Dies to Removal

This happened yesterday...

There are four of us at the table. Oloro, Xenagos, Karametra, and me playing Ashling the Pilgrim. Xenagos is at 32 life, Karametra is at 21, I'm at 20 and Oloro is at 149. Karametra and Oloro both declare they have a win in their pocket, so the clock is officially on countdown.

It's Karametra's turn. He drops an Avenger of Zendikar and sprouts 20 saprolings. Land for turn, crack a Fetch, and now they're all 2/3s. Passes to Xenagos.

Xenagos does... something. I wasn't paying attention, but he swung into Karametra with his fliers, dropped a Worldspine Wurm and passed turn to Oloro.

Oloro casts Storm Herd for 149 1/1 pegasus tokens and laughs. At his next upkeep, Concerted Effort will give them all vigilance and first strike. Karametra and Scion curse under their breaths. Oloro attacks with what he has into Karametra, forcing him to chump two of his saprolings, then passes turn.

nI have Ashling, who is wearing Swiftfoot Boots and Argentum Armor, and a bunch of Mountains. I could blow her up and take out the saprolings and the pegasus tokens, but the wipe would leave Xenagos with a Worldspine Wurm and his general. So I cast Insurrection and won instead.


That will never happen again.

I love that no matter what happens, it almost always becomes a story when someone plays Phage.

I was playing Kresh the Bloodbraided at a table of 8. I was staring down some pretty Tier 1 decks; Riku, Geist, Animar, Mayael, Kaalia and Sliver Queen I think. I can't remember the 8th player's deck. It's been a while. Anyway, I had never played with these people before, so I decided to sit there with my mouth shut for a few rounds until they forgot about me. Sure enough, they did. They were going at it hard and fast against each other, and ignoring me because I had no board state (I was actually holding back), so turn five I play Kresh and pass turn to Riku. By the time it was my turn again, Kresh was a 49/49. So I swung into Kaalia, because he tapped out attacking Animar, cast Fling and sac'd Kresh to take out the Geist player, and said "Hi, I'm Nate".

Second main I cast Jokulhaups. I'm still at 40 Life. Sliver Queen, Mayael and Animar are all at less than 10. Riku dies on
his upkeep because he no longer has any Lands to pay for the Pact he cast to stop Geist from Wrathing. If he hadn't done that I would not have been able to pull all that off.