Just dropped a Storm Herd on turn 3!

[Camaron]

So, I was at Burger King playing some good old magic the Gathering against my buddy.

We start the match, and I can immediately see some effective cards in my hand. It's looking to be a pretty good match.

Turn 1: I play a Basic mountain, and instantly follow it up with both of the Sol Rings in my hand. (the first Sol Ring paid for the second) End turn.

Turn 2: Draw, play a nonbasic land that come into play tapped, and use the first land and both Sol Rings (Total 5 mana) to drop a Gilded Lotus. I immediately use Gilded Lotus as black mana to play Praetor's Grasp. With Praetor's Grasp, I searched through my buddy's deck, which has a lot of nasty stuff in it like Myojin of Cleansing Fire, Progenitus, Wall of Reverence, and others. I see Storm Herd, and I exile it face down.

Turn 3: So far, I only have 9 mana. (only, lol) So I'm hoping that my new draw is a mana card, because I don't have any more land at the moment. Sure enough, I draw a basic swamp. TEN!!! I play my freind's own Storm Herd against him on turn three. He only had two lands and a Silver Myr on the ground - he hadn't even had a third turn yet, and here I've just summoned 20 Flying 1/1 Pegasus tokens. There was pretty much nothing he could ever have done to beat that.

We rematched and I mana-stalled hard and managed to do nothing until he finished me the second round.

Epic. We were talking about it the whole way back from Burger King.

Anyone else have some unforgettable MTG plays?

[Starwhip]

My friends and I play Casual. My WIP deck does fun stuff like this:

Say hi to Turn Five.

I don't have half the cards yet, but in test plays against my friends, the game has gone from them having the upper hand to them having 0 life in 1 turn. The deck relies on this card for it's biggest combo:

I use mana-adder spells like Pyretic Ritual and Seething Song to cast that spell, then bring out two of each of these:

Bad Things happen within a span of one or two turns. Those four creatures alone can attack for 20. And whenever they attack, for each of them, two 6/6 dragon tokens enter the field. And for each of those tokens, when they attack, two more enter. So on, and so forth.

Edited August 4, 2015 by Starwhip

[Camaron]

Wow, can't let that one go unchecked for too long!

A pure Dragon Deck? I like your style. You wouldn't know it but the deck I mentioned before is somewhat of a Dragon Deck. It's actually one-half of an incredibly old Dragon deck I've been using and expanding since the beginning of my time playing Magic, around 1998. I eventually split the oversize deck into the "Brute Force" deck and the "Tactical" Deck. The "Tactical" Dragon Deck includes Rimescale Dragon, Skithiryx the Blight Dragon, Keiga The Tide Star. Every basic land in the deck is a snow land, to ensure maximum compatibility with Rimescale Dragon.

Seriously though, I learned this game by playing against my uncle, who used power nine cards against me in his main deck. Dragonstorm was the key to finally beating him. Dragonstorm, Imperial Hellkite, and Kilnmouth Dragon, as well as the old Urza's Mine, Tower and Power Plant for that extra mana speed. The first time I finally beat him, I had brought out 2 of the Hellkites and an amplified 14/14 Kilnmouth, and then Bladewing the Risen cranked them up even higher to seal the deal. One of my Dragons was eaten by his 9/9 Demon, but the rest weren't blocked and the game was mine!

Once My friends caught on to Imperial Hellkite, I started using Shaleskin Plowers as decoys, with the upside that if they survive, they still smash a land when they flip. It sure was fun that first time someone fireballed my morph card instantly and saw some stupid 3/2 go to the graveyard. Confusion and horror.

[Endersmens]

Wait you can play online?

Do you have to build a deck and stuff? Does it cost money?

[Camaron]

Wait you can play online?

Do you have to build a deck and stuff? Does it cost money?

If its anything like the way it was when I tried it out, that program isn't automated. Its more like a tool with the necessary things available to sort of play the game the same way you would anyway, just digitally. You have to tell it what number to set the life to, change the number of tokens yourself, tap the appropriate stuff on your own. It doesn't have the rules built in, its like the TABLE in a real world scenario. It doesn't really do anything for you beyond holding the cards, tokens, and dice off the floor. It will hide and draw deck cards and stuff for you though, and if it doesnt have networking, you can easily run it over skypes desktop share or something of that sort and have it work as intended that way.