What is the most Ridiculous play your opponent has made?

[Whippoorwill]

Recently:
I'm playing UG Vengevine (replaced Survivals with Intuitions and added Brainstorms).
Opponent is playing Dredge.

During game 2 she Therapies me naming Basking Rootwalla forgetting about Madness.


Last year:
I'm playing Survival. Opponent is playing something that had Black in it.

Opponent Thoughtseizes me and Squee is the only option. Can't remember if I had just returned it the previous turn or not. Thoughtseize on Squee happened twice that round.

My favourite:
Around the same time at a power tournament. Both players are sitting next to me.

Player 1 is playing Fish.
Player 2 is playing Dredge.

Player 1 has Standstill out.....and casts another.

[Squirrel]

Some weeks ago i played with Team America against some weird Goblin Deck including wheel of fate instead of Ringleader. And no wastelands.

There were several funny moments.
He Suspended Wheel of Fate and managed to have 4 cards in hand ( with 4 Mountains on the field) when it resolved ( i had 0^^).
The first game he started with mountain go and my Hymn to Thourach the next turn discarded him Aether Vial (!) and a Mountain.
The second game He tarfired my 1/2 Tarmogoyf with only a Fetchland in my grave...
And the first time i played a wasteland he said: wait, what does that card do?

[catmint]

MWS test some time ago. I play NO RUG versus affinty.

After winning game 1 my opponent mulligans aggressively and starts with pithing needle set to "Progenitus".

[Justin]

OK, I guess I'll be the first to say it. This thread is pretty stupid. Most of the examples refer to dumb mistakes that noobs made. Magic is a pretty complex game that takes a long time to get the hang of, even for highly intelligent players. I don't see why it's a big deal if an inexperienced player targets a rootwalla with discard, plays a legend when he/she already has one in play, or tries to counter an uncounterable spell. It's all about learning the game. You guys all made the same mistakes when you were noobs. And most of you probably still make dumb mistakes from time to time when you are tired or lose focus.

[Ahab]

I don't think magic is a very complex game (except stuff like certain combos, humility etc.). It just has a lot to do with experience and knowing cards. Being able to recite your opponent's decklist after he goes Gemstone Mine -> Ponder is not 'complex'.
Newer players are often intimidated when their opponents play decks consisting of >50% of cards they have never seen before.

(I remember when i played my first match at my LGS with a crappy proxied 'counter deck' in ~2002, and my opponent went 'Land Grant... counter?' Having never seen the card, i just said 'ok..'. My opponent proceeded with throwing his whole hand on the table (9 Land Stompy). I just thought wtf? 'counter.' 'too late now!'. Which of course it was not.
This example may not be the best since I didn't have a good grasp on the rules yet, but some players are just not very cooperative. But I digress.)

[catmint]

anyone who has interest in learning the game should be able to lough about his own mistakes...

I love this thread... it is just too funny!

[Ahab]

I just remembered one:
Me, playing Burn with Mogg Fanatics and Hellspark Elemental
Opponent, playing LED Dredge

Game 2, I sided pretty much nothing. My opponent is on the play and tanks for like 2 minutes. 'LED...' 2 more minutes 'break lead, discard no dredger and 3 bridges'.
I go Mountain -> Mogg Fanatic -> sac. Facepalm^^

[jandax]

Guy at a pro tour side event sits down laying his deck and sideboard face up. Literally as if he picked up his deck from the last game and put it back down at the paired table. Just had to fist pump, mentally, when there was a Piledriver showing. The round was a bye, given a good matchup against a sloppy player, but when he sideboarded cards face up I simply didn't care anymore and it got fun, even.

Can't vouche for anything more rediculous without fabricating a story

[Whippoorwill]

I don't see why it's a big deal if an inexperienced player targets a rootwalla with discard

In the situation I listed, my opponent wasn't inexperienced, she just had a lapse of judgment at the time is all. We both laughed about it when she realized what she did.

So 2/3 of the plays I listed aren't really ridiculous, just funny things that happened.

[RogueMTG]

My favourite:
Around the same time at a power tournament. Both players are sitting next to me.

Player 1 is playing Fish.
Player 2 is playing Dredge.

Player 1 has Standstill out.....and casts another.

This reminded me of a crazy play my buddy had playing Landstill vs Dredge.

It was a very back and forth game, Dredge player's library is almost gone but he has lethal on the board for his next turn.

My buddy untaps, goes: Standstill -> Break it with Standstill -> Break it with Standstill -> Break it with STP -> Deck You.

[Sims]

OK, I guess I'll be the first to say it. This thread is pretty stupid. Most of the examples refer to dumb mistakes that noobs made. Magic is a pretty complex game that takes a long time to get the hang of, even for highly intelligent players. I don't see why it's a big deal if an inexperienced player targets a rootwalla with discard, plays a legend when he/she already has one in play, or tries to counter an uncounterable spell. It's all about learning the game. You guys all made the same mistakes when you were noobs. And most of you probably still make dumb mistakes from time to time when you are tired or lose focus.

I saw the thread more as "stupid, ridiculous, off the wall plays" and not so much as "my opponent went Herp Derp Derpington esq. on me"

Granted most of the replies in this thread are the latter, I'm in it for the plays that are so ridiculous you have to wonder if they're being made up.

[TooCloseToTheSun]

I was on the draw game one in a merfolk mirror:
Opp: Turn 1 mutavault, go
Me: Turn 1 Vial, go
Opp: Turn 2 Standstill
Me: You got it

Latter in the game she broke her own standstill with Lord of Atlantis allowing me to alpha strike next turn for the win.

[Julian23]

Some weeks ago i played with Team America against some weird Goblin Deck including wheel of fate instead of Ringleader. And no wastelands.

There were several funny moments.
He Suspended Wheel of Fate and managed to have 4 cards in hand ( with 4 Mountains on the field) when it resolved ( i had 0^^).
The first game he started with mountain go and my Hymn to Thourach the next turn discarded him Aether Vial (!) and a Mountain.
The second game He tarfired my 1/2 Tarmogoyf with only a Fetchland in my grave...
And the first time i played a wasteland he said: wait, what does that card do?

Yeah. I lost to that guy round 1. Wasn't even funny. He tried to use the bottom cards of his deck to make SGC tokens, shuffled his deck like twice before presenting etc. He was super inexperienced but managed to pull off the "T1 Lackey, T2 Kill your blocker, drop Siege Gang, T3 Warchief, kill me" twice....

[betterthenandrew]

I saw the thread more as "stupid, ridiculous, off the wall plays" and not so much as "my opponent went Herp Derp Derpington esq. on me"

Granted most of the replies in this thread are the latter, I'm in it for the plays that are so ridiculous you have to wonder if they're being made up.

Ok, a couple weeks ago I played Doomsday at a local event. I'm playing a maindeck Slaughter Pact because every one is playing Maverick with a maindeck Teeg.

Game 1:
T1 Villain: T1 Mom
T1 Hero: T1 SDT
T2 Villain: T2 Teeg, Attack with Mom
T2 Hero: T2 Slaughter Pact Mom, Dark Ritual, Doomsday, LED, Flip Top, Meditate, Lotus Petal, Dark Ritual, Dark Ritual, Top, Flip top, Tendrils.

Had he not attacked I would have had to Pact Teeg on his endstep, then created a DD pile with it again, would have needed another mana.

Game 2:
Villain casts t1 Mom, t2 Teeg, t3 Cannonist.
Hero EOT Pacts Cannonist (who gets mom protection). On my turn I Chain the Cannonist, then create a DD pile with Slaughter Pact.

After the match my opponent just sat at the table mumbling about how he couldn't believe I won and triyng to replay the match in his head, hoping to find a way to win.

At the same event I saw a buddy playing reanimator vs casual Mono white walls deck. (Basically a bunch of walls, then Rollin Stones). Reanimator has a fist full of entombs and dudes, but no way to reanimate them. He finally rips an Exhume but his opponent has Honor the Fallen (Main deck mind you, this guy isn't packing a sideboard). A few turns later he finally manages to reanimate a Sphinx of the Steel Wind, and his opponent has a Pacifism. Lolololololol.

[Picc]

Yeah. I lost to that guy round 1. Wasn't even funny. He tried to use the bottom cards of his deck to make SGC tokens, shuffled his deck like twice before presenting etc. He was super inexperienced but managed to pull off the "T1 Lackey, T2 Kill your blocker, drop Siege Gang, T3 Warchief, kill me" twice....

Reminds me of a game I once watched a friend play against goblins with my standstill deck. My friend goes first land go, his opponent drops vial says go, my friend is like standstill, I'm like good grief did you even read the card or were you just that excited to not be playing standard. He looks confused and say what, goblins win in two XD

[nedleeds]

This incident was ... just priceless.

Me on G/b/w StoneJunk, him on Dredge

Me: 4 lands up, tap 2 for SFM. Badly behind at this point and needing to remove bridges. I walk right into his Therapy by saying, 'Well I better get something I can cast since it's going to get ripped'. 'I'll get Umezawa's Jitte'. Tap 2, cast Jitte. 'You're up'.

Him: <furrows brow> <pauses>. Untaps. <pauses> <looks at graveyard> (i expect him to pull out the 2 Ichorids in there). Him: 'Dredge 5'. (me ??? ok). Cabal Therapy flips in <more furrowing>. Him: 'Cabal therapy'. Me: 'Targeting?'. Him: <nice try> 'You !?!'. Me: 'Fair.'. <pained look of what to name>. Him: <great exhale> 'Umezawa's Jitte ...'. Me: <pause> <grimace> <look at my hand> 'Umezawa's Jitte as in the Umezawa's Jitte on the battlefield?' Him: <shrinkage>. Me: <reveal hand> 'Turns out I only had the one.'

[Purgatory]

I don't think magic is a very complex game (except stuff like certain combos, humility etc.). It just has a lot to do with experience and knowing cards. Being able to recite your opponent's decklist after he goes Gemstone Mine -> Ponder is not 'complex'.
Newer players are often intimidated when their opponents play decks consisting of >50% of cards they have never seen before.

Sorry for being off-topic, but I'd love to hear your definition of "complex". Magic is, to me, very complex, I learned the basics of the game pretty quickly, like most do, but to fully grasp the rules and being able to play the game properly took me years of experience. I also know players who have played the game for nearly a decade and who still doesn't fully grasp the rules.

Aside from having a fat rulebook that is full of complicated rules regarding the game's structure and rules, there are some 15000 cards printed over the course of nearly two decades, whose inherent synergies are not listed in the rules, and sometimes players need certified judges to work these out.

Aside from that as well, there is a meta-game surrounding the game itself, with various deck archetypes one has to be able to compete against to be, well, competitive.

Aside from that as well, the interaction between players of the game can play a role in deciding a match, much like in games such as Poker (which is really only about knowing that a straight flush beats a full house, right?)

I respectfully disagree with you, sir, and I think you are all but objectively wrong on this matter.

[Justin]

Yeah, Magic is pretty complex. In addition to all the cards, it's had dozens of different mechanics over the years.

I really don't mind stories about ridiculous plays made by yourselves or fellow experienced players. I just don't like the ones about noobs making dumb mistakes. I just think it's pretty lame to laugh at the mistakes that inexperienced players make or to take a lot of joy in beating them. You've got to have some pretty low self esteem yourself to feel that way. I usually feel a little bad when I squash an inexperienced player who is playing extremely badly. I'll typically try to talk to the player after the match and offer some pointers, provided that the player has a good attitude. Some experienced Magic players really come off as being far too elitist for my tastes.

This thread reminds me a bit of the "Beating my head against the wall of MWS" threads that got locked. At least those threads were mostly making fun of beligerent jerks who melted down during an online game. As long as an inexperienced player is being polite, I see no reason to laugh at him/her because he/she plays terribly.

[aahz]

I saw the thread more as "stupid, ridiculous, off the wall plays" and not so much as "my opponent went Herp Derp Derpington esq. on me"

Granted most of the replies in this thread are the latter, I'm in it for the plays that are so ridiculous you have to wonder if they're being made up.

That is also how I interpreted the OP (and why I included a picture with mine ), and I'm also disappointed with the direction this thread took. I wanted to read about INSANE plays, situations, etc. not silly noob mistakes. Disparaging beginners (and their misplays) is no way to build community since it mostly just turns them off to playing.

[Que]

That is also how I interpreted the OP (and why I included a picture with mine ), and I'm also disappointed with the direction this thread took. I wanted to read about INSANE plays, situations, etc. not silly noob mistakes. Disparaging beginners (and their misplays) is no way to build community since it mostly just turns them off to playing.

This was my original intention.

And even though it went towards making silly mistakes I think its not so much making fun of those mistakes but being humble enough to realize we've all made such mistakes or have even made them recently. Its nice to have a laugh about it afterwards. We are in a sense laughing at ourselves and not at anyone in particular.

If anything others can take solace in knowing they aren't the worst magic player on earth if others are making all types of mistakes across the world.

And I also wanted to hear of crazy ass stories. A friend of mine told me of a particular player who went apeshit after losing a die Roll. lol. he grabbed his opponents die and launched them straight across the room for no reason. needless to say he was dq'd. xD