Your most Epic Punts

[KobeBryan]

This is mine.

The opponent had 3 islands in play only.

I have a wasteland, an underground sea, and a delver goyf. The opponent was down to 6 life.

On his turn, I have my sea tapped, my wasteland untaped. He proceeds to show and tell. I daze. He quickly dazes back. I was stupid I forced his daze instead of tapping the wasteland to pay. So he then forces my force, thereby winning the counter war.

He proceeds to drop an emrukhal

[Lemnear]

Oh god, I could tell a million stupid punts playing storm. I'll pick one, which people could learn from:

BoM round 6 against UWR Delver: going for Empty the Warrens after he tapped out for SFM -> Batterskull but piles up my graveyard and missed a Cabal Therapy there to flashback for the Skull.

Lesson: Check your graveyard every time you resolve EtW

[Benrobnu]

I was 5-0 in an SCG playing RUG Delver against sneak and show. Live totals were 18(me) - 13(op). My opponent was hell bent with an island a mountain and sneak attackk. I had a flipped Delver, Goose and a Goyf and three lands. I draw a fetch and hold it and attack my opponent down to 5 then pass the turn. He draws emrakul, wipes me out passes the turn. I draw stifle play fetch pass, he draws grisel.

[Malchar]

This is mine.

The opponent had 3 islands in play only.

I have a wasteland, an underground sea, and a delver goyf. The opponent was down to 6 life.

On his turn, I have my sea tapped, my wasteland untaped. He proceeds to show and tell. I daze. He quickly dazes back. I was stupid I forced his daze instead of tapping the wasteland to pay. So he then forces my force, thereby winning the counter war.

He proceeds to drop an emrukhal

You know that you could still pay for his daze after the forces resolved, right?

[J.V.]

Playing TES against Patriot; he has lethal on the board. I had enough to go off for tendrils for 18 (after silence had resolved). To get to storm 10 I instead go for a desperate diminishing returns and whiff. He had fetched and forced earlier in the game... Tendrils for 18 was enough... But in my head he was at 20. I saw it almost immediately after the game ended. Definitely my worst punt ever.

[JPoJohnson]

When I was learning TES early on in a game against 4c Cascade. I play Silence, drop 2 LEDs, Dark Rit and Infernal Tutor tapping one of my LEDs and fetch Ad Nauseam only to be 1 mana short. Maths, they're hard. :eek:

[[SLAYER]chaos]

Learning how to play TES has some epic punts. Lotus petal, lotus petal storm is 2... realize I'm a red short of wishing for EtW and casting it. So pass.

[Admiral_Arzar]

My most epic punt ever was actually in a standard PTQ years ago (back when I was an uneducated neanderthal who had never played Legacy). I was playing Grixis Control against Mythic Conscription, and I had a couple dudes and a Jace in play. My opponent had 5 lands, 1 card in hand, and an Elspeth soldier token (I had just killed Elspeth). I Brainstormed into something or other with Jace and passed the turn. My opponent peels a land off the top, drops Sovereigns of Lost Alara, and swings with a 12/12 token. Failing to bounce that seemingly harmless soldier token cost me a top eight slot at that tournament...

[FTW]

Reanimator vs Merfolk, finals in a small local event.

This was a few years ago the last time Merfolk and Reanimator were both good, way before TNN or Griselbrand. I think Mystical Tutor was still legal. Game 2 post-board, he starts.

After Duressing his gravehate turn 1 and tutoring EOT turn 2, turn 3 I lay a 3rd land and Entomb for Blazing Archon. He has a very aggressive board. My only reanimation spell is Exhume. He's tapped out and has 2 cards in hand. If he has Force, I lose either way. If he has Daze, I should wait til next turn. I would survive 1 more attack unless he drops a 4th land and double Lord but I definitely wouldn't survive two more. Luckily, Merfolk had 0 ways to kill a resolved Archon (Dismember falls 1 short). (ASIDE: At this point I'm really glad I opted to run the singleton Blazing Archon over Stormtide Leviathan!)

For whatever reason, I decided that at that point it was trendy for players to board out Daze for business or hard counters in game 2 (as a mind-trick, to force the other player to play around it without suffering card disadvantage when they do), so I reasoned he could not have Daze. Instead of risking losing to an unprobable lucky double lord drop, I went for Exhume right away. He Dazes.

[Holiday]

I've made many stupid punts over the years but my favorite story was something one of my opponents did.

Back in like 2002 I was playing some guy with a Psychatog deck. I was playing my rock deck (I bet it had a few Spiritmonger in it!) and it was a long and grueling battle. Eventually he has 9 lands out. He puts on this shit eating grin, taps all his land, and casts Upheaval with 3 mana floating. We return all our shit to our hands and with the mana floating he casts his Psychatog.
He smiles and says,"Want me to play this out?"
I was a little confused so I say, "Yea, go ahead..."
Then he starts discarding the cards from his hand to pump tog and then removing cards from his graveyard, counting all the while.
He's like "Tog is 31/32. Declare attack!"
"Sorry dude, your Tog's got summoning sickness." (that's what we called it back then)
He just picked up his cards and left.

[KobeBryan]

You know that you could still pay for his daze after that, right?

Yup...Epic Punt

[KobeBryan]

Reanimator vs Merfolk, finals in a small local event.

This was a few years ago the last time Merfolk and Reanimator were both good, way before TNN or Griselbrand. I think Mystical Tutor was still legal. Game 2 post-board, he starts.

After Duressing his gravehate turn 1 and tutoring EOT turn 2, turn 3 I lay a 3rd land and Entomb for Blazing Archon. He has a very aggressive board. My only reanimation spell is Exhume. He's tapped out and has 2 cards in hand. If he has Force, I lose either way. If he has Daze, I should wait til next turn. I would survive 1 more attack unless he drops a 4th land and double Lord but I definitely wouldn't survive two more. Luckily, Merfolk had 0 ways to kill a resolved Archon (Dismember falls 1 short). (ASIDE: At this point I'm really glad I opted to run the singleton Blazing Archon over Stormtide Leviathan!)

For whatever reason, I decided that at that point it was trendy for players to board out Daze for business or hard counters in game 2 (as a mind-trick, to force the other player to play around it without suffering card disadvantage when they do), so I reasoned he could not have Daze. Instead of risking losing to an unprobable lucky double lord drop, I went for Exhume right away. He Dazes.


That's not a punt. That's getting next leveled

[FTW]

That's not a punt. That's getting next leveled

That's next leveling myself leading to a punt LOL. He didn't do anything. If I had played simple, I would have played around Daze and won. By trying to next level him I next levelled myself

[Penguinizer]

I don't know if this is as much a punt as much as bad time management. I was at this big tabletop gaming con. I'd been playing Werewolf, various board games and highlander quite literally all night. Around 10 the next morning I realized it was time for the Legacy tournament. I managed to scrawl out the decklist for my build of Death and Taxes in around 10 minutes. The little mistake I made was that I wrote I had 12 islands instead of plains. Thankfully they realized it was a mistake instead of making me swap my lands.

So, we come to round 3. I was rather tired by this point, not having had a chance to eat breakfast or have coffee. I was playing Merfolk which in my defense is a really boring matchup. I lose game 1 since I forget to tell my opponent to take two damage from Sword of Fire and Ice twice. Game 2 I fall asleep. Now, it was only for a short moment, but I took that as a sign and dropped. My friends still occasionally give me shit about it.

[Technics]

Playing TES against Sneak and Show. He taps out to play a Show and Tell, and put in Grissy. He draws some cards, and ends at 2 life. I know he has at least 2 Force of Wills from a previous probe. I have the ability to cast Silence, and combo, but I am "unable" to play around both Force of Wills, and thus enter the scoop phase…

[Megadeus]

Oh god, I could tell a million stupid punts playing storm. I'll pick one, which people could learn from:

BoM round 6 against UWR Delver: going for Empty the Warrens after he tapped out for SFM -> Batterskull but piles up my graveyard and missed a Cabal Therapy there to flashback for the Skull.

Lesson: Check your graveyard every time you resolve EtW

Yup. Done this about a million times.

Mine was, in top 8 at a local, I'm on Punishing Nic Fit, my opponent is on RUG delver, I have a grave titan out but he has blocker in Goyf and a delver that kills me next turn. He has one card in hand. I top eot, see Deed, Inquisition of Kozilek, and a land. I draw Deed. Cast it. Then instead of flipping top to get Inquisition to use it to take his stifle I crack deed, it gets stifled and I die.

[KIP_NZ]

Mine was today:

My opp was on 13, no flyers. I resolve Through the Breech & put emrakul into play. I think proceed to pass the turn thinking it was Show n Tell and the critter was summoning sick....

[warfordium]

weekly $5 proxy legacy with the same 8-10 dudes every week.

opponent puts thrun on the stack. shit just got real.

go into the tank a la Neo learning kung fu while brainstorming—relief crashes over me—i make a show of having a hard decision of what to put back.

i confidently cast force of will.

opponent (SCG Open champ and L2 juge): okay…it resolves then?

(making matters worse, the standers-by were discussing "can you even target Thrun with a Force?" since i was tapped out—didn't hear a word of it. the taaank man, the tank.) i think the only redeeming factor is that it was still in my first year of playing legacy, and only my 2nd or 3rd month of playing BS/FoW decks. yeesh.

[Wanderlust]

I'm playing Legacy Bomberman, my opponent is on some sort of U/R Cunning Wish control deck. We are 1-1 in games. We're past time, it's turn 4 of turns in game 3. My opponent casts Gifts Ungiven for Phyrexian Revoker, Engineered Explosives, Cunning Wish, and Snapcaster Mage. I give him Cunning Wish and Snapcaster Mage. He casts Cunning Wish for Price of Progress, casts Price for 10 damage, casts Snapcaster Mage targeting Price... gg....

[DarkJester]

My most epic tournament-punt happened during my first Vintage-Event, maybe 2008. I played a Suicide Black-Build without any Power or even green Critters (what the hell is a Tarmogoyf ;) ). However, I went pretty well with 4-1 (only losing the mirror to Timo Schünemann who had Goyf and Stalkers against my Sarcomancys and Nantuko Shades:tongue: ), and was paired against a blue guy (my buddies told me I have to beat him, because he is an asshole). In the last game of our match (1-1) he played a Turn 3 or 4 Tinker into Darksteel Colossus and I responded with an Eot Demonic Consultation. I named Diabolic Edict, removed the top six, whooooo no edict, so chances are good that I will find one soon before milling too much of my deck.... if I had boarded them in :cry:

Anyway, I finished 8th and won a Su-Chi.

[KIP_NZ]

weekly $5 proxy legacy with the same 8-10 dudes every week.

opponent puts thrun on the stack. shit just got real.

go into the tank a la Neo learning kung fu while brainstorming—relief crashes over me—i make a show of having a hard decision of what to put back.

i confidently cast force of will.

opponent (SCG Open champ and L2 juge): okay…it resolves then?

(making matters worse, the standers-by were discussing "can you even target Thrun with a Force?" since i was tapped out—didn't hear a word of it. the taaank man, the tank.) i think the only redeeming factor is that it was still in my first year of playing legacy, and only my 2nd or 3rd month of playing BS/FoW decks. yeesh.

Are you the mate that the guys on Everyday Eternal were discussing during the judge ep? If so you're famous on the net already :P

[Lemnear]

Are you the mate that the guys on Everyday Eternal were discussing during the judge ep? If so you're famous on the net already :P

Is there anything less impressive than net-fame? :)


On topic: yeah, storm is probably the #1 deck for punts and facepalms

[Megadeus]

On topic: yeah, storm is probably the #1 deck for punts and facepalms
This. I have a large number of: Dark Ritual. Dark Ritual. 5 Black Mana. *Stops to count*. Pass Turn.

[mini1337s]

Win a complicated counter war over my Jace. Pass the turn after resolving Jace :eek:

[Justin]

I was in game 3 my final match at the Planar Chaos prerelease. If I win I get some packs, if I lose I get nothing. I was fortunate to have cracked a Damnation and I drew it for game 3. My opponent has no idea that I have it and he has an empty hand, but a superior board full of creatures that will bring me the lethal next turn. I've been saving creatures in my hand to cast after I sweep the board, which will give me a big card advantage, enough to make me a heavy favorite to win the game. I've got two swamps and four mountains as my mana base. I'm about the cast Damnation to put myself in the driver's seat, but I stop myself when I look down at my Rathi Trapper. I then activate its ability for B to tap the last creature my opponent cast, so I can attack with my other creature and inflict a bit of damage before I wipe the board. Then, I begin to cast Damnation again and realize that I no longer have the two black mana I need to cast it. I scoop without showing him the card. My friend is standing over my shoulder watching me play and is just shaking his head and saying, "What the hell are you doing"?

[Exuberance]

On the RUG Delver mirror, my opponent has two fetch lands and a tropical untapped. I have a volcanic tapped and a fetch land untapped. We both have Aberrations.
He taps his land for a Ponder. He grimaces a bit. Keeps it, takes one and goes to crack a fetch. I figure this Stifle in my hand isn't doing much else, so I crack my fetch in response. He cracks his second fetch in response to mine, and Stifles.
He has one card left in hand.
I have a Daze in my hand.
He is tapped out.
I should Daze his Stifle so I can cast Tarmogoyfs if I draw them.

I do not cast Daze. My fetch is Stifled.

So he resolves his other fetch, and as he does so, I curse loudly. Could I really be this terrible?

Well it turned out that his last card was a Mongoose, which got Dazed. Then I won.

Punt? Yes. Worked out? Oh god, yes.

Also, attacking with a Creeping Tar Pit, putting my opponent to three, then casting Black Sun's Zenith for two after combat. In the win-and-in for a PTQ top 8. Whoops!

[GoblinSettler]

The Natural Order punt:
I have Counterbalance in play but no Top. My opponent casts Natural Order. I look down at my hand and see Karakas. Sweet! I say, "Resolves." He gets Progenitus. I look back down at my Karakas. Not sure what I was thinking. Oh well. Maybe I can draw a sweeper. I draw for turn and it is JTMS. 4CC. Didn't reveal. Scooped them up.

The sequencing punt:
Game three with Goblins against Sneak and Show. I'm running a Chrome Mox build with Chalice from the side. I open on land, 2x Chalice, Mox and some three cost Goblins. Sweet. I can accelerate my plays while cutting him off cantrips and Petals. I lead off with Chalice at zero. I never draw a second land. But I have plenty of turns to draw into a second Mox. Neither castable because of my own stupid Chalice.

The Legendary punt:
Back in my earlier days of Legacy I only played mono-B homebrew. I've got a deck full of Bloodghast and recurring dredge creatures but my opponent has managed to keep the board clean but for a Jitte. I'm topdecking and see another Jitte. If I draw a creature next turn I won't have enough mana to cast the creature and the Jitte. So I just cast the second Jitte. Cast the second Jitte.

[Niggurath]

The typical spell snaring a daze, ages ago. Also, while playing high tide, shuffling my own hand into my deck after fetching for an island.

[nedleeds]

Mine is well documented on Wizards.com ... it directly lead to Randy Bueller winning a PT, becoming a pro, getting a job at WotC, and creating Gleemax and later the abortion known as the modo client. Story at article bottom.

http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/bs21

[Lemnear]

Mine is well documented on Wizards.com ... it directly lead to Randy Bueller winning a PT, becoming a pro, getting a job at WotC, and creating Gleemax and later the abortion known as the modo client. Story at article bottom.

http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/bs21

Now I know who to blame for the crappy Magic Offline ... ;)

[feline]

I threw a game away to a Spirit of the Labryinth by drawing off a preordain, netting a game loss, all because I just completely forgot what it did like 5 secs after it was cast.

[Purgatory]

I once cracked a Wooded Foothils after having spent the last five minutes stacking my deck through Goblin Recruiter. This was on Apprentice, btw, so I could easily flee from my shame, thankfully.

[bfeingersh]

https://twitter.com/Philberman/status/433024708250857472

[cuthbertthecat]

I have Mana Leaked Thrun, the Last Troll in every format in which they have been legal together.

[jandax]

>be standard noob
>borrow merfolk last time it was a deck
>main deck jitte, double down because mise
>EOT tick up Aether Vial
>breeze through tournament, crush dreams
>counter a Choke with a Cursecatcher along the way
>play for top 8 after scooping friends in as only losses
>karma takes a hot shit on your parade
>win-moar board state, Jitte out, lots of dudes
>opponent almost dead, just need to say "go"
>cast second jitte in hand, should mop up nicely
>ice cold sweat flows down buttcrack
>heart skip-skip-skips a beat
>realize game winning out is in hand, waiting
>FoW pitching FoW on own Jitte still on the stack
>opponent dazes
>untaps and Wraths
>17th place, 2 pitty packs

https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSpC8VB4o-vKqO7Vl-GsrmkM3Odt4IOg2gJS5wOP77wT_HVcp5ltQ

witnessed all that, not my own punt but still epic

[elof]

A few years ago I was playing vintage for the first time in ages. It was a proxy tournament and to top it off I was kind of drunk during the hole thing.

Anyway, instead of going for a deck to beat or anything I choose to play with Oath of Druids and the recently printed creature Emrakul. Back then Emrakul was kind of new and some oath-decks played one Emrakul, one tinker-target (I think it was Steelwind but not sure) and one other fatty. I wanted to try Emrakul out and even brought with me an oversized one, so therefor I played 2 and also a tinker-target.

It is round 1 and I'm playing against a friend who also is a very skilled vintageplayer and his playing stax. I think it is game 3 but I'm not sure, the situation is that he has a few permaments and a Welder but I have manged to assemble Oath and an Emrakul. I'm very happy with my achievement and will probebly just untap and nuke his board. However, he just casted another Welder and in my turn I untap and starts using Oath...

We laugh since he knows about the second Emrakul in my deck and he also says that it was his only outs of winning. I could still hit Sphinx or whatever tinkertarget but I fail and both Emrakuls get shuffled back in. I lose soon after and did not drink more in that tournament :) (I think I finished 3-4, losing again to him in the semis).

[RaNDoMxGeSTuReS]

1.)
Round 8, the last round of day one at GP Denver. I'm 7-1 and completely exhausted. No rest. No Food. I drove the entire way to the GP site because my roommate's car (HoneyT) got hit by a semi. We ended up taking my car, and no one else knew how to drive a manual. So about 9+ hours?
I knew my opponent had Engineered Plague, and I casted Empty the Warrens anyway. It gets worse. I also miscounted my mana and could have cast Tendrils for lethal instead.


2.)
Some random SCG Open in Kansas City.
I'm way out of contention. I can Empty for 18ish goblins on turn one. I accidentally imprint the Burning Wish I needed to cast on a Chrome Mox. I get killed by Mishra's Factories.

3.)
I'm playing Doomsday at my LGS. I make a pass-the-turn pile to win. My opponent is playing a standard UB control deck. He plays his land for the turn. It's Nephalia Drownyard.

[Dia_Bot]

Storm punt: First tournament I ever played with ANT storm: It was against the deciding game against merfolks and I had 7 cards. The plan was to go get Ad Nauseam and win from there. So I start with a ritual, then cast a second one which he spell pierces and for all of a sudden my plan changes to infernal -> infernal -> tendrils for the win. However in all the excitement I forget about a cursecatcher who has been swimming arround from turn one. This results in an awkward Infernal with 3 B floating -> Go instead of an (Ad Nauseam)..

Deed punt: This is a long time ago where I played UBG Psychatog in extended. It was a match where the loser was out of contention for top 8 and the winner was very likely to make it.
I was playing against the rock and needed to clear to board with pernicious deed in order not to die to ravenous baloth beats. I had enough lands to do that but no black mana jet so I sacrificed my polluted delta to go search for a watery grave. Played to deed and cleared the board in his turn.
The next turn I play 'Tog to attack for the win next turn (my graveyard was loaded at this point) when my opponent suddenly points out that I don't have black mana. Turned out I had searched for another breeding pool instead of a watery grave. :rolleyes: We get the judge to our table and I get a gameloss ending the tournament for me.
Since I was used to playing with old bordered cards all the new ones looked kind of the same to me..a mistake I will never make again, that's for sure.:tongue:

[Bryant Cook]

Thirteen or fourteen year old Bryant is playing in his first big vintage event. Top 8 was all power.

I'm piloting meandeck gifts. It's turn five and I've been mindslavered, with about ten cards in my library. My draw for the turn, Yawgmoth's will. My opponent's game plan is to deck me, he casts Ancestral to start off, but eventually only gets down to three cards or so.

"I'll settle for Tendrils-ing you"

There's a crowd watching at this point, including a judge.

"I lose, right?"

"I'm casting Tendrils"

The judge asks if I'm conceding. I said, "Tendrils kills me." and then picked up my cards. The people watching all sigh. It was then that Tendrils of Agony is explained to me. Each copy resolves seperately. I lose two life, I gain two life, etc.





I would go on to feel no remorse about mindtricking someone.

[Sloshthedark]

Storm is easiest due fatigue and complicated situations leading into a tunnel vision

besides my repetitive problems with Brainstorm -> Empty the Warrens on top of library -> Gitaxian Probe+sac LED -> GP being played first/EtW in hand after BS instead of XX goblins I have a memorable one:

your Xantid swarm attacks, trigger resolves, you have 3 lands in play, Chain of Vapor, 2 LED and Infernal Tutor in hand, opp has just lands, what will you do?

obv. find a way how to refrain from searching up a second Xantid Swarm :really::cool:

[cab0747]

I cast an Anger of the Gods into a Curse Catcher at GP Richmond.... That was fun.

He had quite the presence on the board and the Curse Catcher had been out since T1 but had not done a single thing. I guess I got tunnel vision or just plain old forgot about it.

I'm good at the game.

[barcode]

Legacy GP Atlanta going into round 15 I was in 16th place and I'm paired up against a well known pro player.

He's playing Reanimator and I'm playing GW Maverick. He's got nothing going on except for an entombed Sphinx of the Steel Wind. I am beating him up with a Pridemage that's got some extra exalted triggers from Noble Hierarchs. He's down to single digits (Reanimate is not an option) and I've drawn a Green Sun's Zenith. I'm thinking that I can tutor up Gaddock Teeg to prevent Force of Will, I can get another Pridemage to cover Animate Dead and increase the clock to 2 turns.

I didn't get the right creature - Scavenging Ooze - and so the next turn he casts Exhume and I've shut off my future GSZs with Teeg. I die after he hits me 3 times blanking on all of my outs to redeem myself: Path to Exile, Swords to Plowshares, Sword of Light and Shadow, Maze of Ith.

Tunnel visioned too much on Animate Dead that I forgot that he could Exhume and get the creature into play that way.

So because a lot of my previous opponents had conceded their buddies into top 8 or better standings I plummeted from 16th to 34th place. I should have and could have won but choked. The punt cost me $400 or so and likely a top 10 at my first GP.

[jbclarke]

I hadn't played vintage since it was type 1, came back to the game and pick up a deck to play with a competitive friend. I end up with a time vault in play, a couple moxen and lands with a tinker in hand. I tinker a mox off and go searching for voltaic key, can't find the sucker in the deck and get a blightsteel instead only to have it get hit by swords. My friend asks me why I didn't just get voltaic key and I reply that it isn't in the deck. He then fliips the deck over and whips out the key. I never figured they would reprint that card having lived through the urza's saga days and was looking for the old art.

[somethingdotdotdot]

The worst I can remember in recent history was vs storm w/ a blade deck. Im out of counters w/ ee in hand; ruins with enough lands to recur; and a top w/ surgical extraction as the top card of my library. I'm at 16 life. He does his thing, goes up to 6 storm and casts a hellbent infernal tutor. At this point, he has a tendrils in his graveyard and I draw with top and extract his tendrils. (I was thinking that he had boarded in a second tendrils, but it wouldn't have mattered in hindsight--he couldve only done 14 dmg to me; if he had gotten past in flames, i couldve extracted in response to him casting it.)

He then goes and gets empty, casts it, flashbacks a therapy to get my ee and proceeds to kill me. The 2 life+extra storm from my surgical was what did it :frown:.

[elof]

A friend of mine did this way back in vintage. We are playing a frindly game of rector-tendrils (Academy Rector to get Yawgmoth's Bargain, old school storm :)) vs psycatog/grow-a-tog. We get in to a game state where I'm flooded out and have 7 lands in play, one card in hand and my opponent have tog, a few lands and a steady grip of cards. He attacks me but misses that he can go for lethal by using up his hand and graveyard. I have no other outs then to play Mystical Tutor during my upkeep to go get Mind's Desire and hope to get there. So I play Mystical and he figures out what I'm up to and counters it and says to me after: "your pretty skilled if you mange to win from here". I naturally draws the Desire, use it for 3, and manges to get Cabal Therapy, Tendrils, Tendrils for exaties. Justice.

[KIP_NZ]

I threw a game away to a Spirit of the Labryinth by drawing off a preordain, netting a game loss, all because I just completely forgot what it did like 5 secs after it was cast.

I just watched that in the replays. It would appear SCGLA will go down in history as "That SCG open that sourcers failed 2 ponder" after yours and Koby's ponder punts on camera :smile:

[Koby]

Maybe I just wanted to win 3 games in the quarterfinals? (no, not really)

[personalbackfire]

My worst came at a vintage tournament. After playing a ton of vintage and taking a break, I came back with a UW Landstill deck (during an age of UBx Bob/Jace/ Vault Key Decks). I am playing against P Mass, a well known Vintage player. I have Standstill and Jace out controlling everything when I draw Ancestral Recall! I instantly cast it and put it on the stack, only to have Paul draw the standstill cards and counter my recall. I lost the game and match because of it.

[Bed Decks Palyer]

My worst came at a vintage tournament. After playing a ton of vintage and taking a break, I came back with a UW Landstill deck (during an age of UBx Bob/Jace/ Vault Key Decks). I am playing against P Mass, a well known Vintage player. I have Standstill and Jace out controlling everything when I draw Ancestral Recall! I instantly cast it and put it on the stack, only to have Paul draw the standstill cards and counter my recall. I lost the game and match because of it.

Ouch... This one is pretty epic. :frown:

I don't rmember anything spectacular, but as I don't want to leave a mere one-liner here, I'll add one from the recent past. (I think it's documented in the old RUG thread, too.):
I have two flipped Delvers out, opponent's going to lose during my next attack. He untaps, upkeeps, draws, then thinks for a while.
Him: "REB your Delver."
Me (having SPierce in hand): "Ok, you got two more mana open? Then fine, you REBed the insect. What's next? Blast the second? Bolt it?"
Him: "No, I'd rather Abrupt Decay."

I lost.

[Koby]

1.)
Round 8, the last round of day one at GP Denver. I'm 7-1 and completely exhausted. No rest. No Food. I drove the entire way to the GP site because my roommate's car (HoneyT) got hit by a semi. We ended up taking my car, and no one else knew how to drive a manual. So about 9+ hours?
I knew my opponent had Engineered Plague, and I casted Empty the Warrens anyway. It gets worse. I also miscounted my mana and could have cast Tendrils for lethal instead.


That was painful to watch. I may have distracted you too.

[TraxDaMax]

Beginning of a gpt I accidently look at top 4 cards with Ponder.

In top8 I do it again.....
Bad sloppy plays used to drawing 7 from griselbrand.

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[pandaman]

My two latest masterpieces, read 'em and weep, boys and girls:

Vintage. GP Melbourne 2014. 3-1 record, against Dark Depths, for the ability to draw in to Top 8. Game 2 (after I won Game 1). Him, two cards in hand, casts Dark Confidant. Me, HOLY SHIT!@!@!!!! Mana Drain in hand, snap play Drain on Bob. Then, look at the untapped thresholded Barbarian Ring on the Board with R available.

F*&K.

Him, next turn cast Yawgmoth's Will.

DOUBLE F(&K.

I lose the match I should have won when he takes the third game in a tight back-and-forth.

Next and final round, against TurboTezz, to make Top 8. Game 3, me, Standstill. Him, break Standstill. Me, REB his Jace. Him, takes my Standstill I forgot to trigger and draws three cards.

F*&K.

Then me, lucksack out, having Drain, Fow, MBT in hand AND drawing ALL FOUR of my JtMS, finally resolving the last one to win the match. And then scoop him in because I have plane to catch and don't have time to play the elimination rounds...

Too much Magic that weekend, and not enough attention paid to health, fitness, rest, and nutrition added up to a terrible punt-a-thon in those last two games...

[JDK]

Next and final round, against TurboTezz, to make Top 8. Game 3, me, Standstill. Him, break Standstill. Me, REB his Jace. Him, takes my Standstill I forgot to trigger and draws three cards.

How did he "take" your Standstill? Playing instants while the Standstill-Trigger is on the stack (or should be) doesn't automatically make it "forgotten".

My biggest punt happend in my most recent local Legacy Open (semi-finals), after 3 hours of sleep and already 6 rounds of magic:

Opponent has 5HP, unflipped Delver and Dark Confidant, plus a Tarmogoyf in hand. I (3HP) have a tapped TNN and an unflipped Delver, as well as a Lightning Bolt in my grip.
I ship the turn and he puts Delver and Confidant triggers on the stack, Delver resolving first. At this point I am just thinking about how not to die. If his Delver flips or he gets a removal, I have to bolt a creature to stay alive. He reveals Diabolic Edict, which makes my brain go nuts. So after the Delver flips, I bolt it. Immediately after doing so, I let the Confidant trigger resolve and have to facepalm really hard, as I realize he goes to 3HP. He then finds another removal and I am dead.

It's even on camera. -.-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY5DWXdiXlY&t=31m52s

[nedleeds]

If you don't sacrifice your Stillstand on resolution and cast another spell (the REB) you missed your trigger right? It will trigger again if you then decide to cast a spell and your opponent can then choose to 'remember' the trigger. In that case you'll be compelled to sacrifice it and each of your opponents will draw 3.

[JDK]

I just vaguely remembered the text on Standstill and thought it was just an ordinary trigger. Totally forgot about it re-triggering and the sacrifice-part.

[nedleeds]

Of course. I just vaguely remembered the text on Standstill and thought it was just an ordinary trigger. Totally forgot about it re-triggering and the sacrifice-part.

Actually I didn't explain it very well, edited. You are hosed because the REB will trigger it again and if your opponent chooses to remember it then it resolves. Stillstand is sacrificed and they draw 3. When the stack unwinds and it gets to the original trigger (remembered or not) there is no Stillstand to sacrifice.

[JDK]

Actually I didn't explain it very well, edited. You are hosed because the REB will trigger it again and if your opponent chooses to remember it then it resolves. Stillstand is sacrificed and they draw 3. When the stack unwinds and it gets to the original trigger (remembered or not) there is no Stillstand to sacrifice.
Correct, but you don't forget your trigger at the point of casting REB. At least not according to the rules. Technically the trigger was not missed in the entire example given (assuming Jace breaks Standstill and gets countered by REB). The problem was just that every other spell triggers Standstill again and as soon as the most recent one resolves and causes Standstill to be sacrificed, all other ones become worthless.

If Jace should have triggered Standstill and he let his opponent resolve the planeswalker, then it counts as being missed, of course.

[H]

I think I have told this story before on this forum, but i'll tell it again for the hell of it.

Playing a Vintage event for a Sapphire, it is the last round, it's my win and in for top 8. I am playing a good friend of mine, so we know each other's lists, playstyle, etc.

Game 3, we go to time, neither in good position, but I have a hand full of counters and Blightsteel and he has nothing in hand and nothing of note in play. It gets to turn 4 and I think of my outs, which can only be drawing both Tinker and Time Walk. Looks unlikely, but I draw for turn and low-and-behold, Jace. I stick the Mindsculputer and Brainstorm into the perfect draw. Tinker, Timewalk, and something else, who cares, all I need to do is put back the Blightsteel and cast Tinker, then Time Walk and in. After I shuffle around my cards a bit to figure the best second card, I put two back and look in my hand: there's Blightsteel. I inexplicably didn't put him back. Now I am dejected, can't win now it seems; but wait, the third card I drew with Jace was Brainstorm!

We are in business again! I count my mana available (Tolarian was going to tap for a lot) and I have enough to do it all. I Brainstorm and somehow, yet again, put back the same two cards I did before and fail to put back Blightsteel. I have no clue what was wrong with me that day. I honestly didn't feel tired or anything I could easily point to. Just me being pretty much an idiot.

[PirateKing]

Not a punt per se but,

Driving down with buddies, one of which this was their first large Legacy tournament. They had run practice games with take-backsies and a few smaller tournaments where everybody knew everybody's deck lists, and most of them were long standing pet decks. He was asking questions about large tournaments, some do's and don'ts about calling a judge, stuff like that.

The driver was going over the Cabal Therapy/Pithing Needle operation of naming a card as a shortcut and then getting a response, how they could change the name after a response, but they can't change it if you don't respond.

I chime in, "Similar to that, don't forget that Thoughtseize is target player, not opponent, so they could target themselves. Just be aware of that, don't just give them free information"

We get there and the new get gets raped round 1 and ends up with the bye for round 2.

As he's standing behind me my opponent casts Thoughtseize turn 1 and I lay out my hand, my opponent, "Uhh, targeting me..."

[Technics]

Not a punt per se but,

Driving down with buddies, one of which this was their first large Legacy tournament. They had run practice games with take-backsies and a few smaller tournaments where everybody knew everybody's deck lists, and most of them were long standing pet decks. He was asking questions about large tournaments, some do's and don'ts about calling a judge, stuff like that.

The driver was going over the Cabal Therapy/Pithing Needle operation of naming a card as a shortcut and then getting a response, how they could change the name after a response, but they can't change it if you don't respond.

I chime in, "Similar to that, don't forget that Thoughtseize is target player, not opponent, so they could target themselves. Just be aware of that, don't just give them free information"

We get there and the new get gets raped round 1 and ends up with the bye for round 2.

As he's standing behind me my opponent casts Thoughtseize turn 1 and I lay out my hand, my opponent, "Uhh, targeting me..."

Those are the best punts. "New dude, don't do X" *goes and proceeds to go do X*

[Justin]

Not a punt per se but,

Driving down with buddies, one of which this was their first large Legacy tournament. They had run practice games with take-backsies and a few smaller tournaments where everybody knew everybody's deck lists, and most of them were long standing pet decks. He was asking questions about large tournaments, some do's and don'ts about calling a judge, stuff like that.

The driver was going over the Cabal Therapy/Pithing Needle operation of naming a card as a shortcut and then getting a response, how they could change the name after a response, but they can't change it if you don't respond.

I chime in, "Similar to that, don't forget that Thoughtseize is target player, not opponent, so they could target themselves. Just be aware of that, don't just give them free information"

We get there and the new get gets raped round 1 and ends up with the bye for round 2.

As he's standing behind me my opponent casts Thoughtseize turn 1 and I lay out my hand, my opponent, "Uhh, targeting me..."

I showed my hand to my opponent after he resolved a turn 1 Cabal Therapy and BEFORE he named a card. For some reason, I thought he had cast Thoughtseize instead.

[HammafistRoob]

One time, I hit a 73 yard punt to pin the opposition at their 2 yard line. Does that qualify as epic in these parts?

[TraxDaMax]

Not a punt per se but,

Driving down with buddies, one of which this was their first large Legacy tournament. They had run practice games with take-backsies and a few smaller tournaments where everybody knew everybody's deck lists, and most of them were long standing pet decks. He was asking questions about large tournaments, some do's and don'ts about calling a judge, stuff like that.

The driver was going over the Cabal Therapy/Pithing Needle operation of naming a card as a shortcut and then getting a response, how they could change the name after a response, but they can't change it if you don't respond.

I chime in, "Similar to that, don't forget that Thoughtseize is target player, not opponent, so they could target themselves. Just be aware of that, don't just give them free information"

We get there and the new get gets raped round 1 and ends up with the bye for round 2.

As he's standing behind me my opponent casts Thoughtseize turn 1 and I lay out my hand, my opponent, "Uhh, targeting me..."

Best ones haha :D I'm positive I've done simular stupidities before. Explaining tricks and rulings to newbies and 10minutes later fall into the same trap :D



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[Allcoin]

Playing a legacy side event at a PTQ today in Seattle I forgot what the abyss and tabernacle did, multiple times, with both on the table at once, scrubbing out of the tournament with only 1 winning round and leaving fifth round. First place for 6 rounds was 4 undergrounds though.... Damn.

Also trying to counter entomb against reanimater, that played packrat after sideboard...

[jbone2016]

SCG Milwaukee Legacy. Round 8. On camera.

[Technics]

I cast a Burning Wish with double LED on the table, and forgot to crack them... Been playing TES and DDFT for 4 years now... Yeeeaaaahhhh... :-\

[Maagler]

In the finals Playing TES vs DNT, Game 2:

I ad nasuemed turn 2 going for the kill, and take myself down to 5 after hitting an empty the warrens. I continue to reveal cards looking for a lotus petal to win the game when I flipped my second empty the warrens (that I had forgot to side out after wishing for last game) putting me at 1. Looking at the board I realize I have a city of brass and he has a port in hand which I know because I probed him last turn. Continue to flip for the lotus petal, hit a cabal therapy and lose.

[pandaman]

One time, I hit a 73 yard punt to pin the opposition at their 2 yard line. Does that qualify as epic in these parts?

Definitely.

[Admiral_Arzar]

SCG: Dallas this weekend. Round 1, game 2 against Miracles. My opponent has a Jace and a Helm of Obedience to my Pernicious Deed and Sylvan Library. He slams Rest in Peace. I can either Deed in response, or wait to Deed when he pops Helm. I do neither of these things and Deed in response to the RIP trigger. Needless to say, I lost that game.

[Richard Cheese]

This weekend I played a Pithing Needle and named Metalworker.

The next round a friend played against the same deck, then didn't name Metalworker with Revoker because he'd heard about my misplay.

I think that card just throws people off their game because he's so darned cute.

[JPoJohnson]

This weekend I played a Pithing Needle and named Metalworker.

The next round a friend played against the same deck, then didn't name Metalworker with Revoker because he'd heard about my misplay.

I think that card just throws people off their game because he's so darned cute.

Beep boop!

[DarthVicious]

I once cast Cabal Therapy and saw that my opponent had three of the same card in hand, so I instinctively flashed it back naming said card.

It was Guerrilla Tactics.

Edit: I did the exact same thing to someone that had three Basking Rootwalla...

[thecrav]

Two weeks ago, my opponent flipped Delver revealing Daze. When he attacked, I cast Swords to Plowshares targeting Delver with no mana open.

:(

[Admiral_Arzar]

I Brainstormed with an unflipped Delver in play and put two lands back on top of my library without a shuffle effect. It took doing this twice to learn my lesson...

[socialite]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULBWv3Hzs6I

[Swing4Five]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULBWv3Hzs6I

Ahhhh, yes. I thought this was probably what you posted John. This is quite the Epic punt if there ever was one. I had been playing the best magic of my life this day, up through this match... until the punt in question. If you are a fan of Vintage, I suggest watching the linked match at some point.

I'm on Blue Angels, a counter heavy Trinket Jace deck, Reid's on Storm, which a bunch of draw 7's and Will. I mulligan to 6, and have a mana heavy draw, I trinket out a Top, but I'm nearly out of gas, a single Annul vs the world of Reid's full hand. He casts a Lotus, which I annul, trying to bottleneck him. This appears to have been correct, as he likely would have been able to Will me out of the game if I hadn't. However, this does open the door for him to be able to tutor for and land a Necro.

I'm able to set up an Ancestral for my turn, hitting Mana Drain, Annul and another (thankfully blue) land, and then hit the nut on Top, Flusterstorm. However, I'm bottlenecked on Blue mana.

Here's where we get in the rut that leads to the punt. I have 3 Blue mana, these are planned to cast Mana Drain, and then Flusterstorm as a trump.

Reid starts his turn off with a Mana Crypt. The plan is to Drain a business spell, then have Flusterstorm as backup. However, in my head I'm panicking about Crypt enabling him to play around my Flusterstorm. In retrospect, this is highly unlikely, however the new plan is perfectly sound: Annul Crypt, Flusterstorm the action, ignore the Drain in my hand.

Here's the punt (50:30 for the beginnging of the show). Reid plays a Wheel of Fortune, and in my brain the plan is still Drain into Flusterstorm. My revised plan has flown out of my head. I slam Drain, Reid REB's, I confidently flip Top, slam Flusterstorm, tapping my own Crypt, and only then realize I had forgotten my revised plan. Oops. Wheel resolves. I brick on my 7. Justice. I die to Mind's Desire.

Wow, it's been a while since I watched that video. Still gets me all fucked up in the head.

[guillemnicolau]

To have an underground sea and a polluted delta, play dark ritual into doomsday, and after the pile is made and the doomsday is resolved, try to crack polluted to play gush and win... oops... (opponent plays mystical -> wheel of fortune...)

[Megadeus]

Ahhhh, yes. I thought this was probably what you posted John. This is quite the Epic punt if there ever was one. I had been playing the best magic of my life this day, up through this match... until the punt in question. If you are a fan of Vintage, I suggest watching the linked match at some point.

I'm on Blue Angels, a counter heavy Trinket Jace deck, Reid's on Storm, which a bunch of draw 7's and Will. I mulligan to 6, and have a mana heavy draw, I trinket out a Top, but I'm nearly out of gas, a single Annul vs the world of Reid's full hand. He casts a Lotus, which I annul, trying to bottleneck him. This appears to have been correct, as he likely would have been able to Will me out of the game if I hadn't. However, this does open the door for him to be able to tutor for and land a Necro.

I'm able to set up an Ancestral for my turn, hitting Mana Drain, Annul and another (thankfully blue) land, and then hit the nut on Top, Flusterstorm. However, I'm bottlenecked on Blue mana.

Here's where we get in the rut that leads to the punt. I have 3 Blue mana, these are planned to cast Mana Drain, and then Flusterstorm as a trump.

Reid starts his turn off with a Mana Crypt. The plan is to Drain a business spell, then have Flusterstorm as backup. However, in my head I'm panicking about Crypt enabling him to play around my Flusterstorm. In retrospect, this is highly unlikely, however the new plan is perfectly sound: Annul Crypt, Flusterstorm the action, ignore the Drain in my hand.

Here's the punt (50:30 for the beginnging of the show). Reid plays a Wheel of Fortune, and in my brain the plan is still Drain into Flusterstorm. My revised plan has flown out of my head. I slam Drain, Reid REB's, I confidently flip Top, slam Flusterstorm, tapping my own Crypt, and only then realize I had forgotten my revised plan. Oops. Wheel resolves. I brick on my 7. Justice. I die to Mind's Desire.

Wow, it's been a while since I watched that video. Still gets me all fucked up in the head.

Rough. Yeah my punt in the top 8 of the last SCG I played in still runs though my head as well. If only I hadn't missed random points of damage, I would have won

[Misplayer]

Under the old Legend rules, I figured running out the my 2nd Clique would be good. It wasn't.

[Darkenslight]

One at a GPT for a friend of mine:

Late-game in G3 of Block Constructed, his opponent is down to 6 life. Friend has 7 lands (4 Swamp, 2 Temples and a Nykthos), two Cast into Darkness on the field, with a Whip of Erebos in hand, and a Grey Merchant of Asphodel in the GY. His opponent is tapped out with a Hydra. He's on 3...and scoops.

Spot the punt.

[litenkatt]

Modern masters draft:

Match 1 Game 3:

Both me and my opponent have loads of creatures on the battlefield. I'm playing a pile of White/Red cheap creatures, and splashing Tromp the Domains with 1 forest MD.

On like turn 15, my opponent has me dead on his next turn. However, I have Tromp the Domains in my hand and if I manage to cast it on my next turn I win the game. I have no forest in play, although I do have Terramorphic Expanse in play which would get me my forest. So we're in his endstep, he passed the turn and he has no cards in his hand. Things are looking great, I'm gonna win the game. So I fetch the terramorphic, searching my library for my forest. Searching a 2nd time. A 3rd time. A 4th time. Checking my graveyard, checking the floor. Turns out I forgot to put a forest in my deck. I lose the game.

Drafting is fun