Countering Cryptic Command with this. Especially after they smugly say "counter draw" not thinking I would possibly have any answer.
>>44380709
>tfw you slip this into your EDH deck just to dick with the one control player specifically and watch him sputter about how poor of a card choice it is
>late game, control is thinking it has already won against my rdw by dragging the game on this long
>"end of turn, Sphinx's for 7"
>they scoop
>>44380775
REB/Pyroblast are never dead cards in EDH
I run them in every deck with red now because it's so clutch
Targeting someone who just scried with this.
Cascade worm into cascade blast into cascade elf into cascade violence into leech. That or elf into blightning, with an elf/leech already on the board.
For two headed dragon, when you and your buddy each drop a brood mother dragon. At 1 life. Shit was cash.
Turn 4 win with a 6/7 double strike Birds. Good times.
That huge dump u do after a draft that went way too long
![Image[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/oN7Smlj.jpg "Image[1].jpg")
>they cast Time Stretch
>going down the priority chain
>only other blue player looks at the group, says "I've got nothing guys"
>everyone packing up their shit
>I, the mono black player, stop them with "I have a response"
>play pic related.
tooth and nail for xenagod + emrakuland not in EDH
their face when they realize a 30/30 flyer with pro spells and annihilator 6 coming to tentacle fuck their face. shiiiiiet
>Turn 2, cast Leonin Arbiter with a plains and a Ghost Quarter. Pass turn
>They tap out to play a creature with only two lands
>Turn 3, play another ghost quarter
>mfw this isn't going to be his game
>>44380709
>Playing mono-Red Norin EDH
>Playing against blue-black mill and mono-Green aggro-control
>Me with a double-Altar of the Brood (sculpting steel) on board while Blue-Black guy has a Leyline of the Void.
>Guy goes for a Gen Wave for 56 potentially for game.
>Reiterate with buy back.
>Gen Wave most of my deck.
>Mill them both out for game.
My face when.
Saw a guy cryptic command away his opponents land at the end of their turn so they couldn't play for their slaughter pact.
A few personal favorites.
Dumping multiple bloodghasts to lotleth troll before playing a land.
Remand on an isocron scepter
Boomarang on isocron scepter
Playing runed halo and Eidolon of rhetoric against eggs.
Pic related naming mountain. on turn 3.
>>44382742
>tfw you are the "control player" of your group
>everyone starts running REB/Pyroblast
>I run them in my red decks too
>constantly dead in your hand because nobody at the table is running blue
Decided to cut them eventually.
I've told this story probably too many times on this
>Control player draws out practically his entire deck
>Ghostly Prison, various copies of Ghostly Prison, Norn's Annexes, Stormtide Leviathans, etc., clog his board
>his life total is in the 100s at least
>my shitty R/W fling deck with Brion at the helm has been floundering the entire game, as it typically did back then
>on the board, I only have this guy and I think a Goblin Bombardment
>it doesn't really matter, though, because control player has Eldrazi Monument out and is immune to wipes. My False Prophet had been removed earlier so there was no hope of drawing that.
>The only final survivor is a Naya Aggro player on his last breath
>Naya Aggro's board is pretty good, but not hot enough to last another turn vs. a full swipe via Control's army of indestructible Luminarch Ascension angels
>the angels attack. Naya player attempts to fog
>Control player shuffles through his hand (bigger than his library at this point) and plays Pact of Negation
>panic internally
>Naya player scoops to the guy who had won twenty turns earlier
>"Um, before you end your turn, I sacrifice Bearer of the Heavens. Deal 1 damage to you and destroy all permanents."
>Control guy leans over to read the card
>frowns, raises his eyebrows
>draws a few cards
>draws a few more cards
>looks at Bearer again, reads the cards he drew
>all permanents are destroyed except his creatures, I have no creatures in play
>on his upkeep he loses the game to being unable to pay the Pact
it was a pretty great winbut I still worry sometimes that he secretly had a Stifle in hand and just didn't play it because he felt bad for me, although he claimed after that he couldn't have stopped it
>someone tells you your shitty standard brew is shit and would never win
>beat them in multiple game days and FNM till they quit coming to the store
omnidoorthragfire and 16fogguildgate were the most fun Ive ever had in magic.
>EDH tournament a few years ago
>playing wacky Riku deck with tons of clones
>up against Teferi control
>opponent plays Knowledge Pool for the hard lock, expects me to concede
>don't concede because I have board prescence
>several turns pass, my board is slowly dismantled, back against the wall
>one turn left to live
>draw my card in dramatic heart-of--the-cards fashion
>pic related
>cast and copy with Riku, targeting Teferi
>Teferi gets legend-ruled out (this is before they changed it)
>immediately cast another spell to get the Eternal Dominion that's been sitting in the pool forever
>slowly and painfully take him apart with his own deck
Pity I couldn't finish him before the match went to time.
>turn 1 Sol Ring
>turn 2 Liliana of the Veil
>turn 3 Necropotence
Damn it feels good to be MBC.
>>44384692
>>secretly worry he had stifle
Classic social anxiety.
Winning with rudimentary combos instead of ridiculous 6 card interaction chains.
>>44380709
>playing an edh deck with no sign of any poison counter shenanigans
>have something with 9 power+
>attack into a guy with loads of life
>he doesn't block
>slap down this
Best secret tech.
>>44385448
I've done this a couple times. It's funny the first time, and every time after that it's just deflating.
>>44385595
We have very different tastes, it seems.
It's always a joy to set up a master stroke in my opinion, even if it gets countered or broken in some manner. Something that has to be dealt with, gives me catharsis.
>playing Living End
>opponent drops this turn one and looks smug
playing merfolk vs twin
they cast splinter twin targeting exarch
"in response I vial in spellskite"
electrolyzing 2 Bobs
>insert stupidly long Storm setup
>"grapeshot for, uh, 30 damage, gg"
>VOIDSLIME
>"okay so you take 29 damage..?"
>THE TRIGGERED STORM ABILITY
>>44385809
You should just activate Vial and then say "response?" It's a may trigger and they won't know what is entering until they allow it to resolve so you don't have to announce what goes in until then. Even on turns when you don't have anything to put into play or don't want to. Messes up with their plans and gets in their head.
>>44380709
Playing Ad Nauseam vs Grixis Delver in Modern.
"Cast Slaughter Games, naming Lightning Storm"
"Response cast Shadow of Doubt"
Playing kitchen casual and having so much fun winnin a game with a (according to the Internet) shitty planes walker and a crappy deck.
Playing kitchen casual and having everyone use the same super sized deck because one of he players decided to just bring every blue card he had.
>Playing shitty wheel deck in multiplayer casual.
>Opponent casts Telemin Performance targeting me.
>Only creature in my deck is Malfegor.
>I have three Megrim on the field.
I think that was the only time that deck managed to actually kill someone.
when turn 1 typhoid rat locks down the board. I don't know why people don't just trade for it. It's almost like the card says, B for a 1/1 with "As long as you control typhoid rat opponents can not attack"
also stab wound on a goyf that lives is a good feel.
>>44380709
>playing Legacy Miracles against Jund
>lategame topdecking mode, we each have like 6 lands
>they have a LotV on 5
>they play a land, now hellbent
>uptick Liliana
>I have one card in hand
>Venser, Shaper Savant
>playing against Infect
>they Invigorate with Force of Will, Vines of Vastwood, and a second Invigorate as backup
>Sudden Shock
>playing Vintage Cube online
>Opponent casts Show and Tell
>they put in Emrakul, I put in Oblivion Ring
>>44387995
I love typhoid rat. If he out no opponent can attack. If the opponent can play an instant to remove it you'll probably have a counter in your hand by then.
>>44388046
>Drafting ramp in the Vintage Cube yesterday
>Paired up against Sneak and Show in round 1
>Opponent casts Show and Tell on turn 3 in both games
>Mfw I put Emrakul into play both times
>>44385954
Fuck, does that actually work?
>>44380709
When Tainted Remedy foils White. Add Red spells and you're set for killing any other deck.
>>44388416
They can still search your hand and your graveyard for the named card with Slaughter Games but not your library. So yes it does work but only partially, you only need it to stop them from removing the cards you need in your deck. Most of the time i'm siding in an alt win condition anyway so if I don't have Shadow of Doubt in hand then I still got an out.
>>44385342
YupI was actually trembling a little bit and probably stuttering too when I said that stuff in game but I didn't mention it because it would have made the whole thing sound stupidly melodramatic when it wasn't even really a big deal at all. I think that if he noticed me shaking it would have made sense for him to hold back but I'm not really sure, he's not a regular of my FLGS so I don't think I've ever seen him since
I hate it when people go easy on me because I'm doing poorly or they feel sorry for me but it happens a lot
>>44383656
You're an animal
I'm so using that one day
>>44388046
>opponent tooth and nails out emmy and ulamog
>twin him
>>44385472
Don't you need more than 10 poison counters to win in EDH? Or is that only 2HG?
>>44389614
15 in 2HG.
No additional rules for EDH so 10 counters until further notice. Some groups houserule it, but besides the tainted strike cheap kills, infect is hard enough to pull off, and in those cases it's more often that TS is the problem instead of the number of poison counters. Ten is good for me.
>>44389684
Technically, there's three real infect cards in EDH:
-Tainted Strike
-Blightsteel Colossus
-Triumph of the Hordes
I definitely think infect is fine at 10, though Blightsteel Colossus is a little silly sometimes.
>>44389705
True, I run Thriumph in my Titania deck, and it's pretty funny.
But as a sorcery, and Blightsteel as a creature, they're either very transparant or need additional cards to pull off a win.
Tainted Strike gets even more wins out of nowhere, through people not blocking light threats which suddenly turn into auto-kills for instance.
On the other hand, EDH has a bunch of those type of silly cards, so I don't really mind.
>>44389705
Corrupted Conciousness
>>44380709
This but with Dash Hopes. No one ever expects that motherfucker.
That's a nice maze you have there, it would be a shame if someone had stifle.
>>44389705
I'd add Grafted Exoskeleton in there, since it's reusable Infect on a decent piece of gear.
>>44389905
Fuck I miss old MTG with weird shit in other colours.
>>44385905
This really works like that? Never fully comprehended Storm...
>>44385448
It won with this combo so many times, my playgroup house banned Exquisite Blood. Mind, this ban applied to everyone and everyone was starting to abuse it but the ban was mostly because of me.
>>44390301
Storm is a triggered ability when on the stack. When the triggered ability is allowed to resolve it creates multiple copies of the spell ala Storm. However you have a chance to respond to the Storm trigger and can thus counter its activated ability.
>>44390408
>counter its activated ability.
TRIGGERED. I meant TRIGGERED ability. It's getting late and i'm tired.
>>44390378
Why would this combo ever need to be banned?
>>44390539
Same filthy casuals who ban MLD
>>44389684
That's really dumb.
2HG has a higher life total and moved poison counters higher by the same ratio.
But I forget EDH rules aren't run by WotC. Usually, that would be a good thing, but not this crew.
>>44383656
>that combo
jesus christ anon. fucking saved.
also in relation to the thread,
>playing this against a lifegain deck
pure sex.
>>44389537
>>44390713
People keep forgetting about the better version of the Landshaper.
>>44383656
>mfw i have a friend who plays a deck all about getting that combo out
doesn't always win, but its brutal to get hit by it
Playing this busted cube deck and looting into Black Lotus turn one.
>>44390982
>>44388140
>>44388046
Power cubes sound fun. Wish I could afford one IRL.
>>44390884
That's because they are newfags who didn't know about the combo in the first place.
It's pretty well known, especially since it used to be standard legal.
>>44388837
Have you tried not being a girl?
>>44391069
You don't want to own one IRL. For one thing, maintenance like sleeving would be a nightmare, as would keeping up with a list. Plus, unless you use the WOTC list, you'd have a huge advantage since you know what's in it and your friends don't. Also, shuffling is extremely non-trivial when you want 360 random cards in random piles from a list of 540 or whatever it is. Online is the perfect frame for cube shenanigans.
That feeling when you see a card wheel over and over again in draft and then one day you build a deck that abuses the hell out of it. New respect for Birthing Pod.
>opponent casts heartbeat of spring
>i untap, cast karn, kozilek, and dragonlord atarka in one turn
>opponent has no respect for rofellos
>turn 3 primeval titan
>opponent casts heartbeat of spring (same guy)
>burn them out with a non-miracled bonfire when they're at 13 life
>>44380709
>playing Modern
>Game 1 Turn 1 on the draw
>play a Hierarch
>snap-countered with a Spell Pierce
>Summoning Trap for 0, get an Eternal Witness, get back Summoning Trap
>Summoning Trap for 0, get a Restoration Angel, flicker Eternal Witness, get back Summoning Trap
>Summoning Trap for 0, get a second Eternal Witness, get back Summoning Trap
>Summoning Trap for 0, get Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
>Make twenty hasty Restoration Angels, win
But the best moment? Game 2, when I played my first dork and there wasn't enough mana open to counter a creature AND a Trap... the look on that poor fucker's face was priceless.
>>44391765
>play a Hierarch
>snap-countered with a Spell Pierce
u wot
>>44391765
>turn 1 on the draw
>modern
Somehow they had a spell pierce in grave and a snapcaster, and 3 mana to cast them all, just to counter a hierarch
>in modern
>MODERN
wat
>>44391819
Probably meant Mental Misstep.
>>44390539
>>44390639
Because I have one or the best decks in my meta and one of the best deckbuilders AND player, everyone would fucking target me with everything. So games sort of devolved to where I would hold out as long as possible til I could either tutor it up up and cast it or just cast it then win. It became just one of many ways of winning to one of the main ways I would win, to to my sole win condition. Funnily enough, my deck went from Mono-black goodstuff to Mono-black stax during that time too.
>>44391765
>play a Hierarch
>snap-countered with a Spell Pierce
U wot
>>44380795
Why? They get first untap with their seven, probably slam a win con and hold up some protection from it and take the game away. What is RDW gonna do, bolt them?
>>44391819
Fucking balls, you're right. It was Turn 2 on the play against a Mana Leak.
It was a while ago.
>>44391862
>Modern
u wot m8
>>44391765
>Summoning Trap for 0, get an Eternal Witness, get back Summoning Trap
>Summoning Trap for 0, get a Restoration Angel, flicker Eternal Witness, get back Summoning Trap
>Summoning Trap for 0, get a second Eternal Witness, get back Summoning Trap
>Summoning Trap for 0, get Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
>Make twenty hasty Restoration Angels, win
w8 wot
>>44391916
That bits fine, just lucky.
The difficult part to believe is that that deck managed to have 4 mana available turn 1 and had cast a spell pierce against a deck which hadn't had a turn yet
>>44383656
I don't get it. Destroy 1-3 lands, maybe exile a few more? This combo works against mono decks and that's about it.
>>44391911
ON THE DRAW, FUCK. FUCKING HANGOVERS, WHY WON'T I LEARN.
>>44391916
Summoning Trap costs 0 all turn long if you have a creature countered. If you have enough Witnesses and Restoration Angels in your deck you can chain them. That bit works.
Countering a Serra Avatar with Essence Backlash.
>>44391314
I mean, I already own a cube IRL and enjoy it, but fuck if it is unbalanced and multiplayer favored. Proxying the vintage cube would be a thing of nightmares though.
>>44392450
You could just aliexpress that shit
>>44392583
looks like a clothing + furniture store anon
>>44392662
A shit one at that
>>44392197
oh my...
>>44384692
Classic Blue Control. Even when you win you don't know if it's just because they let you win.
Getting swung on by a 64/64 Primordial Hydra and answering with Deflecting Palm. I love that card, dramatic saves are a favorite of mine.
>4 player EDH
>I'm playing Shirei with some hyper control faggot next to me playing Geist of Saint Trash, don't remember the other 2 decks
>It's midgame, people are starting to get to where they need to be
>Faggot counters literally everything anyone tries to do for 3 rounds
>4th round in a row looks to be exactly the same
>Counters everything the first guy does
>Counters everything the second guy does, but taps out and spends his FoW
>I go to my turn thinking that there can't possibly be anything left in his tank
>My mistake, top kek Pact your Yawg Will
>Give the little cunt a sideways look and slam down a Contamination as I look at his board and notice no mana rocks
>Never plays with us again
>Oh no, not a permission blue player!
>Nothing of value was lost
Didn't even win the game, but that has got to be one of the most satisfying things I have ever done to someone
>>44389705
>Not having Heartless Hidetsugu equipped with Grafted Exoskeleton
You don't know what you're missing
Had a shitty goblin deck back in the stone age with some Shatters just because.
Got to Shatter a Mox Ruby once because of that in a big multiplayer game. He was a good sport about it even when everyone was talking junk to him because some stupid kid broke his expensive mox.
>I have a Vampiric Tutor in my hand
>Opponent controls Codex Shredder
>Cast Vamp
>Get milled
>tfw you just used Vampiric Tutor to Entomb your Void Winnower
>>44389833
literally just a burn spell half the time. if you're playing it in a burn deck then it's a black Counterspell and if you're playing it in a control deck then it's a burn spell
>>44391916
I don't get why you need the 2nd Eternal Witness
>>44394320
He didn't need it but it allowed him to continue digging for Kiki.
Instead of simply having a good first turn, he won that turn.
>>44390423
Fuckups like that are liable to reallymistriggermy autism:^)
>>44394385
He could have won that turn without the second Witness. It was unnecessary.
>>44394446
>>44394385
Ah, I see now. It was just keeping the chain going.
>>44394320
>>44394385
>>44394446
Seems like he had to dig a littler more to find Kiki since Summoning trap you look at the top 7 of your library
>monoG stompy vs affinity
>both having decent games until turn 4
>he has something like 2 vault skirges, a signal pest, and a ravager
>I have expiriment one with some counters on it, a baloth and an avatar of the resolute or something
>he attacks with everything
>I block with expiriment one and regenerate, and make some other block that works out really well for me
>he sacs everything but one unblocked skirge and the ravager and then sacs ravager to put everything on the skirge
>response, vines of vastwood targetting vault skirge
>opponent looks at vines of vastwood
>waits
>slowly gets super pissed off
>throws it back at me and tells me that that card is fucking broken and it shouldn't be fucking worded like that
>picks up all his shit and leaves
>>44394504
I'll never understand salt like this.
Like, bitch you're playing a T1 modern deck. You should expect "bullshit" cards in modern. Especially when you're playing a lot of "bullshit" cards yourself.Bullshit as in "Huh that card is strong compared to most other cards."
>>44394504
Fellow mono green stompy here, Vines of Vastwood is my JAM.
>against Twin
>(smugly) "I cast twin, go to game 2"
>"Chill out. I cast Vines in response targeting exarch"
>total fucking disbelief
>scoops
They never see it coming. Never.
>BFZ draft
>On the play
>Play pic related on turn 4
>Get to do that in 1/3 of the games that day
Was also running a Part the Waterveil, Exert Influence and an Endless One. That was one of the most bullshit limited decks I've played.
>>44395141
In that vein,
I had two Soulfire Grand Masters in my sealed pool at the Fate Reforged prerelease.
I had tons of removal, but that wasn't as fun as using Jeskai Charm every turn as a capsize.
>>44391909
You severly underestimate how much value seven cards is for rdw.
>>44385448
Duskmantle Guildmage + Mindcrank is the competitive version of this combo
>>44385448
Someone stole my exquisite blood.
>>44391909
>>44395821
What this guy said. Have you ever played RDW?
>>44396587
I don't play meme decks.
>>44396711
/v/ please go and stay go
>>44392197
Underrated post.
>>44380709
Beating the smug guy and his $3000+ edh deck with budget goodness.
FeelsGoodMan
>>44391289Please don't say things like that, you'll give me a boner
I'm pretty sure that the kids who used to bully me because they thought I was feminine gave me some kind of fucked up complex about being called a girl because I get low-key turned on by it now. God I'm such trash
>>44397058
You've come to the right place.
>when you finally get tron online, your opponent can't disrupt it and every turn from then on is just you slamming down unbeatable threats as their face falls further and further
>>44397152
>tron
>skill
Top meme sir
>>44397296
Not that anon, but if you're taking that obviously facetious image seriously then you're a god damned idiot
>>44397319
And if you took a post with the words "Top meme sir" in it seriously, you're just as much a dumbass.
>>44397330
>And if you took a post with the words "Top meme sir" in it seriously, you're just as much a dumbass
Why? People bust that shit out in every mtg thread, totally sincerely. Sure, some of them are just shitty trolls, but a fuckton on /tg/ users and other IRL autists use that shit without irony.
>>44397058
Remember, Anon, it doesn't matter as long as you're cute.
>>44397348
>le ebin meme comic
Excellent work
>>44397353
>People bust that shit out in every mtg thread
Only the Modern threads, which are inhabited by literal retards.
>>44397439
no it really is every magic thread. from vintage to kitchen table, if some one is playing a deck some one ese thinks its a meme deck. you play X? fucking scrub. Goblins, more like memlins, merflok, you mean memfolk. it never ends.
pic related the rarest pepe.
>>44385309
I'm hard, bro
>>44397725
>Modern Masters
>not Future Sight
Fucking newfag scrubs
>>44385309
In EDH once I played swamp, dark rit, necro and the other guy just slowly put his deck back in his box and walked away
>>44397725
Pity it's the shite artwork.
Sweetest play I made recently was on MODO vintage cube, opp turn 1 drops Forest into BoP.
>Git Probe, see ramp dorks, 'Hoof etc, Mono G
>Strip Mine the Forest
>Lotus, crack for BBB
>Dark Ritual, 5B in pool
>Entomb, Finding Iona, Shield of Emeria
>Reanimate targeting Iona, name G
>Crucible of Worlds
>Lament that I don't even take the 1 point of manaburn
>>44397813
that is the definition of a blowout
>>44397842
I mean I was mising the Disfigure for the Birds, that would have been perfection.
>>44389705
You obviously don't run Skithirix in Mimeoplasm EDH. Flying hasty regenerating infector mmmmmm
>>44380709
>playing local tournament draft of my shop with some random editions
>last game
>would be my first loss in the draft
>draw bonfire of the damned
>X = 13
BOARD CLEAR
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>>44396711
RDW has been around since the dawn of magic.
you're a retard if you think its a meme deck
>>44398417
Also it's been a serious dominant competitor in standard over several rotations now. But he's probably being le epic trole ecks dee
>>44388837
Have you tried not being me? the other decent human beings there like me but I'm a bishie 25 year old by nature and people do a lot of nice things for me without noticing and I have a complex about it.
>>44397783
There are people who actually like that HURR FUTURE themed card fame? MM13 Tarmogoyf is literally perfect, it's too bad it'll never get a proper reprint now that the frame started adding that extra black space at the bottom.
>>44398711
>MM13 Tarmogoyf is literally perfect
Other than the shit-tier art and the fact that it's a reprint for newfags.
>>44398727
a newfag could buy the future sight tarm and still be a newfag
what's your point exactly?
>>playing shitty zomby sample deck owned by the shop back when fift dawn was released
>>opponent plays really strong extended Sutured Ghoul reanimator deck >>mill entire deck and Krosan Reclamation flashback returns a reanimate and one more card into library and he reanimates Ghoul was the plan
but i had pic related
>>44398815
>>44398814
But an oldfag would already own Time Spiral goyfs and wouldn't sully his hands with Modern Memesters.
>>play 50$ MBC vs TarmoTwin
consume the fuck out of it due to mass removal and extraplanar lens
>>44398727
>shit-tier art
>MY OPINIONS ARE PERFECT AND CORRECT YOUR OPINIONS ARE SHIT
The original goyf artwork looked like literal fucking dog shit. I vastly prefer the modern masters artwork.
>>44383432
Why? He loses nothing when you quarter
>>44398946
How does the opponent lose nothing?
>>44398946
He loses both his lands
>>44398946
Read the fucking card.
>>44398701
>bishie
I'm definitely not you, sorry
>>44398963
>>44398967
>>44398994
He also gets 2 basics to replace those lands, and you're out 2 of your own. There's no value unless you're killing a land that would win the game.
>>44397725
I frequent the EDH threads and I've never once seen >>44397152's image posted. I know some jackass will post it there after reading this post in response, but that doesn't change the fact that I've never seen it one of those threads prior.
>>44399270
LET ME SPOON FEED YOU
OPEN WIDE, HERE COMES THE AIR PLANE
NEARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROWM
>>44399307
Ohh, so with this shit combo it's like a wasteland? You're still only one land ahead, and if they can't recover from that they're retarded. Wait-let me guess, half their deck was fetch lands too? That's almost impressive, but you still didn't need those shit ghost quarters.
>>44399358
wow you are fucking terrible at magic: the gathering
please leave through the nearest exit
>>44399358
>Being two lands ahead isn't game winning
You are so bad at magic it hurts
>I-I-Its a shit card anyways
You fucked up and cant accept it
>>44399382
One land ahead
>>44399358
considering he was playing leonin arbiter I believe he was probably playing hatebears, which has a fairly low curve and can operate on just a few lands. so in this scenario his game plan is spot on while the other dude has been set back several turns and any fetch lands he plays are basically dead draws. it's a very bad position to be in.
>>44399405
my bad
>>44399427
Yeah, but he didn't mention any of that. All he said was "Look, I set us both back 2 turns for no reason!"
Playing against Scapeshift in modern, his T1 is a Valakut.
>My turn one is Ghost Quarter and Surgical Extraction.
>>44399526
That better be postboard
>>44399526
other night was doing a casual modern game with a dude who proxied scapeshift to try it out before he invested, he dropped a valakut just to make a land drop and I crumble to dust'd it. instascoop.
>>44399565
Nah, I mainboard Thoughtseize and Extraction for power T1 plays.
>>44399358
Have you ever played modern? like, an actual game with good decks, not piles of durdly draft leavings that you shuffled together with some basics.
>>44399601
>mainboard surgical
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>>44399621
I run Thoughtseize, Inquisition and Raven's Crime in my deck, Surgicals are a damn good use of 4 slots.
>tfw you beat your friend's $500 deck with a $5 deck
>>44399481
Do you not realize how devastating it is to reduce your opponent to zero lands while you still have one, especially when the rest of the board is about even?
What really confuses me is why you would respond to the post without first reading what the cards did.
>>44392197
Funny story about this
When my buddy was just learning how to play magic he did this to some guy we didnt like, and I didnt say a word
Later I told him that it would actually do nothing, because Serra Avatar would have a 0 power because it wasnt on the battlefield
we had a good laugh.
>>44399849
Actually the gatherer rulings say that it has that power and toughness no matter where it is.
>>44399849
except that's wrong you dingle berry.
>7/1/2012 The ability that defines Serra Avatar's power and toughness works in all zones, not just the battlefield.
creatures with P/T defined by their rules text such as serra avatar or tarmogoyf have their P/T defined the same way in all zones.
>>44399894
>>44399885
Wait, shit, does this mean I can't reanimate her with Alesha? Goddammit I was looking forward to that.
>>44399849
That's not how that works. A * power is defined by it's ability in all zones.
>TFW casting Reanimate on a Serra Avatar
>>44399885
>>44399894
>>44399914
Huh, I remember even looking it up back then, but it was when Backlash was new. Thats interesting, thanks guys.
>>44399307
That filename tho, fukin savage.
>>44393266
>the blue/white player has enough mana to counter everybody's cards every turn for 4 rounds straight while drawing one card a turn
How? How is that even possible? Did he ramp? In U/W? Did he high tide every turn??? Did he get Blue Sun's Zenith after Stroke of Genius after Sphinx's Revelation with a spellbook out to draw half his library?
Story sounds like a load of bullshit.
>>44400017
u wot m8
>>44400192
counterspell on an isochron scepter with an unwinding clock and voltaic key.
>reconstruct a mediocre infect deck I used years ago
>use it against the group I play with
>one of them starts complaining about how cheap infect is and if I weren't using it things would have gone differently
>ah, so that's how it's going to be
>beat him to death with the only non-infect creature in the deck, of which I only run three copies, while I poison the other players out
>>44400354
in the days of blazing infect I killed a guy with double shoals on a hierarch. he was a good sport about it tho
>>44399192
i'm often a sperglord spaz but i'm an adorable 9/10 and good at what I do so people put up with me. there are worse lives.
>>44400415
shoal?
>>44400532
>i'm an adorable 9/10
Bear in mind, anon, one person's 9 is another person's 6-7. It's not as though standards of beauty are 1-1 to each person.
>>44400192
I ramp pretty hard sometimes with a few uninterrupted turns of Burnished Hart + Gift of Immortality
>>44399358
>this fucking guy
Holy shit, I've seen some bad players on /tg/ but this has got to be the worst. H-he's trolling, r-right?
>Game Day
>final round
>game three
>I'm using R/W metalcraft, he's using B/G infect
>I have 9 poison, he has 17 life
>aside from lands, the only permanents on the field are his Livewire Lash, my Ornithopter, and my Signal Pest
>look at my hand
>armed to the teeth with removal
>look at my opponent
>no hand, he's in full topdeck mode
>look at the board
>well, let's get started
>swing for 1
>he gets a land
>swing for 1
Now, the memory starts getting a bit fuzzy here, so the rest is just bits and pieces of what ensued
>he plops down a creature
>moves to equip
>respond by killing his creature
>swing for 1
>this happens for several turns, he'll throw down a creature and go to equip but I kill it because I'm finding all the removal in my deck
>he saves up for a bit and slams down multiple creatures at once
>lol Whipflare
>he sticks a Phyrexian Crusader
>oh crap, I can't shoot that
>attacks me with it
>lol Dispense Justice
>by now everybody in the store is watching because we're the only ones left and this is the hypest crap
>everybody loses it
>continue swinging for 1
>I finally find another Signal Pest, a Sword of Body and Mind, and an Etched Champion
>this game is mine
>he has two life left
>you know
>this whole business started with Ornithopter, so it's only right to end it with Ornithopter
>equip Ornithopter with the Sword and swing for game
>>44399908
Nope, sorry lol. Do allies with Alesha, most relevant ones are =<2power and your graveyard just becomes a toolbox to trigger all your surviving allies with whatever keyword/+1+1 counters you want
>>44400586
Blazing Shoal
>>44397102
source?
>>44401393
It's a full page, not a crop. Do a reverse image search.
>>44401471
I did, google, iqdb, and tineye
>>44401663
Are you doing the thumbnail or the full image? Thumbnails doesn't work for manga image searching and that's what the native 4chan Google image search uses.
>>44401708
>>44401663
To doublecheck, I uploaded it myself and did a google search. No hits.
That's fucking weird. I found it via reverse image search off another picture in the manga.
So since I can't even reverse search it, I can't expect you to. Here you go:
http://exhentai.org/g/885758/fcd48af5c9/
>>44400532
>have a regular EDH group
>one guy keeps referring to me as "she"
>nobody seems to notice
>playing suboptimal Borborygmos Enraged
>2 other players are black control and white life gain
>have done jack shit all game but draw cards and drop land
>in one burst, pump Borborygmos, give him doublr strike, deal commander lethal at white life gain
>with the digging from two Borborygmos actives, find enough land to drop black control from his 29 life.
I'm never giving you up borby.
>>44401738
Thank you friend
>>44391964
did you even read the cards?
>>44402051
>>44400532
pics?
>>44388027
oh you magnificent bastard
>>44402509
no pls i'm very photo shy and i think it has more to do with my body language anyway
>>44402672
Alright then. If that's how you feel about it. personally I have a young face and voice, so people standby and watch me play they'll supportive and giving me tips.
>>44402726
Well maybe the person who said they're 9/10 will be braver than I
Also it would be kind of weird if someone offered me advice in EDH or at fnm, since in EDH I always have a plan and I'm the kind of madman who brings Eggs to fnm
>>44402834
I usually stick to FNM and preach on a soap box about casual and how much better cheap legacy was than standard.
Should have seen the look on one of the guys faces when I played a grixis control against his aristocrats.
>>44397800
edh players are such autists
>bumps 8/8s together like fucking action figures
>"m-muh spirit"
>>44402915
That does sound interesting
>>44402956
You clearly have not played actual EDH
>>44384959
> fun
>>44402973
What is?
>EDH
>there's the Mimeoplasm combo, Jolrael aggro, and my Kruphix alt wincons
>Mimeoplasm players gets out his Mimeoplasm as a copy of Deadeye Navigator
>I plop down Ixidron
>Deadeye Navigator is now gone forever
>can't remember how, but everything gets blown out
>or bounced
>or something
>whatever
>over the next couple turns I shut down another combo he tries
>winning favor with Jolrael player
>this culminates with me using Dissipate to knock out his Terrastodon
>Jolrael player finds his opening and blows the guy out
>I drop Meishin, the Mind Cage
>just to make sure he can't get something super beefy through, I play Minds Aglow and we go ham on the thing
>draw, like, twenty cards
>sit in comfort until he turns his lands into creatures, draws a card for each creature he controls, and Krosan Grips the Cage
>ohshi-
>next turn he's gonna kill my crap
>wait a second
>count his hand
>count my deck
>count his deck
>Windfall and win
>>44403012
Control vs aristocrats
>>44403032
Here's a decklist
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/27-09-15-fDk-grixis-eldrazi/
Didn't have the horribly awry on me, but it's a pretty good counter considering the value of cheap creatures have in standard.
Otherwise I had a pretty okay handle on it. lost twice because of smoldering abomination getting too much value.
Won one from 2 ghostfire blades + stormcrow eldrazi
>>44403093
Looks pretty fun
I haven't had a chance to take sultai control for a spin at fnm yet but it's pretty janky anyway and super budget
>>44403146
I built it to be cheap, because I had low investment in standard, but it functioned pretty alright, thinking about trying to tune it into casting higher cost spells for new kozilek, but I'll cross that bridge later
>>44403200
yeah my deck cost basically nothing
>Playing Emperor as a General, first time playing the format for most of us
>Playing my Elephant Tribal Token deck made as a joke, but which can actually passably kick some ass
>Other General on my side is running a relatively weak deck (I think it was a pretty crappy Goblin deck), and is facing off against someone who I think was running Werewolves.
>My opposing General is a no fun Fog 'n Mill deck that my Elephants are just not equipped to deal with
>Game starts okay, get out a few Parallel lives pretty fast, and two Kazandu Tuskcallers so I've got a decent few Elephants, but I can't lay a scratch on this guy
>Our team's other General is taking a massive fucking beating, our Emperor giving everything he has to just let him cling on
>Garruk, Primal Hunter comes out, and I've got a bunch of tokens, but I just can't fucking get past this guy, smug as hell
>Other General's just about to die, his Goblins in tatters and werewolves tearing him to shreds. If he falls, the Emperor's got a whelp's chance in a supernova
>Looking through the Emperor rules, for anything I can do
>Realise I can march my creatures over to the other General
>Like the Rohirrim at the siege at Helm's Deep, over 120 3/3 Elephants, a few dozen 3/3 Beasts and 96 6/6 Wurms march over to completely fucking fill his empty battleline
>Fucking majestic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8pmYFbtakM
>using your opponents silverbullet against you to win.
>>44403894
emperor format has rules?
>>44403913
Mostly to do with spell range and marching creatures.
>>44403894
Decklist on elephants
Also that's more exciting than my emperor experience
>Choose best players to be emperors
>Me and some other guy
>Everyone else is playing casual decks with half bad cards
>I just grab a random deck
>Whelp...
>I slump with a hand holding my cheek
>two turns in I play helm of awakening
>"Gee thanks anon"
>Sure sure
>Next turn lay down a puresteel paladin
>Next seven turns I lay land
>My generals duke it out trying their damnest
>"A-Anon, I don't think I can hold on anylonger
>Wave him off
>Finally after a brutal campaign, my general beats his opponent to open up the enemy emperor only to get decked by slivers
>"Alright Anon, this is going to be tough but-"
>I combo off playing all the one drop equipment in my deck
>Swing for 180 trample
>Everyone looked at me
>"So you had the game this entire time"
>Shrug
>>44403957
Don't have it on hand, and I can't remember the exact card numbers. Also I don't have it on Deckstats oddly, but it mostly revolves around using Parallel lives to duplicate token drops.
Call of the Herd, Elephant Ambush, Kazandu Tuskcaller are my 3 Elephant token producers. First two are great with Flashback, and Tuskcaller is a sustainable source of Ivory.
I use Garruk, Primal Hunter because he was the first decent card I ever got and I'm a sucker for nostalgia, plus his tokens are duplicated too.
Garruk's Packleader's there for card draw whenever I get a token, and my two Steely Resolve helps to avoid people hitting my Tuskcallers and Elephants if I can get them both down.
Loxodon Smiters are there for awesome efficiency, and I use Predatory Rampage for the sheer awesomeness of completely wrecking their face with a board full of 6/6 Elephants.
Deck was mostly made by a friend of mine. Cool guy.
>>44397725
I never really got tarmogoif, a 2 drop 56 is broken at, but early on the cards aren't in the graveyard for that, and late game the low cost doesn't matter so much
>>44403908
That was absolutely wonderful.
>>44404157
>but early on the cards aren't in the graveyard for that
Why do people who have never played a game of modern in their lives insist on displaying their shit opinions?
>>44404243
because not everybody has witnessed the glory of turn one fetch shock thoughtsieze into a turn two 3/4 or 4/5 goyf
>>44404265
>not everybody has witnessed the glory of turn one fetch shock thoughtsieze into a turn two 3/4 or 4/5 goyf
Those poor poor souls
>>44404157
R&D, is that you?
>>44404243
Because I am casual scum
>>44390408
Stifle was actually made to counter storm triggers
>>44380795
I reverb'ed an Enter the Infinite the other day. The whole table freaked. (5 player Commander)
>>44391943
I think you confused some things, not that his story is true, but:
He is second, "on the draw." So his opponent plays an Island and passes. He draws, plays a forest, casts Noble Hierarch for one green. His opponent casts Spell Pierce, the Hierarch fizzles. Then the shenanigans begin.
>>44406511
There is no U 1CMC counterspell which can counter a Noble Heirarch that is legal in Modern. Spell Pierce does not work.
>>44406735
Enchatments, Instants, and Sorceries only. Nice try though! There is a single spell which does for one mana in Modern but it's not blue, I did my research on this one.
>>44402470
Not many decks have more than 3 of any basic land anyway, kind of a lot of work to try and mana screw someone when blood moon is usually just way easier and just is one card.
>>44406640
Maybe it was Mana Tithe.
>>44406887
Yeah that's the one that would work, hence me specifying U in my post!
>>44403908
This never fails to make me smile every time I watch it.
>>44404265
I've been on the receiving end of such glory, I would prefer to never be on that end againbut I can't afford goyfs, who the fuck am I kidding
>>44380795
>one monogreen player at the table
>sit to his right
>this guy takes all the heat
>fucking obvious he will dump his deck on the table
>he does his thing and splerghs out a shit ton of mana
>casts Genesis Wave for arout 40
>other players frown
>mope they got no responses
>casually flip around the Reverberate I laid facedown
>'copy your wave'
>awwshitniggah.jpeg
>flip first card
>reveals Valakut
>already have five mountains in play
>flip over enough lands for lethal
>kill the green guy with his wave still on the stack
When you open a booster pack a friend gifted you and you find your first planeswalker. It's pic. Is it relatively good?
>>44408473
Short answer is yes, it's playable in multiple formats (albeit in fringe Modern and Legacy decks) and is worth in the region of $35
>>44408473
its powerful but you can't just slap it in any deck. 8 mana is a bitch even when its generic. I recomend some green rampy eldrazi type shit. trons crop rotations ulamog ect. just google eldrazi ramp.
>>44408473
he's pretty good.
>>44408660
>RG Tron is fringe
hol' up
>>44408731
R/G versions of Tron don't play it, or if they do it's only 1 copy but they usually don't. The Tron variant that plays it is Mono-U Tron, a fringe deck. Get good at Modern.
>>44409024
all versions run 1 copy, a lot of them run 2 copies
>>44408731
>>44409024
Ok I take it back somewhat, most lists do seem to be running 1-2 these days, my bad.
>>44408473
>be at LGS for FNM
>crush opponent in 10 minutes
>killing time
>hear something happening at other side of LGS
>go over
>see kids surrounding table
>guy's got a stack of boosters
>"we're gonna play a little game, it's called flip it or rip it"
>cracks pack, puts them all face down
>"pick up a card, you get to keep it"
>kid flips over a common
>"okay, this one's mine"
>guy picks up and rips a card in half
>"and that's how you play flip it or rip it"
>everyone in the LGS getting hype
>LGS owner comes over
>"oh, yeah, i was at a tournament and someone ripped an Ugin"
>fate reforged had just come out, so Ugin was a really big deal
>kid picks up another common
>guy rips another
>looks at it
>it's Ugin
>keeps ripping it into tiny pieces
>flings them up into the air
>Legacy players gather around and start eating the Ugin shreds to gain their power
>>44409024
>R/G tron doesn't play the 8 mana "exile everything you don't like then bolt your opponent all day" card
how about YOU git gud at modern nigger
>>44409362
>Legacy players gather around and start eating the Ugin shreds to gain their power
legacy finally makes sense
>>44409387
If it actually did that then they would play more, the thing is that it's mediocre vs Affinity (already a tough matchup) and comes down a turn later than Karn, I mean it's clearly a great card but it's 100% cuttable and is not a cornerstone card of the archetype by any means, especially when they already run 6-8 board wipes maindeck. The issue is that it's win-more and best against the decks that you're already way ahead of (Jund, Abzan Company etc).
As someone who lost playing for top 8 of a recent Modern RPTQ, I can confirm that I indeed need to 'git gud'.
>>44409600
>100% cuttable and is not a cornerstone card of the archetype by any means
This is true.
>it's win-more and best against the decks that you're already way ahead of
Hol up.I've lost count of how many times Ugin, The Pernicious Deed has exiled a board full of fuck-you, paving the way to victory.
>>44391856
Snap-countered means countered instantly without thought, not countered via snapcaster mage.
>>44409834
Ok that spoiler made me laugh hard enough to concede the point, good work.
As a side note, you hyped for Kozilek's Return? Seems like a pretty solid upgrade to 'clasm for the R/G Tron decks!
>>44409943
>Kozilek's Return
Unfortunately it boils down to a more expensive pyroclasm. The instant speed is largely meaningless and the eldrazi rider doesn't mean much when the power of the cards you cast should already be enough to put the game in your favor. The best part is Devoid. Alas, the ability to dig it out with stirrings does very little for it's playability. At best, potential sideboard tech against affinity is my assessment.
Still, I'm pretty hype for the second set. I want just one more toy for tron. Just one more and I'll forgive wizards for the expedition bullshit.
>>44410199
>Largely meaningless
Damn son are infect and affinity non-existant in your meta? Hitting Inky and Blinky Nexus is huge, not to mention actually getting rid of Etched Champion.
With the resurgence of Naya Zoo/Company decks I have to say that there are occasions where the 'flashback' will be relevant, though admittedly not a huge number.
Also I think you underestimmate being able to hit it off Stirrings.
>>44410370
You bring up a good point. Infect is largely absent in my meta. However I would like to point out that Ghost Quarter is 2-of in many lists including my own. Map already reads 3 - destroy target Inkmoth. I still think it's sideboard tech at best. Etched champion has never been a great concern to me. Pyroclasm is the only thing in my deck that can't touch him. Even Ugin can bolt him. Everything else that isn't Master of Etherium or Arcbound Ravager dies to pyroclasm. I don't mean to make the match sound easy. It isn't, but it just isn't helped by K's Return.
