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Posted on March 2, 2015, 9:52 p.m. by gnarlicide
So I am playing standard with this guy. He was on Jeskai Tokens, I was on UB Control.
Game 1 I got absolutely blown out. I was never able to get anything going and promptly died.
But game 2, whoa. After siding in my Aetherspouts, Tasigur, 3x drown in sorrows and Silumgar, I was ready for a swift death in game two.
Fast forward: so it's my opponents turn 10. I am at 5 life after his attack with his 3 goblin tokens and he has 1 card in hand. He passes the turn, in which I cast Jace's Ingenuity, he responds with Stoke the Flames.
Shit. I am at 1 life. So I begrudgingly draw my three cards and untap my lands for my turn 11.
I draw Tasigur, the Golden Fang
I play my eleventh land, (hitting my land drops was the only good thing to happen so far) and count the cards in my graveyard. I have exactly five cards (sweet, Tasigur is online for 1.)
I look at my opponents graveyard. I see three Lightning Strikes and four Stokes. He also has no cards in hand. Hell yes.
I delve Tasigur into play. Opponent says it resolves. I activate his ability, with nothing in my graveyard. And I mill...
An Island and Silumgar, the Drifting Death. The opponent looks and says: "one more land and you could have played it this turn."
I look down, and count. I move the swamp that played Tasigur away and the four lands for his ability away. Leaving me exactly six mana. My palms get sweaty.
Wildcard, bitches.
I slam Silumgar down faster than you can say, "fuck your tokens, dawg"
And the dude looks crushed.
He untaps his lands, and draws. Hoping for a lightning strike to kill me, he reveals a Raise the Alarm. Lol.
He scoops.
Game three was majestic for me. I dropped an Ashiok, and stole his Monastery Mentor after a couple turns.
He starts getting flooded and I decided to cast Heros Downfall, jaces ingenuity to pump up the four tokens I already had in play from my counters earlier. And beat his ass in.
I just wanted to share my epic game 2 haymaker Tasigur into Silumgar slam. I hope you enjoyed it.
Dang, thats hot haha. Super lucky but definitely makes for a good story
March 2, 2015 9:56 p.m.
NobodyPicksBulbasaur says... #4
How much life did your opponent have in game 2? Because he still has topdeck outs to Silumgar if you're only at 1.
March 2, 2015 10 p.m.
notamardybum says... #5
yet another awesome victory off of tasigur, i fucking love that card
March 2, 2015 10 p.m.
gnarlicide says... #6
Delve seems waaaaaaay more broken than it did, what, eight years ago?
The worst part is that is the only time I have ever played his ability on my main phase. And I was hoping to get a bile blight or drown in sorrow out of it. But Silumgar was better by eons.
UB control is awesome in the sense that it literally steals games from people that it has no business winning. Maybe that's why people rage so much against it?
March 2, 2015 10:01 p.m.
Ohthenoises says... #7
The only thing that really had delve before (Of note) were Logic Knot and Tombstalker lol.
March 2, 2015 10:04 p.m.
gnarlicide says... #8
NobodyPicksBulbasaur he was at 12 when I cast my two dudes in game 2. He took some pain from his lands early and fetched a few times. He did it a lot, though, which was odd.
March 2, 2015 10:06 p.m.
gnarlicide says... #9
Ohthenoises, yeah you're right. I barely saw logic knot back in the day, and tombstalker was pretty good, but that's about it. I feel like shit is OP as fuck with delve.
March 2, 2015 10:09 p.m.
Ohthenoises says... #10
gnarlicide Yeah, I mean hell, can you imagine Hooting Mandrills back in the day? Jesus.
March 2, 2015 10:12 p.m.
Am I missing something? In game two you say that you were at on with two blockers. He had three tokens. That math doesn't work for you. :(
March 2, 2015 10:18 p.m.
NobodyPicksBulbasaur says... #12
Yeah it kinda sounds like the guy ragequit as soon as he saw a card he didn't like. Unless we're missing something.
March 2, 2015 10:22 p.m.
He had the tokens but couldn't swing in the same turn, Silumgar would have just swept the tokens with the attack.
March 2, 2015 10:27 p.m.
gnarlicide says... #14
OH MY GOD!!!
Get doc Brown! We need the delorean, a play set of Hooting Mandrills and a 12 pack.
We are going on a journey. We also need around 30 copies of Verdant Force so we can trade them for uber profit and grab all the Tarmogoyfs and bobs out of the dollar bins at all the local shops.
March 2, 2015 10:27 p.m.
zyphermage says... #15
Yeah he swings with 3 1/1 goblins and wins... I am confused
March 2, 2015 10:28 p.m.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g8ykQLYnX0
Kept hearing this song reading along, then right when the gituar kicks in, I got to the bit about Silumgar off Tasigur. Fun stuff.
March 2, 2015 10:28 p.m.
zyphermage says... #17
Yeah but the tokens were there the turn before so they could swing, also he would die to the tokens before getting to swing with silumgar since it did not have haste?
March 2, 2015 10:29 p.m.
gnarlicide says... #18
sirbar lol, I just realized that I still would have died. I have to ask that guy what he was thinking.
Cool story is no longer cool.
March 2, 2015 10:32 p.m.
zyphermage says... #21
Even if you were at 2 life he could've won still (depending on next draws), because he can raise the alarm after your attack next turn, untap and swing again with tokens.
March 2, 2015 10:35 p.m.
gnarlicide says... #22
Well, we should let that be a lesson to us all:
Play the whole thing out. I would have been 2-0ed if he payed attention to his board state.
But I guess I am guilty of it too then.
March 2, 2015 10:36 p.m.
gnarlicide says... #23
Don't worry, sirbar, ain't nobody is ruining the story...
If anything, you all are making it better. The dude scooped with lethal on board.
March 2, 2015 10:39 p.m.
Maybe he didn't attack because he was scared of your fucking dragon, man. That shit is intimidating. Ask Tasigur.
March 3, 2015 1:52 a.m.
JexInfinite says... #28
One time, I was in over my head against Dredge. He was in a REALLY good position, and was going to win in a couple turns.
Topdecked a Vendilion Clique with 5 open mana. I decided that I might as well target myself to get rid of this useless Mana Leak. Put the Leak at the bottom, and Relic of Progenitus smiled happily at me as I removed his entire graveyard when he had 2 cards in hand and 12 in the library.
I've played against a surprising amount of Dredge recently, but that was the best game.
mpeach1 says... #2
As a control player, these are the stories I like to hear.
March 2, 2015 9:55 p.m.