What Was Your Classiest Victory?

[Master Shake]

I'm interested in reading some stories of people that detail some of the classiest wins you've personally earned/received

A classy victory will mean different things to different people.

My personal criteria involves some of these:

Something completely unexpected that neither player saw coming.

An accidental and humorous play on my opponent's part that both literally and immediately lost him the game.

Winning with an overly long combo that requires unique actions to maintain (It cannot be demonstrated in a loop.)

Winning with a card that no one should really ever want to or be able to win with (Bushi Tenderfoot and Barren Glory come to mind.)

[Master Shake]

Yes. thse count, espeically the Aura Shards one.

[Funky-kun]

Playing with Solidarity against a friend with a homebrew Zubera Combo deck (don't ask). He plays all the damaging 5c lands and has gone down to 1 life.He is going off and his kill is on the stack. Me: Turnabout on City of Brass.

[Nelis]

Me playing Pithing Needle,
My opponent sacking all artifacts on Arcbound Ravager in response,
Me playing Krosan Grip on Ravager afterwards.

This dude was convinced he would beat me since I'm not the best player around and he was sure to let me know. What a sweet victory it was.

[ForceofWill]

playing one of the original TES lists I was at 4 and my fish opponent had 2 meddling mages (on tendrils/wish) and an exalted so I couldn't just empty and kill him next turn. I then stormed for over 20 using d returns and eventually cast empty for over 50 goblins and used plunge into darkness to gain enough life to not die to the angel and kill him next turn.

[Taurelin]

Winning 2:1 with RW-Rifter vs. TES.

I was playing a build without any combo-slots (no Chant, no Abeyance, no Rule of Law) simply accepting the auto-loss (not much combo in that meta).

I won the last game by
- Blood Mooning his Mana-Base
- Disenchanting his LED
- EEing a few tokens once
- performing beatdown with one Decree Token supported by Lightning Rift

[Solaran_X]

RGb Aggro-Loam versus BGW Jank. My opponent was beaten down to three life by his Dark Confidants, but he had board position and was in place to win that turn.

On his Upkeep, his Bob revealed Vindicate.

[Julian23]

I once faced Cephalid Breakfast playing Enchantress. I swear game 2 his Confidant revealed in order:

Force of Will
Force of Will

By now he's down to 7 (having activated City of Brass two times + fetchland). You name what he revealed on his next upkeep. :cool:

[etrigan]

and used plunge into darkness to gain enough life to not die to the angel and kill him next turn.

Convincing your opponent that you can pay negative lose, in order to gain life, as -(-X) = +X, is not very classy.

[Peter_Rotten]

I once beat an opponent while wearing a tuxedo. Does that count?

[Watcher487]

Convincing your opponent that you can pay negative lose, in order to gain life, as -(-X) = +X, is not very classy.

Please read Plunge into Darkness,

http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=72681

It has a 2nd ability, it's some good.

[Nihil Credo]

me: Chanted, EOT Basking Rootwalla (in response call judge)
judge: yeah, he can play the lizard

Judge was wrong: Madness lets you "play" the Rootwalla, which Chant stops. Google it if you need confirmation.

For my part, I always enjoy winning at 1 life.

[GreenOne]

G2: He starts with fetch and thoughtseize, taking my Enchantress. He then drop confidant and reveal double shriekmaw. I hide under a confinament (no enchantress in play) and then under a moat. He dies from confidant losses. Are you sure you want greatness, at ANY cost?

[quicksilver]

Judge was wrong: Madness lets you "play" the Rootwalla, which Chant stops. Google it if you need confirmation.

For my part, I always enjoy winning at 1 life.

The judge was correct. Effects that last until end of turn end at the same time you discard. Which means when rootwallas trigger goes on the stack the effect is already gone. Note you can only get into this special condition if you have a triggered ability during your cleanup. Right, didn't catch it was an eight-card discard. My bad. ~NC


Here is the oracle rule:


314. Cleanup Step

314.1. If the active player’s hand contains more cards than his or her maximum hand size (normally seven), he or she discards enough cards to reduce the hand size to that number (this game action doesn’t use the stack).

314.2. After discarding, the following actions happen simultaneously: all damage is removed from permanents and all “until end of turn” and “this turn” effects end (this game action doesn’t use the stack).

314.3. If the conditions for any state-based effects exist or if any triggered abilities are waiting to be put onto the stack, the active player gets priority and players may play spells and abilities. Once the stack is empty and all players pass, another cleanup step begins. Otherwise, no player receives priority and the step ends.
You can refer to this thread: http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4266

[rockout]

Playing Landstill vs Tes. Game 2

My hand is ee, vindicate, vindicate with scrubland and tundra on the field with mage naming tendrils. He plays duress and takes the ee and drops 20 tokens in my face. I'm at 19 from a fetch so the only cards I can really draw to give me a turn are stp, bs into something, land to vindicate a token to buy me a turn or rip another ee and win the game out right. I rip ee kill his tokens and later on down the road he casts shusher to block my mage when he was at 5. I cast elspeth and fly over his blocker.

Landstill Mirror:

I fof at eot and he splits the pile: stp, stp, land, possibly bs and ee by itself. I take the 4 cards and remind him I have academy ruins in play. Put ee on top and kill jace and ride the CA train.

[on1y0ne]

RGb Aggro-Loam versus BGW Jank. My opponent was beaten down to three life by his Dark Confidants, but he had board position and was in place to win that turn.

On his Upkeep, his Bob revealed Vindicate.
I think everyone has a Bob story where they won because of an unfortunate reveal by their opponent.

My story:

Fifth Dawn prerelease:
Opponent plays Vulshok Sorcerer (http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=51177) game 1 and forgets it has haste and doesn't ping me the first time he has the chance. He claims he will shoot himself if he dies while I am at 1 life. I win game 1 while at 1.
Game two, he plays the Sorcerer again. He says that he won't forget this time, but does. I win while at 1 again, knocking him out of prize contention.

[Atwa]

When playing casually with my brother in law, he went ballistic on me with an Dream Halls, Mind over Matter, Time Spiral deck. This takes place after 40 minutes of comboing.

I am tapped out, have 1 card in my hand at 3 life, he is floating something like 60 mana and plays the last card in his hand, the 4th Time Spiral.

I reread Dream Halls and respond by bouncing Hibernation Sliver (my sole creature) to from my hand and remove it from the game for a free Dismiss.

I really like winning by disrupting a combo deck at the last minute through mana burn.

[J.V.]

I can't think of my own personal classiest win, (probably something with Solidarity...) but my friend Rich Shay (The_Atog_Lord) had a good one... He has a Viashino Heretic and a Sower of Temptation that stole a second Viashino Heretic and is at like 2 life, he has no business winning this game. His opponent decides to Tinker for Darksteel Colossus and Rich goes okay activate Heretic, activate Heretic take 22?

[Bryant Cook]

I was going off versus Anwar playing Permanent Waves. I already Chanted him. I cast Diminishing Returns, and get garbage. I cast Abeyance just to draw a card, draw into LED with 2x Infernal Tutor in hand and win.

[freakish777]

DISCLAIMER:

This is not my play, but someone elses (I forgot who the person in question is), this is a Vintage match.

Player A has Phyrexian Negator in play and a Black mana open.
Player B has an Illusionary Mask in play with 1 mana open (or they have Illusionary Mask and an 0/1 face down card with 1 counter on it), and pretty clearly has a Dreadnought in hand (or pretty clearly has a face down Dreadnought).
Player A plays Demonic Consultation which resolves and names Black Lotus, gets it after removing a large portion of his library, play it, and then attacks with Phyrexian Negator.
Player blocks with his Phyrexian Dreadnought.
Player A then proceeds to pop Black Lotus for :g::g::g: and plays 3 Berserks!

[elof]

A couple of years ago. I was playing Rector Tendrils and my opponent play gush-A-tog (after the restictment of gush but with Intuition Akkum).

Background: I have 1 card in hand and alot of lands, 7 (I play 14?) and my opponent could finish me off if he had played right. But he attacks me (with 'tog) to 3 or something, holding a card in hand.

My upkeep: I play Mystical Tutor (I want to search for Mind's Desire, with probebly was my only out). He plays Mana Drain.

My draw phase: Draws Mind's Desire!

My main phase: I play Mind's Desire for 3, (he's at like 18? or something), he says: "your pretty skilled if you happen to win now" (I can't remember if Timetwister was a out, but I don't think so because then I probebly whould have wanted to wish for it, the same is probebly true for Y. Will). Desire resolves and flips:
Cabal Therapy
Tendrils of Agony
Tendrils of Agony

gg.

[Getsickanddie]

DISCLAIMER:

This is not my play, but someone elses (I forgot who the person in question is), this is a Vintage match.

Player A has Phyrexian Negator in play and a Black mana open.
Player B has an Illusionary Mask in play with 1 mana open (or they have Illusionary Mask and an 0/1 face down card with 1 counter on it), and pretty clearly has a Dreadnought in hand (or pretty clearly has a face down Dreadnought).
Player A plays Demonic Consultation which resolves and names Black Lotus, gets it after removing a large portion of his library, play it, and then attacks with Phyrexian Negator.
Player blocks with his Phyrexian Dreadnought.
Player A then proceeds to pop Black Lotus for :g::g::g: and plays 3 Berserks!

That would be Geoff "Konsultant" Smelski.

[Funky-kun]

Nothing demonstrates the sheer power of Mind's Desire and its ability to steal games better that old extended Heartbeat Desire IMO. Example, which I happened to pull out in front of a friend playing Ur Tron:

I'm with 10 land or something, and topdeck Mind's Desire with no cards in hand and a bin full of countered stuff. So I proceed to Desire for 1. My opponent goes like: "I have no permission, but I doubt you could win with only 1 Desire. I've got you Slaver-locker next turn. So take your time and shuffle well!" I flip: Desire. I Desire for 2 and flip Fact or Fiction and Nostalgic Dreams. I proceed to win. Nostalgic Dreams just makes this deck so powerful!

[Master Shake]

A couple of years ago. I was playing Rector Tendrils and my opponent play gush-A-tog (after the restictment of gush but with Intuition Akkum).

Background: I have 1 card in hand and alot of lands, 7 (I play 14?) and my opponent could finish me off if he had played right. But he attacks me (with 'tog) to 3 or something, holding a card in hand.

My upkeep: I play Mystical Tutor (I want to search for Mind's Desire, with probebly was my only out). He plays Mana Drain.

My draw phase: Draws Mind's Desire!

My main phase: I play Mind's Desire for 3, (he's at like 18? or something), he says: "your pretty skilled if you happen to win now" (I can't remember if Timetwister was a out, but I don't think so because then I probebly whould have wanted to wish for it, the same is probebly true for Y. Will). Desire resolves and flips:
Cabal Therapy
Tendrils of Agony
Tendrils of Agony

gg.

I like this one quite a bit.


I once beat an opponent while wearing a tuxedo. Does that count?

I do this from time to time. I've also ripped my shirt off during a match, but I lost that game.

For my own entries into this:

EDH - I really enjoy creating overly elaborate combos, this one involved replaying Channel the Suns enough times to create the mana to activate Legacy Weapon to remove all of my other permanents and to use Dimir Guildmage to discard my hand so that I can win with Barren Glory.

Legacy 1 - I'm playing game 2 against TES, game one I locked him out with Aura of Silence, somehow. He has brought in Dark Confidant and starts to draw way too many cards for me to handle. A few turns in he starts laying cards face down to count storm. He plays a few rituals before I Chant him. He takes 5 mana burn and passes. He starts comboing again and I Abeyance him again. He takes another 5 mana burn. About the time I go to 6 from confidant beats he sees all of my enchantress effects on the table and decides that he needs to do it again (I'm actually out of gas) and so he starts to combo again. I start thinking about how long I can wait before I play my Abeyance and manage to guess correctly, he plays enough rituals so that I'm able to chant him and he'll take lethal mana burn.

Legacy 2 - I'm playing the Landstill Mirror. I'm playing U/W Landstill and my opponent is playing a 4 color list. We're in game 3 and we're in turn 2 of turns. He's at a low life total but has a bunch of factoires. He also has 7 cards in his library. I have to determine if I'm going to win with trying to deck him with Standstills or if I'm going to try to get in with angel or soldier tokens. He has one card in hand, I have a few. I decide to go the Standstill route and I cast a Standstill, Brainstorm and let him draw some cards. I end up putting my brainstorm back incorrectly and so when I go to draw my hand is Force of Will, Brainstorm, Standstill, Fact or Fiction, Decree of Justice. I realize that I've made a pretty big error and that I should have FoFed at the end of his turn to get more spells to back this up, but I'm stuck with what I have (nearly 20 lands on the table) So, I decide to see how it will work. I play my Standstill and pass the turn. He responds at my end of turn step by activating his Mishra's Factory and targeting it with Swords to Plowshares. With Standstill on the stack I Force of Will his StP, he Stifles the Standstill Activation, I brainstorm, he Stifles the Standstill Activation (one more card in his hand) I Fact or Fiction. His last card in hand is a Pernicious Deed, he has to draw off standstill and then loses on turn 5 of turns in his draw step.

Legacy 3 - I'm playing Enchantress against a Goblins player with a Turn 1 Vial start. He plays a turn 2 Tin-Street Hooligan with a Badlands and a Taiga. I inform him that I need him to tell me how he tapped these lands, for what color. He sets the Badlands aside and says. "Red from Badlands and..." He hesitates and thinks what color he wants to draw from his Taiga, we sit there silently for about ten seconds and he says "And green from Taiga." I inform him that because he paid green mana to play Tin-Street Hooligan that he's going to need to destroy any artifact. I narrowly win this game and 100% would not have had he not destroyed his own vial.

Limited - At the Alara Reborn prerelease, my opponent has completely blown me out in the first game and has nearly done it again in the second. I'm at one life and he has 2 Saporlings and some other creature. I have a Jund Battlemage and some other creature. The only way I can win is if he doesn't something 100% wrong and lets me win. I see that the guy is competent so I think about just picking my cards up but... I decide to just see what happens. He untaps, topdecks a Bone Splitters, sacrifices a Saporling to target my Jund Battlemage, I use it to produce a token and then we both have creatures that will trade with each other if he attacks. He looks at the game state for a moment and passes the turn. I draw a cycler, cycle into another creature that makes a difference, he draws a land. I draw Broodmate Dragon and win.

Although, the best win I've ever seen is when an eleven-year-old kid was playing against Solidarity and the Solidarity player comboed off for 63 cards. The kid put the top 63 cards of his library into his graveyard and said "Is that it?" He had 18 cards left in his library and proceeded to win with Ravenous Rats and Phyrexian Rager. He did the same thing game two as well.

[Michael Keller]

I can honestly say this was probably not only my classiest victory, but I'm willing to put it up against anyone else's victories any day of the week:

I was playing Teeniebopper (Landstill) with my old Hollywood Sligh deck in a crucial tournament game. He drops Standstill.

I am screwed...but maybe not:

I then drop Shivan Gorge (http://findmagiccards.com/GF/USC/MTGC/US/SHIZRGE1.jpeg).

He doesn't draw a man-land and I proceed to do 8-9 points of damage with it, killing him. He is stunned in disbelief.

I then made him sign it for me, and he has it to this day.

Ah, the good old days.

EDIT: There was another tournament where a dude Reanimated Nicol Bolas and swung on with it. He was at 9 life. I then discarded my hand, and his buddies were smiling with content behind him. He looked at my graveyard and saw 3 Guerrilla Tactics. It was the more satisfying than sex.

[whienot]

We had a guy extirpate relentless rats at a tournament last week. Not only classy, but a super sexy win.

[Master Shake]

We had a guy extirpate relentless rats at a tournament last week. Not only classy, but a super sexy win.That's amazing, that's the kind of story I really wanted to hear.

[mujadaddy]

Although, the best win I've ever seen is when an eleven-year-old kid was playing against Solidarity and the Solidarity player comboed off for 63 cards. The kid put the top 63 cards of his library into his graveyard and said "Is that it?" He had 18 cards left in his library and proceeded to win with Ravenous Rats and Phyrexian Rager. He did the same thing game two as well.
Eleven year old kids know how to beat Solidarity every time. They should be banned. :laugh:

Is that it?

[Soldar]

I don't know how well I can really convey stories online (I talk with my hands a lot) but this was an EDH game from the other night:

I'm playing Sharuum with artifact.dec, and I'm head over heels in love with Time Sieve, for no good reason, and he's playing a Rith deck, where he apparently Red Elemental Blasts my Tezzeret. I keep telling the guy that Time Sieve is amazing, and he's incredibly skeptical about it.

He has Rith and Greater Gargadon in play, and plays Realm Razor, and with the trigger on the stack, he decides to Path to Exile it. I'm sitting with a board full of random artifacts and a Time Sieve, and a Coalition Relic. He puts the Gargadon into play and starts beating my face in. I charge the Coalition Relic, and I Mystical Teachings up a Swords to Plowshares and plow his Rith (general damage), sitting in pretty bad shape. I'm at 10, I chump block his Gargadon with Sharuum, and the next turn he puts me at 1. I draw a Fabricate, but with only 4 mana available to me, I Fabricate for Executioner's Capsule. And then he asks me, "Is that it?" I then sacrifice the majority of my board and take another turn to cap the Gargadon.

That technically isn't a victory, so the rest of the game was him missing land drops, and me hitting all of mine, where I play Magister Sphinx with him at 46 and me at 1, the first time I've ever been happy to reset my life total to 10.

I also attacked with Magister Sphinx and Sharuum, and with damage on the stack, blinked the Sphinx to set his life to 10.

[HdH_Cthulhu]

I play Goblins vs Aggro Loam

He DDs the board for 4 so i am left with 1 mountain on the board. He has a 13/13 Teravore and a tarmogoyf out. (only mountain and a Matron in hand)

I topdeckt, Relic, Mountain, Mountain, Ringleader and overhelm him and Won.

[ParkerLewis]

http://www.cti.ecp.fr/~picciottf/MUC_vs_Ubgw_Landstill.jpg

I don't know if that was classy, but it was epic.

[TeenieBopper]

This was back when it was 1.5 instead of Legacy. I was playing Food Chain Goblins and Fakespam was playing Dragon (you know, real decks). It was game one and I had won the die roll. He shows me his first five cards as I'm looking at my hand trying to decide whether or not to keep and says, "Game two?" They were Bazaar, Badlands, Worldgorger Dragon, Dark Ritual, Animate Dead for the turn two kill. I stare at my hand, "Hang on a second." I'm holding Taiga, Ancient Tomb, Skirk Prospector, Goblin Recruiter, Goblin Ringleader, and Goblin Matron, and Food Chain. My turn two came before his turn two.

God I fuckin' hated Dragon.

[TrialByFire]

playing one of the original TES lists I was at 4 and my fish opponent had 2 meddling mages (on tendrils/wish) and an exalted so I couldn't just empty and kill him next turn. I then stormed for over 20 using d returns and eventually cast empty for over 50 goblins and used plunge into darkness to gain enough life to not die to the angel and kill him next turn.

I watched this happen. It was epic. The look on his opponents face was priceless

[Bryant Cook]

playing one of the original TES lists I was at 4 and my fish opponent had 2 meddling mages (on tendrils/wish) and an exalted so I couldn't just empty and kill him next turn. I then stormed for over 20 using d returns and eventually cast empty for over 50 goblins and used plunge into darkness to gain enough life to not die to the angel and kill him next turn.

/Jealous. (How did I not see this before?)


I was playing against Matt Abold (burn).

I was at 1 life after making 18 goblins. All I had was a City of Brass and a Lotus Petal left over. I cast Plunge into Darkness using City of Brass, put the City damage on the stack and gained 24 life. :)

[emidln]

In game 3 of a GPT top4 for Columbus I was playing against Aluren with AT1 (RG Stax with Aether Flash). I'm on the play and fan open double needle, ancient tomb, mox diamond, wasteland, goblin welder, crucible of worlds. I open with needle on Polluted Delta and Wooded Foothills (he only played 2 different fetches for his manabase) and a Welder. I topdeck another Needle for Pernicious Deed and eventually beat down with 2x Goblin Welder while my opponent sits under Needle/Wastelock failing to draw basics before I get down Chalice @ 2, Chalice @ 3. I end the game with 2x Krosan Grip in hand, for the unlikely event that he managed to some combination of Chain of Vapor and Pernicious Deed into play at the same time.

Bonus:
At the annual local game convention I'm playing against Vroman round 1 circa 2007. He is playing a GBWR homebrew Loam deck featuring Sylvan Library + Children of Korlis. I'm playing the original Grim Iggy list and Vroman saw me playing the deck before the event while I was playing some combo vs combo games against B.C.'s SI list. I win the die roll and open up Tundra, go. Vroman looks kinda surprised and opens Mox Diamond pitching a land, Land, Sylvan Library. I end step Mystical Tutor for a combo piece and win turn 2. After the match Vroman lets me know that he mulled into a turn one Children of Korlis against me, but didn't play it because it didn't occur to him that Tundra, go was a combo deck's play.

[elof]

I was playing Solidarity vs TES. He was playing Chant and I go off in response, but fails to find anything relevant and then he goes off. He had taken som City damage and floats 16-17 mana and Diminishing Returns only to draw yank and burns down to 1. I win in his upkeep thanks to Turnabout on City.

I play my legacy slivers against vintage slaver. I only have plated slivers in play and he casts both Mana Vault and Mana Crypt and then Drains my Brainstorm. In his turn he plays Sundering Titan, tapping crypt, vault (5), tolarian (7) and a volcanic (8). I try to Daze, he forces and I daze again. Titan goes to the yard and I ask him if he is done and he says yes. I say, "you take 1 in burn from Mana Drain". Then I beat him down with Plated Slivers.


A long time ago, we had a few players playing vintage and I played Rector Tendrils, another played Stax and a third played dragon. I think we play so much that each of us beat the other one to death with Goblin Welder, Squee Goblin Nabob, and Academy Rector. Humiliating being beatdown by a 1 power creature for about 16-18 rounds...

[Nightmare]

A Couple.

1) I was playing Breakfast, vs a younger player playing Spring Tide. He says Island, go. I play a land, Brainstorm, and prepare to miss my second land drop. He goes off on turn two, but stumbles on storm, and Mills me for 48, flipping all three Narcomoebas. On my turn I draw, Cast Therapy on myself discarding a combo piece, and win.

2) Also playing Breakfast vs Jim with Train Wreck. I mull to 4. He keeps seven. I play fetch, go. He plays Forest, Top. EOT I fetch Trop and Worldly Tutor for En-Kor. I draw it, fetch out a Tundra and play En-Kor. 1 card in hand. Jim tops to find a black source during his upkeep (the Swamp was on top) and plays the swamp, and passes. EOT I Worldly Tutor for Cephalid Illusionist, draw it, play it, and win. Jim flashes me the Chainer's Edict that he could have played, had he not topped.
Turn 3 win on a mull to 4, to make top 8 (and eventually win a Sapphire).

[zulander]

Turn 2 tombstalker. Nuff said.

[Anusien]

I can't think of my own personal classiest win, (probably something with Solidarity...) but my friend Rich Shay (The_Atog_Lord) had a good one... He has a Viashino Heretic and a Sower of Temptation that stole a second Viashino Heretic and is at like 2 life, he has no business winning this game. His opponent decides to Tinker for Darksteel Colossus and Rich goes okay activate Heretic, activate Heretic take 22?
It used to be in someone's sig over at TMD, but Rich won one game in an amazing way. The quote was something like:
"I won in the only way I could that game. He cast Vampiric Tutor at 2 life."

[cwt1220]

I was playing Imperial Painter against EPIC Painter. He was at 2 life, I was at 10 or 12 with a Jaya, a Magus, and 1 card in hand. He proceeds to grind me and extends his hand. I proceed to grab my deck and put it in my graveyard, and say "Done?" He looks at me slightly confused and says "yeah, sure". I go untap, upkeep, activate Jaya and deal 3 to you. He says "Wow, I completely forgot about that."

-Chris-

[Adan]

I was playing Imperial Painter against EPIC Painter. He was at 2 life, I was at 10 or 12 with a Jaya, a Magus, and 1 card in hand. He proceeds to grind me and extends his hand. I proceed to grab my deck and put it in my graveyard, and say "Done?" He looks at me slightly confused and says "yeah, sure". I go untap, upkeep, activate Jaya and deal 3 to you. He says "Wow, I completely forgot about that."

-Chris-

A lot pf Painter players forget about it.

random match in MWS, me playing UGw Thresh vs. Epic Painter.

He grinds me in the mainphase. During my upkeep, I use Jotun Grunt to put StoP back as my library. He recorgnizes his misplay, flames me and leaves. That's MWS.
Back then at the Source tourney where I played UR Landstill, I also remember that I raped a black Stax variant with Explosives because he forgot about his Urborg.

[cwt1220]

A lot pf Painter players forget about it.

We both played a really good games, I almost didn't catch it but it was late in game 3, and people started to come over, and I really focused to try to win this game. I knew he was going to activate, and I was thought i was over, cause I was staring at a land in hand. Jaya was a champ several times, but never more than that time.

-Chris-

[n00bas4urus_r3x]

Me playing RGW Scepter Zoo vs. Belcher

He wins die roll, EtW for 10 tokens. I play Taiga, Kird Ape. He swings for 10, I block 1, down to 11. I draw, play a land, drop Scepter-Chant. He gets a terrible look on his face. Swings in dropping me down to 3, I draw my 3rd land and lock him out.

[sunshine]

Playing sligh and my opponent has me dead on the board next turn. I have no cards in had and nothing in play except a Cursed Scroll and three Mountains, my opponent is at five life. I draw for the turn and activate Scroll naming Fireblast... opponent is so pissed at his bad luck that he scoops up his cards without ever seeing the fourth Mountain I drew.

[quicksilver]

I would say that most of these wins in here are the opposite of classy.

[Paradigm Shift]

Playing sligh and my opponent has me dead on the board next turn. I have no cards in had and nothing in play except a Cursed Scroll and three Mountains, my opponent is at five life. I draw for the turn and activate Scroll naming Fireblast... opponent is so pissed at his bad luck that he scoops up his cards without ever seeing the fourth Mountain I drew.

Justin, you are so fucking manly.

[TrialByFire]

It used to be in someone's sig over at TMD, but Rich won one game in an amazing way. The quote was something like:
"I won in the only way I could that game. He cast Vampiric Tutor at 2 life."

I remember that game. Also about Rich Shay. Were at a Vintage tourney the week before TravisCon I. This was before the BS, Flash, Scroll yada yada restrictions. Shay was playing Gush Storm vs Painter I think. Anyways he is going to die when painter untaps. The only card in his hand is High Tide. He topdecks Mind's Desire. Plays High Tide, Desires for 2. The only two cards he could reveal to let him win the game are Demonic Tutor, Yawg Will, both of which are still in his deck. He shuffles and cuts. First reveal is... Demonic Tutor.
Bet you can't guess what happens next? Thats right, he's fucking Rich Shay.

[THEchubbymuffin]

I remember that game. Also about Rich Shay. Were at a Vintage tourney the week before TravisCon I. This was before the BS, Flash, Scroll yada yada restrictions. Shay was playing Gush Storm vs Painter I think. Anyways he is going to die when painter untaps. The only card in his hand is High Tide. He topdecks Mind's Desire. Plays High Tide, Desires for 2. The only two cards he could reveal to let him win the game are Demonic Tutor, Yawg Will, both of which are still in his deck. He shuffles and cuts. First reveal is... Demonic Tutor.
Bet you can't guess what happens next? Thats right, he's fucking Rich Shay.

This would be such a bad story if he had like 5 cards left in deck.

My favorite is getting made fun of for playing shit elves (intentional) by my opponent who is playing illusions. And Krosan Gripping him, game 1 and 2.

EDIT:
Also when playing a friends Painter's servant deck, i played Painter on turn 2... and beat for 20... Twice. We locked each other out of the games with CB's and played mind games countering I think 4? Krosan grips.

[Soldar]

Turn 2 tombstalker. Nuff said.

I had a Turn 1 Tombstalker played against me.

I was playing Elephant Stompy, so I didn't have any real removal against a threat like that.

My notes for that game say that he goldfished me.

On the other hand, in another game in the same match I played Turn 1 Spawnwrithe, and he scooped when he didn't have the removal on turn 2.

[TheBirdMan]

I was playing FT versus CWT1220 playing T.E.S. and it was Game one.

He Goes Turn 1
City of Brass, Dark Ritual, Infernal Contract down to 9 life

I went turn 1 Scrubland go.

He went turn 2
Land
Led, Led, Led
Infernal Tutor, Break all led for Black
Pass Priority
Me: Orim's Chant
He Loses the 9 life he had left to mana burn

So to recap I killed a man by only casting Orim's Chant.

[rockout]

Although, the best win I've ever seen is when an eleven-year-old kid was playing against Solidarity and the Solidarity player comboed off for 63 cards. The kid put the top 63 cards of his library into his graveyard and said "Is that it?" He had 18 cards left in his library and proceeded to win with Ravenous Rats and Phyrexian Rager. He did the same thing game two as well.

I lol'd.

[cwt1220]

I was playing FT versus CWT1220 playing T.E.S. and it was Game one.

He Goes Turn 1
City of Brass, Dark Ritual, Infernal Contract down to 9 life

I went turn 1 Scrubland go.

He went turn 2
Land
Led, Led, Led
Infernal Tutor, Break all led for Black
Pass Priority
Me: Orim's Chant
He Loses the 9 life he had left to mana burn

So to recap I killed a man by only casting Orim's Chant.

I was a little surprised by turn one tundra and thought nothing of it, cause he never played anything other than Survival. That was the greatest and worst loss ever.

-Chris-

[RogueMTG]

I'm playing Ugr Dreadstill versus Uw Control (very landstillish, but no standstill and MD back to basics):

It was the most epic game I can remembering playing recently, unfortunately I probably won't be able to remember it all well enough to do it justice.

This was a very tight, very fun, very back and forth match, ending with this last few series of plays in (what I believe was) game three:

It was an extremely drawn out game, I'm down to 2, he's at 13, he has two Meddling Mage's on board along with a bunch of lands (one stopping Tarmogoyf and one stopping Dreadnought) staring down a couple of my Mishra's Factorys, a Top and a bunch of lands. We both have a few cards in hand.

Eventually he plays a Vedalken Shackles that I let resolve and then tries for a Fact or Fiction which I Force going to 1. I take the opportunity to EOT Echoing Truth his Meddling Mages. Letting me on my turn to plop down my Dreadnought w/Stifle and pass. He untaps and slams down a Mulldrifter...

Well fuck, I can swing in for 12 with dreadnought but he'll be alive at 1, and then I'll die to 'drifter. I can't activate + swing with Factories because of shackles. :cry:

I think for a moment, peek through my graveyard, and realize I have one out left in the deck, a single Pyroblast. I draw my card for turn (not pyroblast). Then play brainstorm (drawing lands + trinket mage), I put the two lands on top, and then activate my top, digging one deeper, I see nada. I drop the Trinket Mage solely for the shuffle effect, fetching something irrelevant. My opponent shuffles and cuts and hands it back, I top again with my second to last land, see the 'blast 3rd from the top, draw it with top, and then blast the mulldrifter with my very last available mana.

...I then smash in for 12 w/nought, he draws his card for turn, and extends his hand.

[Skeggi]

Here's one from a tournament about a year ago: I play Armageddon Stax. My opponent plays a weird version of Cephalid Breakfast.

We play a couple of turns, all I could manage to produce was a Crucible of Worlds and a Trinisphere. My opponent has 4 lands and a Lotus Petal. On his turn, he taps 3 lands to cast a Summoner's Pact, searching for either the Nomad or the Cephalid, I can't really remember. Anyway, he couldn't get his combo out, because he needed at least 1 more mana (he had Aether Vial for the other creature). So he passes the turn to kill me on his next turn. I play Armageddon, go. GG. :wink:

[Piceli89]

I was having fun with a strange version of Counterbalance+Painter (perhaps the one with Artificer's Intuition), and he was playing TheRock BGW.

He has double goyf on the table, i have painter and cb without top with an uncracked fetch, and a brainstorm with some crap in hand.
He goes stp on my painter, i go CB--->blind flip: pithing needle. Countered.
He goes vindicate on my painter, i fetch and go CB--->trinket mage. Countered.
I draw trinket, fetch grindstone, pass.
Turn after, he swings with his goyf, i block one with a trinket but i'm low at life. He tries to stp AGAIN painter, i go CB---> blind flip: sensei's divining top. Countered.

I then proceed milling him the turn after, he "System:Player Loss"s immediately , and i felt i could hear him through the LAN wires snoring, from wherever he was, "fucking counterbalance. Stupid WotC".
:laugh:


Ah, i also heard this somewhere: Player A is playing ANT with Tops, Player B threshold.
Player A has ritual, ritual in hand, and 2 lands, a LED a top on the board.
He scrys top3 with sensei's, finds ad nauseam, and decides to go for it:
Ritual, Ritual, taps top to draw AdNos, in resp cracks LED for UUU.
Opponent: "stifle top's drawing ability".
GG.

[elof]

My opponent cast a Summoner's Pact, searching for either the Nomad or the Cephalid, I can't really remember

Actually, he can't search for either of them since Summoner's only searches for green creatures. But a funny story none the less :)

[Deep6er]

So I'm playing in Grand Prix: Philadelphia with Solidarity. It's day two, and I'm paired against Landstill.

We're in game three, in turn four (his) and his hand has five counterspells (active), while I have seven cards in hand and two Flashes in the graveyard.

I play High Tide (resolves), then play Reset floating a bunch of mana (I have almost all of my Islands in play). He says fine. I then proceed to play Meditate, Meditate, Twincast, Twincast, Meditate (all of which have Counterspells targeting them). With no cards left (in either of our hands), I Flash for twelve. Find and play Twincast. Resolves, drawing me Force, Brainstorm, Fetch, Fetch. I hardcast Force on one of his counters, letting me draw another four.

Nothing. I then Brainstorm hitting Opt, Peek, Brain Freeze. Put back two lands, but now I'm short on mana. Think for a long time, and just Freeze him for his deck. Confused, he flips his deck into his 'yard and says, "go?". I tell him to take his Meditate'd fifth turn of time. :)

I'm playing The Red Tide against a guy playing some kind of multicolored Burn/Sligh type deck. It's game one, but he already knows I'm playing Solidarity. I'm kind of low on life with two uncracked Fetches (and three other Islands), and he thinks for a long time and proceeds to play Price of Progress (if I crack the Fetches, he can kill me with the Bolt effect he has in his hand, I think it was Lava Spike). I look at his lands of Taiga, Taiga, Barbarian Ring (with no extra mana if he's going to Bolt me), and one other nonbasic. I think for a long time, and notice that I don't have any card draw in my hand except for a Cunning Wish.

After thinking for even longer, I proceed to play High Tide. Activating one of the Fetches that I have. After shuffling, I activate the other, but with that one on the stack, I Twincast, the Price of Progress (dealing him eight damage), I then Twincast it again. I then let my fetch resolve finding me a Volcanic. I Reset, and play Cunning Wish for Sudden Shock. Death. That's what you get for activating two fetchlands against Solidarity. Instant speed death. LOLZ. I loved The Red Tide.

I'm playing Europe and my opponent is playing a pile of various cards that amounts to sixty. On turn two, I play a Dark Confidant, and then again on turn three. I then proceed to destroy every land he plays, and counter every single spell. Couple of turns later, my opponent is at two, while I'm at a healthy sixteen (Bob's been amazing, and I've hit all four Brainstorms). So, what do I flip on the last turn? Double Tomstalker. Thanks Bob Maher. You killed me when my opponent literally didn't have a board. Why do you hate Europe?

Everybody has good Bob stories. Like the time Dave Price died to me when I was mind bogglingly mana screwed thanks to a single Dark Confidant.

[Master Shake]

So I'm playing in Grand Prix: Philadelphia with Solidarity. It's day two, and I'm paired against Landstill.

I'm playing The Red Tide against a guy playing some kind of multicolored Burn/Sligh type deck. It's game one, but he already knows I'm playing Solidarity. I'm kind of low on life with two uncracked Fetches (and three other Islands), and he thinks for a long time and proceeds to play Price of Progress (if I crack the Fetches, he can kill me with the Bolt effect he has in his hand, I think it was Lava Spike). I look at his lands of Taiga, Taiga, Barbarian Ring (with no extra mana if he's going to Bolt me), and one other nonbasic. I think for a long time, and notice that I don't have any card draw in my hand except for a Cunning Wish.

After thinking for even longer, I proceed to play High Tide. Activating one of the Fetches that I have. After shuffling, I activate the other, but with that one on the stack, I Twincast, the Price of Progress (dealing him eight damage), I then Twincast it again. I then let my fetch resolve finding me a Volcanic. I Reset, and play Cunning Wish for Sudden Shock. Death. That's what you get for activating two fetchlands against Solidarity. Instant speed death. LOLZ. I loved The Red Tide.

I really enjoyed this Red Tide story. I've heard a few stories about winning by forcing your opponent to take the 5th turn of time with Meditate or something like that, I can't recall if I've witness a Tide deck doing it or not.

[Afro]

I was playing against Peter_Rotten at the local 1.5 tournament back when the format was AMAZING. It is game 2 and P_R is playing Dragon and myself playing some random deck. He goes for a quick combo and says "Combo for the win." Being a pissed off and kinda a jerk I want him to go through it and turns out he sided out his win cons for more sideboard hate and he just scooped them up. Needless to say he stopped doing such things in Albany shortly thereafter.

[quicksilver]

Everybody has good Bob stories. Like the time Dave Price died to me when I was mind bogglingly mana screwed thanks to a single Dark Confidant.

And then next game you played three with no top out while I was beating with a goyf each turn and you didn't die.


edit: Also a long time ago I was playing RGBSA and Gearhart was playing solidarity. I mull to 5. Several turns in I play a duress and he goes off in response, spends tons of time drawing cards etc.... About 5 minutes later he asks me what the storm count was. I told him I stopped counting when it was well past lethal. He keeps asking me and I try to go back and count it but it was impossible and I tell him that it's lethal. He's got like 12 cards in hand. After about another 5 minutes of him counting cards and shuffling his hand and counting his graveyard and trying to get me to scoop so he doesn't have to go through all the steps he finally let's my duress resolve. His hand is nothing but land and mana producing effects and he has absolutly no play. It was pretty douchy of him but he does it cause it works some times.

[Deep6er]

Yeah, that was pretty funny.

Although, there was one time I was playing against Bryant Cook when he was playing four color Threshold. I'd gone through most of his countermagic, and drawn about twenty cards. Those cards were the rest of my lands and a bunch of Turnabouts. Trying to think if there was something I could do, I ask Bryant how many cards he has left in his deck. Bryant then calls me a "tool" and scoops.

LOLZ. Although, in all fairness, he did win that match. The thing I did against Dave Price was shortly thereafter, so I was still trying to figure out if I could do it again.

[rockout]

My opponent is playing GRb Aggro Loam and me playing landstill. I spell snared loam 3 turns in a row then counterspelling loam on the 4th when my opponent had tiaga and moutain with seismic assault on the board. If Loam resolved I would have lost the game because my only threat was mishra's factory. On the 4th turn I drew wasteland for his only green source and that put him on the top of his deck and I proceeded to land screw Loam.

At the GP, round 7, I played 42 land.dec. He goes turn 1 mana bond and drops 6 lands into play. I swords his treetop village and rip my 1-of crucible to waste him 10+ turns in a row. It made me feel special beating 42 land.dec with landstill game 1.

[KillemallCFH]

I've probably had better ones, but the best I can think of: At a local tourney, I'm playing against ELD playing Ugr Dreadstill while I'm playing Enchantress. He wins game one, then game two drops a turn 2 'nought. I have a Runed Halo in hand but am sitting on two basic forests. I rip a Serra Sanctum for the turn, but have enchantments in play an no playable ones in hand. I play it and pass. He beats me to 8, and I'm pretty sure I'm drawing dead, but keep in it anyways. For my turn, I rip... Utopia Sprawl. Realizing I have an out now, I tap a forest to play it on my other forest. He thinks for a bit, and lets it resolve. I tap the rest of my lands to play out a Daze-proof Halo. He had the Daze, and if he had Dazed the Sprawl, I lost. I go on to win that match.

[Wargoos]

After gettin defeated at the Mercadiade 2007 Main Event (0-2 drop, both games facing Dragon Stompy..), I decided to participate at the small Legacy Side Event and played aagainst a Solidarity Player. (I packed Canadian)

On my 4th Turn, he starts to go off. I try to Disrupt him with double Daze and a FoW, but he has always the counterspell and manages to break through drawing lots of cards and brainfreezing me for like 48 or something.
I had one open mana at that point and one card in hand and he just couldn't finde a pitchcard for the FoW he had, and so I ended up stifling that nasty Freeze and performing the Goose Beatz.
That one felt pretty good.

[Pulp_Fiction]

My personal favorite win came when I was playing TES and my opponent was running a G/W/b Zoo Aggro type thing. Anyway, he has me dead on the board next turn and he has an untapped Aether Vial and a Gaddock Teeg in play as well as Goyf and I know he has Swords in hand. I Slaughter Pact his Teeg and cast a threshed Cabal Ritual, double LED, and then IGG. IGG on the stack I blow up LEDs for 3 black and 3 red. I stare at my graveyard because I know after the first spell he gets to Vial in Gaddock Teeg and shut me down again and the storm count is only 5. I bring back Tendrils, LED, and Burning Wish. I Tendrils him for 12, dropping him to 6 and in response he Vials in Gaddock Teeg and casts Swords to Plowshares on his Goyf going up to 10 life. The storm count is now at 7 after he played Swords on his own creature (and is tapped out). I play LED (8), Burning Wish (9), place Wish on the stack and blow up LED for 3 red and get Grapeshot (10) and Grapeshot him to the dome for exactly 10 damage! His face was SOOO epic after this game, it was a look of pure astonishment and shock. He stared at Grapeshot for like 30 seconds just saying "I just lost to combo with fucking Teeg in play"! This was soo great!

[niknight]

My two favorite wins ever came in a Regionals and a States...

Regionals - Masques/Invasion

I'm playing a Fires variant versus a person playing Turbo Chant. He Wraths the board and has me completely under chant lock. He's at 9 life with a Mage naming Urza's Rage. I'm sitting at 20. I proceed to race his Meddling Mage by using my newly drawn Rishadan Port to tap his City of Brass 9 turns in a row...

States - Odyssey/Onslaught

I'm playing Ponza against MBC. My opponent was an asshat from the start. I'm sitting at the table next to one of my friends, and I get up to throw out some trash on the table. When I get back, my opponent is sitting in the chair I left my stuff on, having thrown my stuff across the table. I win a rather uneventful game 1. I lead off game 2 with double Spreading Algae out of the board. I then play a Hammer of Bogardan. He starts to trashtalk me saying "You suck... Hammer isn't going to win you this game". Having complete board control over him, I eschew my regular plan and go out of my way to recur and play hammer 6 more times, dealing him 21 damage.

My favorite play ever would be when my psychatog playing opponent decided it would be a good idea to Recoil my tapped Basking Rootwalla after having taken 3 damage from it that turn. I then promptly thanked him for the blocker...

[Van Phanel]

This one is from a guy (not me) playing Mystic Remora in Vintage. He couldn't get a LoA before the event and decided to play the random Strip Mine instead.

When he plays against Stax, his opponent leads with Shop, Chalice 0, Crucible. He sees the Strip Mine in his hand, Commandeers the Crucible and proceeds to completely lock the Stax-guy out.

[elof]

A friend of mine did this:

He's playing some janky green deck with lots of shit. The opponent is playing Gush-A-Tog and goes for leathal with a fully-pumped and berserked tog while my friend was totaly tapped out. He then pitches Elvish Spirit Guide and Fogs. The crowed goes wild... he later won that game with some janky creatures...

[on1y0ne]

Saturday, 1 November 1997 (Insert Old Joke here):

Tempest has just become legal. Strip Mine is not restricted and now Wasteland is also legal. Black decks are running rampant on the Type I scene already. Wasteland put them over the top.

I am playing in a Type I event. There are 50+ players in the event. I don't have any power in my white weenie deck but continue to steamroll people all day long, but the best comes in the top 8. The first match is uneventful, with the exception of my opponent calling me a terrible player for running Armored Pegasus (http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?id=4861). I told him that I didn't own any copies of Mesa Pegasus (http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?id=2350), so that is why I ran it.

In the Top 4, my opponent plays a first turn Juzam using a dual land, Mox Jet and Beta Dark Ritual. I play a Plains, Lotus Petal then put Duskrider Falcon (http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=4574) on the table, which my opponent has to read. He is upset, but is not rattled much. He plays his Lotus and a second Juzam on turn two. I follow up with another Duskrider Falcon on turn two and Serra's Blessing (http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?id=4587) on turn three, riding my birds to victory and to a place in the finals.

[Aleksandr]

Saturday, 1 November 1997...

This one is nice!

[Poesjuh]

Now that's just flat out awesome! Duskrider Falcon's are the bomb ^^

[Ectoplasm]

I'm just glad I've never met any douches like some of the people described in here.

[eq.firemind]

I had a funny wins with casual Spellweaver Helix (http://sales.starcitygames.com//carddisplay.php?product=26126) Loam deck playing against BGx Loam Control. I played Helix, imprinted HIS Loam and Worm Harvest (his eyes was that big:smile: ), then just played Intuition at the end of his turn to get MY Loam and it was WORMS!!! time.

Next game I took Loam and Burning Wish with Helix.

And the third game I took Loam and Raven's Crime. He gets his second Loam via Wish, played it and some other stuff, but I cast Goblin Welder welding Helix->Helix to steal his second Loam and Worm Harvest and won the third game with WORMS!!!.

I don't know if I saw THAT sad face anywhere else:cool:


PS Duskrider Falcon win is AWESOME!

[Master Shake]

Duskrider Falcon win is very classy. It reminds me of the time my friend beat GAT with Welkin Hawks + Oath of Ghouls

Imprinting your opponents spells with Spellweaver Helix, also very classy.

[Bryant Cook]

My personal favorite win came when I was playing TES and my opponent was running a G/W/b Zoo Aggro type thing. Anyway, he has me dead on the board next turn and he has an untapped Aether Vial and a Gaddock Teeg in play as well as Goyf and I know he has Swords in hand. I Slaughter Pact his Teeg and cast a threshed Cabal Ritual, double LED, and then IGG. IGG on the stack I blow up LEDs for 3 black and 3 red. I stare at my graveyard because I know after the first spell he gets to Vial in Gaddock Teeg and shut me down again and the storm count is only 5. I bring back Tendrils, LED, and Burning Wish. I Tendrils him for 12, dropping him to 6 and in response he Vials in Gaddock Teeg and casts Swords to Plowshares on his Goyf going up to 10 life. The storm count is now at 7 after he played Swords on his own creature (and is tapped out). I play LED (8), Burning Wish (9), place Wish on the stack and blow up LED for 3 red and get Grapeshot (10) and Grapeshot him to the dome for exactly 10 damage! His face was SOOO epic after this game, it was a look of pure astonishment and shock. He stared at Grapeshot for like 30 seconds just saying "I just lost to combo with fucking Teeg in play"! This was soo great!

You just made my day. <3 Grapeshot.

[umbowta]

Game two against Dragon Stompy in the top 4 of The Beta Bash. I'm piloting Mono Green Berserk Stompy and I've just boarded in Seeds of Innocence hoping to blow up multiple lock pieces.

The opening grip is pretty solid with a one drop and a couple Berserks. DS mulls down to 5. I'm on the play so I go turn one Skyshroud Elite. He follows with turn one Chalice for one. I drop a Kavu Preadator on turn 2 and I’m now holding the Seeds I just topdecked and my third land. He drops Trinisphere and passes the turn. I untap, proceed to rip a third Berserk off the top, cast Seeds, he gains some life, and my Kavu gets big. Kavu Predator and Skyshroud Elite get in there and knock him down to 14. His turn passes uneventfully and now I get to have some fun. I Invigorate the Kavu Predator up to 15/15 (which brings his lifetotal up to 17), turn him sideways, tap 3 Forests and lay down my three of a kind; Berserk, Berserk, Berserk. Oh yeah! Swing for 120 on turn 4.

[Dark_Cynic87]

GenCon 2008, I'm playing a legacy side event on Friday for packs, just 4 rounds of swiss. I'm running UGr Thrash, but Swans instead of Trygon, but no combo. I couldn't find Trygons or Lightning Storms at the vendors, so I had to play a wierd list.

This is game 2 in a mirror match, him running Trygons with an extremely standard UGr Thrash list.

Turn one: Me: Wasteland, go.
t1, him: Wasteland, go.
t2, me: Delta, go.
t2, him: Delta, go.
t3 me: Strand, go.
t3 him: Delta. we both have 2 fetches and a wasteland, and he thinks it's time, so he throws his waste at my wasteland, I crack in response at his delta. He cracks delta in response, and I crack delta, he cracks 2nd delta, and I crack Strand. No more responses, I search for Trop with Strand, maintain priority and stifle his delta that's next to resolve. Stifle resolves, his delta flops. My Delta then resolves, I grab Volcanic and stifle his other Delta. Stifle Resolves. He says "Oh fuck." I smile.

Stack completely resolves, I have Trop and Volcanic, he has no lands. I have force plus brainstorm in hand, along with a Goyf and a Bolt. Game ends with me having a goyf and Mongoose in play, him still with no lands.

I lost the match, but I loved his turn 3. It was freakin' great.

Pce,

--DC

[Poesjuh]

Game two against Dragon Stompy in the top 4 of The Beta Bash. I'm piloting Mono Green Berserk Stompy and I've just boarded in Seeds of Innocence hoping to blow up multiple lock pieces.

The opening grip is pretty solid with a one drop and a couple Berserks. DS mulls down to 5. I'm on the play so I go turn one Skyshroud Elite. He follows with turn one Chalice for one. I drop a Kavu Preadator on turn 2 and I’m now holding the Seeds I just topdecked and my third land. He drops Trinisphere and passes the turn. I untap, proceed to rip a third Berserk off the top, cast Seeds, he gains some life, and my Kavu gets big. Kavu Predator and Skyshroud Elite get in there and knock him down to 14. His turn passes uneventfully and now I get to have some fun. I Invigorate the Kavu Predator up to 15/15 (which brings his lifetotal up to 17), turn him sideways, tap 3 Forests and lay down my three of a kind; Berserk, Berserk, Berserk. Oh yeah! Swing for 120 on turn 4.

Yeah, TIMMYYYYY! ^^

[Master Shake]

Game two against Dragon Stompy in the top 4 of The Beta Bash. I'm piloting Mono Green Berserk Stompy and I've just boarded in Seeds of Innocence hoping to blow up multiple lock pieces.

The opening grip is pretty solid with a one drop and a couple Berserks. DS mulls down to 5. I'm on the play so I go turn one Skyshroud Elite. He follows with turn one Chalice for one. I drop a Kavu Preadator on turn 2 and I’m now holding the Seeds I just topdecked and my third land. He drops Trinisphere and passes the turn. I untap, proceed to rip a third Berserk off the top, cast Seeds, he gains some life, and my Kavu gets big. Kavu Predator and Skyshroud Elite get in there and knock him down to 14. His turn passes uneventfully and now I get to have some fun. I Invigorate the Kavu Predator up to 15/15 (which brings his lifetotal up to 17), turn him sideways, tap 3 Forests and lay down my three of a kind; Berserk, Berserk, Berserk. Oh yeah! Swing for 120 on turn 4.

I remember watching this game and Josh [The guy playing Dragon Stompy] recalls this as the worst loss ever. He went from a pretty positive position in the game to complete and utter loss. I remember seeing your opening hand and thinking "Two lands, two Berserks but no hate, looks like this game is over" And then you drew Seeds of Innocence and then you draw the third Forest. You also hit a Chrome mox with that Seeds, it was really fantastic.

[umbowta]

You also hit a Chrome mox with that Seeds, it was really fantastic.Yeah, but nailing the mox didn't make my Kavu bigger :frown: so it doesn't count. Though I bet Josh felt the mox would have come in handy. I think he was sitting on nothing but Ancient Tomb after that Seeds resolved.

[Roman Candle]

This literally just happened.

I was playing some EDH 1-on-1 on MWS, and it was really late in the game. He had ten lands in play, and I had a Volcanic Island and a Dreadship Reef with one counter on it untapped. He had a Vendilion Clique and a Draining Whelk with 7 counters on it. Knowing that I hadn't used a shuffle effect yet, he plays Tunnel Vision on the Earthquake that he sent to the bottom with Vendilion. I tap the Volcanic to play Mystical Tutor, and he responds by using Compulsion twice, tapping himself out and allows the Tutor to resolve. Knowing that he didn't have Force or another 0-mana counter, at the end of his turn, I use the counter on Dreadship to play Imperial Seal, take Goryo's Vengeance, and drop it on my turn to grab a Niv-Mizzet from the grave, outfit it with an Ophidian Eye, and tap for the combo win.

He had lethal damage on the board in two turns.

EDIT: Okay, so Imperial Seal is a Sorcery. Whoops. Had it been Vampiric Tutor, though, then we would've been in business.

[eckology]

How did you play Imperial Seal at the end of his turn?

[Roman Candle]

How did you play Imperial Seal at the end of his turn?

...because I'm a dirty, filthy cheater.

Goddamn it, I was so happy with myself, why would you ruin it?

[Master Shake]

...because I'm a dirty, filthy cheater.

Goddamn it, I was so happy with myself, why would you ruin it?

Heh, someone's first post on the Source was just to ruin the classy win you thought you had.

[Dark_Cynic87]

Heh, someone's first post on the Source was just to ruin the classy win you thought you had.

Schadenfreude, pure and simple.

[SpikeyMikey]

A buddy of mine told me about what was probably the most awesome play I've ever heard of. There was a guy, back in the day, who had a gorgeous keeper deck. Everything was black bordered and mint. He did some dealing online, so he always had choice everything. One day, he was playing some little kid at a T1 tournament with a Keeper variant. The little kid drops a white bordered island and passes the turn. The guy starts off with a lotus a mox and a sea, sacs the lotus and taps out for a first turn morphling. Little kid taps his beat little white bordered island and casts an equally beat white bordered force spike. He went on to win the game with a moti. He lost the match, but it's hard to forget a $500 opening shot down by a little kid with a crap common.

[Patrick]

Although, the best win I've ever seen is when an eleven-year-old kid was playing against Solidarity and the Solidarity player comboed off for 63 cards. The kid put the top 63 cards of his library into his graveyard and said "Is that it?" He had 18 cards left in his library and proceeded to win with Ravenous Rats and Phyrexian Rager. He did the same thing game two as well.

That's Alan. God bless his soul, wherever that kid is. Winning games with Healing Salve, I hope.

[Maveric78f]

I play my Ugb fish deck against a RBg aggro loam.

It was the first game of the third round at 2-0 in a local tourney.

We get to some point where my opponent has 11 life, I have 2 confidants and Tarmogoyf (6/7) in play and a vial @3. I've got a single island untapped (but quite a lot of lands) and 5 or 6 cards in hand including a brainstorm. My opponent has 2 goyfs and a freshly arrived Countryside Crusher and Life from the Loam active combined with raven's crime.

As he's got the control of the board he starts dealing with my hand (and pumping up his CC), he makes me discard my full hand except that I had time to BS a rushing river back to the top of my deck, and at the last Raven's Crime play I vial in Manowar in response targetting CC. He has no mana left, he passes.
At my turn I take 3 damages from revealing a land and Rushing River with my confidants. I play kicked Rushing River on his 2 tarmogoyf and attack for the win. Since that day, I am a complete fan of tempo cards.

[Bourgeoise]

I'm playing in a single elimination side event at GP Chicago so I play my pet deck mono-U severance charbelcher. Round 1 I get paired against demon stompy. He resolves an early trinisphere and chalice at 1 and drops a couple of phyrexian totems and a couple of factories. On my turn 4 I resolve a charbelcher he swings in on his turn taking me to 10. the next turn I untap and draw mana severance but I only have access to 5 lands and I need 6 to pull off the combo with the trinisphere in play.

So I pass the turn and wait for his attack. He plays a land then activates both phyrexian totems and both factories and swings for lethal. I respond to his attack by activating my goblin charblecher targeting his phyrexian totem and calmly flip 12 cards off the top of my library before hitting a land, he only has 11 permanents in play. Next turn untap, combo, gg.

The silly part was this guys brother was watching the game and I had beaten him the previous night in the last round of a 40 dual land side event to take third and knock him out.

[Maveric78f]

It would have been even tastier if you had 5 or less life, because flipping 12 cards killed the second totem too.

[Patrick]

Classiest loss:

Last night I'm at weekly Legacy. I played U/W/b Landstill and I'm 0-0-2 in round 3. Since I no longer care about my record or winning I make some silly plays.

My opponents name is Roach, he's apparently 0-2. He sits with comments of defeat already. I watch him play some Grixis lands (Including the comes into play tapped 3 color ones and Grixis Panorama.) I played a turn 2 Standstill, thinking I was in great shape.

Roach: "Is cycling a spell?"

Patrick: "Nope!"

He proceeds to cycles a few guys with Unearth into his graveyard, and I panic. He's playing under Standstill better than I am. He breaks the Standstill around turn 8 with Blightning. Wow, that card is good. I discard something dumb and keep waiting. I draw an Eternal Dragon and inspect my hand. I have Force of Will, some lands, Dragon and another Standstill. I play the Dragon (assuming he has no removal that can hit it) and pass. I have 10 lands in play, 7 are tapped. He untaps, draws.

Roach: "Whatever, counter it... Cruel Ultimatum."

I can't counter it, I have no more blue cards. I sacrifice the dragon, discard everything but the Force, sacrifice my dragon and sigh for good measure. I look to my friend Clyde

"I'm never playing that dragon again. It never works out."

I draw the second dragon off the top, throw caution into the wind, and play it. He untaps, and plays a second Cruel Ultimatum. I concede.

[Patrick]

Turn 2 tombstalker. Nuff said.

Not classy.

[rockout]

Classiest loss:

Last night I'm at weekly Legacy. I played U/W/b Landstill and I'm 0-0-2 in round 3. Since I no longer care about my record or winning I make some silly plays.

My opponents name is Roach, he's apparently 0-2. He sits with comments of defeat already. I watch him play some Grixis lands (Including the comes into play tapped 3 color ones and Grixis Panorama.) I played a turn 2 Standstill, thinking I was in great shape.

Roach: "Is cycling a spell?"

Patrick: "Nope!"

He proceeds to cycles a few guys with Unearth into his graveyard, and I panic. He's playing under Standstill better than I am. He breaks the Standstill around turn 8 with Blightning. Wow, that card is good. I discard something dumb and keep waiting. I draw an Eternal Dragon and inspect my hand. I have Force of Will, some lands, Dragon and another Standstill. I play the Dragon (assuming he has no removal that can hit it) and pass. I have 10 lands in play, 7 are tapped. He untaps, draws.

Roach: "Whatever, counter it... Cruel Ultimatum."

I can't counter it, I have no more blue cards. I sacrifice the dragon, discard everything but the Force, sacrifice my dragon and sigh for good measure. I look to my friend Clyde

"I'm never playing that dragon again. It never works out."

I draw the second dragon off the top, throw caution into the wind, and play it. He untaps, and plays a second Cruel Ultimatum. I concede.

Getting anally fisted kind of hurts.

[Bourgeoise]

I have Force of Will, some lands, Dragon and another Standstill.

Is standstill not a blue card? Also, wouldn't you have just played the standstill if dragon resolved?

[Jak]

Is standstill not a blue card? Also, wouldn't you have just played the standstill if dragon resolved?

I was thinking the exact same thing.

[Julian23]

Is standstill not a blue card? Also, wouldn't you have just played the standstill if dragon resolved?

Maybe he was holding it back io2 make sure he could cast Force in case something unexpected happened!

:eek:

[J.V.]

I'm playing against combo elves with Dreadstill, he goes off turn 3 and gets to storm 22 grapeshot, I trickbind the grapeshot and he passes. I top deck E.E. like a champion, E.E. at one, blow it he is left with a board of Forest, Forest, Gaea's Cradle, 2x Elvish Visionary. I waste his Gaea's Cradle and pass, he dies to his upkeep Summoner's Pact trigger.

[SpatulaOfTheAges]

Dude, I won a game with Solidarity. And had a once Tier 1 deck named after it.

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[Citrus-God]

Dude, I won a game with Solidarity. And had a once Tier 1 deck named after it.

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That poor guy had his Nausea answered, and had a Tier 4 deck named after it.

[SpatulaOfTheAges]

Ouch. I would hate to be Roopey right now.

[GreenOne]

That deck was da bomb.

Talking about Nausea, obv.

[quicksilver]

That deck was da bomb.

Talking about Nausea, obv.

Oh speaking of nausea. Roopy was playing it once against me. I beat him game 1 with discard. He was on the play game two and wasn't going to let my discard kill him again. So he goes off turn 1, tendriling me for 16 and passes the turn with a helm of awakening in play. I get to abuse helm and use my discard to make him discard the cards he is drawing for his turns. Also after I get to abuse the helm I destroy it once I no longer need it and before it can do him any good. I win the game and he has nothing.

[Jak]

I Nicol Bolas'd ANT with 3 islands in play.

He knew I was playing Solidarity after Duressing me turn one. On turn three he goes for it playing out his whole hand, Ritual, Rite of Flame, LED, Brainstorm... and then he tries to go for Infernal Tutor cracking LED and leaving 7 mana in his pool. I play High Tide and tap my other two islands to play the Cryptic Command I had drawn the last turn.

He takes 7 and "discards" his hand.

[Pulp_Fiction]

I Nicol Bolas'd ANT with 3 islands in play.

He knew I was playing Solidarity after Duressing me turn one. On turn three he goes for it playing out his whole hand, Ritual, Rite of Flame, LED, Brainstorm... and then he tries to go for Infernal Tutor cracking LED and leaving 7 mana in his pool. I play High Tide and tap my other two islands to play the Cryptic Command I had drawn the last turn.

He takes 7 and "discards" his hand.

That happens to all combo players on occassion, nature of the beast ... sometimes the opponent rips it off the top right before you go all in knowing you are pretty safe. I have taken 3-6 to the face quite a few times, mainly with Belcher though.

[gravemind123]

I was playing a Merfolk mirror-match yesterday and decided to keep a one-land hand that had an LoA, Reejery, Cursecatcher, Vial, Force of Will, Daze and island. I manage to resolve a Vial turn one, then top-deck another and resolve it, then topdeck a third and resolve it. I get them set at 1, 2 and 3 and vial out more merfolk than my opponent can play and win without the second land.

[TheInfamousBearAssassin]

I was playing Snow-Monowhite at a big Standard tournament last Summer (yeah, I know).

I was playing against black white rebels in one of the last few rounds. You know that trouble was brewing because this was something like the 3-2-2 bracket. Or maybe it was 3-1-2, I don't recall. Prizes went down pretty far (I think this was the Polar Bear God memorial tourny) so we were playing it out.

It was game 3 and I had Adarkar Valkyrie out against a bunch of Rebels. Yes, these were Time Spiral Rebels. Anyway, I thought about who to steal before Wrathing and decided on Blightspeaker. (http://sales.starcitygames.com//carddisplay.php?product=44189)

On his turn he plays another tutoring rebel guy. I draw a land and pass the turn. He drops another rebel and passed the turn. I drew land and he tutors end of my turn for Mirror Entity, which will completely wreck me.

I tell him to hold on a second; I tap Blightspeaker and search my library for a Rebel. He, and my friend Kyle who's watching, wonder what in the Hell rebels I'm playing in a sweeper heavy MWC deck, and I drop...

Mother fucking Crib Swap (http://sales.starcitygames.com//carddisplay.php?product=47217).

There was a round of wild high-fives before the Judge was consulted and it was determined that you can't actually put instants into play, but damn, that was one classy ass almost victory.


After that was probably the game I won at GP Columbus, facing down lethal damage with Hulk-Flash with the combo, two Daze, and Carrion Feeder in hand and only two land. I needed to drop Carrion Feeder into play while casting Flash, but only had two mana- so I cast Carrion Feeder, Dazed it to return an Underground Sea, then dazed the Daze returning my other land. Played my land for the turn with one mana floating and cast Flash. It was gangbusters.

[Aleksandr]

After that was probably the game I won at GP Columbus, facing down lethal damage with Hulk-Flash with the combo, two Daze, and Carrion Feeder in hand and only two land. I needed to drop Carrion Feeder into play while casting Flash, but only had two mana- so I cast Carrion Feeder, Dazed it to return an Underground Sea, then dazed the Daze returning my other land. Played my land for the turn with one mana floating and cast Flash. It was gangbusters.



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I like it! A lot!

[elof]

Ah... the old Daze my Daze trick. It's really tricky, but a good opponent would have Spell Snared the last Daze :P

[FredMaster]

Ah... the old Daze my Daze trick. It's really tricky, but a good opponent would have Spell Snared the last Daze :P
Yeah right, that's much better than just Spell Snaring the Flash itself.

[elof]

Yeah right, that's much better than just Spell Snaring the Flash itself.

I didn't say that, but it would still have won the match :)

[TheInfamousBearAssassin]

Technically, it would be better, rather than letting me replay the island and possibly have another Daze backup; presumably if I'm casting the Carrion Feeder I don't play a second, since otherwise I would've had double Daze backup to the Flash.

He was playing Terrageddon though, so it hardly mattered.

[Gaius Darkfire]

This isnt Legacy, but it stands out the most for me.

There were three of us, so we did a 3-way form of Time Spiral limited, where we each had one pack and put in 2 of each basic and start at 10 life, see who wins. We don't look through out packs before we play, and turns out that my pack is a dud; terrible creatures and piss-poor rare, so my friends fight it out while I sit ready to die. One finishes the other off, and I take my turn. Since I hadnt done any combat yet, all of my lands and creatures were still in play.

So I draw my card and play Coalition Victory.

[elof]

Haha, another one on the same topic:

Two friends of mine play mini-master. It works like this, each player starts with 15 basics, 3 of each and the player starting draws a card. So they each have a booster of savoirs and my first friend goes first and draws some random skank card and says goes. My friend rips Myojin of Infinite Rage (http://www.svenskamagic.com/showcard.php?popup_id=14528) which means he destorys all lands so my first friends scoops it up. They decide to play again and my second friend has Myojin again! So my first says: Hey, I didn't get to cut your "deck", so they reshuffle and... Myojin of Infinite Rage is still on top!

1/15 x 3 :)

[Resist_Temptation]

My most epic victory was i played a standard list with relentless rats, and 3 copies of corrupt because i ran out of rats for the main deck. I ended up taking 4th out of a good number of peopleand i had g1 a runed halo played against me g2 yet another runed halo and third round a story circle...Needless to say the only person i ended up losing too put down the fourth copy of runed halo i had seen that day but named corrupt.

[quicksilver]

I was playing RGBSA against goblins. I had thrown some mishra's factories in the SB. I sided them in against goblins. He got mana screwed and I just played two factories and beat him with that. I won with RGBSA vs goblins with niether of us casting a spell the whole game.

[CallMeLiam]

I'm playing my Naya highlander deck with all sorts of stupid stuff in it, and he's got a mono blue milling deck. I rolled him over game one with fat and so I said for game two, because I loves the irony I'll win by decking him. The game lasts a while, and then he taps out to unleash 4 Brain Freezes in one turn to put my entire library into the graveyard. Eek. He starts getting smug and then I say:
"OK. I'll let all the copies but one resolve and then with the last one still on the stack I'll tap my scroll rack, and put a card from hand on top of my deck. Last copy of Brain Freeze resolves?"
"Sure"
"OK, it flips Gaea's Blessing into the yard and my whole graveyard is shuffled back in."
"Countered" He tries a Counterspell.
I explain the rules.
He sighs and then waits 25 turns to die while I sit wiping the board by recurring Jiwari\Arashi and channeling them. Good times.