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Ludicrous Life Totals
So up until last Sunday night, the most ridiculous life total I'd ever had in any Magic game was courtesy of my Oloro, Ageless Ascetic deck which held a proud record of 216 life (yay EDH-3-headed-giant.... that sounds good on paper. DON'T DO IT. it took 4 hours to finish the game. )
On Sunday however i smashed that record with a non-EDH deck, my own 62-card Green/White Lifegain/Angels deck. What was that total you ask? Oh, about 198000.
Yes you read that correctly. 198000. My opponent had an Avacyn, Angel of Hope on the battlefield preventing damage to his creatures when I swung at them, but he also had absolutely no destroy-enchantment cards or destroy-creature cards in his deck (And his deck was mostly small flying creatures.)
I had a Serra Avatar with Celestial Mantle.
And a Wall of Essence.
... That's it.
He eventually ceded the game because a) HOLYFREAKINLIFETOTALBATMAN and b) he was about to mill out from drawing cards (he played every draw card in his deck trying desperately to get my stuff off the field.)
It was a scarily-unorthodox game for sure. But it had me wondering... what's YOUR biggest life total ever? Is it as frankly silly as mine?
On Sunday however i smashed that record with a non-EDH deck, my own 62-card Green/White Lifegain/Angels deck. What was that total you ask? Oh, about 198000.
Yes you read that correctly. 198000. My opponent had an Avacyn, Angel of Hope on the battlefield preventing damage to his creatures when I swung at them, but he also had absolutely no destroy-enchantment cards or destroy-creature cards in his deck (And his deck was mostly small flying creatures.)
I had a Serra Avatar with Celestial Mantle.
And a Wall of Essence.
... That's it.
He eventually ceded the game because a) HOLYFREAKINLIFETOTALBATMAN and b) he was about to mill out from drawing cards (he played every draw card in his deck trying desperately to get my stuff off the field.)
It was a scarily-unorthodox game for sure. But it had me wondering... what's YOUR biggest life total ever? Is it as frankly silly as mine?
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I once played my oloro deck vs a freind, who played my rhys token deck...I had around 20 life, a serra avatar, the khans sorin and something that my opponent couldn't attack very well...and so the game went on an on to about 500 life (lifelink + serra avatar), but I almost lost to mill (yeah altar of the brood in a rhys deck can be very good
Luckily won with my last cards before i got milled down (archfiend of depravity + blood artist)
But 198000...no not even close
My next turn, I played Drown in Sorrow. Because I had Blood Artist out, he lost that much life and I gained that much life.
My grand life total:
2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,029
LoL
(I had 4 ajani mentor of heros in my deck.)
Player 1 was playing Oloro and had out Glacial Chasm (http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=288996), Venser's Journal (http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=venser's journal), and Rule of Law (http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=48112).
Player 2 was playing Karn, and had Knowledge Pool (http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=214035), Tomb of the Spirit Dragon (http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Tomb+of+the+Spirit+Dragon).
No one could play spells and have it resolve. PLayer 2 ended up winning because he had out the artifact that creates 1/1 Myrs, so player 1 had to keep paying the 2 life for cumulative upkeep. It took a lot of time before Player 1 even started losing life because he had so many cards in hand.
I played a Hamletback Goliath. Soon, it was a bout a 20/20. Then, I played Malignus, and it became a 45/45. Then, I played Serra Avatar, and it became a 97/97 (I had gained some life earlier ion the game).
I flung it + the Serra avatar, killing an opponent, the Oloro guy, leaving my brother on two life playing Roon of the Hidden Realm and his friend playing Scion of the Ur dragon. Then, I was on around 200 or so life. He player a Razia's Purification, and kept his dragons, while me and my brother kept lands.
Both of us kept on top decking expensive spells, until, finally, he managed to kill us both.
#InfiniteManaStaffofDomination
Same here, I'm just used to getting infinite life (But I still have to choose a number) but then I lose by commander damage or infect or something. In EDH, anything can happen.