I was playing EDH last night with my playgroup and there's one guy there who's always your run of the mill hothead. He's very immature about plays and whines when people make an argument against his rulings (which are usually wrong). Apparently he thinks Magic is supposed to be a rationalized game down to every decision. A friend of mine decided to start attacking this guy and he started flipping out saying he could be attacking the guy that's a bigger threat but didn't and he starts making out my friend to be this 12 year old scrub who doesn't know what Magic is. He proceeded to tell my friend that he's the number one target of the table and all he's going to be doing is attacking him. Seriously, this guy is pretty awful to play against and to talk to. Whenever he loses he'll always check the next card of his deck (I personally don't) and then goes looking through his deck telling you "Oh had I gotten this combo/card I would have won." Even if he wins he'll do it and tell you how he could have beaten you even worse. Last night in our EDH match he did end up beating my friend and it was down to me and him. He overextended and told me specifically he was just trying to insult me by overkilling me. I take all my loses in stride and I was hardly offended but it's not like I fail to see how arrogant and childish he plays.
It was a prerelease. I'm an experienced PTQ+ level player, and wanted to be welcoming. I'm not going to get this kid a game loss just because he's an idiot.
I was misleading with my earlier post. I do say something whether I win or lose. EVERY time, i say "good luck with the rest of your matches." I truly mean it since it helps me out, and it doesn't insinuate anything about our match. I only say good game if i lose though. I know that some people get mad at it, and i don't want to egg them on. It doesn't matter if i think it's good manners if they get offended.
Alright, I thought you meant that if you won, you'd just walk off without saying anything.
So it's 2009 Ohio States, I am brand new to the competitive scene and decided that States would be a nice progression from the FNM to the upcoming Extended season, so I assemble a quick RDW deck and go with some of my friends. I don't do very well, but I decide not to drop because I want to get as much time in doing a "actual tournament" as possible.
So it is the last round and I am towards the back of the room and it is more crowded back there for some reason. My opponent has a small brace on his leg and he begins to wine and moan as soon as we sit down. He calls a judge and asks if we can sit at an empty table a few rows back (where there used to be people but now that people have dropped they are empty). The Judge decides that is okay and I am now annoyed because I make sure to get to my tables early so I can set up by side of the table with the mat, pen/paper, dice, ect ect. So after we move we begin play and the guy is not really rude but not pleasant either. He is playing Naya Zoo and I win game 1 and he wins game 2 off of Baneslayer.
Game 3 comes around and I have him to six. Now this is before Mark of Mutiny was tech but in my testing I needed away to deal with BSA so I had SB 3 for the day. He is at 6, windmill slams the Slayer, and just smiles. I untap, draw, tap 3, and Mark is BSA. Suddenly his face gets red and he just starts going off on how NOBODY plays Mark of Mutiny and whatever... but the guy was huge. Like not fat, just a big guy and I was honestly terrified. I am not a small guy but if this guy would have hit me I would be dead.
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Also yesturday I played some kid on Coakatrice and beat him with some RUG Twin deck I was testing... it wasn't very good but I got there mainly because my opponent was playing Whispersilk Cloak (which shows how good his deck was) and I say gg. He replies "That is the worst Twin deck I have ever seen". I couldn't help but say "At least I don't play Whispersilk Cloak."
So it's 2009 Ohio States, I am brand new to the competitive scene and decided that States would be a nice progression from the FNM to the upcoming Extended season, so I assemble a quick RDW deck and go with some of my friends. I don't do very well, but I decide not to drop because I want to get as much time in doing a "actual tournament" as possible.
So it is the last round and I am towards the back of the room and it is more crowded back there for some reason. My opponent has a small brace on his leg and he begins to wine and moan as soon as we sit down. He calls a judge and asks if we can sit at an empty table a few rows back (where there used to be people but now that people have dropped they are empty). The Judge decides that is okay and I am now annoyed because I make sure to get to my tables early so I can set up by side of the table with the mat, pen/paper, dice, ect ect. So after we move we begin play and the guy is not really rude but not pleasant either. He is playing Naya Zoo and I win game 1 and he wins game 2 off of Baneslayer.
Game 3 comes around and I have him to six. Now this is before Mark of Mutiny was tech but in my testing I needed away to deal with BSA so I had SB 3 for the day. He is at 6, windmill slams the Slayer, and just smiles. I untap, draw, tap 3, and Mark is BSA. Suddenly his face gets red and he just starts going off on how NOBODY plays Mark of Mutiny and whatever... but the guy was huge. Like not fat, just a big guy and I was honestly terrified. I am not a small guy but if this guy would have hit me I would be dead.
The worst person I've had the fortune of playing against, started off by saying, "You move to my table." I was a regular, and had never seen this guy before, and laughingly said, "Sorry man, I already called seat check." I hoped he'd move over, but I was going to move if he was stubborn, but what I got was, "Well we can go by DCI rating." Astonished, I asked, "So what is it?" He then informed me that his was just under 2000, and that was indeed higher than mine. I was in the process of moving the whole time, so I sat down to play.
I lost the die roll, and proceeded to lose the first game. We were both 3-0 at that point, and one of the other regulars at the store came by and told the new guy to beat me, cause I was on a 15 match winning streak at that time in limited. He looks at the guy and says, "So? I'm sure he only plays around here. If he played in the Houston area or Austin, that'd be impressive."
So during our second game, I see somebody looking through his trades and notice some SCG stamps, so I ask if he had gone to the one in Fort Worth when it was here. He looks at it, and then says, "I can't remember if it was at... " And then names off half a dozen scg events across the country that he has allegedly been to. He overextends, and I manage to attack and sorin's vengeance him for the win. He then started furiously searching through his sideboard, before deciding not to do anything.
During our third game, he overheard someone mention that they liked Extended. He turned around and yelled, "Were you dropped on your head as a baby?" He hadn't heard him say "old extended," so he ate his words and recounted how he loved playing old extended and going to all the PTQs."
His only saving grace was that he acknowledged that sealed doesn't require much skill beyond regular play skill, and that he had gotten lucky by pulling the bloodthirst dragon, the fact or fiction sphinx, aegis angel, inferno titan, as well as 2 serra angels.
After finishing 3-2 (I managed to defeat a total of 3 out of 5 resolved grave titans that pre-release), I went to iHop with some friends, and recounted my encounter. We decided to look up his DCI rating and discovered that was not anywhere close to 2000, but was rather a good 40 spots under me.
So, you played a guy with a slightly inflated ego? He doesn't sound all that rude. Am I missing something or did you forget to add something? I mean, him yelling at someone when he thought they liked New Extended isn't all that bad; lots of people hate new extended with a passion because Wizards didn't ease us into it like they had originally stated they would. It would be like finding out your car might need work in the next couple of years then having it break down the very next day.
So it's 2009 Ohio States, I am brand new to the competitive scene and decided that States would be a nice progression from the FNM to the upcoming Extended season, so I assemble a quick RDW deck and go with some of my friends. I don't do very well, but I decide not to drop because I want to get as much time in doing a "actual tournament" as possible.
So it is the last round and I am towards the back of the room and it is more crowded back there for some reason. My opponent has a small brace on his leg and he begins to wine and moan as soon as we sit down. He calls a judge and asks if we can sit at an empty table a few rows back (where there used to be people but now that people have dropped they are empty). The Judge decides that is okay and I am now annoyed because I make sure to get to my tables early so I can set up by side of the table with the mat, pen/paper, dice, ect ect. So after we move we begin play and the guy is not really rude but not pleasant either. He is playing Naya Zoo and I win game 1 and he wins game 2 off of Baneslayer.
Game 3 comes around and I have him to six. Now this is before Mark of Mutiny was tech but in my testing I needed away to deal with BSA so I had SB 3 for the day. He is at 6, windmill slams the Slayer, and just smiles. I untap, draw, tap 3, and Mark is BSA. Suddenly his face gets red and he just starts going off on how NOBODY plays Mark of Mutiny and whatever... but the guy was huge. Like not fat, just a big guy and I was honestly terrified. I am not a small guy but if this guy would have hit me I would be dead.
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Also yesturday I played some kid on Coakatrice and beat him with some RUG Twin deck I was testing... it wasn't very good but I got there mainly because my opponent was playing Whispersilk Cloak (which shows how good his deck was) and I say gg. He replies "That is the worst Twin deck I have ever seen". I couldn't help but say "At least I don't play Whispersilk Cloak."
Somebody... playing good cards for bad match-ups? How sensational!
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"If you don't wear your seatbelt, the police will shoot you in the head."
- To my youngest sister when she was 6.
Everyone knows that good luck and good game are such insincere terms that any man who does not connect his right hook with the offender's jaw on the very utterance of such a phrase is no man I would consider as such.
I've got two stories to tell, one for my brother, one for me. I'll start with my brother.
So it was the M12 Prerelease, round 1. My brother goes into game two winning the first. My brother had a Cemetery Reaper and a few zombies along with some lands. The other guy had 2 irrelevant creatures, a Blood Seeker and some lands.
The guy passes the turn to my brother so he makes zombie at the end of turn, and the guy doesn't do anything. So my brother takes his turn, and during the precombat main phase the guy calls out the Blood Seeker trigger, then my brother points out that its a may ability and that he has to announce Blood Seeker's ability triggering when the creature enters the battlefield.
So the guy flips out, yelling that my brother was "Flipping through the phases" and that he doesn't play magic that much and my brother was going to fast.
All in all, my brother won that match so it turned out alright, but after the the match i overheard the guy telling his kid to "Watch out for that guy because he might be cheating."
The next story isn't as good as the first but i'll tell it anyway.
So in round 2 of the same tournament i get paired against this guy, he was a pretty nice guy during the games but after sweeping him 2-0 with a 6/6 Spirit Mantle-equipped Gorehorn Minotaurs he said "So how many packs did it take you to make that deck?" i said "Six...because otherwise i would be cheating."
And then he asks to look at my deck and he counts the rares and uncommons because he thought i had an abnormal amount. I had 8 uncommons, and one rare. So i pack up my stuff, and i hear him whisper to his friend "This kid is ****ing cheating." I don't say anything and walk off to my friends looking like this::facepalm:
Wow, how do you accuse someone of cheating like that at an in-store prerelease? It's still lame, but I could kind of see it at the launch tournament, but the prerelease...
That may trigger issue reminds me of a not-quite-rude, but irritating opponent I had at a bigger tournament once. He was playing mono black infect, and he had played a Virulent Swipe on his last turn, began his turn, drew a card, played a creature, and then attacked and announced the rebound for Virulent Swipe. I pointed out that he couldn't do that because he has to rebound the spell during his upkeep. At this point, he got really angry and repeated over and over again that it was bull **** that I was doing this to him and it wasn't fair because he just started playing. I pointed out that this wasn't FNM and that hopefully he'll learn from this experience.
I played a guy who was extremely arrogant, rude, and a liar. Not a bad player, and didn't flip out over messing up, but was all around an obnoxious person to have around.
The only bad rules thing I had was when I was playing UB Infect, and realized that my opponent wasn't keeping track of his poison counters. I had him at 7, and I saw he only had down a 3, so I asked him what poison he was at. He apparently didn't feel that me saying "Proliferate my tumble magnet and you" meant I was proliferating his poison counters.
At the ptq lowern block season. I had been paired up with a baddie (seriously his rating is like in the 1300s). As soon as I sat down and take out my deck he called a judge on me for sleeves.
The judge came took my deck and inspect it. Mean while he's telling me he's not being a dick but promoting fair play. Judge came back and said after this match just change the sleeves.
I wound up beating 2-0. He was complaing the only reason I beat him was because he was mana screwed I point out he had 7 mana on turn 5 and I left to turn in the results.
Best part is he went 0-2 at the ptq dropped drove an hour and a half for a lgs tourny and went 0-2 there. I lol'd my ass off when I heard that.
EDit: I was borrowing the deck because I woke up late was in a rush and forgot mine.
Well I had heard plenty of horror stories about playing online but I never really ran into a player that bad till now. Most of the time the worst I get a misunderstanding about a certain rule and my opponent quits when he gets proven wrong though most will stick around.
So I was playing this guy with a jank W/G Equipster deck plenty of equipment, and small creatures and for some reason lots of mana ramping which really didnt make sense. I was using my mono white control deck with lots of exile effects. So the guy basically goes on a rant about how I'm a word that rhymes with wussy for using so many exiling cards. He doesn't understand the rules when he tries to equip at instant speed and when I correct him he's all god you don't have to be so finicky! After a sever whooping in g1 I get a series of bad hands and concede g2 before even playing. g3 I whoop him again and he complains about how online the game doesn't know how to shuffle. I say gg, then he says "Whatever you only won cause of your terrible exiling, just watch next time I'll run demistify!" and I tell him my terrible exiling seemed to beat his terrible deck. Then he told me I should come play him irl when you can really shuffle and he'll own me. I know it shouldn't have but he did get to me, just the thought of people that stupid in this world... ugh
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Well I had heard plenty of horror stories about playing online but I never really ran into a player that bad till now. Most of the time the worst I get a misunderstanding about a certain rule and my opponent quits when he gets proven wrong though most will stick around.
So I was playing this guy with a jank W/G Equipster deck plenty of equipment, and small creatures and for some reason lots of mana ramping which really didnt make sense. I was using my mono white control deck with lots of exile effects. So the guy basically goes on a rant about how I'm a word that rhymes with wussy for using so many exiling cards. He doesn't understand the rules when he tries to equip at instant speed and when I correct him he's all god you don't have to be so finicky! After a sever whooping in g1 I get a series of bad hands and concede g2 before even playing. g3 I whoop him again and he complains about how online the game doesn't know how to shuffle. I say gg, then he says "Whatever you only won cause of your terrible exiling, just watch next time I'll run demistify!" and I tell him my terrible exiling seemed to beat his terrible deck. Then he told me I should come play him irl when you can really shuffle and he'll own me. I know it shouldn't have but he did get to me, just the thought of people that stupid in this world... ugh
When I meet that level of arrogance, I just threaten physical violence. I mean, there is obviously something wrong with them, so logic and reasoning aren't viable options.
I just hint that I can track there connection and they usually scamper off.
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"If you don't wear your seatbelt, the police will shoot you in the head."
- To my youngest sister when she was 6.
Everyone knows that good luck and good game are such insincere terms that any man who does not connect his right hook with the offender's jaw on the very utterance of such a phrase is no man I would consider as such.
I'm playing in the m12 prerelease, round 3. this guy managed to lose with a pretty sick pool. he had a jace, two archivists and a boatload of black removal. unfortunately for him, i'm playing an extremely solid BR bloodthirst deck. he gloats and gloats about his pool, showing me his jace and telling me he was gonna win fo sho'.
we sit down to play, and I get the turn 1 fireslinger, turn 2 stormblood berserker, turn 3 ogre opening. it's pretty cash. then he manages to hold me off with an aether adept on my minotaur. I attack with the berserker and he tries to block with the adept. I point out that no, he can't do that because it's written on the card. he snarls, picks up the card and then THROWS it back on the table. then he looks up at me and says the following:
''you know, you oughta say what every card does when you play them. it spares everyone the hassle of reading them.''
while looking completely serious. some background: I work night shifts and have about 3 hours of sleep behind me. my LGS' air conditionning is out of commission. the man in front of me is a fatlus neckbeard with an allergy to soap and/or deodorant. My answer was along the lines of
''Read. The. Goddamn. Card.''
while looking extremely PISSED OFF. he squeaked an ''ok...'' and proceeded to lose to me horribly. was he an idiot? maybe. was I mean to him? probably. was it worth it?
I remember this smug kid I played when I started magic a year ago. Specifically remember that he played me with a deck he drafted in the Eldrazi release. He lost to me 2-0 and I had only been playing magic for about a month. I had a nice ajani's mantra/soul sisters/pridemate WW deck.
He was pretty mad. We rematched, he won ONCE. Claimed my 2 wins were a fluke because of his one win and packed up his cards.
Arrogant....
I just have to point this out. PLAY, is a very important social aspect of everyone's development. It is the people with poor reactions to losing or winning something with almost no bearing on that person's well-being who make me lose faith in humanity. It also makes me wonder what kind of social interactions said person had as a child and if they were coddled or manipulative.
I played in both the midnight and daytime M12 Prereleases.
At midnight, I opened a seriously terrible pool, but ended up winning my first round. Round 2, I'm playing some guy I've never seen before. The game goes long, and I eventually equip a Greatsword on my Aven Fleetwing. My opponent says "Wow, your deck sucks" Now I'll admit, my deck was terrible. But, my deck DIDN'T suck because I put Greatsword on a flyer with hexproof. Non the less, I beat him 2-0, and starting making a few pokes a him, but nothing too bad (The joke would end up being on me. Next week at the release event, we were both 3-1, and looking to draw into the top 8. Except his deck was insane (Vengfull Pharoh, double Jade mage, overrun, 4 red removal spells, and lots of ramp/mana fixing), and mine was worse than before. He knew he would just slaughter me (I had mentioned earlier how bad my deck was) so he refused to draw with me, and then just cast overrun against me 2 games in a row. Whats worse is that both games, he had lethal overrun in his hand, and just didn't cast it for whatever reason, and I just could't rip the lethal fireball I needed to win with all the extra turns he was giving me. It sucked
At the day prerelease, I opened a pretty solid pool, and build one of the better sealed decks I've seen in a while. The guy next to me however, is going through his packs, and they're all gold. He had a Jace, triple doom blade, Grave Titan, and a bunch of flyers. For some reason, he decided his deck was "too good for jace" and didn't even end up playing it (which, idk about anyone else, but in sealed, I don't care if I'm not even in blue, if I have a jace, I'm throwing a few islands in that puppy and hoping to get there). Anyway, as fate would have it, we're both 2-0 and get paired up. He asks me how my deck is and I tell him "Not as good as yours" he then says "well, then I'm sorry about what I'm going to do to you" At this point, it became my goal in life to beat this guy. Sure enough, I just played circles around him, and took that match 2-0. The look of shock of everyone's face when I told them I beat his "Deck that was too good for jace" was just priceless.
Back when Kamigawa/Ravnica was in Standard I had built an okay U/R Wildfire deck for FNM. It wasn't super competetive, I usually got under 4th with it. But I used it every week, I was 16, I didn't have/spend a lot of money for Magic yet.
Almost every week I would get put up against this one older guy. He played a G/W, (I believe it was a Token deck), every week. And every week we played, I would beat him. Sometimes he'd scoop after the first couple of turns and tell me the deck just doesn't work against Land Destruction. So, no problems between us there.
Well, the next time we played I beat him again, and he got really mad at me this time. He pulled his pocket knife out, and threatened to cut me! I didn't think much of it at the time, and didn't exactly say anything to anyone... Now looking back, I'm glad nothing bad happened.
I'm pretty sure that was the last week he was there too, I don't recall him ever showing up after that incident. Whether someone told the Store owner or he just quit coming in, I don't know... But, again, I'm glad nothing happened to me or my girlfriend. I don't think he'd actually cut me or anything, but I guess you never know.
Well, the next time we played I beat him again, and he got really mad at me this time. He pulled his pocket knife out, and threatened to cut me! I didn't think much of it at the time, and didn't exactly say anything to anyone... Now looking back, I'm glad nothing bad happened.
Were you playing at a store? If so, I'm surprised no one called the cops. Either way, I'm glad nothing happened. That just goes beyond 'rude opponent'; I think it crosses the line into 'psychopath'.
Were you playing at a store? If so, I'm surprised no one called the cops. Either way, I'm glad nothing happened. That just goes beyond 'rude opponent'; I think it crosses the line into 'psychopath'.
as a sheep mutilating psychopath, i take offence to that.
My story is short. I had i guy flip out after i beat him with a Marrow-Gnawer EDH.....and yes, i had 60 of that certain card. He had to be asked to leave the store for a week after he said "f--- you all, this is utter s---. Its not in the spirit of edh and not very fun to play"
He runs a cutthroat Sharuum.dec......very fast, very cutthroat.
I was playing against a 12 year old kid and he wet himself during our game 2 because he didn't pee beforehand and I was playing Pyromancer's Ascension and taking multiple turns etc. He dropped from the tournament and cried outside and hasn't come back. He got my shoe moist.
Were you playing at a store? If so, I'm surprised no one called the cops. Either way, I'm glad nothing happened. That just goes beyond 'rude opponent'; I think it crosses the line into 'psychopath'.
Yup, it was at our LGS. I'm thinking someone told the Store owner about the incident and the guy got banned. If I was thinking, I would've called the cops on him, that wasn't exactly a situation I expected to be in over a card game. Thanks, me too
I was playing against a 12 year old kid and he wet himself during our game 2 because he didn't pee beforehand and I was playing Pyromancer's Ascension and taking multiple turns etc. He dropped from the tournament and cried outside and hasn't come back. He got my shoe moist.
It sounds like you didn't give a second thought to how humiliated this person felt.
It sounds like you didn't give a second thought to how humiliated this person felt.
He could have made some comment about how he had to use the restroom, I'm a pretty understanding guy. And he didn't even make note of the fact he urinated and i was standing in a puddle of it for a few minutes. If someone pee'd on you, whould your first thought be "oh poor you, that must be so terrible, not being potty trained! he's a diaper and some oreo's". I think not.
He could have made some comment about how he had to use the restroom, I'm a pretty understanding guy. And he didn't even make note of the fact he urinated and i was standing in a puddle of it for a few minutes. If someone pee'd on you, whould your first thought be "oh poor you, that must be so terrible, not being potty trained! he's a diaper and some oreo's". I think not.
If it wasn't like an infant, then no, I would have been hella mad. All you gotta do is say "I need to use the restroom", call a judge over, and have him watch the gamestate until he returns. No big deal.
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Odds of pulling any specific rare in 5th Edition: 1:133
So, on average, 1 JtMS every 2.222 boxes or 1 Bird of Paradise every 3.694 boxes. Yeah, I'll take my odds with Mythics, they are easier to get than old rares.
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He could have made some comment about how he had to use the restroom, I'm a pretty understanding guy. And he didn't even make note of the fact he urinated and i was standing in a puddle of it for a few minutes. If someone pee'd on you, whould your first thought be "oh poor you, that must be so terrible, not being potty trained! he's a diaper and some oreo's". I think not.
Well there ya go. We would have been more understanding about the situation if you had just told us he was a diaper in the first place. I thought you were talking about a person.
I find arrows annoying when attacking. However, this is only if you don't have planeswalkers out, because you can only attack one person. With walkers, arrows are needed.
I have no Idea how you could have been expected to not use arrows to target, however.
Arrows are useful in combat if there's a unit with a legitimate ability, a creature with vigilance or a planeswalker out.
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Alright, I thought you meant that if you won, you'd just walk off without saying anything.
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So it is the last round and I am towards the back of the room and it is more crowded back there for some reason. My opponent has a small brace on his leg and he begins to wine and moan as soon as we sit down. He calls a judge and asks if we can sit at an empty table a few rows back (where there used to be people but now that people have dropped they are empty). The Judge decides that is okay and I am now annoyed because I make sure to get to my tables early so I can set up by side of the table with the mat, pen/paper, dice, ect ect. So after we move we begin play and the guy is not really rude but not pleasant either. He is playing Naya Zoo and I win game 1 and he wins game 2 off of Baneslayer.
Game 3 comes around and I have him to six. Now this is before Mark of Mutiny was tech but in my testing I needed away to deal with BSA so I had SB 3 for the day. He is at 6, windmill slams the Slayer, and just smiles. I untap, draw, tap 3, and Mark is BSA. Suddenly his face gets red and he just starts going off on how NOBODY plays Mark of Mutiny and whatever... but the guy was huge. Like not fat, just a big guy and I was honestly terrified. I am not a small guy but if this guy would have hit me I would be dead.
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Also yesturday I played some kid on Coakatrice and beat him with some RUG Twin deck I was testing... it wasn't very good but I got there mainly because my opponent was playing Whispersilk Cloak (which shows how good his deck was) and I say gg. He replies "That is the worst Twin deck I have ever seen". I couldn't help but say "At least I don't play Whispersilk Cloak."
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His name wasn't Rocky by chance was it?
I honestly don't know. Sorry.
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So, you played a guy with a slightly inflated ego? He doesn't sound all that rude. Am I missing something or did you forget to add something? I mean, him yelling at someone when he thought they liked New Extended isn't all that bad; lots of people hate new extended with a passion because Wizards didn't ease us into it like they had originally stated they would. It would be like finding out your car might need work in the next couple of years then having it break down the very next day.
Somebody... playing good cards for bad match-ups? How sensational!
- To my youngest sister when she was 6.
So it was the M12 Prerelease, round 1. My brother goes into game two winning the first. My brother had a Cemetery Reaper and a few zombies along with some lands. The other guy had 2 irrelevant creatures, a Blood Seeker and some lands.
The guy passes the turn to my brother so he makes zombie at the end of turn, and the guy doesn't do anything. So my brother takes his turn, and during the precombat main phase the guy calls out the Blood Seeker trigger, then my brother points out that its a may ability and that he has to announce Blood Seeker's ability triggering when the creature enters the battlefield.
So the guy flips out, yelling that my brother was "Flipping through the phases" and that he doesn't play magic that much and my brother was going to fast.
All in all, my brother won that match so it turned out alright, but after the the match i overheard the guy telling his kid to "Watch out for that guy because he might be cheating."
The next story isn't as good as the first but i'll tell it anyway.
So in round 2 of the same tournament i get paired against this guy, he was a pretty nice guy during the games but after sweeping him 2-0 with a 6/6 Spirit Mantle-equipped Gorehorn Minotaurs he said "So how many packs did it take you to make that deck?" i said "Six...because otherwise i would be cheating."
And then he asks to look at my deck and he counts the rares and uncommons because he thought i had an abnormal amount. I had 8 uncommons, and one rare. So i pack up my stuff, and i hear him whisper to his friend "This kid is ****ing cheating." I don't say anything and walk off to my friends looking like this::facepalm:
That may trigger issue reminds me of a not-quite-rude, but irritating opponent I had at a bigger tournament once. He was playing mono black infect, and he had played a Virulent Swipe on his last turn, began his turn, drew a card, played a creature, and then attacked and announced the rebound for Virulent Swipe. I pointed out that he couldn't do that because he has to rebound the spell during his upkeep. At this point, he got really angry and repeated over and over again that it was bull **** that I was doing this to him and it wasn't fair because he just started playing. I pointed out that this wasn't FNM and that hopefully he'll learn from this experience.
The only bad rules thing I had was when I was playing UB Infect, and realized that my opponent wasn't keeping track of his poison counters. I had him at 7, and I saw he only had down a 3, so I asked him what poison he was at. He apparently didn't feel that me saying "Proliferate my tumble magnet and you" meant I was proliferating his poison counters.
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The judge came took my deck and inspect it. Mean while he's telling me he's not being a dick but promoting fair play. Judge came back and said after this match just change the sleeves.
I wound up beating 2-0. He was complaing the only reason I beat him was because he was mana screwed I point out he had 7 mana on turn 5 and I left to turn in the results.
Best part is he went 0-2 at the ptq dropped drove an hour and a half for a lgs tourny and went 0-2 there. I lol'd my ass off when I heard that.
EDit: I was borrowing the deck because I woke up late was in a rush and forgot mine.
So I was playing this guy with a jank W/G Equipster deck plenty of equipment, and small creatures and for some reason lots of mana ramping which really didnt make sense. I was using my mono white control deck with lots of exile effects. So the guy basically goes on a rant about how I'm a word that rhymes with wussy for using so many exiling cards. He doesn't understand the rules when he tries to equip at instant speed and when I correct him he's all god you don't have to be so finicky! After a sever whooping in g1 I get a series of bad hands and concede g2 before even playing. g3 I whoop him again and he complains about how online the game doesn't know how to shuffle. I say gg, then he says "Whatever you only won cause of your terrible exiling, just watch next time I'll run demistify!" and I tell him my terrible exiling seemed to beat his terrible deck. Then he told me I should come play him irl when you can really shuffle and he'll own me. I know it shouldn't have but he did get to me, just the thought of people that stupid in this world... ugh
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When I meet that level of arrogance, I just threaten physical violence. I mean, there is obviously something wrong with them, so logic and reasoning aren't viable options.
I just hint that I can track there connection and they usually scamper off.
- To my youngest sister when she was 6.
we sit down to play, and I get the turn 1 fireslinger, turn 2 stormblood berserker, turn 3 ogre opening. it's pretty cash. then he manages to hold me off with an aether adept on my minotaur. I attack with the berserker and he tries to block with the adept. I point out that no, he can't do that because it's written on the card. he snarls, picks up the card and then THROWS it back on the table. then he looks up at me and says the following:
''you know, you oughta say what every card does when you play them. it spares everyone the hassle of reading them.''
while looking completely serious. some background: I work night shifts and have about 3 hours of sleep behind me. my LGS' air conditionning is out of commission. the man in front of me is a fatlus neckbeard with an allergy to soap and/or deodorant. My answer was along the lines of
''Read. The. Goddamn. Card.''
while looking extremely PISSED OFF. he squeaked an ''ok...'' and proceeded to lose to me horribly. was he an idiot? maybe. was I mean to him? probably. was it worth it?
oh hell yes.
He was pretty mad. We rematched, he won ONCE. Claimed my 2 wins were a fluke because of his one win and packed up his cards.
Arrogant....
I just have to point this out. PLAY, is a very important social aspect of everyone's development. It is the people with poor reactions to losing or winning something with almost no bearing on that person's well-being who make me lose faith in humanity. It also makes me wonder what kind of social interactions said person had as a child and if they were coddled or manipulative.
At midnight, I opened a seriously terrible pool, but ended up winning my first round. Round 2, I'm playing some guy I've never seen before. The game goes long, and I eventually equip a Greatsword on my Aven Fleetwing. My opponent says "Wow, your deck sucks" Now I'll admit, my deck was terrible. But, my deck DIDN'T suck because I put Greatsword on a flyer with hexproof. Non the less, I beat him 2-0, and starting making a few pokes a him, but nothing too bad (The joke would end up being on me. Next week at the release event, we were both 3-1, and looking to draw into the top 8. Except his deck was insane (Vengfull Pharoh, double Jade mage, overrun, 4 red removal spells, and lots of ramp/mana fixing), and mine was worse than before. He knew he would just slaughter me (I had mentioned earlier how bad my deck was) so he refused to draw with me, and then just cast overrun against me 2 games in a row. Whats worse is that both games, he had lethal overrun in his hand, and just didn't cast it for whatever reason, and I just could't rip the lethal fireball I needed to win with all the extra turns he was giving me. It sucked
At the day prerelease, I opened a pretty solid pool, and build one of the better sealed decks I've seen in a while. The guy next to me however, is going through his packs, and they're all gold. He had a Jace, triple doom blade, Grave Titan, and a bunch of flyers. For some reason, he decided his deck was "too good for jace" and didn't even end up playing it (which, idk about anyone else, but in sealed, I don't care if I'm not even in blue, if I have a jace, I'm throwing a few islands in that puppy and hoping to get there). Anyway, as fate would have it, we're both 2-0 and get paired up. He asks me how my deck is and I tell him "Not as good as yours" he then says "well, then I'm sorry about what I'm going to do to you" At this point, it became my goal in life to beat this guy. Sure enough, I just played circles around him, and took that match 2-0. The look of shock of everyone's face when I told them I beat his "Deck that was too good for jace" was just priceless.
Almost every week I would get put up against this one older guy. He played a G/W, (I believe it was a Token deck), every week. And every week we played, I would beat him. Sometimes he'd scoop after the first couple of turns and tell me the deck just doesn't work against Land Destruction. So, no problems between us there.
Well, the next time we played I beat him again, and he got really mad at me this time. He pulled his pocket knife out, and threatened to cut me! I didn't think much of it at the time, and didn't exactly say anything to anyone... Now looking back, I'm glad nothing bad happened.
I'm pretty sure that was the last week he was there too, I don't recall him ever showing up after that incident. Whether someone told the Store owner or he just quit coming in, I don't know... But, again, I'm glad nothing happened to me or my girlfriend. I don't think he'd actually cut me or anything, but I guess you never know.
So, that's the worst opponent I've ever played.
Were you playing at a store? If so, I'm surprised no one called the cops. Either way, I'm glad nothing happened. That just goes beyond 'rude opponent'; I think it crosses the line into 'psychopath'.
as a sheep mutilating psychopath, i take offence to that.
My story is short. I had i guy flip out after i beat him with a Marrow-Gnawer EDH.....and yes, i had 60 of that certain card. He had to be asked to leave the store for a week after he said "f--- you all, this is utter s---. Its not in the spirit of edh and not very fun to play"
He runs a cutthroat Sharuum.dec......very fast, very cutthroat.
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Yup, it was at our LGS. I'm thinking someone told the Store owner about the incident and the guy got banned. If I was thinking, I would've called the cops on him, that wasn't exactly a situation I expected to be in over a card game. Thanks, me too
It sounds like you didn't give a second thought to how humiliated this person felt.
He could have made some comment about how he had to use the restroom, I'm a pretty understanding guy. And he didn't even make note of the fact he urinated and i was standing in a puddle of it for a few minutes. If someone pee'd on you, whould your first thought be "oh poor you, that must be so terrible, not being potty trained! he's a diaper and some oreo's". I think not.
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Standard: MWLC All-InFect Illusion Control(MTGO)
EDH(MODO): :symg::symu::symb:The Mimeoplasm:symg::symu::symb: 6-2-0 in 4player
If it wasn't like an infant, then no, I would have been hella mad. All you gotta do is say "I need to use the restroom", call a judge over, and have him watch the gamestate until he returns. No big deal.
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Well there ya go. We would have been more understanding about the situation if you had just told us he was a diaper in the first place. I thought you were talking about a person.
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