Cruel hearted tactics, MtG discussion

[SargentToughie]

I don't know the exact numbers here on the escapist, but I've seen that we have a few magic fans around, so I'm asking you fellow magic players, what's your game?

What color Deck do you play with?

What special cards do you own?

What's your most glorious victory?

I personally am fond of a white/ green/ blue deck I recently made

"Uh yeah... I now have a 25/25 with unblockable and lifelink"

fun times...

 

[Blayze]

I used to be a Red or White player. It generally depended on whether I wanted to shut down all damage done in the game at my whim or nuke every creature on the field.

My most glorious victory? The look on my opponent's face after I read to him the "Flashback" component of "Shower of Coals".

My friend spent way too much cash on the game. He even bought an entire booster BOX once. Ended up with a Blue "Everything you own is mine -- and you will never take another turn" deck, an Artifact "lol everything is invincible" deck and a Green "Fucking monstrous" deck.

Whenever he combined his decks into one, we used to suffer incredibly.

 

[SargentToughie]

"Uh yeah... I now have a 25/25 with unblockable and lifelink"

fun times...

Um, yeah, I play Faceless Butcher.

I've actually been looking for one of those bastards... they're a little hard to find

 

[Ultrajoe]

White black Evershrike beats.

Shriekmaw, Murderous redcap, bad moon, mourning thrull, edge of the divinity.

Add in Oona's prowler to get a 7/7 attacking turn 4... and this deck wins so hard your ears bleed. Maw and Redcap kill off opposing creatures, Thrull swing for lifelink damage (Bad moon and edge of the divinity, makes this 1/1 a monster). Shrike just finishes in style.

Not exactly legal, but great for wiping the floor with any unprepared casual deck, and 70% of the current riff-raff you see flying about. The other 30% is just a bit harder...

So yeah, i play White mostly. But when it comes to cruel hearted tactics, killing all your shit and then beating you down with an army of boosted black creatures just screams... Evil. Shrike beats FTW, every time.

And please don't post up a list of 'Id counter that with' strategies, this is not a thread for cock waving. Besides, you never run any of those miraculous counters main deck anyway.

 

[crimson5pheonix]

White black Evershrike beats.

Shriekmaw, Murderous redcap, bad moon, mourning thrull, edge of the divinity.

Add in Oona's prowler to get a 7/7 attacking turn 4... and this deck wins so hard your ears bleed. Maw and Redcap kill off opposing creatures, Thrull swing for lifelink damage (Bad moon and edge of the divinity, makes this 1/1 a monster). Shrike just finishes in style.

Not exactly legal, but great for wiping the floor with any unprepared casual deck, and 70% of the current riff-raff you see flying about. The other 30% is just a bit harder...

So yeah, i play White mostly. But when it comes to cruel hearted tactics, killing all your shit and then beating you down with an army of boosted black creatures just screams... Evil. Shrike beats FTW, every time.

And please don't post up a list of 'Id counter that with' strategies, this is not a thread for cock waving. Besides, you never run any of those miraculous counters main deck anyway.

I do run those counters main deck because my main blue deck is all about denying you the use of your cards.

But for awesome wins, I played against my friend's zombie deck. He had 9 creatures or so out and I had none. there were several creatures that buffed other creatures and at one point, he sacrificed one of his two festering goblins and decided to give his other one -1/-1 (Festering Goblins has the ability "when Festering Goblin goes to the graveyard from play, give another creature -1/-1 until end of turn") It didn't matter because it wouldn't have any effect... unless I played mirror weave to make all of his cards Festering Goblins thereby losing all of their buffs and giving all of his creatures that power and making his original goblin dead. It wiped his whole field.

 

[Drake the Dragonheart]

I have a friend who has a blue "I will literally counter absolutely every single thing you could possibly do" deck. I hate that thing!

 

[SargentToughie]

My old friend has a white/blue deck that I hate to play against, it's basically designed to prevent every monster you have from attacking

"Target creature does'nt untap"

"Target creature can't attack or block"

He has like twelve of those in his deck... it's so annoing

 

[crimson5pheonix]

I have a friend who has a blue "I will literally counter absolutely every single thing you could possibly do" deck. I hate that thing!

My friend had one of those decks, that's what inspired me to make mine so that against his other decks I could laugh at his face.

 

[Steeveeo]

I usually borrow my friend's Green or Red deck at the breakfast table before school starts (the only cards I own are from a green boosterpack of my brothers that I found in a box years ago).

My most hated tactic: My other friend likes to claim that if its his turn AFTER the bell rings (basically the buzzer on the proverbial "shot clock"), and he hasnt put his cards away, he can take as much time as he wants to rack up tons of damage after the time limit and "win."

My most glorious victory: Using my friend's green deck to combine Imperious Perfect, Heedless One, and Timberwatch Elves (I think I got those names right), and a few cards that let me put a TON of tokens on the field, and one card (I forget which) that gave all my monsters trample, plus a Wellwisher or two. In total, I had 14 monsters on the field, all with +1/+1 from Imperious Perfect; and Heedless One (15/15) with the effect of Timberwatch Elves (+14/+14), and the rest of the monsters I had on the field. I obliterated one friend with a wave of 57 damage, racked up my health to somewhere around 60, and caused the aforementioned "Irksome Tactic" friend to fold.

 

[the monopoly guy]

You could porably make an RP about this.

 

[Vigormortis]

I'm a green mage at heart, but I love playing blue and white as well. Green/Black or "Rock" style decks are some of my favorites though. Also, I'm big into artifacts. Affinity is one of my favorite decks and one of my most successful as well.

Special cards? Um, I've way too many to really list. Been collecting since '96. I will say however that five of my favorite cards ever (so far) are: Sylvan Library, Necropotence, Skullclamp, Brass Man, and Strip Mine.

My most glorious victory...is a toss up. Sort of. One was an actual victory, the other was a long, long drawn out path to a few concessions and an eventual defeat on my part. The win came in a multiplayer game of 10 players. Everyone was playing an assortment of aggro and control decks. I had a new, mono-black Necropotence deck I had just designed. Long story short, I won by turn 4. I had eliminated most of my opponents by attacking, on turn 2, with 20 8/2 zombies (and being at around 30 or so life myself). I finished off the other 3 players over the subsequent turns by attacking with the remaining zombies, of whom were 2/2s by that point.
The other, not so victorious game, had a similar game set. There were 14 players in a massive multiplayer game. I was playing a green/blue/white control/lockdown deck. The game started out with 7 teams of 2 players each. Three hours after we started it was down to 2 teams. Me versus 11 other players (3 conceded). Yeah, my own teammate turned on me. Even against those odds, I still managed to survive their onslaught for another hour and a half before they finally managed to finish me off. It was intense. Naturally, I have been strictly forbidden to play ANY deck even remotely resembling that monstrosity at any of our play sessions.

 

[Lord Krunk]

I have a bit of everything, it just depends on the person I'm playing against. I've accumulated and strategised cards over the years.

I love to use slivers. They are the ultimate teamwork cards.

Otherwise, blue/black/white is usually the way I go.

EDIT: I want to play again, but every one of my friends have grown out of it.

Sad face.

 

[Xvito]

I really enjoy playing weird control decks with many colors.

 

[Syntax Error]

I only played obsessively during the Mirrodin Block. I was trying out a deck using proxies, and that's my bes victory. I got out a Broodstar at first turn (GODLY draw). With that you got a 7/7 flying creature attacking at turn 2. Won the game at the third turn with 2 Broodstar attacks and a Cranial-Plated Ornithopter. Was playing an affinity deck BTW.

I'd like to play again, but I'm not ready for a serious investment. MTG is one of those hobbies that you absolutely must spend on if you want to be "good" at it. I'm still waiting for the day that I see a tournament-calibur deck (even if it's only on Standard) made entirely of commons/uncommons that can go toe-to-toe with the metagame.

EDIT:
The saddest loss I experienced was when my opponent played a Sol Ring on the first turn, then he played Stasis, Kismet and Chronotog (forgot the exact order). Stasis prevents things from untapping, Kismet makes sure that some things come into play tapped, and Chronotog allows its controller to give up his turn. Once those four were in place, I just conceded, because my library would be depleted anyway without me getting to do anything.

 

[smallharmlesskitten]

Elf.... 1/1... that is all.

 

[GloatingSwine]

I have a friend who has a blue "I will literally counter absolutely every single thing you could possibly do" deck. I hate that thing!

I used to have one of those. Four Arcane Denials, four Remove Souls, a couple of Boomerangs.

Mixed it with a red Direct Damage deck. Counter everything, fireball/disintegrate back.

This was back in second edition though, so we're talking dawn of time cards here.

 

[GloatingSwine]

Elf.... 1/1... that is all.

Don't knock Llanowar Elves. Yeah, only 1/1, but you can tap them for a green. Forest and a Llanowar elves in turn one and you have three mana by turn two and can start pulling out some big chunky mobs to ruin people's face when they're still figuring out how to afford half their stuff.