Do you know what my favorite thing about
untap.in is? The untap step. Because it's only one button and doesn't leave you pulling your hair out trying to figure out how to declare attackers.
Let me give context...
I entered a game with MustaKotka, WizardSpartan, and a third Deckstats member who may want to remain anonymous (I'll let you speak up). This was my first time using untap.in against people and not just gold-fishing. Shout-out to WizardSpartan for being very patient and showing me the commands and shortcuts of Untap. We started the game. Anonymous played
Atraxa, Praetors' Voice, MustaKotka chose
Merieke Ri Berit, WizardSpartan picked
Alesha, Who Smiles at Death, and I went with
The Scarab God.
Choosing that deck was my 1
st mistake. I didn't know how to make regular tokens, let alone a 4/4 zombie that's a copy of something else.
Anyway, game starts I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm so used to paper magic that even the simplest things took way more effort than it should have. I struggled to play a land. The size of the cards bothered me because I wanted to read everything. The opponent's fields overlay with each other, making things a little confusing. I one point I accidentally skipped my turn entirely. I kept asking dumb questions.
"Hey WizardSpartan, how do you see what cards are in the graveyard?" "You click on the graveyard."At one point WWolfe came to spectate for a few minutes. I'm sure the reaction was something like this:
Early in the game both MustaKotka and Anonymous got a
Rhystic Study. WizardSpartan exiled both of them with
Return to Dust. The first big play came when MustaKotka cast
Approach of the Second Sun. WizardSpartan and Anonymous had to explain how to tuck a card in 7 cards deep. To deal with the Approach, I searched for and cast
Whispering Madness (Approach is now in MustaKotka's hand), ciphered it onto
The Scarab God, and then attacked WizardSpartan to re-cast
Whispering Madness (Approach is in graveyard).
Then we lost connection. Who would have guessed that a bunch of people stuck in Corvid-19 quarantine would tax the server? Anonymous was in and out, but eventually left the game. It was my turn to make a big play. I had
Mikaeus, the Unhallowed on the field. With Scarab God, I exiled and made a copy of
Custodi Lich, sac trigger targeting me. Holding priority, I
brought back Phyrexian Delver, which
brought back Gray Merchant of Asphodel. 10 devotion drain. Then the sac trigger resolved. Sacrifice Gray Merchant, and it comes back (undying from Mikaeus). Another 10 life. I used my turn to try to deal combat damage. Declaring attackers is confusing because there is no "attack" option. You have to manually tap each creature and get each one to target a player.
I seem to also remember casting Nexus of Fate about 3 times (correct me on this if I'm wrong). The first time was from hand, the second time I searched for it, and third time I drew into it from
Whispering Madness after a lethal swing against WizardSpartan. MustaKotka countered that one with a
Pact of Negation. On Mustakotka's turn they went for the win. Pay for Pact, cast
Mind Over Matter, cast
Archivist, equip
Archivist with
Lightning Greaves, use
Mind Over Matter to untap
Archivist to draw the whole deck and win with
Thassa's Oracle.
And that would have been really cool if
Lightning Greaves would gave hexproof instead of shroud. The
Archivist couldn't be targeted with
Mind Over Matter. MustaKotka passed and lost on my turn.
OverallUntap.in is going to take some time to get used to. Doing things is just way slower than paper magic. On the plus side it was a lot of fun to see how what the other Deckstats member's decks are like. I've heard so much about this
Merieke Ri Berit deck that seeing it in action was a real treat. I'd love to do it again some other day. Tomorrow anyone?