Cards That Make Stories | EDHRECast 294

[@josephbaumbach142]

My personal favorite magic story come from the the card "Didn't Say Please" I was teaching my friend's daughter how to play, and the grin she got on her face and the glare i got from her mom when she got to remind her mother she didn't say Please was epic. It goes in every blue deck I play to this day.

[@robertfranklin8522]

My absolute favorite magic story happened about 6 months ago. I was playing with my two friends. One was on Nikya of the Old Ways (cannot cast non-creature spells) and other was on Codie (cannot cast permanent spells). Both players play commanders and it passes to me. I rip Modify Memory from the top, look at the board, and say out loud "I'm about to do the coolest thing I've ever done in a game of magic." Modify Memory swaps the two commanders, now the Nikya player has Codie and can't cast permanent spells (their whole deck) and the Codie player has Nikya and can't can't non-creature spells (their whole deck) AND I get to draw three cards. The looks on their faces while it sank in was priceless. A couple turns later they figured it out and everything was reset but man, what a perfect sequence of events.

[@dreyfus37_65]

Modify memory is one of my favorite cards. I did something similar to my buddy and his wife a couple months ago. I forget exactly what decks they were playing, but their commanders were the center of power for their decks. So I just swapped them, got three cards, and had like two or three turns before they each destroyed the others commander to get them back to the command zone lol. And I’m currently building an abaddon the despoiler deck, better believe modify memory was one of the first cards I grabbed out of my box!

[@thomasmonaghan9645]

I once tucked a Counterspell under the green Hideaway land on turn one. Fast forward to turn seven, and my friend looked at my available mana (Hideaway land and another green source), muttered audibly to themself, "no blue... okay," then put a Craterhoof on the stack, only to have it countered by (G)(G). They still won that game, but I got to have my own little personal victory, and we still joke about it to this day.

[@andrewbillings9547]

Speaking of Naya Charm, I watched someone use Naya Charm to return another player's Wonder from their grave to hand in order to stop a lethal flying attack. He said, "I don't think this is supposed to be how this card works, but here goes!"

[@Sev0071]

The most notorious story among my friends is when my friend went “infinite” combats with his Brudiclad deck. He was just getting beat down the entire game and was at 3 life, plays saheeli’s artistry and makes a token of an opponent’s Scourge of the Throne. He goes to combat and gets an army of Scourges. We started doing the math of how many combats he gets thinking if we could even survive this and that’s when he points out he’ll get a new Scourge EVERY combat cuz of Brudiclad making a new token. I was freaking cheering for him, still my favorite win I got to witness.

[@JetNAmplify]

Please tell us about that door to nothing deck you mentioned at the end! That sounds insane!

[@jkattack2640]

My favorite story maker is mirage mirror. With just a few mana up, having access to almost any permanent on the board at all times always gives you a memorable line.

[@eternaleclypse]

A Hapatra player alpha striked players 2 and 4 with Triumph of the horde. I was next on the chopping block. Fortunately, I had a rakdos charm, and he still had 10 creatures with Infect.😂

[@chriss.7772]

Ouch, haha. As a hapatra pilot I myself i can feel the pain that caused. Perfect example of why sac outlets are so essential!

[@TalenLee]

'There's not a ton of white fog cards' Yeah there's literally only 40 of them as opposed to green's immense supply of 42.

[@alexcurtis6180]

One of my favorites is Mystic Reflection in my Raffine reanimator deck. I've done everything from having Urza, Lord High Artificer enter as an Inkling token to having a Chasm Skulker explode into 12 Ancient Gold Dragons. Wild card that doesn't get enough love

[@purpledaze3391]

It's my favorite card. My friend once used it to transform all the creatures from a 50 cost genesis wave into 1/1 humans

[@bluepomegranate]

Mystic reflection is such an underrated card! I love casting it in response to the etb trigger of a Master of Waves or Avenger of Zendikar to make a ludicrous number of creatures lol

[@rtotalexvii612]

The creatures don't die using Mirrorweave in Noyan Dar, because they would become copies of the original card, which itself was not a creature when it entered and you will just ramp your opponents. This is my understanding because I and many others run copy effects AS ramp in our Noyan Dar, the Roil Shaper decks (Quasiduplicate, Cackling Counterpart). There is a Deck Tech that says Mirrorweave functions as a one-sided boardwipe (except it will kill the commander too), but if that's true, then the copying a land creature for ramp won't work. I think Mirrorweave will copy the lands as unanimated lands, not as land creatures

[@steadfastideal]

My understanding is it does board wipe, and creature copy effects (generally) won't ramp Noyan Dar creaturified lands, either. The confusion is that the copy layer doesn't so much copy the original "card" (or you couldn't copy tokens) as if copies what the game defines as "copiable values". Type and Power/Toughness are among those values so the copies become creature lands named "Island" or whatever and have P/T 0/0 since the +1 counters aren't copiable. Once the game checks state based effects they are sent to the graveyard for having zero toughness. Hope that helps!

[@allhailklisz]

@@steadfastideal The issue is, the fact that Noyan's animated lands are creatures *at all* isn't a copiable value (because it's applied not on the copy layer, but later, on layer 4 for type-changing effects) - so anything that copies (as in your example) a basic Island animated by Noyan will become, not a 0/0 creature land named Island, but simply an ordinary, noncreature Island.

[@steadfastideal]

@@allhailklisz I stand corrected. Didn't notice that type-changing effects were excluded in their own layer and assumed they'd be copied since type/subtype/etc are themselves copyable values with regards to the printed text.

[@shilohartisan]

Crop Rotation The things you can do, at instant speed, for only 1 green mana, are many. It could be a clutch Strip Mine to get rid of an Ashaya as she tries to go infinite. It could be a Rogues Passage to give unblockable as you try to get the last point of commander damage on the archenemy. It could be a Maze of Ith, allowing you to make infinite mana with your attacking Argothian Elder. It could be a Voldaren Estate, letting your make infinite blood tokens with your Argothian Elder and Maze of Ith. It could be a Wirewood Lodge, giving your Selvala one more untap befove your have to sacrifice Phyrexian Dreadnought. It could be a Glacial Chasm, letting your cheat death when a damage doubler is about to put its preplacement effect on a Heartless Hidestugu activation. It could be a Mystic Sanctuary, putting CycRift on top of your library, which your Aesi trigger draws, letting you Rift the world to stop Craterhook and friends from eliminating you. It could be Emergence Zone, which could lead to all kinds of crazy shenanegins. It could be a Vesuva on the End Step before your turn, because someone has a Blightsteel Colossus enchanted by Song of the Dryads or Imprisoned in the Moon (in which case the Vesuva would enter tapped as a copy of Blightsteel, ready to swing for lethal when it untaps). it could be a timely Bojuka Bog, exiling an entire deck from a graveyard while Underworld Breach is on the stack. It could be Field of the Dead, making a Zombie on ETB, to chump block and save the game. It could be a bounceland, returing Boseiju Who Endures to hand so it can be cycled to get rid of a Cursed Totem that is stopping your win. It could be a Mycosynth Gardens, so you can make a copy of your Cursed Totem before it dies to someone else's Boseiju. So it's not just Crop Rotation. It's Crop Rotation plus a nonbasic lands package that gives you utility and synergizes with your deck. Crop Rotation has won more games for me than any other card, without question. And it has led to some of the craziest stories as well, including a T2 win in a $100 budget deck.

[@SackofDooDoo]

17:51 You can't make the spell counter itself, but usually you can redirect it to Imp's Mischief.

[@kippy7206]

My most recent story moment is using Fate Transfer in a Nymris, Oona's Trickster deck to steal 23 +1/+1 counters from Sauron's Orc Army and swing for flying commander lethal out of nowhere, but I've also got a dream with Nacatl War Pride in an Adrix & Nev deck to essentially punish people who build a wide board

[@AntagoNist-qn4ey]

I've had someone cast Mirrorweave, targeting a Suture Priest, in response to my Avenger of Zendikar's ETB trigger. I did not survive.

[@CutShadows]

My vote for card that can make several stories is Scythe of the Wretched. Between using it with Chandra's Reversal to wipe the board and steal everyone's creatures back onto your side or making your own creature huge with a lure effect and stealing every creature that dies blocking it, theres so many cool possibilities with this equipment.

[@chrismuro1364]

Makes me want to throw in a reins of power and use it against my buddies avacyn deck when he tries to Armageddon

[@jordansams6240]

oh hit avacyn with eaten by piranahas, gift of tusks, humble, and many of the other instant speed ways to make something lose all abilities

[@willdrum4food27]

gotta get Matt to sign my Narset's Reversal

[@thorbalt1]

So, last night had one of the most hilarious endings in a long while. Was in a pod with end the turn tribal, who had already stolen my mondrak and mother of machines. He then cast a treacherous urge on the gruul stompy player and steals a new etali. First etali trigger pulls a one of the flicker angels from my deck and a craterhoof from the stompy deck, and something that didnt matter from the last guy. second etali trigger had no impact (overall). So we already know with a double craterhoof trigger we are all dead, but want to see HOW dead. Flicker angel hits craterhoof and another creature. Now we have 4 craterhoof triggers in MP1. Then blade of selves goes on the craterhoof. With a mondrak. Combat declared. All attack. 8 more craterhoof triggers. Even as the dead player, it was GLORIOUS

[@jaredwonnacott9732]

Sometimes, the story you tell along with the game actions makes the story. I was playing Cadira, Caller of the Small and had managed to connect a few times. I was facing a pretty dangerous board to swing out into, but, I drew an Epic Struggle, so, once around the board just protecting my army of rabbit tokens, and then it came to my upkeep. So, I'm winning at this point, but I begin to narrate, "As my turn begins, each of you begins to notice just how soft and fluffy each of these little bunnies is. You can no longer resist the urge to just bask in their adorableness. You abandon your armies and surrender to the undisputed source of true power, cuteness." To this day, the guys from that game will warn people about to sit down with me that if they see anything too cute on my board, kill it immediately, because I can kill with cuteness. It doesn't even matter that I won't be playing the same deck, the story I made just is now my reputation.

[@hanschristopherson8056]

Asinine antics is insane in brudiclad, it makes like 14 tokens for four mana

[@aleix2012]

The first thing I thought was that the tokens are enchantments and auras... constellation effects are so wild with it

[@demeyesoftheuniverse8170]

RADIANT PERFORMER Man... The stories I could tell and the way I just wanna cram that beautiful card into all my red decks 😂

[@BrootalMetalBanjo]

Reins of Power and Domineering Will are some of my favorite cards. They are what sent me from Boros to Jeskai for my control deck.

[@Longshanks126]

Wild Ricochet is absolutely my favorite redirect spell, I got somebody's Time Warp with it once and it was glorious. I went after them too, so my Wyleth deck got 3 turns in a row, it was a glorious bloodbath.

[@Onattamato]

Two of my favorites: getting Blue Sun's Zenithed for 86 and Wild Ricochet'ing it to take out two players, and Whirlwind Dismissal'ing someone's board full of Allies that they had just mass blinked with Eerie Interlude.

[@Alico_Reborn]

My Claire D'Loon Undeck has won with Battle of Wits exactly once, and no more. I was super excited to build that deck when they spoiled it!

[@BlockDriver]

Oh, I have a Mirrorwave story! I was playing against a Tetzin Gnome Champion deck. They played Mirrorwave turning everything into 1/1 thopters, then cast a Dockside extortonist, followed by an Austere Command. So it was basically a board wipe plus they got an enormous pile of treasures.

[@jordansams6240]

Thank you for making this episode, it reminded me about something i forgot along the way of optimizing my decks, in that i love commander for the shenanigans. I just went through all my decks and added in all those fun cards that i optimized out even though i always loved them

[@ylygylygynda]

My wife has a Satoru Umezawa deck. I cannot count the number of times she ninjutsu’d a Blightsteel Colossus in my face. The one that I won at an auction for her, in the Megatron art.

[@movingtriangle8527]

My favorite story was when I used Chromeshell Crab to take my friends Emrakul and since then we've all learned to fear the Crab 🦀

[@tthien93]

You guys always make great content but this is exactly the video I was looking for since I love playing these types of cards

[@jonathanfagerlund976]

I'm building a Jaheira/Clan Crafter deck, and I don't think Asinine Antics was even on that EDHREC page, but I discovered it while brainstorming. Every one of those Cursed Role tokens now doubles as a mana rock when your commander's out. Your opponents have ten creatures in total? Antics just weakened them all AND you suddenly have access to ten green mana.

[@Scienceboy0]

My favorite commander moment was when a player played The One Ring, feeling really safe with his protection from everything, ready to win the next turn. Then his opponent plays Insult//Injury, which says "damage can't be prevented this turn" and doubles your damage. Dude went from invincible to dead with one card cast, it was glorious.

[@Alice.Aurelious]

I remeber once stealing both pieces of brisela out of someones graveyard the table getting rid of it and then the original owner assembling brisela

[@mystikx2205]

One of my biggest stories involves myself and a friend of mine. I was still getting into the game and had a pretty decent Jund pile.dek, and my friend was using Queen Marchesa. It got to the point where I couldn't win, but I could force a draw. I used Sign in Blood, targeting him, then used Rakdos Charm, choosing the "1 damage for each creature" mode. We were both at low enough life for it to wipe us both out, but I didn't anticipate the Teferi's Protection that he ended up drawing from the Sign in Blood. Another fun moment was when one player in the pod was about to win with Thassa's Oracle, but another player said "Response: Angel's Grace".

[@amdeaton]

I think my worst blowout with a redirect was having 50 damage from my aetherflux reservoir pointed at somebody come back at me from a deflecting swat. One of my favorite interactive spells that makes a story is mandate of peace. Being able to exile spells and abilities off the stack as well as a pseudo-fog can create some really memorable moments, AND on top of all that your opponents can't cast spells for the rest of the turn.

[@yes.thatjanedoe]

I've even used it to stop annihilatior triggers 😂

[@teradul2480]

Mirrorweave actually won't make the Noyan Daar tokens board wipe your opponents, it will turn everything into lands (which still leaves them wide open for a swing, but won't resolve them forever)

[@asinclair666]

Phage, the Untouchable is my favorite deck of all time!!! it feels so good to send people to the shadow realm with her lol. I've had her be blinked on me and send me to the shadow realm before as well lol.

[@retro.7673]

My favorite memory of magic ever was a friend of mine owned the card anointed procession. However he didn’t know it was valuable since it was bulk when it came out. And so we played and he used his deck which was unsleeved and he bridge shuffled it twice. Turn 4 casted the card. The entire table collectively paused since we realized he bridge shuffled a 50$ card without knowing

[@Flameboy53]

Mirage Mirror!!!! This card always does silly things. I have copied opponents creatures for surprise blocks, bomb enchantments for the win, or my favorite door to nothingness for an unexpected kill out of no where. This card always makes for good memories even if it just copies a land to fizzle a "destroy target nonland permanent" spell. I love this card and I am always excited when I draw it. Thanks for a fun episode!

[@darilmarra4383]

A story that was made by a card I played but it was not in my favor: I was playing a burn deck and cast repercussion (damage to creatures is also redirected to their owners) and a friend of mine (next in turn) played the Tarrasque, attacked an opponent for basically unblockable 20 damage, deleted him and I realized my mistake now that I knew I was next.

[@cannonballbrad9522]

Late to the conversation. Made a pirate deck. I have thematic stuff. I have 2 krakens in it, a fish that mills, and I have Sun Quan lord of Wu lol my defense is that buccaneers were historically pirates that went inland and explored. Giving pirates and ships horsemanship and then played great train heist from OTJ to give an extra combat phase. Got to win OUT OF NOWHERE in a fairly evenly paced game. Also in my pirate deck I was able to play Magda , sacrifice treasures for Hellkite tyrant and win. Anticlimactic. The two big combats and horsemanship was way better.

[@traptbysociety]

My favourite Narset's Reversal moment I pulled off was with my Riku of Two Reflections deck. I played Karn's Temporal Sundering, copied it with Riku's ability, then Narset's Reversal on the original KTS, only to recast it and copy it again on the first of multiple extra turns. Lovely bit of filth I've never been able to repeat 😅

[@marcoottina654]

I was an Emperor with a mono-red Goblin deck. Suddenly, I said: "Guys, I've won." Then I explained an at-will-infinite combo with Goblin Warchief + 3 Lightning Crafter, "bolting" everybody for lethal. It was a sudden stop and reset, everybody was speechless.

[@SPAMLiberationArmy]

I kept Entrapment Manuver from the precon when I built Commissar Severina Raine. I've only played it twice, but both times were hilarious. I mean, holding up 4 mana in an aggro deck can be rough, but the second an opponent gets too overconfident, lazy, or precious with their creatures and just swings just one big beater, bam! The background cards that make you target different players to get their effects also make for some good chaos.

[@davidhansen5067]

I love Approach of the Second Sun, played fairly, as one of these, because that first cast really throws down the gauntlet to the rest of the table. I love it most in my Isperia, Supreme Judge deck because it makes the puzzle more difficult and interesting.

[@maxleveladventures]

I wish Cruel Entertainment gave both players extra mana or something. With it costing 7 to cast, it seems like it basically reads: "Do nothing this turn, and then probably lose the game." I love chaotic cards and I'd be way more tempted to play if it made both players draw a card or create some treasure tokens or something.

[@justinayran]

I've played Reins of Power in response to my opponent casting Cyclonic Rift. Good times.

[@mightyone3737]

As I work on certain decks, they just scream for Vorthos elements, especially decks built around weaker Commanders or ones that don't do very much, it really helps you get invested in a character, and remember that most of your favorite stories featured heroes who were objectively weaker than the villains (...for obvious reasons, if the villain isn't way more powerful how is their tension?). I enjoy building 99 driven decks where the actual Commander isn't relevant, but the 99 is much harder to ignore (in part because you aren't 'wasting space' on non-veggies 'cards that synergize the Commander', so you have TONS of space for all the cards that just do work you need done every game, like card draw/interaction, and you still have space for dumb stuff!). One of my all time favs is Rite of the Raging Storm, to make it shine though you need to give it a bit of support, throw in a few extra wipes and some stuff that buffs the tokens, like Mask of Griselbrand or Basilisk Collar, maybe Berserkers' Onslaught/Exquisite Blood if you're fancier, that card pops more than it should, to be polite. It also works with Grave Pact since it's a sacrifice effect. Meanwhile, everyone else has to deal with free 5/1 Tramples coming at them from all angles, since they aren't coming at you. Anyone who neglected to run a LOT of blockers is likely doomed, and the nice thing is that everything that you run that helps Rite's token can also help other stuff. It has an effect very similar to Slicer in the 99, but it's more resistant to removal.

[@raymondcarter4335]

Aww man, I was running Selesnya Voltron and got hit with a Cyclonic Rift, punched back with a reprieve, then they Dispelled and I played Mana Tithe to clean up. Love the off color counters

[@borislibaque1558]

I have a card like this too. Chant of Vitu Ghazi. One of the most epic lifegain spells, and you can cast it with convoke. Its always led to memorable moments

[@CHoustonify]

I will join the Patreon TODAY if I can get the decklist to the Door to Nothingness deck Matt mentioned.

[@jmbaice]

I love Simic Biovisionary. Lots of copy effects and the Mirrorweave effects work wonders.

[@jasperfuhs4988]

Noyan Dar interaction with mirror weave doesn't actually work. It just turns everything into lands. The 0/0 aspect is not a copied effect since they are animated lands

[@chriss.7772]

Had a game recently, where everyone was convinced that the Krenko deck would win on turn 6/7. I ran my vampire tribal deck and played new blood on turn 4. Krenko indeed won on turn 7 - as a 3/3 vampire.

[@madamimadam5269]

Mystic reflection in Toxrill! I’ve had roughly 10 slugs enter as an It That Betrays… 😂

[@rockydirtbag]

This probably wouldn't work that way. Since Toxrill ceates a separate trigger for each creature that dies, only the next Slug would enter as an Eldrazi. For Mystic Reflection to create multiple copies, the creatures have to enter all at once (e.g. Dragon Fodder)

[@goldenglinoga7665]

I had a similar experience with Cruel Entertainment except I did it with "Reins of Power". The absolute confusion my token deck opponent had when I said that we had to swap seats because I was attacking him with his creatures, causing the large group of people watchung us to back off so we could stand up and I could swing with his creatures is my proudest moment for my Phelddagrif deck

[@aleix2012]

Same but with Kros, Defense contractor!! Awesome finisher there (and practically only way of finishing)

[@Nose4a2]

My favorite "memory maker" is Tidal Barracuda. It's always a fun time when everything has flash

[@christinamouawad1153]

I had a game with my Minn, Wily Illusionist deck where I had 8 illusions on the board and got attacked by a Master of Cruelties and a bunch of non-trampley angels, dragons and demons (Kalia of the Vast)... I block a bunch of stuff, and a few Illusions die to first strike, and I cheat Akroma's Memorial into play thanks to Minn, fog the rest of the blocks, and have enough power on board to crack back for lethal

[@holynacho17]

I love using Twisted Image to kill cretures with 0 power :) Since then it happened multiple times, but the first time I sat down against Arcades, my opponent was just speechless :)

[@loptr9581]

I think my favourite use of a story card is when I played Echoing Equation and made a board of 12 Marit Lages that swarmed the board

[@KomradeKrisis1701]

One day, ONE DAY I will manage to win a game with Mechanized Production. Have still never managed to keep it around long enough to actually win off it, but I’m never going to forget the time I enchanted a Darksteel Relic with it as a desperate attempt to have it stay around. My entire table looked at me like I had completely lost it 😅😅😅

[@mitch7110]

My friend loves playing that card. I've lost to 8 sol rings more than once

[@cadonuno]

I play majestic genesis in every deck that can play it (commander CMC > 8 with green, ideally with a ton of permanents). My ur dragon battles deck loves it as you can get the back side of invasion of arcavios to double the spell (and the ur dragon also loves permanents)

[@typethe1316]

Cataclysm! I have had so many stories (and game wins) from a very well timed Cataclysm. Just picture it... You've built a board with a large creature and the archenemy is about to pop off. Boom! Cataclysm! Everyone else has run out their whole hand while you've played cagey. Boom! Cataclysm! It really has to be the most memorable card when used by experienced players. It's not a board wipe. It's an "I win the game" card when you can either hold back resources or build the biggest and unremovable threat.

[@actuallyKriminell]

I have a 5c cascade hypergenesis edh deck that produces memorable games almost every time I play it. Decking people by having 5 copies of Rites of Flourishing for seceral turns happened several times already

[@drew-id]

I run Boros Charm in my Kitt Kanto deck for that same versatility. Once won on by bolting an attacking player for 4 damage to the face between.... his first strike and normal strike damage.... Ensuring another player got eliminated by him first.

[@gordonbusseau9349]

Here is a story for you. After winning a game of commander with Approach of the second Sun my friend said "I cast Approach of the third finger.

[@enrikolankau3702]

I will always remember playing the first game with my new secret lair angel deck and getting melded Brisela down ON TURN 4 !!! It got destroyed, but 2 turns later I got her back :D

[@Veiwer77]

I was playing Kalamax and a friend played a Karn's temporal sundering. I wild ricochet, copied the wild ricochet, redirected the original Sundering to me and the two copies to me. I took three extra turns and bounced three permanents! That felt really good! Oh, I also took the guy who was swinging for lethal at me with a Rakdos charm I cascaded into out of desperation.

[@chrisguard696]

I fully expected "Matt what are we talking about this week" "Challenging the stats"

[@JujuInFlames]

Funniest game my friends had was I was playing Ghen, another was playing Lathril, and another playing Karador, every turn the karador player found ways to bring out their whole graveyard but would get board wiped for like 4 turns straight. We knew we’d lose at some point until I realized I had a wheel of fortune in my graveyard and my smothering tithes on the board, so I used underworld breach to play the wheel and with that combo I played approach of the second sun twice and won the game. We still talk about it just because the absurdity of one player coming back after multiple boardwipes and still losing

[@JonReid01]

Ok poll time does Matt love his Council of Four deck more, or does Joey love his Baby Lasagna deck more

[@LegendaryMaeve]

I use Nanogene Conversion in my Magus Lucea Kane deck which is very fun to turn all creatures into my Kalonian Hydra.

[@Balooh]

I once used Firbolg Flutist in my Obeka deck to steal a mutate stack from an opponent and give it myriad. Then, I used Obeka to end the turn so I could keep the mutates myriad copies. That was fun.

[@richardjohnson8991]

My favorite all time commander story was playing a local impromptu tournament with my Azami wizards control combo deck The game came down to tap out to play mind over matter, discard my two cards for one mana and untapping azami to keep the card draw going. The game was lost if i drew lab maniac before my treasure cruise as i wouldnt have 3 mana to cast it. I drew treasure cruise first and won the game. Every card i drew was laborous and even though it was absolutely no stakes game getting the win meant for to me than the time i beat Marc Castillo in tourney

[@jasonritner9662]

My roommate has a Shalai and Halar deck that uses Virtue of Loyalty. As soon as he cracked a pack with that card it went to that deck almost immediately. It is almost oppressive depending on board state.

[@ayayashamwow2021]

My favorite card story involves 2 absolutely insane cards that created a nasty combo. I was in the driver seat of the game at that point, and I had actually gotten hit with a Reins of Power in main 1 on my set up board (3 Wurmcoil Engines, a 12/12 Nettlecyst, a Kaldra Compleat and a bunch of random little artifact tokens), and was given 2 creatures. No big deal really. I then unfortuntely saw a card I had never seen, Spectacular Showdown, overloaded of course, so everything stolen from me now had doublestrike. Taken from me was also a Whirler Rogue which can tap 3 artifacts to make a creature unblockable. I ended up surviving that turn but that combo was like wait hold on what kind of beatdown did I just fall victim to.

[@VagrantKing]

Once killed my last opponent who was at 24 life with a Boros Charm and a Fury Storm after killing and replaying my own commander to increase the Fury Storm and cast 6 total Boros charms for 4 damage each 😂

[@chummer2060]

My Blim deck has created some silly stories. Captive Audience, Demonic Pact, and Immortal Coil were fantastic

[@nharviala]

My favorite story so far was using Auton Soldier in Araumi, the funniest moment so far is using it to make 9 token copies of an opponent's Wilhelt.

[@23Jonzy]

Zur's weirding is always gold

[@casmiry]

Funny enough, I almost lost to a All Is Dust, but apparently I had an untapped Starlit Sanctum in play, before AiD results. Tap and sack something for exactly 1 damage. Opponent had a Kozilek The Great Distortion but couldn't counter the Sanctum.

[@junh.p.9801]

so every time a buddy of mine plays rakdos coloured deck, he will include this card called "Captivating Audience". I have been on the receiving end of that darn card for so many many tables and it got me so wired to be prepared to play around it. It was many funs to be had. Sometimes I get out of it, most the time I dont. haha

[@ThisIsACommanderChannel]

I was just recently in a game in which I had one opponent playing Mill and the other was playing a lot of wheel effects. Earlier in the game I had cast a Psychic Possession on the wheel player, I only used it once and then I quickly caught onto what they were both doing and I stopped drawing much from it so as to not draw from an empty Library. Crazy enough, the Mill player milled me almost all the way out but then I killed him on my turn and the wheel player then caused me to draw to now zero cards in my Library but on my turn I didn't lose because of the Psychic Possession, I skipped my draw for turn, and then I killed him that turn. Never would have expected that to happen, that a Psychic Possession would save me from a game loss against Mills and wheels, but it was awesome!

[@ANitschkeProduction]

I've done the Vorpal Sword and Brisela. Both in different decks.

[@JamesMakarov-o8o]

Isnt warping wail in golgari super hard to cast with its colorless? 16:40

[@thomaseddy7347]

Reins of Power is one of my favorite cards! One of my friends runs a Gishath deck and I've beat him to death with his own dino army 3 times.

[@jontsubota6235]

Shuffling up for a game with my best friends. I luck out with a turn 1 sol ring - which is countered by my buddies pact of negation. On turn one. He had *just* gotten a text from a girl he was into asking to hang out 20 minutes from that moment. How could I be mad?

[@andrewp979]

I still remember when my opponent melded Brisela. I was dominating thr game as Orvar, but they managed Brisela and since my deck runs a LOT of 1-2 cmc targeting spells, I was totally locked out and lost to it

[@tiptop_flipflop]

Oh man, Dawn Charm! What a card! I was playing Firja and being targeted down by my buddy's mono-red Zurzoth deck as he wanted to get ahead of my life gain. Fair, but oof! He burned through his resources and saved his Jeska's Will as his last card - hoping to pick up a bunch of mana off my full grip. Slammed down a Dawn Charm - and oh man his reaction 😂

[@yes.thatjanedoe]

I had made a voltron deck recently and had added Vorpal Sword to the deck. And immediately had the goal of taking out everyone with it. I finally did it (kinda) it was a five pod but I took out 4 players to Vorpal Sword and then promptly died to my Skelv Hive

[@FullRoy2326]

I'm just surprised that Joey didn't mention Inkshield at all

[@therealjeromeo4366]

You guys talking about asinine antics and court of vantress makes me wanna get together the list I have for hakim, loreweaver

[@Lee-qc5ix]

if i ever get to cast final parting, brisela usually comes out on the next turn...

[@ricogarciaperez4734]

right at the beginning that joke from Matt is a real "DAD" Joke xD

[@CakesHere]

At college, I played against someone who loved playing Xancha as their commander. It was rakdos cards they liked and so there was a little bit of chaos in every game they played. Inside of one of them, they cast cruel entertainment between us two. I was playing some abzan Big Board deck that was going to win and the problem was only going to get worse. They then pass to the person who controlled xancha wo then passes to me. They see I have a sac outlet in hand and wipe my board. Drat! And on top of that, they had a revil in riches in play, so all of those bodies gave them the treasure to win the game!! Double drat!! But all was fine as I had a plan. They didn't crack any of the treasure they made off killing my entire board. So I had a pile of like... 100+ treasure on board when the turn changed, and I had full control over them. First thing I did was crack all the treasure for mana as I didn't want to lose the game. Then I saw their Xancha in front of me. And a library with not a lot of cards left. So I just kept throwing Xancha triggers onto the stack. Enough that it killed P3 from Xancha damage and Xancha's master from deckout. Just be careful when you put yourselves in the play of Cruel Entertainment

[@oldkokochen1593]

The thumbnail reminded me that a player in our group successfully melded a Brisela, which I ate with a Phyrexian Devourer. Nom Nom

[@Srynan]

My best cruel entertainment moment was back in my teens, playing with a friend who had just started a few weeks ago. We were alle playing the 4C Precons, with a few small upgrades. He was playing Ydris, I was playing Breya. He played my turn and wanted to sac a bit of my stuff for not much gain. I had looked at his hand and saw that, basically, I could kill him. Sadly, I dont remember which card it was exactly that he had - I think it was a combination of paying life for an effect and then losing life when a creature died. Anyway, I told him "dont mess with anything, just pass the turn, or I will kill you when it comes to your turn (that I control). He, being new and having just missed that interaction I found, was like "nah, no way 😂" and did his thing. When I actually managed to selfkill him on his turn he was flabberghasted and we were all sitting there, laughing for a while. Cruel entertainment indeed!

[@blupinto1629]

loved this episode!

[@clovergannon]

I lost a game when my Brisela was blindsided from outta nowhere by a Trostani's Judgment from my buddy's populate deck... To be fair, my Bruna deck had a few wins under her belt by that point,