Your most Epic Punts

[Justin]

Not a punt per se but,

Driving down with buddies, one of which this was their first large Legacy tournament. They had run practice games with take-backsies and a few smaller tournaments where everybody knew everybody's deck lists, and most of them were long standing pet decks. He was asking questions about large tournaments, some do's and don'ts about calling a judge, stuff like that.

The driver was going over the Cabal Therapy/Pithing Needle operation of naming a card as a shortcut and then getting a response, how they could change the name after a response, but they can't change it if you don't respond.

I chime in, "Similar to that, don't forget that Thoughtseize is target player, not opponent, so they could target themselves. Just be aware of that, don't just give them free information"

We get there and the new get gets raped round 1 and ends up with the bye for round 2.

As he's standing behind me my opponent casts Thoughtseize turn 1 and I lay out my hand, my opponent, "Uhh, targeting me..."

I showed my hand to my opponent after he resolved a turn 1 Cabal Therapy and BEFORE he named a card. For some reason, I thought he had cast Thoughtseize instead.

[HammafistRoob]

One time, I hit a 73 yard punt to pin the opposition at their 2 yard line. Does that qualify as epic in these parts?

[TraxDaMax]

Not a punt per se but,

Driving down with buddies, one of which this was their first large Legacy tournament. They had run practice games with take-backsies and a few smaller tournaments where everybody knew everybody's deck lists, and most of them were long standing pet decks. He was asking questions about large tournaments, some do's and don'ts about calling a judge, stuff like that.

The driver was going over the Cabal Therapy/Pithing Needle operation of naming a card as a shortcut and then getting a response, how they could change the name after a response, but they can't change it if you don't respond.

I chime in, "Similar to that, don't forget that Thoughtseize is target player, not opponent, so they could target themselves. Just be aware of that, don't just give them free information"

We get there and the new get gets raped round 1 and ends up with the bye for round 2.

As he's standing behind me my opponent casts Thoughtseize turn 1 and I lay out my hand, my opponent, "Uhh, targeting me..."

Best ones haha :D I'm positive I've done simular stupidities before. Explaining tricks and rulings to newbies and 10minutes later fall into the same trap :D



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[Allcoin]

Playing a legacy side event at a PTQ today in Seattle I forgot what the abyss and tabernacle did, multiple times, with both on the table at once, scrubbing out of the tournament with only 1 winning round and leaving fifth round. First place for 6 rounds was 4 undergrounds though.... Damn.

Also trying to counter entomb against reanimater, that played packrat after sideboard...

[jbone2016]

SCG Milwaukee Legacy. Round 8. On camera.

[Technics]

I cast a Burning Wish with double LED on the table, and forgot to crack them... Been playing TES and DDFT for 4 years now... Yeeeaaaahhhh... :-\

[Maagler]

In the finals Playing TES vs DNT, Game 2:

I ad nasuemed turn 2 going for the kill, and take myself down to 5 after hitting an empty the warrens. I continue to reveal cards looking for a lotus petal to win the game when I flipped my second empty the warrens (that I had forgot to side out after wishing for last game) putting me at 1. Looking at the board I realize I have a city of brass and he has a port in hand which I know because I probed him last turn. Continue to flip for the lotus petal, hit a cabal therapy and lose.

[pandaman]

One time, I hit a 73 yard punt to pin the opposition at their 2 yard line. Does that qualify as epic in these parts?

Definitely.

[Admiral_Arzar]

SCG: Dallas this weekend. Round 1, game 2 against Miracles. My opponent has a Jace and a Helm of Obedience to my Pernicious Deed and Sylvan Library. He slams Rest in Peace. I can either Deed in response, or wait to Deed when he pops Helm. I do neither of these things and Deed in response to the RIP trigger. Needless to say, I lost that game.

[Richard Cheese]

This weekend I played a Pithing Needle and named Metalworker.

The next round a friend played against the same deck, then didn't name Metalworker with Revoker because he'd heard about my misplay.

I think that card just throws people off their game because he's so darned cute.

[JPoJohnson]

This weekend I played a Pithing Needle and named Metalworker.

The next round a friend played against the same deck, then didn't name Metalworker with Revoker because he'd heard about my misplay.

I think that card just throws people off their game because he's so darned cute.

Beep boop!

[DarthVicious]

I once cast Cabal Therapy and saw that my opponent had three of the same card in hand, so I instinctively flashed it back naming said card.

It was Guerrilla Tactics.

Edit: I did the exact same thing to someone that had three Basking Rootwalla...

[thecrav]

Two weeks ago, my opponent flipped Delver revealing Daze. When he attacked, I cast Swords to Plowshares targeting Delver with no mana open.

:(

[Admiral_Arzar]

I Brainstormed with an unflipped Delver in play and put two lands back on top of my library without a shuffle effect. It took doing this twice to learn my lesson...

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[Swing4Five]

Ahhhh, yes. I thought this was probably what you posted John. This is quite the Epic punt if there ever was one. I had been playing the best magic of my life this day, up through this match... until the punt in question. If you are a fan of Vintage, I suggest watching the linked match at some point.

I'm on Blue Angels, a counter heavy Trinket Jace deck, Reid's on Storm, which a bunch of draw 7's and Will. I mulligan to 6, and have a mana heavy draw, I trinket out a Top, but I'm nearly out of gas, a single Annul vs the world of Reid's full hand. He casts a Lotus, which I annul, trying to bottleneck him. This appears to have been correct, as he likely would have been able to Will me out of the game if I hadn't. However, this does open the door for him to be able to tutor for and land a Necro.

I'm able to set up an Ancestral for my turn, hitting Mana Drain, Annul and another (thankfully blue) land, and then hit the nut on Top, Flusterstorm. However, I'm bottlenecked on Blue mana.

Here's where we get in the rut that leads to the punt. I have 3 Blue mana, these are planned to cast Mana Drain, and then Flusterstorm as a trump.

Reid starts his turn off with a Mana Crypt. The plan is to Drain a business spell, then have Flusterstorm as backup. However, in my head I'm panicking about Crypt enabling him to play around my Flusterstorm. In retrospect, this is highly unlikely, however the new plan is perfectly sound: Annul Crypt, Flusterstorm the action, ignore the Drain in my hand.

Here's the punt (50:30 for the beginnging of the show). Reid plays a Wheel of Fortune, and in my brain the plan is still Drain into Flusterstorm. My revised plan has flown out of my head. I slam Drain, Reid REB's, I confidently flip Top, slam Flusterstorm, tapping my own Crypt, and only then realize I had forgotten my revised plan. Oops. Wheel resolves. I brick on my 7. Justice. I die to Mind's Desire.

Wow, it's been a while since I watched that video. Still gets me all fucked up in the head.

[guillemnicolau]

To have an underground sea and a polluted delta, play dark ritual into doomsday, and after the pile is made and the doomsday is resolved, try to crack polluted to play gush and win... oops... (opponent plays mystical -> wheel of fortune...)

[Megadeus]

Ahhhh, yes. I thought this was probably what you posted John. This is quite the Epic punt if there ever was one. I had been playing the best magic of my life this day, up through this match... until the punt in question. If you are a fan of Vintage, I suggest watching the linked match at some point.

I'm on Blue Angels, a counter heavy Trinket Jace deck, Reid's on Storm, which a bunch of draw 7's and Will. I mulligan to 6, and have a mana heavy draw, I trinket out a Top, but I'm nearly out of gas, a single Annul vs the world of Reid's full hand. He casts a Lotus, which I annul, trying to bottleneck him. This appears to have been correct, as he likely would have been able to Will me out of the game if I hadn't. However, this does open the door for him to be able to tutor for and land a Necro.

I'm able to set up an Ancestral for my turn, hitting Mana Drain, Annul and another (thankfully blue) land, and then hit the nut on Top, Flusterstorm. However, I'm bottlenecked on Blue mana.

Here's where we get in the rut that leads to the punt. I have 3 Blue mana, these are planned to cast Mana Drain, and then Flusterstorm as a trump.

Reid starts his turn off with a Mana Crypt. The plan is to Drain a business spell, then have Flusterstorm as backup. However, in my head I'm panicking about Crypt enabling him to play around my Flusterstorm. In retrospect, this is highly unlikely, however the new plan is perfectly sound: Annul Crypt, Flusterstorm the action, ignore the Drain in my hand.

Here's the punt (50:30 for the beginnging of the show). Reid plays a Wheel of Fortune, and in my brain the plan is still Drain into Flusterstorm. My revised plan has flown out of my head. I slam Drain, Reid REB's, I confidently flip Top, slam Flusterstorm, tapping my own Crypt, and only then realize I had forgotten my revised plan. Oops. Wheel resolves. I brick on my 7. Justice. I die to Mind's Desire.

Wow, it's been a while since I watched that video. Still gets me all fucked up in the head.

Rough. Yeah my punt in the top 8 of the last SCG I played in still runs though my head as well. If only I hadn't missed random points of damage, I would have won

[Misplayer]

Under the old Legend rules, I figured running out the my 2nd Clique would be good. It wasn't.

[Darkenslight]

One at a GPT for a friend of mine:

Late-game in G3 of Block Constructed, his opponent is down to 6 life. Friend has 7 lands (4 Swamp, 2 Temples and a Nykthos), two Cast into Darkness on the field, with a Whip of Erebos in hand, and a Grey Merchant of Asphodel in the GY. His opponent is tapped out with a Hydra. He's on 3...and scoops.

Spot the punt.