What is the most Ridiculous play your opponent has made?

[Que]

Or what is the craziest shit you've ever seen while playing the game of Magic?

[dontbiteitholmes]

Paying 2 life to Mental Misstep my Raven's Crime.

[Goin Aggro]

Game 2 versus Zoo, I had an opponent keep a 3-Confidant no black source hand.

That, and missing the storm by ONE.

[aahz]

Playing Vintage. Semifinals of a tournament. It's Game 1. I'm on the play.

Me: Scalding Tarn into Volcanic Island. Mox Jet. Bob.
Him: Force
Me: Force back removing Snapcaster. Bob resolves.
Me: Surgical Extraction his Force of Will.
Him: Reveals hand of Tinker, Lotus, Sapphire, Top, Tarn.
Me: Sigh.

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Photo credit: Lotushead

[Beatusnox]

turn one on the play.
Me: Snow-Covered Swamp, dark rit, dark rit, hymn to tourach.
Them: force pitching force.
Me: thoughtseize take daze. They have tundra tarn strand jitte. Play bob. Pass.

God i love stupid people on mws.

[Fl0do]

Spell Snare countering a Daze ^^

[Rood]

Dazed a spell to mindgame a crucial spell I needed and my opponent did not pay the mana. Also one time I echoing truthed a Dreadnought when both of us had one in play and in response he scooped. Good times.

[PaRa]

Me: game winning spell

Him: Daze bouncing untapped Island without tapping for mana...

Me: Daze...GG


Or even better:

Me playing TES vs Dredge

I have a a hand full of gas with something like this: Ritual/Rite/LED/LED/Petal/rdm spell and only need one tutor/AdN to win but im literally dead as his grave contains: 2x Cabal Therapy, 2x Ancient Grudge and he has mana open to use the Grudges and two creatures to flash back the Therapies...He passes the turn without using the Therapies, i hit the tutor, i lay down the LED's and the Petal one by one and he does...nothing...

[Piceli89]

This is a long one.

I'm playing ANT and I'm paired against Counterthopters, on game 3. He opens Top, Balance, then ETutors for Canonist. Things are getting really grim. I draw Empty the Warrens, and play it for 1 storm to not let him attack. He blindflips on CB: Engineered Explosives. Yeah, that one too. People behind us laugh, and I'm mentally ready to concede the game.
He untaps confidently, laughs a bit, and ATTACKS STRAIGHT me. I declare blockers with the 2 tokens. He realizes the punt immediately but it's too late.
Canonist dies; he goes second mainphase, plays EE for zero, and then HE POPS IT.
"There are no tokens on the field anymore".
"Oh god true true"- undoes EE. I allow it.

The match goes on, and we get into a situation where he has 5 untapped lands, 3 cards in hand, and still CBTop, while I have seven cards in hand. He taps 4 and plays Elspeth; I decide this is the time to go for it. I have something like Infernal Tutor, Cabal Ritual, Dark Ritual x2, Duress, Extirpate, LED. I draw ritual. Untap, draw, Duress him, he blindflips Thopter Foundry, lets it resolve, reveals Spell Pierce, Brainstorm, Stp. I take Spell Pierce. Play ritual, he Brainstorms in response tapping out, I ritual x2 in response. First ritual resolves--> he left the Foundry on top. Play Extirpate on Spell Pierce to shuffle his deck (and nuke eventual Force pitch). I feel I'm going to win this one. Storm is enough; his only chance is to flip a cmc 2.

I cut the deck, and Cabal Ritual. He blindflips.




SWORD-OF-THE-FUCKING-MEEK.


Crowd behind me (mostly friends) goes wild. He laughs embarassed and says "what a luck". I swear loudly and a judge passing nearby reproaches me.
In the end I drew that match, but meh, it felt pretty bad to tie a won game for a luckstroke after he punted several times (even in the combo turn making questionable choices with his hand).





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Also, one I actually did against Bant: Doomsday into Meditate, petal, duress, ritual, Tendrils. A fuckton of mana already in pool, him with 2 cards, probably blanks. Play Meditate, duress reveals nothing, petal;

Me: "Tendrils you for 24".
Him: "Ehm, there's Gaddock Teeg on the table."
Me: 1 minutes in astonishment with my friends sitting around me and LMAOing.

Worst overconfidence-burnout ever.

[DerFern]

Team America vs RandomStuff:
I have three lands, he has two cards in hand. I cast Hymn to tourach, he responds with Daze by returning an island to his hand. I pay...

Doomsday vs. HiveMind:
he does his shit, resolves HiveMind and casts Pact of the Titan and Pact of Negation while I have three lands and an LED in play. Upkeep my Pact copies trigger, in response I cast Dark Ritual so I can pay both of my Pacts. He FoWs my Dark Ritual...

Doomsday vs. ScepterChant (is it The Mighty Quinn?!):
A 1st turn Gitaxian Probe shows me that he has a Scepter and an Abeyance in hand. Due to his Abeyance I can not combo out. On turn 4 he has his Scpeter and imprints Abeyance and locks me out for several turn. In my final turn I need to combo off due to lethal on the board. So I look disapponted and tell him "Alright, it´s my upkeep. Wanna do something?". He activates Scepter, I respond with Silence. GG

Ugb Thresh vs. some sort of Maverick:
I get beaten by Thrun which I can not handle by any means. He wants to double the clock and casts Thrun.

[kiblast]

Well, this was not an opponent play but is really fun indeed. Once I was playing Dreadstill with Countertop in a friendly match vs a friend of mine. I blindflipped cc1, cc2, cc4 (!!!Jace on Jace) and cc5 (!!! Obviously Force on Force) in like 6 turns, consecutively. I countered basically everything without Top, seeming that I almost stacked my deck... I was playing against Landeed if I recall correctly. Unreal... :laugh:

[Julian23]

At Ovinogeddon 6 in Milan, earlier this year:

Me:
Underground Sea, Swamp, Island - I'm @ 2 life

My opponent:
Savannah, Taiga, Fetchland - He's @ 4 life

Both players with 1 card in hand, he plays Price of Progress to draw the game. I respond by casting Daze, returning my Underground Sea. He looks at me, smiling like a total douchebag, cracks his Fetchland for Savannah, says "pay! :tongue:".


Made my day! :laugh::laugh::laugh:

[Pastorofmuppets]

Worst overconfidence-burnout ever.
This is why Storm players aren't allowed to have emotions.
One time, my opponent fizzled but Tendrils'd me for 18 on turn 1 anyway.
I was playing a The Gate variant, and figured I could make up the lost ground pretty quickly. I played Tortured Existence and passed.
The next turn he played Rite of Flame and Grapeshot.
All of my hate.

[SpikeyMikey]

The Vintage side event at GP LA circa 2003, 2004. I'm playing WG Dragon, the most ridiculous deck in existence ever. I've got the slick tech no one else is running that makes this thing unstoppable, namely Bazaar of Baghdad and Tarnished Citadel. First round I get paired against a guy that I drove up with. It's a bad matchup; he's playing Parfait. Sucks, but there you have it.

I open up a turn 1 kill hand with Entomb/Animate/Whispers of the Muse and the Ritual. This is the best thing I can hope for, since it will let me win before he can get his enchantment removal online.

I lose the die roll and my opponent goes Black Lotus, sac for white. Use 1 to Argivian Find the Lotus. Play Lotus, sac for white. Play Sol Ring, tap for 2 colorless. Land Tax, Scroll Rack, Balance to 0 lands and 1 card in hand, burn 1.

I should've just scooped there...

[swoop]

Island, go.

[kiwi]

When I play control and my opponent's life is 20 he has a sylvan library in play and he never pays life for drawing cards.

Another "good play" that I once saw : a standstill from uw control in turn 2 against merfolks and merfolks had resolved a aether vial in his turn 1.

[catmint]

With BUG versus NO Bant in G2 (he sided out NO).

He has jace active for many many rounds finding a lot of threats and removal for my creatures. My liliana and a ton of removal & snapcaster fight his creatures until he realizes that he has only 1 noble hierarch left in his deck.

He starts +2 the jace and got him to 9 counters before I ultimate with Liliana and gave him the choice to keep the jace or his 12 lands + jitte. He somehow felt he has a bigger chance with noble hierarch beeing the only wincondition left in his ~20 card library and let the jace die. :laugh: I had only 3 creatures left in the deck, so my odds to kill his jace in time were very low.

[oldbsturgeon]

I'm the person in a game that the opponent says "pay xxx to cast ____." I say okay, and about 30 seconds later, am like "oh wait, what just happened?, ah I probably wanted to do something about that" :laugh:

[Sims]

Kitchen Table game some years back, I was the "competitive" player and people generally didn't like my tournament decks so I'd build random off the wall jank and try to win with terrible cards just to make my friends happy.

Right until the game where i was playing mono black (no good discard, just shit like distress, mind rot... my creatures were flesh reavers and rotting giants, etc.. lots of removal though)..

My opponent, friend of mine I've known for years playing a mono-white deck with lots of pro black creatures and removal, figures he has this in the bag, so he's talking so much shit you'd think that's all he ate for a week.

We shuffle up, he cuts my deck like 15 ways to Sunday, I win the die roll and open the following grip:

Swamp, Dark Ritual, Dark Ritual, Dark Ritual, Dark Ritual, Phage the Untouchable, Lightning Greaves.

I don't think my friend ever got over his rage from that play.

[CorpT]

At GP:Providence. This wasn't me, but saw it.

Player 1: Burn
Player 2: Landstill, at low life, Standstill in play.

Player 1: Pyrostatic Pillar
Player 2: Counterspell
Player 1: Standstill trigger. Draw 3 cards.

This was awhile ago, but happened to me.

Player 1: Aggro Loam (me)
Player 2: Counter Burn

Player 2: Browbeat
Player 1: Target?
Player 2: You, duh.
Player 1: I choose to not take damage.
Player 2: ... picks up Browbeat and reads it. Damnit.
Player 1: Draw 3 cards.

[SpikeyMikey]

At GP:Providence. This wasn't me, but saw it.

Player 1: Burn
Player 2: Landstill, at low life, Standstill in play.

Player 1: Pyrostatic Pillar
Player 2: Counterspell
Player 1: Standstill trigger. Draw 3 cards.

This was awhile ago, but happened to me.

Player 1: Aggro Loam (me)
Player 2: Counter Burn

Player 2: Browbeat
Player 1: Target?
Player 2: You, duh.
Player 1: I choose to not take damage.
Player 2: ... picks up Browbeat and reads it. Damnit.
Player 1: Draw 3 cards.

Oh that's sexy. And totally makes me wish someone would play Browbeat against me.

[Fade]

This past Saturday at local legacy.
Opp: Esper Blade
Me: Hive Mind

Game 2, Turn 3, Opp Turn:
Opp has Scrubland, Underground Sea, Tundra on board with 6 cards in hand.
I have Island and City of Traitors on the board, also with 6 cards in hand.

Opp: taps 2 for Hymn with Daze mana up.
Me: Misdirection <Removing BS>, redirect Hymn to Opp

Opp: Forces <Removing something>
Me: Misdirection <Removing another BS>, redirect Force to Misdirection
Hymn resolves and Opp goes to 1 card in hand

Me: At Opp EOT, I cast Intuition for 3 Show and Tell
Me: Untap cast Show and Tell revealing Flying Spaghetti Monster to his Batterskull.

Opp response, "Who evens plays Misdirection anymore."
Good times.

[Sloshthedark]

Counter Top vs Lands
opponent with 13 counter Jace cuts my deck into my only out... Mindslaver

[Esper3k]

This past Saturday at local legacy.
Opp: Esper Blade
Me: Hive Mind

Game 2, Turn 3, Opp Turn:
Opp has Scrubland, Underground Sea, Tundra on board with 6 cards in hand.
I have Island and City of Traitors on the board, also with 6 cards in hand.

Opp: taps 2 for Hymn with Daze mana up.
Me: Misdirection <Removing BS>, redirect Hymn to Opp

Opp: Forces <Removing something>
Me: Misdirection <Removing another BS>, redirect Force to Misdirection
Hymn resolves and Opp goes to 1 card in hand

Me: At Opp EOT, I cast Intuition for 3 Show and Tell
Me: Untap cast Show and Tell revealing Flying Spaghetti Monster to his Batterskull.

Opp response, "Who evens plays Misdirection anymore."
Good times.

Another funny Misdirection story:

Opponent: Cast Show & Tell, drops Emrakul.
Me: Cast Gilded Drake, resolves. Trigger on the stack targetting Emrakul.
Opponent: Misdirection (pitching Force of Will) on Gilded Drake's ability.
Me: *Points at card text of Misdirection.*

[PaRa]

Another funny Misdirection story:

Opponent: Cast Show & Tell, drops Emrakul.
Me: Cast Gilded Drake, resolves. Trigger on the stack targetting Emrakul.
Opponent: Misdirection (pitching Force of Will) on Gilded Drake's ability.
Me: *Points at card text of Misdirection.*

ohh please don't start with Misdirection stories...at GP Amsterdam my R4 opponent tried to misdirect my Duress first and after that my Ponder..

[Fade]

I got another one.

At SCG: Indy:
Game 1:
Opp: (Jedi Mind Tricks me into believing he is playing blue)
Me: Painted Stone

I win die roll and stare at a hand of Grindstone, Painter's Servant, LED, Mox Opal, City of Traitors, BS, and Goblin Welder.

I'm thinking if he has any counterspell I'm dead and takes me about two minutes to decide to keep it and just go for it.

Game 1, Turn 1:
Me: Play City of Traitor into Painter's Servant naming non-blue color.
Opp: Resolves.

Me: Play Mox Opal and LED.
Opp: Resolves.

Me: Tap Mox Opal for Grindstone.
Opp: Resolves.

Me: Let's go for it. Sac LED for Grindstone.
Opp: Game 2.

Opp believes I was slow rolling for taking so long to keep that hand.
He was on Zoo so I side board completely wrong for game 2 but I got there in game 3.

[Julian23]

ohh please don't start with Misdirection stories...at GP Amsterdam my R4 opponent tried to misdirect my Duress first and after that my Ponder..

You know, Misdirection Duress is a legal play. Just saying. Might just not work as intended :laugh:

[Richard Cheese]

Don't remember the exact sequence of events as it played out over several turns, but it was roughly like this:
Me:4c aggro loam
Him: painted stone

At one point he has welder, painter, top in play, grindstone in the yard. He activates welder on top, I swords painter, force, swords again, he taps top to draw his force on top and forces again, but welder now has no targets. Over the next few turns I kept him one card off the combo with pyroblast and beast within, but I'm running out of removal and when he cast another welder he had the win on his next turn. The whole time I'm cycling like crazy looking for assault, dredging as little as possible to keep from binning them. On my very last cycling land I hit assault with mana to cast it and one land in hand. Blow up the welder, and pitch like 9 lands at him the next turn to win. Definitely one of the closest matches I've had.

[Admiral_Arzar]

I'm playing Spiral Tide, and keep a hand with 2 FOW, 2 blue cards, 3 lands on the draw. My opponent mulligans, says something about the stone-cold nuts, and goes Dark Ritual -> Torpor Orb -> Dreadnought. I FOW the Nought, he FOW's back, I FOW again. I now have nothing but lands. On turn 3 he tops a Nought, I Intuition, he Dazes. I lose horribly, and realize I should have forced Torpor Orb.

[Fade]

A local legacy event a while ago.
Opp: BWG Junk
Me: Painted Stone

Game 3, Turn 3:
Opp's board is fetchland, savannah and Top.
I have combo on board with 3 mana available.

Me: I untap, draw, and attempt to grindstone fearing the StP/Path.
Opp: Taps Savannah to look at top 3. Did not find removal. Cracks the fetchland for a Scrubland and presents his deck to me to be cut.

Me: I fateseal the top card of his library to the bottom and give Opp his deck back.
Opp: Taps the Top and draws. Taps the Scrubland and windmills the StP on the table.

I then get beat by Goyf, KOTR, and Confidant.
Moral of story: Never just cut the top card of someone's deck. It's very bad luck!

[Nonex]

I lost the count on the number of Pithing Needles boarded in to shut down my Food Chains.

Also, it's been some years, but I still remember it as if I was seeing it.

Me: 4c Landstill
Opp: Jund Rock

Opp: Pernicious Deed
Me: Me too
Opp: Another Deed then
Me: ... Blow my Deed @ 3 and drop a Standstill


The following round I see him paired against Super Gro:

Rock: Duress
Gro: *reveals hand, there are two Quirion Dryads*
Rock: Pithing Needle on Quirion Dryad
Gro: Fuck...

He didn't cast them, since it sucked they couldn't get counters with Needle in play.

[I am the brainwasher]

Propably my opponent winning against me with Hive Mind after he wastelanded himself with his second Boseiju (This felt very appropriate, couldnt help it. Maybe because of the deck hes playing?).
After the game he told me that he drew land, land, (which he needed to go off desperatly) Pact of Negation, Pact of Negation from the top with having S&T and Hive Mind + Pact of the Titan and Pact of Negation in his opener with 0 Cantrips with me stucking on manascrew.
It felt so damn wrong to lose that game... .

Another story:
Me: Flooded Strand, go.
He: Forest Llanowar Elf.
Me: Fetch Volcanic, play Grove of the burnwillows, P-Fire, toast your elf.
He: Reads the card, sigh.
You can figure the rest of the game out by yourself I suppose... .

[Lejay]

I was playing counterslivers against dredge. My opponent tapped 2 city of brass to flashback deep analysis. He was at 5 life.

[Taurelin]

Not from a tourney, not something an opponent did, rather something my teammate did at the kitchen-table:

He stole some huge beast from the other team using Confiscate and then equipped it with Sword of Fire and Ice. :rolleyes:

[Sloshthedark]

@Fade - same Zoo story G2 except Gaea's blessing in his library... T1 grind kill in a tournament is simple forbidden for me =/

as for painter stories:

xx times people Krosan Grip Grindstone instead of Painter...

x times people Doomsday/Mystical tutor without noticing Grindstone on the table...

once I hardcast Inkwell T2, Opal Weldered whole Affinity board and milled a guy with 7 cards in hand, goyf on board and Prog in library =/

real fun begins when you grind them without painter =)

[DrJones]

I have seen plenty of craziness at tournaments, but the most ridiculous play I've ever seen was so off-the-top, even the judge that was looking our match couldn't avoid GASPING and asking the opponent if he was sure of his play, even though he isn't supposed to say anything, and yet, the opponent didn't rectify his play.

Both of us were playing black control decks, I had at the time one suspended Phthisis with one remaining counter, but the board was empty so it was going to go to waste next turn.

Then, my opponent casts Korlash, heir to blackblade, and discards another Korlash to fetch for two swamps and put them onto play.

As a result, he took 12 damage on my upkeep and died. He told me later that he thought Pthisis only did damage equal to the power of the creature. :laugh:

Another great play was at GP:Madrid, where two of the three reanimator players I faced chose to play Sphinx of the Steel Wind as a way to stop/race my Kavu Predator.

[GGoober]

ohh please don't start with Misdirection stories...at GP Amsterdam my R4 opponent tried to misdirect my Duress first and after that my Ponder..

Esper3k and I were at GP Dallas and he played against a chick that asked if you could Misdirect a Wasteland (she's kinda new to the format) and he said no, so she asked whether she could Misdirect a Hymn to Tourach back at him. Esper3k sad-pandaly says yes :(

The most ridiculous play my opponent made against me was:

Hypergenesis turn 2 dropping Progenitus + Emrakul + Angel of Despair while I'm playing Landstill. I managed to win through that because I dropped 2 lands to Hypergenesis (lol), played Jace next turn to bounce Emrakul and StP the Angel, take 15 from Progenitus/Angel, Brainstorm with Jace into humility to stabilize at 4 :P

Esper3k also had some insane plays against me: Cabal Therapy naming Jace, takes 2 Jace from my hand, proceeds to sac SFM and name Negate, taking 2 more Negates from my hand. Best 4-1 ever :(

[Sloshthedark]

and one shuffling evergreen (UB Ant vs. something)

draw card for turn = Tendrils -> brainstorm, fetch, ponder (tendrils, crap, crap = shuffle) -> draw Tendrils & die horribly X turns later...

[Esper3k]

Esper3k and I were at GP Dallas and he played against a chick that asked if you could Misdirect a Wasteland (she's kinda new to the format) and he said no, so she asked whether she could Misdirect a Hymn to Tourach back at him. Esper3k sad-pandaly says yes :(


She first asked if she could Force of Will my Wasteland, so then I threw the Hymn to try and hit her Force and she had Misdirection too...

[dahcmai]

Easy one.


Me - drops second land.
Opponent - Counterspell that!



Groan...

[Esper3k]

Opponent: Island, Delver of Secrets.
Me: Land, play something.
Opponent: Daze. Upkeep, transform Delver of Secrets.

[RogueMTG]

Opponent:
Irrelevant dorks in play.

Buddy:
Glimpse of Nature.
Kobold.
Kobold.
Kobold.
Kobold.
Kobold.
Kobold.
Kobold.
Kobold.
Kobold.
Kobold.
Kobold.
Kobold.
Kobold.
Kobold.
Kobold.
Kobold.
Kobold.
Kobold.
Kobold.
Kobold.
Kobold.
Kobold.
Kobold.
Kobold.
Kobold.
Kobold.
Kobold.
Kobold.
Kobold.
Kobold.
Kobold.
Kobold.
Kobold.
...



Judge: "How's he gonna win?? HOW IS HE GOING TO WIN?!"



...
Kobold.
Kobold.
Kobold.
Kobold.
Kobold.
...
BEASTMASTER ASCENSION + GOBLIN BUSHWHACKER

Swing. Dead.

Raucous Laughter ensues.

[TossUsToLions]

At GP Columbus I was playing NO Elves against an opponent playing Merfolk with Stifles (i know, right? It was a long time ago...)
There were multiple funny plays that happened, but here were some of the best:

Me: t1, tap one for a Fyndhorn Elf
Him: Stifle
Me: ...

Next turn...
Me: Play Elvish Archdruid
Him: Stifle
Me: "Stifle what?"
Him. "Your Archdruid"
Me: ...

Next turn...
Me: Tap Archdruid for mana
Him: Stifle
Me: ...

And at the end of the series he told me he brought it Sower of Temptation to fight against my Progenitus. He was super excited about this secret tech.

[Piceli89]

This happened to a friend of mine.

Opponent: Wasteland your tropical
Him: Stifle Wasteland.
Opponent: Force Stifle
Him: Daze on Force returning the tropical. "Mhh, won't you have the Daze for that, right?"
Opponent: Daze Daze.

Guy was on 6-1 or similar.
:laugh:

[Octopusman]

Me: Tap my Forest
Opponent: Tap it with Icy Manipulator before you tap your Forest!

[spartan117]

@picelli89: I probably know the guys you're talking about... and you just stole my best reply for the tread :cry:


Anyway you're correct: my opponent was 6-1, but you know his ''skills".
It was the same guy playing relic of progenitus and firespout in canadian thresh with nimble mongoose MD.... he also snared a daze of mine but that's another story...

[pippo84]

Didn't see it, but friends told me about this. Some guys playing Vintage at Amsterdam.

Player 1: Underground Sea, Mox Sapphire, Dark Ritual, Dark Ritual..
Player 2: Force the second Ritual
Player 1: Force the Force.
Player 2: ok, ritual resolves..
Player 1: ...
Player 2: so what are you doing now??
Player 1: ...I wanted to play Twister, but I pitched it to force!

[Purgatory]

I can't recall having opponents making these brutal mistakes against me, but I have seen people Pyroblasting Dazes etc. My friend told me a funny story about a game he had a couple of weeks ago;

He is Lands and he's playing against Hive Mind. His opponet plays Show and Tell, and plops down Hive Mind, while my friend puts a Chalice of the Void into play. Chalice, at this point, does nothing to the copy of any pact, it just counters the Hive Mind player's original pact, which is why it was hilarious that the opponent tried to KGrip the Chalice, and my friend just targeted the Hive Mind with his copy.

Yeah! Knowing the rules ftw!

[KindGrind]

I was playing Enchantress, and my opponent was playing Stax with a very comfortable board position of 3 Suppression Field, Crucible, a pair of Mox Diamonds, a few Ghostly Prisons, etc. I had Karmic Justice out. My opponent reaches over, takes it and reads it again, then played Armageddon.

I wiped his board and he never recovered.

[Beatusnox]

the hypergenesis one reminded me of what Gerry T. Did to me at SCG Boston.

Turn 2 Emrakul, Angel, Progenitus, Akroma's memorial.

I was on belcher and had a ritual -warrens hand lol

[Augustas]

Okey, so this happened today.

http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/5634/sickr.png

SO, I'm basicly dead on board, but manage to keep his creatures at bay with Dryad/Scryb and MoR. I had basicly nothing whole game and still managed to win it just with double exalted Scryb. He also tried to wasteland Arbor twice while scryb was on the field.. That was propably the sickest outplay I've ever done :D

[betterthenandrew]

Best thing I have ever seen:
RB Pox thing vs Canadian
Pox: Sink Hole your trop.
Can: Daze (Returning the Trop)
Pox: Tanks super fiercely. RFG simian Spirit Guide, Pyroblast the daze.

LOLOLOLOL.

I've also seen people thoughtseize Basking Rootwallas, Cast 0/0 Terravores, the classic bolt your 2/3 Goyf, or better (in extended):
Goblins vs Junk - No cards in graveyards:
Goblins: Tarfire your goyf
Junk: Ok, its a 2/3
Goblins: Dammit. Mogg Fanati your goyf.
Junk: Ok, its a 3/4
Goblins: GOD DAMMIT. Mogg fanatic it again.

At a legacy grand prix in the states had an opponent, round 1 day, crack a fetch land turn and forget to find some thing. Not Kidding. Hes looking, I'm telling a funny story from the day before, he tells me one back, starts shuffling and presents his deck. I pick it up and start shuffling, then ask what he fetched. He had a priceless, dumbfounded look on his face.

I saw an enchantress player at 1 on the final turns in turns not block a lethal attack with an enchantress becasue he forgot it was a creature.

[Esper3k]

I saw an enchantress player at 1 on the final turns in turns not block a lethal attack with an enchantress becasue he forgot it was a creature.

Hah yeah I regularly see Vintage players forget to attack with Dark Confidant because they forget it's a creature.

[Frid]

Last sunday I bounced a wolf token with jace and my opponent kept it in hand together with his remaining cards.

[c7272]

Me playing Lands vs Goblins. I forget the specifics of preceeding turns, but on my t3 he has a Piledriver, Lackey, SCG, Badlands and Wasteland in play. I have Manabond, 4 lands and a Mox Diamond in play, with a Maze of Ith in the graveyard. I tap 3 lands leaving up Diamond and something else.

Me: Intuition for Loam, Wasteland and Tabernacle.

Him: <He reads the cards for a minute and I explain to him what Tabernacle does because it's Italian> Keep the Loam.

Me: Cast Loam for Wasteland, Tabernacle, and Maze of Ith. Manabond, waste your Wasteland. Pass the turn.

Him: This game is stupid.

Or, back when Survival was still legal and I was playing Countertop. I was tapped out with CB lock in play and he had an Iona in the graveyard.

Opponent: Loyal Retainers?

Me: <As I'm flipping the top card> Better lucky than good?

Sadly it was not a 3 cmc card, but it was Karakas. We laughed for a good minute before continuing the game.

[thecrav]

Me:

Workshop
Black lotus
Mox *
Tangle Wire
Smoketack

Him:
Reveals hand with island, time vault and key. Says "Well I have to topdeck black lotus to win." Flips the top card - it's a lotus. says "Game two?"

[Comrade]

At SCG: Indy:
Game 1:
Opp: (Jedi Mind Tricks me into believing he is playing blue)
Me: Painted Stone

...

Me: Let's go for it. Sac LED for Grindstone.
Opp: Game 2.

Opp believes I was slow rolling for taking so long to keep that hand.
He was on Zoo so I side board completely wrong for game 2 but I got there in game 3.


Um, how did you grind him out turn one and not know what deck he was playing?

[Esper3k]

Um, how did you grind him out turn one and not know what deck he was playing?

They concede before the Grindstone ability resolves?

[Bignasty197]

I had a guy Thoughtseize me and read all of the cards in my hand for nearly 5 minutes. I had 2 lands, a Brainstorm, a Mystical Tutor, Reanimate, Iona and a Force. He takes Iona instead of my Reanimate. I was like "Really?" He says "Yeah, I don't want to see that thing anytime soon." WOW.

It is also surprising to me that people still attempt to Stifle Standstill.

[sdematt]

I'll post a picture later, but this happened tonight.

Bant player plays Thrun. Grixis Tempo Brainstorms, and the group of us and the Bant player chat if you can actually target Thrun with Force. We agree it's stupid, but is it possible? Obviously, he answers yes. Then, not a second after saing how stupid it would be to counter Thrun, Grixis goes, "Force, pitching Submerge?"

We all look at him, and just go, "What in the sweet fuck...?" He immediately facepalms and we berate him for several minutes. It was fucking hilarious. Nice job, Chad.

-Matt

[Whippoorwill]

Recently:
I'm playing UG Vengevine (replaced Survivals with Intuitions and added Brainstorms).
Opponent is playing Dredge.

During game 2 she Therapies me naming Basking Rootwalla forgetting about Madness.


Last year:
I'm playing Survival. Opponent is playing something that had Black in it.

Opponent Thoughtseizes me and Squee is the only option. Can't remember if I had just returned it the previous turn or not. Thoughtseize on Squee happened twice that round.

My favourite:
Around the same time at a power tournament. Both players are sitting next to me.

Player 1 is playing Fish.
Player 2 is playing Dredge.

Player 1 has Standstill out.....and casts another. :laugh:

[Squirrel]

Some weeks ago i played with Team America against some weird Goblin Deck including wheel of fate instead of Ringleader. And no wastelands.

There were several funny moments.
He Suspended Wheel of Fate and managed to have 4 cards in hand ( with 4 Mountains on the field) when it resolved ( i had 0^^).
The first game he started with mountain go and my Hymn to Thourach the next turn discarded him Aether Vial (!) and a Mountain.
The second game He tarfired my 1/2 Tarmogoyf with only a Fetchland in my grave...
And the first time i played a wasteland he said: wait, what does that card do?

[catmint]

MWS test some time ago. I play NO RUG versus affinty.

After winning game 1 my opponent mulligans aggressively and starts with pithing needle set to "Progenitus". :laugh:

[Justin]

OK, I guess I'll be the first to say it. This thread is pretty stupid. Most of the examples refer to dumb mistakes that noobs made. Magic is a pretty complex game that takes a long time to get the hang of, even for highly intelligent players. I don't see why it's a big deal if an inexperienced player targets a rootwalla with discard, plays a legend when he/she already has one in play, or tries to counter an uncounterable spell. It's all about learning the game. You guys all made the same mistakes when you were noobs. And most of you probably still make dumb mistakes from time to time when you are tired or lose focus.

[Ahab]

I don't think magic is a very complex game (except stuff like certain combos, humility etc.). It just has a lot to do with experience and knowing cards. Being able to recite your opponent's decklist after he goes Gemstone Mine -> Ponder is not 'complex'.
Newer players are often intimidated when their opponents play decks consisting of >50% of cards they have never seen before.

(I remember when i played my first match at my LGS with a crappy proxied 'counter deck' in ~2002, and my opponent went 'Land Grant... counter?' Having never seen the card, i just said 'ok..'. My opponent proceeded with throwing his whole hand on the table (9 Land Stompy). I just thought wtf? 'counter.' 'too late now!'. Which of course it was not.
This example may not be the best since I didn't have a good grasp on the rules yet, but some players are just not very cooperative. But I digress.)

[catmint]

anyone who has interest in learning the game should be able to lough about his own mistakes...

I love this thread... it is just too funny!

[Ahab]

I just remembered one:
Me, playing Burn with Mogg Fanatics and Hellspark Elemental
Opponent, playing LED Dredge

Game 2, I sided pretty much nothing. My opponent is on the play and tanks for like 2 minutes. 'LED...' 2 more minutes 'break lead, discard no dredger and 3 bridges'.
I go Mountain -> Mogg Fanatic -> sac. Facepalm^^

[jandax]

Guy at a pro tour side event sits down laying his deck and sideboard face up. Literally as if he picked up his deck from the last game and put it back down at the paired table. Just had to fist pump, mentally, when there was a Piledriver showing. The round was a bye, given a good matchup against a sloppy player, but when he sideboarded cards face up I simply didn't care anymore and it got fun, even.

Can't vouche for anything more rediculous without fabricating a story

[Whippoorwill]

I don't see why it's a big deal if an inexperienced player targets a rootwalla with discard

In the situation I listed, my opponent wasn't inexperienced, she just had a lapse of judgment at the time is all. We both laughed about it when she realized what she did.

So 2/3 of the plays I listed aren't really ridiculous, just funny things that happened.

[RogueMTG]

My favourite:
Around the same time at a power tournament. Both players are sitting next to me.

Player 1 is playing Fish.
Player 2 is playing Dredge.

Player 1 has Standstill out.....and casts another. :laugh:

This reminded me of a crazy play my buddy had playing Landstill vs Dredge.

It was a very back and forth game, Dredge player's library is almost gone but he has lethal on the board for his next turn.

My buddy untaps, goes: Standstill -> Break it with Standstill -> Break it with Standstill -> Break it with STP -> Deck You.

[Sims]

OK, I guess I'll be the first to say it. This thread is pretty stupid. Most of the examples refer to dumb mistakes that noobs made. Magic is a pretty complex game that takes a long time to get the hang of, even for highly intelligent players. I don't see why it's a big deal if an inexperienced player targets a rootwalla with discard, plays a legend when he/she already has one in play, or tries to counter an uncounterable spell. It's all about learning the game. You guys all made the same mistakes when you were noobs. And most of you probably still make dumb mistakes from time to time when you are tired or lose focus.

I saw the thread more as "stupid, ridiculous, off the wall plays" and not so much as "my opponent went Herp Derp Derpington esq. on me"

Granted most of the replies in this thread are the latter, I'm in it for the plays that are so ridiculous you have to wonder if they're being made up.

[TooCloseToTheSun]

I was on the draw game one in a merfolk mirror:
Opp: Turn 1 mutavault, go
Me: Turn 1 Vial, go
Opp: Turn 2 Standstill
Me: You got it

Latter in the game she broke her own standstill with Lord of Atlantis allowing me to alpha strike next turn for the win.

[Julian23]

Some weeks ago i played with Team America against some weird Goblin Deck including wheel of fate instead of Ringleader. And no wastelands.

There were several funny moments.
He Suspended Wheel of Fate and managed to have 4 cards in hand ( with 4 Mountains on the field) when it resolved ( i had 0^^).
The first game he started with mountain go and my Hymn to Thourach the next turn discarded him Aether Vial (!) and a Mountain.
The second game He tarfired my 1/2 Tarmogoyf with only a Fetchland in my grave...
And the first time i played a wasteland he said: wait, what does that card do?

Yeah. I lost to that guy round 1. Wasn't even funny. He tried to use the bottom cards of his deck to make SGC tokens, shuffled his deck like twice before presenting etc. He was super inexperienced but managed to pull off the "T1 Lackey, T2 Kill your blocker, drop Siege Gang, T3 Warchief, kill me" twice....

[betterthenandrew]

I saw the thread more as "stupid, ridiculous, off the wall plays" and not so much as "my opponent went Herp Derp Derpington esq. on me"

Granted most of the replies in this thread are the latter, I'm in it for the plays that are so ridiculous you have to wonder if they're being made up.

Ok, a couple weeks ago I played Doomsday at a local event. I'm playing a maindeck Slaughter Pact because every one is playing Maverick with a maindeck Teeg.

Game 1:
T1 Villain: T1 Mom
T1 Hero: T1 SDT
T2 Villain: T2 Teeg, Attack with Mom
T2 Hero: T2 Slaughter Pact Mom, Dark Ritual, Doomsday, LED, Flip Top, Meditate, Lotus Petal, Dark Ritual, Dark Ritual, Top, Flip top, Tendrils.

Had he not attacked I would have had to Pact Teeg on his endstep, then created a DD pile with it again, would have needed another mana.

Game 2:
Villain casts t1 Mom, t2 Teeg, t3 Cannonist.
Hero EOT Pacts Cannonist (who gets mom protection). On my turn I Chain the Cannonist, then create a DD pile with Slaughter Pact.

After the match my opponent just sat at the table mumbling about how he couldn't believe I won and triyng to replay the match in his head, hoping to find a way to win.

At the same event I saw a buddy playing reanimator vs casual Mono white walls deck. (Basically a bunch of walls, then Rollin Stones). Reanimator has a fist full of entombs and dudes, but no way to reanimate them. He finally rips an Exhume but his opponent has Honor the Fallen (Main deck mind you, this guy isn't packing a sideboard). A few turns later he finally manages to reanimate a Sphinx of the Steel Wind, and his opponent has a Pacifism. Lolololololol.

[Picc]

Yeah. I lost to that guy round 1. Wasn't even funny. He tried to use the bottom cards of his deck to make SGC tokens, shuffled his deck like twice before presenting etc. He was super inexperienced but managed to pull off the "T1 Lackey, T2 Kill your blocker, drop Siege Gang, T3 Warchief, kill me" twice....

Reminds me of a game I once watched a friend play against goblins with my standstill deck. My friend goes first land go, his opponent drops vial says go, my friend is like standstill, I'm like good grief did you even read the card or were you just that excited to not be playing standard. He looks confused and say what, goblins win in two XD

[nedleeds]

This incident was ... just priceless.

Me on G/b/w StoneJunk, him on Dredge

Me: 4 lands up, tap 2 for SFM. Badly behind at this point and needing to remove bridges. I walk right into his Therapy by saying, 'Well I better get something I can cast since it's going to get ripped'. 'I'll get Umezawa's Jitte'. Tap 2, cast Jitte. 'You're up'.

Him: <furrows brow> <pauses>. Untaps. <pauses> <looks at graveyard> (i expect him to pull out the 2 Ichorids in there). Him: 'Dredge 5'. (me ??? ok). Cabal Therapy flips in <more furrowing>. Him: 'Cabal therapy'. Me: 'Targeting?'. Him: <nice try> 'You !?!'. Me: 'Fair.'. <pained look of what to name>. Him: <great exhale> 'Umezawa's Jitte ...'. Me: <pause> <grimace> <look at my hand> 'Umezawa's Jitte as in the Umezawa's Jitte on the battlefield?' Him: <shrinkage>. Me: <reveal hand> 'Turns out I only had the one.'

[Purgatory]

I don't think magic is a very complex game (except stuff like certain combos, humility etc.). It just has a lot to do with experience and knowing cards. Being able to recite your opponent's decklist after he goes Gemstone Mine -> Ponder is not 'complex'.
Newer players are often intimidated when their opponents play decks consisting of >50% of cards they have never seen before.

Sorry for being off-topic, but I'd love to hear your definition of "complex". Magic is, to me, very complex, I learned the basics of the game pretty quickly, like most do, but to fully grasp the rules and being able to play the game properly took me years of experience. I also know players who have played the game for nearly a decade and who still doesn't fully grasp the rules.

Aside from having a fat rulebook that is full of complicated rules regarding the game's structure and rules, there are some 15000 cards printed over the course of nearly two decades, whose inherent synergies are not listed in the rules, and sometimes players need certified judges to work these out.

Aside from that as well, there is a meta-game surrounding the game itself, with various deck archetypes one has to be able to compete against to be, well, competitive.

Aside from that as well, the interaction between players of the game can play a role in deciding a match, much like in games such as Poker (which is really only about knowing that a straight flush beats a full house, right?)

I respectfully disagree with you, sir, and I think you are all but objectively wrong on this matter.

[Justin]

Yeah, Magic is pretty complex. In addition to all the cards, it's had dozens of different mechanics over the years.

I really don't mind stories about ridiculous plays made by yourselves or fellow experienced players. I just don't like the ones about noobs making dumb mistakes. I just think it's pretty lame to laugh at the mistakes that inexperienced players make or to take a lot of joy in beating them. You've got to have some pretty low self esteem yourself to feel that way. I usually feel a little bad when I squash an inexperienced player who is playing extremely badly. I'll typically try to talk to the player after the match and offer some pointers, provided that the player has a good attitude. Some experienced Magic players really come off as being far too elitist for my tastes.

This thread reminds me a bit of the "Beating my head against the wall of MWS" threads that got locked. At least those threads were mostly making fun of beligerent jerks who melted down during an online game. As long as an inexperienced player is being polite, I see no reason to laugh at him/her because he/she plays terribly.

[aahz]

I saw the thread more as "stupid, ridiculous, off the wall plays" and not so much as "my opponent went Herp Derp Derpington esq. on me"

Granted most of the replies in this thread are the latter, I'm in it for the plays that are so ridiculous you have to wonder if they're being made up.
That is also how I interpreted the OP (and why I included a picture with mine :wink:), and I'm also disappointed with the direction this thread took. I wanted to read about INSANE plays, situations, etc. not silly noob mistakes. Disparaging beginners (and their misplays) is no way to build community since it mostly just turns them off to playing.

[Que]

That is also how I interpreted the OP (and why I included a picture with mine :wink:), and I'm also disappointed with the direction this thread took. I wanted to read about INSANE plays, situations, etc. not silly noob mistakes. Disparaging beginners (and their misplays) is no way to build community since it mostly just turns them off to playing.

This was my original intention.

And even though it went towards making silly mistakes I think its not so much making fun of those mistakes but being humble enough to realize we've all made such mistakes or have even made them recently. Its nice to have a laugh about it afterwards. We are in a sense laughing at ourselves and not at anyone in particular.

If anything others can take solace in knowing they aren't the worst magic player on earth if others are making all types of mistakes across the world.

And I also wanted to hear of crazy ass stories. A friend of mine told me of a particular player who went apeshit after losing a die Roll. lol. he grabbed his opponents die and launched them straight across the room for no reason. needless to say he was dq'd. xD

[Jabari]

I'd say I'm probably the biggest offender in our playgroup of stupid ridiculous mistakes. I should absolutely know better but I'm an idiot.

One time I was playing GW Maverick against POX, and I like to play 1 Mystic Enforcer instead of Thrun for the GSZ toolbox. It always has thresh when you search for it and it can win games that Thrun can't - plus it's just confuses the crap out of people. Anyway, I have a noble down, 3 land, and a sylvan library. I'm getting beat down by a 5/5 black demon token from that one sac land I can't remember (he floated mana, pox'd, then sac'd the land to make the flyer). I have one turn left to live, I the Enforcer in hand and I'm searching my top with sylvan for that 4th land don't find it and concede. My friend looking over my shoulder asks me why and I tell him I didn't find the land for Enforcer - he replies "why didn't you tap the noble?!" - I forgot that noble hierarch ... taps... for mana. Yeaaaa

Another time I was playing GW mav against MUD Stompy. He has a metalworker equipped with greaves and I have a hierarch and a qasali pridemage out. I have 1 stp and 1 tariff in hand in case he drops Blightsteel for the win. I look at the board and think, nawww he doesn't have it. Proceed to tap out play Elspeth, bless the pridemage to put him at dead next turn. He untaps plays blightsteel and wins...

[death]

My opponent picked up a card from my library. When I passed the turn I was busy looking at my cards contemplating a possible combo turn, during his draw phase I was flabbergasted when one of the cards in his hand was sticking out like a sore thumb because it had white sleeves on, he obviously had drawn from my library because he was playing with blue sleeves!! LOL.

[niknight]

I have two contenders for most redic. play by an opponent:

1. At a standard event during INV/OD, my opponent cast Recoil on my tapped Basking Rootwalla before their attack step.

2. At GP Columbus, I'm playing Hive Mind against UW Countertop. It's game 3, we're in extra turns, and my opponent has two Cannonists in play. I Show and Tell a Hive Mind in on Turn 2, and hardcast another Hive Mind on Turn 4. During his upkeep on Turn 5, I cast Pact of the Titan (nowhere in my grandstanding did I ever tell him he had to pay, I hear being DQ'ed is bad) ... he promptly scoops.

I also had a good one at Providence:

I had 0 nonland permanents and 1 card in hand when my opp went ultimate with Jace. I put the one card back on my library, draw it for turn, and cast it. The card was Words of War... I then proceed to draw with Horizon Canopy, and skip the draw to shoot down his Jace. 4 turns later, he's dead.

[Nelis]

An opponent who took a swing at me because I was lucky and a bit slow with my plays. He was just eating himself up inside apparently. He didn't connect but I was so flabbergasted about it I didn't even make a point of it. The kid is a judge now.

[Ahab]

Sorry for being off-topic, but I'd love to hear your definition of "complex". Magic is, to me, very complex, I learned the basics of the game pretty quickly, like most do, but to fully grasp the rules and being able to play the game properly took me years of experience. I also know players who have played the game for nearly a decade and who still doesn't fully grasp the rules.

Aside from having a fat rulebook that is full of complicated rules regarding the game's structure and rules, there are some 15000 cards printed over the course of nearly two decades, whose inherent synergies are not listed in the rules, and sometimes players need certified judges to work these out.

Aside from that as well, there is a meta-game surrounding the game itself, with various deck archetypes one has to be able to compete against to be, well, competitive.

Aside from that as well, the interaction between players of the game can play a role in deciding a match, much like in games such as Poker (which is really only about knowing that a straight flush beats a full house, right?)

I respectfully disagree with you, sir, and I think you are all but objectively wrong on this matter.

Hi,
I don't know if this is the 'right' definition, but in a course about problem solving at my university we learned to differentiate between two things: complicated problems and complex ones. Complicated means that lots of factors influence the outcome. Your tax report is complicated. Complex, on the other hand, means that the factors influence not only the outcome but each other. Pretty much everything concerning human beings, relationships,... is complex. Note that neither term implies an easy or hard problem. The thing is that complex problems don't really have a 'best', or 'dominant' solution, since it's extremely hard to tell what is going to happen to variable A if you add to B or C etc. Figuring out the weather is probably the best example. Sooo many things influence each other.

[Jabari]

I just remembered this game.

I was playing modern with GW aggro against teferi/tezzeret control (yes I'm always on GW). He esper charms me to make me discard 2 cards. I discard 2 Wilt Liefe Liege's and now have lethal on board. He proceeds to Cryptic - tap all creatures, bounce Liege. Followed by Cryptic - tap all creatures, bounce liege. Then again to counter a liege and tap all creatures. Then he drops a Wurmcoil Engine and I lose over a series of turns. That sucked sooo bad.

[Julian23]

The following is actually a total brainfart by me:

Round 1, Game1: My opponent goes first, Tropical Island, go. I (Merfolk) play Island, go. He plays Volcanic Island, Nimble Mongoose. I triumphantly Daze his Mongoose only to see him pay. Wait...what, I didn't go first? Oops...

Needless to say, I went on to win that game, the match and the entire tournament. :laugh:

[Kamulium]

Round 1, Game1: My opponent goes first, Tropical Island, go. I (Merfolk) play Island, go. He plays Volcanic Island, Nimble Mongoose. I triumphantly Daze his Mongoose only to see him pay. Wait...what, I didn't go first? Oops..
I was running Merfolk back when it ran Standstills and my G1 was something like
Turn one: "Land, go"
Turn two: "Land, Silvergill Adept revealing Cursecatcher"
Turn three: "Land, Standstill, Cursecatcher" giving my opponent three extra cards.


Needless to say, I went on to win that game, the match and the entire tournament. :laugh:
I didn't win the tournament but I did win that game and the match.

[Impulze9]

Opponent casted timely reinforcements when he had more life than me and we had the same number of creatures in play.

[Malchar]

Opponent: Forest, Concordant Crossroads, go.
Me: Mountain, Goblin Lackey, attack, Siege-gang, go.

[Dreg]

This happened last year in Milan:

Game 2, me with LED-Less Dredge vs Random guy with Dark Merfolks.

Turn 2 he places standstill. I still have to figure out why he did. And passes. I keep on dredging and playing under standstill without problems while he is completely unable to do anything. At a certain point of the match he begins saying "You are going too fast for me, i MUST extirpate your Grave Troll". So he did. I cracked his standstill and dredged my trolls.

The look on his face was awesome.

[Sloshthedark]

yesterdays hit G2

Me - land, dark ritual, Doomsday (Shelldock, Emrakul,...), go
Op - taiga, Goblin Guide...

sigh... stupid Me...

[Julian23]

You didn't attack? Attacking wins the game on the spot. I guess that's actually the point of it, but I'm not sure ;-)

[jandax]

An opponent who took a swing at me because I was lucky and a bit slow with my plays. He was just eating himself up inside apparently. He didn't connect but I was so flabbergasted about it I didn't even make a point of it. The kid is a judge now.

Hah, who is it? Just curious.

[Sloshthedark]

You didn't attack? Attacking wins the game on the spot. I guess that's actually the point of it, but I'm not sure ;-)

its T1, I doomsday and pass... but fail not to put Emrakul 2nd from the top so I have to draw the shelldock due to Goblin Guide and draw Emrakul in my turn...

[Malchar]

I'm playing ad nauseam tendrils shortly after shards came out against a scrubby burn deck (which uses repercussion + pyroclasm among other things). It's game 3, and I finally get a good hand.

Me: Ritual, Ritual, Ad Nauseam
Opp: Force pitching Force
Me: ...

Interesting sideboard tech, and I end up losing. Apparently someone else ended up stealing his unsleeved fow's before the tournament was over. Man that place was scrubby.

[clavio]

Opponent has cursed scroll in play with one card in hand. He activates cursed scroll, naming dark ritual. He reveals a swamp.

[Julian23]

its T1, I doomsday and pass... but fail not to put Emrakul 2nd from the top so I have to draw the shelldock due to Goblin Guide and draw Emrakul in my turn...

I actually missread your post, thinking that you were the guy playing Goblin Guide ;-)

[Sloshthedark]

Opponent has cursed scroll in play with one card in hand. He activates cursed scroll, naming dark ritual. He reveals a swamp.

lol, masterplay :laugh:

@Julian23 - sadly no...

[jrw1985]

Most ridiculous play I've ever seen my opponent make-

I'm on Goblins, he's on ANT.

I was on the play, down 0-1 for game 2. I sided in Cabal Therapies and had an opening hand with Cabal Therapy and Mogg War Marshal. T1 I cast Therapy, calling LED. He has one in hand and some other junk plus an infernal tutor. He does nothing his turn. Mine, I cast Mogg War Marshal and flash back CT, he responds with Brainstorm. After sculpting his hand, CT resolves. The other cards I had seen were pretty dead, and I knew he would hide the IT with the BS, so I called Dark Ritual. He shows me his hand, which now has 2 LEDs which he topdecked off the BS and no IT or Dark Ritual! On his T2 he goes off.

3 LEDs, Brainstorm, and Infernal Tutor to fight through 2 discard spells and go off T2. Sick.

[jrw1985]

This happened last year in Milan:

Game 2, me with LED-Less Dredge vs Random guy with Dark Merfolks.

Turn 2 he places standstill. I still have to figure out why he did. And passes. I keep on dredging and playing under standstill without problems while he is completely unable to do anything. At a certain point of the match he begins saying "You are going too fast for me, i MUST extirpate your Grave Troll". So he did. I cracked his standstill and dredged my trolls.

The look on his face was awesome.

That's plain ol' fantastic!

[RaNDoMxGeSTuReS]

I'm on the draw with ANT.

My hand is Underground Sea, LED, LED, Lotus Petal, Lotus Petal, Dark Ritual and Infernal Tutor.

My opponent plays a turn one Inquisition of Kozilek, taking away my Infernal Tutor.

My draw for the turn? Preordain.

I go for it.

Underground Sea, LED, LED, Lotus Petal, Lotus Petal, Dark Ritual, Preordain.

Storm count 6.

Preordain reveals land and Infernal Tutor.

Iggy-loop ftw :3

[kombatkiwi]

Playing in a standard FNM with valakut, I think before titan even came out
My opponent is using a mono W control deck that plays eldrazi temple and such to ramp into emrakul.
My opponent is on about 10 or 11 life because I've been attacking him.
My only creature right now though is an ondu giant. I have 2 valakuts and a khalni heart expedition with 3 counters on it but I only have 3 mountains in play so cracking it won't do anything.

He casts emrakul, so I guess it's all over, but I don't concede

Before attacking, he casts path to exile on my ondu giant >_>

I don't often play standard, I think that's the only time I ever won an FNM (all the good players were playing in the cash tournament at the store up the road)

I have also had the
Me: Turn 1 Tireless tribe
Opponent: Standstill
Me: Wut?
Opponent: Concede

I have had an opponent almost try to put a jitte on their phantasmal image before realising

I'm sure I have made some pretty dumb errors too, everybody makes mistakes and I'm sad that I can't really remember any of them because being aware of your shortcomings is how to improve

[Leftconsin]

I've had an opponent turn two a standstill on me when I was playing Lands. I think I even played Exploration turn 1. I looked at him and said "I'm pretty sure I'm going to be drawing cards off that." A few turns later I'm beating in with two Factories after wasting the two Mutavaults he thought would get me to crack the standstill. He plays some merfolk, I draw 3, and he asks to go to game two not long after.

[Rizso]

Opponent has cursed scroll in play with one card in hand. He activates cursed scroll, naming dark ritual. He reveals a swamp.

Really laughted out load when i read that :D Thats awesome. XD

[Goin Aggro]

Player 1: Would you like to draw?
Player 2: Why? Neither of us is in contention for T8.
P1: I know, I just don't think I can win.

Well played sir, well played.

[dahcmai]

Ok, a friend of mine remembered this one from a long time ago. I did this to him and remember this was back before the internet was around to let you know you were wrong by looking up oracle texts. I thought I was a frigging genius for thinking up this one.



Me: Plays Flood Plain

Him: Plays Mountain, Jackal Pup

Me: uptap, go.

Him: Plays Ironclaw Orcs, swings in with Pup.

I sacrifice the flood plain to fetch up Island Fish Jasconius.

Munch on Jackal Pup. Laugh Heartily.

[Aggro_zombies]

Is it okay to post other people's games?

This weekend my friends and I had a chaos draft. I went an unspectacular 2-2 with a UBw control deck, but my friend and organizer (let's call him D) 3-0'd with the sickest GU deck ever. In the final round, he was up against GWB fat stuff.

I walk over and it's turn six or so of game 2. D has a Momir Vig and a Deepwood Drummer in play. His opponent casts Spined Wurm. The following happens:

D: Time Ebbs Spined Wurm, attacks.
Opp: untaps and casts Spined Wurm.
D: Memory Lapses Spined Wurm, attacks on his turn.
Opp: untaps and casts Spined Wurm.
D: Whirlpool Whelms Spined Wurm EOT. The clash reveals Annex for D and something that costs less than four for the opponent.
D: untaps and Annexes opponent's Simic Growth Chamber, attacks.

It was brutal. Unfortunately, then D drew six lands in a row and lost to the Spined Wurm (which finally stuck) and an Alpha Tyrannax.

[lorddotm]

Me: "Land, go."

Them: "Land, Thoughtseize."

Me: "Dark Ritual, Dark Ritual, Ad Nauseam, stop at 2 life."

Them: "I'm not scooping, take Tendrils."

[Sims]

Me: "Land, go."

Them: "Land, Thoughtseize."

Me: "Dark Ritual, Dark Ritual, Ad Nauseam, stop at 2 life."

Them: "I'm not scooping, take Tendrils."

Did this game end with "Burning Wish for IGG/Past in Flames" ??

[Koby]

Did this game end with "Burning Wish for IGG/Past in Flames" ??

Doesn't it always?

[The Wolf]

Saw this happen to my friend:
(Vintage)
Him: Dredge
Opp: Some gifts pile

Him 2x bazzaar in play
Opp: Jailer in play and a fist full of counters.

Him: Draw play fetch land and pass
Opp: Draw and swing with jailer
Him: Crack fetch and get Dryad Arbor

GG

[UseLess]

At the Dutch NC legacy, some weeks ago, I played a mono black suicide-type deck incl. smallpox and Death's Shadow (which is such an awesome card!).

I play BUG thresh in round three, standing 1-1 so there was still hope (yeah right...). Board state was about equal when I play smallpox and he sacrifices his only creature, a nimble mongoose while having threshold. I have a Snuff Out in hand and neither of us has any creatures. He then draws mongoose, casts it and says go. I draw irrelevant stuff and pass. He draws mongoose, casts it and attacks with the other one. I draw irrelevant stuff and pass. He draws mongoose AGAIN, casts it and attacks with the other two. Now my life total is at 9. I draw Death's shadow, which is now 4/4 so I will be able to survive one attack. He draws, attacks for 6 and I ask him: "You drew a lightning bolt, right?" after which he apologizes and reveals the bolt. P_)(^#%
I would have drawn Tombstalker, stabilizing the board at that moment. Stupid shrouded mongooses, that snuff out was totally useless!

The next match I made an interesting mistake. I'm paired against goblins, we are at 1-1 and have a very close third game. At one point I have a 5/5 Death's Shadow and a Dark confidant in play and he has 3 goblins. Since his turn would probably the last he draws and says "I just go for it" and swings with 3 of his goblins (Matron, Ringleader, 2/2 dork). I'm so afraid he drew the gempalm goblin so that, if I would block a goblin with my death's shadow, he would be able to deal lethal damage to it, removing my finisher. So I decided to take the 5 damage, going to 4. He then reveals Lightning bolt (totally forgot about that card, I was convinced he couldn't hurt my life total) and says YES I WIN! While I point out I still live and have 1 life left. At that stage I was like YES I WIN! when he pointed to me the Dark confidant still in play, hoping it would reveal a lethal card. I was just about to use Top when I realized I used it to draw a card, so confidant would kill me for sure. I reach out my hand, he shakes it, thinking he lost, when I pointed out Top was on top...

Now the mistake (who figured it out? :P): the Death's Shadow would never die from either Lightning bolt or Gempalm dude, since the other two goblins would hurt my life total, increasing it's P/T before he would die... Yeah, great call on that one!

[kombatkiwi]

Today in an innistrad draft I made the worst misplay of my entire life

Me: Alpha strike
Opponent: Alpha strike back
Me: ok game

I forgot the moonmist in my hand could be a fog
I was using it only as "transform all humans, prevent all combat damage dealt to werewolves"

I couldve just cast it and attacked back for game

[I am the brainwasher]

At the Dutch NC legacy, some weeks ago, I played a mono black suicide-type deck incl. smallpox and Death's Shadow (which is such an awesome card!).!

Guess I spotted your mistake right there... .

[DoomPenguin]

Two good ones while I was playing The Gate:

Opponent (Esperblade): Stoneforge for Batterskull
Me: Sac Gatekeeper to flashback Cabal Therapy, resolves, name Batterskull
Him: Oh yeah I forgot you could do that

Against Helm/Leyline Combo with Doomsday SB:

Me: Turn 1 Pithing Needle, name Helm of Obedience, I start beating down while he does nothing
Opponent: Plays Ensnaring Bridge
I Can't attack, so we draw go for a while
Opponent: Doomsdays for Shelldock/Emrakul combo
Me: Vampire Nighthawk in play and Extirpate in hand with enough permanents to sac to Emrakul, I feel confident
Opponent: Shelldocks out Emrakul, pauses, looks at Ensnaring Bridge and scoops
Me: Reads Ensnaring Bridge more closely and realizes it affects all players
Everyone has a good laugh

[dahcmai]

I almost forgot this one. It happened at SCG Indy just this year.

I'm playing Gitaxias Reanimator. He's on Hypergenesis.


It's game 2 and he drops Leyline of the void. I freak inside my head as I realize I don't have a damned thing to get rid of that in the deck. I didn't expect him to board those since I saw no black game 1. I didn't board in Show and Tells since I don't want him dropping fatties larger than mine. Ie. Projo and Emrakul. I'm thinking I'm pretty locked out.

I decide to keep going to see if I can think of something.


He casts a cascade spell and I force the Hypergenesis to buy some time to think.

He casts another Hypergenesis off cascade next turn. I have to let it go.


He drops Progenitus. I drop Sheodred and smile a little. He is done. Wait?....done?

I get to drop Elesh Norn and Jin Gitaxias along with it.

woot

[edgarps22]

Not me but stolen from Taco for its epicness, circa 2007:

This may have nothing to do with Flash, but I was so amused by it I had to bring it up. IBA suggests Brightstone Ritual as a bizarre answer to Empty the Warrens, so I started testing it against some ETW tossing decks. Here's one of my best results ever and quite possibly the best turn one in the history of Vial Goblins:

Opponent: Turn one, ridiculous shit, 16 ETW Tokens:

Me: (Opening Hand: Plateau, Wasteland, Brightstone Ritual, Brightstone Ritual, Warchief, Ringleader, Matron)

-Plateau, Ritual for 16, Warchief, Ringleader (10 floating.)
-(Ringleader hits Ringleader, Gempalm, Piledriver.)
-Ringleader (7 Floating.)
-(Ringleader hits Matron, Matron, Sharpshooter, Piledriver. Sweet!)
-Matron for Ringleader, Piledriver, Ringleader (1 Floating).
-(Ringleader hits Lackey, SGC)
-Brightstone Ritual for 22, Piledriver, Matron for Matron, Matron for Driver, Matron for Driver, Piledriver, Piledriver, Sharpshooter, Lackey, Gempalm, Siege-Gang (5 Floating.)
-Sharpshooter off all tokens.
-Mana Burn for 5.
-Swing for 179.

[Sloshthedark]

=O epic ridiculosity... even cursed scroll guy cannot match

[Climax]

Turn 4 double Standstill.

Stifle Standstill...

[Intet's Attendant]

Not me but stolen from Taco for its epicness, circa 2007:

This may have nothing to do with Flash, but I was so amused by it I had to bring it up. IBA suggests Brightstone Ritual as a bizarre answer to Empty the Warrens, so I started testing it against some ETW tossing decks. Here's one of my best results ever and quite possibly the best turn one in the history of Vial Goblins:

Opponent: Turn one, ridiculous shit, 16 ETW Tokens:

Me: (Opening Hand: Plateau, Wasteland, Brightstone Ritual, Brightstone Ritual, Warchief, Ringleader, Matron)

-Plateau, Ritual for 16, Warchief, Ringleader (10 floating.)
-(Ringleader hits Ringleader, Gempalm, Piledriver.)
-Ringleader (7 Floating.)
-(Ringleader hits Matron, Matron, Sharpshooter, Piledriver. Sweet!)
-Matron for Ringleader, Piledriver, Ringleader (1 Floating).
-(Ringleader hits Lackey, SGC)
-Brightstone Ritual for 22, Piledriver, Matron for Matron, Matron for Driver, Matron for Driver, Piledriver, Piledriver, Sharpshooter, Lackey, Gempalm, Siege-Gang (5 Floating.)
-Sharpshooter off all tokens.
-Mana Burn for 5.
-Swing for 179.

Yeah, I think that wins.

[jares]

My favorite is the memory of my opponent playing Force of Will on my Vexing Shusher immediately after I cast it and ask for his permission. What's even better is his confusion and surprise after I put it into play. :laugh:

Cheers,
jares

[Darkenslight]

Turn 5 kill with Lightning Coils in FNM against Mono-Red (Mirrodin-Kamigawa Standard)

T1: Island, Teardrop Kami
T2: Mountain, Coretapper
T3: Mountain, Lightning Coils, add counter with Coretapper
T4: Island, Teardrop Kami
EoT (opp): Tap Coretapper, sac Kami, Tap Coretapper, sac Kami #2, tap coretapper, sac Coretapper
T5: declare attackers, Tears of rage for 99.

G2: I got knocked down to one life before swinging in for 426 damage, after having Lightning Coils on four counters for half the game.

[Penguinizer]

The most ridiculous play I've witnessed (I was a few tables over to the side) was an opponent grabbing a part of his opponents deck by accident instead of his when shuffling it into his own. It was hilarious to see the judges try to figure out which card was whose since they were both playing Bant Survival.

Personally, my biggest screwups were either: entering a free Legacy tournament at Ropecon (big Finnish gaming con) without having slept at all the previous night since I was busy playing Mafia/Werewolf or whatever that game is called. I think I made it to round 3 until I fell asleep midgame against Merfolk.

[Que]

The most ridiculous play I've witnessed (I was a few tables over to the side) was an opponent grabbing a part of his opponents deck by accident instead of his when shuffling it into his own. It was hilarious to see the judges try to figure out which card was whose since they were both playing Bant Survival.

Personally, my biggest screwups were either: entering a free Legacy tournament at Ropecon (big Finnish gaming con) without having slept at all the previous night since I was busy playing Mafia/Werewolf or whatever that game is called. I think I made it to round 3 until I fell asleep midgame against Merfolk.

Lmao. My fav kind of ridiculousness.

[Tacosnape]

Not me but stolen from Taco for its epicness, circa 2007:

This may have nothing to do with Flash, but I was so amused by it I had to bring it up. IBA suggests Brightstone Ritual as a bizarre answer to Empty the Warrens, so I started testing it against some ETW tossing decks. Here's one of my best results ever and quite possibly the best turn one in the history of Vial Goblins:

Opponent: Turn one, ridiculous shit, 16 ETW Tokens:

Me: (Opening Hand: Plateau, Wasteland, Brightstone Ritual, Brightstone Ritual, Warchief, Ringleader, Matron)

-Plateau, Ritual for 16, Warchief, Ringleader (10 floating.)
-(Ringleader hits Ringleader, Gempalm, Piledriver.)
-Ringleader (7 Floating.)
-(Ringleader hits Matron, Matron, Sharpshooter, Piledriver. Sweet!)
-Matron for Ringleader, Piledriver, Ringleader (1 Floating).
-(Ringleader hits Lackey, SGC)
-Brightstone Ritual for 22, Piledriver, Matron for Matron, Matron for Driver, Matron for Driver, Piledriver, Piledriver, Sharpshooter, Lackey, Gempalm, Siege-Gang (5 Floating.)
-Sharpshooter off all tokens.
-Mana Burn for 5.
-Swing for 179.

Yeah I've still never even come close to topping this.

If I have to pick an opponent's play, however, it would be many many years ago, where an opponent combined 4 Mana Flares, 7 Candleabras of Tawnos (4 Regular, 3 Copy Artifacts), multiple giant Snake Basket activations, and a Marton Stromgald with some obscene amount of tokens, like 676 or something. I got hit for over 450,000.

If however we mean "Ridiculous" literally, and not as in overpowered, I pick my opponent playing a Hunting Moa against my Vish Kal deck in a Commander Game. I had Vish Kal and like 5 mundane dudes/tokens out. I picked up the card, read it, hesitated, picked it up again, read it again, killed it with Vish Kal, played Puppeteer Clique and won.

[HokusSchmokus]

Solidarity(on the play) vs. Nic Fit.
Turn 1, Island, pass. Nic Fit plays Vetaran Explorer.
Turn 2, Island, pass. Nic Fit attacks with Veteran Explorer, Solidarity flashes in Snappy to block, gets two Islands, High Tide, Reset, kill him. On Turn 2.

[evanmartyr]

Invasion/Masques Type 2, me on mono-black control, opponent on blue skies (rising waters without rising waters).

Him: Island.
Me: Swamp, Dark Ritual, Plague Spitter. Gets Dazed.
Him: Island.
Me: Nut on land, Dark Ritual, Plague Spitter. Gets Dazed.
Him: Island.
Me: Vampiric Tutor for a swamp? Gets Dazed. Fucking scoop.

[Tacosnape]

5-man Commander Pod. Me on Multani. Kaervek the Merciless player is about to combo off next turn. I have an 18/18 Multani. I Natural Order Dryad Arbor into Vorinclex, giving me enough mana to play Greater Good, draw 18 cards (Including Concordant Crossroads), play Crossroads, replay Multani, and one-shot the Kaervek player.

Next player, with nothing more than a Momir Vig and a Priest of Titania in play and 1 card in hand? Untap, draw Recycle, play Recycle, play an Elf, randomly draw a second Elf, Momir Vig trigger a third elf on top, commence playing every Elf in the deck chaining untap effects and mana activation, lots of Ezuri activations, swing at everyone for over 800.

Stupid Concordant Crossroads.

[Einherjer]

Long time ago I played Deadguy Ale. I was playing a Dredge opponent. He plays Cabal Therapy and sees: Jotun Grunt, Swords to Plowshares, Hymn to Tourach, Hymn to Tourach after missing the first hit. Then he saccs something and plays a second Therapy naming.... HYMN TO TOURACH! Yo da good old two for one hu?

[flounce]

Not Really a ridiculous play, but...

When I was playing in a last chance trial at BOM, I was playing against a RUG Delver opponent.

Mid game he fetches for his 4th land and puts a Tundra into play. I was wondering what the white splash may be for.

Swords maybe?

Engineered Explosives for 4?

After the match I asked him what it was for... Apparently he turned up missing his 19th land and only had 59 cards, so rather than using a basic island, he thought he would use a Tundra for misinformation.

[kombatkiwi]

In a dredge mirror post-board my opponent has turn-one therapied me for leyline of the void.

The hilarious thing is that he already put down his own leyline before he therapied me so it's like he wasn't even reading his own cards.