Worst game punt/play mistake ever!

[rockout]

I liked the classy victory thread so much that hopefully the opposite side of the coin will yield awesome.

Story 1:
My teammate: Wasteland targeting opponents land (probably a trop)
His Opponent: BS in response while retaining priority cast daze targeting BS and return the trop being targeted by wasteland.
My teammate: Cast Spell Snare targeting daze and his response was, "Wait what?"

Story 2: Landstil vs Epic Painter (Matt McNally)
I have EE @ 2 on the board with a swords in my hand and 2 mana untapped. He has painter, grindstone and 3 mana untapped. Him having three mana open did not register in my head at all. He passes the turn I go set off EE @ 2 at end step and he responds with grinding me. I also did not realize I had academy ruins in play and could have possibly put EE on top to stop the deck but I proceeded to scoop it up.

[Nihil Credo]

I'm playing UWb Landstill against U/W Vial Fish. It's the second game, I have won the first. I'm at 2, with a full hand including multiple FoWs and a Cunning Wish. I have Humility in play and lots of lands, all tapped.

My opponent plays Meddling Mage. I think about Forcing it, then decide to let it resolve since I can just Wish into Pulse of the Fields and easily ignore the 1/1 beatdown, and i can hardcast the FoWs to protect that instead.

I say "Ok, resolves". The opponent asks how Mage works under Humility. I tell him that he still names a card, but the ability doesn't do anything until Humility leaves the table.

He says "Ok", thinks for a bit, and names Cunning Wish.

Two turns later, I die to 1/1 beatdown with Wish still in hand and "uncastable".

I only realise my brain fart after losing game three.

[Waikiki]

Uhm, why not wish? since humility shuts MM down?

<edit>
Thought the fart was the fow

[Master Shake]

Playing Fetchland Tendrils against Goblins in game 3, I get kind of a slow start, but I'm on the draw so I'm hoping that it will improve. Thankfully my opponent's first turn is Fanatic, followed by more two more fanatics and finally Warchief and some more guys. After turn 4 from his attacking [And his pointless sacrificing of three Mogg Fanatics to deal me 3 damage!] and my fetching I'm at 1 life. but I have the combo ready to go Via Top with Tendrils as my second card down and a IGG in hand. I start counting storm at the end of his turn and satisfied with how this will go I confidently untap. Draw Fetch with my Flooded Strand and lose the game. Not only did I lose the game from state based effects, but even had I lived, I would have shuffled away my win.

Also, playing in the Landstill Mirror: Game 1, I'm way ahead and feeling pretty good about where this game is going. My opponent breaks my Standstill with a Brainstorm digging trying to find cards that matter. I start counting the cards to myself as I draw them, "One, two, three, four..."
My opponent says, "Wait." as I start to draw the fifth. Because I was counting the cards out I was preparing to draw seven cards. And that's the day I started laying my cards on the table before I draw them. I won that match anyway, that's in my classy wins thread, because it was a very classy win.

[Ectoplasm]

Playing goblins against some survival rock deck, I cast cabal therapy, recast cabal therapy flashbacking it with my lackey, proceed to swing with 4 men and get raped by the hailstorm which was in my opponent's hand all the time, including twice when resolving cabal therapy.

Yeah, brainlag.

[Taurelin]

SwanThresh (me) vs StifleNought.

He has Nought on the field, I'm down @7 life or something.

EoT I activate Sensei, seeing Tropical, Fetchland + some irrelevant stuff. I put Fetch on top, go in my turn, draw, play Fetch, activate Fetch.

He Stifles.

I die with 2 lands in play and a Krosan Grip in my hand... :cry:

[Raider Bob]

Game 3 Landstill(Me) vs Dragon Stompy during round 4 at the grand prix.


I open hand my seven cards Polluted delta, Wrath of god, StandStill, Brainstorm, Decree of Justice, Decree of Justice, Ajani

I Mull Fearing a turn one Bloodmoon Effect. And no second Land

I Open hand hand 2

Polluted Delta, Wasteland, Brainstorm, Standstill, Standstill, STP

I mull down to 5 thinking I had virtually the same hand(Due to the polluted delta) and realize I punted the round by mulling.

[emidln]

I lost 3 byes in a GPT finals playing Sun Tower because I forgot to activate Barbarian Ring before playing my land for the turn with Crucible (losing myself threshold and 2 Damage). I go on to lose the game in a very close race (against a Goblins player who I crushed 2-0 in swiss) where my opponent finished at 1 life.

There's also the time at GP: Chicago where I shuffled away my Sensei's Divining Top due to stacking things backwards in round 6 instead of winning the game. That was a bit awkward for a game 3 (and my second loss of the day), especially considering I was setting up the exact same line of play that won me game two after a long war of attrition with Dreadstill.

[Jak]

Uhm, why not wish? since humility shuts MM down?

Ha that was his mistake.

[jakolhops]

I have a really bad mistake that i made playing Gofysligh in a Tourny. My opponent had Moat and a handfull of counter and a COP-Red. I have a handfull of burn and several land and a goyf on the table. I draw an out a krosan grip! I grip the moat and swing in for the attack. My opponent FOF inot brainstorm to find a swords and plows my goyf.

If i had just griped the COP-red i would have won. But im so used to gripping moats i just completly brainfarted and forgot to grip the Cop.

derrrrr


forgot to say he was at 1 life.

[cwt1220]

I was playing against Tombstone with Imperial Painter. After he swords a turn 1 painter, I went turn 2 recruiter fetching a magus of the moon. He taps savannah, bayou, and tundra on his turn to e. witness back a STP, and passes the turn back to me. I then draw for the turn, play a land and swing with recruiter, and for some reason passed the turn back not playing magus of the moon, when my opponent tapped out 3 non-basics. I lose the match 1-2, and didn't make top 16. Epic Fail on my part.

-Chris-

[stuckpixel]

Here are two epic punts from one tourney(winning either match would have put me in T8)

- Against aggro-loam, I decide to let Seismic Assault resolve when I have FoW in hand. As one would expect, he proceeds to ping my merfolk to death and then me.

- Sideboarding in against Meathooks, I decide to side in 5 BEB/Hydroblasts. For some reason I thought I was playing burn and that these spells would in fact, counter all his blue spells. It was pretty awesome when I tried to BEB his Crystalline Sliver.

[Jaynel]

I didn't mulligan.

[JeroenC]

Well, it wasn't my loss, but my opponent's, but it was pretty funny (though probably not as much as when you're there):
I'm piloting Faerie Stompy against Quinn. I took the first game without any problems, second game he stole with a huge amount of luck (bad player, didn't seem to realise the synergy of Top+Scrying Sheets) and the third game, I was beating down with a Serendib Efreet with a SoLaS attached. He's thinking for a while, makes a movement as if he's going to ask me something, but changes his mind and raises his hand.
"Judge!"
He's ask the judge, after thinking about his phrasing for a while, "if I an equipment gives protection from white, and I make it white, will it fall off?". The judge thinks for a while and so I proceed to say (he's a friend of mine) 'yes it will fall off, other cards that grant protection from a color always have the "this doesn't affect CARDNAME" text. ' However, his question makes it clear that he's going to play a Painter's Servant, and I try my very best not to smile(you'll see why).
The judge thinks for a while and says that I'm right. We're just about the last guys to finish the round, so there's a lot of people watching as he taps a Scrying Sheets, thinks for one more second, taps a Snow-Covered plains and plays the Painter's Servant, naming White (I knew he had a StP in hand, and I had no Chalice@1).
I smile, take my cards into my left hand and point to the table with my right hand, index and middle finger extended.
"Chalice@2, countered?"
He watches, perplexed, and scoops up his cards. I stand up and the judge high-fives me before I extend my hand. "Good game, too bad about the mistake man." "No problem, I had fun."

The perfect opponent- fun and bad enough to lose to me. ^^

[Funky-kun]

I don't know if this counts, as it's not Legacy, it is Extended Emperor (3 vs 3). Anyway I'm playing Hearbeat Desire an tapout on T3 to play Heartbeat of Spring, resulting in both my teammates being dead when I untap and all my opponents being tapped out. I proceed to combo off so I can kill all the three of them, and Desire and FOF so much, that I draw all my deck (Desire and FOF don't kill you when you have no cards in the deck). So with all my might I say: "Brain Freeze, in resp. Remand it back"... and die to the "draw a card" in Remand. :(

[Sanguine Voyeur]

During Extended PTQs, I was playing Heartbeat Desire. I'm an attack phase away from death, when I top deck a Cunning Wish. If I wish for Early Harvest, I could win, except I have no Forests. Instead, I wish for Moment's Peace so I can cast it this turn and the next to stall until I draw one more land and combo out.

[spirit of the wretch]

German Legacy Championship 07.
I'm in 5/0/1 in an 8 round tourney and need just one more win to score top8. I play Ichorid versus Standstill.
Everything goes smooth, I dredge like a pro, clear his hand of all the relevant stuff with Therapies, make a bunch of Zombies and say go. On his turn, he plays the "irrelevant" Standstill, breaks it and decks me! Frowntown big time. I proceed to lose the two next matches as I deserve it...

[Piceli89]

This is an "incredible luck" episode.
Playing TES.
I'm at 13.
Resolve Nausea, in order i flip:
1)Igg, 2)Tendrils, 3)Ad Nauseam.

GG

[Atwa]

In the second round in the Dutch Legacy Championship I was playing with Angel Stompy against a Goblin player. It is game 3 and the game looks pretty good for me.

I have a Silver Knigh in play with a Pariah on it with 3 Plains, a Chrome Mox and an Ancient Tomb in play and I'm slowly killing him. The round before I played against the guy who would win the whole thing (which made Terrageddon a worldwide know deck) in some serious difficult games and I didn't have the time to smoke a cigarette between round.

Seeing I have basicly won the match, I decide to play the Exalted Angel I've just drawn. I still don't know who I did it, but for some reason I hardcast the Angel. Which is pretty stupid, since I could have also put it into play face down and morph it the next turn before attacking.

Now I had to tap Ancient Tomb, I have to redirect 2 colourless damage to my Sliver Knight which dies, and I die from an all out assault the next turn.

Smoking kills.....

[pw709]

I smile, take my cards into my left hand and point to the table with my right hand, index and middle finger extended.
"Chalice@2, countered?"
He watches, perplexed, and scoops up his cards. I stand up and the judge high-fives me before I extend my hand. "Good game, too bad about the mistake man." "No problem, I had fun."

The perfect opponent- fun and bad enough to lose to me. ^^

I hate people like this.

I know I'm at a tournament, but this kind of blatant smugness is just so unappealing. To me it's the same as trolling a forum or swindling an oblivious little kid in a trade.

[MasterC]

German Legacy Champs 2008

After a promising 2-0 start with Dragon Stompy I face Simon "vanPhanel" Ritzka playing Solidarity (later he'll finish on 2nd place)

After I've won the first game, things are looking good in game 2.
I have a chalice@1 on the table and decent pressure with 2 gathan raiders (one morphed). I have 2 cards in hand. Another Gathan Raiders and something irrelevant. I decide to play the third Raider and discard the last card to attack with 2 unmorphed hellbent Gathan Raiders for lethal damage.
Then he casts echoing truth.
That one set me so far off track that I forgot to replay one of the Raiders in my postcombat main phase (had enough mana).
Finally I lose the game because of being one turn too slow.
Needless to say that I lose G3 as well and end up with a 3-3 drop.

[Di]

At the first Dual Land Draft in Syracuse I was playing Dragon standing at 4-1, if I won the round I was in top8. During game 3 and go off with lethal staring at me next turn. I managed to sideboard out all my win conditions and decked myself using Bazaar looking for them.

[Skeggi]

Okay, I got another one... I'm playing a quick thrown-together UGWB chaserare.deck with a bunch of Dark Confidants, EE's, Dreadnoughts, Tarmogoyfs and stuff like that. I was playing against Landstill and my opponent had a Meddling Mage and Elspeth in play. Elspeth produced a token. I had a Jotun Grunt who really wanted to beat Elspeth. So I play Engineered Explosives@0 to blow up the token, and proceed to attack. He chumps with Meddling Mage. Next turn, another token. I play another EE@0 to blow it up and swing with Jotun Grunt, but Elspeth only drops to 2 and survives. Elspeth makes another token to block Jotun Grunt. Eventually the Grunt dies to empty graveyards and I'm stuck facing Elspeth and a 4/4 flying soldier pounds me every turn.

I lost game 3 here. Since we were the only ones left playing that round there was quite a crowd. When it was over, they all asked me why I didn't play that Engineered Explosives for 4, to blow up Elspeth. I thought for a while, and began to wonder the same thing. It simply didn't occur to me Engineered Exlosives also killed Planeswalkers. Silly, dumb me. I won't make that mistake again :wink:.

[Elf_Ascetic]

I was playing ANT in a 69 ppl tourney in Hasselt, Belgium. 7 Rounds of swiss in total, and after 5 round, I needed one win the next two rounds to make the T8.

At some point in G1, I duressed my opponent, seeing Wasteland, Mongeese, Volcanic, Force, Daze, Stifle. Ok, so he was playing Canadian Threshold. I picked his Fow, and proceeded card Dark Ritual, Ritual, Petal, Brainstorm, Petal, Ponder, etc. up to Tendrils for 20. The whole time playing around Daze. Then he looks at me, and says "Stifle Tendrils". Damn, I was so focussed checking my notes for Counterspells, I totally overlooked Stifle.

G3 I lost due this play: EOT him: Chant? No FoWbait, so I go for Mystical Tutor for Ad, while having LED in Play. Playing the Chant in my upkeep would have lost to Fow + Daze, while this play does not. Anyway, I put Ad on the top, float some mana, and my opponent plays Predict. On me. I knew my opponent wasn't the best player, but I figured out he just netdecked some Canadian deck, and was totally unprepared for Predict.

Of course, I lost the next round to a capable Canadian Thresh player who has topdecks tha brokeness twice. (including a 1/10th chanche for topdecking a winning Counterspell)

Damn I was close!

[elof]

In vintage, I hold a hand of 2 FoW, 2 blue cards, Tinker + artifacts for Tinker. My opponent plays a Kird Ape that resolves and I draw my card for the turn and it is: Darksteel Colossus. My only Tinker target. I lose later on to Kird Ape.

[JeroenC]

I hate people like this.

I know I'm at a tournament, but this kind of blatant smugness is just so unappealing. To me it's the same as trolling a forum or swindling an oblivious little kid in a trade.

What? Honestly, if he's going to forget about my Chalice @2 then I have the right to be at least slightly smug. I don't know what your problem is exactly, but I'm just about the friendliest person you'll ever play a game of Legacy against. But I'm still playing to win, I'm not going to give something like this away if the opponent doesn't see it. Your accusations are completely off base.

[Master Shake]

In vintage, I hold a hand of 2 FoW, 2 blue cards, Tinker + artifacts for Tinker. My opponent plays a Kird Ape that resolves and I draw my card for the turn and it is: Darksteel Colossus. My only Tinker target. I lose later on to Kird Ape.

I don't see how this one qualifies as a play error. Embarrassing perhaps, but not really a mistake on your part.

[clavio]

I forgot to put a leyline of the void into play.

[4eak]

I saw a game winning Obliterate get mana leaked, and none of us realized it until after the match.






peace,
4eak

[quicksilver]

Here are a couple mistakes not from me:

I was playing previous level blue at an extended grand prix in philly. I get paired against Ichorid first round. I have nothing maindeck for it. I land a shackles and untap with it. Next turn he brings back two ichorids and dredges to get have three bridges in the yard. He goes to attack phase and I steal an ichorid. He scoops. He didn't realize that the ichorid I control still goes to his graveyard and not only will his bridges not get removed but he still gets tokens from both ichorids. I then win the match.

I was in vestal watching a painter's stone mirror, both playing maindeck rebs. Player A has nothing but some land and 2 REBS in hand. Player B has out a grindstone and an academy ruins. EOT player B puts a painter on top of his library, draw it for his turn and plays it naming blue(with no rebs in hand). Activates grindstone and gets his painter REBed. Player A then draws a grindstone of his own and plays it. Player B puts the painter on top of his library, draws it plays it and again names blue (with no rebs in hand). He then activates grindstone. In response player A activates his stone, mills player B's library and then blasts the painter and mills 2 cards. Player B tries to academy ruins on his next turn but then it gets grinded and he dies. Player B literally could not lose that game unless he named blue, TWICE.

Again in vestal in the side event for top 2. RGBSA playing against affinity. The affinity guys misses 2 disciple triggers and loses with his opponent at two life. Even with that mistake he has the win on board, he swings in to a tapped out opponent. He gets his ravager blocked and all he has to do is sac it and modular to the enforcer. Instead he doesn't and loses.

[frogboy]

What? Honestly, if he's going to forget about my Chalice @2 then I have the right to be at least slightly smug.


I stand up and the judge high-fives me before I extend my hand.

This is a gigantic dick move.

The winner is actually just not allowed to say a damn thing unless the loser says something meriting a response. Running the "good game" is just about the biggest bag maneuver possible, although I think the high five might actually top it.


I hold a hand of 2 FoW, 2 blue cards, Tinker + artifacts for Tinker. My opponent plays a Kird Ape that resolves and I draw my card for the turn and it is: Darksteel Colossus. My only Tinker target.

Go, discard DSC, imo.

[Misplayer]

This is tough because I've punted many many matches (see user name). One of my more memorable misplays was when I had MUC vs Goblins. I win G1(!!!) and G2 I get him stuck on 3 lands with double Propaganda. Meanwhile I'm doing nothing. He has 2 Lackey, Vial at 5, Ringleader. Eventually, he Vials in Siege-Gang. I had just played a Powder Keg and blow it 0 thinking "3x tokens are more food for SGC than 2x Lackey". Regardless, I have another Keg in my grip. I Sower of Temptation his Siege-Gang to prevent shenanigans. Next turn he Extirpates Keg after my draw step. FUDGE. My hand shows 2x Shackles, Counterspell, Sower, Keg and Morphling. I play Sower on Ringleader(?) and go to Flying beats. Next turn he Therapies on Shackles, Flashback on Morphling. DOUBLE FUDGE. I’m flying in for 4 a turn until he finds siege-gang. Vials it in (I'm holding counters, naturally). He shoots my sowers, and burns me down. All with a double-Propaganda "lock" on the board. Blowing P-Keg at 1 instead of 0 likely wins me the game and the match. We go to time G3 and draw.

I also sideboarded terribly. Magic is hard.

[elof]

Go, discard DSC, imo.

That's true, either I missed it or I didn't think of it.

At another point I forgot to brainstorm back my DSC :(

I have broken my on standstill att several times and I probebly done alot of other mistakes :(

[Di]

Oh, here's another gem. GP Philly, round 8. I'm playing Turboland against MUC. I was 5-0-2 and practically a shoe in for day 2. I won game 1 by a blowout. Game 2 I end up tapping out on my turn to Burning Wish for Hull Breach. Next turn he plays Chalice for 2. My hand at this point was Hull Breach, Stifle, Gaea's Blessing, 2 Counterspell, Constant Mists, Time Warp. I wasn't aware at the time that Chalice would be Stifled, and I never Hull Breached the Chalice. I lost that game and my day2 seat with 5 2cc cards and the win in my hand. I then proceeded to mull to 5 game 3 and lose the round in final 5 turns. FML.

[Jeff Kruchkow]

I believe I am about to win (lose?) this thread:

At GP Chicago I was x-2 in the last round, match score was 1-1 me playing TES and him playing GUb thresh. He has no cards in hand after stopping me once and 2 big goys that are now lethal. However, I top the rite of flame to combo off. I start to play out mana and accidentally shuffle and put a rite instead of pyroblast under chrome mox. Due to this I lose and don't make day 2. Frowntown: Population, Me.

[pw709]

What? Honestly, if he's going to forget about my Chalice @2 then I have the right to be at least slightly smug. I don't know what your problem is exactly, but I'm just about the friendliest person you'll ever play a game of Legacy against. But I'm still playing to win, I'm not going to give something like this away if the opponent doesn't see it. Your accusations are completely off base.

Okay, maybe my choice of words was poor. I hate people who act that way, when they act that way.

The guy obviously feels bad about what he did, as would anyone, and you couldn't have found a better way to rub it in.

Rather than letting a decent guy know that "I've been there", you decided to let him know that "I would never make such a mistake, and you are an idiot who handed me a win for doing so. My 'impartial' judge friend obviously agrees with me."

You don't have to take it personally; I don't know you at all outside of a single post, but I still do hate when people act like that.

[JeroenC]

Yeah, but you're still seeing this wrong. The guy thought it was funny himself, he laughed at it. I honestly wouldn't ever mock someone who feels bad about a mistake they made.
Where we were in the tournament (neither of us any chance of making any prizes), I usually offer to play the match on from where the mistake was made, but he said it himself that it was a huge mistake+he didn't have any other outs+ we were the last to finish the round, pretty much. It's been a while, so I might have exaggerated certain actions, but I'm sure you could ask the guy and he'd probably confirm that I wasn't a prick.

If you're here, dude, and I was, my sincerest apologies. I honestly never mean to hurt anyone (least of all people who don't deserve it) and I really liked playing against you.

[rockout]

So you pointed at chalice with your middle finger? And then you high fived a judge? You are lucky the guy wasn't awesome and dive across the table at you.

[JeroenC]

I pointed at the Chalice with two fingers. Huuuuuge difference. The high fiving was slightly later. It's been a while, I might have honestly mixed some stuff up. I might have high fived someone else. I might have high fived him later. I might not have. But seriously, what will it take for you guys to believe me? I was completely friendly, 100%, as I always try to be. I talked to the guy after the game, no hard feelings. Bought him a drink after the tournament (we both had a friend in T8), no hard feelings. If he's not blaming me, what will it take for you guys to realise I wasn't doing anything wrong?
Of course I felt good about it, things like that just feel good when you see them coming. Since when is that a crime?

[pw709]

I think we can drop it here.

You were obviously caught up in the moment and took advantage of your "superiority" that game.

A lot of Magic players live for those moments when they're the smart one. However, during those times it's easy to forget just how bad you are. The only thing I personally don't like, that which evoked my initial reply, was the smugness factor.

I try to take my wins the same way I take my beats. But that's just me.

[Jak]

Realizing I needed to stop a Goyf that would kill me in its next attack, I put a Vedalken Shackles on top of my library to steal it and hopefully win since we were both at low life. I had a Bob in play and was at 3 life...

I make a ton of misplays but that was probably the worst.

[Pulp_Fiction]

I chastise the hell out of myself if I make some kind of error, but I am quite a methodical player even though I play fast. Being a combo player and playing decks that punish bad decisions I don't make very many mistakes but this was so horrible it hurts:

I was playing Aggro Loam against Paintergarbage.dec and they milled me out. I had Bayou, Taiga, and Volrath's Stronghold in play and asked if they were done. At his EOT I flashed back my sideboard Krosan Reclamation (still love this shit) and shuffled Krosan Grip and Krosan Grip into my library. On my turn I drew Grip and said go. On his turn he did nothing and on his EOT I put Terravore back on top with Stronghold because I noticed that in 1 swing it killed him and was only thinking about being milled once! I drew Terravore, cast it, and passed the turn content with winning next turn. On my EOT he milled Krosan Grip away and I realized how fucking dumb I was right there. Total brain fart, I had the damn game won because of my sideboard tech but I fucking punted it HARD! Then with my 29/29 Terravore in play and no library I activate Stronghold with draw step on the stack only to be milled and lose ... I still beat myself up over this for just how blatantly dumb it was!

[elof]

Okey, I have one. About 1,5 year ago I had almost quit playing legacy (mostly because I played flash-hulk in vintage and liked that deck better) but I did a tornament and first game my slivers get paired with landstill (a good matchup at the time, I had 4 cryst and 4 hibernation). I don't remember what happened the first turns but in his second turn I have a tapped blue dual and a blue fetch in play and he has a dual and plays a wasteland, targeting my dual. I then try to fetch and he stifles. I lost both my lands and lose the game later due to the tempo loss and landstall.

The kicker?

It took me a couple of turns before I realize I had a Daze in hand, I could have Dazed the stifle and bounce my own land. Soon after, I droped from the tornament...

[Elfrago]

I don't see how this one qualifies as a play error. Embarrassing perhaps, but not really a mistake on your part.

One of my opponent once did the same, passed without playing anything, discards and shuffles Colossus in his deck. On his next turn he draws Colossus again! :laugh:

And, in the same tournament, one of my opponent had Chalice @ 1 on board. I have kataki and some random dude on board. He then proceeds to untap, pay Chalice upkeep, Cunning Wishes for Firestorm, discards two cards and points Firestorm to Kataki and the other creature. I point at his Chalice :laugh: .

[Pinder]

So this one time, I was playing FEB.

That's it.















Okay, so for the full story, the details are a little fuzzy, but the essence remains the same. I have a Shapeshifter in play that's a 0/1 because there's a Birds on the top of my graveyard. My opponent is at 1 and has no dudes. For some reason I need to topdeck something in order to be able to swing and kill him this turn, because I'm going to die soon or something. I topdeck an Eternal Witness and think "Sweet! I can regrowth the Dreadnaught in my yard, play it, not sac anything, and when it dies I'll swing for 12!" instead of "Hey, maybe I should pay 2 mana and discard this to win". So I play the Eternal Witness, and he counters it.

Are you ready for this?

I sigh that my plan didn't work out, and start picking up my cards DESPITE THE FACT THAT I NOW HAVE A 2/1 ON THE TABLE AND HE'S AT 1 LIFE AND HAS NO CREATURES AAAAARARRRRHRRGH.

[pw709]

Haha, I like that one Pinder...

[rockout]

I was playing Landstill vs Quinn and its game 2. I won game 1. I have complete and utter board position with Elspeth and lethal next turn with 5 lands untapped with ee @ 2 gripping double force. He has top and lands with 3 cards in hand. He plays Abeyance with 2 cards in hand. I think for a second and say, "Ok." He proceeds to go painter + grindstone and I proceed to go to a really bad place called the fail zone. My thought when he abeyanced me is, "There is no way he can kill me this turn."

[LegacyDan]

So this happened tonight at the local draft:

Round 2, we are tied at one game a piece. It is the 5th turn after time is called and the score is me: 21 with a Glassdusk Hulk and extractor Demon out , him: 3 with a Paragon of the Amesha and some minor 2/2s. I play an Artifact making the Hulk Unblockable and declare an attack with Hulk/Demon. He activates the Paragon (I forgot to check if he had it before attacking), blocks the Demon, First Strike/Lifelink goes off putting him at 8 life. My lonely Hulk hits home for 4 life and the round ends as a tie.

Lesson learned, ALWAYS check your opponets side before attacking!!!! GRRRR!!!!

[tyleredw]

At a local legacy tournament in VA:

I was playing Stax playing against Enchantress. Me being pretty tired, and already realizing that I had made many mistakes that day from not paying complete attention, i decide to make the dumbest play of the day (As if playing stax against enchantress wasn't bad enough already).

I had a slow start, and was mostly just going for some angel stompy style Exalted angel beats the whole game, with not much on the other side of the table except for some enchantresses, wild growths and a karmic justice. He was kinda drawing trash the whole game from his enchantresses, and it wasnt looking all that good for him at the time. However, the karmic justice on the board must have completely slipped my mind, as i decided to geddon while i have an opportunity to stunt him even further. Whoops. He clears my ENTIRE board, and im left with 0 permanents on the table for the entire rest of the game. I never draw another land. This also gives him ample time to draw into what he needed, and go off unhindered.

I never really liked stax anyway :(

[Wargoos]

Pro Tour Berlin Legacy Sideevent.
I'm 3-2 with Imperial Painter.
Third game against Belcher.
He mulligans twice and starts with 5 cards.
I am on the play.
I go: Ancient Tomb, Painter's Servant , go.
Him: *draw card* , play LED go.
ME: HARHARA, *draw card* PLAY MOUNTAIN; TAP LANDS PLAY TRINISPHERE.
He reacts with an "Ooh.."
I was so happy, that I would beat the another Belcher down with a 1/3 Painter's Servant.
His Turn: *draw card* And Then He Goes: Remove ESG, Remove ESG, Remove SSG, Remove SSG, Play Goblin Charbelcher, Sacc LED, Activate Belcher, Remove 16 Top Cards 'til The Bayou...............................................................................................................................................................
I bit ma chair in half that point.

[rockout]

That's not really a play mistake he just luck sacked his balls off.

[Wargoos]

Well since this match was a defeat I dislike the idea of posting it in the victory thread ;p

[TrialByFire]

That's not really a play mistake he just luck sacked his balls off.

Who cares it was fucking awesome. We need a "My opponent lucksacked his balls off" thread anyways

[elof]

Who cares it was fucking awesome. We need a "My opponent lucksacked his balls off" thread anyways


Definetly!

I was playing against Elves! with slivers, we where both 2-0 in 5 rounds so whoever won this round whould be able to draw into top 8.

We both race win one game each and after alot of beats the situation is as following:

I will have leathal damage the next turn and he hasn't. I end the turn and ask him if what he need to win. After counting he says he needs to draw 2 lords. He plays 5 (4 perfect and 1 champion) and has a acolyte and a insect so he can draw 3 cards total with the draw phase. He draw perfetc, land and champion. I lose. I meet sligh and lose after drawing 3 vials in the last game. I meet a random BUW deck and it's tied at 1-1, I have leathal damage and he has 1 out (EE) and rips: EE.

Instead of going 3-0-2 I ended up going 2-3. FML

[quicksilver]

So one time Dave Gearhart was playing solidarity against goblins. He crushes him game 1. He sides out his forces for game two. He tries going off and the goblin player plays abeyance. And Dave says "ABEYANCE!!!???" and proceeds to lose. Game three he starts going off again. He's got force and beb in hand so he can force abeyance and still have beb to stop a reb. He starts going off and the goblin player reb's his spell. Dave them forces the reb. The goblin player then plays abeyance and Dave beb's the abeyance! Now the goblin player informs him that he cannot do this and that abeyance is a white spell, but Dave insists. Dave says "look, you are playing goblins. All your spells are red. Beb counters red spells. Abeyance is red and I am countering it." Sadly Dave was not joking, it took him a while to realize that beb cound not in fact counter abeyance. He then loses the game and thus the round.

[rockout]

FYI: I made a luck sack thread. BEB on Abeyance. That is some savage tech, I'm surprised his opponent did not just let him counter it because he was David Gearhart.

[quicksilver]

FYI: I made a luck sack thread. BEB on Abeyance. That is some savage tech, I'm surprised his opponent did not just let him counter it because he was David Gearhart.

I saw this lucksack thread. However this was definitly more of a game punt, not really any luck involved.

[rockout]

I saw this lucksack thread. However this was definitly more of a game punt, not really any luck involved.

True. I should have split up my post. I meant to say the luck sack thread was created in response to trialbyfire's post about it.

[Deep6er]

That was absolutely not my proudest moment. Also, it was totally a lucksack. The guy 'sacked into me being retarded. After all, I'd been playing flawlessly up to that point. I just wasn't used to playing Magic for so long (and doing so phenomenally well).

Goddamn I'm dumb sometimes (maybe more than that).

[rockout]

http://i444.photobucket.com/albums/qq166/rockoutMTG/LOL.jpg

Look at the picture and the game state. The bottom RG player cast shatterstorm and it was pretty much good game at that point. I top blue player cast condescend for 0 and the RG player didn't pay the 0 mana for condescend so shatterstorm got countered. What a frigging brain fart.

[Forbiddian]

Happened like two days ago:

I'm playing against burn. This guy casts Sulfuric Vortex. I haven't seen it before that I remember and I read the card over 5x and think about countering it because it'll stop me from gaining emergency life off of Swords (if I topdeck any). After a lot of deliberation, I decide instead that I should play around it and try to counter real burn or whatever as I'm also playing beatdown. He ends up dying to his own Sulfuric Vortex a few turns later. Woot.

Game 2, I have a Jitte up and running, and have the game completely won. He casts Sulfuric Vortex and I think about Forcing, but decide that with my four Jitte counters I can easily counter the 2 life per turn loss with more charge and I should again be a sneaky bastard and use the even card to help me beat him down faster. As I move to gain eight life the next turn, he points out that I can't gain any. Fuck!

[mercenarybdu]

keeping a countertop hand with two lands, only to make all the wrong plays in the following turns. From land screwage to playing standstill too early.

Learned that countertop in the opener isn't always as good as the pros claim all the time.

[Mayk0l]

I sigh that my plan didn't work out, and start picking up my cards DESPITE THE FACT THAT I NOW HAVE A 2/1 ON THE TABLE AND HE'S AT 1 LIFE AND HAS NO CREATURES AAAAARARRRRHRRGH.


I love how when you think you've lost you stop thinking, and make it true even though it's not. This kind of subconscious reasoning is awesome.
In this, yours is the most obvious Pinder. I love it!



I can't recall any specific situations, but I've done some really stupid stuff like breaking my own Standstill thinking I was going to manascrew him by Stifling his fetch (then, of course, he draws two lands); Mystical/Enlightened Tutoring for the only out in my deck and cracking a fetch in response to my opponent's playing something, equipping Jitte on Mongoose and repeating several times to my opponent that equipment doesn't target, until my opponent pointed out to me the word "target" on the Jitte (and I won that tournament too, lol, ridiculous).

Last tournament, we're 1-1 and far into game 3. I untap and am about to swing for the win to get into the Top8. I draw my card for the turn and the judge informs me that due to the rules enforcement of that particular tournament I'm getting a gameloss for forgetting the trigger of the Confidant I Sowered. Goddarn it. From now on, I'm back to playing with my Lifecounter on to of my deck.

I'm the kind of idiot that needs a gigantic ballpenned X on his hand to not forget something. Too bad outside-game notes aren't allowed, I'd scribble my entire arm.

[Maveric78f]

The worst play I did in a tourney was when I was playing a vial fish with 4 wastelands, 4 ports and 4 stifles against an aggro loam deck. My opponent is really in bad shape. I've got tarmo online, I kind of mana screw him and he can't find his LftL. He's got only 2 basic lands into play (forest and swamp) and I still have wasteland and port in play. Then at my big surprise he lands a Maze of Ith. I've been so surprised that, during the whole game, I could not figure out that I could waste/port that damn Maze. I've waited ages for my stifles and I eventually lost that game.

[georgjorge]

The worst play I did in a tourney was when I was playing a vial fish with 4 wastelands, 4 ports and 4 stifles against an aggro loam deck. My opponent is really in bad shape. I've got tarmo online, I kind of mana screw him and he can't find his LftL. He's got only 2 basic lands into play (forest and swamp) and I still have wasteland and port in play. Then at my big surprise he lands a Maze of Ith. I've been so surprised that, during the whole game, I could not figure out that I could waste/port that damn Maze. I've waited ages for my stifles and I eventually lost that game.

Ouch...now THAT hurts.

[Valdez]

A friend of mine, Alex Kimpel played @ the Legcy Tourney in Iserohn vs. a srcub, they were in the 5th extra turn of the 3rd game, the guy just had to say "go" to get the draw.

But he wantet to be a cool scrub, so he tapped his Ancient Tomb for manaburn to finish the game on 1 life, unfortunately he forgot, that the tomb causes 2 lifeloss and that he was on 3 life...

[Skeggi]

Did that guy fall through a dumb tree and hit every branch on the way down? Did he write the book 'Magic for Dummies'? Did he use a q-tip to clean his ear and forgot to stop where there's resistance? He must have some sort of brain damage. A lobotomy perhaps? He deserves to have lost that game :eek:

[Raider Bob]

A friend of mine, Alex Kimpel played @ the Legcy Tourney in Iserohn vs. a srcub, they were in the 5th extra turn of the 3rd game, the guy just had to say "go" to get the draw.

But he wantet to be a cool scrub, so he tapped his Ancient Tomb for manaburn to finish the game on 1 life, unfortunately he forgot, that the tomb causes 2 lifeloss and that he was on 3 life...

I like this Punt...Has 100 bazillion times Im the idiot that a normal punt has.


This was a lesson and a punt.

So I was playing 'Bang Bus' in a type one tourny(The deck that eventualy became long and has ported to TES in legacy) round 8 of Swiss all I need to do is go off to make top 8 and get some power well game 3 I punt hard and learn a valuable lesson in priority.

LED, LED, Lotus Petal In play Burning wish in my hand, so the play is Burning wish for Yag Will cast will break LED, LED pass priority hope Burning wish or the Yag Will wont get countererd. I Cast Burning wish it resolves I Cast Yawg Will say ok then say crack led he says no I was like um called a judge and learned about the new 6th edition rule and lose horrible cause I cant recast the LED's and will lose all the juicy cards in my hand.

SIDE NOTE: The guy who beat me had worse tie breakers than I did and came in 9th place where I would have made 5th with my breakers.

[Michael Keller]

It was November, 2003: Rochester 1.5 Legacy Championship.

I remember I was playing Sligh against Curtis Mortimer. I was tearing it up the whole day, and he was too (playing this 'new' deck "Chalice Black"). It was Game Three of the finals. After depleting my hand with some burn spells and knocking off his dudes, we both basically went into top-deck mode.

He drops Masticore. Well, fuck. I look in my hand, and I have Lightning Bolt and Incinerate. During his upkeep, he discards the card and at the end of his upkeep, I do this:

"Incinerate Masticore."

"Ok..."

"Lightning Bolt Masticore."

"Ok...regenerate him?"

I heard grumbling behind me, and I think Colin nearly dropped to his knees. I paused for a moment and reflected on what I had just done. Apparently the additional text on Incinerate can be moderately important when staring down Masticore.

Attention to detail, kids. Attention to detail.

[Van Phanel]

It was November, 2003: Rochester 1.5 Legacy Championship.

I remember I was playing Sligh against Curtis Mortimer. I was tearing it up the whole day, and he was too (playing this 'new' deck "Chalice Black"). It was Game Three of the finals. After depleting my hand with some burn spells and knocking off his dudes, we both basically went into top-deck mode.

He drops Masticore. Well, fuck. I look in my hand, and I have Lightning Bolt and Incinerate. During his upkeep, he discards the card and at the end of his upkeep, I do this:

"Incinerate Masticore."

"Ok..."

"Lightning Bolt Masticore."

"Ok...regenerate him?"

I heard grumbling behind me, and I think Colin nearly dropped to his knees. I paused for a moment and reflected on what I had just done. Apparently the additional text on Incinerate can be moderately important when staring down Masticore.

Attention to detail, kids. Attention to detail.


Where exactly is the punt aside from your opponent wasting 2 mana?

[Michael Keller]

Lethal damage was dealt with a Lightning Bolt to Masticore. He regenerated it. If lethal damage was dealt with Incinerate, guess what would happen?

[rockout]

Incinerate deals 3 damage to target creature or player. A creature dealt damage this way can't be regenerated this turn.

The creature shouldn't have been able to be regenerated anyway?

[kicks_422]

On MWS, playing Doomsday against UGW CB Thresh. He had a Counterbalance and Top in play, with a Meddling Mage on Tendrils of Agony and a Goyf, and two cards in hand. I was down to 2 after his Mage and Goyf attacked, had loads of land and a Top in play, and a hand of Krosan Grip, Mystical Tutor, 2 Dark Rituals, a Pyroblast, and an Orim's Chant.

I had a clear plan of what to do. At the end of his turn, I would Grip his Counterbalance and cast Mystical Tutor for Doomsday, with a Pyroblast ready in case he would Force it. Then on my turn, I would cast the Chant, cast the 2 Dark Rituals, Doomsday for a pile of Meditate, Helm of Awakening, SDT, Lotus Petal, and Grapeshot for the infinite storm win to circumvent the Mage in play. I knew I had the game won.

A the end of his turn, I proceeded to go to my turn and drew a card. I was so excited that I forgot to execute my plan.

[Michael Keller]

Incinerate deals 3 damage to target creature or player. A creature dealt damage this way can't be regenerated this turn.

The creature shouldn't have been able to be regenerated anyway?

That's how it went. A ruling was given that it was able to be regenerated because Incinerate did not "kill" the Masticore. I thought it was sort of b.s., but I understand the logic given on the ruling I suppose.

I got some clarification from my Syracuse buddies and they thought that perhaps Masticoe should have died because it was dealt damage by Incinerate anyways.

[rockout]

Round 4 of GP Chicago I'm playing against dreadstill. We had been sitting next to eachother almost every round up to this point so we knew exactly what the other person was playing. He goes T1 top, T2 balance, T3 stifle naught and I only have swords and vindicate with no counters to speak of. I'm thinking I might actually lose my first game against dreadstill. At his eot, I attempt to swords dreadnaught and he proceeds to get annoyed and completely forget his cb trigger or that he had top and a mana open to do whatever he needed to do to stop my swords. He was so crippled mentally that late into game 2 he asked to see my hand (he had no creatures and no hand): I was gripping force, ee x2, vindicate x2 and he scoops.

[rockout]

That's how it went. A ruling was given that it was able to be regenerated because Incinerate did not "kill" the Masticore. I thought it was sort of b.s., but I understand the logic given on the ruling I suppose.

That doesn't seem like the correct ruling. But, I guess I am mistaken.

[jthanatos]

Incinerate deals 3 damage to target creature or player. A creature dealt damage this way can't be regenerated this turn.


You got a bad ruling. Doesn't mention lethal damage anywhere.

[Skeggi]

That doesn't seem like the correct ruling. But, I guess I am mistaken.
As far as I know you are correct. A creature damaged by Incinerate can't regenerate that turn. It doesn't say anything about lethal damage or whatever. That's the ruling since 1995...

[Jujuhawk]

Well, it wasn't my loss, but my opponent's, but it was pretty funny (though probably not as much as when you're there):
I'm piloting Faerie Stompy against Quinn. I took the first game without any problems, second game he stole with a huge amount of luck (bad player, didn't seem to realise the synergy of Top+Scrying Sheets) and the third game, I was beating down with a Serendib Efreet with a SoLaS attached. He's thinking for a while, makes a movement as if he's going to ask me something, but changes his mind and raises his hand.
"Judge!"
He's ask the judge, after thinking about his phrasing for a while, "if I an equipment gives protection from white, and I make it white, will it fall off?". The judge thinks for a while and so I proceed to say (he's a friend of mine) 'yes it will fall off, other cards that grant protection from a color always have the "this doesn't affect CARDNAME" text. ' However, his question makes it clear that he's going to play a Painter's Servant, and I try my very best not to smile(you'll see why).
The judge thinks for a while and says that I'm right. We're just about the last guys to finish the round, so there's a lot of people watching as he taps a Scrying Sheets, thinks for one more second, taps a Snow-Covered plains and plays the Painter's Servant, naming White (I knew he had a StP in hand, and I had no Chalice@1).
I smile, take my cards into my left hand and point to the table with my right hand, index and middle finger extended.
"Chalice@2, countered?"
He watches, perplexed, and scoops up his cards. I stand up and the judge high-fives me before I extend my hand. "Good game, too bad about the mistake man." "No problem, I had fun."

The perfect opponent- fun and bad enough to lose to me. ^^

That's probably the scummiest post I've seen in awhile.

[Ectoplasm]

Game 3, 1-1 against Eva Green with RGB Goblins. I have a vial at 2, a warchief and a matron in hand and 3 lands + a ringleader on the table, he's at 6 life or so and I'm at some healthy 10+ total, he's got a tombstalker in play. He's thinking long and hard, and while doing this, I'm plotting my course of action: Crank vial to 3, drop chief, drop matron, find piledriver and swing for the win or at least trade it for the tombstalker.
He decides to swing with his stalker, I take it in the face, he passes, I proceed to forget putting a counter on the vial, drop a warchief and sigh 'maybe next turn', get my hand raped and lose.

[4eak]

Just out of curiosity, it is still legal to activate the regenerate ability after Incinerate resolved, it just wouldn't do anything, right? I mean, you would still be able to Bind (http://magiccards.info/in/en/182.html) it, right?






peace,
4eak

[CallMeLiam]

It'd be like hitting a Darksteel Collossus with a Dark Banishing I guess. Legal, but fruitless.

[rockout]

I luck sacked and my opponent made 2 mistakes.

I was playing landstill vs itf game 1. I get to the point were I have ee + academy ruins recursion and he has deed, witness, stronghold, goyf recursion. We recur our kill back and forth for 8 turns or so and go ee for 2, then ee for 3, then ee for 2 so that maybe he will get annoyed and make a play mistake or error that I can draw in between the recursion. He finally makes the mistake of tapping his stronghold to play deed (mistake 1) which I vindicate when witness and goyf where in the yard. At one point, I play ee @ 3 and he eot blows deed for 1 to which I respond with blowing ee @ 3 and he puts his goyf in the gy and I think to myself, well that works for me (mistake 2.) That second mistake allowed me to draw an actual card instead of recurring ee to which I rip Humility like a champ and ride my last 4 life points to the win.

I realized that was kind of a dick move but whatever I couldn't win otherwise. Sorry opponent, I don't remember your name either.

[Van Phanel]

You are aware that not telling him that his Goyf should survive is cheating and is punished with a DQ?

[mujadaddy]

I did this yesterday. I sided out Tombstalkers for Leyline's in round 2 of the current Salvation MWS tournament, because all this time I'm pretty sure I thought Leyline affected all players. X,X

I really needed those... I don't know why I play Magic.

[blueneverfails]

well here is my story, I was playing a 4c countertop deck and my opponent was playing belcher, Well the hand went pretty well for me to start out, I was able to stop his first turn kill with a force of will, just like normal. But I drew nothing but lands, and he eventually got enough to get the combo off and played a belcher with 2 lands untapped and a chrome mox untapped, So I dazed the belcher to stall for a turn. All still fine, well by this time I had about 7 lands down and I topped at the end of his turn and saw, tarmogoyf, tundra, and engineered explosives. And I got the great Idea, that I could stall out more and win with the tarmogoyf on top by using explosives for 0 and blow up the chrome mox. So I I drew the explosives playing it for 0 blew it up then drew with top to get tarmogoyf and played it.(by now U should know what I've done) At this time my friend Gus is laughing at me and draws a dark rit and won the game, I was very sad and he looks at me and says why did you give me the game??? And I said what are you talking about, and he said you have 7 mana open why didn't you put explosives at 4 and just blow up the belcher.

Biggest face palm in the world.

[Jujuhawk]

I luck sacked and my opponent made 2 mistakes.

I was playing landstill vs itf game 1. I get to the point were I have ee + academy ruins recursion and he has deed, witness, stronghold, goyf recursion. We recur our kill back and forth for 8 turns or so and go ee for 2, then ee for 3, then ee for 2 so that maybe he will get annoyed and make a play mistake or error that I can draw in between the recursion. He finally makes the mistake of tapping his stronghold to play deed (mistake 1) which I vindicate when witness and goyf where in the yard. At one point, I play ee @ 3 and he eot blows deed for 1 to which I respond with blowing ee @ 3 and he puts his goyf in the gy and I think to myself, well that works for me (mistake 2.) That second mistake allowed me to draw an actual card instead of recurring ee to which I rip Humility like a champ and ride my last 4 life points to the win.

I realized that was kind of a dick move but whatever I couldn't win otherwise. Sorry opponent, I don't remember your name either.

You're seriously braindead if you run those cheats. That's not going to get you anywhere or any better. :\

[PhanTom_lt]

On the play - 1st turn Brainstorm, leaving a 2cc as a second card below, 2nd turn Balance. He plays EE at 2, and I let it resolve besides having a Force in hand and a 2cc on top of library. I drop a Top and a Pithing Needle which was planned to name Pernicious Deed or Salvagers, but I have to name EE now. He drops Deed.

Today in a FNM, I have a Putrid Leech, a Mutavault, a persisted Finks and a Garruk with 4 counters. I draw for the turn, drop a Savage Lands, activate Muta, activate Garruk's overrun. He uses the red mana he got from Exotic Orchard from my tapland to filter it through UR filterland into 2 blue, filter into 3 blue, filter into 3 blue and colorless, Cryptic tapping my team down.

[rockout]

You're seriously braindead if you run those cheats. That's not going to get you anywhere or any better. :\

Even if he put witness into the graveyard I would have still drawn humility no matter what. Whether it was witness being a 1/1 or goyf being a 1/1 makes no difference so stfu.

[Jak]

Even if he put witness into the graveyard I would have still drawn humility no matter what. Whether it was witness being a 1/1 or goyf being a 1/1 makes no difference so stfu.

But you had said it yourself that you would have had to recur EE, therefore you wouldn't be drawing a card.

[Jugglin]

Yesterday I played Domain Zoo, while my opponent was playing Raffinity.
After a really slow start, I was getting beat down to a low life total, while my Dark Confidant also made me lose life. At one point I was at 1 life, but managed to stabilize with a few Goyfs etc and a Peedle on his Cranial Plating so he could'nt kill me with an Ornithopter.

I totally forgot I could block with Confidant or kill my confi with a Lightning Bolt or Tribal Flames I had in hand all the time.
I even killed one of his few remaining creatures he had with my Lightning Bolt.
It was not until that moment I realized my gazilion playmistakes.

Next turn Confidant gave me a land and I proceeded to burn his remaining creature and beat him to death with my army.
So, you could say I also lucksacked my balls off. :D

Total blackout. :cry:

[Jujuhawk]

Even if he put witness into the graveyard I would have still drawn humility no matter what. Whether it was witness being a 1/1 or goyf being a 1/1 makes no difference so stfu.

You wouldn't have drawn the humility, and it doesn't matter what you WOULD have drawn. You still cheated to put yourself in that situation.

[ansset]

Even if he put witness into the graveyard I would have still drawn humility no matter what. Whether it was witness being a 1/1 or goyf being a 1/1 makes no difference so stfu.

Results oriented for the lose, you scumbag. You cheated and won. That's actually all that happened in this story.

[Guevera59]

Lets all get off of our high horses here guys, I'm sure that everyone on this site has cheated before, don't act like he's some anomaly that should be banned from society...besides, its only cheating if you get caught ;)

[3eowulf]

Lets all get off of our high horses here guys, I'm sure that everyone on this site has cheated before, don't act like he's some anomaly that should be banned from society...besides, its only cheating if you get caught ;)

Sorry, you are wrong on both accounts: not everyone has cheated before and cheating is cheating getting caught or not.:mad:

[beastman]

Results oriented for the lose, you scumbag. You cheated and won. That's actually all that happened in this story.

Meow!!! Anger issues Drew?

[Nihil Credo]

Anyone who feels like doing so is free to ostracise rockout (and/or Guevera59) as much as they want; that's the way society is kept running. However, no more posts on the subject will be accepted.

[beastman]

I'm necoring the shit out of this because I have an awesome story from Eli's event.

I'm playing aggro loam, and I sit down against my first round opponent, I start off the game with a mox diamond and a land into dark confidant, which he forces. He plays an island, and passes. I play a land and play countryside crusher, he brainstorms and dazes it. he takes his turn and lays an island and passes back, I play a land and lay seismic assault, which resolves. He takes his turn, plays mishras factory, thinks for a while, and plays a standstill......
I look at him for a good 2 minutes and say ok. Next turn he attacks me with factory, which I kill. He then proceeds to play draw go for the nex 8 turns, finally breaking his standstill with an EE for 3. I draw 3 lands and respond to the explosives by throwing 9 lands at him. It was amazing.

[Purgatory]

Not mine, but still:

My friend is playing Reanimator vs. my brother who is playing some mono black vampire suicide. My friend has a Putrid Imp and some non-Iona monster in play. "Oh no", my brother exclaimed "I hope he doesn't swing with both of them..."

My friend swings with both creatures, my brother blocks and kills the Imp and then casts Diabolic Edict at the end of my friend's turn.


Another time another friend is playing Belcher in a tournament, gets something Dazed but instead of paying the 1 mana, he casts Red Elemental Blast. His opponent says "Fine" and casts FoW.


And one of my own:
I'm playing Meathooks against Landstill in a tournament, I'm 3-0 in a 4-round swiss and I don't really care about the outcome. At least that's my excuse. My opponent has nothing relevant in play, I have a Crystalline and two Muscle Slivers. My opponent is at like 6. He drops Humility. I scoop.

[Illissius]

I don't have any of my own (which isn't because I'm not awful, rather because I don't play Magic and also suck at remembering things), but these two are my all-time favorites which I read about at TMD back in the day:

Number One
Guy is playing Suicide Black. He has lethal damage on the board. During his own upkeep, he goes, "Consult for Yawgmoth's Will". Turns out he boarded Yawgmoth's Will out.

Number Two
Guy activates Mindslaver, follows it up with, "Attack me with your River Boa", intending to block and kill it with his Morphling. He was at two life with Islands in play.

[DownSyndromeKarl]

this is from a couple months ago:

playing m10 draft. My opponent was at 6, and dropped Baneslayer. I had eight mana and was top-decking. I pulled a Fireball and hit the Angel because the only thing going through my mind was getting rid of that damn angel.

[tivadar]

Number Two
Guy activates Mindslaver, follows it up with, "Attack me with your River Boa", intending to block and kill it with his Morphling. He was at two life with Islands in play.

That... is... awesome. Teaches him for playing Mindslaver!


playing m10 draft. My opponent was at 6, and dropped Baneslayer. I had eight mana and was top-decking. I pulled a Fireball and hit the Angel because the only thing going through my mind was getting rid of that damn angel.

You're assuming your opponent's life is worth more than that Baneslayer, which is up around $40 now! I really think you made the right choice :-P.

[02Drop]

I dunno if this was posted, because this is simply a retelling of a story I was told at a legacy tournament, but here's how it went:

Player A is playing some form of Thresh, player B is playing Landstill

Player A: Brainstorm, respond to Standstill trigger by playing Stifle, targeting the trigger
Player B: FoW the Stifle
Player A proceeds to draw 3 cards and Brainstorm.

[jimirynk]

I love when alex in top 8 of scg torn. played a standstill with him already having a standstill in play..
He said he wanted to draw 6 cards.
No sleep ftw.

[Screwtape]

Recoil on opposing Basking Rootwalla. The looks on both player's faces were priceless ;)

I wasn't playing that game, just watching. Even though it was years ago, I guess this is a play I won't forget ;)

[MattH]

From six or so years ago:

I am playing a homebrewed U/b/r control deck, back when killing with Morphling was still good, and you could run 1x Fireball maindeck wihout feeling bad about it. So about 2002.

My opponent is a B/G rockish deck, fairly controlling. I try to hang on to some counters all game but his discard is giving me fits, and I can't beatdown with my Factory because he has a fucking Wall of Blossoms in play. I'm drawing some cards, things are okay, I find a Morphling, but no counters in hand.

I play Morphling. He Edicts me, and I bin the Morphling, completely forgetting that I could activate Factory in response to sac. Durr durr durr. In the end I wind up playing every land in my deck, drawing my entire deck, and Fireballing him for 18, but he has used Genesis/Ravenous Baloth to gain enough life to survive. If I had my Morphling, no way he could have survived, and I decked out.

On the plus side, that round also had one of my favorite plays: g2 he plays Choke, I let it resolve, then at eot I Cunning Wish for Mind Bend and change it to 'forest', untap, Fire his BOP and he never resolves another spell. I loved using people's own SB against them!

[Silent Requiem]

Okay, I have one.

My first ever Legacy tournament. I've lost every single round so far 1-2. I am now 1-0 in the final round, but time limits mean that this is the last game. I'm playing Solidarity, and my opponent is playing a similar, but sorcery speed, deck. I go off in his turn and deck him completely, but he then casts his own Brainfreeze to deck me. We now have no libraries, but it is my turn next, so I will draw (and lose) first. That gives me a draw, and puts me into 15th of 16 places.

It is only on the way home from the tournament that I remember that the Meditate that I cast going off would have caused my to skip my next turn, meaning my opponent would have drawn (and lost) first. That would have meant that I won the round, and would have had a substantially higher placement in the tournament.

It was, if possible, even more defeating than if I actually had lost the game.

-Silent Requiem

[LegacyDan]

This is from one of my friends at GP: Chicago, my dude is player a-

both draw and keep their hands, player a puts a Leyline of the Void into play from his opening hand.

player b calls a judge for a deck-check

judge determines that the deck is in order, gives a match loss to player b, and says to shuffle and go directly to game 2.

player a shuffles, player b sideboards and shuffles, decks are cut and cards are drawn.

player a calls a judge- he explains that no cards were played game one, not even a land. since it went to game 2 he claims that player b sideboarded illegally. match loss for player b.

round goes my dude without a single card played.

[Wargoos]

Met a chick at magic and banged her.
Was my best play ever <3

[Amon Amarth]

Not flashing back a Firebolt when my opponent was at two life. FML. It was my first tournament and I was really nervous. I'll never let myself get over that one.

[Ectoplasm]

During draft today, swinging into a 1/4 ally with defender with a bloodghast, and a turn later swinging into the same goddamn ally with a 3/1 crocodile.
Went ahead and won the match anyway (not the game, obviously) but I felt like a complete moron.

[Digital Devil]

I play Cataclysm, keep a Plains and a Mask of Memory attached to a Serra Avenger, my opponent keeps a Goyf and a Bayou. I play a Plains, then StP the Goyf. Next turn, my opponent plays another Bayou. He plays Tombstalker, and I die to 5/5 beatdown with O-Ring sitting in my hand, never drawing the third mana. The funny thing is that the turn before I popped a Relic so both graveyards were empty. I've put exactly 6 cards into my opponent's graveyard by playing Cataclysm. Epic fail.

Also, next to me, two guys were playing a Landstill mirror. Player A played Standstill, player B played Spell Snare. Player A said "go". Player B played his own Standstill.

[Otter]

R/W Slide mirror in standard, a long while back. I just played an Eternal Dragon and passed the turn with Astral Slide out and a single mana open. He attacks with his own Dragon, instead of blocking with my own, stacking damage, and sliding my own, I instead decide to just slide his. He goes, "okay" and drops Obliterate.

[rockout]

Also, next to me, two guys were playing a Landstill mirror. Player A played Standstill, player B played Spell Snare. Player A said "go". Player B played his own Standstill.

I had this happen to me and I looked at my opponent like WTF is wrong with you.

[beastman]

Met a chick at magic and banged her.
Was my best play ever <3

I'm guessing that was her biggest play mistake ever.

[MattH]

During draft today, swinging into a 1/4 ally with defender with a bloodghast, and a turn later swinging into the same goddamn ally with a 3/1 crocodile.
Went ahead and won the match anyway (not the game, obviously) but I felt like a complete moron.

Lol, that guy is so bad too, even in the ally deck. Nice punt!

[Wargoos]

I'm guessing that was her biggest play mistake ever.

Possible. Quite possible.
I knew she had the stifle but my nimble mongoose kept her busy and I finished with some bolts onto her face!

[Ch@os]

I demand pix!

[Ectoplasm]

Lol, that guy is so bad too, even in the ally deck. Nice punt!

I completely forgot he was around, twice.
Like, I'd do some combat math, decide I could just swing in and be like 'oh yeah, him' :laugh:

[Roelke]

I was playing in the dutch legacy championship last year, playing in the first round with ANT against an outdated version of thresh (with werebears). I lost game one because of a failing ad naseaum but won game two anyway. Game three both of us don't do anything for a few turns until I resolve a chant. I get mana and go for infernal tutor for ad naseam but decide that getting ill-gotten gains instead is safer.

so I play the IGG and my opponent activates his tormod's crypt.

Lack of sleep? check!

[Van Phanel]

this is from a couple months ago:

playing m10 draft. My opponent was at 6, and dropped Baneslayer. I had eight mana and was top-decking. I pulled a Fireball and hit the Angel because the only thing going through my mind was getting rid of that damn angel.

Been there done that:

GP Madrid, day2 round 15. Winner is Top8. Shadomoor/ Eventide Draft.

I have a Spitemare (http://magiccards.info/eve/en/147.html) in play and 2 lands + Double Cleave (http://magiccards.info/eve/en/135.html) in hand. He has a Somnomancer (http://magiccards.info/shm/en/149.html) as his only creature and is on 4 Life. I'm pretty confident for my Spitemare is hard to deal with. He topdecks Steel of the Godhead (http://magiccards.info/shm/en/150.html), puts it on his Somnomancer and swings to go back to 8. I curse my bad luck and pray for a solution for the Somnomancer and indeed do I topdeck Flame Jab (http://magiccards.info/shm/en/150.html). So I attack him to 5 and kill his Somnomancer with triple Flame Jab. Obviously he proceeds to draw the second white source for Prison Term (http://magiccards.info/shm/en/150.html), deals with my Spitemare and wins some turns later while I could have just killed him by Double Cleaving the Spitemare and sending the Flame Jabs to the dome. Cost me minimum 1000$.

[Wrath_Of_Houlding]

Been there done that:

GP Madrid, day2 round 15. Winner is Top8. Shadomoor/ Eventide Draft.

I have a Spitemare (http://magiccards.info/eve/en/147.html) in play and 2 lands + Double Cleave (http://magiccards.info/eve/en/135.html) in hand. He has a Somnomancer (http://magiccards.info/shm/en/149.html) as his only creature and is on 4 Life. I'm pretty confident for my Spitemare is hard to deal with. He topdecks Steel of the Godhead (http://magiccards.info/shm/en/150.html), puts it on his Somnomancer and swings to go back to 8. I curse my bad luck and pray for a solution for the Somnomancer and indeed do I topdeck Flame Jab (http://magiccards.info/shm/en/150.html). So I attack him to 5 and kill his Somnomancer with triple Flame Jab. Obviously he proceeds to draw the second white source for Prison Term (http://magiccards.info/shm/en/150.html), deals with my Spitemare and wins some turns later while I could have just killed him by Double Cleaving the Spitemare and sending the Flame Jabs to the dome. Cost me minimum 1000$.

That one might just "win"(lose) the thread.

[Pulp_Fiction]

That one might just "win"(lose) the thread.

I agree, that fact that this hideous misplay kept him out of serious money at a big event AND has the added bonus of being an epic fail moment makes me believe that Van Phanel has the worst punt of the thread! Congrats .... of sorts :)

[Phoenix Ignition]

I like how the last 3 links of his story are all to Steel of the Godhead. Must really really hate that card.

[Glorfindel]

Also, next to me, two guys were playing a Landstill mirror. Player A played Standstill, player B played Spell Snare. Player A said "go". Player B played his own Standstill.
Perhaps player B needed a quick Threshold for his Nantuko Monastery :tongue:

[ryO!]

me playing Imperial Painter 20 pv
he playing some kind of loam marit lage BGone other color i don't recall 19 pv

he has nothing relevant in play

*my turn
2 IR in hand
6 untaped mountain & a 4/4 figure in play
i do : 8/8 1st strike my figure and attack -8 => his pv = 11.
i should have done : play IR, get Magus of the moon, lock him for GOOD.

*his turn
he top deck dark depth
play hexamage from hand, play dark depth 20/20 indestructible

at that time i didn't play stingscounger MD

sadly 20/20 > 8/8 :/ GG

moral : NEVER fancy a sweet 8/8 flying first strike over a lock :(

if i had won that game i d have finished 3third of the tour (10paid)
i end up being 11th ...

yay ^^

[beastman]

Please use the shift key.

[jrp]

@Beastman - When's your play from this weekend gonna be in this thread? I think I remember it well enough to reconstruct it if you don't want to ;) j/k

[Meddling Pimp]

Mine was at the Charlotte SCG Standard 5k. I was playing 5CC vs Warp World. For some reason, I hadn't drawn many cards that game and was holding only a Volcanic Fallout that I did not have the mana to play. I topdecked a Baneslayer Angel (not bad) and played it. He draws Cloudthresher and decided to play it while I was tapped out. He also played a Siege-Gang Commander. At this point, my only out was to draw a Cascade Bluffs, swing in with the Baneslayer and play the fallout after first strike damage. I drew and it was a bluffs. I got so excited that I declared my attacker...and then looked at my hand and realized I hadn't put the bluffs into play. I still managed to clear his board with the fallout, but without the angel and with an empty hand I lost fairly quickly.