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| Posted by: kingcobweb Jun 21 2009, 04:42 PM |
| i thought it would be good for awful players like myself to have a record of their own misplays as well as others, to learn from them and avoid them. i played combo elves at the ptq yesterday. started out 4-0, then finished off the day by going 1-3 to finish without any prize at all. i played well for the most part, but made a few mistakes:
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| Posted by: blister Jun 21 2009, 05:08 PM |
| i don't mulligan enough. back when i was honing my game with the cymbrogi boys, we all agreed that we needed to mulligan more, with our rule of thumb being if you have to think about it, you should mulligan. i can't think of any misplays off the top of my head, but i do like this thread |
| Posted by: blister Jun 21 2009, 05:19 PM |
| ooh okay, i remembered one i have two [card]naya hushblade[/card]s and a random borderpost in play, and my opponent is on 5 with no cards in hand. he has a [card]jund sojourners[/card] and a [card]knight of the skyward eye[/card] on D, without enough mana to pump it. he also has a tapped [card]lightning reaver[/card] that will kill me in two turns. before combat i play a [card]bloodpyre elemental[/card], intending to take out one of the blockers, but then decide i should take out the reaver instead, and swing into his defenders... without sacrificing the elemental. obviously he blocks and the jund sojourners kill the elemental before i can use it, and the reaver kills me on the following turn, because he topdecked a [card]resounding thunder[/card]. i'm pretty sure if i hadn't thrown away the elemental, the thunder wouldn't have saved him e: now with card tags! |
| Posted by: blister Jun 21 2009, 05:33 PM |
| a classic i did at new zealand nationals 2008, which caused me to lose the match to the eventual champ and ending up with a 5-1 draft record. i had a [card]quillspike[/card] with [card]shield of the oversoul[/card] in play, and three [card]devoted druid[/card] in my deck. he has a [card]rise of the hobgoblins[/card] and a [card]fang skulkin[/card] amongst his guys. i [card]tower above[/card] my quillspike and swing in to clean out some of his guys, because it's looking like he'll soon be able to attack for the win. he blocks and gives a bunch of guys first strike, and uses the skulkin to give somebody wither. i kill a bunch of guys and then at the end of turn, put my quillspike in the graveyard because of the -1/-1 counters... note: i did not take the first strike wither damage, and then pump my quillspike before normal damage and tample over for even more, nor did i think of removing the counters after combat. i just let the indestructable quillspike die |
| Posted by: gaspoweredrobot Jun 21 2009, 05:38 PM |
| Played Doran at the Atlanta PTQ last weekend. Two misplays in two matches were all it took to put me at 1-2 drop. 1. Had Chameleon Colossus and Wilt-Leaf Liege x2 out vs. B/W Tokens. Instead of playing Dauntless Escort, I play the third Wilt-Leaf. He Wraths, I'm blown out. 2. He's Jund Aggro, he casts Boggart Ram-Gang and swings. I Nameless Inversion it. "... You take seven?" Oh, my bad, Noble Hierarch has Exalted. Given this is my first tournament in about 15 months, it's still inexcusably sloppy on both counts. |
| Posted by: zaphod Jun 21 2009, 05:42 PM |
| After Sam's fearless inventory article, one of the most important misplays I found myself making was improper shuffling when I was upset. One of the many functions of going on tilt, tended to make another game with awful draws. To avoid this, I standardized my shuffling routine to something simple, effective, and fast, and I use that in every game... casual or otherwise. I've occasionally found that I misplay the same card more then once, and it just doesn't stick for some reason. To avoid this, I mentally rename the card. For example Blind with Anger became in my mind Blind a Non-Legend. Most of my recent misplays usually come down to fatigue. Staying up to play online is fun, but it doesn't bring out my best play. Last night I cast Agony Warp on Nyxlathidthinggy, and failed to take into account I was losing a card to do it.  |
| Posted by: blister Jun 21 2009, 05:42 PM |
| i saw someone nameless inversion an incoming hill giant at a GP, only to have a [card]briarhorn[/card] turn his removal spell into 9 to the face |
| Posted by: gaspoweredrobot Jun 21 2009, 05:47 PM | ||
Considering I used to Invert my own [card]Phyrexian Ironfoot[/card] I should know better  |
| Posted by: Rufio Jun 21 2009, 05:48 PM |
| Played at FNM last week. I have 3 untapped lands, a Merrow Reejerey, a Stonybrook Banneret and Sower of Temptation in my hand vs. my opponents 2 Wizened Cenn and Goldmeadow Stalwart. I attack with the Banneret, he blocks with his Cenn, (his other creatures are tapped). I was going to cast my Sower and take Cenn so his other one would die, then realized that Sower cost 4 because my guy died. I won this game somehow. The real misplay was playing merfolk though. |
| Posted by: Peebles Jun 21 2009, 05:50 PM |
| In the fifth or sixth round of the 5k, my opponent was playing Faeries. He had a Mistbind Clique, and I swung into it with my Stillmoon Cavalier. When he blocked, I pumped twice and gave my guy first strike. Then I saw his Scion of Oona sitting next to his Mistbind and my Cavalier went straight to the graveyard. Then I felt real bad about being named Jarvis. |
| Posted by: Seeker Jun 21 2009, 05:56 PM |
| One time I threw away a game with Top by putting back duplicate legends in the wrong order. It turns out sometimes you do have to legend rule your own Keiga. ...but there's nothing more recent that I remember because I am garbage at this game. edit: okay, so I replayed some games on MODO OBVIOUSLY you keep, on the play: Forest Mountain Kathari Bomber Rhox Brute Singe-Mind Ogre Slave of Bolas Giant Ambush Beetle |
| Posted by: Falco Jun 21 2009, 05:59 PM |
| I had a Type II Mind's Desire deck a while back. Against Goblins, I went off on turn 6, hitting big with a Desire that would likely make my Tendrils lethal. Before I cast Desire, I cast [CARD]Trade Secrets[/CARD]. My opponent repeats. He repeats again. He then Shocks me, and I die. |
| Posted by: ThatsAShame Jun 21 2009, 06:43 PM |
| I failed to counterspell 2 spells in a row since they were only chump blockers. If I had thought about it enough I should have figured out that chump blockers were good enough. I would have still won if I had ever drawn a 6th land, but that is no accuse. |
| Posted by: Skeletor Jun 21 2009, 06:49 PM |
| My opponent played Cruel Ultimatum then I looked at my UUUU untapped and discarded Cryptic Command and two other cards. |
| Posted by: Skeletor Jun 21 2009, 06:52 PM |
| I think my favorite misplay ever was Psychatog in standard against a Patron Wizard deck. I played a spell, he tapped some Wizards and I paid for them. He played Counterspell and I played Counterspell. He played Force Spike and I... played Counterspell. |
| Posted by: Pterrus Jun 21 2009, 07:00 PM |
| I have Sygg on the board and I attack with bloodbraid elf. Opponent activates mutavault and blocks. This leaves him with only two nonbasic lands so my post combat anathemancer only hits him for two and I can't draw a card that turn. Several turns later I lose the game with my answer to his colossus on top. |
| Posted by: Xyre Jun 21 2009, 07:03 PM |
| Well, I always make mistakes because I'm not a particularly careful player (though, to be fair, of my three match losses this weekend, two of those were blowouts I had no part in causing, and the third was a counter-intuitive misplay*). Though I was able to both block an Exalted Wren's Run Vanquisher with 3/3 in guys and then trade two over-large tokens with it, not realizing it had Deathtouch. I won that match, at least. * sticking a Wrath under a Windswept Heath. What really happened was he had great draws, I never saw my removal, he had Garruk, etc. (I was playing BW Tokens, which was stupid). |
| Posted by: Xyre Jun 21 2009, 07:05 PM |
| Oh, but my biggest misplay ever - in another match I won, mind you - was when I went off playing Gro in Vintage and didn't win right away, because I forgot to Duress him after YawgWilling and walked into a Force, and had to use a Mystical Tutor and a Brainstorm to go get a counterspell to stop my plan from collapsing and ended up without the mana necessary to win. That got a chuckle from the assembled. |
| Posted by: Weasel Jun 21 2009, 07:11 PM |
| Last night in draft I was seriously behind after we both mulled to 5 yet he curved out to Obelisk of Alara. I bounced the Obelisk at end of turn. I had an 0/1 to his 3 dudes, but had bone splinters and Brainbite in hand with only 4 mana. I drew a mountain but only had 1 black source. I thought about it and decided I could only win if I TD swamp off brainbite, to kill a dude with splinters and start stabilizing. I played mountain...... Shit. I played brainbite, taking obelisk, leaving just a land. I drew the swamp. I scooped. |
| Posted by: Weasel Jun 21 2009, 07:20 PM |
| Top 4 of a PTQ, reanimator before rotation. Long time ago, my 2nd top 8 ever and I'm still quite bad. I can't remember the early game, but he was BGW jank. I had him down to low life totals but his unblockables were killing me, I was dead next turn and had no graveyard and a hand full of reanimation. I draw Buried Alive and put 3 guys in my bin, Spirit of the Night being one of them. I then slap an Animated dead on him and send it in. "hold up" says the opponent/judges/crowd. The enchantment falls off due to pro black. I despair, and being a little bewildered by the commotion I thought I had somehow used my attack phase already. I scooped while holding Exhume and the mana to cast it. |
| Posted by: Weasel Jun 21 2009, 07:23 PM |
| Top 8 of a PTQ with UG madness, playing against GW madness with Glory. I'm pushing through more damage than he is with his glory in the bin, but I still need a bit more gas. I manage to draw [card]Quiet Speculation[/card], getting a Moment's Peace, Roar, Roar. I cast a roar, then instead of leaving mana up for Peace, I cast another roar, as he's one short of killing me. At end of turn he discards basking rootwalla. |
| Posted by: Ridiculous Hat Jun 21 2009, 07:27 PM |
| everything in the past 3 days that did not involve the last side draft i played on sunday. |
| Posted by: Weasel Jun 21 2009, 07:28 PM |
| Finals of a PTQ. ALA sealed/draft. After having information about my opponents deck it becomes apparent that I really need to play one of my 3 stingers before he plays one of his 2 growing BR stingers. Despite this knowledge and preplanning I didn't play my stinger turn 3, and his pinger destroyed me. |
| Posted by: Falco Jun 21 2009, 07:30 PM |
| Top 8 of a Mirrodin Block Constructed PTQ. I was playing Tooth against a U/W control deck. He beats me down "quickly" with a pair of [CARD]Pristine Angel[/CARD]s. At four life, I hardcast [CARD] Platinum Angel[/CARD]. He attacks me into the negatives, but doesn't have anything. I'm also able to get a Darksteel Colossus and an Oblivion Stone into play. "That won't do me much good," I say to the assembled audience. I decide not to attack with the Colossus, as he had multiple Solemn Simulacrums and play and I did't want to give him more chances to draw an Echoing Truth. We draw go for a long time, him emphatically hitting the top of his deck. Eventually, I draw a Tooth and Nail: with four [CARD]Cloudpost[/CARD] in play, I am able to loop it multiple times with Witness and get an Abunas for the Angel, and win the turn after. I go on to split for the invite, then not go to a pt that was a six hour drive away. |
| Posted by: Vandermonde Jun 21 2009, 07:42 PM | ||
wait, so you cast yawgmoth's will, and he had a force and cast it on something you played using will? |
| Posted by: Skeletor Jun 21 2009, 07:44 PM | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Brag post.
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Hilarious revenge post.
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Brag post. I hate Magic players. |
| Posted by: blister Jun 21 2009, 07:50 PM | ||||
forgive us for wanting to provide context. I've been qualified for nz nats something like 10 years running, which i promise you, is nothing to brag about  |
| Posted by: chifley Jun 21 2009, 07:52 PM | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bitch post |
| Posted by: kingcobweb Jun 21 2009, 07:59 PM |
xyre failed to mention that he also misplayed by sideboarding incorrectly against BG and lost |
| Posted by: kingcobweb Jun 21 2009, 08:00 PM |
| In a game of Magic: the Gathering that may or may not have been at a tournament, I played a card that did a thing. I may or may not have won, lost, or drawn the game. If it was a tournament, I either did well, middling, or not very well. |
| Posted by: blister Jun 21 2009, 08:09 PM | ||
frag post |
| Posted by: Xyre Jun 21 2009, 08:20 PM | ||||
Hmm. Maybe it was Pyroblast. Regardless, I walked into a counterspell when I had Duress available for use in my graveyard. EDIT: I remember that the operative card of this was Time Walk. I was able to easily Empty the Warrens for oodles of tokens, get a massive Dryad, etc. but couldn't Walk because I ended up a mana short. Of course, it wasn't like he could do anything the next turn to stop me, but failing to win immediately off a YawgWill in Vintage is the peak of stupidity. |
| Posted by: Xyre Jun 21 2009, 08:23 PM | ||||
Serves me right for not examining the metagame at all going into the tournament, I suppose.
Did you just post a parody of your own thread?  |
| Posted by: McFish Jun 21 2009, 08:33 PM |
| MTGO Draft. I have 3 forests, one plains, one mountain, and three green bear-types in play untapped. I have a borderpost, intimidation bolt, and ignite disorder in my hand. He has tapped lands, and untapped zombie outlander, lich-lord of unx, and u/b/r blade in play. I fuck it up by playing the borderpost before thinking about it. |
| Posted by: Skeletor Jun 21 2009, 08:49 PM | ||
Bitch post. |
| Posted by: Vandermonde Jun 21 2009, 08:55 PM | ||
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| Posted by: chifley Jun 21 2009, 09:17 PM | ||
borderpost |
| Posted by: Fry Guy Jun 21 2009, 09:27 PM |
| boast post |
| Posted by: DerangedHermit Jun 21 2009, 09:37 PM |
| I tapped 10 mana to play Dragonstorm...wait, I could have sworn I had one in my hand! I mana burn for 10. Wait, shit, I forgot about my storage lands. I bet 10 billion life on Menacing Ogre. Not me, but rather my friend: He Tooth and Nailed for 2 Kodama of the North Tree. |
| Posted by: Fry Guy Jun 21 2009, 09:39 PM |
| When you get two jittes out, things get really crazy. |
| Posted by: Skeletor Jun 21 2009, 10:15 PM | ||||
from gleemax:
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| Posted by: Weasel Jun 21 2009, 10:15 PM |
| A friend of mine played a second Isamaru once. When informed that they both would die, he said "man, I should have attacked first." |
| Posted by: chifley Jun 22 2009, 12:34 AM |
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| Posted by: ozymandias Jun 22 2009, 12:44 AM |
| I once punted a t8 berth by forgetting to flashback a Chainer's Edict. I also dumbly cast Goblin Ringleader before attacking. He used the opportunity to cryptic and tap my team. I lost soon thereafter. I did the same damn thing with Dread Return into Golgari Grave-Troll. |
| Posted by: AanAllein Jun 22 2009, 01:26 AM |
| i think my favourite misplay was one year when i was playing shackles blue at states, thinking with two more wins i could make it (i actually couldn't, but whatevs), and was up a game against mono-red, a dicey matchup. the game was going pretty long though, which was good for me, except he got me down to 2 with a zo-zu in play. i had some decent countermagic in hand though, so i felt fairly confident, and after a couple turns drew a shackles and stole his zo-zu. i then played an island. |
| Posted by: AanAllein Jun 22 2009, 01:33 AM |
| oh, in the semis of a ptq i'd flown interstate for, i'd drafted a terrible, terrible merfolk deck, and was playing against quite a good merfolk deck. i won game 1 purely off the back of him having a slow-ish draw thanks to [card]drowner of secrets[/card], and then lost game 2 when he sowered my drowner. game 3 he came out really fast, and tried to use a [card]wings of velis vel[/card] to kill me on turn 6, except he misplayed it (thinking it was +4/+4 on too big of a guy and took me to 1 instead). so obviously i play [card]arbiter of knollridge[/card] on the next turn and go back to 20. the game drags out, i can't find my drowner, and eventually he has the advantage, thanks to [card]summon the school[/card]. he eventually gets enough board superiority to bash me down to single digits, and post-combat taps 4 guys to drop summon the school again, in theory giving him comfortably enough blockers to survive the swing back. except i have [card]broken ambitions[/card], which leaves with him with just few enough blockers that a removal spell or bounce spell will kill him - of which i have one of each in my deck still. except i reveal [card]sentinels of glen elendra[/card] on top, and leave it there with the clash. duuuuh. (the next card wasn't actually a bounce spell, so i still would've lost, but the misplay is the important thing). prolly one of the most epic matches i've played |
| Posted by: Floral Spuzzem Jun 22 2009, 01:58 AM |
| Two big misplays: 1) Opponent had a [card]Scarland Thrinax[/card] and a [card]Sprouting Thrinax[/card]. I had a [card]Drag Down[/card] and an [card]Oblivion Ring[/card], and 4 basic land types. Correct play was obviously to Drag Down the Scarland, then Oblivion Ring whichever Thrinax was alive. Instead, I O-Ringed the Sprouting Thrinax, which he obv sacced, and I had no way of getting rid of his Saprolings. 2) This wasn't my misplay, it was my opponents'. It also happened several times, so I think it's a common oversight, and worth knowing. Basically, in Limited, if I have an active 2/2 [card]Knight of the Reliquary[/card] and at least 1 mana open, you cannot count on killing it with a 3-damage removal spell. This is because I'll tap it to fetch a Panorama, then sac the Panorama, making it 4/4. I destroyed people all day with this. It's a cool trick. |
| Posted by: blister Jun 22 2009, 03:48 AM |
| i think in limited, you have to try killing it with a 3 damage removal spell and hope you don't have a panorama. the knight will be out of range regardless soon enough, unless they leave mana open to burn it for the rest of the game etc i guess the correct play is to respond to you activating it the first time |
| Posted by: Vesuvan Jun 22 2009, 04:43 AM | ||||||
I'm pretty sure I still auto-qualify for Australian Nats despite not playing physical magic in about 4 years. Oh, and on the subject of this thread, any game of Magic I have played after downing half a bottle of sake. Many of my online opponents can attest to this, including Blister on Sunday night. |
| Posted by: chifley Jun 22 2009, 05:09 AM | ||||||||
Not as far as I can tell. |
| Posted by: Vesuvan Jun 22 2009, 05:17 AM | ||||||||||
well after 4 years my rating has gone inactive, but i'm pretty sure 1870 still qualifies |
| Posted by: Peebles Jun 22 2009, 05:47 AM |
| The mistakes that I'll never forget: In my first-ever PTQ, I'm like 3-0 with a reasonable CCC sealed deck, playing against some guy. In game one, he wrecks me with Masako the Humorless, so I write it down on my scorepad and play around it in g2 for the win. G3 I have him down to 4 when he attacks with his only flying blocker, which is cool because I have Gibbering Kami out and Glacial Ray in hand. On my turn I draw Kami of the Waning Moon and swing straight into Masako. With the Kami sitting in my hand, I can't simply dome and Fear up my guy. In the final swiss round of some t2 PE, I'm playing Mirr/CHK aggro red against five-color green. I'm up a game and g2 is close, but he has a Molder Slug that is both large and annoyingly good against the few artifacts I've drawn. He plays a Sakura-Tribe Elder and ships the turn. I don't play the Chrome Mox in my hand because it will just die to the Slug, so he fetches out a Plains EOT and drops CoP: Red and I look at the Shrapnel Blast in my hand. I'm in the semifinals of a GPT where the t8 was CCB draft, and my friend has already advanced to the finals. I'm playing g3 against a reasonable person, and things are really close, but I'm drawing a lot of lands. I'm slowrolling a few to keep him on his toes, since nothing in my deck costs more than 5 and I have 7 in play already, but then I rip Graverobber. With the Robber and my 8 lands I can eat 3 cards, but then he drops Ronin Cliffrider, and my 9 lands can only eat 4 cards when there's five left in his yard. He gets to swing with his man and kill my Robber before I can flip it because I slowrolled lands for no real reason. There have been more I told myself I'd never forget, but obviously I have. |
| Posted by: Floral Spuzzem Jun 22 2009, 06:06 AM |
| Dissension Sealed, a PTQ I think. My opponent has 5 life, several blockers, and a 10/10 Szadek who will deck me in 2 more attacks. I have a land and some large dude in my hand, and topdeck [card]Cackling Flames[/card]. I don't have enough mana to play both, so I go land, dude, go. He swings with Szadek, making him a 20/20. My turn comes around, and like in a dream, I see my hand reach for my deck and draw a card... another large creature... holy shit I'm retarded... And to make things even worse, I then conceded, even though I still could have won on my next upkeep.  |
| Posted by: JoINrbs Jun 22 2009, 06:10 AM |
| Drinking a 40 with paz prematch. |
| Posted by: mrspanky Jun 22 2009, 06:58 AM | ||||||
 that dude is a total moron |
| Posted by: llarack Jun 22 2009, 07:04 AM | ||
Your real mistake was playing Vintage. |
| Posted by: AanAllein Jun 22 2009, 01:21 PM | ||||||||||||
if you're talking composite, yes, but composite no longer counts soon. and total you need more than that to qualify. but it is still ridic easy to qualify for aussie nats |
| Posted by: blister Jun 22 2009, 03:46 PM | ||
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| Posted by: Weasel Jun 22 2009, 03:52 PM |
| The other night on modo (same night as my Brainbite brainfart) I was drafting while talking to a mate next to me and I was getting beat up by ridiculously large guys. I played an esperzoa, planning to block his 5/4 and bounce the zoa with damage on. I block, damage goes on the stack, and I bounce my guy. Then I bother to actually read the screen..."First strike damage on the stack." A bant blade was attacking too. His guy doesn't die, and I get overwhelmed later. |
| Posted by: Kelvandil Jun 22 2009, 04:45 PM |
| I remember unmorphing [CARD]Vesuvan Shapeshifter[/CARD] copying my own [CARD]Vorosh, the Hunter[/CARD]. My favorite misplay I've seen is somebody playing [CARD]Death Denied[/CARD] for 0, splicing on [CARD]Soulless Revival[/CARD]. |
| Posted by: AndrewMac Jun 23 2009, 04:10 AM | ||
it's a good thing you posted this, or I would have  not that I haven't made my own horrific misplays at nationals before... |
| Posted by: Rooser Jun 23 2009, 09:31 AM | ||
This one makes me chuckle. |
| Posted by: nemryn Jun 23 2009, 01:33 PM | ||
Now you've got me trying to think of a situation where that would be the legitimate best play. Let's see. Opponent's at 9, with a pacified Meddling Mage naming Soulless Revival, and four untapped Islands. You're at 5, with a 1/1 [card]Dread Slag[/card], 3 [CARD]Demigod of Revenge[/CARD] in the yard, and nine Swamps. You know he's got [CARD]Minamo's Meddling[/CARD], and a Lava Axe which he can play as soon as he untaps. |
| Posted by: Peebles Jun 23 2009, 01:47 PM |
| It's pretty easy to come up with an answer. There is a Heartbeat out, you're at one life, and your graveyard only has one creature in it. |
| Posted by: Gasface Jun 23 2009, 02:11 PM |
| Last night I was playing with a bunch of Zombies. My opponent had a tapped [card]Giltspire Avenger[/card] in play, so I tapped out to cast a [card]Lightning Reaver[/card]and hit once, so it had one counter. I had a [card]Grixis Charm[/card] in hand. My opponent tapped out to play [card]Sages of the Anima[/card] shipped me my turn. I drew a second Grixis Charm. Initially, I was going to kill the Avenger and attack, but the Sages of the Anima seems like a lot of trouble, so instead I killed them with my Grixis charm and held off on attacking for one turn, so I could kill the Avenger with my second charm next turn. End of turn my Lightning Reaver hits him for one damage and he kills it with Giltspire Avenger. An interaction I completely failed to notice. Even if my play was to kill the Prophets, I still should have attacked with the Reaver. I lost the game about five or six turns later with my opponent on 1 life. |
| Posted by: Aeldaar Jun 23 2009, 02:17 PM |
| I was playing this extremely long T1 game, had extracted two of his three win conditions, and all he had left was a [card]Morphling[/card] in the yard. I have [card]Tolarian Academy[/card], five artifacts out, and a [card]Force of Will[/card] in hand. He casts [card]Yawgmoth's Will[/card], I don't have a card to pitch to force, and let it resolve <__< |
| Posted by: AanAllein Jun 23 2009, 02:31 PM | ||
how does this work? hardcasting soulless revival or death denied for zero + soulless revival are both an even amount of mana |
| Posted by: Weasel Jun 23 2009, 02:40 PM |
| You might be playing against a removal heavy deck and want to use the soulless revival again later. (On top of the 1 life / Heartbeat issue.) |
| Posted by: slearch Jun 23 2009, 03:06 PM | ||
there we go  |
| Posted by: Margatroid Jun 23 2009, 03:06 PM | ||||
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| Posted by: JSexton Jun 23 2009, 03:13 PM | ||||||
I was going to ask who that is, but merely quoting you answers that. Actually, it doesn't. Who the fuck is Michael Lampert? |
| Posted by: Margatroid Jun 23 2009, 03:19 PM | ||||||||
I was google image searching for something unrelated and I found that. I thought it was a funny "guy thinking about magic" picture. Apparently he's some guy who writes for tcgplayer. This one is a lot funnier, but it has a name attached.  You just know this guy has a Force of Will in hand. |
| Posted by: Weasel Jun 23 2009, 03:23 PM | ||
Sup Ruel. |
| Posted by: Seeker Jun 23 2009, 03:31 PM | ||||||
oh my god I might just have to make this my avatar but then it would look like I am and/or know this guy |
| Posted by: slearch Jun 23 2009, 03:36 PM | ||||||||||
it's bill fillmaff |
| Posted by: JSexton Jun 23 2009, 03:37 PM |
| his head cannot contain his brain |
| Posted by: Wdjat Jun 23 2009, 03:39 PM | ||||
Just add a disclaimer to your sig. I'm adding one now! |
| Posted by: Margatroid Jun 23 2009, 03:46 PM | ||||
he just played Rush of Knowledge 
lol |
| Posted by: JSexton Jun 23 2009, 03:54 PM | ||||
She'd be cute if she just waxed her upper lip. |
| Posted by: Seeker Jun 23 2009, 04:37 PM | ||||||
Which episode is that picture from? I have no recollection of it, which means it was not from Raisin the Stakes but could easily be from any non-rock opera episode. What an excellent show. |
| Posted by: Weasel Jun 23 2009, 04:46 PM |
| This thread needs more misplays. |
| Posted by: Seeker Jun 23 2009, 04:49 PM | ||
Did you see what I just set my avatar to? How is that not an Internet misplay? |
| Posted by: Weasel Jun 23 2009, 05:00 PM | ||
Is this necessarily a mistake? Like, can you expect to see COP red there, and can you expect to beat COP Red from that position (what were life totals etc?) |
| Posted by: mrspanky Jun 23 2009, 05:03 PM |
| lol avatars! |
| Posted by: FyrexianSurvivr Jun 23 2009, 06:15 PM |
| :rumbles into thread: |
| Posted by: Seeker Jun 23 2009, 07:07 PM | ||||
I guess he's implying he forgot he had the Blast just long enough to say go and get blown out by the CoP, making a minor and usually-inconsequential mistake really important? |
| Posted by: Vandermonde Jun 23 2009, 07:24 PM | ||||
i dunno, but the more universal way for this to go south is for you to topdeck another burn spell next turn and realize you don't have the mana to play it and blast for the win. I have certainly done that one. "let's wait until it'll be lethal before i start burning face...yes, i ripped more burn...oh" |
| Posted by: slearch Jun 23 2009, 07:25 PM |
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| Posted by: kingcobweb Jun 23 2009, 07:39 PM |
| i don't get that one |
| Posted by: slearch Jun 23 2009, 07:42 PM |
| <llarack_> slearch, you here <slearch> yes <llarack_> in that sshot, shouldn't you grab early harvest <llarack_> hope to peel a land and just win? <slearch> that's what i did <slearch> i did not peel the land <slearch> i should have gotten echoing truth <llarack_> was bringer in play? <llarack_> i guess not <slearch> bringer was on the stack <slearch> you can see it under the wish <llarack_> ah <llarack_> oh ok <llarack_> i guess that play is ok because then you can play heartbeat and truth his bringer <llarack_> then try to go off next turn <slearch> yes <slearch> because if bringer hits <slearch> it's likely plow plow plow <llarack_> he grabs cranial? <llarack_> oh <slearch> also <slearch> with truth <slearch> he may not have another red <slearch> since he used tendo <llarack_> if you play heartbeat <llarack_> he has plenty of mana <slearch> oh right <slearch> but then i am off to the races <llarack_> i like screenshots like these <psamms> f yu <llarack_> hi psamms, you crazy canuck <psamms> oh i'm crazy alright <slearch> i probably should have just deeped on my turn anyway <llarack_> what had you wished for before? <slearch> nothing <llarack_> oh <llarack_> you boarded out a wish? <slearch> i think so? <slearch> like <slearch> there are no instants in my hand <slearch> idk what the grave is <slearch> i know i ended up losing but i don't know how <slearch> he either plowed me to death or cranialed me to death |
| Posted by: slugworm Jun 23 2009, 09:38 PM | ||
I knew going into the UG Madness extended mirror that Waterfront Bouncer is always the correct play turn 2, but I played Mongrel instead and my opponent played Bouncer t2 and I got crushed. |
| Posted by: Weasel Jun 23 2009, 09:42 PM | ||||
Oh that reminds me: Extended PTQ quarterfinal, UG madness vs rock. I forgot to side in stifle against his deeds. ONS block PTQ quarterfinal, RW slide against his GW slide. I forget to side in enchantment removal. |
| Posted by: slugworm Jun 23 2009, 10:02 PM |
| Bad plays I've seen other players make: Mana Leaking a Putrefy targetting Plaxcaster Frogling Playing Temple Garden after attacking with a 1/1 Kird Ape Missing the unearth card in the graveyard that would attack for lethal Missing the interaction between Soul's Fire and that 6/6 Jund guy that returns a card from your graveyard whenever you deal damage to the opponent that would be lethal Rupture Spire turn 1 |
| Posted by: Weasel Jun 23 2009, 10:05 PM | ||
BRUTALITY |
| Posted by: Peebles Jun 24 2009, 04:08 AM | ||||
Yes. I knew he had CoP in his deck and ours was usually good at sneaking one or two points through it with Sorcerer or Arc-Slogger, but sneaking a Shrapnel Blast through was going to be a lot harder. |
| Posted by: Tristal Jun 24 2009, 05:58 AM |
| My favorite misplay my opponent's done was round 10 of GP Philly 08: Me: Zoo, 3 life, summoning sick Lavamancer (1 card in yard), tapped Sacred Foundry, untapped Stomping Ground Him: * Level Blue, 1 life, lots of land, tapped Shackles on my tapped Goyf, untapped Goyf, untapped Shackles, Divining Top, known counterspells in hand His misplay was saying go at end of turn instead of Shackling my Lavamancer. He figured he could just respond to whatever I played by Shackling my Lavamancer and then countering it. As soon as he said go I went  and quickly untapped, drew my card... and played my Wooded Foothills. GG, sir.Even after winning the match I made a huge misplay by not catching the fact that he shuffled in my foil Tarmogoyf that he had shackled. He gave it back at the start of round 11, before I presented. The biggest misplays I've made that I know of slash remember are round 13 where I Vindicated Adam Yurchick's Urza land instead of his signet to keep him off colored mana which ended up costing me a near-guaranteed top 8, and round 2 of PT Hollywood where I somehow lost the Faeries vs Lark matchup by letting him Broken Ambitions me out and then untapping and dropping Crovax. |
| Posted by: Purple Sweatshirt Jun 25 2009, 12:24 AM |
| This thread is custom made for me! Facing an attacking Twinclaws, i blocked with grixis grimblade, kathari screecher, and dregscape zombie. The problem here is grimblade was not turned on, do i lost 2 men in fisrt strike damage. Probably my biggest punt to date. 3 for 0.  |
| Posted by: rider Jun 25 2009, 05:30 AM | ||
I once played a Garza Zol when I had another one on the board (in draft). I also once played a Caldera Hellion forgetting that in addition to the +1/+1 counters my opponent had on his spectral tokens, he also had an anthem (the Hellion ate two of my dudes and did nothing to his board). |
| Posted by: kingcobweb Jun 27 2009, 11:21 AM |
| oh this reminds me of a pretty bad misplay that literally every opponent of a friend of mine made. it was when this card was on the table: [card]heartwood storyteller[/card] i watched a match he was playing against B/G loam. he had storyteller on board, and path to exile'd his opponent's dude. the opponent sighed, shook his head, and tutored the land. when he lost, he complained about how he never drew any of his relevant cards. apparently, this sort of thing happened all day. cards are just amazing when your opponent doesn't know what they do. i laughed pretty hard to myself |
| Posted by: Skeletor Jun 27 2009, 11:23 AM |
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| Posted by: blister Jun 27 2009, 06:25 PM |
| oh it's "may" heh |
| Posted by: Skeletor Jul 3 2009, 09:46 AM |
| Playing 5CB (me) vs 5cc. Opponent is at 2. I untap and draw Cloudthresher, which he doesn't know I've boarded in yet. I decide he has no way to gain life at instant speed, no way to kill me at instant speed from my life total, and no way to counter an activated ability. So I pass the turn. Then I read Evoke and discover that it plays the spell. |
| Posted by: phodos Jul 3 2009, 03:55 PM |
I had Esper Corscucants and Stoic Angel and could have cast Finest Hour to win, but didn't see it, and cast Magister Sphinx instead putting myself from 7 to 10 and died the next turn to 4 creatures (two were Hissing Iguanar) and a cycled Resounding Thunder. |
| Posted by: chifley Jul 3 2009, 07:11 PM |
| Presumably if he had played the Finest Hour he attacks for 4 with a lone creature, then attacks for 7 with both creatures for lethal? Rather than just 4 and then 5 if he had no Cormorants. Edit: Peebles  |
| Posted by: Peebles Jul 3 2009, 07:13 PM |
| Presumably you mean 5+8? |
| Posted by: chifley Jul 3 2009, 07:49 PM | ||
No? Cormorants and Stoic have 3 power and exalted makes one of them have 4 power... I wonder what plan peebles has for this exchange. |
| Posted by: sti Jul 3 2009, 07:51 PM |
| He is posting his misplay. |
| Posted by: Peebles Jul 4 2009, 05:49 AM |
| Haven't played with Stoic in forever, thought it had Exalted too. |
| Posted by: mrspanky Jul 4 2009, 09:40 AM |
| dating a lying cunt |
| Posted by: Aeldaar Jul 4 2009, 11:18 AM | ||
clicking this thread just to read your post  |
| Posted by: Aziraphale Jul 4 2009, 11:26 AM | ||||
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| Posted by: Kha Jul 18 2009, 11:45 AM |
| 100 singleton 5-0 Swiss top 8. Match 1 Game 3.  I want to kill him asap before he can draw any outs. I decide to go and get [card]Eladamri, Lord of Leaves[/card] to both forestwalk past his blocker and make any non black removal or further blockers he draws close to irrelevent. So i cast summoners pact search for Eladamri, think for a second.. decide that i want to get [card]Elvish Champion[/card] instead and give him an on the board kill when i have him in two turns if i do what i originally intended to do. I dont know what the hell i was thinking, or why i thought it waas a good idea to change my mind, but i do know i deserved to lose for making that play. |
| Posted by: Vandermonde Jul 18 2009, 12:32 PM | ||
isn't pact 3 'cost' ? what the hell is the 'on the board kill' ? huh, it really is 4. weird. |
| Posted by: kingcobweb Jul 18 2009, 12:44 PM | ||
but you hadn't played a land yet, so the third forest in your hand plus the borderpost can pay for pact |
| Posted by: Vandermonde Jul 18 2009, 12:45 PM | ||
pridemage eats the post |
| Posted by: prolepsis9 Jul 18 2009, 12:45 PM |
| Man, all of you guys are either terrible or illiterate. |
| Posted by: kingcobweb Jul 18 2009, 12:47 PM | ||||
oh right borderposts aren't just cipt lands  |
| Posted by: Kha Jul 18 2009, 01:01 PM | ||
im definately terrible. |
| Posted by: Peebles Jul 18 2009, 01:40 PM |
| KCW also definitely terrible <____< |
| Posted by: Aziraphale Jul 19 2009, 10:45 AM |
| I'm not terrible :3 |
| Posted by: chifley Jul 19 2009, 10:28 PM |
| I'm illiterate. |
| Posted by: wcbarksdale Jul 23 2009, 12:41 PM | ||
I found this thing I wrote, which had an unfunny parody of Zvi's old column that I'm not including.
Also my notes say you are at 7 and he is at 9, and I didn't write down the solution, but I think there must have been one for me to write this up. |
| Posted by: nemryn Jul 23 2009, 01:00 PM |
| I'd Pall the Oak and chump the Briarhorn with the Wolf token, then untap and use Growth to give the Faerie +3/+3, the new token +2/+2, and the Shaman +1/+1. Then, hold my guys back to block and hope I can overwhelm him with Wolves before he draws anything good. That seems too easy, though. |
| Posted by: prolepsis9 Jul 23 2009, 01:03 PM | ||
You can swing here with the shaman, leaving your 4/4+4/4 back against his 4/4, 3/3, 2/2. It means you're dead to pump, but you also increase your clock by a turn. |
| Posted by: ewie Jul 23 2009, 01:05 PM | ||
I'd pall the flier and chump the oak before holding with a 5/5, a 4/4 and the 3/3 shaman. |
| Posted by: Vesuvan Jul 23 2009, 04:08 PM |
| In MIR-ONS standard, playing BG Cemerary against Goblins in game 3 of a win-and-in match, had wrecked my opponent's board with Death Cloud except for his Siege-Gang Commander and Warchief (no lands in play). I have 4 life left after his attack, 2 Swamps in play, Chrome Mox and Infest in hand and an active Cemetary with Tusker and Baloths available for recursion. I bring back a random Green creature, draw a Forest, go to play Chrome Mox and imprint the random Green creature, play Infest. Opponent laughs and when I look at what I did I Imprinted the Infest under the Mox. To make it worse the Green creature I brought back was a Baloth. Misplay #1: playing BG Cemetery when I could have played Ravager Misplay #2: playing BG Cemetery when hung over Misplay #3: smoking those cones during the lunch break Misplay #4: not simply playing the fucking Forest in my hand instead of getting cute with Chrome Mox Misplay #4: not looking at my cards when I was so giddy laughing about the fact that I was about to win my worst matchup and get to romp through a top 8 full of good matchups with the deck everyone had (rightly?) written off that I effectively let my opponent play and activate Mindslaver on me without having the card in his deck let alone the mana to play it. I challenge anyone to better this! |
| Posted by: kingcobweb Jul 23 2009, 04:11 PM |
| misplay #5: not immediately saying "oops" and at least attempting to take it back |
| Posted by: llarack Jul 23 2009, 04:13 PM | ||
...that is not a misplay... |
| Posted by: Vesuvan Jul 23 2009, 04:25 PM | ||
I tried that. |
| Posted by: blister Jul 23 2009, 04:26 PM | ||||
such a cheaty face |
| Posted by: Vesuvan Jul 23 2009, 04:28 PM |
| Actually, mislpay #5 should be "trash talking your opponent for the 2 minutes leading up to the worst misplay you've ever made" |
| Posted by: blister Jul 23 2009, 04:31 PM |
| CHUH EAT TAY FAY SUH |
| Posted by: liquiditytrap Jul 23 2009, 04:36 PM | ||
gotcha! |
| Posted by: Vesuvan Jul 23 2009, 04:50 PM | ||
Well as he was the one who drew my attention to the misplay it was more along the lines of "will you let me take that back?" which got another, more sarcastic, laugh and "no" in reply |
| Posted by: kingcobweb Jul 23 2009, 04:56 PM |
| you don't ask, you do |
| Posted by: Vesuvan Jul 23 2009, 05:00 PM |
| Given the degree of rules lawyering my opponent was known for, wouldn't have gotten away with it anyway. (EDIT: names removed to protect the guilty who started to change their ways in the years since this incident) |
| Posted by: blister Jul 23 2009, 05:05 PM | ||
i must cover his matches more, i had no idea he was like that (someone was giving me hell for not featuring him enough) |
| Posted by: Vesuvan Jul 23 2009, 05:06 PM |
| ahem, *points to edit* That said, when I was last playing with physical cards he was a very good player and is worth featuring (we were first and second rated in constructed and composite in WA for about 2 years). |
| Posted by: Aeldaar Jul 23 2009, 05:07 PM | ||
quoting an edited post you say |
| Posted by: Basilisk Jul 23 2009, 05:10 PM | ||||
What about it? Is that a misplay? |
| Posted by: blister Jul 23 2009, 05:12 PM |
| i guess i *could* edit my post... but i don't think he reads this forum, does he? i know he's a good player, and he seems like a nice guy |
| Posted by: Vesuvan Jul 23 2009, 05:15 PM |
| AFAIK he doesn't read this forum and there's always my comment to clarify it. Fact is, he was something of a rules lawyering jerk for some time, including at FNM events. He grew up since then and I thought it was worth cutting him some slack given that it's likely that he continued being a much more reasonable person, and yes he ended up being a pretty nice guy, since I last had contact with him about 3-4 years ago. |
| Posted by: Weasel Jul 23 2009, 05:20 PM |
| Yeah he's a mate of mine, but have only known him for less than 3 years, so I don't know what he was like before. He's pretty awesome now though. edit: Regardless of rules lawyering, there's no way anyone should let you take that back anyway. |
| Posted by: ewie Jul 23 2009, 05:25 PM | ||
I'd say it depends. If it was something like "I'll play mox in order to Infest you" and the cards just were in the wrong places, I'd say that you should have been allowed to fix it. |
| Posted by: Vesuvan Jul 23 2009, 05:26 PM | ||
I'm not suggesting he should have, even if I hadn't been trash talking about being about to win. |
| Posted by: Weasel Jul 23 2009, 05:28 PM |
| I guess people should trash talk less and play good magic more. |
| Posted by: Vesuvan Jul 23 2009, 05:31 PM | ||
IIRC my words were "Mox, imprint and Infest for the win". Given the mistake, having put the cards in the appropriate place (part for the illegal play of putting the Baloth in the graveyard when I didn't have mana for it), the trash-talking and the opponent in question I didn't expect to be able to take it back. |
| Posted by: chifley Jul 24 2009, 01:49 AM |
| Is shawn the guy with the scary teeth? |
| Posted by: json Jul 24 2009, 06:31 PM | ||
You're thinking of this guy:  |
| Posted by: Weasel Jul 24 2009, 08:00 PM |
| Pretty much the same, yes. But he's still a hilariously awesome dude. |
| Posted by: zaphod Jul 28 2009, 01:08 PM |
| GODDAMN NASA! |
| Posted by: Aeldaar Jul 28 2009, 01:35 PM |
hi nightcow  |
| Posted by: Nightcow Jul 28 2009, 01:39 PM | ||
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