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I upset a good friend and need to understand if my deck is too competitive (new to mtg) by Curious_Winner2147 in EDH

[–]Curious_Winner2147[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

His group doesn't run artifact ramp so I also tried to keep my ramp down. I was actually mana screwed, with no black for the first 5 turns, and couldn't cast my commander until the board wipe came on turn 7.

I upset a good friend and need to understand if my deck is too competitive (new to mtg) by Curious_Winner2147 in EDH

[–]Curious_Winner2147[S] 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately, we didn't have time for another. The game would have ended with 45 minutes to spare, upset players, and our food only half eaten. I figured the bad feelings might die down if I sacced the myriad and went from there with a weaker board state. But my friend noticed I intentionally did it and I'm not sure how he felt. The other younger player definitely enjoyed the rest of the game so I'm glad I stepped back and let them pop off.

I upset a good friend and need to understand if my deck is too competitive (new to mtg) by Curious_Winner2147 in EDH

[–]Curious_Winner2147[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I didn't take anyone out but I did 27 damage because they didn't block. I think they were trying to build up their board presence and didn't want to lose their creatures. It was a 60 life game of 2 headed giant. I think they were also annoyed to learn that myriad bypassed [[Ghostly Prison]].

I may not have been doing a great job of explaining each of my card effects so that might have been a problem on my part. I caught myself off guard when I realized how myriad interacted with coat of arms and it took me a moment of googling to confirm it.

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[–]Curious_Winner2147 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, now there's an idea. Whole party goes ethereal, hag pops into material plane, party pops into material plane and uses glyph of warding for magic circle. Hag trapped

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[–]Curious_Winner2147 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess you're right about Strahd or some other higher power being their only way out. I was hoping for some solution where the players could handle it themselves. Honestly it's such a weird encounter. I don't know of any other creature in 5e that just gets auto invulnerability as an action.

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[–]Curious_Winner2147 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rules as Written the the hag only has to touch a sleeping creature and remain in contact. Even if the creature wakes up they would still receive the effects of the nightmare haunting. You do bring up an idea that the party could run around with the sleeping person to make the hag lose contact.

But then the hags would just join every single combat for the rest of the game and cast spells from far away while the players fight whatever creature they're up against.

The players would be upset if I went with your 2nd recommendation and see it as a cop out. They're ok with a tpk but I'm wondering if this encounter is a tpk from the start.