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I can't believe I lost this badly..

I'm sure there are polls on here, what's the most you've ever lost by? Me, I got my butt kicked today. I play someone who uses a HUGE deck, like a little over a 100 cards. I made a blue/black discard deck with the goal of just seeing it was possible to get him to lose by discarding everything. I finally got Traumatize (x4) this weekend and added those cards. At start I had one of them in my hand, so as soon as I was able to I had him discard half of his deck (50 or so cards) and I played some other abilities that caused him to discard as well. The only creatures I really had were copies of his or a card that let me gain control of his for one turn. But then, really early he put out Liliana Vess - I knew my time was numbered, but afterwards I kept picking up mana and wasn't able to play anything - needless to say he brought out lots of creatures from all graveyards that had some crazy abilities that caused my life to drop to -216 in one turn!!! I can't believe my new card caused me to lose soo badly!
Posted 05 April 2010 at 00:10

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Goes to show that sometimes no matter how well your deck is constructed, you still need a little bit of luck.

Perfect example, I was doing this zendikar Worldwake draft and this guy was playing allies. I was down to just a little life and had been drawing nothing but mana for like 7 turns. He milled two of my cards by playing an ally. Then it was my turn. The card I drew? Sadistic Sacrament. Played it kicked it and milled him out winning the game and the draft. Amazing what a little bit of luck can bring you.
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Posted 05 April 2010 at 02:36

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it also goes to show that perhaps your deck is a little too focused on doing one thing only, without the proper defensive measures you need to protect yourself

can you give some details about what you were playing in the deck?(perhaps add the deck here to the site)

also to "discard" cards is to have them put from the hand to the graveyard, it sounds more like you were playing mill, trying to deck the other person out(if he was playing 100 cards in his deck, this makes that VERY difficult)

if your maindeck cant stop a deck with a lot of cards perhaps you should add in some sideboard hate against that type of deck(although competitive deck rarely have more than 70 cards)

some more detail and i might be able to give you some suggestions
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Posted 05 April 2010 at 20:25

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The reason why someone (who knows what he is doing) would make a big deck (80+ cards) is to have more all round options to all sorts of problems. These decks are usually made for multiplayer games and are build to survive a long game. Such decks often like stuff in their graveyard because they use cards to get stuff back from the graveyard either to their hand or straight into play. So your mill strategy would only help such decks, giving them more options.
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Posted 06 April 2010 at 07:36

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