So it was a five player game with
Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign big free stuff,
Nicol Bolas, the Ravager superfriends,
Niv-Mizzet Reborn guild-stuff and both myself and someone I hadn't played against before on
Jeleva, Nephalia's Scourge. Yennett and Niv fell behind early on, while Bolas deployed a few planeswalkers with
The Chain Veil and was rapidly ticking up to ult
Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God. The other Jeleva also had a pretty explosive thanks to an early
Rhystic Study paired with great hits on Jeleva; a stolen
Merciless Eviction allowed them to clear the planeswalkers and neuter the Bolas player while
Stolen Identity eventually led to them having four
Gilded Lotus and two
Strionic Resonator. I'd been mildly ramping and removed the opposing Jeleva once I finally could, but I also drew a bunch of cards off commander casts, Jeleva casts and cipher casrts thanks to
Ghostly Pilferer. I had cast my own Jeleva but she was immediately removed. (No
Eternal Dominion for me).
In the final turn cycle, the opposing Jeleva was recast and her ETB tripled thanks to the Resonators, exiling 18 more cards from libraries. (At least 26 cards had been exiled from each library at this point). This exiled my
Eye of the Storm, removing my main win condition. I had 9 mana available with key cards of
Etali, Primal Storm,
Swiftfoot Boots and
Mnemonic Deluge in hand and
Mind's Desire|SCG in my graveyard. I use all my mana to cast Etali and play and equip the boots, then swing in, and here's where the extreme luck comes in. I hit spells on everyone's libraries, using my
Memory Plunder to recast
Merciless Eviction and deal with the many Lotus and Resonators, but the key card I hit was an
Oblivion Sower off the opposing Jeleva's library. I cast it and steal 13 exiled lands from Niv-Mizzet, 3 coming in tapped. I use this to cast
Mnemonic Deluge targeting the
Mind's Desire|SCG in my graveyard, getting 30 copies in total and exiling the majority of my remaining library. I cast most of the spells I get, including some rocks,
Dark Ritual and
Underworld Breach. There's a
Mnemonic Deluge, a counterspell and a couple of wheels in the remaining Desire hits, so I cast
Reforge the Soul to maximise my options before casting the
Mnemonic Deluge. I was expecting to just
Windfall after and knock myself out (two cards left in library at this stage), but the opposing Jeleva has discarded
Aetherflux Reservoir to the wheel, even though they don't seem like they're on storm! I cast the Reservoir and then only need to escape the
Dark Ritual a handful of times to get enough life to laser everyone down, given the 30 or so spells I'd already cast.
So much had to go right for it all to come together; the sheer luck in hitting the opposing
Oblivion Sower, which I intentionally don't run in my own deck, which stole enough lands for Deluge, then Desire hitting all the tools to steal and feed the opposing Reservoir, is mind boggling. It was crazy.