What Was Your Classiest Victory?

[elof]

A couple of years ago. I was playing Rector Tendrils and my opponent play gush-A-tog (after the restictment of gush but with Intuition Akkum).

Background: I have 1 card in hand and alot of lands, 7 (I play 14?) and my opponent could finish me off if he had played right. But he attacks me (with 'tog) to 3 or something, holding a card in hand.

My upkeep: I play Mystical Tutor (I want to search for Mind's Desire, with probebly was my only out). He plays Mana Drain.

My draw phase: Draws Mind's Desire!

My main phase: I play Mind's Desire for 3, (he's at like 18? or something), he says: "your pretty skilled if you happen to win now" (I can't remember if Timetwister was a out, but I don't think so because then I probebly whould have wanted to wish for it, the same is probebly true for Y. Will). Desire resolves and flips:
Cabal Therapy
Tendrils of Agony
Tendrils of Agony

gg.

[Getsickanddie]

DISCLAIMER:

This is not my play, but someone elses (I forgot who the person in question is), this is a Vintage match.

Player A has Phyrexian Negator in play and a Black mana open.
Player B has an Illusionary Mask in play with 1 mana open (or they have Illusionary Mask and an 0/1 face down card with 1 counter on it), and pretty clearly has a Dreadnought in hand (or pretty clearly has a face down Dreadnought).
Player A plays Demonic Consultation which resolves and names Black Lotus, gets it after removing a large portion of his library, play it, and then attacks with Phyrexian Negator.
Player blocks with his Phyrexian Dreadnought.
Player A then proceeds to pop Black Lotus for and plays 3 Berserks!

That would be Geoff "Konsultant" Smelski.

[Funky-kun]

Nothing demonstrates the sheer power of Mind's Desire and its ability to steal games better that old extended Heartbeat Desire IMO. Example, which I happened to pull out in front of a friend playing Ur Tron:

I'm with 10 land or something, and topdeck Mind's Desire with no cards in hand and a bin full of countered stuff. So I proceed to Desire for 1. My opponent goes like: "I have no permission, but I doubt you could win with only 1 Desire. I've got you Slaver-locker next turn. So take your time and shuffle well!" I flip: Desire. I Desire for 2 and flip Fact or Fiction and Nostalgic Dreams. I proceed to win. Nostalgic Dreams just makes this deck so powerful!

[Master Shake]

A couple of years ago. I was playing Rector Tendrils and my opponent play gush-A-tog (after the restictment of gush but with Intuition Akkum).

Background: I have 1 card in hand and alot of lands, 7 (I play 14?) and my opponent could finish me off if he had played right. But he attacks me (with 'tog) to 3 or something, holding a card in hand.

My upkeep: I play Mystical Tutor (I want to search for Mind's Desire, with probebly was my only out). He plays Mana Drain.

My draw phase: Draws Mind's Desire!

My main phase: I play Mind's Desire for 3, (he's at like 18? or something), he says: "your pretty skilled if you happen to win now" (I can't remember if Timetwister was a out, but I don't think so because then I probebly whould have wanted to wish for it, the same is probebly true for Y. Will). Desire resolves and flips:
Cabal Therapy
Tendrils of Agony
Tendrils of Agony

gg.

I like this one quite a bit.

I once beat an opponent while wearing a tuxedo. Does that count?

I do this from time to time. I've also ripped my shirt off during a match, but I lost that game.

For my own entries into this:

EDH - I really enjoy creating overly elaborate combos, this one involved replaying Channel the Suns enough times to create the mana to activate Legacy Weapon to remove all of my other permanents and to use Dimir Guildmage to discard my hand so that I can win with Barren Glory.

Legacy 1 - I'm playing game 2 against TES, game one I locked him out with Aura of Silence, somehow. He has brought in Dark Confidant and starts to draw way too many cards for me to handle. A few turns in he starts laying cards face down to count storm. He plays a few rituals before I Chant him. He takes 5 mana burn and passes. He starts comboing again and I Abeyance him again. He takes another 5 mana burn. About the time I go to 6 from confidant beats he sees all of my enchantress effects on the table and decides that he needs to do it again (I'm actually out of gas) and so he starts to combo again. I start thinking about how long I can wait before I play my Abeyance and manage to guess correctly, he plays enough rituals so that I'm able to chant him and he'll take lethal mana burn.

Legacy 2 - I'm playing the Landstill Mirror. I'm playing U/W Landstill and my opponent is playing a 4 color list. We're in game 3 and we're in turn 2 of turns. He's at a low life total but has a bunch of factoires. He also has 7 cards in his library. I have to determine if I'm going to win with trying to deck him with Standstills or if I'm going to try to get in with angel or soldier tokens. He has one card in hand, I have a few. I decide to go the Standstill route and I cast a Standstill, Brainstorm and let him draw some cards. I end up putting my brainstorm back incorrectly and so when I go to draw my hand is Force of Will, Brainstorm, Standstill, Fact or Fiction, Decree of Justice. I realize that I've made a pretty big error and that I should have FoFed at the end of his turn to get more spells to back this up, but I'm stuck with what I have (nearly 20 lands on the table) So, I decide to see how it will work. I play my Standstill and pass the turn. He responds at my end of turn step by activating his Mishra's Factory and targeting it with Swords to Plowshares. With Standstill on the stack I Force of Will his StP, he Stifles the Standstill Activation, I brainstorm, he Stifles the Standstill Activation (one more card in his hand) I Fact or Fiction. His last card in hand is a Pernicious Deed, he has to draw off standstill and then loses on turn 5 of turns in his draw step.

Legacy 3 - I'm playing Enchantress against a Goblins player with a Turn 1 Vial start. He plays a turn 2 Tin-Street Hooligan with a Badlands and a Taiga. I inform him that I need him to tell me how he tapped these lands, for what color. He sets the Badlands aside and says. "Red from Badlands and..." He hesitates and thinks what color he wants to draw from his Taiga, we sit there silently for about ten seconds and he says "And green from Taiga." I inform him that because he paid green mana to play Tin-Street Hooligan that he's going to need to destroy any artifact. I narrowly win this game and 100% would not have had he not destroyed his own vial.

Limited - At the Alara Reborn prerelease, my opponent has completely blown me out in the first game and has nearly done it again in the second. I'm at one life and he has 2 Saporlings and some other creature. I have a Jund Battlemage and some other creature. The only way I can win is if he doesn't something 100% wrong and lets me win. I see that the guy is competent so I think about just picking my cards up but... I decide to just see what happens. He untaps, topdecks a Bone Splitters, sacrifices a Saporling to target my Jund Battlemage, I use it to produce a token and then we both have creatures that will trade with each other if he attacks. He looks at the game state for a moment and passes the turn. I draw a cycler, cycle into another creature that makes a difference, he draws a land. I draw Broodmate Dragon and win.

Although, the best win I've ever seen is when an eleven-year-old kid was playing against Solidarity and the Solidarity player comboed off for 63 cards. The kid put the top 63 cards of his library into his graveyard and said "Is that it?" He had 18 cards left in his library and proceeded to win with Ravenous Rats and Phyrexian Rager. He did the same thing game two as well.

[Michael Keller]

I can honestly say this was probably not only my classiest victory, but I'm willing to put it up against anyone else's victories any day of the week:

I was playing Teeniebopper (Landstill) with my old Hollywood Sligh deck in a crucial tournament game. He drops Standstill.

I am screwed...but maybe not:

I then drop Shivan Gorge.

He doesn't draw a man-land and I proceed to do 8-9 points of damage with it, killing him. He is stunned in disbelief.

I then made him sign it for me, and he has it to this day.

Ah, the good old days.

EDIT: There was another tournament where a dude Reanimated Nicol Bolas and swung on with it. He was at 9 life. I then discarded my hand, and his buddies were smiling with content behind him. He looked at my graveyard and saw 3 Guerrilla Tactics. It was the more satisfying than sex.

[whienot]

We had a guy extirpate relentless rats at a tournament last week. Not only classy, but a super sexy win.

[Master Shake]

We had a guy extirpate relentless rats at a tournament last week. Not only classy, but a super sexy win.

That's amazing, that's the kind of story I really wanted to hear.

[mujadaddy]

Although, the best win I've ever seen is when an eleven-year-old kid was playing against Solidarity and the Solidarity player comboed off for 63 cards. The kid put the top 63 cards of his library into his graveyard and said "Is that it?" He had 18 cards left in his library and proceeded to win with Ravenous Rats and Phyrexian Rager. He did the same thing game two as well.

Eleven year old kids know how to beat Solidarity every time. They should be banned.

Is that it?

[Soldar]

I don't know how well I can really convey stories online (I talk with my hands a lot) but this was an EDH game from the other night:

I'm playing Sharuum with artifact.dec, and I'm head over heels in love with Time Sieve, for no good reason, and he's playing a Rith deck, where he apparently Red Elemental Blasts my Tezzeret. I keep telling the guy that Time Sieve is amazing, and he's incredibly skeptical about it.

He has Rith and Greater Gargadon in play, and plays Realm Razor, and with the trigger on the stack, he decides to Path to Exile it. I'm sitting with a board full of random artifacts and a Time Sieve, and a Coalition Relic. He puts the Gargadon into play and starts beating my face in. I charge the Coalition Relic, and I Mystical Teachings up a Swords to Plowshares and plow his Rith (general damage), sitting in pretty bad shape. I'm at 10, I chump block his Gargadon with Sharuum, and the next turn he puts me at 1. I draw a Fabricate, but with only 4 mana available to me, I Fabricate for Executioner's Capsule. And then he asks me, "Is that it?" I then sacrifice the majority of my board and take another turn to cap the Gargadon.

That technically isn't a victory, so the rest of the game was him missing land drops, and me hitting all of mine, where I play Magister Sphinx with him at 46 and me at 1, the first time I've ever been happy to reset my life total to 10.

I also attacked with Magister Sphinx and Sharuum, and with damage on the stack, blinked the Sphinx to set his life to 10.

[HdH_Cthulhu]

I play Goblins vs Aggro Loam

He DDs the board for 4 so i am left with 1 mountain on the board. He has a 13/13 Teravore and a tarmogoyf out. (only mountain and a Matron in hand)

I topdeckt, Relic, Mountain, Mountain, Ringleader and overhelm him and Won.

[ParkerLewis]

I don't know if that was classy, but it was epic.

[TeenieBopper]

This was back when it was 1.5 instead of Legacy. I was playing Food Chain Goblins and Fakespam was playing Dragon (you know, real decks). It was game one and I had won the die roll. He shows me his first five cards as I'm looking at my hand trying to decide whether or not to keep and says, "Game two?" They were Bazaar, Badlands, Worldgorger Dragon, Dark Ritual, Animate Dead for the turn two kill. I stare at my hand, "Hang on a second." I'm holding Taiga, Ancient Tomb, Skirk Prospector, Goblin Recruiter, Goblin Ringleader, and Goblin Matron, and Food Chain. My turn two came before his turn two.

God I fuckin' hated Dragon.

[TrialByFire]

playing one of the original TES lists I was at 4 and my fish opponent had 2 meddling mages (on tendrils/wish) and an exalted so I couldn't just empty and kill him next turn. I then stormed for over 20 using d returns and eventually cast empty for over 50 goblins and used plunge into darkness to gain enough life to not die to the angel and kill him next turn.

I watched this happen. It was epic. The look on his opponents face was priceless

[Bryant Cook]

playing one of the original TES lists I was at 4 and my fish opponent had 2 meddling mages (on tendrils/wish) and an exalted so I couldn't just empty and kill him next turn. I then stormed for over 20 using d returns and eventually cast empty for over 50 goblins and used plunge into darkness to gain enough life to not die to the angel and kill him next turn.

/Jealous. (How did I not see this before?)


I was playing against Matt Abold (burn).

I was at 1 life after making 18 goblins. All I had was a City of Brass and a Lotus Petal left over. I cast Plunge into Darkness using City of Brass, put the City damage on the stack and gained 24 life. :)

[emidln]

In game 3 of a GPT top4 for Columbus I was playing against Aluren with AT1 (RG Stax with Aether Flash). I'm on the play and fan open double needle, ancient tomb, mox diamond, wasteland, goblin welder, crucible of worlds. I open with needle on Polluted Delta and Wooded Foothills (he only played 2 different fetches for his manabase) and a Welder. I topdeck another Needle for Pernicious Deed and eventually beat down with 2x Goblin Welder while my opponent sits under Needle/Wastelock failing to draw basics before I get down Chalice @ 2, Chalice @ 3. I end the game with 2x Krosan Grip in hand, for the unlikely event that he managed to some combination of Chain of Vapor and Pernicious Deed into play at the same time.

Bonus:
At the annual local game convention I'm playing against Vroman round 1 circa 2007. He is playing a GBWR homebrew Loam deck featuring Sylvan Library + Children of Korlis. I'm playing the original Grim Iggy list and Vroman saw me playing the deck before the event while I was playing some combo vs combo games against B.C.'s SI list. I win the die roll and open up Tundra, go. Vroman looks kinda surprised and opens Mox Diamond pitching a land, Land, Sylvan Library. I end step Mystical Tutor for a combo piece and win turn 2. After the match Vroman lets me know that he mulled into a turn one Children of Korlis against me, but didn't play it because it didn't occur to him that Tundra, go was a combo deck's play.

[elof]

I was playing Solidarity vs TES. He was playing Chant and I go off in response, but fails to find anything relevant and then he goes off. He had taken som City damage and floats 16-17 mana and Diminishing Returns only to draw yank and burns down to 1. I win in his upkeep thanks to Turnabout on City.

I play my legacy slivers against vintage slaver. I only have plated slivers in play and he casts both Mana Vault and Mana Crypt and then Drains my Brainstorm. In his turn he plays Sundering Titan, tapping crypt, vault (5), tolarian (7) and a volcanic (8). I try to Daze, he forces and I daze again. Titan goes to the yard and I ask him if he is done and he says yes. I say, "you take 1 in burn from Mana Drain". Then I beat him down with Plated Slivers.


A long time ago, we had a few players playing vintage and I played Rector Tendrils, another played Stax and a third played dragon. I think we play so much that each of us beat the other one to death with Goblin Welder, Squee Goblin Nabob, and Academy Rector. Humiliating being beatdown by a 1 power creature for about 16-18 rounds...

[Nightmare]

A Couple.

1) I was playing Breakfast, vs a younger player playing Spring Tide. He says Island, go. I play a land, Brainstorm, and prepare to miss my second land drop. He goes off on turn two, but stumbles on storm, and Mills me for 48, flipping all three Narcomoebas. On my turn I draw, Cast Therapy on myself discarding a combo piece, and win.

2) Also playing Breakfast vs Jim with Train Wreck. I mull to 4. He keeps seven. I play fetch, go. He plays Forest, Top. EOT I fetch Trop and Worldly Tutor for En-Kor. I draw it, fetch out a Tundra and play En-Kor. 1 card in hand. Jim tops to find a black source during his upkeep (the Swamp was on top) and plays the swamp, and passes. EOT I Worldly Tutor for Cephalid Illusionist, draw it, play it, and win. Jim flashes me the Chainer's Edict that he could have played, had he not topped.
Turn 3 win on a mull to 4, to make top 8 (and eventually win a Sapphire).

[zulander]

Turn 2 tombstalker. Nuff said.

[Anusien]

I can't think of my own personal classiest win, (probably something with Solidarity...) but my friend Rich Shay (The_Atog_Lord) had a good one... He has a Viashino Heretic and a Sower of Temptation that stole a second Viashino Heretic and is at like 2 life, he has no business winning this game. His opponent decides to Tinker for Darksteel Colossus and Rich goes okay activate Heretic, activate Heretic take 22?

It used to be in someone's sig over at TMD, but Rich won one game in an amazing way. The quote was something like:
"I won in the only way I could that game. He cast Vampiric Tutor at 2 life."

[cwt1220]

I was playing Imperial Painter against EPIC Painter. He was at 2 life, I was at 10 or 12 with a Jaya, a Magus, and 1 card in hand. He proceeds to grind me and extends his hand. I proceed to grab my deck and put it in my graveyard, and say "Done?" He looks at me slightly confused and says "yeah, sure". I go untap, upkeep, activate Jaya and deal 3 to you. He says "Wow, I completely forgot about that."

-Chris-