This isn't intended to replace the crazy edh plays thread. Instead, what's the kill that is the most epic you've played because it either directly went off just like you goldfish, or just because it sticks out as the kill you remember most?
For me, it has to be the most recent get together we had. I had just reconstituted a token deck. In the game, the token deck did what it was made to do and I was at 30 tokens at the start of my turn. I cast Eternal Witness to bring back my Gaea's Cradle, played it, cast Mirror Entity, and then pumped 29 mana into the entity, and calmly asked if anyone had an answer to 30 x 29/29 creatures attacking. There weren't, and so I killed three players in a swing. Next turn? One of the players was about to Cyclonic Rift and I would have lost everything.
One of my most epic win being Rakdos Charm against two token decks and killed both at once. They ignored me because I didn't have the board state and tried to compete with each on who can make more tokens.
Chandra, Torch of Defiance - Oops! All Chandras. Prime Speaker Zegana - Draw for Power. Pir & Toothy - Counterpalooza. Arcades, the Strategist - Another Brick in the Wall. Zacama, Primal Calamity - Calamity of Double Mana. Edgar Markov - Vampires Don't Die. Child of Alara - Dreamcrusher.
For me it had to be when I discovered the god-hand for my Yidris deck; 2 fetches, 1 signet, Demonic Tutor, Brainstorm, Mystical Tutor and Bear Umbra.
Turn 3 drop Yidris, Turn 4 attach Bear Umbra to Yidris and attack the weakest opponent. Cast Demonic Tutor (cascading into Ponder) for Omniscience, Cast Mystical (for Rishkar's Expertise) and cascade into Hypergenesis, I only drop Omniscience from Hypergensis. This is where I messed up and still proceed to win, I cast Brainstorm which cascades into nothing but shuffles Rishkar's Expertise away from me, but I draw Prime Speaker Zegana, cast her and draw 8 cards, including Recycle and Null Profusion, Cast them both and any a whole bunch of random spells until I find Sun Quan, Lord of Wu, Relentless Assault and both Kodama's Reach and Cultivate. Proceed into an endless loop of Combat Phases.
It was a prime example of Yidris at work, becoming a game of solitaire and trigger tracking for me while my opponents hadn't made it past turn 3. Which is one of the reasons Yidris doesn't come out to play that often.
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EDH Pantheon UBRG Yidris, Eye of the Storm WBR Kaalia, Herald of Apocalypse UBG Damia, Sage of Nightmare WBG Karador, the Bridge Between WU Grand Warden Augustin IV RG Omnath, Locus of Awakening BG Nath Addict UR Niv Mizzet, Brain Aflame B Kokusho, the Mourning Star U Memnarch is All
The most recent one was me piloting a casual dragon engine EDH deck (group allowing me to use that as a commander), and actually getting enough chip damage in that the dumb thing threatened lethal. For about three games in a row I got dragon engine out on turn-1 (mana crypt + land, gemstone caverns turn-0 then turn-1 ancient tomb, and then ancient tomb into sol ring). The last game I ended up with a darksteel forge out and kept turning the dragon engine sideways like a strait battle-cruiser, focusing on one opponent while the other laughed. And then I put eldrazi conscriptions on the dumb thing and finally got the kill
The most out-of-nowhere win that stands in memory was from a high-casual/budget Jeleva, Nephalia's Scourge deck that I built to run mass basics, and with about 45x burn spells. Before the game started a buddy was joking about how garbage the deck was, and I was able to hit him for 40 points of damage when I got an early furnace of rath, then resolved Jeleva with a Searing Wind under her, and attacked targeting him with the spell, and flashed out dictate of the twin gods.
No one really cares about the high volume of hatred Jeleva win's, but my buddy will never live that death down.
I activated Heartless Hidetsugu (my general) with Furnace of Rath in play. Opponents were all at odd life totals, so I did Flame Jab each of them one time to close the game.
Could have did it before activating, but felt that it'd resonant better post-activitation.
I had a fun kill against me this weekend while we were jamming some EDH games between prerelease events. Of the four players, two didn't bring their EDH decks, so I lent out two of mine to them. One guy took my The Gitrog Monster and the other wanted to try Grenzo, Dungeon Warden. I cautioned against Grenzo, as it is a hard-to-pilot combo deck and he was an inexperienced player, but he insisted. I played Thassa, God of the Sea and the fourth player was playing elfball.
The Grenzo player played Skirk Prospector turn 1, Metallic Mimic naming goblins turn 2, nothing of note turn 3, and then played Murderous Redcap turn 4. He sacrificed the Redcap to the Prospector in order to kill an elf. It returned, he put the -1/-1 counter on from persist, then he put the +1/+1 counter on from the Mimic. It wasn't until after that he realized he could do this repeatedly to kill the table, AND he had a Fireball in hand to use that infinite mana on, if he wanted. It was pretty cool to see a relatively inexperienced player naturally figure out a combo (and naturally draw into it!) and wipe a table full of experienced players with solid decks.
I had a fun kill against me this weekend while we were jamming some EDH games between prerelease events. Of the four players, two didn't bring their EDH decks, so I lent out two of mine to them. One guy took my The Gitrog Monster and the other wanted to try Grenzo, Dungeon Warden. I cautioned against Grenzo, as it is a hard-to-pilot combo deck and he was an inexperienced player, but he insisted. I played Thassa, God of the Sea and the fourth player was playing elfball.
The Grenzo player played Skirk Prospector turn 1, Metallic Mimic naming goblins turn 2, nothing of note turn 3, and then played Murderous Redcap turn 4. He sacrificed the Redcap to the Prospector in order to kill an elf. It returned, he put the -1/-1 counter on from persist, then he put the +1/+1 counter on from the Mimic. It wasn't until after that he realized he could do this repeatedly to kill the table, AND he had a Fireball in hand to use that infinite mana on, if he wanted. It was pretty cool to see a relatively inexperienced player naturally figure out a combo (and naturally draw into it!) and wipe a table full of experienced players with solid decks.
Sure did, there are a lot of combos in there, and I usually set them up with Doomsday. But I hadn't really told him about the combos, because it can also play as a slightly slower Krenko, Mob Boss deck. I was proud of him!
First epic kill that comes to mind — because I was so excited when I realized the combo — was with my old Phenax mill deck. Everybody had lots of creatures. I had Phenax and King Macar, the Gold-Cursed on the field wearing Slagwurm Armor. I put Freed from the Real on Macar and used what blue mana I had on lands to do some milling while exiling creatures from the larger army so I might survive longer. Then I realized the Gold tokens would feed the aura. I proceeded to both clear the board and mill out two players in one go. Didn't quite get the third player, but they were the least threat and I ended up finishing them with a topdecked Duskmantle Guildmage and its first ability activated 2 or 3 times.
I've got a Melek, Izzet Paragon deck that is built around coin flipping. Generally the win condition is Fiery Gambit along with Reiterate and Krark's Thumb to blow up the table with the 6 to each player mode (going for all three to get the land untaps until I can't safely draw the nine cards). But my most epic win was when it was down to me and one other guy and I successfully won enough times in Game of Chaos to secure the victory. For those unwilling to do the math, if at any point I don't win the flip then the board state becomes identical to the state prior to starting with me down one life and my opponent up one life, and then if my opponent is smart they end the game.
My turn 1 I played a Mishra's Workshop, Sol Ring and Smokestack. Next turn I sacrifice zero permanents, put a counter on the Smokestack then play Great Furnace, Mox Opal and Mana Crypt, I tap everything except the Workshop and drop Rally the Legion. 5 or 6 other players scoop in Surround Sound. I drew the Rally that turn, my original intent was to play Elspeth Tirel to feed the Smokestack.
I was playing my Ghave saproling deck and my opponent was playing Ramos, Dragon Engine counters deck. Other two players were recently knocked out and the boardstate was chaotic.
I drew and cast Altar of Dementia and proceeded to mill my opponent. Next turn, my opponent was able to sacrifice his own Progenitus so that he had a card to draw in his next draw step. He cast Primal Vigor and ramped up his counters to have lethal on the next swing with Ramos, Dragon Engine. However, in a turn of events, he held priority and stacked up Etched Oracle to force me to draw 56 cards - an irony that he would deck me after I tried to deck him. After the first draw resolved, I handed Aura Mutation which allowed me to destroy his Mirari's Wake for 10 additional saprolings which was just enough to sac them to Zulaport Cutthroat triggers with Deathspore Thallid (targetting, it didn't matter, but I targeted Ramos, Dragon Engine just in case he was able to attack still) and brought his life total to 0. He had no further responses.
The boardstate was a mess with Avenger of Zendikar tokens everywhere and a bunch of other random stuff so I cast Decree of Pain without thinking and I ended up drawing exactly the remainder of my deck. I used Unravel the Aether on my own signet to prevent from milling out (getting the Unravel back with Eternal Witness) for a couple turns. Then my friend just casually targets me with Compulsive Research.
Not to mention the other time he killed me with Compulsive Research. I've lost to that card more times than I care to admit.
The game I got manascrewed and sat there like a potato the whole match while a Wort, the Raidmother went crazy and killed everyone else at the table. He saved me for last because manascrewed, and I topdecked a Commandeer. On his next turn he casts Banefire for 40+ knowing it can't be countered.
We all had a pretty good laugh, making jokes about how as a blue player I planned it all along (we have a running joke that blue is so overpowered, it makes doing nothing look like a genius strategy as long as you say "I'll allow it" every couple of spells or so that your opponents play).
There was also a pretty funny one against an Azami, Lady of Scrolls player who had drawn like 30 cards looking for a combo piece. I manage to get a mindslaver off and draw only 3, and I'm the one who finds his Mind over Matter.
I then, with the widest *****-eating grin you have ever seen, revealed Artifact Mutation.
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Card advantage is not the same thing as card draw. Something for 2B cannot be strictly worse than something for BBB or 3BB. If you're taking out Swords to Plowshares for Plummet, you're a fool. Stop doing these things!
It was a multiplayer online game and I was playing my pauper deck against non-pauper decks. I was slightly in front (cant remember how - likely on mana) and people was trying to hit me most of the time (what can I say - pauper doesnt have that good creatures it is hard to stop). Then I played some card - cant remember which - and someone played hinder on it. The next player had tunnel vision. While some kept on attackimg me most stopped that and was just waiting on me to die. I played some revival spell to get gray merchant of asphodel into hand put there by tunnel vision. My turn I drew my last card, played gray merchant of asphodel for 4 or 5 or so and a mnemonic wall for ghostly flicker and said go. Most everybody missed what was going to happen and let me be, certain that I couldnt win with no card in library. End of the last players turn before mine, I played ghostly flicker on wall+Merchant, then untap, ghostly flicker, ghostly flicker and so on until they all died. Then I thanked the guy hitting me with tunnel vision since I couldnt otherwise have won that fast.
My momemorable was when I was sitting at 1 life as Zirilan of the claw I have 1 card in hand but pretty much nothing else I was playing against A Vela the Night-Clad in play. I am dead to basically anything at this point. I can't remember what the third player was playing but they were at a reasonable life total.
It was a Kingdom variant game and my role that game was King (was playing my Ryusei deck). There were two Kaalia players and it quickly became quite obvious that one was my ally and the other the enemy (otherwise that game would have been over way faster). I managed to scramble my Platinum Angel as quickly as I could so I managed to keep my life total over 40 that game (it definitely helped that the enemy Kaalia player couldn't risk attacking me most turns without exposing himself to my Kaalia ally and the Angel made him even more wary).
As with any Kingdom variant (or EDH actually) game, some favorable plays got the other enemies knocked out, but my ally was running out of steam while that last enemy standing still had a massive board presence (Avacyn and on a much smaller scale Akroma did great preserving his boardstate) and could potentially threaten to turn the game over (the Platinum Angel was still standing because I had the benefit of Daretti and Goblin Welder and they essentially absorbed the removal). In exchange though he was at 3 life (and has no more allies on his side). My ally was also at the healthy 40 because his boardstate preserved his life until some enemies went down in the process of removing it, but at that point it didn't really matter since the enemy was pretty much left with the option of taking me down to win (I had a bunch of small creatures which he couldn't ignore, being at 3 life).
The opponent cast a Mirage Mirror and some other things to buff his board, leaving him with 2 mana open. Meanwhile I only had 5 mana available that turn (my mana rocks were consistently being sacrificed for Angel revivals and I had some individual lands removed that game). Fortunately I had more than enough creatures that he had to transform the Mirror to block in order to not die in combat, combined with the likelihood the Mirror will become a copy of my Angel, I left two creatures behind not attacking - Heartless Hidetsugu and Kumano, Master Yamabushi (Kamigawa wins!) and the rest was history (in response to the Mirror of course).
Granted this only happened because people don't really remember what Kumano does (which is what I think gave me the left-2-open-mana-only-opening I needed), but the moment you had to use Hidetsugu to shave off 1 life from your opponent because you only had 5 mana open and blasting yourself and your ally for 20 or more health each really screamed "Blazing victory at any cost" of a mono-R deck.
For me, it has to be the most recent get together we had. I had just reconstituted a token deck. In the game, the token deck did what it was made to do and I was at 30 tokens at the start of my turn. I cast Eternal Witness to bring back my Gaea's Cradle, played it, cast Mirror Entity, and then pumped 29 mana into the entity, and calmly asked if anyone had an answer to 30 x 29/29 creatures attacking. There weren't, and so I killed three players in a swing. Next turn? One of the players was about to Cyclonic Rift and I would have lost everything.
How about your epic kills?
Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest WUR Voltron Control
Temmet, Vizier of Naktamun WU Unblockable Mirror Trickery
Ra's al Ghul (Sidar Kondo) and Face-Down Ninjas
Brudiclad, Token Engineer
Vaevictis (VV2) the Dire Lantern
Rona, Disciple of Gix
Tiana the Auror
Hallar
Ulrich the Politician
Zur the Rebel
Scorpion, Locust, Scarab, Egyptian Gods
O-Kagachi, Mathas, Mairsil
"Non-Tribal" Tribal Generals, Eggs
Turn 3 drop Yidris, Turn 4 attach Bear Umbra to Yidris and attack the weakest opponent. Cast Demonic Tutor (cascading into Ponder) for Omniscience, Cast Mystical (for Rishkar's Expertise) and cascade into Hypergenesis, I only drop Omniscience from Hypergensis. This is where I messed up and still proceed to win, I cast Brainstorm which cascades into nothing but shuffles Rishkar's Expertise away from me, but I draw Prime Speaker Zegana, cast her and draw 8 cards, including Recycle and Null Profusion, Cast them both and any a whole bunch of random spells until I find Sun Quan, Lord of Wu, Relentless Assault and both Kodama's Reach and Cultivate. Proceed into an endless loop of Combat Phases.
It was a prime example of Yidris at work, becoming a game of solitaire and trigger tracking for me while my opponents hadn't made it past turn 3. Which is one of the reasons Yidris doesn't come out to play that often.
UBRG Yidris, Eye of the Storm
WBR Kaalia, Herald of Apocalypse
UBG Damia, Sage of Nightmare
WBG Karador, the Bridge Between
WU Grand Warden Augustin IV
RG Omnath, Locus of Awakening
BG Nath Addict
UR Niv Mizzet, Brain Aflame
B Kokusho, the Mourning Star
U Memnarch is All
The most recent one was me piloting a casual dragon engine EDH deck (group allowing me to use that as a commander), and actually getting enough chip damage in that the dumb thing threatened lethal. For about three games in a row I got dragon engine out on turn-1 (mana crypt + land, gemstone caverns turn-0 then turn-1 ancient tomb, and then ancient tomb into sol ring). The last game I ended up with a darksteel forge out and kept turning the dragon engine sideways like a strait battle-cruiser, focusing on one opponent while the other laughed. And then I put eldrazi conscriptions on the dumb thing and finally got the kill
The most out-of-nowhere win that stands in memory was from a high-casual/budget Jeleva, Nephalia's Scourge deck that I built to run mass basics, and with about 45x burn spells. Before the game started a buddy was joking about how garbage the deck was, and I was able to hit him for 40 points of damage when I got an early furnace of rath, then resolved Jeleva with a Searing Wind under her, and attacked targeting him with the spell, and flashed out dictate of the twin gods.
No one really cares about the high volume of hatred Jeleva win's, but my buddy will never live that death down.
Links to my most current deck lists;
Primary EDH; Rakka Mar Token Perfection, Crosis Mnemonic Betrayal, Cromat Villainous, Judith Gravestorm, Rakdos Empty Storm, Exava Artifacts, Bant Trash, & Fumiko Voltron!
EDH kept at home; Ruzzian Isset & Rakdos LoR!
EDH (nostalgic/pimp/retired) in storage;
Latulla Burns, Akroma Smash, Jeska Voltron, Rakdos Storm, Bladewing Darghans, Lyzolda Worldgorger, Xantcha Steals your Heart, Jori Storm, Wydwen Permission, Gwendlyn Paradox, Jeleva Warps, & Sigarda Brick!
Legacy Showanimator and High Tide!
-Coalhauler Swine
-Nin, the pain Artist (which had been Hindered earlier that game)
-Gilded Lotus
-Thran Dynamo
-Darksteel Plate
-Pariah's Shield
-Basalt Monolith
-Mountain
On my turn i equipped Coalhauler swine with both Darksteel plate and Pariah's Shield. I the smacked it with nin
GG
UB Vela the Night-Clad BUDecklist
WBG Ghave, Guru of Spores GBW
WUBRGThe Ur-DragonWUBRGDecklist
Could have did it before activating, but felt that it'd resonant better post-activitation.
The Grenzo player played Skirk Prospector turn 1, Metallic Mimic naming goblins turn 2, nothing of note turn 3, and then played Murderous Redcap turn 4. He sacrificed the Redcap to the Prospector in order to kill an elf. It returned, he put the -1/-1 counter on from persist, then he put the +1/+1 counter on from the Mimic. It wasn't until after that he realized he could do this repeatedly to kill the table, AND he had a Fireball in hand to use that infinite mana on, if he wanted. It was pretty cool to see a relatively inexperienced player naturally figure out a combo (and naturally draw into it!) and wipe a table full of experienced players with solid decks.
Currently Playing:
Multiplayer EDH Lists (click italics for a link to the thread!)
[Primer] Lord of Tresserhorn - Don't Tell Me What I Can't Do[Primer] Roon of the Hidden Realm - Rhino Blink
5 Color Tribal Guide (Slivers, Atogs, Allies, Spirits)
Also Playing (most decklists can be found on my profile)
MarathGeistKamahlGrenzoBolasThassaGitrog
PiratesZurVial Smasher&ThrasiosYennettJhoira(cEDH)Strix(Pauper)
Legacy: Maverick
Modern:
Melira PodRIP 1/19/15GWHatebearsThe Grenzo player played Skirk Prospector turn 1, Metallic Mimic naming goblins turn 2, nothing of note turn 3, and then played Murderous Redcap turn 4. He sacrificed the Redcap to the Prospector in order to kill an elf. It returned, he put the -1/-1 counter on from persist, then he put the +1/+1 counter on from the Mimic. It wasn't until after that he realized he could do this repeatedly to kill the table, AND he had a Fireball in hand to use that infinite mana on, if he wanted. It was pretty cool to see a relatively inexperienced player naturally figure out a combo (and naturally draw into it!) and wipe a table full of experienced players with solid decks.
Currently Playing:
Multiplayer EDH Lists (click italics for a link to the thread!)
[Primer] Lord of Tresserhorn - Don't Tell Me What I Can't Do[Primer] Roon of the Hidden Realm - Rhino Blink
5 Color Tribal Guide (Slivers, Atogs, Allies, Spirits)
Also Playing (most decklists can be found on my profile)
MarathGeistKamahlGrenzoBolasThassaGitrog
PiratesZurVial Smasher&ThrasiosYennettJhoira(cEDH)Strix(Pauper)
Legacy: Maverick
Modern:
Melira PodRIP 1/19/15GWHatebearsEDH decks: 1. RGWMayael's Big BeatsRETIRED!
2. BUWMerieke Ri Berit and the 40 Thieves
3. URNiv's Wheeling and Dealing!
4. BURThe Walking Dead
5. GWSisay's Legends of Tomorrow
6. RWBRise of Markov
7. GElvez and stuffz(W)
8. RCrush your enemies(W)
9. BSign right here...(W)
Sure did, there are a lot of combos in there, and I usually set them up with Doomsday. But I hadn't really told him about the combos, because it can also play as a slightly slower Krenko, Mob Boss deck. I was proud of him!
Currently Playing:
Multiplayer EDH Lists (click italics for a link to the thread!)
[Primer] Lord of Tresserhorn - Don't Tell Me What I Can't Do[Primer] Roon of the Hidden Realm - Rhino Blink
5 Color Tribal Guide (Slivers, Atogs, Allies, Spirits)
Also Playing (most decklists can be found on my profile)
MarathGeistKamahlGrenzoBolasThassaGitrog
PiratesZurVial Smasher&ThrasiosYennettJhoira(cEDH)Strix(Pauper)
Legacy: Maverick
Modern:
Melira PodRIP 1/19/15GWHatebearsold thread
old thread
old thread
R Zada Arcane Storm
RBU Marchesa
GWU Estrid
GWR Samut?
URB Kess
(R/W)(U/B) Akiri & Silas
BWR Alesha
R Neheb Dragons
G Nylea Wurms
W Darien
U Tetsuko
amazingly epic sig courtesy of DarkNightCavalier at Heroes of the Planes.
I was playing my Ghave saproling deck and my opponent was playing Ramos, Dragon Engine counters deck. Other two players were recently knocked out and the boardstate was chaotic.
I drew and cast Altar of Dementia and proceeded to mill my opponent. Next turn, my opponent was able to sacrifice his own Progenitus so that he had a card to draw in his next draw step. He cast Primal Vigor and ramped up his counters to have lethal on the next swing with Ramos, Dragon Engine. However, in a turn of events, he held priority and stacked up Etched Oracle to force me to draw 56 cards - an irony that he would deck me after I tried to deck him. After the first draw resolved, I handed Aura Mutation which allowed me to destroy his Mirari's Wake for 10 additional saprolings which was just enough to sac them to Zulaport Cutthroat triggers with Deathspore Thallid (targetting, it didn't matter, but I targeted Ramos, Dragon Engine just in case he was able to attack still) and brought his life total to 0. He had no further responses.
| B Erebos, God of VampiresB | GYeva SmashG | RBosh ArtifactsR | GURAnimar +1 BeatsGUR | RBVial's Secret Hot SauceRB | UBRNekusar, Draw if you DareUBR | RGBDarigaaz'z DragonsRGB | GBSlimeFEETGB | UBOn-Hit LazavUB | URBrudiclad's Artificer InventionsUR | GUBMuldrotha's ElementalsGUB | WUGKestia's EnchantmentsWUG | GUTatyova - Draw, Land, Go!GU | WGArahbo's EquipmentWG | BUWVarina's ZOMBIE HORDESBUW | WLyra's Angelic SalvationW | WBChurch of TeysaWB | UAzami...WizardsU
The boardstate was a mess with Avenger of Zendikar tokens everywhere and a bunch of other random stuff so I cast Decree of Pain without thinking and I ended up drawing exactly the remainder of my deck. I used Unravel the Aether on my own signet to prevent from milling out (getting the Unravel back with Eternal Witness) for a couple turns. Then my friend just casually targets me with Compulsive Research.
Not to mention the other time he killed me with Compulsive Research. I've lost to that card more times than I care to admit.
We all had a pretty good laugh, making jokes about how as a blue player I planned it all along (we have a running joke that blue is so overpowered, it makes doing nothing look like a genius strategy as long as you say "I'll allow it" every couple of spells or so that your opponents play).
There was also a pretty funny one against an Azami, Lady of Scrolls player who had drawn like 30 cards looking for a combo piece. I manage to get a mindslaver off and draw only 3, and I'm the one who finds his Mind over Matter.
- Rabid Wombat
I then, with the widest *****-eating grin you have ever seen, revealed Artifact Mutation.
On phasing:
*reads first line of Artifact Mutation*
"I don't get it, what's so great..."
*reads the rest of card and boardstate*
"...oooohhhhh!" lol
EDH decks: 1. RGWMayael's Big BeatsRETIRED!
2. BUWMerieke Ri Berit and the 40 Thieves
3. URNiv's Wheeling and Dealing!
4. BURThe Walking Dead
5. GWSisay's Legends of Tomorrow
6. RWBRise of Markov
7. GElvez and stuffz(W)
8. RCrush your enemies(W)
9. BSign right here...(W)
Nothing a good Misdirection can't fix.
The Unidentified Fantastic Flying Girl.
EDH
Xenagos, the God of Stompy
The Gitrog Monster: Oppressive Value.
Marchesa, Marionette Master - Undying Robots
Yuriko, the Hydra Omnivore
I make dolls as a hobby.
So the Vela the Night-Clad player goes for the big play to try to table kill taps out to Rite of replication kicked on Vela the Night-clad triggering the ledgend rule for 25 damage... i cast... Wild Ricochet and steal his win... on 1 life.
I also had a sweet win recently involving ashnod's altar + Marionette Master + Myr battlesphere + Mirrorpool... mmm
Pioneer:UR Pheonix
Modern:U Mono U Tron
EDH
GB Glissa, the traitor: Army of Cans
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
Peasant cube: Cards I own
Phenax - Mill
Breya - Combo
Sidisi, Brood Tyrant - Token
Oloros - Combo
Jeleva - eh...working on it
Yidris - Soft Combo
As with any Kingdom variant (or EDH actually) game, some favorable plays got the other enemies knocked out, but my ally was running out of steam while that last enemy standing still had a massive board presence (Avacyn and on a much smaller scale Akroma did great preserving his boardstate) and could potentially threaten to turn the game over (the Platinum Angel was still standing because I had the benefit of Daretti and Goblin Welder and they essentially absorbed the removal). In exchange though he was at 3 life (and has no more allies on his side). My ally was also at the healthy 40 because his boardstate preserved his life until some enemies went down in the process of removing it, but at that point it didn't really matter since the enemy was pretty much left with the option of taking me down to win (I had a bunch of small creatures which he couldn't ignore, being at 3 life).
The opponent cast a Mirage Mirror and some other things to buff his board, leaving him with 2 mana open. Meanwhile I only had 5 mana available that turn (my mana rocks were consistently being sacrificed for Angel revivals and I had some individual lands removed that game). Fortunately I had more than enough creatures that he had to transform the Mirror to block in order to not die in combat, combined with the likelihood the Mirror will become a copy of my Angel, I left two creatures behind not attacking - Heartless Hidetsugu and Kumano, Master Yamabushi (Kamigawa wins!) and the rest was history (in response to the Mirror of course).
Granted this only happened because people don't really remember what Kumano does (which is what I think gave me the left-2-open-mana-only-opening I needed), but the moment you had to use Hidetsugu to shave off 1 life from your opponent because you only had 5 mana open and blasting yourself and your ally for 20 or more health each really screamed "Blazing victory at any cost" of a mono-R deck.
EDIT: Fixed phrasing errors.