Using a early ramped Terastodon continuously destroying my opponents land during EDH games, just cloning, reanimate him, pretty sure they are tilted lol.
4- player game. Important to know that this was before the 6E rules change that made losing due to 0 life a state-based effect. It used to be that you had until the end of the phase to get back above 0.
t1: Forest, Birds of Paradise, go.
T2: Swamp, Dark Ritual, Dark Ritual, Initiates of the Ebon Hand, Channel. Use 20 life to make 20 colorless mana, run it through Initiates. Drain Life for 20. Use 20 life to make 20 colorless mana, run it through Initiates again for 20 more black mana, Drain Life for 20. Pass turn with an evil smile. I lost that game, of course, no cards in hand and nothing on board, but so much fun.
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Cards are game pieces, and should be treated as such, easily replaceable.
Cards are not money, investments, or a retirement fund, and should never have been treated as such.
Wizards made a mistake caving to speculators once, and we still pay for that mistake 2 decades later.
"Entitled:" the entire ad hominem fallacy condensed into a single word. It doesn't strengthen your argument to attack motivations, it just makes you look like you don't understand the argument.
Getting wrathed with a grave pact on board. The pact triggers stack and I cast natural affinity. Bye bye to his lands... Scoop with an extreme stink eye
I have seen Balance used to devastating effect in multi-player casual. Iirc, opponent used Goblin Clearcutter and Ashnod's Altar, after tapping all her forests, taigas, and savannahs, to float a ton of mana. She then had no lands, no creatures, and one card in hand. She had a Mirari in play and one card in hand: Kaervek's Torch. She then Balanceed, and Kaervek's Torched and copied that through the Mirari to kill us both. Even though Josh had held a counterspell through the Balance effect, he didn't save enough mana to compensate for the extra two required by the Torch.
It was kinda epic. She had a ton of chump squirrels and goblins (all sac'd through the Altar before the Balance, of course) but Josh had Caltrops out and i had Propaganda and War Tax. We totally didn't see it coming at all.
The funniest part is it was a jank deck that rarely won, but my friend and I had been talking about combos and god hands as we shuffled up for the game. I kept my opening hand, thinking it was okay but not great, and then my first draw (Eradicate) turned it into a god hand.
I have seen Balance used to devastating effect in multi-player casual. Iirc, opponent used Goblin Clearcutter and Ashnod's Altar, after tapping all her forests, taigas, and savannahs, to float a ton of mana. She then had no lands, no creatures, and one card in hand.[...]
It must have been a different card then, not Goblin Clearcutter, because that one can only sacrifice a single land per turn unless getting untapped in some way. Otherwise, this was an illegal play. The Clearcutter cannot clear your board of all lands without untap shenanigans, or repeated blink + haste, even if all those lands happen to be Forests.
All the lands were forests, i coulda sworn it was a clearcutter... it was a long time ago... maybe it wasn't a clearcutter or maybe i'm forgetting a critical part of the process,. I'll try to think on it some it some more. I think i still have Josh's e-mail, maybe he'll remember.
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The funniest part is it was a jank deck that rarely won, but my friend and I had been talking about combos and god hands as we shuffled up for the game. I kept my opening hand, thinking it was okay but not great, and then my first draw (Eradicate) turned it into a god hand.
I have seen Balance used to devastating effect in multi-player casual. Iirc, opponent used Goblin Clearcutter and Ashnod's Altar, after tapping all her forests, taigas, and savannahs, to float a ton of mana. She then had no lands, no creatures, and one card in hand.[...]
It must have been a different card then, not Goblin Clearcutter, because that one can only sacrifice a single land per turn unless getting untapped in some way. Otherwise, this was an illegal play. The Clearcutter cannot clear your board of all lands without untap shenanigans, or repeated blink + haste, even if all those lands happen to be Forests.
So this has been bugging me and i did contact Josh to ask him what he remembered of it. He swears that she was using Mana Echoes with Intruder Alarm and Mobilization, which would totally make sense and was a combo she used a lot. I thought that the particular deck that basically won because of the Balance wasn't that convoluted, but he's probably right. The thing that bugs me about it is that bring blue into it, but she did use Mana Prisms a lot for splashes and sometimes Chromatic Spheres too. I could've sworn she was using Squirrel Nests, but Josh's memory is probably better and it was swarms of soldiers not squirrels.
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They just couldn't put 7th edition into Modern because of the card borders? Seriously? Count me out.
I once had a night of souls betrayal in play with an urborg, kormus bell, humility, and null rod.
Another time I resolved a stasis with kismet in play and then skipped my next one hundred turns.
I still have a deck that runs on exactly that. I bring it out when I know I have to shut someone up. The last time I did that was over three years ago.
I taught a whole bunch of kids how to play Magic and I realized my decks would just decimate theirs because I had over a decade of experience of deckbuilding and synergy. So I made a green pauper deck and brought it to a four player game with them (infect). 1st turn one of the kids targeted me so my second turn I hit them with a Glister Elf and a Giant Growth my next turn I drew a secondMutagenic Growth to go with the Trollhide in my hand. He had no creatures, so I took him out on my third turn, which was the first time I ever pulled off a turn three kill.
Oh, and that kid sat at the table watching for the rest of the match.
Like I said from the start, its not that it was that evil, but dropping all these guys on turn 2 was priceless. My opponents were really pissed!
EDH: Xenagos, God of Revels.
t1: Forest, Birds of Paradise, go.
T2: Swamp, Dark Ritual, Dark Ritual, Initiates of the Ebon Hand, Channel. Use 20 life to make 20 colorless mana, run it through Initiates. Drain Life for 20. Use 20 life to make 20 colorless mana, run it through Initiates again for 20 more black mana, Drain Life for 20. Pass turn with an evil smile. I lost that game, of course, no cards in hand and nothing on board, but so much fun.
Cards are not money, investments, or a retirement fund, and should never have been treated as such.
Wizards made a mistake caving to speculators once, and we still pay for that mistake 2 decades later.
"Entitled:" the entire ad hominem fallacy condensed into a single word. It doesn't strengthen your argument to attack motivations, it just makes you look like you don't understand the argument.
I drew 2 cards off of it when the Arjun player got eliminated.
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It was kinda epic. She had a ton of chump squirrels and goblins (all sac'd through the Altar before the Balance, of course) but Josh had Caltrops out and i had Propaganda and War Tax. We totally didn't see it coming at all.
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Opponent: Plains, pass.
Turn 2: Swamp, Dark Ritual, Dark Ritual, activate Spellbomb targeting his land, Eradicate. Proceed to exile every Plains out of his hand and library, pass.
Opponent: "Um, Island?" Pass.
Turn 3: Animate Land, Terror.
Opponent scoops.
The funniest part is it was a jank deck that rarely won, but my friend and I had been talking about combos and god hands as we shuffled up for the game. I kept my opening hand, thinking it was okay but not great, and then my first draw (Eradicate) turned it into a god hand.
Also had a deck years ago that could play and flip Erayo, Soratami Ascendant on turn 2, then play Arcane Laboratory on turn 3.
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It must have been a different card then, not Goblin Clearcutter, because that one can only sacrifice a single land per turn unless getting untapped in some way. Otherwise, this was an illegal play. The Clearcutter cannot clear your board of all lands without untap shenanigans, or repeated blink + haste, even if all those lands happen to be Forests.
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Another time I resolved a stasis with kismet in play and then skipped my next one hundred turns.
Another time I was attacked with an Emrakul, the Aeons Torn while I had Sacred Ground out. This allowed me to tap 5 lands, sacrifice them to Emrakul's annihilator, and then tap them again to active my Door to Nothingness
So this has been bugging me and i did contact Josh to ask him what he remembered of it. He swears that she was using Mana Echoes with Intruder Alarm and Mobilization, which would totally make sense and was a combo she used a lot. I thought that the particular deck that basically won because of the Balance wasn't that convoluted, but he's probably right. The thing that bugs me about it is that bring blue into it, but she did use Mana Prisms a lot for splashes and sometimes Chromatic Spheres too. I could've sworn she was using Squirrel Nests, but Josh's memory is probably better and it was swarms of soldiers not squirrels.
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EDH: Glissa, the traitor
Pioneer:UR Pheonix
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UW Dragonlord Ojutai: Dragonlord NOjutai
UWGDerevi, Empyrial Tactician "you cannot fight the storm"
R Zirilan of the claw. The solution to every problem is dragons
UB Etrata, the Silencer Cloning assassination
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I still have a deck that runs on exactly that. I bring it out when I know I have to shut someone up.
I taught a whole bunch of kids how to play Magic and I realized my decks would just decimate theirs because I had over a decade of experience of deckbuilding and synergy. So I made a green pauper deck and brought it to a four player game with them (infect). 1st turn one of the kids targeted me so my second turn I hit them with a Glister Elf and a Giant Growth my next turn I drew a secondMutagenic Growth to go with the Trollhide in my hand. He had no creatures, so I took him out on my third turn, which was the first time I ever pulled off a turn three kill.
Oh, and that kid sat at the table watching for the rest of the match.
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