Crazy Plays in Commander
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2019 2:30 pm
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I'll get us started off.
Let me set the stage here. I'm playing Teysa Karlov, to my left is my buddy playing a Silas Renn, Seeker Adept/Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa Morph/Saboteur deck, to his left is Kami of the Crescent Moon, and to my right is Chainer, Dementia Master. Kami has been milling us all game, including a Windfall for 11 with Sphinx's Tutelage out, and he's got a pair of Venser's Journal in play keeping his life up. Silas-Sidar just Ghastly Conscriptioned a huge pile of creatures, including Willbender, Kheru Spellsnatcher, and Phage, the Untouchable. He's also got a Demon of Dark Schemes out he's stolen from Chainer, and a Secret Plans. Chainer has a Whip of Erebos, an Extractor Demon he's stolen from my graveyard, and another beefy dude, but he's sitting pretty at 2 life. On my turn, I play a handful of afterlife-type creatures with Teysa and Elenda, the Dusk Rose and Pitiless Plunderer out, and culminate with an Altar of Dementia.
End of turn, Kami tries to cast an Evacuation to fend off the impending manifest-storm. In response, I decided that since I was going to lose all my tokens anyways, I was going to mill Kami completely out with Altar and Chainer's Extractor Demon assistance. I sac a pile of creatures and tokens, then Elenda, then some of her tokens, and mill him out completely. The Evac goes to resolve, but before it does, Silas-Sidar realizes that he can flip up Spellsnatcher for the 3U he has up and counter it.
Silas-Sidar then untaps and drops Sidar, making his army largely unblockable. He sends enough at Chainer to kill him through his lifelink and a handful at me, including a Phage that is flipped up after no blockers are declared. I realize that with Secret Plans' trigger on the stack, if I can mill him out completely as well utilizing Extractor Demon, he'll lose to the Plans draw, sparing both me and Chainer. I I have just enough fodder, including getting two sacs from everyone's board with Abyssal Gatekeeper, that we can mill him to zero. He gets down to a handful of cards in his library, and decides to figure out if there's any way he can survive using Demon of Dark Schemes. Eventually, he realizes that if he reanimates Sepulchral Primordial, he can grab a Blood Artist effect and a sac outlet (with the only viable one being Yawgmoth, Thran Physician) and kill Chainer before the last Extractor Demon triggers resolve, sparing him. He ends up with 4 cards left in his library and I eat a Phage-touch.
Silas-Sidar then passes the turn to Kami, who will then deck out - except Kami endphases a Blue Sun's Zenith for 0, untaps, redraws it, and points it at Silas-Sidar for 5, decking him out instead.
I'll get us started off.
Let me set the stage here. I'm playing Teysa Karlov, to my left is my buddy playing a Silas Renn, Seeker Adept/Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa Morph/Saboteur deck, to his left is Kami of the Crescent Moon, and to my right is Chainer, Dementia Master. Kami has been milling us all game, including a Windfall for 11 with Sphinx's Tutelage out, and he's got a pair of Venser's Journal in play keeping his life up. Silas-Sidar just Ghastly Conscriptioned a huge pile of creatures, including Willbender, Kheru Spellsnatcher, and Phage, the Untouchable. He's also got a Demon of Dark Schemes out he's stolen from Chainer, and a Secret Plans. Chainer has a Whip of Erebos, an Extractor Demon he's stolen from my graveyard, and another beefy dude, but he's sitting pretty at 2 life. On my turn, I play a handful of afterlife-type creatures with Teysa and Elenda, the Dusk Rose and Pitiless Plunderer out, and culminate with an Altar of Dementia.
End of turn, Kami tries to cast an Evacuation to fend off the impending manifest-storm. In response, I decided that since I was going to lose all my tokens anyways, I was going to mill Kami completely out with Altar and Chainer's Extractor Demon assistance. I sac a pile of creatures and tokens, then Elenda, then some of her tokens, and mill him out completely. The Evac goes to resolve, but before it does, Silas-Sidar realizes that he can flip up Spellsnatcher for the 3U he has up and counter it.
Silas-Sidar then untaps and drops Sidar, making his army largely unblockable. He sends enough at Chainer to kill him through his lifelink and a handful at me, including a Phage that is flipped up after no blockers are declared. I realize that with Secret Plans' trigger on the stack, if I can mill him out completely as well utilizing Extractor Demon, he'll lose to the Plans draw, sparing both me and Chainer. I I have just enough fodder, including getting two sacs from everyone's board with Abyssal Gatekeeper, that we can mill him to zero. He gets down to a handful of cards in his library, and decides to figure out if there's any way he can survive using Demon of Dark Schemes. Eventually, he realizes that if he reanimates Sepulchral Primordial, he can grab a Blood Artist effect and a sac outlet (with the only viable one being Yawgmoth, Thran Physician) and kill Chainer before the last Extractor Demon triggers resolve, sparing him. He ends up with 4 cards left in his library and I eat a Phage-touch.
Silas-Sidar then passes the turn to Kami, who will then deck out - except Kami endphases a Blue Sun's Zenith for 0, untaps, redraws it, and points it at Silas-Sidar for 5, decking him out instead.