You Make the Play

[Thomas David Baker]

Legacy.

 

Opponent is playing Pattern of Rebirth-Protean Hulk-Reveillark-Body Double combo, you are playing Junk.

 

Board:

You: Tarmogoyf, Mox Diamond, Bayou, Bayou

Opponent: Dryad Arbor, Savannah, Bayou, Misty Rainforest

 

Graveyard:

You: Marsh Flats, Hymn to Tourach

Opponent: Swords to Plowshares, Savannah

 

Your Hand:

Knight of the Reliquary, Extirpate, Savannah, Wasteland

Action:

Your Turn 3, you attack with Goyf and your opponent Slaughter Pacts it.

 

What now?

 

[Raymond Wat]

Green Sun's Zenith shouldn't be in the graveyard.

[Thomas David Baker]

I knew I would balls something up.  Thanks Ray - corrected, so now you look like a weirdo :)

[Dan Barrett]

Wasteland Bayou, then Extirpate it in response to him cracking Misty Rainforest - it's the only way he can get a black source before his next turn to pay for the pact.

[Nathan Gotlib]

he should have underground seas in his deck.. i would keep the extirpate for when he tries to combo off

[Louis Mackie]

I haven't seen that deck playing blue before. It's normally straight GWB.

Nathan Gotlib said:

he should have underground seas in his deck.. i would keep the extirpate for when he tries to combo off

[Thomas David Baker]

Yeah, Dan "got it" - he didn't have any Underground Seas and that was game.  Happened on ggslive at Grand Prix Providence.  I thought it was a pretty sweet play to notice by the Junk player.  It's not like he knew it was a "you make the play" moment.  In the chat there was a lot of "wait, what just happened?" :)

 

Incidentally the Pattern of Rebirth deck seems terrible, but they were playing it so badly on mtgo on ggslive that may have put me off it.

 

Someone pointed out in the chat that if the guy had fetched in response to the Wasteland activation he would have been fine and possibly/probably won.  So there was a "you make the play" for the other player too that he missed, maybe I should have written that one up, that would have been hard!

[Dan Barrett]

You have no reason to make that play unless you *know* your opponent has Extirpate though, right?

[Louis Mackie]

Even if you think he doesn't it's correct.

Dan Barrett said:

You have no reason to make that play unless you *know* your opponent has Extirpate though, right?