Hello, everyone! This epic game happened on Cockatrice, and I thought I'd share it with you. I decided to adopt Sheldon's style of reporting for when he writes articles about games with his friends, as it captures all the details involved in the game. Any feedback you can give is deeply appreciated!
In this game I brought my Ninja deck. It has been updated with some C14 cards since the last time you heard about it. I hope you enjoy it!
Players and their decks:Tyler:
Titania, Protector of Argoth Combo
Grim:
Celestial Kirin Kamigawa Block Tribal
Me:
Vela the Night-Clad Aggro-Control
Krispy:
Sliver Queen Stax
Raizen:
Damia, Sage of Stone Goodstuff
Turn 1Tyler: Forest,
Burgeoning.
Grim: Plains. Tyler puts a Forest on the field.
Krispy: Badlands. Tyler puts
Misty Rainforest on the field.
Me: Island,
Glaring Spotlight. Tyler puts
Gaea's Cradle on the field.
Raizen: Sunken Ruins,
Sol Ring. Tyler puts
Vesuva copying a Forest on the field.
Turn 2Tyler: Rath's Edge, sacrifices the Rainforest for a regular forest (39) and casts Titania, targeting Misty Rainforest.
Grim: Plains.
Krispy: Island.
Me: Swamp,
Quag Vampires.
Raizen: Windswept Heath for
Breeding Pool (37), casts
Oracle of Mul Daya, revealing a
Wurmcoil Engine in the top, plays
Volrath's Stronghold from hand.
Turn 3Tyler: Doubling Season, sacrifices Misty Rainforest for a Forest, gets two Elemental tokens, casts
Garruk Wildspeaker and untaps a forest and Gaea's Cradle (4), casts
Rites of Flourishing. In case you haven't been doing the math, Tyler had just played his entire hand by turn 3.
Grim: plays two Plains and casts Celestial Kirin.
Krispy: Island and Swamp.
Me: Shizo, Death's Storehouse and
Underground River. I had two ninjas in my hand to follow Quag Vampires, but decided not to attack because I didn't want to make enemies so soon (my hand was not that good) and Tyler's board was just calling for a reset button, and I didn't want my ninjas caught in the crossfire.
Raizen: reveals a
Vampiric Tutor and a
Twincast from the top, casts
Phyrexian Metamorph (35) copying Titania, returning Windswept Heath from the graveyard. Sacrifices Heath for a Forest (34) and is now revealing
Brainstorm in the top. Attacks Krispy with the Oracle (38).
Turn 4Tyler: Sacrifices a forest to Rath's Edge, targeting Raizen (33), casts
Life from the Loam, which Krispy
Dissipates. Plays
Dust Bowl, uses Garruk to untap Gaea's Cradle and a Forest (5), sacrifices a Forest for Dust Bowl, targeting Badlands. Attacks Grim (35) and Krispy (33) with two Elementals.
Grim: plays two Plains, casts
Innocence Kami, destroying all Titanias and Doubling Season. Attacks Garruk with Celestial Kirin (2).
Krispy: plays
Temple of the False God and Forest.
Me: Island.
Raizen: reveals
Mikaeus, the Unhallowed and
Mulldrifter from the top, casts
Brainstorm, reveals
Overgrown Tomb,
Cultivate and
Bojuka Bog from the top, puts back Mikaeus and Tomb. Plays Tomb from the top, casts Cultivate, putting an Island on the battlefield and a Swamp on hand, is now revealing
Clever Impersonator from the top, plays the Swamp, targets Phyrexian Metamorph with Volrath's Stronghold.
Turn 5Tyler: plays
Dark Depths, untaps Gaea's Cradle and a Forest with Garruk (3), casts
Sunstone (his forests were all snow-covered), casts Titania, returning Misty Rainforest to the field. Sacrifices Rainforest for a Forest (37). Attacks Krispy with six Elementals (just what I've been expecting)! I cast
Domineering Will targeting Krispy, Titania, an Elemental token controlled by Tyler, and Oracle of Mul Daya. They all die since they are forced to block, and Tyler loses two attacking Elementals. Krispy goes to 18 life. Sacrifices Dark Depths to Dust Bowl, targeting my Underground River. At EOT, Grim casts
Pure Intentions, destroying Glaring Spotlight, Quag Vampires (leaving me with an empty board) and Sol Ring.
Grim: plays two Plains, attacks Garruk with Kirin; Tyler sacrifices a Forest to Sunstone to prevent the damage. Casts
Yosei, the Morning Star.
Krispy: Casts
Mana Crypt and
Timetwister (only in Cockatrice could these two cards be played on the same turn

). Plays
Ancient Tomb and
Tropical Island, casts
Elixir of Immortality and
Perilous Vault. Ancient Tomb deals two damage (16).
Me: play Swamp and
River of Tears, casts
Augury Owl, putting a card on bottom.
Raizen: plays Island and Swamp. Attacks Garruk with an Elemental token. Tyler is tapped out and Garruk leaves. Casts Cultivate, putting a Forest on the field and an Island in hand.
Turn 6Tyler: Casts
Summer Bloom, plays two Forests,
Mikokoro, Center of the Sea and
Reliquary Tower, casts Titania, plays another Forest. I'm suspecting he didn't attack because Yosei was freaking him out. He was the main threat at the moment after all.
Grim: plays two Plains (as usual), casts
Kami of the Painted Road, destroying Innocence Kami and Titania. Again. Casts
Terashi's Grasp on
Perilous Vault with
Candles' Glow spliced on it and targeting Krispy; Celestial Kirin destroyed both Sunstone and Rites of Flourishing. Kirin attacks Krispy, gaining Grim 3 life (43).
Krispy: Mana Crypt deals 3 damage to him (13), casts
Windfall. In response, Raizen casts
Crop Rotation, sacrificing a Swamp and searching for
Bojuka Bog, targeting Tyler; I cast
Recoil on Gaea's Cradle, and Tyler discards it. Raizen has the most cards in hand (6), and Windfall resolves. Plays
Tower of the Magistrate and casts Phyrexian Metamorph, copying Yosei, casts
Grim Monolith and
Telepathy.
Me: I carefully studies everyone's hands. Seeing Grim's hand was particularly useful because of his Kirin, but Tyler was the most dangerous of us because he had
Craterhoof Behemoth in his hand and four Elemental tokens on the field. I had to make my moves carefully now. Play Island, cast
Bitterblossom,
Sai of the Shinobi and
Ashling the Extinguisher, equipping Sai to it. At EOT, Raizen casts
Worldly Tutor for
Bane of Progress. Now that I think of it, I didn't play carefully at all...
Raizen: casts Bane of Progress. In response Krispy activated Elixir of Immortality before, gaining 5 life (18). Six permanents were destroyed, including Telepathy. Casts
Nature's Lore for a Forest, casts Life From the Loam, returning Swamp, Island and Misty Rainforest, plays Island.
Turn 7Tyler: Casts
Lotus Cobra, plays and sacrifices Misty Rainforest, casts
Crucible of Worlds, activates Mikokoro, sacrifices a Forest for Dust Bowl to destroy Temple of the False God.
Grim: Plains,
Honden of Cleansing Fire,
Genju of the Fields.
Krispy: Savannah.
Me: Vela the Night-Clad. Attack Grim with Ashling (since only I can attack him and avoid triggering Yosei) (39), he sacrifices Celestial Kirin. Play
Watery Grave.
Raizen: Ancient Tomb,
Kokusho, the Evening Star,
Acidic Slime targeting Crucible of Worlds. Attacks Krispy with Bane of Progress and an Elemental token. Krispy targets Bane with
Path to Exile and blocks the Elemental with Yosei. Yosei targets Tyler and all his Elementals and Raizen searches for a basic land, but he has none left!
Turn 8Tyler: Ghost Quarter, activates it targeting one of his own forests just to cast
Sylvan Scrying, which gives him
Maze of Ith.
Grim: goes to 41 life thanks to Honden, Plains, activate Genju five times (which basically gives it five lifelinks), attacks Krispy with it (16 vs. 51).
Krispy: Badlands, Sliver Queen.
Me: attack Grim with Ashling (47), he sacrifices Kami of the Painted Road. Play Reliquary Tower.
Raizen: Swamp,
Eternal Witness targeting
Duplicant (it was previously discarded by Windfall). Casts Duplicant targeting Yosei, but Krispy saves it with Tower of the Magistrate. It is at this moment that me, Raizen and Tyler vow to kill Krispy.
Turn 9Tyler: attacks Krispy with all his creatures, Queen makes a token and both block two Elementals; Maze of Ith saves one of the tokens and Krispy goes to 2. Casts
Expedition Map.
Grim: goes to 49 life, Yosei attacks Tyler (31), then casts
Final Judgment in an attempt to save Krispy. Sadly for him, Vela seals his fate, and Krispy is wiped out of the game. Everybody else loses 3 life (Tyler 28, Grim 46, Raizen 30). Casts Celestial Kirin.
Me: Rogue's Passage, Vela. At EOT, Raizen casts
Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir.
Raizen: Misty Rainforest,
Fact or Fiction. He reveals five very dangerous cards and gives them to me. I put Clever Impersonator and
Consecrated Sphinx on one pile and
Damnation,
Counterlash and
Rite of Replication on another. He chooses the creature pile and casts Consecrated Sphinx. Attack Tyler with Teferi (25). At EOT, Tyler Expeditions for a Tower of the Magistrate and activates Mikokoro. Raizen refills his hand with the Sphinx.
Turn 10Tyler: it becomes clear that Raizen is gaining too much power, so Tyler makes the bold, but wise, move of casting
Wave of Vitriol. In response, Tyler activates Volrath's Stronghold targeting
Silent-Blade Oni. Because Raizen has no more basic lands in his deck, his mana base was reduced from fifteen to a mere seven lands. This is why you should always pack your decks with basic lands, folks!
Grim: Plains, casts
Kami of the Palace Fields, destroying Vela (Tyler 24, Grim 45, Raizen 27) and Sphinx with Kirin, casts
Horizon Seed, destroying Teferi. All the players' boards are now clean except for Grim. Attacks me with Celestial Kirin (37). This was the first time I was attacked this game, on turn 10. Not bad!
Me: Thada Adel, Acquisitor and
Glen Elendra Liege.
Raizen: dredges Life from the Loam during the draw step.
Command Tower,
Coercive Portal. He discarded Watery Grave during the cleanup step.
Turn 11Tyler: Thespian's Stage,
Nissa, Worldwaker. Nissa animated a Forest.
Grim: Untaidake, the Cloud Keeper,
Hikari, Twilight Guardian. Nissa was destroyed and Horizon Seed regenerated. Cast
Slumbering Tora.
Me: attack Tyler with Liege (22) and Raizen with Thada (24). Steal and cast
Mind's Eye. However, I noticed other very dangerous stuff in his library, so I cast
Earwig Squad targeting Raizen and exiling
Prophet of Kruphix,
Forbid and Mikaeus, the Unhallowed.
Raizen: me and Grim voted homage, so Raizen drew a card. I drew two cards with Mind's Eye. Cast
Devastation Tide, Life from the Loam targeting Bojuka Bog, play Bojuka Bog targeting Grim, cast
Reanimate targeting
Wrexial, the Risen Deep in my graveyard (18). Discarded Rhystic Study during cleanup.
Turn 12Tyler: cast Titania targeting Ghost Quarter, play
Wooded Foothills, targets his own Forest with Quarter, searching for another, sacrifices Foothills, and gains three Elemental tokens. Attacks Grim with the animated Forest (41).
Grim: cast Celestial Kirin using Untaidake (39), casts Horizon Seed, destroying Titania (poor Titania...), casts Kami of the Palace Fields, destroying Wrexial.
Me: Dismal Backwater (38), Thada Adel and
Djinn of Infinite Deceits.
Raizen: Silent-Blade Oni.
Turn 13Tyler: he finally casts Craterhoof Behemoth that has been waiting patiently in his hand for a long time and obliterates Raizen. Plays
Wasteland and copies Untaidake with Thespian's Stage.
Grim: Shinen of Stars' Light, destroying Thada Adel, and
Ghost-Lit Redeemer.
Me: Soaring Seacliff, Vela the Night-Clad.
http://magiccards.info/scans/en/avr/172.jpgTurn 14Tyler: Tower of the Magistrate, casts Titania using Untaidake (19), repeating the same old shenanigans with Ghost Quarter, destroys my Dismal Backwater with Wasteland. Attacks me with three Elementals, a Forest and Behemoth (which I block with Djinn). I go to 19. Casts
Azusa, Lost but Seeking and plays
Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers and
Oran-Rief, the Vastwood, emptying his hand.
Grim: casts Hikari, Twilight Guardian (guess what, Titania

),
Kabuto Moth and Slumbering Tora. At EOT I use Djinn to switch the control of Ghost-Lit Redeemer and Craterhoof Behemoth, just as a safety measure. In response Grim taps the Redeemer (41).
Me:
AEther Gale targeting all Elemental tokens,
Glen Elendra Liege,
Dimir Aqueduct returning Soaring Seacliff to my hand. Attack Tyler with Vela (13).
Turn 15Tyler: Titania is summoned again, and returns Ghost Quarter again, which gives Tyler two more tokens again. Activates Oran-Rief, the Vastwood.
Grim: Plains. Attacks Tyler with Hikari (7), putting him at enough life for me to kill him next turn.
Me: attack Tyler with Vela and Liege, wiping him out. Grim gets Ghost-Lit Redeemer back. I cast
Dire Undercurrents and
Master Thief stealing Slumbering Tora.
Turn 16Grim: Plains (he has 18 lands by now, while I have only 12), attacks me with everything. I block Hikari with Djinn and Horizon Seed with Master Thief. Seed is destroyed and I go to 9. Casts
Kami of Ancient Law and sacrifices it to destroy Dire Undercurrents.
Me: Drowned Catacomb,
Hex, targeting all of Grim's creatures. Grim casts
Blessed Breath on Celestial Kirin, which triggers Hikari and exiles it. Kami of the Palace Fields soulshifts into Horizon Seed, and everything else is destroyed. Cast
Hands of Binding targeting Kirin and ciphering it to Vela. Attack with Vela, Liege and Master Thief; Master Thief Ninjutsus into
Ninja of the Deep Hours. Grim goes to 30 life.
Turn 17Grim: I give thanks to Djinn of Infinite Deceits. If it wasn't for him, I would've lost to a topdecked
Charge Across the Araba. Attacks me with Hikari, I block with Djinn, casts Charge, returning four Plains, and Djinn is destroyed. Casts Horizon Seed.
Me: play
Tectonic Edge. Attack with Vela, Liege and Ninja of the Deep Hours. Ninjutsu the Ninja with
Throat Slitter, which destroys Hikari at last. Grim goes to 19 life, Hands of Binding keeps the Kirin pinned down. Cast Master Thief, stealing Slumbering Tora again.
Turn 18Grim: Plains.
Me: Attack with everything. Grim goes to 5. Hands of Binding keep the Kirin controlled, and Throat Slitter destroys Horizon Seed.
On the next turn, Grim draws and concedes. Well done, Vela, I am proud of you :')
