MTG Combo: Darksteel Forge + Mycosynth Lattice

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Discussion

TheRedGoat on The Pillowest Fort Possible

7 years ago

I'm sorry to be "that guy", but you technically don't actually need anything more than 2 of your listed cards to lock the game. Those being Mycosynth Lattice + Stony Silence . Between the two, all cards are artifacts with nothing but some triggered effects and maybe bodies/combat abilities that can block your creatures. Because that set up locks out mana for each player, all you've created is a stalemate scenario that proceeds until you've attacked the opponent to death with your indestructible artifact creatures.

The only way any of this lock can be stopped is if you played it out card by card and assumed that some parts of the lock simply aren't in play.

To me a better way to format this page would be to list the cards that defeat specific lock combos, such as how Bonds of Mortality and a powerful burn spell can get around the indestructibility of the Darksteel Forge + Mycosynth Lattice set up. But at the same time, most if not all burn spells you would be able to abuse are instantly shut down by Gaddock Teeg. Even if you assumed to have March of the Machines and somehow got multiple copies of Elesh Norn, pretty much all cards you would use to obtain that scenario are stopped just by him unless you assume he isn't in play, and thus does not need to be played around.

This isn't a bad concept, it just feels a little too generic in your "challenge" you issue, so I would design some specific parameters for it. I also apologize if I sound a little angry with my rant, as I do realize this is all in good fun, but I'm also usually ticked off with "no win" or "nobody wins" scenarios.

hcaselli on Really Dissapointed in MTG

7 years ago

Sometimes we play EDH here in my city, and since there are very high leveled players, we usually laugh of those locks. The common joke is "1. Beat XXX (a well known player); 2. Beat the players which are using blue; 3. Beat Daretti players (me included); 4. Start the politics".

It may look unreasonable, but since all of us have different decks, we bring out different games just because, if we always use the same decks, that makes things unfair and less fun that it should be. One day a Daretti player used Krenko as a Commander, just for hiding the planeswalker and sneaked through a solid win. After that, we started to use different and weird Commanders, and after we stopped because that turned into a obvious thing. All in all, fun's the golden rule, and we're having lots of it even with some salt.

Last week I threw Blightsteel Colossus + Lightning Greaves and Darksteel Forge + Mycosynth Lattice with two mono-colored Commanders on the board, just after they used Damnation and Wrath of God. That's the kind of salt we face.