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Graveyard abuse win

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Immortal Coil

{2}{B}{B}

Artifact

Shards of Alara

Read rules for Immortal Coil
{T}, Exile two cards from your graveyard: Draw a card. If damage would be dealt to you, prevent that damage. Exile a card from your graveyard for each 1 damage prevented this way. When there are no cards in your graveyard, you lose the game.

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Date Posted: Sun Jan/23/11 at 7:32 pm

MorbidAnimosity
Posts: 557
Joined: 18-Apr-10

simple.
donate immortal coil to your opponent, then with leyline of the void in play at the start of the game,
your opponent will have no graveyard and lose.
Date Posted: Mon Jan/24/11 at 9:41am

Decay57
Posts: 14
Joined: 19-Jan-11

Just be sure to have some cards in your own library when you play the coil or else you'll instantly lose, lol.
Date Posted: Mon Jan/24/11 at 9:22pm

MegaDuce
Posts: 71
Joined: 30-Aug-10

If you change leyline of the void with Nihl Spellbomb then it will be easier to get out and will work later in the game
Date Posted: Tue Jan/25/11 at 8:33am

Turbine
Posts: 10194
Joined: 26-Oct-09

Or Tormod's Crypt. . .
Date Posted: Tue Jan/25/11 at 6:55pm

Ephemerance
Posts: 913
Joined: 18-Jun-09

Because the Toil cards uses a trigger, if you destroy Leyline of the Void with a spell while Toil's trigger is on the stack, you will stop the combo. This is because when the trigger checks the conditions upon resolution, meaning it will fizzle due to a new card being in the graveyard.

Spring cleaning is the best card against this combo.
Date Posted: Tue Jan/25/11 at 7:19pm

avatarofme
Posts: 1
Joined: 25-Jan-11

i have a fun precursor golem combo if anyone wants to hear it!!
Date Posted: Tue Jan/25/11 at 9:06pm

gericault5
Posts: 2788
Joined: 13-Oct-09

Because the Toil cards uses a trigger, if you destroy Leyline of the Void with a spell while Toil's trigger is on the stack, you will stop the combo. This is because when the trigger checks the conditions upon resolution, meaning it will fizzle due to a new card being in the graveyard.


afraid not, once an ability triggers there are only 2 reasons it checks something at resolution 1) if it has targets it checks to make sure the targets are still legal  2) if it has the "intervaining if" clause it checks to make sure the trigger condition is still valid (see Felidar Sovereign for an example of this)

Since the coil doesn't target and doesn't contain "if" in the trigger ability, it doesn;t need to check anything at resolution.  so once it goes off only a stifle or such will stop it.  so the best way to deal with this combo is prevent it from happening.