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An interesting result of how MtG handles infinite loops plus how it handles priority is that in a scenario where two players attempt to go infinite whoever gets
by YurgenJurgensen 3y ago
An interesting result of how MtG handles infinite loops plus how it handles priority is that in a scenario where two players attempt to go infinite whoever gets to name their number last wins. And that most infinite loops are non-reloadable, in that when you stop repeating them, you can't restart them for free. I have seen a game that was lost because one player had an infinite life combo, named "a hundred trillion" and wrote their life total down on a piece of paper, and later in the game an opponent who had apparently mis-heard "a hundred billion" and didn't think to check only elected to repeat their infinite combo a trillion times.
So the moral of this story is, uh, always name Graham's number. Or don't because I'm not sure what a Judge is to do if two people name numbers so large that the Judge can't work out which one is bigger on a pocket calculator.
(I think that in a Comp REL game, in your scenario, the Goblin player should have won unless the combo was non-deterministic.)