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Zombie
08-03-2011, 07:56 PM
We all know those goldfishes/games where you just draw a boring hand and play it out, or draw the nuts and just kill him without much thought involved. But then there are those hands that probably have potential, but require some weird gymnastics to work.
This thread is for those hands, goldfish and real game alike.
Format: Any. If the deck is nonstandard or non-Legacy, try to leave a list of some sort.

This thread was inspired by the "Nauseam while Chrome Mox Imprint is on stack" comment, one example game by Smmenen where the Oath guy was was castrated and then killed over 20 turns by his own Orchard token, and this goldfish.

Format: German Highlander (100-card singleton decks without all this EDH nonsense)
Deck: Pattern-Rector (http://deckstats.net/deck-762673-5fe8a4692d32007bbb469adf7305ab45-en.html)
Deck's normal ideal MO: Manadork, go, duress, carrion feeder, go, NatOrder=>Hulk=>Win.
What happened: T3 Bargain wins (duh). It just took a "bit" of work. (mostly KotR optimization)

T1: Llanowar Wastes, Fyndhorn Elf
T2: Plains, Knight of the Reliquary

T3:
Forest, tap Forest, Elf, Plains, Wastes (1GGW).
Turn Forest into Phyrexian Tower, Sacrifice Elf to Tower (1GGBBW).
Yawgmoth's Bargain. Draw 10 cards. Life: 9.
Discard down to 7 (Discard Carrion Feeder, Starved Rusalka, Llanowar Elves, Skinrender, Birds of Paradise and Yosei, the Morning Star + random lands)

T4: Forest, tap Wastes for B (Life: 8), Inquisition of Kozilek.
Tapout (Forest=>Forest, then sacrifice Knight to Tower).
Living Death. Kill whatever opponent by freak accident might have in play, pass. On his upkeep, sacrifice Yosei (he gets tapped out, doesn't untap next turn).

T5: Untap, Overgrown Tomb. Karmic Guide for Yosei, swing for 6, pass turn, tapout opponent on his upkeep.

T6: Untap, at 8 mana, enough for Volrath's Stronghold=>Karmic Guide every turn. Opponent is locked down for all eternity. Can slowly draw cards with Bargain (Karmic to Tower, use Tower mana to pay Stronghold, gives G for Rusalka to eat Yosei=> 1 card/turn).

klaus
08-04-2011, 08:03 AM
There is nOthing interesting/entertaining about your example. If you wanna start a thread like that better come up with something moar good. No offense though.

NiRVeS
08-04-2011, 07:24 PM
I can't give specific lines of play, but I did screw around with this interesting combination of cardboard:

Format: "Casual Vintage"

Engine
4 Lich's Mirror
1 Channel

Mana
4 Elvish Spirit Guide
4 Simian Spirit Guide
4 Chrome Mox
4 Lotus Petal
4 Tinder Wall
1 Mana Cypt
1 Sol Ring
1 Lion's Eye Diamond
4 Tree of Tales
4 Great Furnace

Cantrips
4 Chomatic Star
4 Chromatic Sphere
4 Manamorphose

Tutors
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Turor
1 Regrowth
4 Gamble
4 Skyship Weatherlight

Kill
1 Memory Jar

The idea is to cast Channel, start chaining Lich's Lirrors and use Skyship Weatherlight and Chrome Mox to systematically exile your entire deck, except for 7-13 cards (each card over 7 has to be a cantrip) which include a Mirror and a Memory Jar. You then continually kill yourself with the Jar, restart with the mirror until you deck your opponent.

Playing this monster is awesome, at least if you like enormous spell-chain and don't mind taking your time to finish off your opponent (on the first turn...).

Yes, the deck folds to countermagic.


On a related note, most games with my Eye of the Storm deck (high tide shell) get pretty absurd as well, mostly ending with
- me casting mind's desire for 10+ with EotS in play
- resolving all the copies first, drawing a bunch of drawspells, casting them and putting those under EotS (which is probably already copying Turnabout continuously) and generating an exponentially growing stormcount
- resolving the EotS-trigger, exiling the original Mind's Desire
- playing the EotS-copy of Mind's Desire, triggering storm AGAIN.
...and that's when we usually shuffle up for the next game :).

Even more bonkers is setting this play up with the following sequence of events: flipping Mind's Desire-copies into Eye of the Storm and Remand, casting the Eye of the Storm, Remanding the original spell and then casting MD again.

Time Spiral under Eye of the Storm is pretty broken as well.

Yeah, I do love myself some triple-digit stormcounts as you can see...:tongue:

Mostly_Harmless
08-06-2011, 07:54 AM
Oh man, my friend made a Channel-Mirror deck like that a while ago. It was so much fun! I goldfished one game for roughly 45 minutes. Once it gets going, you can use memory jar (and force in his list) to prune your deck. Eventually, you can get the perfect 8-10 card deck and loop as many times as you want (on turn one, of course).

Also, I maintain that the coolest card ever under Eye of the Storm is Shahrazad.