#rtfc

So I was playing Commander / EDH at my LGS today. I was playing my Gwendlyn Di Corci discard deck against Karametra, Omnath 2.0, and Damia.

Thanks to a Bloodchief Ascension that survived way too long on the battlefield, I managed to survive to the last two players: Gwendlyn and Damia. I’d foolishly used my Bojuka Bog to exile Omnath’s graveyard on the turn before he died. I should have used it on Damia’s graveyard, because she proceeded to Psychic Spiral and mill me out completely...

Damia controlled a Forced Fruition, which when combined with my Words of Waste and Liliana’s Caress made for a fairly effective clock. (Especially considering Damia’s hand refilling ability.)

However, now that my library was empty, Words of Waste changed from an engine of destruction into a lifeline, so long as I had enough mana to replace my draw I could keep from losing due to drawing from an empty library. Forced Fruition complicated matters, however, making each spell I cast cost essentially an additional seven mana to cast.

So I go to my turn with Damia at 12 life with three cards in hand. I have ten lands. So I pay to replace my draw for the turn, Damia discards to 2 cards and goes to 10 life. I now have only 9 mana available, which means I can only cast a CMC 2 spell, since I need to spend the other 7 to pay for Forced Fruition. In my hand, I have two spells with CMC 2: Asylum Visitor and Chain of Smog. I decide to cast Asylum Visitor since Chain of Smog won’t do anything other than trigger Forced Fruition and controlling more creatures is better, right?

So I cast Asylum Visitor, Damia discards both cards in hand and goes to 6 life. I pass the turn. In Damia’s upkeep, Damia takes 3 damage from my Lavaborn Muse trigger, and then we both realize that... oh s***... Asylum Visitor also triggers and its draw isn’t optional. I’m tapped out with an empty library. I can’t pay to replace the draw. I lose. Because I cast the wrong spell... *sigh*