Crazy days and crazy plays
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 4:01 pm
Apparently this thread doesn't exist yet. Now it does.
I was playing my new Rakdos, Lord of Riots deck at a 6-man table, fairly late into the game with most players between 20 and 30 life. Rakdos was under a Banisher Priest when someone Wrathed, leaving him as the only creature now on the field. My entire turn got countered by Lazav, and Rakdos himself was tapped down by Derevi pre-combat, so I passed to Lazav. He cast Rise of the Dark Realms, returning enough to wipe out the table on his following turn (including Avacyn, making this very difficult to deal with).
4-players-without-answers later and it's my turn again. I've got no answer in my hand, but I convince Karametra that I've got an answer in my deck, but I need to hit him for a bunch to dig for it. He agrees, so I play [card]Grave
Titan[/card], equip Greaves, and swing for 12. Post-combat I play Knollspine Dragon, drawing 12. That pulls out Kozilek, who pulls out even more Eldrazi, until I've got 13 creatures on the field, half of which have Annihilator. I now have enough blockers that Lazav can't wipe the table, but he can still kill me... I look at Lazav's life total: 28. So I play Heartless Hidetsugu and equip with Greaves. I've got 2 mana left, and Lazav thinks for a good long time before letting the ability resolve. I drop Goblin Bombardment. With 14 creatures and him at (potentially) 14 life, I've got mutually assured destruction on the table.
Of course, the Lazav player realises that I'm going to be swinging at him the following turn, so he goes ahead and overloads Cyclonic Rift anyway, forcing me to kill him. He's dead, but I've got literally nothing. No appreciation for my sacrifice, the rest of the table kills me before I get another turn.
I was playing my new Rakdos, Lord of Riots deck at a 6-man table, fairly late into the game with most players between 20 and 30 life. Rakdos was under a Banisher Priest when someone Wrathed, leaving him as the only creature now on the field. My entire turn got countered by Lazav, and Rakdos himself was tapped down by Derevi pre-combat, so I passed to Lazav. He cast Rise of the Dark Realms, returning enough to wipe out the table on his following turn (including Avacyn, making this very difficult to deal with).
4-players-without-answers later and it's my turn again. I've got no answer in my hand, but I convince Karametra that I've got an answer in my deck, but I need to hit him for a bunch to dig for it. He agrees, so I play [card]Grave
Titan[/card], equip Greaves, and swing for 12. Post-combat I play Knollspine Dragon, drawing 12. That pulls out Kozilek, who pulls out even more Eldrazi, until I've got 13 creatures on the field, half of which have Annihilator. I now have enough blockers that Lazav can't wipe the table, but he can still kill me... I look at Lazav's life total: 28. So I play Heartless Hidetsugu and equip with Greaves. I've got 2 mana left, and Lazav thinks for a good long time before letting the ability resolve. I drop Goblin Bombardment. With 14 creatures and him at (potentially) 14 life, I've got mutually assured destruction on the table.
Of course, the Lazav player realises that I'm going to be swinging at him the following turn, so he goes ahead and overloads Cyclonic Rift anyway, forcing me to kill him. He's dead, but I've got literally nothing. No appreciation for my sacrifice, the rest of the table kills me before I get another turn.