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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
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
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.
You know that you could still pay for his daze after the forces resolved, right?Quote:
Originally Posted by KobeBryan
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.
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:
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.
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...
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.
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.
Yup...Epic PuntQuote:
Originally Posted by Malchar
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Originally Posted by 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 myselfQuote:
Originally Posted by KobeBryan
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.
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…
Yup. Done this about a million times.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lemnear
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.
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....
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.
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....
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.