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Your Weirdest MTG Stories
What weird stuff has happened to you or someone you know when playing Magic the Gathering? Whether you share your own story or someone else’s, any crazy stuff goes!
Whether you play Tabletop, MTG Arena, MTGO, Magic Duels, and Untap.in, and whether it’s gameplay or just Magic related, we want to see what crazy, weird, and funny stuff has occurred in the MTG community!
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Whether you play Tabletop, MTG Arena, MTGO, Magic Duels, and Untap.in, and whether it’s gameplay or just Magic related, we want to see what crazy, weird, and funny stuff has occurred in the MTG community!
Feel free to publish as many of your own stories as you have, but try to limit yourself to one a day, and no more than five stories from other people.
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I am in a very casual late-afternoon match with my friend, me playing Hour of Devastation Bolas and him playing a homebrew Sarkhan Vol deck.
It's the endgame. He's at 4 life, I am at 2. He has Sarkhan on the battlefield, ready to ult, and a small army of dragons and drakes. All I have is a Marauding Boneslaher and a Zealot of the God Pharaoh. I have eight lands open. It's JUST not enough to activate Zealot two times and win, BUT!.. Salvation comes on the draw. It's Open Fire.
Activate Zealot, flash out Open Fire, GG.
7 lands wouldn't have been enough...
Odds of Cracking Fraying Omnipotence in this event: ~8 in 53 (one chance per pack, 53 rares in M19, four packs per person), ~15% chance
Odds of FO being in opening hand: 7 in 42 (since I was using a 42 card deck), ~17% chance
Odds of having FO by turn 4: 11 in 42, ~26% chance
TL;DR: Probability of all of this happening like this: One in 3476.9752957, 0.02876063% chance. Hate to say, but you’d be more likely to win five scratch offs in a row....
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In the late game, someone was running my Black/White Theros deck with multiple copies of Sunbond and enchanted a Hopeful Eidolon with two Sunbonds and Nighthowler Bestowed...
There were twelve creatures in graveyard, so this guy swings for 13/13 lifelink, BOOM. 26 counters. The opponent chump blocked each turn, and this son of a gun had more counters than I had dice, all the while this guy was gaining that much life. I think it was in the hundreds at the end of the match... I can’t imagine what it would look like with cards from outside the set (Bolas’s Citadel? Sure! I’ll just play my whole deck!). Lesson learned; never stall against my Theros deck.
As this happens, the chair I was sitting on bends backwards and I fall. As I do this I try to grab the first thing I can (which, I don't know why, that's the top of my library.)
Two seconds later, there you have me: laying on the floor with like 8 lands and my entire hand. Everyone looking at me. My friends are still laughing about it.
edit: I apologize if this is not what you were looking for :S
So said friend decided to use Revival//Revenge (Revenge) on me and copied it a few times... 4 to be exact. At this point i went down to exactly 1 HP.
So to return the favor to the rest of the pod, since no one did anything about it, i use Repay in Kind. Lets just say the game ended very quickly after that. Definitely some fun times.
So I had a card deal that went bad and i had to give the cards to the cops to give back to this dude. He was being a jerk and wanted money faster than I promised him, so I tried to just give them back to him, but he wigged out on me and called police to keep the peace (though he was being the aggressive one). The cops and I had a good laugh though at his expense! Turns out, the cards he tried to sell me? They was stolen. I'm glad I gave them back in the long run. (I ended up getting those cards, different copies of them of course, from another person instead well after that. No worries.)
So there’s this magic shop in town I decided to start going to. The shop I used to go to was about 30 minutes away and had a toll bridge, so a shop only 5 minutes away was like a godsend. I called to see when their booster draft was on Saturday. They said 6. Turns out, someone else had taken the call, and they actually started at 4.
Next time, I made sure to arrive before 4. After about two hours waiting, the owner of the store got angry because no one came, so he just gave me four packs and a promo for a discount.
On my most recent expedition, even though it was an inconvenience to me, I came to the shop on Friday. Even though we had three other people say they’d come, and five other people with Magic the Gathering gear showed up, everyone had come to play Dungeons and Dragons instead. So... why bring your things to play Magic?!
Anyways, if it weren’t for the fact that I planned on trying D&D anyways, I wouldn’t be going back. This is the first time this has happened at a Magic store I’ve gone to.
I had won all of my games up to that point and then I found myself face to face against the owner. He immediately started kicking my ass. I lost the first game in maybe 6 turns. I eeked through the second game, winning with about 3 health left. On the third game, it started out like the first, except he then just stopped and forfeited.
He slid me two Modern Horizons packs under the table and then marked me down as having won. It was a really nice thing to do and still weird. I mean, as the owner, you aren't getting anything out of winning, but you reduce the amount of free stuff you're giving away...
I still got terrible rares... Unlike Arin who got a sword, Yawgmoth, and one of those $50 lands.
On our way there we're running early, so I ask if we can stop at the game store on the way there. I pick up some packs before we go to play. When we get there, the one missionary was really excited to use this brand new awesome black card he pulled. As he's telling us about how excited he is for us to see it (he didn't want to tell us what it did right away), I crack open a pack of Zendikar, and his face just sinks as I pulled a foil Ob Nixilis, the Fallen. The card he had just pulled was a not foil Ob. He was so sad.