Messed Up Card Game Stories

[RobinStarwing]

I happen to play Magic: The Gathering and I wanted to know if anyone has any messed up stories from their times playing Magic or other TCGs? I will open.

I was up in Northern Minnesota last year and me, my bro, and his friends head out to the local Country Kitchen. Now, I should of brought my own deck with me but found out too late that some of my brother's friends play M:TG.

So I get loaned a deck and we start playing a 3-player game. It quickly becomes apparent that I could of REALLY used by deck than because one of my brother's friends is playing a Saproling Deck...

I take enough damage that I decide to Mana Burn out of the game and watch what quickly becomes an exercise in Overkill because every spell or creature used seems to put a Saproling on the field and increase their power...

******WARNING: M:TG CARNAGE******

50-plus +4/+4 Saprolings and he marches them onto the other guy who still has 20 life...:aaa::crying:

I was so glad I mana burned myself out as soon as I could...

[Bells]

Once me and my friends decided to have a small tournament just for fun. This was around 2003 i think... and we didn't have any super decks with us, so we decided to have a "no limits" deck tournament. As in... you could have as many cards as you wanted of as many types as you wanted.

I played a 60 card deck made just of Artifacts and random lands.

I went to the final against a deck of 80 Cards 30 blue, 30 white, 10 black, 5 red, 5 multicolor, golden, "i-kill-you" cards.

I won with 1 Hp left because Armageddon Clock rules!

[Odjn]

I played Flash/Hulk back when it was legal in a local tournament and actually pulled off a win before my opponent had a chance to take his turn. He went first. He threw his deck at me.

[BitVyper]

Every game of Chrononauts ever. I'm not even joking. Chrononauts is the best card game.

Edit: So I used to know this one guy when I was playing Magic (like ten years ago), and he would always brag about how totally awesome his red deck was, but never bring it out to play. I finally egged him into playing a game with it one day. We started playing, and it became apparent that he'd not really shuffled it very much, as he played four mana flares all at once at the earliest possible time, then tried to blast someone with a Fireball (and I'd be willing to bet his next three cards were all X casting costs). Unfortunately for him, I had a Volcanic Eruption (I think... red instant that does X damage anyway). Blew him to ash on the spot. The look on his face was absolutely priceless.

[DarkDrgon]

me and my buddies had a cube rotisserie draft, I ended up with a red/green burn/ramp. I was at 10 while my opponent (who was playing red/blue/splash of green beatdown) was at 9. He had out a fires of yavimaya and a tefferi. I played a hurricane for 9, and he responds by flashing in a stuffy doll and pinging me for the tie

[Yrcrazypa]

Does making a grown woman cry when I was a little teenager in M:TG count? I was playing a tournament back when Mirrodin first came out, and decided I wanted to make a new Red deck with a focus on artifacts as well. It turned out quite well. I CRUSHED her so heavily, she cried. And I wasn't even being a typical teenager by taunting and things, I was just playing.

[RobinStarwing]

My god! I am loving this stories!

Also, doesn't just have to be Magic: The Gathering games. I know there are more TCGs out there so keep on telling the tales!

[BitVyper]

So I had a deck of Pokemon cards for a very short period of time. One day I was out walking, and this kid who was like, ten came up to me on a street corner, and the most bizarre thing happened:

"Do you have any Pokemon cards?" (there were no visible indicators that I was carrying Pokemon cards in my backpack at the time)
"Uh, yeah." *pulls out deck*
"I'll give you eighty dollars for them."
"Okay."

And so ended my Pokemon card playing days. Eighty fucking dollars for what was basically an unaltered starter deck that had jack crap in it.

[Vauron]

******WARNING: M:TG CARNAGE******

50-plus +4/+4 Saprolings and he marches them onto the other guy who still has 20 life...:aaa::crying:

I was so glad I mana burned myself out as soon as I could...

Only 50 4/4s? Thats nothing, I've suffered through elf decks that happily throw out three hundred elf tokens in a single turn. While several Essence Wardens are out. As is Staff of Dominance. As are several creatures with +1/+1 to elfs. As is an infinite mana combo that I can't recall.

There is a point when punching the opponent becomes more attractive than continuing, those decks went well beyond that point.

Edit: I don't think it counts as messed up, but my opponents might have disagreed. First, some backstory. I started Magic back during Shards. After messing around, I started working on an Esper(WUB) deck because of some nice cards I'd drafted and my enjoyment of the artifacts. The big combo, such as it was, was Sharding Sphinx, (http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=174881) paired with Time Sieve (http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=189649).

Essentially, so long as I could attack with at least 5 artifacts each turn, I'd never need to allow anyone to take another turn. Sadly, I didn't succeed in getting it off that often, but it was awesome to turn to the other seven people in a multiplayer game and essentially say, 'If you can't stop me right now, I win. I don't care about how you have 300 life, you are never getting another turn.'

[Flarecobra]

WAAAAAY back in the day, I played the pokemon card game, had a Fighting/Grass deck that had Exegguter as it's focus with it's Big Eggsplosion attack. (http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Exeggutor_(Jungle_35))

Once I had over 6 energy cards on it... not too much could stop it. I remember having some Diglett, Caterpie, and Ratatta as openers, but that's about all I remember.

[RobinStarwing]

Only 50 4/4s? Thats nothing, I've suffered through elf decks that happily throw out three hundred elf tokens in a single turn. While several Essence Wardens are out. As is Staff of Dominance. As are several creatures with +1/+1 to elfs. As is an infinite mana combo that I can't recall.

There is a point when punching the opponent becomes more attractive than continuing, those decks went well beyond that point.

Edit: I don't think it counts as messed up, but my opponents might have disagreed. First, some backstory. I started Magic back during Shards. After messing around, I started working on an Esper(WUB) deck because of some nice cards I'd drafted and my enjoyment of the artifacts. The big combo, such as it was, was Sharding Sphinx, (http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=174881) paired with Time Sieve (http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=189649).

Essentially, so long as I could attack with at least 5 artifacts each turn, I'd never need to allow anyone to take another turn. Sadly, I didn't succeed in getting it off that often, but it was awesome to turn to the other seven people in a multiplayer game and essentially say, 'If you can't stop me right now, I win. I don't care about how you have 300 life, you are never getting another turn.'

It was my first time seeing that kind of thing up close and I was really wishing I had MY deck, which has Iname as One (http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=74618), a Woodwraith Corrupter (http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=83747), and Horobi, Death's Wail (http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=78854) in it. Horobi would of stopped him from beefing them up so much.

It isn't a finished deck yet but it's playable. I still need the Life (http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=80282) and Death (http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=80278) aspects of Iname.

[Roland]

I remember this one time our family was on vacation. We played Uno. It lasted forever. We never play Uno now.

[Inbred Chocobo]

So I am in this huge MTG multiplayer game. (8 people). Its late in the game, I have about 10 life left. No one has really went against me because most people know that my red\black timespiral block deck tends to have a lot of answers, and the creatures in it are very scary. One of the players has Sorin Markov (http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=195403) out, and on his turn, gets it to 8 counters, and passes the turn.

As players try to kill his planeswalker and remove the threat, he ends up pulling up a combo and kills all creatures on the field. As another note, his deck is blue\black, and he had tramatized some elf deck too, putting a lot of good elves into the graveyard. So it becomes my turn. Everyone is begging me to do something about Sorin Markov, but the guy has a handful of cards, and has already counterspelled something already. So I do the only thing that will not only stop him, but win the game for me pretty much. I cast Word of Seizing (http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=118870) on Sorin and then use his final ability. With the field wiped, I get an unstoppable army and then just steam-rolled through each player after that.

[Aerozord]

messed up? well most messed up games were our early star wars CCG games. Because we didn't understand basic logic. We had the executor in its own docking bay, TIE fighters in the cantina, and Luke jumping out of his X-wing to shoot at a star destroyer.

If you just mean stuff during gameplay. Well biggest fluke I'd ever seen was someone winning in Yugioh before the game even started, by getting the five pieces of exodia with his opening hand.

[RobinStarwing]

messed up? well most messed up games were our early star wars CCG games. Because we didn't understand basic logic. We had the executor in its own docking bay, TIE fighters in the cantina, and Luke jumping out of his X-wing to shoot at a star destroyer.

If you just mean stuff during gameplay. Well biggest fluke I'd ever seen was someone winning in Yugioh before the game even started, by getting the five pieces of exodia with his opening hand.

My little brother had a deck with 3 BEWD, 1 Dragon Sorcerer, and Sword of the Deep Seated.

He could get a BEWD from it's usual 3000/3000 to Exodia level destructive power...:crying:

[h4x.m4g3]

Magic the Gathering Stories eh, I only play in casual games, partly because I don't like the local tournament players, mostly because I don't like the kind of decks that win in tournaments. I am very much a Johny-Combo gamer, and have been dubbed the king of shenanigans (in fact I play for fun instead of playing to win). So I guess I'll tell some of my most silly tales.

To start with you have to know my two favorite cards thus far are Genesis Chamber (http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=46160) and Hive Mind (http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=190556), Ink-Treader Nephilim (http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=107092) will be joining the ranks soon, but I'm away from my Magic Group for the summer.

Anyway on to the Stories

Jonestown U/R/B
With Hive Mind (http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=190556) on the field I cast http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=15397 (everyone searches their library and graveyard for five cards [that become their library], exiles the rest of their library/graveyard and then loses half their life) then I cast Burning Inquiry (http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=191096), each player draws three then discards three at random repeat for the number of people in the game. Unless someone has something that returns to library when going to graveyard or discarded, everyone dies on the second Burning Inquiry and the game is a draw.

I've also used Hive Mind to cast Vision Skiens (http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=107397), since I normally play in large multiplayer games this resulted in everyone drawing 8-10 cards, which normally includes another vision skiens for me or Breakthrough (http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=29927) draw 4 discard your hand down to X. I've made people draw 40+ cards in one turn, and I have received team lightning bolts for my troubles (one person cast lightning bolt everyone's copy targets me).

Once my friend Warp World (http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=190187) when I had two hive minds out, after resolving the first batch of Warp Worlds, I had somehow managed to have Hive Mind as my only remaining card on the field, so he cast it again. I believe we had 8 instances Warp World resolves in the same turn.

I also have Megrim (http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=189904) in the deck for when people just want the game to end.

Massive Life Gain
I have gained over 800 life a turn with this deck. Mana Reflection (http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=146750) + Boon Reflection (http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=146751) with X cost gain life spells and creatures. Also 4 Essence Wardens and 4 Soul Wardens for good measure. Sanguine Bond (http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=190190) and Cradle of Vitality (http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=174789) to actually do damage. Note: Signets, other 1 mana for 2 mana, and mana filtration artifacts that tap make Mana Reflection fun to total up.

A Yu-Gi-Oh story
I once had a 'heart of the cards' amazing come from behind win (I was young and still referencing the show, dark times man). I had no cards in hand and no monsters on the field. My opponent played the spell that doubles a machine monsters ATK, but destroys him at the end of turn on some huge machine monster (its been a long time since it happened so I can't remember names), and hit me for 6000+ but not completely killing me. My next draw is Flash Assailant (2000/2000 gets -400/-400 for each card in your hand). I proceed to use this one creature to bring him down to 0 before he can draw another creature.

I have more strange combo/shenanigan stories I'll post later.

[The Argent Lord]

I had a zombie deck I always used in multiplayer games. I'd play a bunch of rather weak zombies that were respectable enough for what they were but not so dangerous that I even seemed remotely like a threat. So I'd sit there while the players with the big creatures and crazy combos beat on one another, and then, when they were whittled down and maybe one or two were dead, I'd cycle the Gempalm Polluter (http://magiccards.info/le/en/70.html)s I'd been saving up and kill everyone left alive.

[A Zarkin' Frood]

One time I was playing Yu-Gi-Oh with my brother.
He used to play a pretty mean control deck while I was using a deck that relied on removing cards from play. It didn't have a name then, so I called it a Soulburn deck (basically can be summed up as a combo of recovery and beatdown). Dunno if the community has come up with a different name or any name at all because back then it was a pretty obscure deck-type. Not sure if that's changed. It's been a very long while.

Late in the game I had two active Soul Recoveries (increases life by, I think 100 for each card that's removed from play) and had the first out of three Banishers of Light in play. The Banisher removes every card that would usually be sent to the graveyard from play.
At one point I had the rare pleasure of activating the Inferno Tempest which, when taking damage of 3000 or higher, removes all monster cards in both player's grave yards from play. Then I had that one monster, called Gren Maju Da Eiza. Gren Maju receives a boost of, I think, 400 Attack points for each card out of play. I also had three of them with an insane attack rating.

But yeah. My brother played control and had a card active that wouldn't let any monsters with an ATK above 4000 attack. (Was it called Wall of Light? I'm not sure) So I couldn't do shit with my monsters. Even though they had god-like strength.
It was very late in the game and he had played the worst of his cards and I had the luck to be able to counter them, so neither of us could do anything of use and we just skipped our turns, hoping to draw something that would get us out of this. Of course there's a limit of 6 cards in one's hand (maybe the official rule was 5, but we played with 6. Or the official was 6. I don't care) So every time each of our hands exceeded that limit a card was removed from play, increasing my power further.

In the end I lost the game with about 50000 LP remaining while my brother was down to his hundreds. A game starts with 8000 and I lost some over the course of the game too.
I lost because I was out of cards. If you can't draw you lose. My brother always played a 50 card deck (not considered a smart move by most), while I stuck to the minimum 40.

Lesson for life: You can become as god-like and invincible as you like. It won't help you if you're out of cards.

Later on I included cards that would inflict damage to my opponent each time a card is removed from play to prevent this from happening again. It did never happen again.

Now I could tell you about our double K.O., or when we were playing a triple threat match I won even though my two opponents ganged up on me. I could also tell some tales of that house rule we had, where we played a quick match of Soul Calibur II or III each round and the winner would get certain benefits. But those're stories for another day.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Not an actual card game but one of the GBA Yugioh card games.
Basically there is one opponent who has a stacked deck that is full of creatures more powerful than you can get in game so that he can ramp up to his fake God card which gets him throw out of tournament or something.
However I kind of broke the game by playing a deck that was 90% spells and traps because each one took out at least one creature, sometimes more and I would have extreme board control and i could use any creature I liked to finish (the game expects you to play a creature based strategy where you just try to ramp up to powerful creatures).
So I won easily the fight you are supposed to lose and the dialogue in the game didn't make sense for ages till I looked it up online.

[Arhra]

I just found out they changed the combat rules in Magic a year ago.

Noooo, combat stack, don't leave me! I love sacrificing my own men with damage on the stack!

Nooooooo!

And that is messed up. The end.

[Overcast]

About a year ago me, my bro, and a couple people from a wrestling tournament we were at were playing blackjack. Now my brother was dealing because while we both were good at the game he has a much better card trickery skill so he can do flashy awesome things with the cards while I just win money. It was coming up around the end of the night when this one guy, while winning about a $100 already in small stakes stuff, decides to bet all his winnings. Now I can't tell you how me and my bro communicated this but we figured it would be fun to teach him a lesson about when to fold them, so with a few clever marks and flips he was able to deal me a pure blackjack so I could just take all of it and leave him in despair.

A bit cruel yeah, but hey we made a good grip on it.

[RobinStarwing]

I wasn't thinking Blackjack. More the Trading Card Games.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

for yugioh,

Back in my senior year of High School. I was in a muiltplayer duel against 4 other freshmen. Mostly Tier 2 and 3 builds (one guy had a Anime inspired Kaiba deck) against my Levia-Dragon deck. Several turns late into the game, I draw and to my surprise I draw the spell card big wave small wave ( my hand: Levia-Dragon Daedalus, Ocean Dragon lord, Neo Daedalus, A legendary Ocean. My field: a set card, and Amphibious bugroth mkII). I activate the field spell "A Legendary Ocean" which is treated as "Umi" while in play, then played the Spell "Big Wave Small Wave" to destroy my only WATER monster and Special Summon Levia-Dragon, then sent it to the graveyard to Special Summon...

Ocean Dragon Lord, Neo Daedalus
Level 8
WATER
Sea-Serpent/Effect
This card cannot be normal summoned or set. This card cannot be special summon expect by sending 1 face up "Levia-Dragon Daedalus" you control to the graveyard. Send 1 "Umi" you control to the graveyard to send all cards in each player's hands and on the field to the graveyard, except this card.
ATK:2900/DEF:1600

They ALL begged me not to do it as most of them would have lost in mere turns. I felt like a golden gold at that moment but chose to not use it's effect (basically showing mercy), and was took out a few turns later, or did I win that one? can't remember.

Another screwed up story was when I first started playing magic back in my Junior year of high school. My old Jr High friend had a odd way of teaching how to play and get good at the game. By effectively turning all of my duels against him into Wake Up Boss
Battles. He creamed me and my Red goblin deck (which I still have to this day) horribly with his artifact deck. Though this did help me learn how to set and plan good combos with my deck (like using my various burn cards to rack up to about 15 damage over a course of a few turns) and also ironically helped me get better with the yugioh TCG even though I never did beat that deck of his. Only getting close before losing.

Another messed up thing was how I earned the titles "Zane Truesdale" and "Dragon King" among my friends when it came to yugioh. My dragon decks were great, my CyberDark deck was at times evil. To this day I still smile at the thought that those freshmen I dueled in my senior year did not want to duel against my cyberdarks after seeing Five Headed Dragon (also known as F.G.D and Five Gods Dragon among the player base) in my fusion deck (which is now called the Extra Deck). And the best part is that over the years this deck has been modded to the point that thanks to synchros and my side deck, I can go toe to toe against tier 1 builds with little problems.

then there's my Dragon deck that I use today. Though built around the Red-Eyes Black Dragon and various different ways to abuse him for advantages and only containing 10 dragons not counting my Extra Deck, thanks to the way I built it, I can effectively search out any monster from my deck with the exception of 2 cards (one of them being a Red-Eyes Darkness Dragon and the other being Vanguard of the Dragon). And with summoner's art (a spell that adds 1 normal monster that's level 5 or higher from my deck to my hand.) and Allure of Darkness (a spell that lets me draw 2 cards but I have to remove 1 DARK monster or else my whole hand is sent to the graveyard) I can thin my deck down quickly to improve my chances of drawing cards that I need to win like Dragon's Mirror (miracle fusion for dragons) and any staples like Lightning Vortex and Heavy Storm. I love that deck so very much. :)