Interesting game tonight. Playing my
Varina, Lich Queen that I'm still retooling against
Lord Windgrace,
Abomination of Llanowar, and a newer player playing my Sidisi deck.
Abomination Player looks at our swarms of zombies and goes to cast
Kindred Dominance naming Elves...without noticing I had
Vengeful Dead out. The Windgrace player asks if he's sure he wants to do that.
Abomination says yes he's sure. Well Windgrace asks again, this time pointing at
Vengeful Dead.
Abomination player still doesn't catch what is going on. By this point, the newer player had caught on to what was getting ready to happen and said, what a moment. Leaned over and asked me if he could do something and I told him yes, that would be the correct play if the guy was insistent on playing
Kindred Dominance. So the new guy says "in response, I'll cast
Cyclonic Rift on the
Vengeful Dead and save our asses from dying". I busted out laughing, so did the Windgrace player. The
Abomination player looked confused, so I picked up
Vengeful Dead and handed it to him, pointed out there were around 45 zombies in play between me and Sidisi while none of their lives were above 22, and he just said "Oh".
The
Abomination player was the same guy that previously did the
Thassa's Oracle -
Hermit Druid combo with
Temple Bell out. Maybe one day he'll learn to look at the board before doing something.
Second game- Everyone playing same decks except Sidisi and I switch decks cause I'm still playtesting Sidisi to figure out what I want it to be while I'm retooling it (basically all zombies are in Varina except 3). I've been toying around with
Staff of Domination in it since I now have around 10 creatures who tap to do something in the deck to include a combo with
Krosan Restorer untapping 3 lands (preferably
Cabal Coffers, Nykthos, or
Gaea's Cradle along with two other lands to pay for Coffers or Nykthos cost). Long story short- around turn 9 I have Muldrotha out with Staff of Dom in the GY. Cast Staff of Dom as my artifact for the turn and proceed to do the infinite combo for blue mana with Nykthos and
Krosan Restorer. After establishing infinite blue mana, I'm using the draw card ability to draw through my deck and search for a win condition when it clicks in my head...
Bond of Insight! So I cast
Bond of Insight, mill the four cards, and target
Swan Song and
Torment of Hailfire from my graveyard as the two cards to return to my hand. Announce
Torment of Hailfire for a million, Varina casts
Pact of Negation, I
Swan Song it. He grins and announces
Counterspell. I grin back and play
Frilled Mystic as my creature for turn from Muldrotha. At this point Windgrace moans and scoops.
Abomination just sits there and shakes his head.
I enjoy playing with these guys but I really miss my "normal" playgroup. We just haven't been able to get together that much because of the pandemic and well, life in general. These guys I'm playing with now are all newer (2 or 3 years at most) to playing and when a good chunk of that was the pandemic that they really didn't get to play that much during, I feel like the schoolyard bully at times and find myself taking it easy at times unless I'm just ready for a game to end.