• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
        7·
        5 days ago

        This is a first turn win if you draw all four of these cards in your opening hand.

        Black Lotus and Mox Ruby can be put down on your opening turn, and since they are not lands you are not limited to playing just one of them. If you are poor you can substitute the ruby with a regular old mountain. Basically, I only employ the ruby here to firmly illustrate that I am indeed an asshole.

        If you are poor, cheeky, and lucky you can replace the Black Lotus with 3 Lotus Petals and still theoretically draw all the cards you need to do this with your opening hand.

        1. Sacrifice the Black Lotus for 3 green mana.
        2. Spend 2 green manna on the Channel, pay 19 life, gain 19 colorless mana.
        3. Tap the Mox Ruby for 1 red mana.
        4. Use that 1 red mana to cast Fireball. Dump all 19 colorless mana from your Channel, plus the one green left over from the Channel into that fireball which adds up to 20.
        5. Fireball does 20 damage to your opponent. You take 19 damage from Channel. You are left at 1 life, but your opponent is dead.

        Normally M:tG games start with both players at 20 life. But it doesn’t matter if you play some weird format where everyone has more; all you do is sacrifice all but 1 of your life and dump it into fireball plus the one left over green mana from the Lotus. As long as both players have the same life count or you don’t have less life then your opponent for any reason, you win.

        Realistically, just being able to show people this hand will discourage them from engaging you at all in any type of no-holds-barred play. They’ll hide behind their silly Modern or Commander formats or whatever, where Black Lotus is banned and Channel is either restricted or banned.

        Wimps.

  • isaaclyman@lemmy.world
    27·
    6 days ago

    This was my experience with MTG. Dude was all excited to “teach” me how to play, made a deck for me and everything, and then whomped me on the second turn.

    I never played again and still don’t know how

  • ILikeTraaaains@lemmy.world
    11·
    5 days ago

    Me, a noob playing MTG with a seasoned player with a red deck.

    I don’t understand what happened but at the end of his first turn I had less than 10 points remaining.

  • davidgro@lemmy.world
    17·
    6 days ago

    There are of course also Magic: The Gathering decks that can do that on a lucky first hand.

    My favorite is this one, which in the abstract can do literally anything a computer can do. Yes, You can in theory run Crysis on a Magic deck. During your opponent’s turn.

    • Klear@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      I never really played MtG, but I love reading about degenerate combos. My favourite uses an unglued (or un- something) card that can remove any card with a silver border you can see from your seat from play. Doesn’t have to be a card in the game you’re playing, other people nearby as valid targets.

      The silver border part makes sure it can only be played on other silly un- cards, but there’s a combo with a card allowing to change a colour in an effect to something else, meaning with a bit of support from a few other cards you could technically use this to nuke all cards in all unrelated games around you.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    4·
    5 days ago

    This is exactly what happened the day many years ago when my grandparents, who were bridge fanatics, tried to teach the game to my mother and I. The whole thing was like they were speaking another language.

  • Nednarb44@lemmy.world
    4·
    6 days ago

    I honestly loved playing yugioh back in like 2004 ish. A buddy of mine told me he played online and offered to show me how to do it. It was almost exactly this. It might be fun for someone who’s played the whole time, but I liked the clever decks with card combos that would take time to build up.

  • afox@lemmy.world
    2·
    6 days ago

    Went to a software engineering conference years ago in utah. Walked up to a table and was invited to sit down. Never felt so lost in my life. Those Mormon boys know how to table top card play. Wow.

  • atocci@lemmy.world
    2·
    6 days ago

    And that’s why I only play Pokemon TCG. That, and the fact it’s far more affordable than other card games.