post your misplays itt, learn from your mistakes, mock others'

Brag post.

I hate Magic players.

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

I'm pretty sure I still auto-qualify for Australian Nats despite not playing physical magic in about 4 years.

Not as far as I can tell.

well after 4 years my rating has gone inactive, but i'm pretty sure 1870 still qualifies

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.

This post has been edited by Peebles on Jun 22 2009, 05:47 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.

This post has been edited by Floral Spuzzem on Jun 22 2009, 06:07 AM

Drinking a 40 with paz prematch.

from gleemax:

that dude is a total moron

Your real mistake was playing Vintage.

Brag post.

I hate Magic players.

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

I'm pretty sure I still auto-qualify for Australian Nats despite not playing physical magic in about 4 years.

Not as far as I can tell.

well after 4 years my rating has gone inactive, but i'm pretty sure 1870 still qualifies

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

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.

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].

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...

This one makes me chuckle.

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.

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.

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.

This post has been edited by Gasface on Jun 23 2009, 02:13 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

<__<

how does this work? hardcasting soulless revival or death denied for zero + soulless revival are both an even amount of mana

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.)

there we go

wait, so you cast yawgmoth's will, and he had a force and cast it on something you played using will?

wait, so you cast yawgmoth's will, and he had a force and cast it on something you played using will?

I was going to ask who that is, but merely quoting you answers that.

Actually, it doesn't. Who the fuck is Michael Lampert?

wait, so you cast yawgmoth's will, and he had a force and cast it on something you played using will?

I was going to ask who that is, but merely quoting you answers that.

Actually, it doesn't. Who the fuck is Michael Lampert?

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.

This post has been edited by Margatroid on Jun 23 2009, 03:22 PM

Sup Ruel.

wait, so you cast yawgmoth's will, and he had a force and cast it on something you played using will?

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

wait, so you cast yawgmoth's will, and he had a force and cast it on something you played using will?

I was going to ask who that is, but merely quoting you answers that.

Actually, it doesn't. Who the fuck is Michael Lampert?

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.

it's bill fillmaff