The deck this troper uses is quite... unique. It's a white/blue/black deck that some would describe as half-psychological warfare, half-beatdown. Beware the Wiplash Trap, for it heralds the arrival of the Inkwell Leviathan.

The closest this troper ever came to a Magic-related Crowning Moment of Awesome was this.

This troper had an interesting experience when he was first starting to play ''Magic: The Gathering''. It involved a ''cheating'' opponent with three legendary dragon monsters, and using a deck that consisted of random green and red cards. After his opponent summoned all three dragons (not all in the same turn, mind you), he made a comeback that wouldn't have been out of place in a {{Yu-Gi-Oh}} episode. It involved a Spore Cloud, Scent of Ivy, Scent of Cinder, and a Taunting Elf. Two turns after stopping an all out attack by the dragons, a lesson was learned about cheating.

I cast a Storm Herd at 72 life during an EDH game, giving me seventy-two Pegasus tokens with flying. I just laughed after I realized I could've done that three turns ago.

This troper had a ''three way'' tie once in Magic. After fighting against two beast decks with a Samurai deck with only two creatures out (And a hell of alot of preventing damage), This trooper managed to convince the other two players with beast decks to fight each other. One of them knew he was going to die next turn and played Death Cloud, Causing each player to lose 10 life, despite every player was under ''5'' life, Causing a three way tie.

Also, This troper considers any player attacking all out with a giant army of deadly creatures only to play Fog or Holy Day one of these moments.

This troper heard of an occurrence at a mixed Unglued/Unhinged/Regular ''MagicTheGathering'' tournament. (Unglued and Unhinged are "joke" sets with cards which have some peculiar effects; these cards are silver-bordered and not allowed in regular tournaments.) In a feature match, one of the players played "Ass Whuppin'", an Unhinged sorcery which destroys a single target silver-bordered permanent in any game that the caster can see from his or her seat. The other player responded with Radiate, a regular instant that creates a duplicate of the target spell for ''every possible target'' that spell can take. The effect was to wipe out every silver-bordered permanent that the player could see... which amounted to most of the permanents in the room. Not just awesome, but a CrowningMomentOfFunny as well (which is, after all, the point of such tournaments.)

While mild in comparison to the rest of the examples, this troper beat a friend who had been playing Magic for years (and was not going easy on me) on her ''first'' try at the game!

This troper's greatest moment was winning a [=MtG=] match against the Fairie deck of one of the best local players with a spare-cards ''Kithkin'' deck. ''Pre-Shadowmoor block''.

This troper created a deck for one of the Magic Invitational's "Auction of the People" sections. The theme of the year was to create a deck where every card (minus basic lands) each had one word somewhere on it. This troper's word was "No".

This troper was given a deck by his girlfriend where all nonlands have his last name in them, which happens to be Blight. He calls it his "mono-Blight deck".

One of this Troper's CrowningMomentOfAwesome Involved a Five way Elder Dragon Highlander/Commander game. one of the Players, a Naya Fattie deck just got through Bragging about how he was Unstoppable, with a board full of 5+ power creatures. I drew Charisma, and casted it on my general Tibor and Lumia. As I did it, I was able to give off one BadassBoast: "I don't become the threat. I ''am'' the threat."

This troper was playing a game of Elder Dragon Highlander (EDH) in a pod of three players. Since I was playing a sliver deck, they singled me out and started beating me down throughout the game. I was brought down to 10 life and one of my opponents played a extremely powerful card that can destroy any creature and make a vampire token. My creatures included Sliver Overlord, Essence Sliver (I gain life=to all damage a sliver deals) and a vampire I stole from the vampire player. Though I had blockers I couldn't block the attacks due to Whispersilk Cloak and the vampire player put the cloak on his powerful creature the moment he played it and I was pretty much going to lose on that players next turn. On my turn though, I drew Insurrection (untap all creatures, I gain control of all of them, they gain haste). With it I killed the vampire player that turn and gained enough life to keep me alive long enough to kill the second opponent.

This Troper was known for being TheLoad due to her Green/Red deck being a random assortment of cards. Adding to this, she often employed ObfuscatingStupidity to make everyone assume she was no threat. Tired of always being TheLoad, she goes out and buys a White/Red starter deck and booster packs, in which she finds two mythic rares, one being a card that negates any one colour you choose. The starter deck came with a card that gave all attacking creatures flying and lifelink. She ended up winning a 4 way game in a CrowningMomentOfAwesome.

This troper plays what his friends call a Honey Badger deck. Its a green/white deck chock full of cards that cost less than 4 mana to play, based around buffing the hell out of Aura Gnarlid (a literal Honey Badger, gets +1/+1 for each aura in play, can't be blocked by things smaller than it). This troper usually plays 3 ways and a personal CMOA was beating both opponents (each on 20 life) with 2 24/24 Aura Gnarlids (with vigilance, reach, first strike, untap all lands when they attack and draw a card whenever they deal damage to a player) while on 1 life (they knew the threat and both went after me). And lets not get started on the time when I summoned Emrakul the Aeons Torn and Ulamog the Infinite Gyre on the same turn....

This tropers personal moment of pure awesome came early in his career in a casual 3-way game. I've never been particularly good at tournament stuff (never had the money) but sometimes even casual games make you feel just so badass. Turn one, I just dropped a swamp and passed. Turn two however was a different story. I played Dark Depths, fired dark ritual for BBB, dropped Vampire Hexmage, immediately sacrificed her to remove all the counters from Dark Depths which brought the sheer uberawesome that is Marit Lage (20/20, indestructible with flying). No-one had an answer for him, or a quick way to kill me, and the game was mine. Boom :D

This tropers' favorite moment was during a star game, which is where five people play in a five pointed star formation, and you win when both people sitting across from you are eliminated. I was manascrewed and was the first one eliminated, followed by the person who was my left-most enemy. The person to my direct left was soon low on life, as was my other enemy. Since the enemy and my right ally had teamed up against him, he knew he had to do something, and luckily drew a burn spell, finishing off my other enemy to give me the win. Who says you need to still be playing in order to win?

My opponent used Show and Tell to get his Dream Halls into play so he could start using cards to make me draw my entire library. Luckily I happened to have an Emrakul, the Eons Torn in hand, so I got to cast him for FREE.

In the first match, I beat him because he dropped an Eye of the Storm onto the board with Dream Halls waiting, and started chaining spells together to try and kill me. I used his Dream Halls to discard a Dark Ritual and forced him to draw his own library. Best win OF ALL TIME.

This troper annihilated an Eldrazi deck by exiling the whole bunch of EldritchAbominations, and beating the crap out of their controller with lowly Golems. Zendikar is avenged!

''Lowly'' Golems? How dare you, sir! The noble golem is more than capable of epic wins, as evidence by my using Precursor Golem and Rite Of Replication to summon ''28 golems'' to the field in one turn.

Truly, I regress. By saying lowly, I was merely implying that a single golem is quite easily crushed to tiny bits of metal by an Eldrazi. But if we must talk of BadAss golems, Platinum Emporium has kept quite alot of hordes from my throat.

My brother and I used to play Magic casually years ago, and we decided to start again fresh recently. We each bought a starter deck and played; my deck was the entirely "infect" based blue/water deck, and we were a little confused about the mechanics, but we got used to it (his deck was the golem based starter deck). In our second game, I got 7 poison counters on him while he had 4 3/3 golems out with First Strike and I had 1 life left. He was going in for the kill, so I attacked with my 2 unblockable Infect creatures, bringing him to 9 poison counters, and I played a creature that when sent to the graveyard, proliferates (it lets you increase the number of counters on a target already inflicted by counters by one). So he went all out with that creature as my only defense, so I blocked the first hit, sent him to the graveyard, and brought his poison counter to 10, killing him before the rest of the attacks hit me. I was rather proud of that.