Awesome Plays

[Jak]

So, I got the incentive to make this thread when I was playtesting a game with my friend. I was playing my version of BG Control and he was playing Dragon Stompy. I take control of the game late and he had gotten me down to three life. The MU isn't as great as it should be because I lack targeted removal that hits overcosted guys. Smother doesn't cut it.

Anyways, I am in control and have a Top on the table, a lot of tapped lands after a Damnation and my hand is 1 Gigapede, 1 Extirpate, and a Smother. His turn and he plays Slogger with 3 Mountains left over. I think "SHIT!". Then, I realize I have an out. I had echoed him already and he was down to few cards in the Library. He activates Slogger, pinging me for 2. Then, he does it again. In response, I Extirpate his City of Traitors, praying to take out a few from his Library. I get 3. He then counts the cards left and he only has 8! So it fizzles and I go. My turn I cast Gigapede and ride it to victory!

So, tell your awesome games plays, or topdecks here.

[Xenocide]

I don't think that this works, since removing the top 10 is part of the activation cost. You should have extirpated in response to him playing slogger, and not waited until he already paid for the activation.

EDIT: You need to use extirpate before he gains priority after casting the slogger, since he can then activate it's ability twice without passing priority and you die.

[Atwa]

In the latest source tournament, I was playing White_Ghost.

It was game 3 and he boosted out a turn 3 Razormane Masticore. Staring at my hand, I see there is nothing I can do. My next draw is a Reanimate, which was pretty useless to me.

His next play is a Goblin Welder, and I know he plays more than enough artifacts to support all sort of nasty stuff. I draw a Krosan Grip. I take a look at my library and see I have no artifacts in my grave.

I Grip the Masticore and Reanimate it in response. He looks at the board and sees he has a 1/1 and a single mountain in play. He scoops which advanced me to the Top 8. GG

[Bovinious]

I Grip the Masticore and Reanimate it in response. He looks at the board and sees he has a 1/1 and a single mountain in play. He scoops which advanced me to the Top 8. GG

How does this work at all? You couldnt respond to Krosan Grip targetting 'Core because its not in the yard yet, and Grip has Split Second. Reanimate is also a sorcery. COLOR ME CONFUSED.

[TheAardvark]

Against T is for Tool at GenCon this year, I Duressed him; he responds with Worldly Tutor for Nomads en-Kor and Duress resolves. I use Sensei's Divining Top to draw a card, which I knew was Gaea's Blessing, and play it targeting him, returning 3x Flooded Strand to his library, negating the tutor. I thought that was pretty hot.

Too bad he ripped the Nomad off the top anyway and comboed me out.

[meanee]

Last saturday I was playing in the danish nationals. In round 2 i met an Aluren deck (I played ugr wee aggro-control). In the first game he slaps an aluren on the table on turn 4, and I'm about to pack up and get ready for round 3, but surprisingly he does not win. He actually passes the turn.

"Oh, wait, at your end-step I would like to cast a couple of critters." I say, and throw a quirion dryad, a tarmogoyf, and a Wee dragonauts in play... In my turn I beat his face ind for about 22 points of damage... Uuh... That I liked... I the proceeded to lose the match...

- meanee

[DeathwingZERO]

How does this work at all? You couldnt respond to Krosan Grip targetting 'Core because its not in the yard yet, and Grip has Split Second. Reanimate is also a sorcery. COLOR ME CONFUSED.

I think he meant that he Gripped the 'Core, then when it hit the graveyard he Reanimate'd it.

I was playtesting Ankh Sligh vs Ichorid a few nights back with my buddy, and he was in the process of attempting to combo off. He casts a Breakthrough for 0, responding with Tolarian Winds for 4, cracking the LED for UUU. Ends up dumping roughly a third of his deck, hitting 2 Moeba's but only 1 Bridge. He then attempts to Therapy me, and I respond by hitting him with Pulse of the Forge, putting him to 3. He now has absolutely no outs, and scoops. He then tells me that's exactly the card he was going to name.

[Phantom]

Sickest play I've ever seen (or heard of) was this. Guy was playing Oath and got his Darksteel Colossus (at 15 life) out against 3 1/1 spirit tokens and swung in for 11. Opponent (now at 7 life) does this:

Turn 1: Swing for 3, cast Time walk.
Turn 2: Swing for 3, cast Recoup on said Time Walk (removing it from the game).
Turn 3: Swing for 3, Burning Wish for Time Walk and cast it.
Turn 4: Swing for 3, Use the flashback on Recoup to give Time Walk flashback, cast Time Walk.
Turn 5: Swing for 3, win.

[Jak]

I don't think that this works, since removing the top 10 is part of the activation cost. You should have extirpated in response to him playing slogger, and not waited until he already paid for the activation.

EDIT: You need to use extirpate before he gains priority after casting the slogger, since he can then activate it's ability twice without passing priority and you die.

Yeah, I messed up telling it. But he should have won. I got lucky that he didn't stack them.

Edit:


Sickest play I've ever seen (or heard of) was this. Guy was playing Oath and got his Darksteel Colossus (at 15 life) out against 3 1/1 spirit tokens and swung in for 11. Opponent (now at 7 life) does this:

Turn 1: Swing for 3, cast Time walk.
Turn 2: Swing for 3, cast Recoup on said Time Walk (removing it from the game).
Turn 3: Swing for 3, Burning Wish for Time Walk and cast it.
Turn 4: Swing for 3, Use the flashback on Recoup to give Time Walk flashback, cast Time Walk.
Turn 5: Swing for 3, win.

That play is just sick. Who can top this?

[Machinus]

When I played Gifts I took 5 turns all the time. Usually you don't win with orchard tokens though.

[Obfuscate Freely]

How about when Ewokslayer (Brian Diefendorf), with Survival, was playing against Jeff Kowalceyk, with Aluren, in the Top 8 of Day 1 of TMLO3?

I believe it was the third game, and so the result of the match was in the air. Brian, stuck on only a single land and two Birds of Paradise for mana, had managed to rip up Jeff's hand with Thoughtseizes and Duresses, but Jeff had landed a fully-powered Etched Oracle.

After attacking with Oracle once or twice (it was by far the biggest thing on the board), Jeff topdecked an Aluren. Fearing further discard, he tapped out to play it, and then passed the turn to Brian, hopeful to win as soon as he untapped and activated Oracle.

At the end of Jeff's turn, Brian played an Eternal Witness off of Aluren. The Witness' trigger targeted a fetchland. Brian also played another creature or two.

Upon taking his turn, Diefendorf untapped, and drew Burning Wish. So, he played and cracked the recurred fetchland, and had exactly 4 mana to play Wish, and then Hull Breach, targeting both Etched Oracle and Aluren. Jeff, tapped out, had no responses, and Brian won the game a few turns later.

That was certainly the most savage Hull Breach I have ever seen.

[Sanguine Voyeur]

Chalice at one, two, three, and four against Aluren.

Chalice at four to stop Ichorid's Dread Return.

Chalice at six to stop Enduing Ideal.

Chalice at ten to stop Decree of Annihilation.

I love Chalice. I have more interesting ones that I'll post later.

EDIT: Winning with a Marit Lage played of a Dark Depths stolen with Herald of Leshrac.

[mikekelley]

Chalice at 10....really?

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[vigilante]

Chalice at 10....really?I second that skepticism....presumably the deck packing Decree was a Wildfire-based deck -- and you managed to scrape together the 20 mana required? And considering that Decree is rarely, rarely hardcast, wouldn't your sources of those 20 mana suffer pretty badly when your opponent just cycled their Decree fo the Armageddon effect? Please explain.

Edit: And if those 20 mana came from, say, Elves instead of lands, please explain how Chalice fits in an Elf deck.

[Sanguine Voyeur]

A counter heavy 8-Post. I had out four "Cloudposts," two Signets, and some combination of basics and duals. He only had Wildfire and Decree as board sweepers, so when he tried to Wildfire, I countered it. His first Decree was Memory Lapsed , then I Chaliced on my next turn.

This was in Extended mind you.

[vigilante]

....and wouldn't he then just cycle Decree next turn, wiping out your lands? Or did you kill him after Lapsing his Decree, meaning the Chalice was completely win-more?

[Sanguine Voyeur]

And....didn't he just cycle Decree next turn, wiping out your lands?Yes, yes he did.

I rebuild soon after due to a Crucible though.

[Pinder]

I saw one time when my friend Ben (TekTik here, but he never posts) was playing (a sort of budget) Breakfast, and he was at 4 life against Burn (who was low on life) that had a Stuffy Doll on the table (don't ask, our local meta is pretty random). For some reason he couldn't combo out and was resorting to Tarmo-beatdown. He had 2 Goyfs and a Shaman en-Kor. He swung with both Goyfs, and naturally the other player blocked one with the doll. Here's the fun part. Ben puts damage on the stack, the redirects all of the blocked Tarmogoyf's damage to the Shaman, and then redirects all of the damage from the Shaman back to the blocked Tarmogoyf. He gets through for four, and the burn player scoops. I thought it was pretty creative.

Another time I recall a while back is when I was playing a kitchen table game against my friend, me with FEB (I know it sucks but it wasn't a tourney, so cut me some slack). I was on the verge of winning if he didn't get rid of my Shapeshifter. I was tapped out (even my mana creatures) and it was his turn. He Chain Lightning'd my Birds of Paradise in order to make my Shifter small enough that he could bolt it while I was tapped out, but in response to the bolt I used my new BoP to Survival a Genesis into the yard to save itself. I won the turn after that.

There was a time when my friend Gordy (Klaan) Chanted Brian (Maverick676, playing Solidarity) in response to his Brainstorm, which was the last card in his hand. Brian had 60 mana floating at the time. It was classic.

[Sanguine Voyeur]

Back in my casual magic days, I Plagiarized in response to a Brainstorm.
...the Shaman back to the blocked Tarmogoyf. He gets through for four, and the burn player scoops. I thought it was pretty creative.Took me a second to get that one. Those en-Kor can be tricky to deal with.

[Pinder]

Oh, and this one time in Vancouver I Spell Snared a Daze. It was pretty epic.

[Atwa]

I saw one time when my friend Ben (TekTik here, but he never posts) was playing (a sort of budget) Breakfast, and he was at 4 life against Burn (who was low on life) that had a Stuffy Doll on the table (don't ask, our local meta is pretty random). For some reason he couldn't combo out and was resorting to Tarmo-beatdown. He had 2 Goyfs and a Shaman en-Kor. He swung with both Goyfs, and naturally the other player blocked one with the doll. Here's the fun part. Ben puts damage on the stack, the redirects all of the blocked Tarmogoyf's damage to the Shaman, and then redirects all of the damage from the Shaman back to the blocked Tarmogoyf. He gets through for four, and the burn player scoops. I thought it was pretty creative.

I had to think that one through a couple of times, but now I get it, it might just be one of the most awesome play ever.



There was a time when my friend Gordy (Klaan) Chanted Brian (Maverick676, playing Solidarity) in response to his Brainstorm, which was the last card in his hand. Brian had 60 mana floating at the time. It was classic.

I did something simmular to my brother in law once. The guy used to play during the Urza block and had a (totally unlegal in legacy) combodeck with Time Spiral, Mind over Matter and Dream Halls.

He was comboing and had enough mana flooding to kill me with Stroke of Genious, so I simply countered his forth Time Spiral, which was also the last card in his hand. Nothing is sweeter than ruining 20 minutes of solitaire play and lots of thinking by saying: "ok, in response I play FoW".

At the end of those holidays (he lives in Scotland), he gave me his cards, telling me he couldn't bring any joy in the game after getting trashed by me. Always nice, playing with ante :)

[Jak]

I saw one time when my friend Ben (TekTik here, but he never posts) was playing (a sort of budget) Breakfast, and he was at 4 life against Burn (who was low on life) that had a Stuffy Doll on the table (don't ask, our local meta is pretty random). For some reason he couldn't combo out and was resorting to Tarmo-beatdown. He had 2 Goyfs and a Shaman en-Kor. He swung with both Goyfs, and naturally the other player blocked one with the doll. Here's the fun part. Ben puts damage on the stack, the redirects all of the blocked Tarmogoyf's damage to the Shaman, and then redirects all of the damage from the Shaman back to the blocked Tarmogoyf. He gets through for four, and the burn player scoops. I thought it was pretty creative.

That is awesome. I didn't get it at first. Then, realized he killed Tarmo. Awesome!

Another one of my awesome plays was with these really bad casual decks. My friend has Eater of Days out and one swing will kill me. I have 3 Severed Legions (told you it was bad) in play and one is equipped with SoFI. I draw my card, looking grim, and see Final Punishment. I attack, deal 8 and ping for 2 more. He is at 10 and I cast Final Punishment! That was fun.

[Obfuscate Freely]

Pinder's story reminded me of a game I played in the Legacy Championship at GenCon.

I was playing Breakfast, against Goblins, and ended up drawing and playing three(!) Aether Vials, but zero Cephalid Illusionists. Two of the Vials were set at two, one of them was set at one, and I also had a Shaman en-Kor in play when my opponent attacked with a Warchief, a Matron, and a Piledriver.

One at a time, I activated each Vial, putting a Tarmogoyf, a Nomads en-Kor, and a Narcomoeba into play.

The Tarmogoyf blocked the Warchief, both of the en-Kors blocked the Piledriver, and the Narcomoeba blocked the Matron. I shipped all the damage to the Narc, which seemed like a fair trade for his board.

The next turn, when I attacked with my team, my (still fairly shocked) opponent attempted to Pyrokinesis my 3/4 Tarmogoyf. That's when he found out what the Shaman's other ability does, and that I had another Narcomoeba in hand to Vial in and toss that damage to. He scooped after that.

[Pinder]

Pinder's story reminded me of a game I played in the Legacy Championship at GenCon.

-snip-

He scooped after that.

Isn't it great when people forget that the en-Kor guys are useful outside of the combo? That's arguably my favorite part of Breakfast.

[thefreakaccident]

I would have to say popping a disk to wipe an affinity players entire board... that was pretty awesome.

My favorite play that I have ever seen was in a casual match, where one of the players was playing an old nausea build with multinis presence and all that nonsense... he runs through most of his deck and his entire hand except for the one gamer winning tendrils and a duress (the other player has only 1 card in hand as well)... he casts the duress and gets funeral charmed in response... priceless moment right there ladies and gentlemen.

[hall0n]

This happened a while ago at Legacy event in Tampere, Finland.

I was playing my very poor UW-Landstill (had started the legacy just a while ago) and my opponent was playing Iggy Pop.

So, I had a Chalice with one counter out and the game had stalled for some time. Then my opponent started to do things, he played Dark Rituals (I let them counter) and Cabal Rituals eventually getting enough mana to make lethal(?, can't remember) Tendrils. I have Stifle in hand but Chalice tells me not to play it. But I also have Disenchant and that solves it. That moment was priceless. I won that match but he won the game 1-2. Those were the days.

The other happened at Finland's Legacy Champs few days ago. They were semi-finals (I had lost to an own mistake and couldn't get to top8) where my friend Roni played with Iggy Pop against Breakfast. He has lost the first game and the second game he (Roni) starts with two Leylines out. They start playing but somehow Roni can't combo out, neither can his opponent. But the en-Kor-guys and narcomoebas are able to kill Roni off before his combo starts to roll. That was also very nice, and very frustrating to Roni:laugh:

[Bryant Cook]

The manaleak 3, I'm playing vs Anwar he's playing Permanent Waves, I'm playing TES. I chant him and go off with Diminishing Returns, I have tons of black and red mana floating. I draw my 7 2x Infernal Tutors, Abeyance, Chant, Rite of Flame, Lotus Petal and Red Elemental Blast. I cast Abeyance just to Cantrip off of the petal. I hit Lion's Eye Diamond! GG.

Then again the same event, I'm having a feature match vs. Jesse Hatfield. It's game two. I lost myself game one on a misplay. I cast a draw 4 with 12 storm cracking LED's, I draw 2 Chrome mox, LED then.....TENDRILS. That was GG. Game three. I keep a terrible hand with 3 lands and a Diminishing Returns. I continue to draw nothing, so I Burning Wish for the Contract. I Draw Abeyance for my turn and cast it when Jesse only has 2 cards in hand (2 Forces I found out). It resolves, I drew a ritual off of it. I cast Ritual then Contract into Chant, Ritual, Tutor, then LED! Needless to say I won that game.

Yes, I'm savage.

[Tao]

Staxx vs. Oath
Chalice was already set @2 (Oath) and @1 (Chain of Vapor). Very late game, both had tons of Mana. The Staxx player (blitzbold, if anyone still knows him from the Vintage community), topdecks another Chalice, counts his Mana and sets it with the help of Mishra's Workshop at 8.
The NEXT turn his opponent draws Akroma from the Top with enough Mana to cast it.

___

43 lands vs. Belcher (pre ETW).
Turn 1 Exploration, Mishras Factory.
Turn 1 Spoils of the Vault for Belcher for the safe turn 2 kill. For exactly 18 life loss.
Turn 2 attack with Factory for the win.

[Nihil Credo]

Burning an opponent out with RDW (in Extended-2) against four Chills.

Wildfire.dec made every game pretty awesome. Turn 3 Wildfire, turn 4 Sundering Titan was not unusual. But the absolute best was one game against Solidarity: seeing that I'm not putting any pressure on him, and clearly holding a few counters, he builds up to seven lands or so. Then I untap, and "During my upkeep, cycle Decree of Annihilation": he pales, tries to go off with only Turnabouts, but fizzles.

Killing an opponent with Doomsday combo in game 1, Counterbalance-protected Wizard beatdown in game 2, and a Phyrexian Dreadnought in game 3. Without sideboarding. That deck was fucking awesome.

[Lego]

Killing an opponent with Doomsday combo in game 1, Counterbalance-protected Wizard beatdown in game 2, and a Phyrexian Dreadnought in game 3. Without sideboarding. That deck was fucking awesome.

To pull a P_R, Decklist or it didn't happen.

[Sanguine Voyeur]

It seems as though anything involving a Decree is awesome, for example;

My opponent cycled a Decree of Justice for ten, and on my next turn I hard casted Decree of Pain to take out the tokens and two other utility creatures for a cool 1-for-14 card advantage.

[Nihil Credo]

To pull a P_R, Decklist or it didn't happen.

It was posted on the Source somewhere, but regardless:

(Incidentally: it's major fun, but not *that* good)

// Lands
1 [UNH] Island
1 [UNH] Swamp
1 [ON] Bloodstained Mire
1 [ON] Flooded Strand
4 [ON] Polluted Delta
4 [TE] Wasteland
4 [PR] Underground Sea
2 [RAV] Watery Grave

// Creatures
3 [MI] Phyrexian Dreadnought
4 [FD] Trinket Mage
3 [RAV] Dark Confidant

// Spells
3 [MR] Chrome Mox
3 [PR] Sensei's Divining Top
1 [VI] Helm of Awakening
3 [CS] Counterbalance
4 [MI] Mystical Tutor
2 [TSP] Trickbind
4 [SC] Stifle
4 [PR] Force of Will
1 [SC] Brain Freeze
3 [NE] Daze
1 [DS] Echoing Truth
2 [WL] Doomsday
1 [SOK] Ideas Unbound

// Sideboard
SB: 1 [SOK] Pithing Needle
SB: 1 [DK] Tormod's Crypt
SB: 1 [MR] Chalice of the Void
SB: 4 [UL] Engineered Plague
SB: 3 [TE] Propaganda
SB: 2 [TSP] Trickbind
SB: 3 [PLC] Extirpate

[Lego]

My opponent cycled a Decree of Justice for ten, and on my next turn I hard casted Decree of Pain to take out the tokens and two other utility creatures for a cool 1-for-14 card advantage.

Isn't this something like a 1-for-3 card advantage? Decree of Justice comes out to 0, as you draw a card. All of the tokens count as 0, because they were created by a card that replaces itself. The two utility creatures are one a piece. Decree of Pain adds another because it cantrips.

[Nihil Credo]

Decree of Pain was hardcast.

[Lego]

Decree of Pain was hardcast.

Ohhhhhh. I get it :tongue: Do you even want to draw that many cards?

[Van Phanel]

During Lorwyn limited:

I'm on 4 life tapped out, he's on 15. On the board I have an AEthersnipe + Smokebraider against his Skeletal Changeling with Runed Stalactite.

Him: Nova Chaser, champion Changeling, equip Runed Stalactite.
Me: Goatnapper, attack for 16.

"I got your goat, bitch."

[Sanguine Voyeur]

Just last week I was playing a big mana Wildfire deck and cycled a Decree of Annihilation and cast Crater Hellion in the same turn. Next turn, I payed the echo, played a Kiki-Jiki, killed some big ass Tarmogyfs and swung for twelve.

In hindsight of this post, that's not too awesome. I need higher standards.

[Jak]

Turn 2 win with Rabid Wombat. True Believer = GG

[Xenocide]

My friend and I were playing a casual game format called stacks. In this format each player plays from the same deck of all reject rares (the deck is HUGE), and each card can be played face down as a forest-mountain-island-plains-swamp (like a dual land, but for all 5 colors).

So its my friend's turn 4, he plays his 3rd land (I destroyed one earlier) and taps out for mana flare. I untap, play my 5th land, tap out playing palinchron (floating 3 mana), then tap another land for ICE CAVE and proceed to lock him out of the game while beating face. It was epic.

[Pinder]

During Lorwyn limited:

I'm on 4 life tapped out, he's on 15. On the board I have an AEthersnipe + Smokebraider against his Skeletal Changeling with Runed Stalactite.

Him: Nova Chaser, champion Changeling, equip Runed Stalactite.
Me: Goatnapper, attack for 16.

"I got your goat, bitch."

Ha, this reminds me of a game of Time Spiral sealed I played during the prerelease. I was about to die (and he was at 20), but I had managed to slap a Verdant Embrace on my Fury Sliver, giving me a 6/6 double-striker as my only creature. Turn after, he swung with all his dudes and I blocked, putting me at 1 or 2 or some really low number.Basically I was about to die if I didn't win on my next turn. I untap for my turn, get my second saproling, and topdeck...Fallen Ideal. I slap the Ideal on the Sliver, sac the two saproling tokens (the only other creatures I had) to give it +4/+2, making it a 10/8 flyer....with double strike. I swing in for an even 20 points of damage, 2 life before I was about to die. Needless to say my opponent was none too happy.

[Lego]

Turn 2 win with Rabid Wombat. True Believer = GG

This doesn't seem like an "Awesome Play" at all... it's not even really that awesome if you play him at instant speed.

[blitz]

I'm really not getting the whole interaction with Shaman En-kor and Tarmagoyf in that one example. Can someone please explain?

[Jak]

This doesn't seem like an "Awesome Play" at all... it's not even really that awesome if you play him at instant speed.

Hater... it was cool when it happened. It was more of the reaction that it got.

"Who plays fucking True Believer?"

[Lego]

I'm really not getting the whole interaction with Shaman En-kor and Tarmagoyf in that one example. Can someone please explain?

The one attacking with Shaman en-Kor and Tarmogoyf was attacking into a Stuffy Doll, and was at 4 life. He was attacking for the win because he couldn't combo off, but if Stuffy Doll blocked a Tarmogoyf, he was dead (because Stuffy Doll would deal all of Tarmogoyf's damage (presumably more than 4) to the attacking player.) So he swung with everything, and then when Stuffy Doll blocked a Tarmogoyf, he had to make sure that Goyf dealt no damage, or he would die. So he used Shaman en-Kor's second ability targetting the Stuffy Doll, so that all of Tarmogoyf's damage is dealt to Shaman en-Kor, instead of Tarmogoyf. Then he used Shaman's first ability, redirecting all of the damage back to Tarmogoyf. Goyf's toughness is bigger than his power, so he doesn't kill himself. But he deals the damage to himself instead of Stuffy Doll, so Doll doesn't trigger.

(what I don't understand here is, if he's on 4 life, this attack basically needs to kill the opponent, or the Breakfast player will die next turn. Stuffy Doll activating x2 + any burn at all will win it... so assuming this attack is lethal, he didn't have to do anything with the Tarmogoyf. Assuming it's not lethal, he loses next turn anyway. But I don't know the full game state, and it's still a cool play.)

[freakish777]

I think the most memorable game of Magic I've played was a vintage game at a SCG P9 event several years ago.

My opponent and I are each 3-2 and basically fighting for 5-2 records to try and get Italian Legends packs, or hoping for the off-shot that there's a double DQ of some X-1-1's in a match.

Anyways, my opponent (on the play) starts with a Strip Mine, Mox, and Sphere of Resistance. My hand was something like Land, triple Mox (including Sapphire), an Mana Drain, and if I'm not mistaken a Cunning Wish or something. I figured it's not that bad (I'm playing Future Sight, Helm, Sensei combo), since I can drop my land and Sapphire and have Drain up (which Sphere kinda wrecks those plans) The next turn my opponent drops Workshop (presumably a topdeck), drop Crucible, and has me Strip locked. In any event, I manage to draw all 4 Force of Wills (for Welders and Smokestacks), draw the same number of Helm of Awakenings as he draws Sphere of Resistances, and let his Tangle Wires resolve and I'm desperately activating Divining Top for a way to win since I'm spent on FoW's. I draw Vampiric Tutor. I endstep Vampiric for Tolarian Academy.

I hold Academy for 3 turns straight, waiting for Future Sight to show up (I'd pitched one to FoW). It shows up, I play Academy, I play Future Sight and play 2 cards off of it and pass the turn. He finally resolves a Smokestack. I untap, draw, play Lotus Petal off the top of my Library, Cunning Wish for Hurkyl's Recall, play it, get my Sapphire back untapped enabling me to win that turn.

That game was something like 23+ turns.

Another interesting one (when I was still playing the deck) involved my opponent playing Dredgatog, and has been dredging aggressively (he has lethal next turn, I'm at 2 I think). I had a Sensei's Divining Top and Mana Crypt in play and another SDT in hand. I activated top on his end step, and saw my one of Brain Freeze 3 cards down. After some math, I realize that if I win the coin flip for Mana Crypt I can generate 6 copies of Brain Freeze and ask him how many cards are left in his library. 18 exact. I win the flip on Mana Crypt.

[Pinder]

(what I don't understand here is, if he's on 4 life, this attack basically needs to kill the opponent, or the Breakfast player will die next turn. Stuffy Doll activating x2 + any burn at all will win it... so assuming this attack is lethal, he didn't have to do anything with the Tarmogoyf. Assuming it's not lethal, he loses next turn anyway. But I don't know the full game state, and it's still a cool play.)

Eh, I don't recall the gamestate exactly either (I actually just happened to walk over at that moment), and perhaps the play was really unnecessary (or maybe he was above 4 and just didn't want to get into burn range, I don't know), but either way, the board position was as I described it, and you're right, it was still awesome.

[Cait_Sith]

I was having a game over MWS. I was playing Sad Panda (my Armageddon deck) and had 2 Wastelands + 4 Mana. My opponent had 3 lands and 2 fetches (he was playing Thresh and already lost a land to Wasteland).

I Waste a fetch, he grabs a land in response. I do it again. The guy is now making fun of me "Noob, blah blah blah."

I cast Armageddon.

He disconnects.

[Grollub]

Old old T2, getting no permed (Capsize) by a mono-blue Magpie control deck after killing off all his Morphlings and manlands, and win anyway. He had drawn too many cards and decked himself with Magpie. It was quite fun to see the cocky bloke's face when he realized my master plan.

Not really a "play" per-se. But in a casual tribal tournament, the finals ended in an epic clash between Ninjas and Pirates. I have never witnessed an as fun - and loud - final before. The pirates eventually overcame the stealthy shuriken wielding bastards, and we decided to hold a spontaneous rum party to celebrate.

[porcupinetreeman]

I was playing at a local Legacy Tourny with a friend. I was playing survival and he was playing a fish type deck. He started the game with a cabal therapy naming survival, I didn't have one. Later in the game he also had a meddling mage out naming survival. He had a pithing needle naming survival, and he also had a tormod's crypt out waiting to remove my squee. Little did he know, I sideboarded out 4 survivals, squee and anger for baloths and fiends.

[FredMaster]

He started the game with a duress naming survival, I didn't have one.
I guess you mean Cabal Therapy.

[Zork]

My most savage play was probably at TMLO3 against Breakfast. I was playing Big Reds, and in game 3 I had a Blood Moon and Crypt on the table. He had 3 lands, including 1 Island, and a Vial in play. I pass the turn, and EoT he Echoing Truths my moon, vials in an Illusionist. He untaps, Echoing Truths my Crypt and activates Vial. I pyrokinesis Illusionist in response and he flips over Sutured Ghoul.

Needless to say next turn I crypt away his wincon and win. Its not that great, but then again neither am I.

[Lego]

My most savage play was probably at TMLO3 against Breakfast. I was playing Big Reds, and in game 3 I had a Blood Moon and Crypt on the table. He had 3 lands, including 1 Island, and a Vial in play. I pass the turn, and EoT he Echoing Truths my moon, vials in an Illusionist. He untaps, Echoing Truths my Crypt and activates Vial. I pyrokinesis Illusionist in response and he flips over Sutured Ghoul.

Needless to say next turn I crypt away his wincon and win. Its not that great, but then again neither am I.

That happened to me. Then he revealed his Sulfur Elemental in hand. In retrospect, I have no idea why I E-Truthed his Blood Moon with Vial in play, but it was irrelevant.

[VsTheWorld]

Today at a casual chaos multiplayer tournament, I had been knocked out from a final round 4 player table, but was in 1st place going into the round. The remaining decks in the game were BGw Wake, UW aggro with Limited Resources, and a UG deck that seemed to do nothing but accelerate mana with Coiling Oracle, Wood Elves, and Solemn Simulacrum. Wake player has nothing but land in play after his Eternal Dragon, bounced with Evacuation by the UG player, is countered by Mystic Snake. UW player has nothing but land in play, but 4 cards in hand and 3 untapped plains. Now the play:

On his turn, the UG player plays Biorhythm with 3 creatures in play for the win. In response, the UW player proceeds to StP all 3 of those creatures. All players lose. So awesome.

[Michael Keller]

This match happened about 4 years ago:

Raider Bob (Bob K.) was playing his Bob the Belcher deck and I was playing good old Hollywood Sligh (Goblins with Goblin Grenade) in like a 22 person tourney. Bob has about 16 non-basic lands out and an Eternal Dragon. I proceed to BLOOD LUST his Eternal Dragon - making it 9/1. I then Mogg Fanaticked it out! Bob laughs hysterically. Then, I drop a Blood Moon lol. He counters it and I play REB. He actually said: Wooowww. Haha!

[Cait_Sith]

I just thought this was funny on MWS:

I was play Uw Merfolk against his UB Faeries.

I had 3 untapped lands and Merfolk Reejerey in play against his 3 untapped lands and an empty board.

I play Deeptread Merfolk. He counters it, so I use Reejerey to untap a land. I drop a Lord of Atlantis, and use Reejerey to untap a land again. I then use Aquitech's Will to turn one of his lands into an Island, tap his last land, and draw a card. That card happened to be... Lord of Atlantis.

Yea, I smashed face that time.