Bragging About Pulling Wins Out Of Nowhere

[Cavius The Great]

I was recently playing UGR Thresh with my Nourishing Lich deck on MWS. He counters some key spells, I manage to reach four mana, he gets me down to 3 and I cast Lich with a Zuran Orb in play. He has a Tarmogoyf and Nimble Mongoose on the opposite side of the table which would kill me next turn. In response to me casting the Lich, He Lightning Bolts me which would essentially kill me. I realize I have a Zuran Orb in play, I sacrifice a land putting me at two life. The Lich resolves, I combo off and win.

Scenario #2 - I was playing agianst Goblins with Spanish Inquisition in a tournament at YMG in Boston. He gets me down to 3 life. I combo off, and I have enough mana for either a Tendrils or ETW. As I was debating which to cast I noticed I had a Lotus Petal in play and a Culling the Weak in my hand. I cast Empty the Warrens netting me 12 tokens, I then sac one of the tokens to Culling the Weak and Tendrils for 14. If I hadn't been able to cast both, I would of lost to the six to seven Goblins on the opposite side of the table. I then was able to attack with my swarm since I had a healthy amount of life and eventually won the entire match.

Who says I don't have any playskill? :wink:

These are just a few examples. Let me know of your numerous exploits in the Magically world of cards and go head and gloat on how many opponents you have vanquished in the magical planes of Dominaria! Let the discussion commence!

[quicksilver]

At the grand prix last weekend first round I get paired against dredge. I'm playing previous level blue so game one I have absolutly no way to beat dredge. It's about turn 4 and all I have out is shackles and he's comboing off. He has 3 bridge from belows in the yard and brings back two ichorids (no other creatures). I steal one of them with shackles and he scoops...

Little did he realize that the bridge triggers from whose graveyard they go into, not who's side they died on. I had absolutly no way to win the game too. He won game two but I won game three, so it cost him the match.

[Peter_Rotten]

All I will say (for all the old school 1.5 players), "Animate for the win."

[Jaynel]

A Dreadnought beats me down to 6. I have two outs left in my library (Viridian Zealot and Big Game Hunter), one of which I need to topdeck so I don't die.

I flip over the Big Game Hunter, nuke his dude and win soon after.

[quicksilver]

I also believed Dave Gearhart has gotten many people to scoop to him when he was going off with solidarity and had like 10 cards in hand, although unbeknownst to his opponent they were all land.

[Nightmare]

"Do I need to go through it" was one of my favorite questions to ask when playing Flash. Especially when my combo was sitting safely in the sideboard.

[Sims]

"Do I need to go through it" was one of my favorite questions to ask when playing Flash. Especially when my combo was sitting safely in the sideboard.


This sounds oddly familiar to "Activate Bazaar, discard worldgorger dragon. Animate for the win?"

When the Sliver Queens and Laquatus' were sitting safely in the sideboard. Amidoinitrite matt?

[Michael Keller]

I just turn Polar Kraken sideways against Solidarity.

[J.V.]

A Dreadnought beats me down to 6. I have two outs left in my library (Viridian Zealot and Big Game Hunter), one of which I need to topdeck so I don't die.

I flip over the Big Game Hunter, nuke his dude and win soon after.

Pretty sure Roob wanted to cry:tongue:
Anyways,
I was playing against I Will Survive (Scrumdogg) with my storm deck He needs one land off his deck to gain infinite life (also he has 6 other cards that would have immediately won him the game) He topdecks Murming Fucking Bosk and because of the CIPT he can't combo. So I get my turn and even though I have 16 ETW's tokens and he is at 10 he has enough to be at 1 when its all said and done thanks to Darkheart Sliver. I topdeck the singleton Wipe Away in my deck and then bounce his Sliver and swing for game.

[deviant]

This was a draft: I played monogreen elf-warriors, with a splash of red for lash out and another card. I had clashed away 2 of my 3 mountains because I needed gas and not 8+ lands. I ended up having no creatures in play and 2 turns time. He was at 1 life. Guess what my next two topdecks were?

[Osse]

I was playing against Belcher with some PandeBurst build with maindeck balancetop (this project failed), I blindly countered all his acceleration with Cbalance over the three turns I needed to set up. Intuition on Song, Duress on rite of flame, second cbalance on Bwish.

[Nihil Credo]

This happened a couple of days ago: Aggro Loam vs. Enchantress.

He has managed to drop a Moat and deal with my three Seismic Assaults via an Aura of Silence and two Oblivion Rings. After that, he amassed a whole bunch of enchantments including Solitary Confinement, double Sterling Grove and Karmic Justice. He has two Hoofprints of the Stag out with a bazillion counters, and drops a Serra's Sanctum to activate them both for seven 4/4 flyers.

He passes, mildly complaining that I'm just making him waste time (I had spent the last four turns just dredging and cycling Loam while he dropped all those enchantments).

I untap, Dredge my Loam for the last time, cast it, then play Burning Wish for Reverent Silence and play it.

He: "OK. Karmic Justice destroys all your permanents. I'll just swing for the win next turn. Heck, I even have Replenish in hand."
Me: "Not all. The Assaults will only return to play when the Oblivion Ring triggers resolve. Karmic Justice doesn't get the chance to target them."

I show him nine lands in my hand.

Me: "Take lethal?"
He: "..."
He: "gg"

[Cavius The Great]

This happened a couple of days ago: Aggro Loam vs. Enchantress.

He has managed to drop a Moat and deal with my three Seismic Assaults via an Aura of Silence and two Oblivion Rings. After that, he amassed a whole bunch of enchantments including Solitary Confinement, double Sterling Grove and Karmic Justice. He has two Hoofprints of the Stag out with a bazillion counters, and drops a Serra's Sanctum to activate them both for seven 4/4 flyers.

He passes, mildly complaining that I'm just making him waste time (I had spent the last four turns just dredging and cycling Loam while he dropped all those enchantments).

I untap, Dredge my Loam for the last time, cast it, then play Burning Wish for Reverent Silence and play it.

He: "OK. Karmic Justice destroys all your permanents. I'll just swing for the win next turn. Heck, I even have Replenish in hand."
Me: "Not all. The Assaults will only return to play when the Oblivion Ring triggers resolve. Karmic Justice doesn't get the chance to target them."

I show him nine lands in my hand.

Me: "Take lethal?"
He: "..."
He: "gg"

Now I see why Satan worships you Nihil. That's the greatest play on this thread thus far. Gratz.

[scrumdogg]

Pretty sure Roob wanted to cry:tongue:
Anyways,
I was playing against I Will Survive (Scrumdogg) with my storm deck He needs one land off his deck to gain infinite life (also he has 6 other cards that would have immediately won him the game) He topdecks Murming Fucking Bosk and because of the CIPT he can't combo. So I get my turn and even though I have 16 ETW's tokens and he is at 10 he has enough to be at 1 when its all said and done thanks to Darkheart Sliver. I topdeck the singleton Wipe Away in my deck and then bounce his Sliver and swing for game.

I was very demoralized :confused: and the Saffi->Darkheart saccing twice with Auriok Champion & Essence Warden in play to stay alive play that I totally missed but Shane & co. pointed out afterward? Yeah, wouldn't have worked...since your topdeck has Split Second.... Had a nice moment about a month ago with I Will Survive vs Affinity in a local tournament. Game 1 he goes artifact land, Springleaf Drum, Ornithopter, tap, Frogmite, Frogmite, Frogmite..wanna guess what he topdecked Turn 2? Yup, Cranial Plating...swing 14 Turn 2. We were sideboarding before some people had started Game 1.... Game 2 my deck slows him enough to go off, wisely he scoops, Game 3 since Affinity is very popular in Woosta there were random 1x hate cards in my sideboard. We drag through the game, & end up with him having 6 land in play, some guys on the board & 1 card in hand. WTF is he holding? It has to be reactive since he can (and has) cast everything else he's seen, even when he doesn't need to. I can combo off when I cast/Vial the last piece from my hand...but I stall him until I topdeck...Meltdown. Meltdown his entire board except for Enforcer, STP Enforcer with +1/+1 counters on stack, end turn, watch his Glimmervoids die & wait to see if he topdecks a land. Nope. Card in hand? Extirpate :cool: Oops...that felt really good, especially since (not that long ago, sadly) I would have tried to combo off as soon as the pieces accumulated (and he is an arrogant little prick who thinks the rest of us should just donate our entry fees to him as prize money...).

[Dilettante]

This was a match I should have lost... I was on the draw on game 3... and had a weak mulligan against B.C. piloting Vial Goblins. I drew and I had to resort to playing a City of Brass, 2 Chrome Moxes, use a SSG, and a Lion's Eye without cracking it into a EtW that was in my hand, emptying myself... so only 8 goblins... Topdecked into a Thoughtseize, which I... luckily plucked his 1 Sharpshooter from his hand with... then into an Orim's Chant, which I played with kicker and bought myself a turn... Then into another Thoughtseize to remove a Warchief, which I think he could have emptied his hand and slugged me with it that turn... which knocked me to like 7 life or so and only 3 goblins left in play after his blocks... and him at 3 life and with a blocker. I proceed to topdeck into a Burning Wish...

EDIT - Oops, I kept a bad hand... I had drawn into a Chrome Mox >_<

[Cavius The Great]

I know this is slightly off topic but I got to mention it somewhere. I was goldfishing with my Nourishing Lich deck like 10 seconds ago. My hand was lotus petal, ritual, ritual, nefarious lich, autochthon wurm, nourishing shoal, and a random card. I emptied my entire hand the first turn, I go off, draw 15 cards, proceed to combo off on the first turn, I cast a bunch of Shoals, until I drew every single card in my deck and every single draw spell added to a value of exactly 60 cards, so I barely decked myself. Do you know how crazy this is? I drew my entire deck on the first turn. How many decks do you know that can accomplish such a feat? How crazy is that?

[quicksilver]

I know this is slightly off topic but I got to mention it somewhere. I was goldfishing with my Nourishing Lich deck like 10 seconds ago. My hand was lotus petal, ritual, ritual, nefarious lich, autochthon wurm, nourishing shoal, and a random card. I emptied my entire hand the first turn, I go off, draw 15 cards, proceed to combo off on the first turn, I cast a bunch of Shoals, until I drew every single card in my deck and every single draw spell added to a value of exactly 60 cards, so I barely decked myself. Do you know how crazy this is? I drew my entire deck on the first turn. How many decks do you know that can accomplish such a feat? How crazy is that?

Ahh the question is who can do this through double FOW? I've seen it in type 1, or at least close to it.




But I remeber another time long ago I was playing against solidarity and he was going off, so I say I'm gonna go buy a soda (essentailly I was scooping without explicitly saying so). I say keep going till I get back. When I get back he says he fizzled and I could swing for the win. God, good times.

[Lifeless]

I play a Treefolk/Warriors Standard deck on MtGO just for fun in the casual room and nobody ever reads Unstoppable Ash. Go ahead and look it up, I'll wait.

That last ability seems to f-up combat math for the dregs playing online. I win 1 out of 5 games because my opponent tries to multi block to trade, notices that they just punted, and concedes. It makes Doran smile.

[Shriekmaw]

I just turn Polar Kraken sideways against Solidarity.


I've seen a lot of games in magic, and that was one of the best. How many times do you see a Polar Kraken swinging against an opponent?

The other good game was when Mike Teachout cast and then next turn swung with Grozoth at Regionals 2007 with Dragonstorm.

Those were some very good games to watch.

[Wallace]

At GP Philly I was playing against Jamie Park, he is playing Dredge, in the 9th round. In game 3 I cast a turn 1 Mogg Fanatic and during my upkeep on turn 3 I cast Magma Just. I look at my top 2, Mogg Fanatic, Tormod's Crypt, GG...It also helps that he mulled to 5 games 2 and 3 but still it was a sick Scry 2!:cool:

This was witnessed by Nickrit2000, Janos_Wyron, and Willo...

[Nightmare]

The worst (and yet, best) I've ever felt during a match was in the Top 8 of the Sapphire tournament I won with Breakfast. I was playing Jim Lampman, who's one of my best friends. He's playing Train Wreck. Winner gets prize, loser doesn't. It's game 3. I'm on the play, I go fetchland, go. He goes Forest, Top. Eot, I go Worldly for Nomads En-Kor. I play a second fetch, fetch, and play Nomads. 1 card in hand. It's Worldly Tutor. I mulled to 4 into Fetch, fetch, Worldly, worldly. He had to dig for a black source with top, so he couldn't play the Chainer's Edict he had in hand. Mull to 4, turn 3 win. I'm a dick.

[TeenieBopper]

All I will say (for all the old school 1.5 players), "You tapped out? Seriously? No, really. You tapped all your lands and emptied your mana pool? Necromancy for the win."

Fixed.

[frogboy]

I was recently playing UGR Thresh with my Nourishing Lich deck on MWS. He counters some key spells, I manage to reach four mana, he gets me down to 3 and I cast Lich with a Zuran Orb in play. He has a Tarmogoyf and Nimble Mongoose on the opposite side of the table which would kill me next turn. In response to me casting the Lich, He Lightning Bolts me which would essentially kill me. I realize I have a Zuran Orb in play, I sacrifice a land putting me at two life. The Lich resolves, I combo off and win.

Scenario #2 - I was playing agianst Goblins with Spanish Inquisition in a tournament at YMG in Boston. He gets me down to 3 life. I combo off, and I have enough mana for either a Tendrils or ETW. As I was debating which to cast I noticed I had a Lotus Petal in play and a Culling the Weak in my hand. I cast Empty the Warrens netting me 12 tokens, I then sac one of the tokens to Culling the Weak and Tendrils for 14. If I hadn't been able to cast both, I would of lost to the six to seven Goblins on the opposite side of the table. I then was able to attack with my swarm since I had a healthy amount of life and eventually won the entire match.

Who says I don't have any playskill? :wink:

These are just a few examples. Let me know of your numerous exploits in the Magically world of cards and go head and gloat on how many opponents you have vanquished in the magical planes of Dominaria! Let the discussion commence!

[x] lol mws
[ ] contains large quantities of win
[x] author brags about not missing onboard tricks
[x] actually references Dominaria
[ ] author demonstrates legitimate skill at magic
[x] OMG I BUILT A DECK
[ ] author actually won a tournament
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[ ] post contains strategy
[x] assckh

[TeenieBopper]

I love you, Froggy.

[Di]

I love you, Froggy.



Also, I claim the title of "king" for pulling games out of my ass. Anyone who tries to refute this is wrong. I draw whatever cards I want, whenever I want.

[noobslayer]

Just ask Shady about our epic Solidarity ditto's and my asshat side board strategy.

[Bovinious]

At GP Philly I was 6-1 with Dredge, round 8 game 3 against Burn I cast Breakthrough for none, flipping a bunch of cards but not Narcs and not enough Bridges to continue off my 1 creature, so I will need to wait to use Ichorids to win next turn. Of course, my opponent topdecks Tormod's Crypt, plays it, and says "Ive never had to use this card before, not sure what to do. I guess ill use it now..." and just blows me out. Of course I go on to lose round 9 to not day 2. Fucking Burn.

[thefreakaccident]

I was playing against against BG reanimator, I was playing UWr landstill (back in the day). He is on the play.

My hand is this (approximately):

2 x Force
1 x accumulate knowledge
2 x swords to plowshares
2 x fetch land

He goes first turn, dark ritual, cabal therapy targeting you, I force it removing brainstorm, he casts a putrid imp, pitches akroma angel of wrath to the imp, flashes back therapy targeting me naming swords, reanimate akroma, beats for 6, pass...

My turn, draw swords, swords akroma, pass:

Turn 4 humility w/ Force backup... WTF!!!


There was also another game, where I was playing against an extended mono blue deck (in legacy), I get a second turn dreadnought, he goes EOT repeal for 1, I daze it, he then casts a threads of disloyalty n his turn and beat me :( ... this one was a little more current, and it was game one :(

[Isamaru]

His Turn 1 - Aether Vial, talking trash
My Turn 1 - FOIL Aether Vial
His Turn 2 - Ponder, Brainstorm, etc.
My Turn 2 - Sensei's Divining Top and a land
EOT: Nomads en-Kor
His Turn 3 - Worldly Tutors on upkeep for Cephalid Illusionist, taps Aether Vial and I Stifle it in response. He starts to get upset and thinks I'm crappy.
My Turn 3 - Look at top 3 and see a Scepter but nothing else. I Play the Scepter.
His Turn 4 - Retaps Aether Vial and starts to combo off, 3 cards at a time. He asks if he has to go through all the motions. He removes flashes back Cabal Therapy naming something random and sees that I don't have anything threatening in my hand. He removes Tarmogoyfs and some other creatures and Dread Returns Sutured Ghoul, puts Dragon's Breath on it and attacks. He goes to shake my hand but I ask how big Ghoul is. He responds "pretty fat." I ask him for a solid number and he counts 25/25, and I am at 19 life. I look at the top 3, praying to find a Gilded Drake. The third card down is Hunted Horror.

I Vial in my Horror, block the Ghoul, take 18, go to 1. Passing the turn means he decks himself.

[TeenieBopper]

Also, I claim the title of "king" for pulling games out of my ass. Anyone who tries to refute this is wrong. I draw whatever cards I want, whenever I want.

Fuck you and your topdecked Gilded Drake.

edit: And your mull-to-four land, land, brainstorm, survival hand, too.

[noobslayer]

His Turn 1 - Aether Vial, talking trash
My Turn 1 - FOIL Aether Vial
His Turn 2 - Ponder, Brainstorm, etc.
My Turn 2 - Sensei's Divining Top and a land
EOT: Nomads en-Kor
His Turn 3 - Worldly Tutors on upkeep for Cephalid Illusionist, taps Aether Vial and I Stifle it in response. He starts to get upset and thinks I'm crappy.
My Turn 3 - Look at top 3 and see a Scepter but nothing else. I Play the Scepter.
His Turn 4 - Retaps Aether Vial and starts to combo off, 3 cards at a time. He asks if he has to go through all the motions. He removes flashes back Cabal Therapy naming something random and sees that I don't have anything threatening in my hand. He removes Tarmogoyfs and some other creatures and Dread Returns Sutured Ghoul, puts Dragon's Breath on it and attacks. He goes to shake my hand but I ask how big Ghoul is. He responds "pretty fat." I ask him for a solid number and he counts 25/25, and I am at 19 life. I look at the top 3, praying to find a Gilded Drake. The third card down is Hunted Horror.

I Vial in my Horror, block the Ghoul, take 18, go to 1. Passing the turn means he decks himself.

Lol. I had this feeling at Columbus. I was like, wtf, hunted shit? And then I lost. Good times.

[Liek]

This didn't happen to me, but was told to me by a friend. It's Extended.

Dredge player is dredging and whatnot, has 3 Bridges in GY and a Leyline of the Void in play.

Goblin player has Mogg War Marshall, Token, and some other Goblins, and 2 lands untapped.

Dredge player sacrifices three Narcomoebas to play Dread Return on Flame-Kin Zealot.

In response to Bridge triggers, Goblin player cycles Gempalm Incinerator, targets Goblin token.

Read Leyline of the Void carefully if you didn't get it.

[kicks_422]

Casual game at the store, with Unhinged/Unglued cards legal.

I was playing RB Nightmares and my friend was playing mono-G Elephants. Really late-game, we were both down to 2, but he had commanding board position with lots of 3/3 elephant Tokens while I had a lone Petravark out. He had no cards in hand and nothing else relevant in the GY. The only card I had in hand was a Terminate. On my draw step, I drew Booster Tutor.

Well, why not? I cast it and went to the counter to buy a Torment booster (I wanted Grim Lavamancers at the time). Guess what was waiting for me - freakin' Radiate.

Terminate, then Radiate. Man, was he pissed. But the story doesn't end there.

With none of us having anything in play besides lands, he topdecked a Call of the Herd and made two more 3/3's. Well, looks like I was doomed. It was fun though.

Then on my draw step, I saw this. (http://magiccards.info/scans/en/uh/66.jpg)

[Slag]

I was playing in one of the Wortham tournements. I was paired up against survival (4 color, with magus of the moon) while I was playing UR landstill, needless to say, a bad matchup for me. I squeeze out a game one win by drawing an unnatural amount of spell snares. Game two I hold out until we're both at about ten life, when he resolves a survival and goes crazy with anger, rofellos, and magus, meaning I have no blockers. I manage to force a tarmogoyf, and his dudes bring me to about 4. I have an end of turn Pulse of the Forge with "buyback", then on my turn pulse again and lightning bolt. Most of my wins I didn't deserve come from pulse of the forge.

[Shugyosha]

Although Extended GP Vienna but nevertheless awesome:

He plays UG Tron and has nothing relevant in play but two UG mana and a urzatron and 2 Moment's Peace in the grave which he can flashback for 2G each to prevent me from dealing combat damage. He is on 5 life. He just needs the right card and he combo's me out.

I'm playing Next Level Blue. I have a Trinket Mage out, 5 mana and a Genju of the Falls. I replay Shackles for the third time (remanded). This leaves me with one Island and another one with the Genju. He responds with Gifts Ungiven tapping one UG source: Triskelion, Condescent and two other cards. I tell him that he can take the Condescent and another card in his hand. He looks at me astonished and thinks what a fool I am. He plays the Condescent tapping the second UG mana source countering my shackles.

Then I play the fetchland I had drawn, fetch, activate the Genju and attack with Genju and Trinket FTW.

He keeps swearing silently to me or himself all the time during sideboarding :-)


And later on in a mirror match game one and two:

Me: Hmm, I seem to dead next turn?
He: Yes!
Then I casted Rude Awakening with entwine... (this card is sooo stupid)

[Jim]

How many times do you see a Polar Kraken swinging against an opponent?

I once casted Punishment for 11 against Mike, and kill said Polar Kraken. It was a pretty ridiculous round.

[B.C.]

This didn't happen to me, but was told to me by a friend. It's Extended.

Dredge player is dredging and whatnot, has 3 Bridges in GY and a Leyline of the Void in play.

Goblin player has Mogg War Marshall, Token, and some other Goblins, and 2 lands untapped.

Dredge player sacrifices three Narcomoebas to play Dread Return on Flame-Kin Zealot.

In response to Bridge triggers, Goblin player cycles Gempalm Incinerator, targets Goblin token.

Read Leyline of the Void carefully if you didn't get it.

That's ridiculous. Does that actually work? If it does, that's the awesomest.

[Nightmare]

That's ridiculous. Does that actually work? If it does, that's the awesomest.Huh. It actually does.

For those of you going "?", Leyline only prevents cards from hitting the yard. Tokens are not cards.

[ParkerLewis]

Huh. It actually does.

For those of you going "?", Leyline only prevents cards from hitting the yard. Tokens are not cards.

True, but i thought token didn't even hit the yard. Aren't they just removed from the game by a replacement effect, meaning there was nothing to prevent from going to the gy, meaning the bridge is not destoyed ?

That's what i thought anyways... ?

[Zach Tartell]

True, but i thought token didn't even hit the yard. Aren't they just removed from the game by a replacement effect, meaning there was nothing to prevent from going to the gy, meaning the bridge is not destoyed ?

That's what i thought anyways... ?

Nah - remember Ghost Husk? The Promise of Bunri tokens would set off other Promise of Burni's (Bunrii?).

Yeah. I just quoted a Kamigawa standard deck. And I started when Dissention came out.

[Pinder]

Promise of Burni's (Bunrii?).


Promises of Bunrei. And yeah, tokens hit the yard:



216.3. A token in a zone other than the in-play zone ceases to exist. This is a state-based effect. (Note that a token changing zones sets off triggered abilities before the token ceases to exist.)

[MattH]

Gather 'round, children...

No thread on amazing victories is complete without The Story of Low Tide (http://web.archive.org/web/20001021162411/www.thedojo.com/column/col.990426eta.shtml).

[Nihil Credo]

216.3. A token in a zone other than the in-play zone ceases to exist. This is a state-based effect. (Note that a token changing zones sets off triggered abilities before the token ceases to exist.)

It's best to quote 216.4 along with that.


216.4. (http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/) A token (http://yawgatog.com/resources/magic-rules/#token) that has left play (http://yawgatog.com/resources/magic-rules/#play) can't come back into play (http://yawgatog.com/resources/magic-rules/#play). If such a token (http://yawgatog.com/resources/magic-rules/#token) would return to play (http://yawgatog.com/resources/magic-rules/#play), it remains in its current zone (http://yawgatog.com/resources/magic-rules/#zone) instead (http://yawgatog.com/resources/magic-rules/#instead). It ceases to exist the next time state-based effects (http://yawgatog.com/resources/magic-rules/#state-based_effects) are checked.This was specifically added so that Momentary Blink and similar effects did not return tokens to play. Otherwise SBEs would not get checked fast enough to notice the token being out of play.

While we're talking about it, my absolute #1 favoured weird interaction is the following:

Play a Spirit Guide (Elvish or Simian). Use Kiki-Jiki to make a token copy of it.

Play Withdraw (a rhystic Unsummon that bounces two creatures unless opp. pays :1:), targeting the token Guide as the first target. During the resolution of Withdraw, the token will return to your hand, and you'll be able to pay the Rhystic cost by RFGing the Spirit Guide token in your hand.

[TeenieBopper]

So, as I'm reading through this thread, I've come to a realization; almost none of you realize what "pulling wins out of nowhere" means. It's not simply noticing on board tricks (you want a fuckin' cookie for doing something you were supposed to do anyways? Though, to be fair, the Leyline/Token thing was pretty sexy), or luck sacking into the win, or Jedi Mind Tricks.


There's a lesson in there. When you are in a nearly hopeless situation it's not enough to just keep playing mechanically. Playing mechanically until you get killed doesn't help, unless you make a plan. Pat realized that a lot of things had to fall his way. A lot of things had to work out. But because it was his only possible route to victory he played his cards as if they would come up that way. If Pat had realized on turn six or seven that he would need to Low Tide it, even then it would have been too late. He would have lost. As soon as he saw the High Tides leave via Lobotomy, he realized that there was one single way for him to play to win. So he played that way and the luck smiled on him.

This, ladies and gentleman, is what "pulling wins out of nowhere" is. It's facing down incredibly bad odds. It's squeezing out every last bit of damage and life w hen you're mana screwed in limited. It's playing tight enough and long enough against the odds so that your opponent makes a game losing mistake and you pounce on it. It's playing as if you've still got outs, no matter how slim they are, and setting up for the win when you get there. That's pulling a win out of nowhere, and something to be proud of.

This is just a giant circle jerk.

[quicksilver]

This is just a giant circle jerk.

And what the hell's wrong with that?

[mujadaddy]

And what the hell's wrong with that?SOMEBODY has to eat the cracker...

[Nightmare]

Alright, you wanna talk "hopeless situation?" SCG Boston Day 1. I'm playing Pitch Long, and my opponent playing Oath goes turn 1 Extract. That's right, MD Extract on my single Tendrils. Now I have 2 choices. 1) Scoop it up, and go to game 2. 2) Make him think the second Tendrils is in my hand (which it isn't. I literally can't win with my own deck). I pick 2.

He is stuck on lands, and Orchard is his most reliable mana source. I have accumulated three tokens from his Orchards. He has not yet resolved Oath, because I Forced one. I am beating in, and he's getting low on life. He finally sticks an Oath at 9, and Oaths up Razia at 6. I can't swing into Razia, cause she takes out two of the three tokens if I do. I topdeck Brainstorm, Storm into Mystical and Chain of Vapor. I Chain Oath to stop the Akroma. I upkeep Mystical for Yawg Will, use it to replay the Chain on the Razia, Mystical for Time Walk, and Brainstorm into the Walk. I Walk, swing him to three, and go to my Walk turn, where I win. Game 2 goes as it should, I win on turn 2.

[Pulp_Fiction]

Anyone who hasn't seen the Nassif vs Chapin Worlds video has to watch this. This is the definition of pulling wins out of nearly hopeless situations!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmB0nlpz_2Y

[matelml]

I had this Legacy testing game with TES against Counterslivers:
It was game 2 so he had 2 Meddling Mages on the board naming Tendrils and Empty the Warrens, he had lethal damage on the table and I had 1 Xantid Swarm and 3 lands. My hand was something like Infernal Tutor, Burning Wish, Dark Ritual, Chant. I draw for my turn: LED. I search another LED with the Tutor, go Wish->IGG, returning 2xLED+Tutor, Tutor up Diminishing Returns, get a hand with IGG and mana, make some mana play IGG returning Diminishing Returns, casting it again getting a hand of some mana, LED and Wish. I go Wish->Grapeshot for lethal storm.:laugh:

Also a guy I know was playing Hannifish against TES in a tournament and when the TES player had the lethal IGGy chain with 2 LED's and a Infernal Tutor he said with the Tutor on the stack: "Sure, I'll just counter what you'll find" so the TES player changed his mind and found a EtW while the Hannifish player had a EE on hand and no counters.:)

[Michael Keller]

The greatest win I ever pulled out happened against Raider Bob about 4 years ago:

He had out about 18 non-basics. I was playing Sligh. He had out an Eternal Dragon and all I had out was a Mogg Fanatic. He attacks. I Blood Lust his Dragon, making it a 9/1. I then proceed to fanatic it out. Next turn, I drop Blood Moon. He Forces, and I play REB.

Classic.

[quicksilver]

So, as I'm reading through this thread, I've come to a realization; almost none of you realize what "pulling wins out of nowhere" means. It's not simply noticing on board tricks (you want a fuckin' cookie for doing something you were supposed to do anyways? Though, to be fair, the Leyline/Token thing was pretty sexy), or luck sacking into the win, or Jedi Mind Tricks.



This, ladies and gentleman, is what "pulling wins out of nowhere" is. It's facing down incredibly bad odds. It's squeezing out every last bit of damage and life w hen you're mana screwed in limited. It's playing tight enough and long enough against the odds so that your opponent makes a game losing mistake and you pounce on it. It's playing as if you've still got outs, no matter how slim they are, and setting up for the win when you get there. That's pulling a win out of nowhere, and something to be proud of.

This is just a giant circle jerk.

Ok I got one like this. It was second to last round of a SCG legacy tournement. It was game two against angel stompy. He goes turn 1 mother of runes. Now this was before shriekmaw so FTK was my only creature that could kill them. Needless to say that was extremly unlikely. So that leaves just Burning Wish for Anarchy as my only real out. The game goes on for a while and we both end up getting like 10 creatures out. I think he gets an exalted angel going and I get down to low life. So I know I have to rip B.Wish soon or I lose. So I end up playing as I would get it, so I am about to die and I end up saccing baloth (the far superior creature) instead of chumping with a birds so I can have RRR up. I fetch EOT and ask him to cut. He said I was fine but I insisted he cut. So he cuts my deck and for my turn I draw BURNING WISH! I get anarchy wipe his side of the board and swing with my team. I then draw into the top 8.




Oh in the same tournement I was playing against Fairy stompy. I never actually end up doing a single point of damage to him. He takes a bit off of anceint tomb (like 10 or something) then he gets out two Serendib's. I end up saccing Indrik stomphowler to Baloth, then Baloth for life. Then at the end we are both at 4 life on my turn and all I have is B. Wish in hand. I am like one mana short of wishing for regrowth getting back an FTK. I can't wish for edict because then he won't die to his creatures. So after some thinking I find I can wish for regrowth to get back birds, chump with a birds going down to 1 and bying enough time for him to die to his serendibs, and that's exactly how it ended.

[Bryant Cook]

I had this Legacy testing game with TES against Counterslivers:
It was game 2 so he had 2 Meddling Mages on the board naming Tendrils and Empty the Warrens, he had lethal damage on the table and I had 1 Xantid Swarm and 3 lands. My hand was something like Infernal Tutor, Burning Wish, Dark Ritual, Chant. I draw for my turn: LED. I search another LED with the Tutor, go Wish->IGG, returning 2xLED+Tutor, Tutor up Diminishing Returns, get a hand with IGG and mana, make some mana play IGG returning Diminishing Returns, casting it again getting a hand of some mana, LED and Wish. I go Wish->Grapeshot for lethal storm.:laugh:

Also a guy I know was playing Hannifish against TES in a tournament and when the TES player had the lethal IGGy chain with 2 LED's and a Infernal Tutor he said with the Tutor on the stack: "Sure, I'll just counter what you'll find" so the TES player changed his mind and found a EtW while the Hannifish player had a EE on hand and no counters.:)

I wish I could fit all of my ridiculous wins in one post for TES. But if I had to choose two it'd be...

#1) against Anwar with Permanent Waves. It's game 2, I made him fizzle with a Chant and a REB. I chant him and go off with Returns and draw into... Infernal, Infernal, REB, Petal, Abeyance, Dark Ritual, Chant. I get really nervous with 6 mana floating, I petal Abeyance praying to draw something good. LED off the top for the win. I understand how lame this story seems, however it was round 5 of 6 in a large event. It was intense.

#2) against Jason Wallace (Sycaruse (Sp?)) with Goyf sligh. I am losing because I cant draw business spells. I say fuck it and play 2 SSG's in the same turn. He laughs and keeps burning me. Then proceeds to draw 3 lands in a row and lose the game to 2 monkeys.

[noobslayer]

Me and Shady did a lot of Solidarity dittos.

1. It's game two (I Won the first one). The stack is huge on some late turn, and we are on like, turn two or three of time. Shady goes for the combo in my end step and just like it should, the stack gets huge monstrously fast. I'm on four mana, with no untap spell in hand, and nothing relevant to play when Greg brainfreeze's me. My only hope is to hit flash before all my twincasts are gone. Sure enough, I hit Flash without hitting any flashes and stack my deck, grab a twincast, untap, and let Greg's remaing freeze copies resolve to hit the next flash which his a draw spell into a stack of cards which consists of my own freeze and a twincast for the Stroke of Genius for 17 on the middle of the stack

2. In some friendly play at Columbus, I decide to be a dick and use a crazy boarding strategy. It involved me boarding out high tides and resets (I lost the first game, so they should have stayed in), and bringing in Twincasts, all my Brainfreeze, and all my Stifle. So turn two I lay my second land and pass the turn, Greg Brainstorm's, and I brainfreeze. At that point Dave realized what I was doing and called me an asshole. This happened a lot, around turn four greg started looking for cards my eot, so I mini combo'd for a freeze for 15. Greg's deck was starting to look thin. Eventually greg is forced to go off before my small freeze kill his entire deck. The stack gets huge, yada yada. Midway through Greg says shit, and realizes what happened. Under a sizeable brainfreeze, Greg has a remand, which is now threatening to do all the work for me. So on top of trying to kill me, he's trying to find enough gas (most of it was in the yard from my small freezes) to manage a force on his own remand, and still kill me. Some how he manages to deck me, can't kill me, counters his own freeze, but not before we count out how many meditates and find I played less, so I'm going to die first. I'm low on mana, and can't manage the kill, and fearing another force (because all remands are now suicide), I bluff a Cunnish Wish through with twincast help, and kill him in my upkeep.

[DeepfriedDynamite]

This isnt about legacy but once in Lorwyn morningtide draft I literally won out of nothing. My opponent was playing a R/b goblins deck and I w/b/g deck (yay first pick doran). My opponent had 4 creatures and me a lonely avian changeling with him at 19 and me at 13. He attacks all in and I block a token and and facing lethal next turn. On his postcombat main phase he plays hoarder's greed and here are the clashes.

Clash 1: me winning with forest
Clash 2: me winning with forest
Clash 3: me winning with forest
Clash 4: me winning with forest
Clash 5: me winning with forest
Clash 6: me winning with forest
Clash 7: me winning with forest
Clash 8: tie

(he didnt realize what I was doing until the third time)

so he's at 3 and I topdeck a reinforce card for the win (the baloonist that reinfores for 2). It was amazing.

[Pinder]

Clash 1: me winning with forest
Clash 2: me winning with forest
Clash 3: me winning with forest
Clash 4: me winning with forest
Clash 5: me winning with forest
Clash 6: me winning with forest
Clash 7: me winning with forest
Clash 8: tie


How were you winning clashes with a forest on top? And how would is help you if you were?

You mean he kept winning, because he's an idiot?

[Adan]

I also believed Dave Gearhart has gotten many people to scoop to him when he was going off with solidarity and had like 10 cards in hand, although unbeknownst to his opponent they were all land.

Rumor says that Mike Long also did something similar at a bigger Vintage event.
I don't know how good he is concering mental-gaming, but he was in a pinch and the situation was hopeless for him, the opponent would win next turn.

He sat there, with 2 Cabal Rituals in his hand, draws Swamp and then goes off like: "With this I can humiliate you!", Plays double Cabal Ritual and says "Guess what this card is?", the opponent thinks it's Yawgmoth's Will and scoops. ???. Mike Long then revealed the Basic Swamp and extends his hand.

At least this is what I heard about it, does anyone know about that?

@topic: That's one reason why I still love UR Landstill. There were so many moments I simply kept the Solidarity-player busy, he going off to kill me and then in response to EVERYHING, I just Lightning-Bolt him to death. Best way to humiliate Solidarity-players .

[PhanTom_lt]

As far as I remember, he was playing Cadaverous Bloom/Drain Life combo. And had to burn his only copy of Drain Life to stay alive, but later started to combo out, and his opponent scopped, and he even knew (must've forgot) that Long was playing only one copy, and it was deep inside the graveyard. Although most players were playing 2 copies those days.

[Adan]

As far as I remember, he was playing Cadaverous Bloom/Drain Life combo. And had to burn his only copy of Drain Life to stay alive, but later started to combo out, and his opponent scopped, and he even knew (must've forgot) that Long was playing only one copy, and it was deep inside the graveyard. Although most players were playing 2 copies those days.

Ah, ok, but didn't Cadaverous Bloom played that expansive Regrowth? Errr, Elven Cache? So maybe he could still win during the combo.

[Bovinious]

He sided out all his Elven Caches, or so the story goes. Personally I think that story is a hoax though because Ive seen the match on Youtube and never saw this happen, one game he showed Justice 2 Prosperitys and said "Give?", prompting a concession to save time, and I dont think Drain Life had been Removed. Only 4 of the 5 games are up on Youtube, but the 1 Game that isnt up is one he lost, so I really dont know where this story comes from other than urban myth/legend.

[Nightmare]

As an actual answer to the question, he RFG'd the lone Drain Life to Cadaverous Bloom in order to cast one of his Draw 4's during the tournament, and continued to go off until he had the "inevitable" win. He asked his opponent "Do I really need to go through it?" and his opponent scooped.

It, to my knowledge, wasn't during the finals. I think it was in the top8, but I don't recall which match.

[on1y0ne]

There was a time when Jon Finkel was playing against a random in a Grand Prix. They were in game three and Finkel was on the ropes. He commented that he needed a specific card to win the match, tapped his deck, drew a basic land, put his hand down on the table face down, looked up and outstretched his arms, exclaimed, "Yes! Thank you!"

His opponent's response was scooping. Jon never revealed the card, but it was witnessed by several onlookers, and the opponent dropped from the tournament soon after hearing what had happened.

I don't know if this is fact or Magic Lore, but it is still a fitting story for the thread.

[technogeek5000]

There was a time when Jon Finkel was playing against a random in a Grand Prix. They were in game three and Finkel was on the ropes. He commented that he needed a specific card to win the match, tapped his deck, drew a basic land, put his hand down on the table face down, looked up and outstretched his arms, exclaimed, "Yes! Thank you!"

His opponent's response was scooping. Jon never revealed the card, but it was witnessed by several onlookers, and the opponent dropped from the tournament soon after hearing what had happened.

I don't know if this is fact or Magic Lore, but it is still a fitting story for the thread.

I remember hearing about that. I forget which GP it was though. It was sort of a: I know a guy that knows a guy who knows a guy thing but I did hear about that happening.

[Dr. DOOM]

My opponent plays a Phyrexian Dreadnought on his turn and passes. On my turn, I draw a Sower of Temptation, cast it, and equip with Sword of Light and Shadow :eek:

[Rood]

Me and my oponent both have Dreadnought/he has more beaters then me. I have Counterbalance/top in play but he clearly has board position. I echoing truth his Dreadnought forgetting it bounced my own. He concedes to the truth.

[T is for TOOL]

I'm in the finals of the German Legacy world championship against Alix 'The Hat' Hatfield. We are both in topdeck mode in game 3 of the Nourishing Lich mirror hoping to draw either a Nourishing Shoal or a Zuran Orb. Alix idly comments that the tournament t8 should have been limited: his favorite format, and then draws his card for the turn. Smiling, he reveals the Nourishing Shoal and accompanying Autochthon Wurm.

Realizing that I only have one out, I casually glance behind him into the crowd of spectators and say 'Is that... is that a threshold deck without Counterbalance?' He whirls around in a fury to see where I was looking, and I take this opportunity to switch-out his Nourishing Shoal with Flash. He comes back around wearing a frown and I shrug saying 'must have been my imagination.' He looks down at the Flash sitting on the table, and I immediately call the judge who awards him a game loss.

[Sek'Kuar]

I'm in the finals of the German Legacy world championship against Alix 'The Hat' Hatfield. We are both in topdeck mode in game 3 of the Nourishing Lich mirror hoping to draw either a Nourishing Shoal or a Zuran Orb. Alix idly comments that the tournament t8 should have been limited: his favorite format, and then draws his card for the turn. Smiling, he reveals the Nourishing Shoal and accompanying Autochthon Wurm.

Realizing that I only have one out, I casually glance behind him into the crowd of spectators and say 'Is that... is that a threshold deck without Counterbalance?' He whirls around in a fury to see where I was looking, and I take this opportunity to switch-out his Nourishing Shoal with Flash. He comes back around wearing a frown and I shrug saying 'must have been my imagination.' He looks down at the Flash sitting on the table, and I immediately call the judge who awards him a game loss.

:eek: I call Bullshit

[crazyroundman]

Nah - zulander had two door prizes of time travel and translocation to Germany at the latest NOVA event. Alix got the first one (first round, too. isn't that weird?), then Anwar (in delicous native garb) won a foil Dark Confidant or something, then in round 3 Tool won the other trip.

Personally I'd've held out for somewhere a bit more festive than a German Magic tournament, but beggars can't be choosers, right?

[Cavius The Great]

:eek: I call Bullshit

He's joking, obviously.

[Happy Gilmore]

I'm in the finals of the German Legacy world championship against Alix 'The Hat' Hatfield. We are both in topdeck mode in game 3 of the Nourishing Lich mirror hoping to draw either a Nourishing Shoal or a Zuran Orb. Alix idly comments that the tournament t8 should have been limited: his favorite format, and then draws his card for the turn. Smiling, he reveals the Nourishing Shoal and accompanying Autochthon Wurm.

Realizing that I only have one out, I casually glance behind him into the crowd of spectators and say 'Is that... is that a threshold deck without Counterbalance?' He whirls around in a fury to see where I was looking, and I take this opportunity to switch-out his Nourishing Shoal with Flash. He comes back around wearing a frown and I shrug saying 'must have been my imagination.' He looks down at the Flash sitting on the table, and I immediately call the judge who awards him a game loss.

Can you condense that story so I can make it into a sig?

[Cait_Sith]

How were you winning clashes with a forest on top? And how would is help you if you were?

You mean he kept winning, because he's an idiot?

Clash doesn't let you choose to not keep going. Morader's Greed is dangerous because people will often keep a land n top of their library to try to cause their opponent to lose all of his life by constantly winning clash.

[calosso]

I'm in the finals of the German Legacy world championship against Alix 'The Hat' Hatfield. We are both in topdeck mode in game 3 of the Nourishing Lich mirror hoping to draw either a Nourishing Shoal or a Zuran Orb. Alix idly comments that the tournament t8 should have been limited: his favorite format, and then draws his card for the turn. Smiling, he reveals the Nourishing Shoal and accompanying Autochthon Wurm.

Realizing that I only have one out, I casually glance behind him into the crowd of spectators and say 'Is that... is that a threshold deck without Counterbalance?' He whirls around in a fury to see where I was looking, and I take this opportunity to switch-out his Nourishing Shoal with Flash. He comes back around wearing a frown and I shrug saying 'must have been my imagination.' He looks down at the Flash sitting on the table, and I immediately call the judge who awards him a game loss.

So FUCKING AWESOME!!!!

[raharu]

I'm in the finals of the German Legacy world championship against Alix 'The Hat' Hatfield. We are both in topdeck mode in game 3 of the Nourishing Lich mirror hoping to draw either a Nourishing Shoal or a Zuran Orb. Alix idly comments that the tournament t8 should have been limited: his favorite format, and then draws his card for the turn. Smiling, he reveals the Nourishing Shoal and accompanying Autochthon Wurm.

Realizing that I only have one out, I casually glance behind him into the crowd of spectators and say 'Is that... is that a threshold deck without Counterbalance?' He whirls around in a fury to see where I was looking, and I take this opportunity to switch-out his Nourishing Shoal with Flash. He comes back around wearing a frown and I shrug saying 'must have been my imagination.' He looks down at the Flash sitting on the table, and I immediately call the judge who awards him a game loss.
Win.

[wmagzoo7]

Not in the range of Tool's nuts play but still memorable for me. I'm at a local draft playing G/W against a kid playing a totally nuts 4 color good stuff deck (1 Imperious Perfect, 1 Mulldrifter, 2 Lash Out, 1 Shriekmaw) I have an Oakgnarl Warrior out ( 5/7 Vigilance guy) and my opponent has a tapped Imperious Perfect, a 2/2 Elf Token, a 1/1 Firebelly Changeling 1/1( +1/+0 for R)and a Pestermite 2/1. I'm screwed in 2 more turns and he is at 5 life, so he feels the need to block if I attack. I declare my attack with the Oakgnarl, and he blocks with the Elf, Firebelly, and Pestermite, always counting the Firebelly as a 3/1 because he has double red avaliable. I let him think for a minute after he declares blocks and then say "Ok? Damage on?"He's like yeah and I'm like ok your guys die mine doesn't? He visibly sinks in his chair and concedes the match even though he lost only the first game.

[ParkerLewis]

He's like yeah and I'm like ok your guys die mine doesn't?

Unless you forgot to mention that he didn't have RR available this turn, I don't understand...

[georgjorge]

He DID have it available, but apparently due to wmagzoo waiting for a minute, fell in a meditative/apathic mood and turned his brain off, so got caught unaware by the question of combat damage and replied prematurely in the affirmative.

[Cait_Sith]

This isn't amazing, but:

I was playing UW Lark against some UBRW Monstrosity that ran all sorts of accel and fat, such as Grim Poppet and Arbiter of Knollridge. Having faught a long and intense game, it got to the point where I had an empty hand and field, and he had 2 Aeon Chroniclers, both with 3 counters left on them, 2 cards in hand, and a big pile of available mana.

I topdeck a Body Double, use it to copy 'Lark. I then flashback a Blink on the Double, bring back Mirror Entity, and combo out to win the game.

[HammafistRoob]

Ultra-Necro. I could've made a new thread, but any thread started by Cavius has its lumps of gold here and there.

I was chilling at the LGS back when Timespiral was Standard legal. We didn't reach the 8ppl required to fire off the FNM so we were just hanging out for no good reason. A casual player who had never been to our store before comes up to me and asks to trade. After making some shitty deals to help him out (he had nothing I wanted) he offered to play a few games.

Since I knew he was casual after just looking at his binder with 94758 random commons, I decided I'd take it easy on him in hopes of not discouraging him from showing up again. So I whipped out my standard monoblack deck with Nihilith, Smallpox, and tons of other various removal.

Apparently he's playing some god awful GW deck. Anyways, he locks me down with Dueling Grounds and Kor Haven. I'm playing Standard monoblack and briefly consider scooping, but I wanted to see what his wincon was and just wanted him to have a good experience so he has more incentive to want to come back (my LGS was dying). So, after another 10 turns of "draw, go", I have like 11 Swamps and a Phyrexian Totem in play to his 10 various GW basics, Kor Haven, Dueling Grounds and I believe a Llanowar Elf. For some bizarre reason, he decides to cast Biorhythm against a black deck with a full grip when he's got just one dork in play. I respond by casting Tendrils of Corruption on his lone guy and animating my Totem for the win.

Has to be my most epic win, idc if he was a complete noob and that it was only for fun. I had no right winning that game unless he handed it to me. Needless to say he never came back to the store.

[jandax]

For every butthurt there is someone hurting the butt.

Feels good man, but that is no way to keep a noob coming back. Nice Necro indeed, had a good laugh or two browsing through the last few pages :laugh:

[Kayradis]

I was at a GPT.
Format? Limited RTR Sealed...

So, I'm playing against one of my real good buddy. He got me locked G2. I'm at somewhere like 3 or 4.
On the board I have Niv Mizzet, 6 mana open and no cards in hands. He has Riot Piker with Holy Mantle and the 3 drop Flying/Lifelink enchantment. Im getting my ass handed to me.
He swings with the piker.
Im like....WTF
Ping him with Niv.
Draw...into Far/Away.
Bounce the dude.
Hi five myself.
Swing with the dragon for the win.

[psu42]

A long time ago, like 10 years, I'm playing in a vintage tournament, one of the old Waterburys I believe. Go against a friend I went with. He combos but can't quite get there and brain freezes me for everything but like 10 cards. We know each others decks, count that I have one win condition left. We both have nothing relevant in our hands. I comment that I will top deck Psychatog, then attack and win using my large graveyard from brain freeze. Draw the tog, pass, he draws and passes. I attack and win.

Another time playing vintage I'm on the ropes he has win on board but no hand. I draw recall for turn. Draw 3 into black lotus, fastbond, yawgmoths will. Combo out from there. Good times.

[No_Life_No_Future]

I was playing Full English Breakfast in a small legacy tournament against MUD in the finals. He was locking me out with tanglewire and smokestack. After the smokestack triggered I had only Survival of the Fittest and Shapeshifter left in play with 2x Elvish Spirit Guide and Squee, Goblin Nabob in hand. Tapped my shapeshifter to tangle wire and drew a forest for the turn!

Play forest. Tap for G and Survival discarding Squee, Goblin Nabob getting Phyrexian Colossus.
Remove Elvish Spirit Guide and Survival discarding Phyrexian Colossus getting Phage the Untouchable.

Pay 8 life... Untap
Attack (he doesnt have 3 blockers)
Drop Phage the Untouchable into the bin. Nobody saw Colossus coming. Man I miss that deck lol...