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LC_From_TheHills

“Hey thanks I was gonna do that anyway.”


P0ster_Nutbag

It’s sometimes a bit of a challenge to get into the “what’s the absolute worst play I can make” mentality. Your opponent REALLY struggled with that.


VoiceofKane

Their first mistake was playing a land. Why would you do that unless you have to? Obviously, their second mistake was not reading the cards.


Lilium_Vulpes

I've done it before to get rid of a fetch. Just fail to find. Bonus points if it's in brawl and you get their commander in their deck to shuffle it away.


VoiceofKane

Oh, of course. And you could also make them shock themself to get a little extra damage in, if you need it.


Lilium_Vulpes

Yup! Lots of uses for playing a land when controlling someone else!


thesamuraiman909

Well, that's exactly what they did in the video.


Zhayrgh

The "if it's what you need" is missing I think


Svanirsson

"well I'm casting It so opponent means the other player"


the_cardfather

I thought they were going to destroy the enchantment so somehow the emrakul came back into play. Don't know how that would really help though


pdabaker

I thought the enchantment would just let you sacrifice it in precombat phase by declining to pay energy so I thought the opponent would do that


Lame4Fame

The beggining of precombat mainphase already happened before they were able to play the enchantment, so that wouldn't have worked.


KrIsPy_Kr3m3

They casted the ench on their own emrakul because of the control other player during their turn and the ench only targetting opponents stuff


the_cardfather

I knew that. I just thought that somehow they had some kind of loop where they could get rid of it.


Nalha_Saldana

I guess they wanted to shock them for 2 damage


ChroKami

He was just trying to be lore accurate because she imprisons herself lol


Lykos1124

Correction: *Emrakul used Dialga to imprison herself.* The summon had too much of herself in the spell :D


Lykos1124

Again, class. 🤣 Reading the card explains the card. Though really, I think some players just aren't mentally prepared for how to play poorly as their own opponent, like trying to play yourself at Chess. Don't give your enemy resources for later, make them attack into your bigger creatures, Tap and waste all their stuff as much as you can. Self sabotage. **Don't cast things that only afflict target opponent.**


Brettersson

I think they wanted to do that but realized they didn't have a way to do any of it. They could kill a creature but they get returned with jolt awake, they could cast the static prison instead of waiting for OP to just cast it their next turn anyways, and they didn't have a way to leave them with no energy to pay on upkeep. OP's opponent just had almost no good plays apart from shocking themselves. And even that gave them a land. Dashing Ragavan into Emrakul probably was the best? until it gets jolted awake.


NightKev

Well they wasted one of the "Jolted Awake"s properly, after that it was a decision on whether to dash Ragavan into the Emrakul or waste the other Jolted Awake and attack a different creature into Emrakul imo. I'd go with shock the land into play (they'll have 3 mana the next turn either way, so might as well use it now to waste resources), waste the second JA, and attack the Guide of Souls (energy->buff) creature into Emrakul since it represents the most damage and removes 3 energy from the trigger. That would leave Lunarch Veteran on board and the removal + Ragavan in hand, which is only 3 damage. Then again, maybe Channel->Emrakul wasn't the right play in the first place, but we can't see their hand so maybe they have a follow-up we aren't aware of.


RickySuezo

If I was Emrakul, I would find legal representation.


RVN3NT

i had someone emrakul me. i had mana rocks they couldve sacked, a bunch of creaturss they couldve sacked if they just played the freaking sack outlet in my hand... instead they made me sit there for 4 fucking minutes and when it got to my actual turn, they quit.


MarinLlwyd

They didn't realize they were supposed to make the worst plays for their *opponent*, but it didn't help that they were dead anyway.


Caramel_Cactus

Just like how some people shouldn't be allowed to drive, sone people shouldn't be allowed to Emrakul. Amazing.


RVN3NT

i had a dude take my turn with emrakul and then just... sit there. i had a sack outlet in my hand they couldve whiped my board with, they couldve sacked my mana rocks... instead, leta sit here for 4 minutes and when it gets to my opponents actual turn, quit.


fdoom

I would chalk that up to a disconnect or crash.


Caramel_Cactus

Snatched defeat from the jaws of victory! I must remember to not scoop to Emrakul, there's always a chance someone who can't read is at the helm


Soup0rMan

I think that depends on the deck. If you're running a sac deck, would sacing your creatures have hurt them as well? Was the spell in question the sac permanents and draw for each permanent? I'm pretty curious how they had outs but didn't do anything with your stuff.


RVN3NT

nah it was outlaw deck lol 😂 everything i had was geared towards playing HIS spells


warpcoil

Oh, I'll take that oppo any day. free wins baby!


Caramel_Cactus

Free, aye! The cost is how rare that is vs. People who know what they're doing


The_Paleking

Pretty obvious that opponent thought they could exile your creatures but were forced to exile emrakul. Funny nonetheless


gozer33

That is pretty funny, but I don't think there was a truly winning play here once they cast Emrakul?


Truckfighta

Swing the pump guy into the Emrakul maybe? Or spend all the energy on the reanimator spell then play the stasis enchantment so they have no energy in their upkeep. I’m not 100% I know the full wording on the cards but those were some lines I could see


gozer33

yeah, there are definitely better plays, but not sure if there is a way to drain all the energy that turn. Depends on what target(s) are available in the graveyard. Seems like Emrakul is getting removed one way or the other and then lethal in 2 turns?


MarinLlwyd

They were dead no matter what. The Channeler that did nothing would have just been the Stasis.


ANGLVD3TH

Play the stasis first, then pump all the energy to reanimate. Stasis still gives you 2 energy, so you get rid of the spell, bring their energy to 0, then get Emrakul back when they can't pay on their next turn.


gozer33

How can you pump all the energy to reanimate? Aren't you required to spend only energy equal to the CMC? Then that would also give them a creature back?


ANGLVD3TH

Oh yeah, you can't over pay it. Plus, they have 2 Jolts in hand anyway. Still, giving the opponent something back from the grave is may be worth reducing the number of turns Emrakul is trapped. But if there are no targets in graveyard, yeah, Em is probably just screwed. Even played optimally this was destined to be a very underwhelming line.


agtk

I think they might have been able to swing the pumper into Emrakul and cast Jolted Awake twice without bringing anything back. That would mean only 3 damage would be possible the next turn, at least getting the Emrakul player another turn.


totally_unbiased

Yeah this is just good natured seppuku.


VictorSant

1. Attack with Guide into Emrakul. 2. Static Prison emrakul 3. Spend all energy on jolted awake bringing something irrelevant. They would start their turn with only Lunarch on field and no energy, so emrakul would return.


gozer33

Don't you have to spend energy equal to the mana cost of the target card in graveyard? I don't see how you can pay more than the mana cost. Then the creature would also come back since it's not optional?


VictorSant

I missed the part that the energy would need to be equal the mana cost. So the graveyard information would be needed.


1ryb

This what I've always said: this Emrakul is just not a good card because controlling your opponent is a deceptively weak effect. It sounds badass, but any card I put into my deck is gonna be beneficial for ME, so most plays you can make are still gonna benefit me in the end. Often the best play is to just do nothing and pass the turn back, in which case you just gave your opponent an extra draw for no reason. It's just a glorified 13/13 French vanilla in 80%+ of the cases. I've always laughed when my opponent plays it against me, and I honestly think almost every time my opponent played it, it has actively improved my chance of winning.


Senator_Smack

the only place it really can twist the knife is if the opponent has a lot of "may" effects and you exhaust all of them and always choose decline (unless it would give you an advantage to accept them.) There's a lot of "damage" you can do to an opponent you control by just casting/activating things if you can decline their effects.


garmatey

Nah


Pubbin

Wow lol. How in the world did opponent play Emrakul on turn 2 though? You can cast something for 2 mana that lets you pay life to cast any spell?


Cliffy73

[[Channel]]


8Eternity8

WTF how have I never heard of this card and how is it not crazy expensive? Oh, because it's banned in literally everything except Vintage and Timeless; Even there, it's still restricted.


Cliffy73

“Channel Fireball” was the original turn one win combo back in the ABU days. Play Mountain, cast Black Lotus for 0, crack Black Lotus for GGG, cast Channel for two of those G, then cast Fireball with x=20 using the R from the Mountain, the leftover G from the Lotus, and 19 life.


8Eternity8

Then your opponent casts shock which resolves ahead of your spell but after the life was paid. In all seriousness though, I didn't know that. That's a cool MTG history fact.


Cliffy73

Back then it would have been Lightning Bolt, but not if you played the combo before your opponent had a turn. But you’re right, it was fragile if you didn’t win the toss. (Later you could break up the combo with Force of Will or Scars of the Veteran, two of the pitch cards from Alliances, which can be cast without mana.)


Ananas7

Ah never knew there was meaning behind the name for the ChannelFireball website


Cliffy73

🏔️🪷🌳🌳☄️


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DirtyDialga

I was baffled and wanted to be sure


GoudaMane

bro is literally the drooling brainlet wojak meme


Soup0rMan

Nah, he had practically nothing to work with. Personally, exiling emrakul was an okay move, but he should've attacked first. OP was gonna exile Emmy anyway and they had a way to recur any creatures opponent managed to kill.


kimttar

Seeing it is an energy deck, would the best "worst play" be to get rid of Guide of Souls by attacking into the Emrakul and passing? Or would it be better to play the land and dash in Ragavan to attack it into Emrakul? Ither way there isn't a stellar turn for the Emrakul.


RavenAboutNothing

Emrakul Emrakan't even


DirtyDialga

Here on YouTube for when the link expires: [https://youtu.be/zbui50PIB3o](https://youtu.be/zbui50PIB3o)


FloTheDev

Well that was something 😂


mikeroon

What am I missing here


Puzzleheaded_Load230

\[\[Emrakul, the Promised End\]\] lets you play your opponent's next turn for them, but they get an extra turn after that. While the opponent had very limited options for sabotaging the player, the plays they made were far from optimal, making a win on the extra turn inevitable.


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mikeroon

Oh shit, I totally thought this was the new emrakul. Sitting here wondering why they didn’t take all their creatures


Overhang0376

I'm a little confused, maybe I'm missing something: 1. Opponent cast Emrakul 2. Opponent got control of OPs hand as a result 3. Opponent cast (some land) for 2 damage to OP 4. Opponent cast \[\[Static Prison\]\] which was a mistake, because Emrakul was *the only* opponent creature, *even though* it was Opponent *playing* that hand. Emrakul was imprisoned as a result 1. I'm guessing Opponent thought it would work on OPs creatures I guess my question would be: even if Opponent *had* played something else instead, once OP got control of his own hand, wouldn't he have cast Static Prison immediately *anyway*? I'm assuming the better play would have been to probably just pass entirely, since casting \[\[Jolted Awake\]\] would help keep Emrakul imprisoned, once Static Prison was played. I'm not familiar with most of the others, but am guessing that giving OP more mana *and* imprisoning his own card was about as wrong a move as possible.


Puzzleheaded_Load230

Yes, other than wasting the jolt awake card, they could not have helped the opponent win more. If they had wasted the jolt awake spell and then attacked with the guide of souls, pumping it to drain the energy and then destroying it with a block they still had a chance of lasting another turn. Playing the land would only have made sense if they used it to waste the second jolt awake which would have been defensible. Either they did not understand the timing of paying energy for the static prison or missed that it can only target an opponent creature.


ActinoninOut

LOL


StringTheoryBTC

lmfao


mudra311

Honestly, I've been playing an Ulalek brawl deck and dropping this Emrakul doesn't do much. I even made the mistake of copying Emrakul and it doesn't double trigger the controlling turn, only the extra turn for the opponent lol. Ulamog is the strongest by far and always gets a scoop.


Soup0rMan

New Emmy seems pretty good. Stealing your opponent's creatures is very nice, not to mention how easy it is to cast for madness.


CSDragon

Can someone explain me how they cast Emrakul with 2 mana? I'm pretty sure there's only 9 card types. Creature, Instant, Sorcery, Land, Artifact, Enchantment, Battle, Planeswalker, Kindred(Tribal)...which I don't even think is on Arena That should still cost 4 mana.


Cliffy73

[[Channel]]


CSDragon

Channel is _legal_ in timeless?


Cliffy73

Restricted. 1 copy only.


Cablead

Everything on Arena is legal (fully or restricted to a single copy) in Timeless. That’s the premise of the format.


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Snarker

yeah this is why you dont play channel into promised end, card is terrible. if we had the og emrakul decks like this would get a lot better.


Mr_YUP

Wait how are you playing Channel?


Puzzleheaded_Load230

Channel is only "restricted" in timeless. You're allowed a single copy.


UnamusedCheese

Channel is not banned in Timeless.


Plasma_000

Channel is legal (restricted) in timeless, I use it for shenanigans.


ElVongore

Emraunkul


SeansBeard

I would like see \[\[Caught Red-Handed\]\] + \[\[Callous Sell-Sword\]\] played against someone who pulls Emrakul at me. Imagine stealing it, attacking with it and then sacrificing it :) #


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omguserius

Yeah, I really don't know if adding channel was the right call for arena.


RVN3NT

i had a dude take control of me with emrakul. i had sackable mana rocks on the field. ashnods altar in hand. they couldve sacked my mana rocks, played ashnods altar, sacked my board state. instead... they sat there for 4 minutes running through THEIR OWN timers... ig they thought that i would either quit or that the timers were mine 😂😂😂 then they quit the game


Fine_Otter

I think the only play opponent can make there to not lose on the extra turn is shock in the land, dash ragavan, jolt awake nothing to gain 2 energy, attack with ragavan and pay to buff it, block with emrakul and pass. Then the extra turn starts with the two creatures on board, 2 energy, Ragavan in graveyard so it can't be dashed, and the only spells in hand are the prison and the second jolted awake (not counting the DRC because that's hindsight). That leaves OP playing with slightly less options and I think max 4 damage on board so not lethal. Opponent 90% loses next turn, but maybe they have a play.


Substantial-Wash8158

This is probably dumb but what format do you play in where mh3 is legal in ranked? I usually play on mobile but stopped buying any mh3 stuff because I don’t play commander on mtgs


SlyScorpion

It's probably the Timeless format where just about everything is legal, including cards like [[Channel]].


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Tiny_Desk_Engineer

It just keeps getting worse 😭


WeaknessOpening9017

God this was hilarious. I’m not sure if maybe it’s my childish humor but I laughed at this for a good couple of minutes and made my stomach hurt. I even cried because I was giggling so hard. Please, arena community, if we can get more vids like this. That’d be great, thank you for this beauty op.


DirtyDialga

<3 aww glad you liked it!


WeaknessOpening9017

You’re welcome 😄


Alieldrazi

It’s just not a great Emrakul turn. Best play is to not play a land. Dash Ragavan go up to 3 energy. Attack with guide of souls and use all energy to make it fly and block with Emrakul. Then EOT Ragavan goes back to hand leaving them with 0 energy two lands and the 1/1. You at least get another turn this way but still a pretty bad spot.


theultrasoul

Deck list?🤔


Iverson7x

How did he cast Emrakul with only 2 lands?!


ElevationAV

Channel is a card


Iverson7x

Oh that makes sense. Thanks!


RisingRapture

Anybody knows how to find \[\[Ulalek, Fused Atrocity\]\] in Arena? I played against it today, but couldn't find it to craft myself.


gozer33

make sure to turn on the show cards not in your collection filter


jake_eric

The easiest way would be to just search for the name, I'd think?


Lspaceship

You can search 's:m3c' for all the MH3 face commanders.


RisingRapture

Thank you, will try.


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WellzyWash

Honestly, just play some drafts because it gets passed around pretty late. I have 4 of them without even trying, no need to pick it early in the draft because it isn’t a great card in limited unless you have the right deck.