Post by Sigarda on Mar 8, 2015 10:56:41 GMT
This is a short thread for anyone who has ever managed to go infinite by accident - that is that you have played a card quite innocently and not noticing the grimaces around the table until you realize yourself that you have just put an infinite combo onto the table.
Yes - it's for people who struggle to win normally but who, when their attention wanders, manage to do it by accident.
An example of this the other week. I was playing my Niv-Mizzet the Firemind deck (You draw a card, Niv-mizzet does 1 commander damage to someone) and about 10 minutes into what was shaping up to be a good game I drew Curiosity from my library. At the time I had Niv-Mizzet and something else on the battlefield but whatever that was I was expecting to have to chump block with it reasonably soon as someone further along the table was happily generating a small army of black demon tokens.
So... I put it on Niv-Mizzet, not actually thinking about anything much beyond wanting to do something with this turn. Hearing the groans I looked down and read it once more. Then smiled and tapped Niv-Mizzet to draw a card... "Sorry boys"
Yes - it's for people who struggle to win normally but who, when their attention wanders, manage to do it by accident.
An example of this the other week. I was playing my Niv-Mizzet the Firemind deck (You draw a card, Niv-mizzet does 1 commander damage to someone) and about 10 minutes into what was shaping up to be a good game I drew Curiosity from my library. At the time I had Niv-Mizzet and something else on the battlefield but whatever that was I was expecting to have to chump block with it reasonably soon as someone further along the table was happily generating a small army of black demon tokens.
So... I put it on Niv-Mizzet, not actually thinking about anything much beyond wanting to do something with this turn. Hearing the groans I looked down and read it once more. Then smiled and tapped Niv-Mizzet to draw a card... "Sorry boys"
Just in case anyone doesn't get it every time you draw a card Niv-Mizzet triggers and can do damage to another player and every time that happens Curiosity lets you draw a card and trigger Niv-Mizzet again - thus continuing the cycle until you've killed everyone at the table or drawn your library into your hand, whichever comes first. For me it was the former as there were only 4 players (so 63 card draws to kill everyone).
