Still feel horrible for this, as it turned one player away from EDH forever....

Playing in a commander league points game, with a Xira Aren Hermit Druid / Necrotic Ooze shenanigans.dec...

Turn 7 I go off, and with infinite mind slaver recursion (and taking their turns for them rather quickly....) proceed to do 20 points of commander damage to both players with my commander, tick off each achievement on our list except for the player eliminations, and set both players lives to 35, shuffle their hands, permanents, and GY into their libraries, force them each to draw 7 cards, politely ask them if they wish to "mulligan" any cards away, proceed to do targeted discard effects to each of them until they've discard their disliked cards, and force them to draw X-1 cards, (looped until no more mulligans wanted...) then after doing so again shuffle their graveyards into their libraries and bump their lives to forty, then proceed to scoop up my pile, wish them a good day and proceed to watch the other games going on.

The player who one oddly is who gave up EDH afterwards, but both players were really disheartened by the game.

So wait, you had a Mindslaver lock on everyone, and could kill everyone, but you chose to mine achievement points and prolong the game? That sounds like a pretty shit thing to do.

Still feel horrible for this, as it turned one player away from EDH forever....

Playing in a commander league points game, with a Xira Aren Hermit Druid / Necrotic Ooze shenanigans.dec...

Turn 7 I go off, and with infinite mind slaver recursion (and taking their turns for them rather quickly....) proceed to do 20 points of commander damage to both players with my commander, tick off each achievement on our list except for the player eliminations, and set both players lives to 35, shuffle their hands, permanents, and GY into their libraries, force them each to draw 7 cards, politely ask them if they wish to "mulligan" any cards away, proceed to do targeted discard effects to each of them until they've discard their disliked cards, and force them to draw X-1 cards, (looped until no more mulligans wanted...) then after doing so again shuffle their graveyards into their libraries and bump their lives to forty, then proceed to scoop up my pile, wish them a good day and proceed to watch the other games going on.

The player who one oddly is who gave up EDH afterwards, but both players were really disheartened by the game.

I was playing a quick 1v1 between Godo (me) and Dralnu.

I had been pretty mana screwed all game and had four lands by turn 8-9. My board consisted of a Goblin Welder with a Basilisk Collar on it, howling mine, ruby medallion and Mimic Vat with a suspended Wheel of Fate.

Meanwhile he has Dralnu out, a Rune-Scarred Demon, and just cast Army of the Damned.

I'm at ~28 life and dead on board next turn. The wheel goes off in my upkeep discarding a caged sun and drawing me into Vicious Shadows and Blasphemous Act as well as a Pyroblast for counter backup...

Coming from behind like that and winning off of four lands with an 8 and 9 CMC spell was cool but something about it just felt dirty... especially had he lived with Dralnu taking 13 damage.

That actually sounds pretty awesome to me!

@ Epsilon - Yeah, I gotta say, I wouldn't have felt at all bad about that victory - you were the underdog, afterall. Besides, I played Standard during Dralnu du Louvre's reign and god I $@%#ing hated that deck, so I consider yours a moral victory as well.

It was cool as a comeback win but the guy I was playing with is new to EDH with maybe 1200 cards total to his name. Most of his decks consist of a few Zendikar forward bombs and then filler garbage to hit 100 cards while all of mine are a bit more tuned and themed with major struggles to cut a desired list in half to 99... He doesn't have it built as some debilitating control deck where he kills or counters everything twice, Dralnu is there more for value (and cool art) to get some additional mileage out of his few good cards.

He likes the format but doesn't really have the cards to compete and I don't want to start driving him away by winning out of nowhere and stealing his rare victories. So it's more of a feeling bad for "stealing a win" from a new player rather than feeling bad for a dick play.

Don't steal the victory then, subtly help him get it instead?

The problem is more that the victory is empty if he got it because I was mana screwed and there's not much ways for me to recover without screwing him over in a red deck since everything is damage based. He's already figured out that he only wins games that I get really screwed on mana or with an infect kill even if I deliberately pick decks that are weak to his partifular strategy (He's made like 5 decks and I normally try to pick ones that are weak to his general to give him some additional advantage).

Right now I'm just playing decks that I'm debating on retiring to make room for new decks within the colors... (debating on dropping Godo for Diaochan and Hakim for Ixidor)

I'll probably end up building a lower powered deck til he gets some more cards.

Might I suggest giving him some cards? If it's not a huge financial hardship for you it would probably mean a lot to him and make your games more enjoyable.

I was playing my Kaervek group slug deck and quickly dropped Havoc Festival and Wound Reflection. I drew them naturally and they both fit into the decks theme. Everyone else died on their next turn. Took about 10 mins for that 4 player game.