If I was the TO or judge, I'd say make an extra proxy for it.

@49 cents: Ive done that too, actually a couple of times, he went nuts in the game, he casted 3 cranials naming replenish, form and confinement, he figured i had no win left, so he asked me to give up. I didn't because all i needed was to dig up a lotus to hardcast three squees and ride them to victory

Just a little sidenote; The deck was piloted to a number 1 finish this weekend at a rather big tourney in Germany: http://www.morphling.de/top8decks.php?id=268.

pardon the OTP, but did anyone notice the complete lack of free coverage on SCG?  They gave nothing to the non-premium users - NOTHING, squat, bubkus...not one fucking iota of information, not even a top8 list.  I can't be the only one WTF-ing this!

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It seems like you don't have all the information. In any case, you didn't even give Daniel a warning at first. Also, just because the HJ made a ruling, doesn't mean it is the correct ruling.

They Judges made some really dumb rulings in the end...

Cheating by not saying you have mana left and then when a spell resolved saying that you had mana left and only getting a warning...

( i dont know the exact details you shouldask Rudy for it )

lol Kerith, you obviously haven't played the game in depth...after 3 days you're no where near PvP ready so how would you know anything about the game past that point?  Unlike Diablo, dueling skills and strategies far outreach items and play time.

He doesn't know that you have 11 counterspells in your hand, and you're actually not allowed to reveal your hand to opponents in the course of a game unless a card instructs you to do so.

That is a little strange. Yes, you can achieve everything in wow: if you play for hundreds (thousands?) of hours you can. But if you would practice any other computer game for so much time.. well then you're pretty 1337 too.

I don't think there is a good RTS game but since you're planning on waiting a bit longer: Red Alert 2 is said to come out in the summer.

I think the point is he Forced something, paying one life and died next turn to the Vortex.

I have won entire games by Countering Moxen with Annul or Mana Leak, so I'm biased here.  Paying U to deprive the opponent of a Mana Source  is a potent tool, especially for a Tempo Deck.

Also, that argument is really hypocritical if you run Oxidize in WTF/r, because half of its original justification for being in the MD was Mox Removal.

Again, I think the virtual Tempo argument is also weak. The same can be said for any Answer in Magic. Plow is pretty bad when there are no creatures on the board, but that doesn't stop us from running it. If you think Annul's "Virtual" Tempo is bad (God I hate these Tempo Babble Terms), you obviously didn't play with Stifle which was much worse.

The card may not be Mana Drain, but I can assure it has single handedly turned around more games vs Stax and company than I care to remember. Fish needs more hard counters vs high threat density decks, and Daze doesn't cut it. If your not satisfied countering 4cc's Moxen and Crucibles, board Annul out for REB.

There might be more to arcane that this, but at the moment it seems like a so-so version of kicker.  More options in terms of effect, but it requires two cards.

Typically, you cast turn 1 Flying Men or Grim Lavamancer with Daze back up or FoW, then follow that with Standstill on turn 2 which is a very common play.  Quite often certain decks will attempt to break this lock right away and you will normally have a FoW plus Daze to use immediatly with a typically good hand.

Nah, that was just you.

Attacking the manabase is a lot harder to do than it sounds.  I have tried this strategy, and it is very difficult to do.  Realize that you need to draw 2-3 of your Wasteland/Strip Mine, drop a Null Rod (and keep it in play), and have your opponent not draw Fetchlands and/or Tundra.  All that makes it nearly impossible to deny the 4CC two white mana for the entire game.

Storm
The official rules for the storm ability are as follows:

502.30. Storm

502.30a Storm is a triggered ability that functions while the card is on the stack. "Storm" means "When you play this spell, put a copy of it onto the stack for each other spell that was played before it this turn. If the spell has any targets, you may choose new targets for any number of the copies."

502.30b If a spell has multiple instances of storm, each triggers separately.
The number of copies is set when the storm spell is played. Count only spells that were played (by any player) before the storm spell was played.


The copies are put directly onto the stack -- they aren't played. That means the copies aren't counted by other storm spells played later during the turn.


Each storm spell with a target allows you to change the target for each copy of that spell. You make that choice for each copy individually.


When counting spells played in a turn, you do count spells that were played face down and spells played from zones other than a hand.


A copy of a spell can be countered, just like any other spell, but each copy has to be countered individually. Countering a storm spell won't counter the copies of it.

Planar Portal + Beacon of Tomorrows is my pick. Now, the best way to ramp up to 14 quickly... hmm, Elves are always fun.

I might just have to work on a decklist for this, out of boredom.  

I am not entirely sure why the single sphere of resistance was included, because it is not really a good substitute for the 3spheres.