Longest Turns?
Commander (EDH) forum
Posted on July 23, 2020, 2:06 p.m. by Omniscience_is_life
EDH is a format that takes quite a lot longer than any other format to play, so I was wondering what some of the longest turns you've ever had/witnessed in the format are? Some examples: I once played a game against a Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain deck that had a 7 minute long turn of just: play an artifact; draw a card. play an artifact; draw a card. etc. More recently I was playing casual 1v1 commander with a friend and I had to take 3 minutes to figure out how to sequence creating tokens to sacrifice to Ashnod's Altar to cast Zacama, Primal Calamity, copying her ETB with Strionic Resonator so I could cast an Akroma, Angel of Wrath and still ping down my opponent's Subira, Tulzidi Caravanner with Zacama. Maybe I could have done it quicker, but that's the most complicated interaction I've played in many moons, so idk. So yeah, what're your stories? Any Storm players that have crazy long sequenced wincons? enchantress decks that have massive strings of card draw? control decks with insanely tall stacks? I wanna hear it all
griffstick says... #3
I had a 20 min turn because of an overloaded Mizzix's Mastery
July 23, 2020 2:22 p.m.
ugg Cloudstone Curio
This card leads to 20-30 min brick turns because people don't know how to pilot it
July 23, 2020 2:33 p.m.
p.s. not a card but my group normally runs 8-10 player pods
the main core group is stream lined and we run fast
but sometimes life happens and we get fillers and i swear there has been some games that i could have completed my tax's in between rounds
July 23, 2020 2:39 p.m.
I think I had a 3 minute turn in my feather redeem decked. I had unlimited hand size and I had heroic creature on the board a fist full of spells, a ton of mana from treasures and some other triggers so i targeted my heroic creature exiled the spell spent mana, got +1/+1 counter triggers and a few other triggers and then when all said in done my Chandra's Ignition was at 48 damage.
Now the dumbest one I pulled off is some played mana flare and I was playing Elsha which I had a ton of copy spells so before my upkeep i played nexus of fate and got two copies so i basically took 4 turns in a row. Yes i won the game
July 23, 2020 2:42 p.m.
Arjun, the Shifting Flame can have some pretty lengthy turns. I played against an Arjun deck where his average turn was about 10 minutes long
July 23, 2020 4:54 p.m.
EleshNornsFs says... #8
I had a 4 minute turn while running Meren, just trying to plan ahead and figure out how to sacrifice and reanimate creatures between Ashnod's Altar, Phyrexian Altar, Viscera Seer, and Flesh-Eater Imp.
July 23, 2020 5:03 p.m.
RNR_Gaming says... #9
I played an Ad Nauseam deck in it's earlier phases; basically a storm deck where you put your deck in your hand play all the 0 mana rocks and kci. I think my turn was about 10 minutes because I had to figure out if i could win with the 40 or so card i just drew and 2 life.
July 23, 2020 6:53 p.m.
BoredomBrews says... #11
I had a point with my Chulane, Teller of Tales deck that I had a 15 minute turn. That one game made it so I could no longer play that deck in just a regular match and had to only pull it out when others had decks that could stop me in some way. Oh Solitaire.
July 23, 2020 7:46 p.m.
Last_Laugh says... #12
Animar, Soul of Elements with Cloudstone Curio has led to many 30+ minute turns before I started focusing on combo. Sad thing is those 30+ minute turns didn't always end the game.
July 24, 2020 7:32 p.m.
Ramble and Last_Laugh you guys are reminding me of watching people durdle with paradox engine and spin their wheels and go no where it was a lot more prevalent because it was just a good card stuffed in decks that had no real way to leverage the dam thing properly. That ban was sweet just because it reduced the amount of bad decks running the thing
July 24, 2020 11:31 p.m. Edited.
Wolfsbane706 says... #15
Play any high-count draw spell while Thought Reflection and Sphinx's Tutelage are on your field and have a field day resolving the plethora of triggers that comes from it. Bonus pointa for playing more than one draw spell (I once drew through 40+ cards in a single turn looking for a Reliquary Tower and did not find).
July 25, 2020 4:37 p.m.
@Wolfsbane706
If you want a effect to show up
early game you need at least 15 copies
mid game at least 10
late game at least 5
I apologize i am lazy and don't want to go into probabilities
but think of it this way 30+ lands gives 2 lands in the majority of your opening hands.
July 27, 2020 7:29 a.m.
Back when Prophet of Kruphix was legal I had someone in my game take a turn that if I remember correctly was close to 2 hours. The worst part was he didn’t even win.
July 30, 2020 7:03 a.m.
Wolfsbane706 says... #18
Ramble I'm working to acquire a Folio of Fancies and a Spellbook. Maybe also a Venser's Journal if I can find one. I learned my lesson that night lol.
July 31, 2020 11:29 p.m.
@DeinoStinkus lmao that's great! though i doubt the person on the other side of the table thought so.
thing about trigger happy board states is people will freak out on you.. it doesn't matter how good of a friend they are or how nice they are. they can only sit patiently and watch so many times before they loose there cool.
for me the trick is when i come across board states like that
later on i will recreate the board state and practice
master the triggers, find ways to insert fast loops, and shorten the play as much as possible
you would be surprised how many non-deterministic loops i've been able pull off in a 60 second turn by using this method.
i am only saying this becouse i love the idea of 3 etb's and tutor any creature, i feel your board state could be turned into a win con with Dryad Arbor and a few other choice cards in deck,
and i would love to hear stories in the future on how you were able to stream line this deck and fire it off
p.s. very very important, if you try this once you get it stream line you also have to practice teaching your opponent what your doing step by step. the only way to fast loop a non-deterministic is by your opponent completely understanding what your doing with out being mislead, if at any point in time they become confused or don't understand you have to slow play.
SynergyBuild says... #2
3 headed Giant 3v3, and a Sliver Overlord with an Intruder Alarm, a Paradox Engine on a Captain Sisay (around that time), and 3 Selvala, Explorer Returned decks caused a storm count for the turn over 400, all on the stack at once, because the Sliver deck found a flash slive and had a bunch of tapping dork slivers and a sliver that granted flash as well as a bunch of stuff that was weird. It ended that the sliver deck almost won, but in doing so let the selvala's draw a ton of cards, and actually decked the sliver player xD
4 and a half hour turn.
July 23, 2020 2:20 p.m.