I was playing in the Legend Maker Pre-Release. I had pulled an Arcanine ex from one of my packs, and accordingly built my entire deck around the card. It was a successful concept that found me on a roll, winning my first three rounds. Then came the 4th round.
I played a girl who insisted on misusing the pronoun "me" as we played. For example, everytime she drew a card at the beginning of her turn, she announced, "Me draw." It was apparent that she was also a beginner to the game, taking long turns and asking for help on how some cards worked. The "me" thing was a bit annoying, as were her increasingly long turns, but I tried my best to remain helpful and courteous. As the game went on, I found myself in what I thought was a winning position: I had just used a
Magby to burn my opponent's
Misdreavus with a
Full Flame in play when I brought up my
Arcanine ex and used Overrun to hit it for 30 more. I only needed to draw 1 more prize (she, on the other hand, had 2 remaining prizes). I provided links for the people who might not be familiar with these cards.
She used "Return Trance" to put my Arcanine ex to sleep. The Misdreavus's Poke-Body required me to flip 2 heads in order to wake up between turns. My Arcanine ex, however, had a Poke-Body that removed special conditions when I attached a Fire Energy to it. Sadly, I had no Fire Energy in my hand. I counted that there were still 6 Fire Energy remaining in my fairly small deck, so I felt optimistic. Besides, I thought, she'll flip a tails eventually, KO'ing her Misdreavus and getting me that last prize.
As it turned out, I never drew the single Fire Energy I needed to escape the sleep lock. Instead, I remained asleep (or woke up going into my opponent's turn) for 7 turns. Not only this, my opponent flipped a straight 15 heads to escape the KO from the burn condition. Arcanine ex accumulated damage from Dream Eater enough times to get knocked out, giving my opponent 2 prizes and the win. The remaining 10 cards of my deck contained my last 6 Fire Energy.
So, let's go over this again. In order for my opponent to win this game, the following had to happen:
- My opponent had to flip 15 heads in a row to avoid a KO from the burn condition.
- I had to remain asleep going into my turn 7 times in a row.
- I had to not draw into a single Fire Energy during the 7 turns, which was very unlikely considering the high number of Fire Energy I had left in my deck.
- I had to remain asleep going into my opponent's turn 4 times (enough for "Dream Eater" to KO the Arcanine ex).
All of these conditions were met, and so I lost. I stumbled away to share my sour grapes with my brother as my opponent said proudly, "Me won!" The absurdity of the situation has never left me, and to this day I remain deathly afraid of misused pronouns and Misdreavus.
