Wile Entertainment Coyote

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Here's a fun "what's the play?" situation from a game I just played. Your opponent is on 13 life, you have 7 mana available and two cards - a Furnace Reins (2R take control of a creature for a turn, get a treasure if it hits an opponent) and a Voldaran Thrillseeker (casting cost 2R, see card image below). You have a 3/3 token and your tapped opponent has a 2/2 token. What's the play? (I missed it in game).

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Jun 18, 2023 at 3:32pmWeb
Show threadWile Entertainment CoyoteJun 18, 2023
I was thinking too hard about building card/board advantage and missed the correct play. I used furnace reins on the 2/2, cast my thrillseeker, put the counters on the stolen 2/2, and attacked all out with my 4/4 and 3/3. The two creatures hit my opponent down to 6 and created a treasure token; I sacrificed the 4/4 to do 4 damage to my opponent, putting them at 2. The correct line would have been lethal.
Show threadWile Entertainment CoyoteJun 18, 2023
The correct line is to instead put the 2 counters on the 3/3, attack with the stolen 2/2 and the 5/5, and sac the 5/5. With the treasure, you have mana to also sac the thrillseeker, making a total of 13 damage for exact lethal. As it turned out, my opponent was unable to stabilize so missing lethal did not lose me the game.
Show threadMichael RawdonJun 18, 2023

@tomscud It took me a while to see it, but I got there before I saw your answer.

Sacrificing both of your creatures seems easy to miss since it’s not how you plan to use those cards in most games.

Glad you won anyway!