Unluckiest Game of Magic: The Gathering Caught on Camera

[@TheUnluckiestDraw]

Well, I am the one who lost that game. Glad to see it is still talked about from time to time 😂

[@NikachuMTG]

The man himself! What was going through your mind when you drew the 4th Scapeshift?

[@TheUnluckiestDraw]

@@NikachuMTG “F***, I am dead on board. How could this game slip away from me?!?” But the situation was so absurd that I took it with a smile. The match was very friendly and fair so there was no real reason for being mad or angry. I often say that I might have lost a match that day but I won a story to tell for life. Totally worth it 😁

[@RafaelAAMerlo]

Finding this is why I always read the comments! Thank you Laurent and Nikachu for living and telling this legendary legend for us all XD

[@neckropemancer5416]

@@TheUnluckiestDraw I am wondering after seeing that your KZbin account is only three days old if you made it just to comment on here because you original account was something other than you’re name you might rather not comment with.

[@westonshoaf9977]

Yo Laurent did ben have a way to gain life or am I just missing something, when you drew your 4th scapeshift ben had 14 life, why couldn't you just scapeshift sac all 6 lands and get valakut and 5mountains and deal 15 dmg?

[@Bretzel81]

Laurent: “By my calculations I’ve got a 99.999% of winning” Ben: “So your’e tellin me theres a chance…”

[@gazblackheart4596]

"Never tell me the odds"

[@TCGTVGAMING]

LOL 😂😂😂

[@WhatisAPaladin]

i dont believe this math tbh.. can i see the calculations?

[@teo3066]

@@WhatisAPaladin It's a reference, not a calculation Probably

[@WhammeWhamme]

@@WhatisAPaladin - at the point we start watching, he has 6 lands out, primetime, search and explosives in the yard, scapeshift in hand. 3/50 to draw another scapeshift, 2/49 to draw the third and 1/48 to draw the fourth and final. That's 5 divided by (50 * 49 * 48), which is 0. 004% . (Numbers change slightly if he was deeper in his deck, there isn't enough of the coverage for me to be sure he didn't draw and play another sorcery, but one or two cards aren't going to change the odds that much)

[@omologo95]

I'm just happy both of them got a laugh at the improbable mess at the end. That's what matters here.

[@swiftmic8402]

Your photo doesnt match your wholesome comment >

[@omologo95]

@@swiftmic8402 Not the first time I've heard that. Still not sure why, but so be it!

[@SpitefulAZ]

Young me would still rage. Old me would appreciate how rare that is.

[@PraetorGix]

It was a tournament. You know, a competitive trial one participates in to win? Getting a laugh out of it was among the least important things in there by definition.

[@omologo95]

@@PraetorGix I'm... not sure what your point is here.

[@CSGOSupericus]

The way Laurent reacted was like - "Dude you HAVE to see this" and Ben is just like - "holy shit really??" How they both laughed and appreciated it - what good sports!

[@ChillyJack]

Worst luck I've seen in person was for my opponent at FNM years ago when I somehow had 4 Archive Trap in my opening hand. He cracked a fetch turn 1 and lost turn 2.

[@nicholashinderer9896]

I remember playing back then, game was so good

[@NStripleseven]

Wow that’d’ve been fun

[@guilhermebasso9219]

Got 3x Archive Trap turn 2 once.

[@RedJackz]

I've gotten myself to 3 archive traps myself. My good friend really hates my mill deck :3

[@nicholashinderer9896]

@@RedJackz Opponent: crack fetch You: so u have chosen death?

[@Roaming_Hobo]

Not MTG but way back in the very early 2000's, I was playing in a Yugioh tournament. I watched a guy shuffle his deck many times, his opponent then shuffled his deck a few times to "cut it", and his opening hand was 4 different pieces of Exodia and Mirror Force. He then top decked the fifth piece to auto win.

[@CortanaX]

The heart of the cards is strong on that one

[@ignacioperez5479]

a friend told me something like that. a friend of him was in a tournament, he started the game and drew all 5 pieces. he started to laugh and called the judge. they both started laughing because it was a 0 turn win

[@grandmoffrevan4933]

That sounds shady

[@Ms666slayer]

@@ignacioperez5479 I mean there was a legendary tournament where both players drew the 5 pieces of Exodia on their opening hand, because Exodia's effect is a weird ass condition that activates immediatly and makes no chain at all, that meant that bothe effects activatedf simultaneuosly,a nd bith players won at the same time, the Judge just declared it a draw, and that has been the official ruling since, also it has never happened again on any official tournament.

[@kannonball5789]

@@Ms666slayer I mean if both players get the same auto-win condition at the same time that makes sense.

[@pairot01]

This one time I was playing sultai reclamation vs dredge, game 1. Growth spiral on 2, reclamation on 3 and another on 4. I had the exact ammount of mana to make them draw their whole deck (like 25 cards or so) and have them die on their draw step. They dredged 5 and hit all 4 creeping chills making me go to exactly 0 life. There are no words to describe how much I hate creeping chill.

[@NikachuMTG]

WOW

[@JundThemOut]

But Your draw spell resolves complete before the creeping chills beginning to resolves. When he dredges a few cards. How can he still have enough cards in his libary that he Not died to the draw of an empty libary?? I mean, it dosent matter if there Are 100 creeping chills on the Stack. As long your spell is still resolving.

[@JundThemOut]

Cards resolving completly. all thats it triggers goes Just on the Stack and Wait until Your spell is done. When you make hin draw his Deck and he dredges. He still has to draw his Deck(25 cards) Accept now he died imiedatly and Not in his drawphase. And When he dies and Your won it DOS Not matter what is also on the Stack

[@JundThemOut]

Please expain Thing to me. I Just dident understand.

[@pairot01]

@@JundThemOut I meant enough mana on my next turn. Wilderness reclamation untaps your lands on your end step, it's a trigger so they stack. I had just enough if my opponent even decided to not dredge to conserve cards in library.

[@ikejohnson5494]

Ben: Keeps a one-land hand Also Ben: Where’s all my mana?

[@farbeyond37]

Craziest thing I’ve ever personally seen was at an SCG open in baltimore. I think I was at table 6 or 7 and glanced over at the table next to me. Dredge player has less than 20 cards left in their deck. Tron player at 6 life attacks with ulamog. Dredge player in response to the trigger removed the last counter from their shriekhorn and mills the last 2 creeping chills. They laughed and high fived.

[@supertrouperJC02]

This was hilarious. 1 guy can topdeck anything other than 3 cards and win, the other guy has a single land on the battlefield with no board 🤣

[@emperornapoleon6204]

Arcbound Ravager to the other artifact lads: Bots, we got em.

[@raikhdaemon7183]

Looks like your average game with the MTGA shuffler

[@mattmichael3310]

MTGA is the inverse of this game . My opponents will top deck Questing beast into Ember cleave lol

[@Greg501-]

@@mattmichael3310 It's both, if MTGA wants you to lose, you WILL topdeck no lands or all the lands

[@Bloodfire83]

@@Greg501- it’s funny too because MTGA will just up and decide you need to “cool off” and completely tank you for a while. I’ve seen this on multiple accounts now. If I get on a hot streak and win a few dozen games in a row, the shuffle will just be like, “go sit in the corner” and I’ll draw all of my lands in the top half of my deck... for multiple games in a row... for multiple drafts in a row...

[@clagen86]

@@Bloodfire83 My MTGA draft experience has been brutally one-sided lately. Built a BOMB ass Sultai deck with 2 Sedgemoor Witch and 2 Bookwurms. Not a single one of those draws showed up.....

[@FilthyWeeb27]

@@Bloodfire83 The got mana flooded straight up 7 games in a row, playing a 21 land rakdos aggro deck in the witch oven format. Absolutely disgusting and made me stop playing mtga since it is not a real game of mtg to me anymore

[@filipefernandes8669]

Gonna tell you a story that looks almost Impossible, but its 100% real and my luckyest game ever. The format was standard, the last set released at the time was Zendikar. Opponent was playing jund, classic jund, bloodbraids, trinax, blightnings, so on. I was playing UW Control, before Worldwake was released, my win conditions were 2 Sphinx of Jar Isle, 4 knight of white orchid, 3 Martial Coup and 3 Jace Beleren, thats it, no colonades, no mindsculptors, those cards didnt exist yet. Game 1 i won a long game. Game 2 i sideboard out all my Jace Belerens and bring in some counters and removal. On game 2, my opponent casts early on Thought Hemorrage naming Sphinx of Jwar Isle. Im like, sure no problem, i can still win this. Some turns later opponent manages to resolve another Thought Hemorrage naming Martial Coup. At this point I'm like doomed, with only 2 Knight of White Orchid left as win-cons against a deck with bolts, Maelstrom pulses and their own creatures. I can't Win this game, i must concede to try to Win game 3. But for some reason i didnt concede immediatly. On my Turn... i draw a card, and what do I draw???? Drum roll.... Jace Beleren! It turns out i miss sideboarded and left 1 Jace Beleren in the deck by mistake!! My savior win con!! I could ultimate Jace and Win! But my library was way smaller than my opponent, it was gonna be close. I started +2ing Jace every turn, my opponent never found an answer and as unlikely as it sounds i managed to ult Jace Beleren when my opponent had exactly 20 cards in his deck and myself had ZERO cards on my deck. I pass my opponent can't draw from an empty library and loses, I had 0 cards on my own deck as well. No only did I won with a card i thought i sided out, but I also drew it on the last possible moment. Had i drawn Jace Beleren a turn later and i would had milled myself first. To this day this is my luckyest MTG moment, kinda hard to beat it. JACE BELEREN WINS!!

[@TehSeksyManz]

Holy shit!

[@hugoguerreiro1078]

When people say midrange decks are fair I always think back to zendikar standard jund being played by like half the people present at any tournament.

[@filipefernandes8669]

@@hugoguerreiro1078 Those were the days

[@claytonnewlon3747]

@Hugo Guerriro In the context of MTG decks, calling a deck “fair” has nothing to do with how good it is in tournaments and what share of the metagame it holds, rather it describes whether or not it is trying to win on the basic axis of “attack my opponent with creatures over multiple turns”. RUG Delver in Legacy is a fair deck even though it would trounce any Modern deck, and Historic Dragonstorm is an unfair deck despite being mostly a meme. It’s a strange way to describe decks, but that’s always how I’ve seen “fair” used in the context of MTG.

[@hugoguerreiro1078]

@@claytonnewlon3747 fair means a deck plays in a traditional way, interacting with the opponent with creatures, removal and similar spells. Control decks would also fall under that category (although some people no longer use that term to refer to them because they don't like counterspells). Different people have somewhat different definitions of fair nowadays. Meanwhile unfair decks are decks that do things outside of the conventional ways, like combo decks. The reason why I think that Jund wasn't very fair is because it was extremely hard to beat by playing in a traditional manner. Despite the deck appearing "fair" at first glance, you couldn't really outgrind it. If you tried to interact with their cards you'd just lose card advantage, which makes the deck not seem fair, since it doesn't just win by playing creatures and turning them sideways. Instead, their creatures and other spells work together to exhaust your resources and outlast you. I guess this might also be why people don't consider control very fair either, but zendikar Jund took it to a whole other level. Plus, cascade is a blatantly unfair mechanic and I'd go as far as to say it's on par with storm. And later on vengivine lists started popping up, and I wouldn't call that a fair card either.

[@Purple_hat1]

One time when I was in fnm I shuffled my deck and my opponent did right afterwards. I drew lands every draw and he was on control, I was on mardu aggro. I had 23 lands in the deck and drew 22 lands in a row and ended up conceding cause I only started with 3 playables.

[@Joe-nh8eq]

Sounds like he unshuffled you. I have a few friends who can this. Where they’ll watch you shuffle and if your shuffle is patterned, they’ll unshuffle your deck. It’s a lot easier than it sounds

[@Igor-pj4iq]

@@Joe-nh8eq yup

[@KingBobXVI]

@@Joe-nh8eq - Yep, this is why pile shuffling is not actually shuffling. Just do mash shuffles but make sure to keep the piles irregular.

[@LucianDevine]

@@KingBobXVI And why you're supposed to end your shuffling with at least 1 actual randomization method.

[@AvengerProxy]

This is happened one of my matches against my opponent. and i swear i did give it a proper shuffle (it was just a friendly match between two irl friends). and he draw same amount of lands in a row. We both shocked. It is rare but can happen XD

[@pairot01]

The startrek quote is actually from Sherlock Holmes

[@NikachuMTG]

Yeah but that clip was better.

[@AlexanderNash]

It's also nonsense because you can't know if you have eliminated all impossibilities.

[@ifiig8220]

Back in amonkhet standard I was looking at lethal after casting approach of the second sun the one time already. I flashed back a commit//memory memory half (approach w a a singleton copy in my jekai control deck) and my only out was to top deck the approach to wind since my opponent was tapped out on temur energy. We shuffled out graveyards and hands into our library, I presented the deck for him to cut and he shuffled and cut. Ended up winning by having approach as the last card in my new 7 😂

[@blightedadmiral7006]

Me simply casually playing mtg: You haven’t seen sh*t

[@alfredjames4530]

Why hello there

[@jasonmolenaar119]

@@alfredjames4530 General Kenobi!

[@alfredjames4530]

@@jasonmolenaar119 Sure

[@t1glistenerelf]

@@alfredjames4530 It's a small world after all.

[@alfredjames4530]

@@t1glistenerelf Indeed it is

[@JS-fz8iu]

My single greatest game was a perfect relentless rats hand. 1x swamp, 4x dark ritual, 1x thrumming stone, 1x relentless rat

[@jackpabich763]

As a TitanShift player, I remember watching this and cringing...

[@DrkWhiteWolf]

Best part is, neither player showed any form of disappointment or rage in the moment, both were all smiles and had a good laugh at the luck of the draw.

[@kendalcannon8858]

Shoutout to the time i kept a 7 land hand at WAR prerelease then preceeded to draw nothing but lands the entire game wihch lasted 6-7 turns

[@LucianDevine]

I was running a low to the ground standard elf deck at a State championship, won game 1 quickly. Game 2, draw up a 0 land hand with a couple 1 drop mana dorks and everything else I would need if I drew a single land. I was on the draw, make the sketchy keep, drew the land, and won the game.

[@irbster]

Nah you're lying dude show some class for crying out loud

[@bradjones7491]

I once drew 15 lands in a row and turned out there were still 3 more land on top deck. The deck had 22 lands. I shuffled like 7 times before that game using various methods.

[@andrewoliver7605]

Shuffled so much got the deck back in order

[@dragoadvent]

I was playing a friendly game with some friends, and my opponent was running 5 colour dragons and I was running 5 colour slivers. on turn 3, he cast 3 desperate rituals, 2 seething songs, and a dragonstorm. pulled out Utvara Hellkite, Dragonlord Kolaghan, Atarka World Render, and three other dragons, and swung for well more than lethal. Only time that deck has beaten my slivers.

[@jimichaos]

Perfect example of why you never scoop, no matter how dead you look

[@DedicatedCaffeineUser]

If that were me, as soon as I drew my third scapeshift, I would’ve just cast one of them purely to shuffle my library

[@bsmartr806]

My unluckiest game was drawing 17 lands in a row...after shuffling, fetching, scrying and also after drawing 10 my opponent grabbed my deck and shuffled it...and yes we both know how to shuffle decks. (My deck had 22, with 4 fetches).

[@saiconjr]

sounds like my GP experience with 4Color Rally

[@SuperAaron55555]

How did you survive 17 turns of doing nothing? Did your opponent draw 18 lands in a row??? 😂

[@Pedaeus]

@@SuperAaron55555 dude in my unluckiest game, I drew 40 lands in a row. My deck only had 18 lands idk how it happened... and yes we both know how to shuffle decks

[@lLikeMaple]

and from that day on, he only played 3 copies of scapeshift

[@Ragmesesis]

This proves MTG Arena Algorithm is true🤣

[@shoenessperson]

I was playing casual in high school lunch and topped 3 different fog effects on each of my turns and accidentally turbo fogged into a playable board state.

[@Plainswalker]

No matter how well you make your deck everything's decided by RNG

[@johannesderspinner]

Aaahhh... Back when there were GPs and GPs were on Twitch 😭

[@ShuckCreations]

And Mox Opal...

[@augustjologs1]

Getting paired with a turn 0 win opponent is unlucky!!!

[@krissimonis3604]

My craziest moment when I played M:TG was during a grand melee, my opening hand + draw was an infinite combo and everything needed to play it on turn one. several of them being restricted cards. I believe it was something like, Lotus, sol ring, mox, fast bond, storm cauldron, and some green spell that gave you 3 life for 3+G and 3 more life for every 1 + G you added to the cast.

[@danielquigley2695]

Wow! Makes my nine Lands in a row of the top seem common.

[@lucagiovanninieddu2603]

The unluckiest game BEFORE Arena where you always draw multiple copies of expensive cards and 0 lands or only lands with 0 spells! 😤😤😤

[@aryathewolf1961]

He had us in the first half, not gonna lie...

[@Bpuffbpuff]

I don't play mtg at all, but I always enjoy seeing extraordinary things happen in tournament. The fact that you explain the strategy along with the card effect has made watch 4 videos of you on a row 🤣

[@NikachuMTG]

Thanks! I’m always looking to make it as easy as possible for non-magic players to understand.

[@pers0na_355]

You have to remember in paper magic your deck is often times not fully random and packets of specific cards is pretty normal.

[@GENMEGADEATH]

After drawing the second scapeshift though... wouldnt you think cast one of them, deal 15 to your opponent, that way they cant shock any lands into play, any land after is guarenteed lethal, thin your deck even slightly and if you have the second scapeshift in hand, the following turn just sac like 1 or 2 lands with the second shift and win that way.. .you dont need to one tap... but letting yourself die after drawing 3 more scapeshifts..?

[@XenithShadow]

I beleive that won't work as valakut is not a mountain, and you need 5 other mountains in play when the mountain enters to deal the damage. There was benefit to filtering lands out of the deck either since he wanted to draw them, obviously knowing his draws playing the 2nd or 3rd scapeshift would have won him the game since it would have shuffled away the 4th scapeshift from the top of his deck.

[@GENMEGADEATH]

@@XenithShadow he has 6 lands in play.. one valakut and 5 mountains can be grabbed, that's why Prime time had to be taken

[@hungryLIKEALI0N]

@@GENMEGADEATH You need seven lands total to get damage out of Valakut. 6 mountains so that each mountain sees five OTHER mountains.

[@GENMEGADEATH]

@@hungryLIKEALI0N I think what I missed is that all the mountains aren't seeing themselves... Never mind what so ever, I thought the mountains would all check and see the 4 others and themselves. I see where the mistake was made! Apologies, this is why I don't play modern.. ahaha

[@blueberryblues5644]

@@GENMEGADEATH i too wondered the same thing ahaha, but now it makes sense

[@gingerplz1]

And that’s why you always make them swing for lethal.

[@GrimoireM]

Remember kids, if you're gonna draw the fourth copy of any card in tournament, it had better be the fourth Bolt. EDIT: Actually I remember a really unlucky streak for one of my opponents on Arena. I was playing some jank UW Skies adventures deck while they were on sultai ramp. I'm on the draw, but I just went turn one Land Hawk Turn two Land Sailor Hawk while they're doing the usual up to whatever godly value cards they want. By turn three he's dropped a fatty that can't block. Turn three I get stuck on two lands and jam Favorable Winds and they respond on their turn 4 with Cavalier of gales. I kept a grip full of Brazen Borrowers, Warden of Evos Isles', and Empyrean Eagles, so, I'm not happy. I proceed to just let this guy 5 mana Brainstorm three times trying to fight a race I'll lose if he gets to block or remove anything, and topdeck an Ardenvale Tactician and win off the tap. Never didn't have it.

[@DragoonZell]

Laurent: "I'm 99% sure i'm gonna win this" Ben: "So you don't know?" Laurent "I am positive that there is a 99.99% chance there's no way you can come back." Ben: "Hey man if you don't know, you don't know."

[@briancamacho3758]

Taco Bell goes through me so fast I don’t even bother eating it anymore. I just buy it and throw it straight in the toilet 🚽

[@philippniemann8842]

Nikachu, concerning your Star trek reference: It is actually a sherlock homes quote

[@NikachuMTG]

yeah but it's better when Spock says it

[@philippniemann8842]

@@NikachuMTG 😂

[@hiygamer]

My go to story for getting unlucky with Magic is from the finale of a tribal that my LGS held a few years back. A few people had dropped out, so they opted to finish the league with a big 5 player game. I proceeded to draw 15 out of the 18 lands in my Rakdos goblin deck.

[@targetplayer]

In 1996, the mulligan rule was all-land or no-land only and you could only mull once. I faced then-unknown Justin Gary in a LGS draft of 4E and IA. Game 3 my seven were all spells so I revealed and mulled - into all land. My first 5 draws were land #8-12. Sixth draw was Scaled Wurm, which costs eight mana. Seventh draw was another land (#13, out of 14 cards). I did nothing but play land for the first SEVEN turns.

[@FlyingDominion]

8:48 please, that's pulling a Sherlock Holmes. I think Spock even says so when quoting him.

[@silverionism]

The original words were not from Startrek but from mah OG boy Sherlock Holmes

[@repreach9668]

how about going 17 draws without a land in a 31 land deck think about those odds. I had 2 bounce lands and a basic forest, a primeval titan, and an ancient stirring. this was online so I could not have my bad shuffle interfere. the reason I stopped playing titan I played 2 games like that before the nail in the coffin where that was the third.

[@KingBobXVI]

Ha, jokes on you, I already never win the die roll!

[@DarkJester3]

I was playing commander with kaervek back when tucking commanders was a thing and someone chaos orbed it. I shuffled, he shuffled and cut, and wouldn't you know it, he hit kaervek!!! Everyone was absolutely amazed. Keep in mind this was a 99 card deck that still had like 85 cards left in it.

[@kadenfurr9699]

Had a similar thing happen to a void winnower

[@lrballistics]

Luarent when he drew the fourth Scapeshift: "I made a precise calculation, *but boy am I bad at math"*

[@bluerazzbery]

this also happened in the semifinals of a las vegas tournament (2016?), where a selesnya player drew exactly 4 archangel avacyns with 4 lands in play.

[@adalwulf435]

Was playing 4c Shadow vs Boros Burn in paper. Burnplayer kept a 1 land hand. 30 minutes later, I had pulled out every single land (17) from my deck, only found enough removal to answer his creatures, and he was still stuck on 1 land, and I was below 10 without any creatures out. I eventually found a Shadow + Battlerage the turn after he found his second land.

[@ThePuppet13r]

Was he really unluckily? Cause he pulled off something amazing

[@amberlee4536]

Couple of weeks ago I had an opening hand of two Feasting Troll Kings, Trail of Crumbs, and a fistful of lands, TOPDECKED THE UNDERWORLD COOKBOOK TURN ONE, got a second turn Feasting Troll King for almost nothing - and still managed to lose the round. Won the match though. Mostly off of Cauldron Familiars and Gilded Geese. I should not have kept that hand but I could just FEEL I'd topdecked something good.

[@rvelazquez1986]

When a play that crazy goes down, all you can really do at the end is smile and laugh.

[@DXKramer]

Weirdest thing to happen to me: I was playing a Ravnica Coty of Guilds prerelease. In my sealed pool I got Tunnel Vision. I used it in a at home and named a card that I knew my opponent had only one of in his deck. He ended up milling to a very small number of cards, I think like four or five.

[@lotharhuke5367]

Thats why i always say:"Dont play a full set of Scapeshift!" ;)

[@Silverset_]

Thanks Nikachu. I needed to see that. Perspective

[@joshuamedina6807]

My personal pain was getting 12 land in a row in a 60 card deck with only 20 land as my opener needless to say I lost that game

[@manuelbolognani7420]

My first ever deck was an archbound one, back when i was 11 or so. It's heartwarming seeing that a similar one has seen some competitive playing

[@NikachuMTG]

and it still does! Look up "Hardened Scales Affinity"

[@manuelbolognani7420]

@@NikachuMTG i did, and now i'm thinking about getting my deck back and doing some upgrades! Btw, i love your videos! You're great!

[@NikachuMTG]

@@manuelbolognani7420 Thanks a lot and good luck with the deck! hardened Scales is Amazing with Ravager.

[@alicetheaxolotl]

If you think 0.0062% is improbable; I had a single game of Yu-Gi-Oh, where my starting hand was the 5 Exodia pieces (About 0.0001512%).

[@Vintagebursche]

Wow, it really hurt to see those 4 Scapeshifts. Btw: the line is not from Star Trek. It's from Sherlock Holmes (The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet, 1892).

[@NikachuMTG]

I know, but star trek said it better

[@HandsomeLongshanks]

These videos are so well explained that it makes MTG interesting and possible to follow when not playing

[@NikachuMTG]

☺️

[@xWhackoJacko]

I died a little inside after that Thoughtseize knowing damn well where this was going. Ugh, I feel for you dude!

[@StygTac]

I was playing a 1v1v1v1 magic match, everyone but me had a board state, the only thing I had on the board was lands, my whole hand was lands, it's been quite a few turns, everyone had their armies, then the big drama hit, someone pulled a card that would have ended the game, someone used a counter spell on it, and so they countered the counter, and then their counter got countered, so it didn't resolve. My turn comes around, I draw, and I get my saving grace, a mob rule, nobody has any counter spells, all the creatures are power 4 or greater, one of the strangest wins I've ever gotten, I only played one spell and won.

[@DreamPurpleFloyd]

To be fair, this is the only way Hardened Scales could win vs Titan. This matchup is just brutal for scales.

[@ReidFisher86]

Rogues player in the challenger gauntlet today (Joao, I think?) was stuck on 3 lands and drew all 4 of his into the story.

[@lordyoofy5529]

70% of the time, I will get only lands the whole game. And then all of the other players (usually my siblings) target me because I am the only one without blockers. ... :(

[@paladin276]

I once had a 2/3 match at a tournament against the guy who won every tournament at my area with a tribal Elf deck where I pulled in my opening hand, 1 swamp, 3 Dark Rituals and 3 Engineered plagues. And I drew the 4th Engineered plague on turn 2, and the 4th Dark ritual on turn 3 in the first round.

[@Delano.Smith26]

I have never played a game of Magic, but let me tell you. Your content is SO interesting to watch😂

[@NikachuMTG]

Love to hear it!

[@shadowphoenix173]

Once during a commander game my opponent casted chaos warp on one of my creatures. Don't remember which, only that it was winning the game for me. After shuffling and cutting the deck, the same creature was on top and it came into play again. Which was nice because it had an awesome etb 😅

[@Torch_of_Sin]

I played zombie hunt and my top 3 cards were treasure hunt and my 4th was zombie infestation. If anyone has played that deck you know how rare and unlucky that is.

[@immortalshrike4122]

I was playing a sealed deck, 3 colors, first 16 cards were the same color (or lands providing that mana). Basically I drew all my white cards in a row and there was 16 white cards in this 40 cards deck. I won the game, my opponent thought I had built a second deck and was playing it, he had seen the 3 color deck in a previous game :)

[@SwordWall]

Had a game or two like that. One I remember that I drew 1 land for my opening hand. Then was the last land I saw for next 30 draws. The other player was a friend and though it would be fun to leave me at 1 life point until I drew a second land. Truthfully, we were having fun at that point to see how far down I went through the deck before seeing a second land. This was back in the 90s and there were not as may card that let you look through your deck to pull cards or reshuffle. Yes, the deck had plenty of lands and the last half of the deck was mostly land.

[@bartoszkuzminski3709]

I haven't found a comment about this so I'm just gonna tell you that this Star Trek quote is actually taken from one of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. :) Good content and a very surprising end to this game!

[@sjbelanger]

I remember watching this live and the announcers couldn’t believe it

[@Phoenix3Fighter]

I did prize all four of my Pidgeot-EX in the Pokemon tcg once. It was part of the decks main strategy and I wasnt able to win because of it.

[@gymratlifting7450]

I had a game where I was on mono black control, I think my opponent was playing dimir. I keep an opening with a dark ritual and a rain of tears. They t1 thoughtseize me, take my ritual instead of the tears. I draw a ritual and play t1 ritual into tears, blowing up his land. When I saw the look on their face, I realized they had kept a 1 land hand and banked hard on drawing a second. There wasn't another land for them for the next 12 straight draws.

[@zimoy.701]

I remember Gabriel Nassif's Hollow Four™. That's like the opposite end of the spectrum

[@TheSandurz20]

This is why you always play to your outs, sometimes they just brick in the funniest way possible

[@ReyosBlackwood]

Feels like my last PTQ, back when we and I did those, though I drew nothing but plains, the entire game, Nothing but my opening hand (which was also 3 lands)

[@matthewdowning4620]

ITT: we gripe about bad luck in MTG? At an Oath of the Gatewatch limited sealed event, I lost a match - that I had the early advantage in - after top-decking into a string of 12 lands... This happened after T6 where I made all 6 of my land drops, and my opponent killed me after I drew the last land in my deck. I know 18 lands is usually too many, but Jeepers... I can't even remember what I was playing. Something Orzhov, maybe land tribal.

[@Jarrod0067]

Playing a GP with a Hardened Scales / Revolt junk deck, the week before Hardened Scales Affinity topped, and I couldn't believe I was mana starved for 8 turns. My deck was 24 lands and I kept an opening of a shock, two scales and a 1 drop creature, so I thought I could at least get an explosive turn 2. Nope. Drop the dude turn 2, gets bolted 0.22% chance, or in other words, would only happen once in every 455 games. I was so mad because the match was tied at that point after I sided in the perfect counters and cleaned up game 2

[@wesh8121]

I was playing a two headed giant game at a prerelease with my wife. Our opening hands were pretty solid and mine only needed 1 more land(the 3rd) to be amazing so we got started. I didn't draw a land for 16 turns; it was only a 40 card deck and I didn't mulligan! My wife held it down as long as she could, but we did lose

[@D4rthridiculous]

And we call this Tuesday in the mtg Arena.

[@thetimebinder]

Shuffler is broken

[@saltedllama2759]

This is why you play the games out. The best players know their outs and constantly practice situations where you would otherwise have 0-10% to get out. Most average-to-good players don't; most don't even practice sideboard games. Most just scoop when they get even a little bit behind in a game. Most blame luck or mana, when that doesn't happen nearly as often as their whining would claim. This was only two turns that really determined where the game would go: Thoughtseize, followed by Dark Confidant and Affinity is off to the races from a bad position. Titan-Shift had a mulligan that led to good ramp, but with no action or pressure behind it once the Thoughtseize stuck.

[@Alena_Sneaky]

I played against Ben Seck on day 2 at that gp. Was a really wholesome guy. But damn, that was rough

[@eronsentertainmentstore6487]

once while playing legacy Dredge, I had created a one turn window I could go off in and I just needed 1 of 3 bridge from below's to come out of my 33 card deck and while milling myself for 29 cards I managed to get none of them. I had to pass the turn knowing my graveyard would be removed the next turn with my opponent at 4 lifes, my deck at 4 cards (3 bridges and a Cephalid Colloseum)... while also only having 1 land and a troll and imp in hand. Then again I've had a pretty amazing luck streak with the same deck in the years before and after. Getting top8/4 in 26 out of 33 tournaments of 30ish to 80ish players. So I might have been about due...

[@cadu58]

one of the best mtg videos that i saw by long time. i even laugh out loud! THANKS

[@NikachuMTG]

You’re welcome!

[@gavinli1368]

K that’s nuts. But my favourite story has got to be Gabriel Nassif and Patrick Chapin with that crazy Ignite Memories luck.

[@yourinternalsanctuary]

I remember before anything got fixed win arena first started drafting and only putting 15 lands in my draft deck . Started with three in my hand and then continued to draw eight more before I saw my first spell

[@raynmanshorts9275]

The "eliminate the impossible" line is a Sherlock Holmes quote. I am so mad that people know it as a quote from Jar Jar Abrams's Star Trek.

[@NikachuMTG]

haha, I know. But the clip from Star Trek looked better than the one from Sherlock Holmes.

[@t1glistenerelf]

I have a video wherein a Pauper Delver player misses the blind flip of Delver of Secrets for ten straight turns. That's not as crazy as 99.99%, but good grief…

[@t1glistenerelf]

Same. Ten turns with Pauper Delver on camera. It's soul-crushing.

[@mohammedal-sabah2119]

in game 3 of the top 8 of the PTQ, I was on UR drakes from the most recent ravnica blocks and my opponent was on RW angles. They mulligan to 5 and I keep a 7 with 2 drakes 2 draw spells a removal and 2 lands. I proceed to look at 21 cards through drawing, scrying and survieling and not hit my 3rd land drop. The spectators behind me started actually laughing every time I looked at a card and it wasn't a land (I didnt mind because obviously if I draw a land I'd play it). Felt pretty miserable tbh lol

[@charliecritical96]

Nikachu, where's grampa's hot take in modern horizons 2?

[@rl717]

13 lands in a row was the worst game for me, my opponent was playing a very slow deck so it was excruciatingly painful

[@ybabts]

What I'm wondering is why he didn't just cast one of the scapeshifts to put his life total down, then use the second scapeshift to finish him off, would he just not have enough mountains in his library to do that?