Your most Epic Punts

[KIP_NZ]

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.

Are you the mate that the guys on Everyday Eternal were discussing during the judge ep? If so you're famous on the net already :P

[Lemnear]

Are you the mate that the guys on Everyday Eternal were discussing during the judge ep? If so you're famous on the net already :P

Is there anything less impressive than net-fame? :)


On topic: yeah, storm is probably the #1 deck for punts and facepalms

[Megadeus]

On topic: yeah, storm is probably the #1 deck for punts and facepalms

This. I have a large number of: Dark Ritual. Dark Ritual. 5 Black Mana. *Stops to count*. Pass Turn.

[mini1337s]

Win a complicated counter war over my Jace. Pass the turn after resolving Jace

[Justin]

I was in game 3 my final match at the Planar Chaos prerelease. If I win I get some packs, if I lose I get nothing. I was fortunate to have cracked a Damnation and I drew it for game 3. My opponent has no idea that I have it and he has an empty hand, but a superior board full of creatures that will bring me the lethal next turn. I've been saving creatures in my hand to cast after I sweep the board, which will give me a big card advantage, enough to make me a heavy favorite to win the game. I've got two swamps and four mountains as my mana base. I'm about the cast Damnation to put myself in the driver's seat, but I stop myself when I look down at my Rathi Trapper. I then activate its ability for B to tap the last creature my opponent cast, so I can attack with my other creature and inflict a bit of damage before I wipe the board. Then, I begin to cast Damnation again and realize that I no longer have the two black mana I need to cast it. I scoop without showing him the card. My friend is standing over my shoulder watching me play and is just shaking his head and saying, "What the hell are you doing"?

[Exuberance]

On the RUG Delver mirror, my opponent has two fetch lands and a tropical untapped. I have a volcanic tapped and a fetch land untapped. We both have Aberrations.
He taps his land for a Ponder. He grimaces a bit. Keeps it, takes one and goes to crack a fetch. I figure this Stifle in my hand isn't doing much else, so I crack my fetch in response. He cracks his second fetch in response to mine, and Stifles.
He has one card left in hand.
I have a Daze in my hand.
He is tapped out.
I should Daze his Stifle so I can cast Tarmogoyfs if I draw them.

I do not cast Daze. My fetch is Stifled.

So he resolves his other fetch, and as he does so, I curse loudly. Could I really be this terrible?

Well it turned out that his last card was a Mongoose, which got Dazed. Then I won.

Punt? Yes. Worked out? Oh god, yes.

Also, attacking with a Creeping Tar Pit, putting my opponent to three, then casting Black Sun's Zenith for two after combat. In the win-and-in for a PTQ top 8. Whoops!

[GoblinSettler]

The Natural Order punt:
I have Counterbalance in play but no Top. My opponent casts Natural Order. I look down at my hand and see Karakas. Sweet! I say, "Resolves." He gets Progenitus. I look back down at my Karakas. Not sure what I was thinking. Oh well. Maybe I can draw a sweeper. I draw for turn and it is JTMS. 4CC. Didn't reveal. Scooped them up.

The sequencing punt:
Game three with Goblins against Sneak and Show. I'm running a Chrome Mox build with Chalice from the side. I open on land, 2x Chalice, Mox and some three cost Goblins. Sweet. I can accelerate my plays while cutting him off cantrips and Petals. I lead off with Chalice at zero. I never draw a second land. But I have plenty of turns to draw into a second Mox. Neither castable because of my own stupid Chalice.

The Legendary punt:
Back in my earlier days of Legacy I only played mono-B homebrew. I've got a deck full of Bloodghast and recurring dredge creatures but my opponent has managed to keep the board clean but for a Jitte. I'm topdecking and see another Jitte. If I draw a creature next turn I won't have enough mana to cast the creature and the Jitte. So I just cast the second Jitte. Cast the second Jitte.

[Niggurath]

The typical spell snaring a daze, ages ago. Also, while playing high tide, shuffling my own hand into my deck after fetching for an island.

[nedleeds]

Mine is well documented on Wizards.com ... it directly lead to Randy Bueller winning a PT, becoming a pro, getting a job at WotC, and creating Gleemax and later the abortion known as the modo client. Story at article bottom.

http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazin...com/daily/bs21

[Lemnear]

Mine is well documented on Wizards.com ... it directly lead to Randy Bueller winning a PT, becoming a pro, getting a job at WotC, and creating Gleemax and later the abortion known as the modo client. Story at article bottom.

http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazin...com/daily/bs21

Now I know who to blame for the crappy Magic Offline ... ;)

[feline]

I threw a game away to a Spirit of the Labryinth by drawing off a preordain, netting a game loss, all because I just completely forgot what it did like 5 secs after it was cast.

[Purgatory]

I once cracked a Wooded Foothils after having spent the last five minutes stacking my deck through Goblin Recruiter. This was on Apprentice, btw, so I could easily flee from my shame, thankfully.

[bfeingersh]

https://twitter.com/Philberman/statu...24708250857472

[cuthbertthecat]

I have Mana Leaked Thrun, the Last Troll in every format in which they have been legal together.

[jandax]

>be standard noob
>borrow merfolk last time it was a deck
>main deck jitte, double down because mise
>EOT tick up Aether Vial
>breeze through tournament, crush dreams
>counter a Choke with a Cursecatcher along the way
>play for top 8 after scooping friends in as only losses
>karma takes a hot shit on your parade
>win-moar board state, Jitte out, lots of dudes
>opponent almost dead, just need to say "go"
>cast second jitte in hand, should mop up nicely
>ice cold sweat flows down buttcrack
>heart skip-skip-skips a beat
>realize game winning out is in hand, waiting
>FoW pitching FoW on own Jitte still on the stack
>opponent dazes
>untaps and Wraths
>17th place, 2 pitty packs



witnessed all that, not my own punt but still epic

[elof]

A few years ago I was playing vintage for the first time in ages. It was a proxy tournament and to top it off I was kind of drunk during the hole thing.

Anyway, instead of going for a deck to beat or anything I choose to play with Oath of Druids and the recently printed creature Emrakul. Back then Emrakul was kind of new and some oath-decks played one Emrakul, one tinker-target (I think it was Steelwind but not sure) and one other fatty. I wanted to try Emrakul out and even brought with me an oversized one, so therefor I played 2 and also a tinker-target.

It is round 1 and I'm playing against a friend who also is a very skilled vintageplayer and his playing stax. I think it is game 3 but I'm not sure, the situation is that he has a few permaments and a Welder but I have manged to assemble Oath and an Emrakul. I'm very happy with my achievement and will probebly just untap and nuke his board. However, he just casted another Welder and in my turn I untap and starts using Oath...

We laugh since he knows about the second Emrakul in my deck and he also says that it was his only outs of winning. I could still hit Sphinx or whatever tinkertarget but I fail and both Emrakuls get shuffled back in. I lose soon after and did not drink more in that tournament :) (I think I finished 3-4, losing again to him in the semis).

[RaNDoMxGeSTuReS]

1.)
Round 8, the last round of day one at GP Denver. I'm 7-1 and completely exhausted. No rest. No Food. I drove the entire way to the GP site because my roommate's car (HoneyT) got hit by a semi. We ended up taking my car, and no one else knew how to drive a manual. So about 9+ hours?
I knew my opponent had Engineered Plague, and I casted Empty the Warrens anyway. It gets worse. I also miscounted my mana and could have cast Tendrils for lethal instead.


2.)
Some random SCG Open in Kansas City.
I'm way out of contention. I can Empty for 18ish goblins on turn one. I accidentally imprint the Burning Wish I needed to cast on a Chrome Mox. I get killed by Mishra's Factories.

3.)
I'm playing Doomsday at my LGS. I make a pass-the-turn pile to win. My opponent is playing a standard UB control deck. He plays his land for the turn. It's Nephalia Drownyard.

[Dia_Bot]

Storm punt: First tournament I ever played with ANT storm: It was against the deciding game against merfolks and I had 7 cards. The plan was to go get Ad Nauseam and win from there. So I start with a ritual, then cast a second one which he spell pierces and for all of a sudden my plan changes to infernal -> infernal -> tendrils for the win. However in all the excitement I forget about a cursecatcher who has been swimming arround from turn one. This results in an awkward Infernal with 3 B floating -> Go instead of an (Ad Nauseam)..

Deed punt: This is a long time ago where I played UBG Psychatog in extended. It was a match where the loser was out of contention for top 8 and the winner was very likely to make it.
I was playing against the rock and needed to clear to board with pernicious deed in order not to die to ravenous baloth beats. I had enough lands to do that but no black mana jet so I sacrificed my polluted delta to go search for a watery grave. Played to deed and cleared the board in his turn.
The next turn I play 'Tog to attack for the win next turn (my graveyard was loaded at this point) when my opponent suddenly points out that I don't have black mana. Turned out I had searched for another breeding pool instead of a watery grave. We get the judge to our table and I get a gameloss ending the tournament for me.
Since I was used to playing with old bordered cards all the new ones looked kind of the same to me..a mistake I will never make again, that's for sure.

[Bryant Cook]

Thirteen or fourteen year old Bryant is playing in his first big vintage event. Top 8 was all power.

I'm piloting meandeck gifts. It's turn five and I've been mindslavered, with about ten cards in my library. My draw for the turn, Yawgmoth's will. My opponent's game plan is to deck me, he casts Ancestral to start off, but eventually only gets down to three cards or so.

"I'll settle for Tendrils-ing you"

There's a crowd watching at this point, including a judge.

"I lose, right?"

"I'm casting Tendrils"

The judge asks if I'm conceding. I said, "Tendrils kills me." and then picked up my cards. The people watching all sigh. It was then that Tendrils of Agony is explained to me. Each copy resolves seperately. I lose two life, I gain two life, etc.





I would go on to feel no remorse about mindtricking someone.

[Sloshthedark]

Storm is easiest due fatigue and complicated situations leading into a tunnel vision

besides my repetitive problems with Brainstorm -> Empty the Warrens on top of library -> Gitaxian Probe+sac LED -> GP being played first/EtW in hand after BS instead of XX goblins I have a memorable one:

your Xantid swarm attacks, trigger resolves, you have 3 lands in play, Chain of Vapor, 2 LED and Infernal Tutor in hand, opp has just lands, what will you do?

obv. find a way how to refrain from searching up a second Xantid Swarm