What is the most Ridiculous play your opponent has made?

[Jabari]

I'd say I'm probably the biggest offender in our playgroup of stupid ridiculous mistakes. I should absolutely know better but I'm an idiot.

One time I was playing GW Maverick against POX, and I like to play 1 Mystic Enforcer instead of Thrun for the GSZ toolbox. It always has thresh when you search for it and it can win games that Thrun can't - plus it's just confuses the crap out of people. Anyway, I have a noble down, 3 land, and a sylvan library. I'm getting beat down by a 5/5 black demon token from that one sac land I can't remember (he floated mana, pox'd, then sac'd the land to make the flyer). I have one turn left to live, I the Enforcer in hand and I'm searching my top with sylvan for that 4th land don't find it and concede. My friend looking over my shoulder asks me why and I tell him I didn't find the land for Enforcer - he replies "why didn't you tap the noble?!" - I forgot that noble hierarch ... taps... for mana. Yeaaaa

Another time I was playing GW mav against MUD Stompy. He has a metalworker equipped with greaves and I have a hierarch and a qasali pridemage out. I have 1 stp and 1 tariff in hand in case he drops Blightsteel for the win. I look at the board and think, nawww he doesn't have it. Proceed to tap out play Elspeth, bless the pridemage to put him at dead next turn. He untaps plays blightsteel and wins...

[death]

My opponent picked up a card from my library. When I passed the turn I was busy looking at my cards contemplating a possible combo turn, during his draw phase I was flabbergasted when one of the cards in his hand was sticking out like a sore thumb because it had white sleeves on, he obviously had drawn from my library because he was playing with blue sleeves!! LOL.

[niknight]

I have two contenders for most redic. play by an opponent:

1. At a standard event during INV/OD, my opponent cast Recoil on my tapped Basking Rootwalla before their attack step.

2. At GP Columbus, I'm playing Hive Mind against UW Countertop. It's game 3, we're in extra turns, and my opponent has two Cannonists in play. I Show and Tell a Hive Mind in on Turn 2, and hardcast another Hive Mind on Turn 4. During his upkeep on Turn 5, I cast Pact of the Titan (nowhere in my grandstanding did I ever tell him he had to pay, I hear being DQ'ed is bad) ... he promptly scoops.

I also had a good one at Providence:

I had 0 nonland permanents and 1 card in hand when my opp went ultimate with Jace. I put the one card back on my library, draw it for turn, and cast it. The card was Words of War... I then proceed to draw with Horizon Canopy, and skip the draw to shoot down his Jace. 4 turns later, he's dead.

[Nelis]

An opponent who took a swing at me because I was lucky and a bit slow with my plays. He was just eating himself up inside apparently. He didn't connect but I was so flabbergasted about it I didn't even make a point of it. The kid is a judge now.

[Ahab]

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.

Hi,
I don't know if this is the 'right' definition, but in a course about problem solving at my university we learned to differentiate between two things: complicated problems and complex ones. Complicated means that lots of factors influence the outcome. Your tax report is complicated. Complex, on the other hand, means that the factors influence not only the outcome but each other. Pretty much everything concerning human beings, relationships,... is complex. Note that neither term implies an easy or hard problem. The thing is that complex problems don't really have a 'best', or 'dominant' solution, since it's extremely hard to tell what is going to happen to variable A if you add to B or C etc. Figuring out the weather is probably the best example. Sooo many things influence each other.

[Jabari]

I just remembered this game.

I was playing modern with GW aggro against teferi/tezzeret control (yes I'm always on GW). He esper charms me to make me discard 2 cards. I discard 2 Wilt Liefe Liege's and now have lethal on board. He proceeds to Cryptic - tap all creatures, bounce Liege. Followed by Cryptic - tap all creatures, bounce liege. Then again to counter a liege and tap all creatures. Then he drops a Wurmcoil Engine and I lose over a series of turns. That sucked sooo bad.

[Julian23]

The following is actually a total brainfart by me:

Round 1, Game1: My opponent goes first, Tropical Island, go. I (Merfolk) play Island, go. He plays Volcanic Island, Nimble Mongoose. I triumphantly Daze his Mongoose only to see him pay. Wait...what, I didn't go first? Oops...

Needless to say, I went on to win that game, the match and the entire tournament.

[Kamulium]

Round 1, Game1: My opponent goes first, Tropical Island, go. I (Merfolk) play Island, go. He plays Volcanic Island, Nimble Mongoose. I triumphantly Daze his Mongoose only to see him pay. Wait...what, I didn't go first? Oops..

I was running Merfolk back when it ran Standstills and my G1 was something like
Turn one: "Land, go"
Turn two: "Land, Silvergill Adept revealing Cursecatcher"
Turn three: "Land, Standstill, Cursecatcher" giving my opponent three extra cards.

Needless to say, I went on to win that game, the match and the entire tournament.

I didn't win the tournament but I did win that game and the match.

[Impulze9]

Opponent casted timely reinforcements when he had more life than me and we had the same number of creatures in play.

[Malchar]

Opponent: Forest, Concordant Crossroads, go.
Me: Mountain, Goblin Lackey, attack, Siege-gang, go.

[Dreg]

This happened last year in Milan:

Game 2, me with LED-Less Dredge vs Random guy with Dark Merfolks.

Turn 2 he places standstill. I still have to figure out why he did. And passes. I keep on dredging and playing under standstill without problems while he is completely unable to do anything. At a certain point of the match he begins saying "You are going too fast for me, i MUST extirpate your Grave Troll". So he did. I cracked his standstill and dredged my trolls.

The look on his face was awesome.

[Sloshthedark]

yesterdays hit G2

Me - land, dark ritual, Doomsday (Shelldock, Emrakul,...), go
Op - taiga, Goblin Guide...

sigh... stupid Me...

[Julian23]

You didn't attack? Attacking wins the game on the spot. I guess that's actually the point of it, but I'm not sure ;-)

[jandax]

An opponent who took a swing at me because I was lucky and a bit slow with my plays. He was just eating himself up inside apparently. He didn't connect but I was so flabbergasted about it I didn't even make a point of it. The kid is a judge now.

Hah, who is it? Just curious.

[Sloshthedark]

You didn't attack? Attacking wins the game on the spot. I guess that's actually the point of it, but I'm not sure ;-)

its T1, I doomsday and pass... but fail not to put Emrakul 2nd from the top so I have to draw the shelldock due to Goblin Guide and draw Emrakul in my turn...

[Malchar]

I'm playing ad nauseam tendrils shortly after shards came out against a scrubby burn deck (which uses repercussion + pyroclasm among other things). It's game 3, and I finally get a good hand.

Me: Ritual, Ritual, Ad Nauseam
Opp: Force pitching Force
Me: ...

Interesting sideboard tech, and I end up losing. Apparently someone else ended up stealing his unsleeved fow's before the tournament was over. Man that place was scrubby.

[clavio]

Opponent has cursed scroll in play with one card in hand. He activates cursed scroll, naming dark ritual. He reveals a swamp.

[Julian23]

its T1, I doomsday and pass... but fail not to put Emrakul 2nd from the top so I have to draw the shelldock due to Goblin Guide and draw Emrakul in my turn...

I actually missread your post, thinking that you were the guy playing Goblin Guide ;-)

[Sloshthedark]

Opponent has cursed scroll in play with one card in hand. He activates cursed scroll, naming dark ritual. He reveals a swamp.

lol, masterplay

@Julian23 - sadly no...

[jrw1985]

Most ridiculous play I've ever seen my opponent make-

I'm on Goblins, he's on ANT.

I was on the play, down 0-1 for game 2. I sided in Cabal Therapies and had an opening hand with Cabal Therapy and Mogg War Marshal. T1 I cast Therapy, calling LED. He has one in hand and some other junk plus an infernal tutor. He does nothing his turn. Mine, I cast Mogg War Marshal and flash back CT, he responds with Brainstorm. After sculpting his hand, CT resolves. The other cards I had seen were pretty dead, and I knew he would hide the IT with the BS, so I called Dark Ritual. He shows me his hand, which now has 2 LEDs which he topdecked off the BS and no IT or Dark Ritual! On his T2 he goes off.

3 LEDs, Brainstorm, and Infernal Tutor to fight through 2 discard spells and go off T2. Sick.