I made 4 new decks since last game, so I’ll make it a small tournament the winners from here will match the winners of other Pod were Nekusar and Atraxa.
Starting throws
Round 1, turn 1. Mizzix: Draw Destructive Force. Main Phase 1, Island, go!
Round 1, turn 2. Garth: Draw Svella, Ice Shaper. Main Phase 1: Gruul Guildgate, go!
Round 1, turn 3. Jelava: Draw Desertion. Main Phase 1: Evolving Wilds and crack for Island, go.
Round 1, turn 4. Phelddagrif: Draw Intellectual Offering. Main Phase 1: Forest, cast Exploration, Evolving Wilds crack for Island, go!
Round 2, turn 5. Mizzix: Draw Thieves’ Auction. Main Phase 1: Mountain, go!
Round 2, turn 6. Garth: Draw Arid Mesa. Main Phase 1: Arid Mesa, crack for Sacred Foundry. Cast Zhur-Taa Druid.
Round 2, turn 7. Jelava: Draw Eternal Domination. Main Phase 1: Mountain, Cast Fellwar Stone, Cast Serum Visions, draw Mountain, Scry (Mind Stone, Impuse) 1 top 1 bottom.
Round 2, turn 8. Phelddagrfi: Draw Dawn Charm. Main Phase 1: Forest, Forbidden Orchard, Cast Mind Aglow, Pay 3, Mizzix pays 2. Each player Draws 5! End of Hippo turn and round 2!
Round 3, turn 9. Mizzix: Draw, Gate to the Aether. Main Phase 1: Mountain, Altar of the Phantom, Discard 4 at EOT, go!
Round 3, turn 10. Garth: Draw, Fires of Yavimaya. Main Phase 1: Furycalm Snarl, reveal Plains, cast Svella, Ice Shaper, Zhur deals 1 damage to all opponents. Discard 3 card from hand at EOT, go!
Round 3, turn 11, Jelava: Draw, Dominus della Fedaltà. Main Phase 1: Endless Sands, Cast Jelava, exile 4 cards from Top of each library, discard at EOT, go!
Round 3, turn 12, Pheldagriff: Draw Holy Day. Main Phase 1: Island, Reliquary Tower, Minn Wily, Illusionist, go!
Round 4, turn 13, Mizzix: Draw Cultural Exhange. Main Phase 1: Inscription of Insight, Scry 2 (Pact of the Titan, Goblin Gamr) both under, draw Halimar Depths and Aetherspouts. Play Halimar Depths, discard a card at EOT, go!
Round 4, turn 14, Garth: Draw Conjurer’s Closet. Main Phase 1: Plateau, Use Svella to create a Icy Monolith token, Fires of Yavimaya, Zhur-taa pings 1 to each opponent.
Round 4, turn 15, Jelava: Draw Island. Main Phase 1: Island, Jelava Attacks Garth, hits 1 damage, does not cast any spells. Main Phase 2. Cast Aquire to Garth: Swiftfoot Boots
Round 4, turn 16, Pheldagriff: Draw Solemn Simulacrum. Main Phase 1. Escribir el cielo =5, Minn creates a token, Forbidden Orchard Creates a token, due to Reliquary tower, no discard at EOT. Go!
Round 5, turn 17, Mizzix, Draw: Conjured Currency, Main Phase 1: Mountain, Prisnatic Lens, Bribery targeting Garth. Tutors Visara to Battlefield, Discard 3 at End, Go!
Round 5, turn 18, Garth, Draw Crawling Barrens. Main Phase 1. Island, Cast Garth (Zhur pings 1), Tap Garth for black lotus, cast Curse of Inertia at Jelava, Attack Jelava, with Svella for 2 and untap Garth, Discard 3 at EOT, go!
Rouns 5, turn 19, Jelava, Draw: Molten Primordial. Main Phase 1. Tainted Peak, Prismatic Lens, Act of Aggression targeting Garth, Garth responses with Otherwordly Journey. Act of Aggression Fizzles, Jelava discsrds 2 and passes turn.
Round 5, turn 20, Phelddagrif, Draw: Druid’s Deloverance. Main Phase 1: Island, Temble Bell, Activate Temple Bell. Cast Solemn Simulacrum and get a Plains on battlefield. And go!
Round 6, turn 21, Mizzix: Draw: Island. Main Phase 1: Island. Tap Viscera to Kill Garth, attack Jelava to trigger Curse of Inertia and untap Visera. Cast Charmbreaker Devil, and go!
Round 6, turn 22, Garth; Draw Golgari Guildgate. Main Phase 1, Cast Garth, Create Black Lotus. Attack Jelava with Svella to Untap Zhur-Taa Druid (Jelava blocks), Main Phase 2. Cast Conjurer’s Closet and Alphetto Alchemist, EoT, Blink Garth. Jelava uses Altar Reap to sac Jelava and Draw 2 (Liquimetal Torque and Swamp)
Round 6, turn 23, Jelava: Draw Mountain. Main Phase 1. Swamp, Cast Jelava, to exile 6 cards from Libraries
Cast Liquimetal Torque, Equip Swiftfoot Boots. Attack Garth and cast Benelovent Offering giving tokens to Pheldagriff and life to Mizzix. Discard few cards and Go!
Round 6, turn 24, Phelddagrif: Draw, Spectral Prison. Main Phase 1: Use Temple Bell to Draw Attack with 1 Illusions to Mizzix Other to Jelava, Both players block,Mizzix with Viseras, Jelava with 1 token, Minn triggers, Pheldagriff sets both Nullmage Advocate and Spectral Prison to battlefield. Main Phase 2 Cast Commander. Pass the Turn, Mizzix wants to Tap Visera before passing the turn, Garth still seems like the biggest threat, so targetting Garth. Garth Taps for black lotus, cracks lotus for UUU, uses U to untap Garth, Taps Garth for Regrowths GU(Zhur pings), Otherwordly Journey, Cast Otherworldy Journey to Garth. As this was cast on End step Garth will return at end of Mizzix Turn.
Round 7, turn 25, Mizzix: Upkeep Charmbreaker Devil triggers: Bribery, Draw Proteus Staff. Main Phase 1: Tap Visara to kill Aphetto Alchemist, Attack Jelava to untap Visara. Cast Proteus Staff, and Activate Proteus Staff targeting last 1/1 Colorless Spirit. End of Turn: Discard 1 Card, Garth returns to battlefield. After Garth is on Battlefield, Mizzix removes it using Visara.
Round 7, turn 26, Garth: Draw: Nullmage Shephard. Main Phase 1: Cast Cephalid Looter, and use ability (Zhur Taa Pinges opponents. Draw Leyline Prowler, discard Rakdos Guildgate) Attack using Svella to Jeleva, to untap Looter. (Jelava doesnt block). Looter loots (Draw Orzhov Guildgate, discard Golgari Guildgate) Play Orzhov Guildgate, Cast Leylime Prowler. End Turn. Conjurer’s Closet triggers blinks Svella.
Round 7, turn 27, Jelava: Draw Island. Main Phase 1: Play Island, Cast Blatant Thievery, Targetting Nullmage Advocate, Visara the Dreadful & Cephilid Looter. In response Phelddagriff casts Intellectual Offering targeting Mizzix with both options (Forbidden Orchard creates a 1/1 spirit to Mizzix as well). And uses Templebell to draw cards. Visara taps to destroy herself. After this stack resolves (Minn Wily makes another token), Jeleva equips Swiftfoot Boots to Nulmage Advocate taps to destroy Spectral Prison, returns Guild Feud and Gate to the Aether to Mizzix hand. Cast Viscera Seer. End of turn, Pheldagiff uses Temple Bell again to draw another card to each and taps a forest to give a Hippo to Mizzix. Discard 1 card at end of turn, Go! 1
Round 7, turn 28, Phelddagrif. Draw: Island. Main Phase 1. Play Forest & Island. Cast Well of Ideas, cast Veteran Explorer. Go!
Round 8, turn 29, Mizzix. Upkeep Charmbreaker Devil triggers, Destructive Force Draw: Izzet Guildgate. Main Phase 1. Play Island. Now, battlefield is filled with stuff on all sides, and Destructive Force would bring down the creature count by a lot, but thats not fun nor advantageous or yet necessary to Mizzix.. so Casting Bribery targetting Garth (Seedborn Muse) and using Proteus Staff to Hippo token (Galvanoth), Go! In response, Gatrh activates Selvalla for another Ivy Monolith
Round 8, turn 30, Garth, Draw Dramatic Reversal. Main Phase 1. Cast Garth, tap for Black Lotus. Attack with Svella to untap Zhur-Tee Druid. Cast Manasweft Sliver Cast Dramatic Reversal. Tap Garth to cast Disenchant to Swiftfoot Boots. Conjurer’s Closet triggers and Blinks Garth
Round 8, turn 31, Jelava, Draw Swamp. Play Swamp. Use Cephalid looter to loot. Activate Nullmage Advocate to Destroy Fires of Yavimaya. Returns 2 taplands to Mizzix. Cast Beacon of Unrest targetting Molten Primordial, Molten Primoridal steals Solemn Simulacrum, Charmbreaker Devil and Garth, In response Garth uses Blacklotus for White and takes 1 Green mana to cast Regrowth from Garth and casting Otherworldly Journey to Garth. Stack resolves and Jelava gets other 2 Creatures until end of turn. Attack Garth with Solemn Simjlacrum, Molten Primordial, Charmbreakwr Devil and Jelava for 13. Svella blocks Simulacrum, and Jelava sacs It to Scry 1 with Viscera. Solemn Simulacrum hitting grave draws a card. 2ND Main Sacrifice Charmbreaker to Scry 1 again at end of turn Pheldagriff taps Temple Bell to draw cards. Jeleva discards 2 to go to 7. Garth returns to battlefield Phelddagrif gives 2 cards, 4 life, 1 Hippo and 1 1/1 Spirit to Mizzix
Round 8, turn 32, Pheldagriff. Draws Dictate of Karametra, Meishin, The Mind Cage, Plains.Main Phase 1: Play Plains & Mystifying Maze. Attack Mizzix requestig he will block Veteran Explorer. Cast Temporal Cascade to have each player draw 7 cards. Cast Spurmage Advocate, Go. Mizzix will before turn ends cast Teferi with Flash, in response Garth makes a Black Lotus. Jelava Casts Desetion to Teferi. Garth casts Vanish into Memory to Garth.
Round 9, turn 33, Mizzix Galvanoth reveals a land, draw 2 lands. Main Phase 1. Play Homeward Path Cast Wild Evocation, use Proteus Staff to Hippo, get Nin, Pain Artist. GO!
Round 9, turn 34 Garth, Wild Evocation Triggers, to swamp. Main Phase 1. Play Exotic Orchard, Black lotus from Garth, Cast Magewright’s Stone, Cast Necrotic Ooze, Tap it to destroy Teferi, using Visara’s ability (Jelava responses with sac to scry 1) . Attack Jelava using Svella to untap Necrotic Ooze. Main Phase 2 Cast Bequiler of Wills, use it to take control of Seedborn Muse. Cast Recless Scholar, Use Reckless Scholar to loot. Tap Necrotic Ooze to destroy Nullmage Advocate, end of turn Garth blinks, Go!
Round 9, turn 35, Jeleva, Wild Evocarion Triggers Stolen Goods, Jelava casts it targetting Garth, gets to Mother of Runes, Draws Baleful Strix and Geth, Lord of the Vault. Main Phase 1: Play Academy Ruins, loot with Cephalid Looter. Go to Attack Phase. Molten Primordial, Jeleva and 1/1 Flying Spirit attack to Garth. Garth Taps For Black Lotus, Uses Bequiler to gain Control of Mother, Jeleva sacs for Scry 1. Recless Scholar loots 1 card, Necrotic Ooze uses Visaras ability to destroy Molten Primordial, Jelava Sacs, Garth uses Svellas second ability to cast a spells from top 4 cards of library, grabs Niv-Mizzet, use Magewright’s Stone to untap Necrotic Ooze and Kill Jeleva, draw with Niv-Mizzet to kill spirit. Main Phase 2, Cast Worst Fears on Garth discard to 7, at end phase Pheldaggrif uses Temple Bell (Niv-Mizzet pings Viscera Seer, then Casts Dictate of Karametra, and Wrong Turn to Seedborn Muse giving it to Mizzix. Then gives 3 hippoes to Mizzix
Round 9, Turn 36, Phelddagriff. Wild Evocation trigger Helm of Awakening, Phelfagriff decides to cast it. Draws: Island, Prsperity and Respite. Main Phase 1: Play Island and Forest, cast Privileged Position and Reduce to Memory on Niv-Mizzet, 4x 5/1 Illusions attack Garth, Phelddagrif and Minn Wily attack Jeleva (Curse triggers, untap Plains) Garth blocks 3 with his Creatures. Which triggers, Minn Wily to out on the battlefield Dictate of Kruphix, Kami of Crescent moon and Font of Mythos. Cast Properity x= 21, Cast Forced Fruitition. In response Mizzix casts Opportunity to Jeleva(Garth has Worst fears on him so probably not a risk), which Garth Responses by Casting Deceiver Exarch to untap Bequiler and take control of Seedborn Muse… Now all players know that Phelddageif is about to win, and Garth has minimal chances of winning the game, as he is about to deck out so he allows this, when stack is resolving Garth casts couple of spells more before Forced Fruition hits battlefield, he casts Cloudshift to Garth and taps for Disenchant to destroy Priviledged Position, No one (Jeleva has Chaos Bolt but he rather has other 2 suffer a bit before using it.) has Counters or other means to destroy Forced Fruitition so, stack resolves and Round 9 ends. End of Turn.
Round 10, turn 37, Mizzix. Upkeep Galvanoth triggers Island, Draws 6 at beginning of turn. Looking at cards on his hand, 2 will solve issue with Forced Fruitition, either Warp World or Thieves’ Auction. Warp World might result Forced Fruitition returning, so Thieves’ Action is his only spell, casting 2 spells will make Mizzix draw 14 cards, that finishes him. To try to finish of Phelddagrif, he will attack first, asking Garth help with the creatures that could block. Main Phase 1. Play Island. Due of Mizzix request taking care of some blockers, Garth: Bequiler of Wills taps to take control of Spurmage Advocate, Necrotic Ooze to destroy Kami of Crescent Moon, then tells Mizzix to attack. Mizzix attacks with all creatures to Phelddagrif. Phelddagrif casts Pollen Lullaby, clashes with Garth (Garth wins). Main Phase 2. Mizzix takes out 9U, 6R, 3, Then casts Thieves’ Auction (leaving 9U3R), which causes people to have some responses. Garth takes out 4w4u2b4r2g2, Jeleva takes out 2U1R2, Phelddagrif takes out 2U and gives a token to Mizzix, Garth uses Nullmage Shephards ability tapping 4 creatures to destroy Forced Fruitition, then Taps Garth and Chooses Braingeysir targeting Jeleva with X=11 (amount of card on deck) (Garth manapool = 1w1u1b1r1g), Jeleva about to deck will cast Chaos Warp targetting her Endless Sands, Reveal Praetor’s Grasp. Mizzix Casts Radiate to Braingeysir (mana pool7U,1R). Radiate resolves, Braingeysir resolves, Phelddagriff activates Temple Bell. Thieve’s Auction next on stack, Garth activates Reckless Scholar and finishes of Jeleva, to prevent her taking his next turn. Using Magewright stone untap Garth (Manapool 1w1u1b1g) tap for black lotus, Cast Restoration Angel, blink Garth, Tap Garth for another Black lotus, the cast Turn to Mist to Garth and allow Thieves’ Auction to trigger.
Mizzix 1st pick: Seedborn muse (for untap on next turn), Garth goes for Nin, the Pain Artist, as he has mana open, Phelddagrif takes Deceiver Extract to, Mizzix goes for Toolbox Necrotic Ooze, Garth takes Restoration Angel, Phelddagrif takes Reckless looter, Mizzix Reliquary tower, Garth Bequiler of Wills, Phelddagriff Svella, then it continyes several rounds before Garth hss to take Well of Ideas as lasy card on pile. ETB effects enter stack, Mizzix has none, Garths Well of Ideas and Restoration Angel (Targets Nin Pain Artist), Then Phelddagriff Deceiver Extract targets a land he owns, land is untapped, Nin Pain Artist Blinks and everything else hits battlefield. Mizzix has 7U1R in manapool and, Garth has 2 Black Lotuses and Icy Monolith, Garth has no cards in his deck, Mizzix has 1 card and Phelddagrif has 7 cards left. Garth being only one that hqs haste due to Amger in graveyard, can use Nin, Pain artist to defeat Mizzix but not Phelddagrif.
Mizzix Casts Hive Mind, Garth responds by Activating Nin, Pain artist x=2, targetting Mizzix Galvanoth, and before spell resolves Mizzix is out. (I had to read and ask about rules before I knew how this would be resolved) all permanents that were Mizzixes are out of game with him, but also all permanents he controlled are exiled as they came to battlefield under his control, turn ends as rule 800.4i says and Garth returns to battlefield. Phelddagrif takes his chances and casts Swords to Garth, knowing he will have to go to mainphase to recast and has no cards left in his deck. Garth can only tap for another black lotus
Round 10, turn 38, Garth, cant cast anything, die on draw step.
Winner, Phelddagriff Turbo fog, second place Garth.
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