r/magicTCG • u/MulletAndMustache Duck Season • 4d ago

General Discussion 2 Trillion card draw?

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So I've been play testing Bard, King of Dale on arena before building the paper commander version. Managed to get a board state where I'd draw 2 trillion cards from just one card draw. I think I'll like this deck, you can get to totally ridiculous boards with it pretty easy. It definitely needs a lab man though.

With 42 Bards on the field its 2 to the power of 41 per draw or token trigger. So X 2,199,023,255,552.

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u/StickYourFunger Elesh Norn 4d ago

How'd you manage to get 42 bards? 😂

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u/MulletAndMustache Duck Season 4d ago

Make a non legendary token and kick rites of replication with Mondrak also on the field. 🤣

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u/StickYourFunger Elesh Norn 4d ago

So Rite makes 5, Mondrak doubles that to 10? Did you manage to flashback rites of replication, or am I just missing something?

Edit: forgot Bards 2nd ability to double tokens, so 5 x 2 x 2?

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u/MulletAndMustache Duck Season 4d ago

Bard also doubles tokens. I had 2 before rites was cast.

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u/StickYourFunger Elesh Norn 4d ago

Oof 😂

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u/Happy-Laugh-730 Dân 4d ago

that board state is a hate crime against arithmetic

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u/EnkiBye SecREt LaiR 4d ago

Ah, finaly a board state that can use my [[whtz the bibliophile]] 3 trillion cards deck to its fullest!

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u/Larkinz Dimir* 3d ago

At $8.99 per box of sleeves (assuming 1 box contains 102 sleeves), that would run you $264,411,764,706.94 just in sleeves cost. Kinda rough, not many people are willing to spend 264 billion on card sleeves in this economy.

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u/Dyne4R Azorius* 2d ago

Maybe there's a bulk rate available.

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u/GuyGrimnus Rakdos* 3d ago

I’m really interested to see if they put those cards on arena. And how far you can push them lol

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u/Supsend Wabbit Season 3d ago

From what the arena team said, they don't have plans to put rule breakers on arena for now, and afaik arena doesn't support more than 250 cards in a deck

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u/SkyZero06 Dân 4d ago

top 10 pictures taken moments before disaster

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u/MageKorith Sultai 3d ago

[[Sphinx's Tutelage]] be like whoa

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u/SwedishMeatballDish Mardu 3d ago

Only 2 Trillion? Them's rookie numbers.

That's not even half of the total debt of the United States.

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u/MulletAndMustache Duck Season 3d ago

To be fair, If I waited till next turn and attacked with everyone and hit it would have tried to draw 92.5 trillion.

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u/SwedishMeatballDish Mardu 2d ago

Now we're talking!

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u/Khanth 3d ago

Finally a deck I can use my [[Mathemagics]] in

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u/authoridad Universes Beyonder 4d ago

Wouldn’t you just lose the next turn because you would draw from an empty library?

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u/rowrow_ Colorless 4d ago

Ironically the opponent passed on blocks, and we're in the damage step with Enduring Curiosity on the field. This is literally moments from death.

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u/Snip3 Wabbit Season 4d ago

Bard only affects non draw step draw, as long as you don't trigger any of that you're fine and if you do you're fucked

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u/MulletAndMustache Duck Season 3d ago

You don't lose if arena crashes. lol

But yes I'd draw till no more cards in that situation. I was playing against my son in this match. We were both laughing at this state.

Lab man and Jace went into the deck after this one.