WHEW! Fuck this guy and Emrakul, the Promised End! Fortunately I had the correct removal to keep killing his creatures that tap for mana, so he was never able to get that fucking bastard into play! I was sweating that shit, though! Command the Dreadhorde tipped the balance in my favor and he conceded…
Whew! Another win over a bullshit commander: Etali, Primal Conqueror. My deck is typically a little slow to get going, but not during this match. I had answers in my hand!!!
I mean, seriously! Fuck that card!
Last one for today… Tales from the Graveyard #158… Graveyard vs. Spells Matter. My opponent got off to a slow start due to mana issues, allowing me to jump ahead. He was unable to recover.
I was so confused. I had to read that four times before I realized that it said “Command The Dreadhorde” instead of “Command The Dreadhole”.
There are some real asshole combinations in artifact decks right now. Some, I think are stupid. Others, I’m just jealous that I don’t have the thirty-two mythics I need to make that deck.
That card is awesome, by the way.
HAHAHA!!! This guy suicided himself with Hare Apparent. The only reason I didn’t concede the match when I saw the rabbit commander was because Authority of Consuls was in my opening hand, so I knew that I’d be gaining mucho life the more he played that fucking card.
Artifact decks can be real assholes, but I love Portal to Phyrexia. It’s a bitch of a card, but at 9 mana value, it’s fair.
That might be the best Magic meme yet!
This guy had an amazing deck I hadn’t seen before. An absolute mill machine, and he was effectively immune to it. I have to imagine he was feeling great about how things were going for him…until he wasn’t.
edit: He had removed a lot of my best cards and milled about 45 cards at this point. I knew I was going to win though, unless he had a board wipe.
It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes I get the perfect draw for the deck I’m facing. My opponent’s commander was Niv-Mizzet, Parun (Izzet card-draw) but I got Underworld Dreams into play relatively early. Due to my own commander, Ob-Nixilis, Captive Kingpin, I have a lot of things built into the deck to ‘ping’ my opponent for 1. So, I lent a helpful hand towards him suiciding himself.
I know, right?!?
My best friend and his brother taught me Magic back in 1998. My bestie has ALWAYS played mono-green elves (not PURELY tribal as he mixes in some other creatures like Primordial Hydra and Killer Bees, for instance).
Gotta me honest, his deck was super powerful, super fast, and dominated our playgroup’s “meta” for YEARS… until I started building decks specifically designed to thwart his deck. I would up building 3 decks that started to consistently win… Mono-blue creature control (this was the most hit-or-miss of the bunch), Mono-red gobilns, and Golgari (black/green) elves with Massacre Wurm, Primordial Hydra, and Joraga Warcaller.
Rather than “sitting tight” with his deck, which was so fast he would still win 1/2 the time, he started tweaking his deck in response to what I was doing. Well, he over-tweaked his deck and absolutely wrecked its synergy. He got so pissed he actually QUIT playing Magic for 2-3 years!
I felt bad because our play group was really small and fell apart due to his departure. Whoops!
Featured Cards:
Case Study #1: Why I absolutely DESPITE Alchemy!
This card is absolute bullshit!
This card entered and my opponent was able to fish 14 Mountains from his Library into exile. I then removed the Caldera Breaker and all those mountains transfer onto the battlefield.
FUCK.YOU.
Oh, and BTW, this is Volcanic Geyser, which is conjured into your library when Caldera Breaker is killed.
I remember all of those cards by name. I used to run elves, too. The only reason I hate them now is because they are used so often, and it’s usually the same deck with just a few cards different. It seems like I hardly ever face them when I run the anti-swarm deck though.
Damn. I haven’t seen that one before.
This is incredibly fun paired with stuff like wheel and deal and arcane denial.
Megrim can also be fun.
