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Cateran Overlord
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I just love hearing this kind of thing, it makes for hilarious reading.
My personal one goes back to the release of Ice Age in a massive multiplayer game. I mean HUGE as in about 15 players. To make things worse, by some sick coincidence literally ALL of us were playing U/R. Ya see, we were all taken by Deflection, and were all playing 4 of them. In retrospect, damned if I know why, but it was GREAT fun.
It basically goes everyone drops Volcanic Islands and Islands and Mountains and sits back. Then this begins to get insane as my friend Dave decides to break the stalemate (there are somehow only 13 Mana Flares on the board, no other nonlands). Note that I don't know who most of these guys were then and I've forgotten by now if I knew as the old card store vanished and was replaced by a new one, so I'll just number anyone I don't know.
Now remember that this is way back in the day with fourth edition and such, with no fancy timing rules. We made up the rules as to the order things occur in. they were fairly similar to 6th thankfully, and as such this is what triggered it all:
Dave: I'll cast Chain Lightning on Mitch (another good friend of mine)
What followed is far too long to recount here as I can't remember nearly the order it occured in.
Anyway, the end result of this was that the orginal Chain Lightning had been forked almost 2 dozen times and that most of these were Deflected at new targets, only to be paid and redirected at someone ELSE. Believe it or not, the end result was everyone just agreeing to pick it up and go home (it was almost midnight) as we had no idea how the heck to resolve this! However, my guess is that when 6th edition rules factor in and everything resolves, odds are we'd all have died (there was nearly seven hundred damage total from the Forking and Chaining). Do not ask me how this happened but the turn with the Lighting being cast went on for over an hour!
Anyone have anything sillier than that happen to them?
My personal one goes back to the release of Ice Age in a massive multiplayer game. I mean HUGE as in about 15 players. To make things worse, by some sick coincidence literally ALL of us were playing U/R. Ya see, we were all taken by Deflection, and were all playing 4 of them. In retrospect, damned if I know why, but it was GREAT fun.
It basically goes everyone drops Volcanic Islands and Islands and Mountains and sits back. Then this begins to get insane as my friend Dave decides to break the stalemate (there are somehow only 13 Mana Flares on the board, no other nonlands). Note that I don't know who most of these guys were then and I've forgotten by now if I knew as the old card store vanished and was replaced by a new one, so I'll just number anyone I don't know.
Now remember that this is way back in the day with fourth edition and such, with no fancy timing rules. We made up the rules as to the order things occur in. they were fairly similar to 6th thankfully, and as such this is what triggered it all:
Dave: I'll cast Chain Lightning on Mitch (another good friend of mine)
What followed is far too long to recount here as I can't remember nearly the order it occured in.
Anyway, the end result of this was that the orginal Chain Lightning had been forked almost 2 dozen times and that most of these were Deflected at new targets, only to be paid and redirected at someone ELSE. Believe it or not, the end result was everyone just agreeing to pick it up and go home (it was almost midnight) as we had no idea how the heck to resolve this! However, my guess is that when 6th edition rules factor in and everything resolves, odds are we'd all have died (there was nearly seven hundred damage total from the Forking and Chaining). Do not ask me how this happened but the turn with the Lighting being cast went on for over an hour!
Anyone have anything sillier than that happen to them?
