I've won by storming all my value and drawing no wincons just by counting storm count and having them concede despite them having lethal. it sometimes works
"Lightning bolt... myself." "Verdant command you up three." "Pact of negation my lightning bolt. I live through your attack." "Well hot damn, your turn." "Untap, upkeep, I die."
Your sadness goes on the stack and resolves first, but then you have no target for your sadness, so it fizzles. Then my bolt goes off and you have to be happy about it!
a red spell that costs 0 and is "Exile all cards you own from the game. Your life total becomes 0, and you and another player lose the game." would be perfect for Red.
@@skruffytiger2002 Uh, being able to call a draw for free is too powerful, and arguably a greater waste of time than Scheherazade. That's even easier than Yugioh's "Self Destruct Button" and that's banned too. I think a better idea would be a red version of One With Nothing. For R, an instant that just does 5 damage to you! (and I'm sure people will still find a way to make it useful)
My personal favorite is declaring that I'm going to make an illegal play. "I illegally cast Mass Calcify for two black at instant speed and then I concede."
There's another good one were an oppoent just took some of my cards and put it on his side of the board. I was so confused and didnt know how to react haha
I was once playing 4-way commander, and was severely overwhelming the other three. I cast a spell to wipe and reset a player's board & graveyard, copied it twice to hit the other two... and conceded, to let them duke it out with their newly emptied boards. Many laughs were had, the last one mine.
that reminds me of my favorite way to opt out of a game: infinite mana, play eater of days, have lab man on the board, blink eater of days ad infinitum (roughly 5 mil. times), then cast teferi's protection.
I have done that a few times. Than when everyone is done sorting there cards and has them all exiled or in the yard, scoop and say, you guys can play for second...
i was playing with my friends, we have very loose rules and we can play almost anything except for a few cards we've chosen to ban, and one game we had both me and another player get no mana for 5 years, and the third player kept getting shut down by the 4th player with a bunch of counterspells because they weren't drawing the rest of their deck. so basically permanent stalemate with nobody able to play anything ever. so i finally get to the point where i can start playing stuff, and the 4th player seems to run out of counterspells, so i play timesifter, and then more or less to change it so "if one or more players are tied, repeat effect until they aren't" and therefore we ruled it as whoever got chosen, instead of getting an extra turn got their entire deck milled and had one chance to play instants before they drew a card on their turn. i then proceeded to topdeck a 7 cost card and got milled for my entire deck, but i did manage to play more or less again on it right before i died (more or less is my signature spell), killing the 4th player along with me, and the third player had to go, so the second player, who got mana screwed the whole game ended up winning without doing anything tl;dr using the power of 2 cards, i ended a ~12 turn long stalemate and the game as a whole instantly and the player who did nothing the whole game won
i was in a commander game playing a Zada deck, i was going off, and somebody cast cyclonic rifft, and there was no way I would survive 3 turns with no board. i dont remember if I bolted zada or what, but i basically wiped my own board in response and conceded.
I was once losing a game of Standard against a buddy on Arena. So I said to him through vc, "I'm gonna do a fucking power play, you lose," So I cast 2 Rimrock Knight adventures on my Fireblade Charger, killed it with Bonecrusher and thunked myself in the head for non lethal, and he started laughing so hard that he thumped his table and cut the power to his PC, winning me the game. Edit: grammar and redundancy
@@crkTyphoon I don't get why people say this; its not impossible for something like this to happen; and he isn't gaining anything if he is lying(like followers or something) and you aren't losing anything either so just better to believe and move on because crazier things have been recorded before. see you either come of as a dick if the thing he said is true and if he is lying you saying he is wouldn't be proof of him lying anyway. sorta just wasting your time and energy honestly.
@@crkTyphoon Something similar happened to me in a cod clan war when I was like 13, one of my teammates managed to turn a 3 v 1 in our favour into a 1 v 1 after he grenaded a couple friends but the last oppo laughed so hard he dropped his PC screen and broke it.
@@Elianne_Tirel Damn that is so lame. If I was at the table with someone like that we would just agree that the effects happen regardless of whether or not you concede and then not play with you again.
I do this all the time, but only when the game’s already going terribly and I don’t just want to sit around for 20 minutes while my opponent finishes comboing off
@@8thPlaceDave today on arena an opponent coceded a second before he would kill me. he had 2 attackers, i had one blocker. i dont know what drew them to decide it was a lost cause. maybe he was meming i dont know
I almost did this. 4 player game, we basically got Upheavel'd (Miracle Cost Devastation Tide into Sunder), and I was close to scooping. I decided to wait it out, and just see if my draw would be good enough. I hit a Spirit Sister's Call, got it back on the field in like 3 turns, cheated out Omniscience with it, no one had removal for it, and I played a Rise of the Dark Realms, plus my entire hand for free, including my Bastion of Remembrance and an opponent's Viscera Seer to close out the game. The "Oops, Upheaval" player wasn't impressed.
I vibe with the last one a lot. When I first started going to Modern FNMs ages ago, I brought this shitty little monogreen infect deck with me. Whenever I'd lose to combat damage I'd just pump the fuck out of my opponent's creatures so they'd overkill me by like 15 or so.
Recently on Arena whenever I know I'm going to lose I let my opponent build up as massive of a board as possible so I can see how much they can get my life into the negative. So far the winner was an angel deck that got me to -57 HP. Felt really good about that loss lol
@@ConnorBailey I'm playing an immerstorm dragon/ vampire dominatrix deck that way i get control of the ennemy creature, attack with it and then sacrifice it with immerstorm dragon or deadly dispute, it's a satisfying deck, weaker than W/B vampire tho but it can beat angel decks most of the time since i also put 6 removals and 2 aoe
@@ConnorBailey as a green player, people like you literally make me day/week. i got someone down to -78 the other day and i'd like to think the he was almost as stoked as i was.
I've done something similar my teammate was trying to throw because he thought he couldn't win. I gave him life and low and behold he won two turns later.
Choosing my own destiny is my favourite. I've been in commander games before when I've been milled and have drawn my last card, only to have no hope of winning. So I use an ability that lets me draw a card. Or another time when I had 1 life and no chance so I tapped a land that did damage to me when I cast for colour. Always the best. "I'll kill you next turn" "Not if I kill me first"
One game, my opponent was attacking me for 2 less than lethal, and I had no hope. I said, "before damage, Titan Strength (instant pump spell) targeting your creature." The guy reads Titan Strength, looks at his creature, looks at me confused, and says, "wait, what does that do?" "It kills me. Good game."
@@collinhauger5018 It used to before 10th edition. Aka back when the game wasn't powercreeped and before BS like Planeswalkers and Manaburn was still a thing.
Number 6: rage quit and THEN check the top 5 cards of the deck talking about how you would have won if the cards were in a slightly different order Oh wait, that's me
I know is wrong to check the top of the deck but I'm a pratictioner of scoop+scry until I see one of the cards I was waiting for the entire game and curse for my unluck if they were like 10 turns away (spoiler: from experience they are always at least 5 turns away when you need them)
That final Verdant Command reminds me my last pre-release, when my opp plays a damage spell to himself to finish the game and I counter that. "Oh please, at least let me suicide!" - "Counter target suicide" - I respond
This is so real. Especially when I'm playing a janky deck on Arena, I'm like, "I at least want you to know how cool this deck is." I play half the combo, then use Faithful Mending to discard the other half that I barely didnt have the mana to play...
My favorite one is doing the "mutual destruction" where you cast a spell that targets 2 players and just nuke yourself and enemy. Done it once and it kinda baffles your opponent a bit.
If I'm about to lose with my two oldest MTG friends, I'll sometimes ask "So you pass turn yeah?" and hope they mindlessly agree while looking at cards, then hold them to it.
I knew u would forget the most egregious scoop of all; the mulligan into scoop combo. I will never forget this 1 guy I played against in the brief window where I played Scars of Mirrodin/Innistrad standard. He was running affinity n mulligan to 6 the first game n beat me by turn 3, then mulligan to 4 the next game n scoop before the 1st turn, n then kept 7 n beat me almost by turn 2, I think I had like 1 or 2 life that he had to finish off on turn 3. Like on the 1st game I could understand scooping before u play to conserve information so they can't sideboard against u for game 2 but he had alrdy shown me his deck in action n its not like his deck takes long to finish games so he wasn't racing the clock... unless he really needed to shit or something
State-based actions wouldn’t be checked until a player gains priority, meaning Lightning Bolt finishes resolving by putting itself in the graveyard. SBAs are then checked simultaneously, and they find that Goyf is a 3/4 with 3 damage marked on it.
Yes, but you only check if something is dead after a spell is fully resolved. Bolt deals 3, then goes to the graveyard, then you check if Goyf is dead.
You forgot the game memory guy who scoops right away and then hard targets whoever did the most damage regardless if they're mana flooded/screwed or if there's a clearly bigger threat like a 420/420 lifelink trample.
Ah, chosing your own destiny; the best way to instant-speed concede! I remember doing it with Talisman of Curiosity in my Niv deck when I was at 1. I was getting all my important draw spells smacked down and running out of isntants to deal with the simic glash deck before me. When I had no out, I tapped the Talisman for Red mana, specifically and stared while shooting him a thumbs up. We was lost for a second until he realized he can't even respond to me killing myself!
WOTC makes a counter spell in the next UNHINGED like set that targets a player and counters them from conceding the game 😆 To counter another card that says if it's on the battlefield and it's your 2nd main phase, if you concede the game instead you win 🤣
My favorite is letting them think they win, then fogging the field and top decking a win card. It never gets old. It ain’t over till the fat lady sings
It's true that it doesn't go to the graveyard until it resolves, but goyf doesn't die to having 0 toughness until the spell has resolved, at which point then bolt is in the graveyard. This comes up fairly frequently at competitive tournaments and is a common misconception!
At my LGS, on Commander night, they’ll give you a promo card if you win a game, limit 1 per customer per Saturday. Naturally, we like to make sure everybody gets one, so if you’ve already won and you’re about to win again, you concede to the second-place player at the last moment so he gets a technical win and he can grab a promo. My preferred method, though, is to Storm off, Grapeshot, deal lethal to two other players and then myself. Last guy gets the win
There are also cases where someone messes up by using a resource at the wrong time, or attacking with everything and not leaving enough defenders while on low life.
actually the tormogoyph wouldn’t get the extra +1/+1 from the instant (lightning bolt) since the card has to finish resolving before it goes to the grave, and by that time the creature already has 0 toughness for a split moment giving it the “dead” state, so even after the toughness buff afterwards, it still dies. if anyone wants to check my work here, please do. i’m only 80% certain
On a Commander game, personal favorite of mine is the spite concede. Okay you got me, but before damage, bolt you, force you to discard a care, destroy one of your lands and make everyone else but you draw a card.
I one time in a casual setting conceded, showed my hand, but I had one condition to me conceding: to show me HOW they would destroy me. Since they were finally going to use the combo they hadn't had the opportunity to use ALL evening, they were happy to oblige my condition.
Depending what I have I like to do any trigger I can or instant. Like I'll cast a buff on their creature, or try to bolt myself. If I can get a chuckle from them it's a victory
Had a guy playing a counter-spell deck rage concede after someone played a "Can't cast spells at instant speed" planeswalker. In a 5-player commander game. Where he was my teammate. That I killed like 2 turns later.
That last one... Perfect. Happens to me all the time in the DBS Card Game, not so much in Magic. (I don't run many Instant speed cards that can deal damage.)
My favorite method of conceding is to just get in some defiant damage. Either by swinging with the board even if I know I'll lose on my opponent's next turn, or just by casting a Bolt even if they're above 3. If I'm gonna lose anyway, I may as well go down fighting and make them bleed.
Most of the time when I concede I'll say that I'm probably going to draw a land next turn anyways and start looking my next couple cards. I'm right way too often...
I think the best concede is Door to nothingness targeting yourself. I think Jimmy did that on Game Knights once. I have a friend who has it in their deck, so at some point, I will have to use a "No, you" choose-a-new-target spell on it.
In Chicago we play a modified version, where if anyone counter spells something, the oponent is allowed to hop over the table and beat the crap out of the caster. Only new people play Blue, for a while
There is also actively scooping in commander. Nothing better than an opponent going in for lethal and scooping before damage leaving them open to the crack back.
My old play group was pretty casual so we would do things like bolting ourselves only to be countered in one way or another or we would “torture” our opponents by keeping them alive in stupid pointless ways. Mostly we were a drinking group with a magic problem.
you know this video is fictional because it depicts a boomer jund deck winning
Hey, I went 3-1 at FMN one time with boomer jund.
@@8thPlaceDave Back in 1872
@@lorenzkarbach1352 Haha nice
@@lorenzkarbach1352 Lmao
Ouch
My personal favorite is to cast a meaningless spell, dramatically proclaim “storm count one”, wait for a moment, then concede
Nice that is a good one :)
I've won by storming all my value and drawing no wincons just by counting storm count and having them concede despite them having lethal. it sometimes works
Top tier editing. Cutting it off mid comment.
@@JazzOfTheStinson Wake me up, before you combo - mtgRemy
Thanks for inspiring me to be silly during mtg club time! 🙃🙃🙃
"Lightning bolt... myself."
"Verdant command you up three."
"Pact of negation my lightning bolt. I live through your attack."
"Well hot damn, your turn."
"Untap, upkeep, I die."
Dude you have me lauging my ass off
I thought your spell can only affect the latest spell on a stack (you can only counter the verdant command)
@@griglog Nope. You can target lower down the stack, just like you can target a creature besides the last one that was played.
I loved the Verdant command; actually laughed out loud.
Glad you liked it :)
Same here! Best response ever!
Same
I think I’d come over the table at the guy for keeping me alive.
If someone did that to me, I would literally slap the hell outta them. Like bruh, let me go out on my own terms.
When my opponent counters my spells, I like to say "In response, I will be sad"
Mfing blue deck's gonna counter that too.
Your sadness goes on the stack and resolves first, but then you have no target for your sadness, so it fizzles. Then my bolt goes off and you have to be happy about it!
@@filpaul No, Sadness targets me, resolves, I am sad, then the Bolt goes off and I die.
One of my opponents at the recent sealed used to say "I cry in your end step"
Isn't this a reference to Friday Nights? (By loadingreadyrun)
I think it should be canon lore that a red mage would rather burn themselves than die to the enemy's attack. That sounds like a very red thing to do!
True
"It's better to flare out than to gutter."
-Flamekin expression
As a red mage this is 100% true, sometimes if I think I can't win I think about how can I lethal myself before my opponent.
a red spell that costs 0 and is "Exile all cards you own from the game. Your life total becomes 0, and you and another player lose the game." would be perfect for Red.
@@skruffytiger2002 Uh, being able to call a draw for free is too powerful, and arguably a greater waste of time than Scheherazade. That's even easier than Yugioh's "Self Destruct Button" and that's banned too.
I think a better idea would be a red version of One With Nothing. For R, an instant that just does 5 damage to you! (and I'm sure people will still find a way to make it useful)
My personal favorite is declaring that I'm going to make an illegal play. "I illegally cast Mass Calcify for two black at instant speed and then I concede."
There's another good one were an oppoent just took some of my cards and put it on his side of the board. I was so confused and didnt know how to react haha
Do this at a fn tournament on your final loss and call the ref so you get kicked out too 😂
I prefer my method of tap all of my lands and, with all of that mana, concede
Bluff the Fireball for X=20
The LRR special
My buddy taps his non-tap artifacts and does the same thing. It's gold.
"I'm taking all my mana, and I'm going home!"
With all the mana invested in me, I proclaim you the winner.
I was once playing 4-way commander, and was severely overwhelming the other three. I cast a spell to wipe and reset a player's board & graveyard, copied it twice to hit the other two... and conceded, to let them duke it out with their newly emptied boards. Many laughs were had, the last one mine.
that reminds me of my favorite way to opt out of a game: infinite mana, play eater of days, have lab man on the board, blink eater of days ad infinitum (roughly 5 mil. times), then cast teferi's protection.
I have done that a few times. Than when everyone is done sorting there cards and has them all exiled or in the yard, scoop and say, you guys can play for second...
i was playing with my friends, we have very loose rules and we can play almost anything except for a few cards we've chosen to ban, and one game we had both me and another player get no mana for 5 years, and the third player kept getting shut down by the 4th player with a bunch of counterspells because they weren't drawing the rest of their deck. so basically permanent stalemate with nobody able to play anything ever.
so i finally get to the point where i can start playing stuff, and the 4th player seems to run out of counterspells, so i play timesifter, and then more or less to change it so "if one or more players are tied, repeat effect until they aren't" and therefore we ruled it as whoever got chosen, instead of getting an extra turn got their entire deck milled and had one chance to play instants before they drew a card on their turn.
i then proceeded to topdeck a 7 cost card and got milled for my entire deck, but i did manage to play more or less again on it right before i died (more or less is my signature spell), killing the 4th player along with me, and the third player had to go, so the second player, who got mana screwed the whole game ended up winning without doing anything
tl;dr using the power of 2 cards, i ended a ~12 turn long stalemate and the game as a whole instantly and the player who did nothing the whole game won
i was in a commander game playing a Zada deck, i was going off, and somebody cast cyclonic rifft, and there was no way I would survive 3 turns with no board. i dont remember if I bolted zada or what, but i basically wiped my own board in response and conceded.
King
I was once losing a game of Standard against a buddy on Arena. So I said to him through vc, "I'm gonna do a fucking power play, you lose," So I cast 2 Rimrock Knight adventures on my Fireblade Charger, killed it with Bonecrusher and thunked myself in the head for non lethal, and he started laughing so hard that he thumped his table and cut the power to his PC, winning me the game.
Edit: grammar and redundancy
Nice, played to your outs ;)
What an idiot. Didn't he know that the power play was going to be literal??
today on things that never happened
@@crkTyphoon I don't get why people say this; its not impossible for something like this to happen; and he isn't gaining anything if he is lying(like followers or something) and you aren't losing anything either so just better to believe and move on because crazier things have been recorded before. see you either come of as a dick if the thing he said is true and if he is lying you saying he is wouldn't be proof of him lying anyway.
sorta just wasting your time and energy honestly.
@@crkTyphoon Something similar happened to me in a cod clan war when I was like 13, one of my teammates managed to turn a 3 v 1 in our favour into a 1 v 1 after he grenaded a couple friends but the last oppo laughed so hard he dropped his PC screen and broke it.
Bonus: The salty commander concede where you quit early so your opponent loses half their board... that they stole from you
Honestly? I think I conceded a game or two just so a spell targeting something I own and other cards/players had an illegal target, just out of spite
I'm usually the one getting screwed in this situation cause I stole all their cards 😅🤣 Tymaret, the Murder King FTW!
Concede after they declare blockers against someone else to be an even larger asshole.
@@Elianne_Tirel Damn that is so lame. If I was at the table with someone like that we would just agree that the effects happen regardless of whether or not you concede and then not play with you again.
@@Cynshamsame here 😅
That ending was hilarious lol
Was not expecting it. 🤣
True Magic nerd joke
There is another. The premature concede. Conceding before youve actually taken damage or lost. Bonus points for doing it on your turn
Do you get even more bonus points if you wouldn't have actually lost the game if you hadn't conceded?
I do this all the time, but only when the game’s already going terribly and I don’t just want to sit around for 20 minutes while my opponent finishes comboing off
Ahh the good old instant speed scoop
@@8thPlaceDave today on arena an opponent coceded a second before he would kill me. he had 2 attackers, i had one blocker. i dont know what drew them to decide it was a lost cause. maybe he was meming i dont know
I almost did this. 4 player game, we basically got Upheavel'd (Miracle Cost Devastation Tide into Sunder), and I was close to scooping. I decided to wait it out, and just see if my draw would be good enough. I hit a Spirit Sister's Call, got it back on the field in like 3 turns, cheated out Omniscience with it, no one had removal for it, and I played a Rise of the Dark Realms, plus my entire hand for free, including my Bastion of Remembrance and an opponent's Viscera Seer to close out the game. The "Oops, Upheaval" player wasn't impressed.
I vibe with the last one a lot. When I first started going to Modern FNMs ages ago, I brought this shitty little monogreen infect deck with me. Whenever I'd lose to combat damage I'd just pump the fuck out of my opponent's creatures so they'd overkill me by like 15 or so.
Nice I'd do the same ;)
Oh my god I'm not the only one
That is a nice thing to hear (read?).
Recently on Arena whenever I know I'm going to lose I let my opponent build up as massive of a board as possible so I can see how much they can get my life into the negative. So far the winner was an angel deck that got me to -57 HP. Felt really good about that loss lol
@@ConnorBailey I'm playing an immerstorm dragon/ vampire dominatrix deck that way i get control of the ennemy creature, attack with it and then sacrifice it with immerstorm dragon or deadly dispute, it's a satisfying deck, weaker than W/B vampire tho but it can beat angel decks most of the time since i also put 6 removals and 2 aoe
@@ConnorBailey as a green player, people like you literally make me day/week. i got someone down to -78 the other day and i'd like to think the he was almost as stoked as i was.
He didn't even let his opponent suicide-concede ;_;
That has happened at least once on EDH game with my friends. Game was over anyway but it was so funny.
I've done something similar my teammate was trying to throw because he thought he couldn't win. I gave him life and low and behold he won two turns later.
I remember once I had this game so locked up, that my opponent say "I concede", so I killed him while that was on the stack
No sudoku for you!
@@Abarataphoto isnt conceding State-based?
Had the "make opponent gain life to stop him from killing himself before I do" situation yesterday. Love it.
Choosing my own destiny is my favourite. I've been in commander games before when I've been milled and have drawn my last card, only to have no hope of winning. So I use an ability that lets me draw a card. Or another time when I had 1 life and no chance so I tapped a land that did damage to me when I cast for colour.
Always the best. "I'll kill you next turn" "Not if I kill me first"
That ending had me laughing the hardest I have in months. Genuinely the best and most unexpected joke I’ve seen in a long time.
Glad you enjoyed it :)
The burn player complaining about someone else top decking is hilarious lol!
Why?
@@TheThirdGenQ that’s all those decks come down to when it’s time for them to win, even after being outplayed most of the match!
True ;)
Also being told that you got a lucky topdeck when you have stuff like Confidant in play. Like bruh... I'm not topdecking, I'm drawing cards.
I’m 100% the “Choose your own destiny”, not for any BM, just because I think it’s funny
One game, my opponent was attacking me for 2 less than lethal, and I had no hope. I said, "before damage, Titan Strength (instant pump spell) targeting your creature."
The guy reads Titan Strength, looks at his creature, looks at me confused, and says, "wait, what does that do?"
"It kills me. Good game."
And you get to see what your next draw would have been.
Whenever I can go "You'll never take me alive" and bolt myself, I do. My life, my terms. 🤣🤣
I like to concede in response to my opponent's damage going on the stack.
Stifle
Damage doesn't use the stack.
@@collinhauger5018 are you have sense of humor?
"In response" *taps all lands* "I die"
That's my go-to
@@collinhauger5018 It used to before 10th edition. Aka back when the game wasn't powercreeped and before BS like Planeswalkers and Manaburn was still a thing.
Man I love the idea of I will not let you get the satisfaction of killing me so I'll do it myself then I tap my Ancient Tomb lol
I’ve shocked in a land when I was at 2 life playing standard and my opponent was like no you can’t lol I was like yes I can I lose good game
Number 6: rage quit and THEN check the top 5 cards of the deck talking about how you would have won if the cards were in a slightly different order
Oh wait, that's me
I know is wrong to check the top of the deck but I'm a pratictioner of scoop+scry until I see one of the cards I was waiting for the entire game and curse for my unluck if they were like 10 turns away (spoiler: from experience they are always at least 5 turns away when you need them)
@@GRtogetaBIC "If I just had 15 more turns I would've won!"
That final Verdant Command reminds me my last pre-release, when my opp plays a damage spell to himself to finish the game and I counter that. "Oh please, at least let me suicide!" - "Counter target suicide" - I respond
Ayo that last guy was a spike for sure
the gain 3 life part is really an amazing way to show dominance, you could have been more different between the ways
The unexpected finale made it 1000x better
What about empty your hand, so your opponent sees what you have, concede? The TMI if you will.
That's another good one :)
This is so real. Especially when I'm playing a janky deck on Arena, I'm like, "I at least want you to know how cool this deck is." I play half the combo, then use Faithful Mending to discard the other half that I barely didnt have the mana to play...
I always appreciate the "I have to see what I top deck" proceed to pull a land, drop it, and concede.
My favorite way of conceding is lore-friendly.
"So uh... in response, I'mma planeswalk away."
My favorite one is doing the "mutual destruction" where you cast a spell that targets 2 players and just nuke yourself and enemy. Done it once and it kinda baffles your opponent a bit.
If I'm about to lose with my two oldest MTG friends, I'll sometimes ask "So you pass turn yeah?" and hope they mindlessly agree while looking at cards, then hold them to it.
that stinger was sharp
:)
I knew u would forget the most egregious scoop of all; the mulligan into scoop combo. I will never forget this 1 guy I played against in the brief window where I played Scars of Mirrodin/Innistrad standard. He was running affinity n mulligan to 6 the first game n beat me by turn 3, then mulligan to 4 the next game n scoop before the 1st turn, n then kept 7 n beat me almost by turn 2, I think I had like 1 or 2 life that he had to finish off on turn 3. Like on the 1st game I could understand scooping before u play to conserve information so they can't sideboard against u for game 2 but he had alrdy shown me his deck in action n its not like his deck takes long to finish games so he wasn't racing the clock... unless he really needed to shit or something
Surprised too see no fetchland concede (fetch at 1 health) other than that great video XD
Wait... Wouldn't Bolt not hit the graveyard until AFTER it does 3 damage?
State-based actions wouldn’t be checked until a player gains priority, meaning Lightning Bolt finishes resolving by putting itself in the graveyard. SBAs are then checked simultaneously, and they find that Goyf is a 3/4 with 3 damage marked on it.
@@acdcguy18 Thanks for the well laid out reply. I too had this question :)
@@acdcguy18 thanks for the clear explanation. Seems like a silly rule tho
@@acdcguy18 Ah, thank you. That clears it up.
Yes, but you only check if something is dead after a spell is fully resolved. Bolt deals 3, then goes to the graveyard, then you check if Goyf is dead.
You forgot the game memory guy who scoops right away and then hard targets whoever did the most damage regardless if they're mana flooded/screwed or if there's a clearly bigger threat like a 420/420 lifelink trample.
The fact that the silent scoop could have survived that is either intentionally genius, or unintentionally annoying.
I'm assuming the former
Pact of negation at 1:24
(He was hiding the extra card in his hand on his lap)
Ah, chosing your own destiny; the best way to instant-speed concede! I remember doing it with Talisman of Curiosity in my Niv deck when I was at 1. I was getting all my important draw spells smacked down and running out of isntants to deal with the simic glash deck before me. When I had no out, I tapped the Talisman for Red mana, specifically and stared while shooting him a thumbs up. We was lost for a second until he realized he can't even respond to me killing myself!
Kudos on technically doing a different kill each time
Thanks ;)
In a recent game of mine, after declaring attackers I said "in response, I concede". My opponent played a counter spell and we went onto damage
WOTC makes a counter spell in the next UNHINGED like set that targets a player and counters them from conceding the game 😆 To counter another card that says if it's on the battlefield and it's your 2nd main phase, if you concede the game instead you win 🤣
@@grantbowersox1875 haha yeah somethig like that
My favorite thing to say after any action is “Okay, on the stack..” *scoops*
The Verdant Command... This is next-level meta for anti-concession.
1:15 "I'll bolt myself"
1:21 "I'll have you gain 3 life..."
😂
My favorite is letting them think they win, then fogging the field and top decking a win card. It never gets old. It ain’t over till the fat lady sings
You forgot "If I have to go, I take with me everything I can".
That's basically the default way of losing in multiplayer.
I used an underworld connections to shock myself for my last 1 life in a commander game to concede before when my plan didn't work lmao
Silent is my favorite, just has tension without confrontation
One small nitpick: the instant wouldn't go to the graveyard until after it resolves, so the 'Goyf would die.
It's true that it doesn't go to the graveyard until it resolves, but goyf doesn't die to having 0 toughness until the spell has resolved, at which point then bolt is in the graveyard. This comes up fairly frequently at competitive tournaments and is a common misconception!
@@8thPlaceDave Oh right. State-based actions.
That was the most polite rage quit I've seen
At my LGS, on Commander night, they’ll give you a promo card if you win a game, limit 1 per customer per Saturday. Naturally, we like to make sure everybody gets one, so if you’ve already won and you’re about to win again, you concede to the second-place player at the last moment so he gets a technical win and he can grab a promo. My preferred method, though, is to Storm off, Grapeshot, deal lethal to two other players and then myself. Last guy gets the win
Big fan of the "bolt the face" concede, but I'm an even bigger fan of the "I concede at instant speed" line
Unexpected ending. Love it.
Thanks ;)
That last one! My preferred approach is a variation of that, with a futile kamikaze attack🤣
There are also cases where someone messes up by using a resource at the wrong time, or attacking with everything and not leaving enough defenders while on low life.
actually the tormogoyph wouldn’t get the extra +1/+1 from the instant (lightning bolt) since the card has to finish resolving before it goes to the grave, and by that time the creature already has 0 toughness for a split moment giving it the “dead” state, so even after the toughness buff afterwards, it still dies. if anyone wants to check my work here, please do. i’m only 80% certain
On a Commander game, personal favorite of mine is the spite concede.
Okay you got me, but before damage, bolt you, force you to discard a care, destroy one of your lands and make everyone else but you draw a card.
My favorite, and very common within my friend group, is to actually pay two mana to concede
Choosing your destiny is the most fun. "You didn't win, I just lost!"
I like to count my mana, tap all of it and then say "in response I concede"
That last second of video was golden.
That 3 life in response though, so cold
I one time in a casual setting conceded, showed my hand, but I had one condition to me conceding: to show me HOW they would destroy me. Since they were finally going to use the combo they hadn't had the opportunity to use ALL evening, they were happy to oblige my condition.
Depending what I have I like to do any trigger I can or instant. Like I'll cast a buff on their creature, or try to bolt myself. If I can get a chuckle from them it's a victory
Look at the life totals on the shame concede 😂
Imagine if you have lethal and your opponent bolts himself but you cast counterspell
This would've been even funnier with the music progression from the mr incredible becoming canny meme, but altered to fit mood. Still great vid!
You forgot "I concede, so you didn't technically beat me. I beat myself"
If I played in real life, I'd find a red source to tap, shout "I cast pocket sand!" and scoop.
You forgat the shockland kill, which is the most epic and Chad way of going out of the game. That or with a Bolas Citadel activation. X^D
Had a guy playing a counter-spell deck rage concede after someone played a "Can't cast spells at instant speed" planeswalker. In a 5-player commander game. Where he was my teammate. That I killed like 2 turns later.
That last one... Perfect.
Happens to me all the time in the DBS Card Game, not so much in Magic. (I don't run many Instant speed cards that can deal damage.)
My favorite method of conceding is to just get in some defiant damage. Either by swinging with the board even if I know I'll lose on my opponent's next turn, or just by casting a Bolt even if they're above 3.
If I'm gonna lose anyway, I may as well go down fighting and make them bleed.
Back in the day when it actually did damage, we just mana burned ourselves to death by tapping all our lands. #5 has that energy and I appreciate it.
My friend and I both play deck with buff spells so when we know we've lost we typically buff the the biggest creature as big as we can get it
Most of the time when I concede I'll say that I'm probably going to draw a land next turn anyways and start looking my next couple cards. I'm right way too often...
Probably better than not being right then, if you've already conceded by that point :P
I think the best concede is Door to nothingness targeting yourself. I think Jimmy did that on Game Knights once.
I have a friend who has it in their deck, so at some point, I will have to use a "No, you" choose-a-new-target spell on it.
Nothing beats infernal grasping my own creature at 2 life
The gain 3 at the end tipped this one over the top
"I tap tormod's crypt, exiling my graveyard, and then because I just exiled twenty cards, I die anyway"
This is why scooping should only be done at sorcery speed xD
You forgot the classic "table flip" quit/ban technique.
In Chicago we play a modified version, where if anyone counter spells something, the oponent is allowed to hop over the table and beat the crap out of the caster. Only new people play Blue, for a while
LOL that twist ending! had to Subscribe after that
There is also actively scooping in commander. Nothing better than an opponent going in for lethal and scooping before damage leaving them open to the crack back.
Wow I hadn't though of that...
Then there's that one guy who always presses on to the death
One of my ways to concede a game: Leveler.
"Oh well, I guess I milled myself"
Then theres that one guy who’d rather not play and concedes before the game begins
Going out on your own terms is always the best way out
You forgot the commander concede where you spitefully empty your hand onto some poor unfortunate soul and then concede.
I like to put lethal damage on the stack then concede. Show them who’s boss
Last one is the best way to concede and getting healed only makes it better! XD
My old play group was pretty casual so we would do things like bolting ourselves only to be countered in one way or another or we would “torture” our opponents by keeping them alive in stupid pointless ways. Mostly we were a drinking group with a magic problem.
The ending is great, and yeah I could see certain people doing that!
That moment when you remember having been in the verdant command situation… I just wanted out of the 3 hour, 7 person game. XD
Funny video but the rage quit was too soft. Was hoping for a table flip 🤣