Citations:god hand
Noun: "(collectible card games) a hand which is especially suited to the player's needs; an ideal hand"
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- 1998 August 29, Michael Medinger, “Tourney Report”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy[3] (Usenet):
- Game Three: Pissed off at myself for doing a bad job of building my sideboard, I start the game with the following hand...Forest, Mountain, Elf, Stone Rain, Stone Rain, Winter's Grasp, Winter's Grasp, Incinerate. This is a god hand...I keep her down to one land, and she never plays anything bigger than a Soul Warden (which I Incinerate).
- 1999 June 2, Dave Meeson, “Re: UD Combo [includes decklist]”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy[7] (Usenet):
- I can't imagine that this is popular locally for the original poster, since you either have to have a God hand to pull it off and make it work, or have to be playing against a deck that can't survive on less than four mana.