Hey Guys, I just had a hilarious experience while playing a deck. It gave me the idea to post a thread of the funniest ways you lost a game/match due to your own ineptitude (Can be paper or MTGO). Post your funny story below so we can all revel in the hilarity!!
My story is as follows:
Playing ad nauseum in friendly modern league. New to the deck, but had a few drinks, feeling good! Lost game one to blue white taking turns. Game 2 have 2 lotus bloom suspended turn one on the play. Get to the turn where they're cast with phyrexian unlife in play, get everything going with ad nauseam no opposition from the opponent who hasn't cast a spell yet. Somehow I target myself with lightning storm and keep clicking no new targets.I got myself to 37 poison counters!!!! Holla!
If you have a rock and roll story like me share, its better to laugh than to cry :):):)
That's more of an "MTGO" story. I have never played MTGO before, so I can't relate. But I can imagine all the things that could go wrong, even without counting the "AI" shuffler that I've heard players don't trust.
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Legacy - Sneak Show, BR Reanimator, Miracles, UW Stoneblade
Premodern - Trix, RecSur, Enchantress, Reanimator, Elves https://www.facebook.com/groups/PremodernUSA/ Modern - Neobrand, Hogaak Vine, Elves
Standard - Mono Red (6-2 and 5-3 in 2 McQ)
Draft - (I wish I had more time for limited...)
Commander - Norin the Wary, Grimgrin, Adun Oakenshield (taking forever to build) (dead format for me)
I started playing Modern on FNM's with a mono black control deck. I played against Melira Pod (it's been a while), and had removed Kitchen Finks with Surgical Extraction. But my opponent had 2 life left, and I couldn't find any threats, though I had a Phyrexian Arena in play. Then I drew a Sign in Blood, and thought "now I'm gonna find a threat!" and casted it.
My opponent was first to notice that Sign in Blood can actually target him as well. Then he won with some beatdown from small creatures.
That's more of an "MTGO" story. I have never played MTGO before, so I can't relate. But I can imagine all the things that could go wrong, even without counting the "AI" shuffler that I've heard players don't trust.
Eh, people not trusting the shuffler is because they don't like randomness. They are the people who shuffle poorly IRL and end up basically mana weaving a deck. People often want to blame the shuffler when they get a string of lands or their opponent gets perfect topdecks because they don't like or understand variance.
On topic, I had just driven up from Mississippi to chicago the day before. Moved out of my old place into a new apartment and spent hours cleaning the appalling kitchen and bathroom that my new roommate hadn't warned me about. So I was pretty tired. It was the elves mirror, I went through the math on how to generate the right mana to cast coco, hit ezuri, overrun and win. It involved having to float spare mana from an Elvish Archdruid to cast CoCo then using a heritage druids ability to tap the two elves I got. Then while going through the motions, myself and my opponent knowing I had the win on board, I thought 'might as well do this "right" and activate during combat' and then couldn't win because my mana pool emptied.
I recently gave one away through a technical play mistake that left me winning, but I resigned.
After a long back and forth game of my Knightfall against a solid Abzan Midrange player left me at low life facing an attack step with 3 untapped mana including a ghost quarter and Spell Queller in hand. I know he has a lethal siege rhino in hand, so in order to stay alive, I had to ghost quarter my own tapped land to get a forest into play and tap a potential attacker with Retreat to Coralhelm.
I survive the attack step and he jams the rhino, I look at my board and see only two untapped lands. I quickly concede, unsure of how I had miscounted the mana for the Spell Queller. Afterwords, a friend of mine was bewildered that I had conceded. Whilst explaining that I had miscounted the mana, I realized that I had put the land from Ghost Quartering myself into play tapped erroneously. I had the game won - my counterattack was extremely lethal. But I conceded! Haha won't forget how to play ghost quarter again anytime soon.
we played multiplayer and i was playing the good old hive mind deck with the pacts, so i cast hive mind followed by pact of the titan and an intervention pact so my friends had to pay 8 mana to survive at their upkeep, i kill 3 of them and my last friends cast 2 manamorphose giving himself 2 white and a red and he had enough lands to paid the mana. i didnt have white mana so i lost GG
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On modo a few days ago my 4 month old pupper hopped up onto the keyboard, and turned on auto-yield, windows 10's built in narrator, and thus prevented me from playing both the creature and the spell in my hand. Bad Dog!
(Nah, he's actually a good boy and I have tons of pics to prove it)
Oh man, I just came home from FNM (modern), and the last game I played fits very well into this topic. I was playing WUBR Saheeli combo for fun. In the last game I had Saheeli Rai on the battlefield, Vendilion Clique in hand and I knew I had a Felidar Guardian on top of my deck. I also had plenty of lands to do everything that was needed.
In the end of my opponent's turn I flash in the Vendilion Clique, thinking, that all I need to do is make sure I can combo w/ Saheeli+Felidar the next turn for the win. I target my opponent with the Clique, he has Fatal Push and Zealous Persecution in hand. He has no way of getting revolt for the Push, so that's not a problem. My next thought is this: "Zealous Persecution doesn't kill the Felidar Guardians either, so it's not a problem". Sure, they will not do any damage either, but somehow I just did not think of that -> "You can keep both of them."
I could've played for draw after that, since we were already playing on extra turns, but ended up scooping because I felt like I wouldn't deserve any points after that play lol. I do punt every now and then anyways, but usually they're just minor silly mistakes. The one I made today was definitely the worst one ever since I started going to FNM's. Well, at least I'll remember that the next time if it ever comes up.
My story is as follows:
Playing ad nauseum in friendly modern league. New to the deck, but had a few drinks, feeling good! Lost game one to blue white taking turns. Game 2 have 2 lotus bloom suspended turn one on the play. Get to the turn where they're cast with phyrexian unlife in play, get everything going with ad nauseam no opposition from the opponent who hasn't cast a spell yet. Somehow I target myself with lightning storm and keep clicking no new targets.I got myself to 37 poison counters!!!! Holla!
If you have a rock and roll story like me share, its better to laugh than to cry :):):)
Premodern - Trix, RecSur, Enchantress, Reanimator, Elves https://www.facebook.com/groups/PremodernUSA/
Modern - Neobrand, Hogaak Vine, Elves
Standard - Mono Red (6-2 and 5-3 in 2 McQ)
Draft - (I wish I had more time for limited...)
Commander -
Norin the Wary, Grimgrin, Adun Oakenshield (taking forever to build)(dead format for me)My opponent was first to notice that Sign in Blood can actually target him as well. Then he won with some beatdown from small creatures.
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Eh, people not trusting the shuffler is because they don't like randomness. They are the people who shuffle poorly IRL and end up basically mana weaving a deck. People often want to blame the shuffler when they get a string of lands or their opponent gets perfect topdecks because they don't like or understand variance.
On topic, I had just driven up from Mississippi to chicago the day before. Moved out of my old place into a new apartment and spent hours cleaning the appalling kitchen and bathroom that my new roommate hadn't warned me about. So I was pretty tired. It was the elves mirror, I went through the math on how to generate the right mana to cast coco, hit ezuri, overrun and win. It involved having to float spare mana from an Elvish Archdruid to cast CoCo then using a heritage druids ability to tap the two elves I got. Then while going through the motions, myself and my opponent knowing I had the win on board, I thought 'might as well do this "right" and activate during combat' and then couldn't win because my mana pool emptied.
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Elves / Titanshift / Merfolk
After a long back and forth game of my Knightfall against a solid Abzan Midrange player left me at low life facing an attack step with 3 untapped mana including a ghost quarter and Spell Queller in hand. I know he has a lethal siege rhino in hand, so in order to stay alive, I had to ghost quarter my own tapped land to get a forest into play and tap a potential attacker with Retreat to Coralhelm.
I survive the attack step and he jams the rhino, I look at my board and see only two untapped lands. I quickly concede, unsure of how I had miscounted the mana for the Spell Queller. Afterwords, a friend of mine was bewildered that I had conceded. Whilst explaining that I had miscounted the mana, I realized that I had put the land from Ghost Quartering myself into play tapped erroneously. I had the game won - my counterattack was extremely lethal. But I conceded! Haha won't forget how to play ghost quarter again anytime soon.
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Kathal
Modern/Legacy
either funpolice (Delver, Deathcloud, UW Control) or the fun decks (especially those ft. Griselbrand)
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1. Sword art online 2. Fairy tail 3. Naruto(shipuden) 4. Bleach 5. Claymore
(Nah, he's actually a good boy and I have tons of pics to prove it)
In the end of my opponent's turn I flash in the Vendilion Clique, thinking, that all I need to do is make sure I can combo w/ Saheeli+Felidar the next turn for the win. I target my opponent with the Clique, he has Fatal Push and Zealous Persecution in hand. He has no way of getting revolt for the Push, so that's not a problem. My next thought is this: "Zealous Persecution doesn't kill the Felidar Guardians either, so it's not a problem". Sure, they will not do any damage either, but somehow I just did not think of that -> "You can keep both of them."
I could've played for draw after that, since we were already playing on extra turns, but ended up scooping because I felt like I wouldn't deserve any points after that play lol. I do punt every now and then anyways, but usually they're just minor silly mistakes. The one I made today was definitely the worst one ever since I started going to FNM's. Well, at least I'll remember that the next time if it ever comes up.
Many different URX decks.
EDH:
BGU Sidisi Reanimator BGU
UBR Inalla Wizard Tribal/Control UBR
URW Shu Yun Tempo/Combo. Tembo? URW