Jedi Mind Tricks

[Manhattan]

Lol when you intend it to be a fraud. Was it really a naive question? If honestly so, then it's not cheating.

This only begs the question when does it become the intention to be fraud. If I sincerely ask my opponent wether I may go first while he is aware that he won the die-role then clearly it isn't fraud. If he forgot that he won then how is it my business to remind him?
If I say "Ok, my turn" and my opponent forgets that it's his decision to pass the turn and nodds is that fraud too?

I also like randomly counting storm without actually playing a storm deck. "EoT Brainstorm, Stormcount is at one, thinking...hm, ok". Probably works better in some situations than in others, but it's still funny.

[DrJones]

Another Jedi Trick is asking opponents what they picked from a Demonic Tutor. It can backfire, but sometimes they answer without thinking about it.

[Ectoplasm]

Another Jedi Trick is asking opponents what they picked from a Demonic Tutor. It can backfire, but sometimes they answer without thinking about it.

Some guy I play with does that all the time, 'are you holding a fow?' 'are you gonna plow my dude?'. Usually I just shrug and say something like 'dunno man I can't remember my cards' and play on but I hate the fact that there's alot of wasted double-bluffing potential here which I haven't realized yet.

[Pastorofmuppets]

Play a Vendillion Clique and look at your opponent sideways like you're halfway thinking until they show you their hand and then say "Hey, I was thinking. Slow down. I guess I'll target myself." It actually got a guy shoved out of a top 8 when it backfired and his opponent got the bye a few months ago or something. Anyone else remember that

[hungryLIKEALION]

Play a Vendillion Clique and look at your opponent sideways like you're halfway thinking until they show you their hand and then say "Hey, I was thinking. Slow down. I guess I'll target myself." It actually got a guy shoved out of a top 8 when it backfired and his opponent got the bye a few months ago or something. Anyone else remember that

It was Martin Juza iirc, though there was more to the story than that. His opponent repeatedly revealed his hand whenever Juza cast a clique before declaring a target. The xth time, the guy slammed down a path to exile on the clique and then dropped his hand down on the table. Juza got frustrated, wrote down the guy's hand, and then declared he was targeting himself. The guy then called a judge, and Juza received a disqualification for not clearing up the illegal game state (The game state was illegal because since the PTE assumed the clique was already in play, its ability needed to already be declared and targeted before the PTE could be played.) Since Juza did not immediately tell the guy to take back the PTE, he got slammed for allowing an illegal game state to be manipulated in his favor.

[smoky squirrel]

I posted it in a similar thread, I'll guess I'll post it here also.

Back in the day I played a lot of Death&Taxes. My sideboard consisted of 14 cards so I tried a little experiment. I put in a single copy of Mana Tithe in the board.

Each match I put my deck and sideboard together in one big pile face up on the table, with the Mana Tithe on top. And then I got a few dice and a notepad from my backpack, leaving my deck clearly visible for my opponent.

In a few matches the spells of game 1 costed 1 more for my opponent

[MMogg]

I posted it in a similar thread, I'll guess I'll post it here also.

Back in the day I played a lot of Death&Taxes. My sideboard consisted of 14 cards so I tried a little experiment. I put in a single copy of Mana Tithe in the board.

Each match I put my deck and sideboard together in one big pile face up on the table, with the Mana Tithe on top. And then I got a few dice and a notepad from my backpack, leaving my deck clearly visible for my opponent.

In a few matches the spells of game 1 costed 1 more for my opponent

I like that one! I can't cheat; it's not in my nature and I don't even enjoy when an error goes in my favour because I don't feel I've earned anything. That being said, this is a great and legal (i.e., not trying to boarderline cheat) mind game. I'll need to try that.

[sauce]

best is when people know you run dazes and then you play a blue deck that has no dazes and they still play around it.

:)

[Ectoplasm]

best is when people know you run dazes and then you play a blue deck that has no dazes and they still play around it.

:)

How about the classic singleton daze that shows up in your opening hand every now and again, and causes your opponent to play around daze all match?

[georgjorge]

Waaaay back when I was still playing with real cards, I played some rogue UB beatdown in the Standard portion of Austrian Nationals. Not having any clue for the 15th sidebord card, I put in a Werebear as my lucky card (we all loved Werebear because the flavor text was so unbelievably stupid in German), and put it as the top card of my face-up sideboard.

Then came a round against a slightly hungover and tired opponent playing Psychatog...and he was actually confused enough to sideboard

+3 Perish

for game two, not seeing any green but somehow getting it into his head that the Werebear in my sideboard would signify a huge amount of green beatdown coming in from the side

[ghindo]

(we all loved Werebear because the flavor text was so unbelievably stupid in German)

His flavor text is equally stupid in English.

[Ectoplasm]

What's the German flavourtext? I understand German so I want to have a laugh :D

[heroicraptor]

What's the German flavourtext? I understand German so I want to have a laugh :D

Er dient nebenbei noch als Anwerbär.

[Nihil Credo]

Er dient nebenbei noch als Anwerbär.

That's a pun on Anwerbär/Anwerber, right?

[Esper3k]

I don't understand German, so could someone please explain why the flavor text is funny?

[Manhattan]

Er dient nebenbei noch als Anwerbär.

Oh my lord, I had to look that up in gatherer. It actually says that. Bär is German for bear and Anwerber translates into recruiter (He also serves as a recruiter). But what makes it really funny are all the kids from WoW I remember naming their pets Hubschraubär (Hubschrauber=helicopter).

[Ectoplasm]

Er dient nebenbei noch als Anwerbär.

That has to be the worst pun in human history

[Ozymandias]

G2R4, I'm up 1-0 in the one-loss bracket, playing Dredge against Eva Green. I make a decent keep, but he has the Extirpate for my Careful Studied Grave-Troll, and we end up with the following board positions

My Hand: Ray of Revelation, Chain of Vapor, Stinkweed Impx2, Cephalid Coliseum x2
My board: Gemstone Mine with 2x Counters
My yard: Trash except for 1 Ichorid, 1 Therapy, and 1 Putrid Imp
His hand: Thoughtseize, Pernicious Deed, Duress
His board: Nantuko Shade, Hypnotic Specter, Pernicious Deed 3xSwamp 1x Bayou.

Life totals: me 12, him 13.

Yeah I won that game. Here's how.

1st main phase he duresses me. I respond by casting Chain of Vapor on his Nantuko Shade. Duress Reseloves and puts the Ray in my GY He picks it up, then taps two lands, plays a card down without saying anything, and says go. I look down, and show him my hand. He's dropped a Thoughtseize, and tries to take it back. Judge won't let him, and he's forced to take an Imp and put it in my yard. Then he recasts the Shade and tilt-swings with the Hyppie. Yeah, he hits the other imp.

Next turn I reanimate Ichorid, hit 2 narcomoeba and a Bridge from Below, lay Coliseum, and flashback a Ray of Revelation targeting his Deed. The turn after that, I upkeep pop Coliseum, dredge 9 cards, draw a breakthrough on the 10th, and drop my remaining coliseum to cast it.

The lesson here is simple: you can lose any game if you set your mind to it.

[sorrel]

I posted it in a similar thread, I'll guess I'll post it here also.

Back in the day I played a lot of Death&Taxes. My sideboard consisted of 14 cards so I tried a little experiment. I put in a single copy of Mana Tithe in the board.

Each match I put my deck and sideboard together in one big pile face up on the table, with the Mana Tithe on top. And then I got a few dice and a notepad from my backpack, leaving my deck clearly visible for my opponent.

In a few matches the spells of game 1 costed 1 more for my opponent

Back when I was playing Mana Tithe in Death and Taxes, every match when I would play one game one, I would board the card out. Games two and three, whenever I had a land open, I would put my finger on that untapped land and fiddle with it. I got a bunch of people to Time Walk themselves like that.

This is more recent, but I was playing against Merfolk and he was beating down with two Lords of Atlantis, and he had played a Reejery the previous turn. I had an Isamaru and an Avenger in play. I did have a Cataclysm in hand, but it might not have been enough since he had a bunch of cards in hand and a vial in play. The only way I can win is if I wrath his board. I attack with everything, and act surprised when he blocks the Isamaru. I then say something to the effect of "Since I'm not playing blue, Reejery is the best lord against me, right?" He nods his head yes. I then play Cataclysm. Like a pro, he keeps the best lord on the table, which then dies because it becomes a 2/2 with two damage on it.

[That kid you all hate]

G2R4, I'm up 1-0 in the one-loss bracket, playing Dredge against Eva Green. I make a decent keep, but he has the Extirpate for my Careful Studied Grave-Troll, and we end up with the following board positions

My Hand: Ray of Revelation, Chain of Vapor, Stinkweed Impx2, Cephalid Coliseum x2
My board: Gemstone Mine with 2x Counters
My yard: Trash except for 1 Ichorid, 1 Therapy, and 1 Putrid Imp
His hand: Thoughtseize, Pernicious Deed, Duress
His board: Nantuko Shade, Hypnotic Specter, Pernicious Deed 3xSwamp 1x Bayou.

Life totals: me 12, him 13.

Yeah I won that game. Here's how.

1st main phase he duresses me. I respond by casting Chain of Vapor on his Nantuko Shade. Duress Reseloves and puts the Ray in my GY He picks it up, then taps two lands, plays a card down without saying anything, and says go. I look down, and show him my hand. He's dropped a Thoughtseize, and tries to take it back. Judge won't let him, and he's forced to take an Imp and put it in my yard. Then he recasts the Shade and tilt-swings with the Hyppie. Yeah, he hits the other imp.

Next turn I reanimate Ichorid, hit 2 narcomoeba and a Bridge from Below, lay Coliseum, and flashback a Ray of Revelation targeting his Deed. The turn after that, I upkeep pop Coliseum, dredge 9 cards, draw a breakthrough on the 10th, and drop my remaining coliseum to cast it.

The lesson here is simple: you can lose any game if you set your mind to it.

This is so true. In a draft last friday, I was at 4, my opponent had aven squire (1/1 flying exalted) rhox bodyguard (2/3 exalted) and ardent plea (an enchantment with exalted. I screw up and swing in with my only flier and my other creatures. I don't have another flier in hand. My opponent is at 18. If he makes ANY play but chump with his flier, he wins the game. Guess what he does. I then go on to win that game and then the match.
In legacy, there have been multiple occasions of my opponents choosing to not win. One time my opponent has a ravager and a number of non-creature artifacts. He is at one, I am at nine. I control a tapped dark confidant and a tapped goyf. He can get his ravager up to an 8/8. If he does nothing, he loses. He has a good chance of winning, because if he swings, and I reveal anything but a land, he wins. After doing the math a few times, he scoops. There was a goyf on the top of my deck (I had no knowledge of the top of my library).
Another time my opponent has lethal damage on the board. All he has to do is swing with all his creatures, or else I win on the swing-back, because both of us know that I have a bolt on top of my deck. All he has to do is swing. He doesn't.