[Strategy Discussion]Stifling Dragon

[TylerEss]

Spurred on by the Dragon thread in the regular forum, I've been thinking about beating Dragon. One way to beat Dragon is to Stifle a trigger at an opportune time. The following discussion assumes this situation:

The Dragon player is planning on going off right now. You have a Stifle, and whatever it takes to make it resolve.

The play most often advised is to wait until the "When WGD comes into play..." trigger resolves, and Stifle the "When WGD leaves play" trigger, leaving the Dragon player with all permanants removed from game.

Wouldn't it be better to wait until they're done going off and are floating about 1 million mana, let them animate their kill card of choice (be it Ambassador, Queen, what-have-you), and Stifle the animate card's "When ~this~ comes into play, if it is in play..." trigger? That would leave them with 1 million mana floating and nothing to do with it. This would hopefully cause them to mana burn for 1 million, and promptly lose.

Does this make sense?
(Posted in newbie just in case it doesn't.  )

[Bulls on Parade]

What if they didn't go off by discarding through their deck with Bazaar, and have another Animate? You just lost a game because you wanted to make a flashy play, where you could have just left them with no permanents.

[Marton]

I always thought it was common knowledge that stifling dragon after the dragon player has 20+ mana in his pool was an alternative to doing it as soon as possible. However the problem is that if the dragon player holds a compulsion in his hands you probably loosed the game.

[wuaffiliate]

What do you do when they attack with a swarm?

[TylerEss]

If they attack with a swarm, you respond by using Ring of Ma'Ruf/Brainstorm  to fetch the Necromancy you SBed for just this occasion. Then you animate their dragon and go off with it yourself, Stroking them for 1 million. Obviously.  

Everyone's right, though. This is a flashy play that's only worth the risk when you've just heard "There will be 5 more turns" and know you can't win in 3 turns. I bet those all coincide about once every hundred years. Thanks for talking about it anyway.

[wuaffiliate]

If they attack with a swarm, you respond by using Ring of Ma'Ruf/Brainstorm  to fetch the Necromancy you SBed for just this occasion. Then you animate their dragon and go off with it yourself, Stroking them for 1 million. Obviously.  

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