Win of the Week?

bk1234

In HoR this week I played a cycling lockdown Dovin on the red node, no creatures. I hung in for 99 turns and had 8 creature kills courtesy of Lay Claim in the deck stealing my creatures over and over. Took no damage despite the 8 steals -- Won with all objectives. 

What was your "I can't believe I did that" moment this week?

Mburn7

I was down to 2 health against an Omniscience Sarkhan deck that had gone semi-infinite with Harness the Storm, Behold the Beyond, and From under the Floorboards.  He ended up with a massive pile of zombies.  Finally ended when he got stuck with a full hand and nothing to cast.  I won 3 turns later (killed the zombies, and then got my Approach combo out).  Still not sure how I got a win

blacklotus

bken1234 said:

In HoR this week I played a cycling lockdown Dovin on the red node, no creatures. I hung in for 99 turns and had 8 creature kills courtesy of Lay Claim in the deck stealing my creatures over and over. Took no damage despite the 8 steals -- Won with all objectives. 

What was your "I can't believe I did that" moment this week?

very nice idea. i gotta try that lay claim lying unused in my vault. 

Zzyzzx

I have two, but only time go into detail about 1.

Tuesday Bluesday (Trial of the Planes)
My Nessa III (Lvl 36) VS. Bolas 
This was so insane that I wrote down the cards I saw cast in my opponent's build.

• Omniscence
• Whir of Invention
• Hezoret's Undying Fury
• Harness the Storm
• Inferno Jet
• Bring to Light

Wish I had some of these

After several minutes of waiting, I got up to refresh my nightcap.
I returned to find no Omniscience on the board, 0 enemy critters, a Harness the Storm with over 20 charges, and Bolas' entire hand full and charged, of what I can only assume were support destruction spells.
I had no supports in play and only 2 critters down (so they weren't kill spells).
I assumed that the direct damage would've done me in, but dumb luck prevailed.
After blowing up the board and having my 3 favorite zombies boost each other, I managed to scrape out a win.

My Eternal/Embalm Zombies: Vizier of Many Faces, Resilient Khenra, and Honered Hydra

The other crazy win was in training ground where Kiora dropped a 4x reinforced Gaea's Revenge on the 3rd or 4th turn and scared the **** out of me.

TheDragonHermit

Ob, starting with three lost legacies. It was hilarious watching him get beat down while doing nothing as I built up mana and loyalty to unleash 144 damage and wipe the opponent out. Too bad it was in TG.

Mainloop25

Coming back from 2hp against a koth with Kiora to drop his 90 hp to zero, thanks to setting up his cascades against him with Prism Array. 

BUgsySA

I wish I remembered what standard event it was, but level 40 Elspeth vs. level 40ish Kiora in silver.

Opponent had Baral, Sundwurm Convergence, Fraying Sanity, Unsummon, Winds of Rebuke, Consign//Oblivion, Galestrike, Manalith, Cradle of the Accursed, and one card I cant remember.

I would try to lock down the Baral with Desert's Hold, but those kept getting destroyed while every single creature I played got bounced back to my hand.  They activated their cradle to get a single zombie then kept beating down with it while I still could not get any creatures to stick for more than a single turn.  I drew my first Cast Out and was able to get the Baral disabled and slowed down their mana generation.  Once the Convergence came down I was getting hit hard because I couldn't drawn a second Cast Out to deal with the wurm pile, or get any of my support removal cards to target the Convergence.

Sanity kept draining my mana, but I finally drew Cast Out number 2 and was able to cast it and disable the wurms at around 20 life, but i could not find anything to deal with the lone zombie until it got me down to 2 life.  Once I finally drew the third Cast Out and took care of the zombie it took at least another 75 turns or so to finish the match with all of the bounce spells the opponent had in their deck.  The wurm stack was in the 400/400's when the match finally ended.

Wish I had taken a screenshot before the match finished.

Ohboy

I can't remember which enraged event sometime last month...probably hor? 

But I'm down to 50+hp after unexpected cascade from opponent puts a 2 turn clock on me. He kills me next turn.

I manage to put up a 2/2 lifelinker cat to block a berserk trample creature, and live one more turn with 4hp left. 

1 Card left in hand : the top decked forsake the worldly.

Match 5
Cycle forsake. 
Get another copy
Match 5
Cycle away to get oketra's attendant
Match 5
Casts oketra's attendant

Nahiri skill 3 charged up from this string of cycles+cascades

Skill 3 on attendant to win the game. 

Sirchombli

I was using a big creature nahiri build. I was getting pounded by a saheeli deck that was able to rekill my metalwork colossus every turn. I was on the verge of rage quitting, but decided to just play it out. It wasn't looking good for me, but I had time. Between metalwork and angel of sanctions coming back, I was hopeful that I would run him out of resources. I was in range of dying to her ult, but Greg just kept making thopters. I eventually got to attack, then I eventually ran Greg out of answers. The whole thing wore me out, but I eventually pulled it out. Boned the objectives, but I'll take -3 over -7 any day 

watman

Turn 1 win (cycling + three or four 'match 5's) against Nicol Bolas... I even started taking screenshots, but got bored after around 100 dmg...
Also, a tight match in NoP - Dovin vs. WG Ajani, I got hit with Overwhelming Splendor, Orbs of Warding and two Cast Outs, responded with my three Cast Outs and Dovin's ultimate that pumped my last live creature to a total of 20/20 and rode to victory from 9hp...

Kyphonis

My moment was a series of games during the Red Trials of the Planeswalkers. I had been playing terribly in the early nodes, as well as having some aweful luck. I was down to salvaging this by basically needing to get perfect wins on the final 2 nodes so as to gain the “refund” back. Well...I HUFfed and puffed and pulled 6 wins out of my butt thanks to that spell and Masticore.

hawkyh1

Mburn7 said:

I was down to 2 health against an Omniscience Sarkhan deck that had gone semi-infinite with Harness the Storm, Behold the Beyond, and From under the Floorboards.  He ended up with a massive pile of zombies.  Finally ended when he got stuck with a full hand and nothing to cast.  I won 3 turns later (killed the zombies, and then got my Approach combo out).  Still not sure how I got a win

is omniscience blue?

HH

Drewster

Every game I win with my current Dovin deck has been a win of the week because I took out Unesh and added Vizier. It's fun!

khurram

bken1234 said:

In HoR this week I played a cycling lockdown Dovin on the red node, no creatures. I hung in for 99 turns and had 8 creature kills courtesy of Lay Claim in the deck stealing my creatures over and over. Took no damage despite the 8 steals -- Won with all objectives. 

What was your "I can't believe I did that" moment this week?

17 creatures killed. All mine. Stolen by a creature-less kiora on the red node. Total number of turns 143. Zero damage. That was a long turn on the loo in the morning. Folks were concerned. 

But I could believe it because I am aware of the awesome resilience of my nyx-lockdown AJ1 deck.