirit. I'm just mad that my deck gets labeled as control even though it has about the same amount of removal as everyone else's.

I picked a card drawing commander because I want to hit my land drops :/ Yeah, card draw is great for control...but it's also great for allowing you to play things.

December 22, 2015 6:05 p.m.

Bovine073 says... #14

BSP: "Ignorance is bliss", as they say.

December 23, 2015 1:51 a.m.