Stolen Armor

Deck: Golden Jester

WHAT. A. MATCH, folks. What a match! This deck has some of the funnest battles imaginable!
The game started off perfectly: A Lightwell, a Deathlord, and a Mind Vision are a great hand to begin with. The warrior across from me, Valen, didn't play cards for a while. He just armored up. When I Thoughtstole some cards from him, I found a Shield Block, which indicated that he was a control warrior, heavily based on staying alive and building up tons of armor. I played two Lightwells as a barrier against him, and then played a Deathlord, hoping that it would be able to keep his minions at bay. At first he just equipped a weapon and played an Acolyte of Pain. I silenced it, hoping to make his card drawing as sparse as possible. Unfortunately, he had 8 armor... enough to Shield Slam the Deathlord into oblivion. Luckily, nothing too powerful came out, but it was an Armorsmith. I realized that I would need a lot of firepower to break through all that armor, so I took a gamble and went into Shadowform, trusting on my Lightwells to keep me healed.

Unfortunately, the acolyte (1), the armorsmith (+1=2) and his Fiery War Axe (+3=5) were enough to kill a Lightwell, but I hit the other one with a Mind Spike and Rampaged it, covering it with an Annoy-o-Bot. I then used a heavy axe and the well to kill the Armorsmith.

We kept sparring like this for some time, all the while the warrior gaining exorbitant amounts of armor. He played an Auctioneer, but it died after I Mind Spiked it and his Death's Bite exploded after killing my Lightwell. I was surprised how neck-and-neck we were.

Next, I played a Piloted Shredder and used a stolen Taskmaster to buff it. The Warrior executed the wounded mech, and out popped a Shielded Minibot. I felt like I was in good shape, but he had a horrible combo up his sleeve.

Out came a Raging Worgen. As I planned to kill it with my minibot and a Mind Spike, my jaw dropped as the buffs began to fall: A Charge, then an Inner Rage, then two Rampages! A terrifying 14/8 with Windfury smashed into me twice! Thank the gods for 2 armor I had left over from a Shield Block I had stolen, because I only had 28 life left! I was nearly dead, but luckily he ended his turn. In one fell swoop, I Mind Controlled his worgen! Since it had a Charge buff, I was able to slam it into him twice, shattering his armor and bringing him down to an injured 8 hit points (6 after my minibot hit him as well).

I held my breath as he played his final turn. I... actually can't remember what happened after that. I think he may have killed the Worgen with another Execute and then armored up and put down a taunt or something. I ended by casting both of my Holy Novas in order to cover myself in case he had a Mortal Strike, but that's when he yelled "I choose death!" and plunged his axe blade through his own heart.

The Impenetrable Barricade of Doom

Deck: Golden Jester

I was up against a heck of a paladin. I can't remember what he had in his early deck, but after a certain point (around mana level 7), he started layering on the powerful minions like crazy. I had two Lightwells out that did a great job healing me throughout the game, protected by Annoy-O-Bots and Deathlords. When the paladin sent out Ragnaros, I remained calm and waited for turn 10, when I could use Mind Control on it. Luckily, Rag didn't kill either of my Lightwells, so when he hit me with his fireballs, I was almost immediately healed.

He also played Stalagg, who I killed, and I stole Feugen from his deck with a Golden Thoughtsteal and kept it in my hand until Stalagg died. I Mind Controlled Ragnaros and copied it, but the paladin had plenty of healing spells of his own. A Lay On Hands brought him up to full, and a Guardian of Kings healed him as well. In an unexpected move, he used a Recombobulator to turn his Guardian of Kings into... Troggzor the Earthinator! Luckily, I didn't have any spells, but I did have plenty of powerful minions to take him down.

The paladin played Feugen, which was a good idea because my Ragnaros killed him and spawned Thaddeus. The paladin then doubled his health with Blessed Champion, so there was a 22/11 monstrosity barraging down on me. Luckily, a simple Annoy-o-Bot kept him at bay, and I ran my own Golden Feugen into Thaddeus to make my own: A glorious GOLDEN THADDEUS!

After that, my two Rags, 11/11 Thaddeus, two Lightwells to heal everyone, and a Deathlord to block made short work of the unfortunate Paladin. It must have been a veritable nightmare of a battle for him to get past that barricade.

This mage did NOT understand how Kel'thuzad's ability works.

Manipulating the Forces of Good and Evil

Deck: Jester

I have a hilarious new Naxx- and GvG-specced crazy deck, and it done killed me a Handlock! My first move was a Mind Vision that revealed a Twilight Drake, so I knew what I was up against. I put down two Annoy-O-Bots, and did a Mind Games that gave me a Molten Giant! He countered with a Mountain Giant, but it took him a long time to bash through two annoy-o-bots! In the meantime, I put down a Lightwell and did a Thoughtsteal, which got me a Golden Mal'ganis! I kept stalling, using my Black Knight to break through a Twilight Drake taunt barricade, and generally sparring with him. I also activated Shadow Form, because he still hadn't killed my Lightwell, which kept healing my units (I don't think he had gotten a hit out of me to this point).

Eventually, he pulled out Alextrasza and got me down to 15, but I didn't really care. I played Mal'Ganis! Unfortunately, he was immediately Soul Siphoned, but that didn't matter, because my second Mind Vision got another Mal'ganis! That meant that he was in the warlock's hand. I kept battling giants while he kept having to deal with my powerful reality-altering spells and minions.

I played another Mal'ganis, and he was forced to kill off all of his minions just to clear it. Then he played his own! Then I Mind Controlled his Mal'ganis! (Which wasn't gold, I might add, so looked lackluster in comparison to the ones I had played). The poor, poor fool drew a couple more cards, then conceded ignominiously. My cardful of tricks had bested him.