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the rant mostly makes you look like a noob, learning to play around cards/strategies you don't like is part of the game.

also, if Overrun is what you consider a cheap shot, you play in a very very gentle meta =)

I agree with Seras, you complain because of your own inability to build a deck that can interact with the game.

The strategy is to not allow your opponent to play overrun, or somehow disrupt his strategy. Isn't that a strategy as well. Play duress, play mana leak, play naya charm, play Day of Judgment.... all ways to interact with his strategy.

Overrun isn't even a suprise effect, you see it comming from a mile away. Magic is about suprise effects, the more instant stuff the better the fight gets. Being able to respond to that overrun, now that is where the fun is, that's part of the battle. You say because you can't win the game is unfair, have you ever concidered that the problem isn't the game but you?

A while back I was playing EDH and I play some big creature. Next turn one of my two opponents plays a entwined Rude Awakening. Now that you don't see comming but it's sort of like an overrun (but better). He has like 12 land and is about to kill one of us. So he declares attackers and my other opponent reacts by casting cryptic command tapping out his creatures and bouncing my big creature. That was very memorable. That was magic. Nothing lame about it, just good play and anticipation of the board.

Last time one of my friends cast Rude Awakening in an EDH game, someone else immediately cast Day of Judgement. It was epic.

I think something you should take away from this is that even though these cards are very powerful against you, there's still actions you can take to get around this stuff. Anything from fog (nice overrun, bra) to artifact removal for the cloak to wrath of god/day of judgement with deals with both can help you to win some more. Don't give up, you just gotta deal with their deck in a different way and be prepared to lose games if you don't.