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"People are always fighting in pits."

I know! It seems like, you find a nice pit to hang out in, and some buffoons just have to ruin it by fighting! Even if its a pit you dug out yourself in your backyard, they seem to find it and fight in it. Can't we just have one pit without a bunch of numbskulls coming in and ruining it?!?!

Hah, I remember when that MTG webcomic UGMadness had something like the Academy Awards of Magic (called the Garfields) and Death of a Thousand Stings won for 'death by the most stings'. Ever since I laugh whenever I see the card.
So,  One Thousand Lashes anyone? But there's only four cards with 'Thousand' in their names.

It took some time on my part but I think I figured out the Turn 2 kill in today's Titan deck.

Opening hand:
1 x Forest or other etb untapped land
2 x Amulet of Vigor
1 x Selesnya Sanctuary or Simic Growth Chamber or Golgari Rot Farm
1 x Primeval Titan
1 x Summer Bloom or Azusa, Lost but Seeking

Turn 1: Forest, Amulet #1
Turn 2: Amulet #2
Selesnya Sanctuary (regular land drop)
Bounce trigger on the stack targetting itself
Amulet untap triggers on the stack, Let the untap triggers resolve one at a time tapping the sanctuary for mana after each one.
mana floating
Let the bounce trigger resolve
Use mana to cast Summer Bloom
mana floating
Selesnya Sanctuary (extra land drop #1)
Bounce trigger on the stack targetting itself
Amulet untap triggers on the stack, Let the untap triggers resolve one at a time tapping the sanctuary for mana after each one.
mana floating
Let the bounce trigger resolve
Use to cast Primeval Titan fetching Boros Garrison and Slayers' Stronghold
Garrison bounce trigger on the stack targetting the forest
amulet untap trigger #1 for garrison on the stack
amulet untap trigger #1 for stronghold on the stack
amulet untap trigger #2 for garrison on the stack
amulet untap trigger #2 for stronghold on the stack
Let the untap trigger #2s resolve and use Garrison to activate Stronghold targetting Titan (8/6 trample, vigilance, haste)
Let the untap trigger #1s resolve and use Garrison to activate Stronghold targetting Titan again (10/6 trample, vigilance, haste)
Let bounce trigger resolve
Attack with Primeval Titan fetching Vesuva and Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion
Vesuva enters as a copy of Boros Garrison
Vesuva/Garrison bounce trigger on the stack targetting itself
amulet untap trigger #1 for sunhome on the stack
amulet untap trigger #2 for sunhome on the stack
amulet untap trigger #1 for vesuva on the stack
amulet untap trigger #2 for vesuva on the stack
Let the vesuva untap triggers resolve one at a time activating vesuva/garrison for mana in between each untap trigger
mana floating
Let the sunhome untap trigger #2 resolve and spend the floating mana to activate sunhome targetting  Titan (10/6 trample, vigilance, haste, double strike)
let the last untap trigger resolve
let the bounce trigger resolve
DOME THE OPPONENT FOR 20 DAMAGE!

anyone have the link tothe original article? i can't seem to find it.

Mar 13, 2013 -- 1:57PM, evanASF27 wrote:

Wizards... why are you shedding light on Turn 2-win Modern decks? Wouldn't you want to brush them under the rug rather than tell hundreds of thousands of people "HEY, NETDECK THIS!! SEEMS FUN, BUT DON'T TRY TO WIN TURN 2 ;D". First the Weird Mantle deck, now the Amulet Bloom deck... really? That's just stupid.

evan, I write this feature, and I'm not employed by Wizards in any way.  It's their job to moderate the format, I'm just here to point out cool things you can do in the formats.  I personally have no particular problem with you trying to win on turn 2.