He played B/U Fairies. I don't really need to say more....
Seriously, though, I think the worst I ever played against was in a Journey into Nyx pre-release. He cast Deicide on my Athreos, God of Passage which was fine an all, but then, I kid you not, he took ten minutes going through the 35 cards or so in my library, and made a list of everything in my deck. I couldn't even get a judge to get him to speed it up. I get it, you have the right to look through the deck for other Athreoses, but seriously, making a list and wasting everyone's time is just being egregious.
He played B/U Fairies. I don't really need to say more....
Seriously, though, I think the worst I ever played against was in a Journey into Nyx pre-release. He cast Deicide on my Athreos, God of Passage which was fine an all, but then, I kid you not, he took ten minutes going through the 35 cards or so in my library, and made a list of everything in my deck. I couldn't even get a judge to get him to speed it up. I get it, you have the right to look through the deck for other Athreoses, but seriously, making a list and wasting everyone's time is just being egregious.
While doing this at a pre-release and writing down every single card is a little...intense for that environment, it is perfectly reasonable to, when resolving a card like deicide, to at least write down all the bombs/tricks your opponent has so you know what you might be facing. Also, if it was really 10 minutes (which I imagine is an exaggeration), you should be mad at the judge for not enforcing the slow play rules.
Yeah, there is such a thing as slowplay. Ten minutes is way too much. There's a video out there of a match where a pro searches an opponents library and categorizes the whole thing in 90 seconds (might have been 60) to figure out what was sideboarded in and out. I'm pretty sure it's in the wizards "best of" archive.
Why is it that in 80% of "complaints" in this thread, I'm inclined to think that the poster is just really easily offended.
I'll admit, I'm easily offended, though I wouldn't consider either of the previous two big deals nowadays, other than just finding the woman's policy on cuts really really silly. I feel like the latter two were both just way out of line though.
Worst was in a draft three weeks ago. I go 2-0 and go to game three. Both the first two games I mulligan down to 2 no lands and scoop and we don't even play a single card of magic. I say have a nice day and get ready to leave furious at the luck I just received with a deck I was so proud to draft and wanted to play. He says feeling somewhat sorry for me lets play a match again just so we can actually play magic. I say fine. Shuffle for an eternity and actually get normal starting hands. We play and I crush him 4 games in a row. He says too bad you don't get the match win. Sucks to be you. Instead of saying thanks for the game and I'm really grateful you scooped your games. I just said have a nice day again and left. Annoyed with is childish behavior because he tried 4 times and actually realized how lucky he got.
Lol. What is even the concern here? It seems more like you're just mad that you got some bad draws and shifted the anger to your opponent. And why would you ever mull to 2?
Its depressing to see that this thread has 63 pages.
My "worst" opponent was a teenager (18-19) who seems to be a borderline low IQ type. Intelligence of a child, although its hard to estimate of what age, unable to grasp the concepts of the game and with a weak knowledge of English. Makes so many illegal moves that its hard to tell if he's intentionally cheating or just doesn't know how to play. There are some fairly young kids with a good grasp of this game so I'd say there is a bit of both with more of the latter. I played one game with him, my Pauper DelverFiend vs his semi-complete standard UW Heroic. Since he doesn't understand how DelverFiend works, I comboed off and won. He wasn't rude to me, although I've seen him throw tantrums when interacting with other people and his mother, who brings him to the club. The problem was that playing with him was so exasperating since I had to check his every move, explain how the cards work - but he doesn't show any desire to actually learn to do things properly (maybe doesn't have the capacity, but I don't think so, I think his mother just spoiled him on account of his condition - I've never seen her trying to correct his poor behavior even when she's sitting a few tables away) so its impossible to actually play Magic with him.
He annoys the shop owner to make nonsensical trades with him, to give him expensive standard cards for free and then gets angry when he's told no. A total nuisance.
Anyway, that's the worst thing that has happened to me so far, nothing really terrible, but somewhat depressing since I have limited time to play Magic and when I'm playing it I want to actually play.
This one is pretty bad, I'd probably just call a judge. I can understand helping someone to learn the game, but I can't waste my time retreading through every single card interaction, both for myself and for him. I'm not here to babysit, I'm here to play a reasonable game of Magic against a competent opponent. If you don't understand how to play your own deck you deserve the game loss for slow play or too many errors.
I've met a lot of asswipes playing magic. They go from annoying to mean to rude to plain stupid.
The worst would be a cheater who turned out to have a fake DCI number. Who cheats at Gameday, I ask. He wasn't rude but he was a blatant cheater and liar and therefore the worst MTG opponent I've played. He was banned from the shop but I'm sure he just moved it down the road with another fake #. When I say fake, I mean it was a real DCI # with a fake name attached to it.
The rudest might be a guy who started causing a scene because someone Thoughtseize'd him and started writing down his hand. He declared that this was an egregious breach of the rules and threatened to contact Wizards and DCI to get the store's ability to host tournaments revoked. It was just so weird to see someone ranting and raving when they were so wrong.
Meanest would be a guy who punched someone in the face after a match. He was banned.
Had one one time when I was playing Weird Storm in modern.
On game two he mulligans to 2 cards, proceeds to plop leyline of sanctity on the table, and say "conceed" I laughed at him. Managed to start my combo on my 3rd turn. He has one land, and soulsister in play. So I am going about my combo and I get storm count to to mid twenties. Then I cast grapeshot for plenty enough to win the game if it were not for the leyline. He says you can't do that. I tell him I am not targeting him, I am targeting the Soul Warden. I then attack with Blistercoil Weird which has been pumped up the same amount as my storm count. He just reads the card, then just starts slinging stuff in his bag cussing loudly the whole time. Never saw him again.
Why didn't he know the Weird was getting pumped? Sounds to me like you weren't announcing your triggers, because no one misses what a card does when you announce its trigger 20 times in one turn.
It's a triggered ability that affects the game in a non-visible way so he won't have to say something until the trigger has a visible effect on the game-state.
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I unno, It was at the time Wierd was legal in standard. I annouced the trigger, even offered to let him read the card more when I played and when I triggered it the first time. He declined. Thing is, if he had bothered to not mulligan to the point he had no cards in hand, It could have been blown apart by a single path that soul sisters usually runs 4 of.
It seems like if he didn't mull, you had the lethal Grapeshot to his face anyway. So you had him either way.
Lol. What is even the concern here? It seems more like you're just mad that you got some bad draws and shifted the anger to your opponent. And why would you ever mull to 2?
I agree. There is no reason to mull to 2 cards. I haven't even mulled past 5 cards in probably 3-4 years of solid Magic playing (and I've played some Glass Cannon decks). I think at 4 cards with 0 land, I'd probably usually keep unless I seriously felt that there was a 3 that could beat my opponent. There is nearly a 100% chance that it can't.
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I was teaching Magic to a friend at the mall with some boosters I opened up. Comes this guy drops his damn bag on our playing surface and asks if we want to play. I put his bag on the floor and politely ask him to leave. He then proceeds to put down his FRF gameday mat saying: "I win a lot of my Magic games, do you even play in tournaments?". I told him yes I do and point to the GP Kyoto mat he dropped his bag on, he scoffs saying that it doesn't prove if I won or placed. I explain to him AGAIN that I'm trying to teach my friend magic and I'm not looking to play. The guy just keeps bragging and saying I'm no fun and scared. My friend is about to leave then I say: "Ok if I play and beat you will you go away?" The guy agrees.
I only have my Legacy Reanimator deck on me so I play with that. He's playing some...modern/standard deck I'm not sure what it was but obviously I curb stomp him. He then goes "it's not fair that deck uses cards I've never heard of." I tell him to piss off and kick his bag other way, going back to teaching my friend Magic. His whining and yelling actually attracted the attention of mall security and witnesses basically backed up our course of events and he was asked to leave.
I was teaching Magic to a friend at the mall with some boosters I opened up. Comes this guy drops his damn bag on our playing surface and asks if we want to play. I put his bag on the floor and politely ask him to leave. He then proceeds to put down his FRF gameday mat saying: "I win a lot of my Magic games, do you even play in tournaments?". I told him yes I do and point to the GP Kyoto mat he dropped his bag on, he scoffs saying that it doesn't prove if I won or placed. I explain to him AGAIN that I'm trying to teach my friend magic and I'm not looking to play. The guy just keeps bragging and saying I'm no fun and scared. My friend is about to leave then I say: "Ok if I play and beat you will you go away?" The guy agrees.
I only have my Legacy Reanimator deck on me so I play with that. He's playing some...modern/standard deck I'm not sure what it was but obviously I curb stomp him. He then goes "it's not fair that deck uses cards I've never heard of." I tell him to piss off and kick his bag other way, going back to teaching my friend Magic. His whining and yelling actually attracted the attention of mall security and witnesses basically backed up our course of events and he was asked to leave.
I like this story more than I should. Best part being "it's not fair that deck uses cards I've never heard of."
Yea I'm probably the worst player some people may have played against when it comes to attitude....
I'm way better than I was before, but damn I get salty sometimes... mostly against burn (modern).
Anyway: I'm always working hard to keep it cool and not to lose my own cool. I know it sucks big time when Your opponent is salty, rude or just not nice when the game is not going is way.
I'm sorry and I repent for the times I was salty and had bad sportsmanship. Even tho its ''just a game'', the kid in me just won't hear it. And he's an a**hole.
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Playing modern: all BGx, storm, burn, green eldrazi, dredge.
Modern night at my LGS - guy loses and literally slams his fist straight into the wall next to him. Naturally the room went dead silent, followed by everyone's head snapping in the direction of the noise. Kind of like hearing a record scratch, but instead of a record it was the sound of fist through drywall. I know that everyone has bad days, but if you're in that volatile of a mood, you really just need to chill out and stay home.
Poor guy the wall-puncher was playing against was so shaken up over it afterwards, and rightfully so, that I didn't see him return for at least 4 months. Wall-puncher still goes to the shop to this day.
Some stories are way worse than mine, but it was funny none the less.
Visiting friends in their city, we go to a Legacy tournament. First time in the shop. Everything is super smooth but that guy whining everywhere about everyone. Fine, I mean, every shop has its dummies. Of course I get this guy round three. And that's when he said it:
''What the **** man, you paid hundreds for your Volcanic Islands, but you chose THIS copy of Brainstorm? What the ****... Not to insult you or anything, but your Brainstorms are ugly as ***** man, ******* christ...''
We had this guy named john. Always got the right card for the right moment. Gets caught pulling cards out from under his leg. He is banned from the store. Couple weeks later he is at another store selling "his" collection. We had phoned that store letting them know about a stolen collection.
This guy was trying to pawn off this hand made dice chain mail dice bag as his own. Only one person could have rightfully owned said bag.
Guy ended up getting 3-5 for trafficking stolen property, possession of stolen property, and various related charges.
Back when Modern first became a thing I would travel about 45 minutes from where I used to live to play with a good friend of mine at the LGS near his college. The first deck I built was basically Mythic Conscription, but I let him borrow that, and slapped together an Assault Loam deck. During my first round, game one, my opponent was playing Zoo. My opponent wasn't off to the best start, and I had landed a turn 3 Countryside Crusher. On my next turn, my Countryside Crusher goes off and manages to hit a nice pocket of 11 lands, putting it at a 14/14. I was able to swing for exactly lethal. My opponent grabbed my Countryside Crusher and ripped it, and the sleeve, in half, with just a small bit of plastic at the bottom of the tear holding the sleeve together. He screamed that I rigged my deck (despite having fetched on turns one and two) and stormed out of the store. My friend said that was the last time he ever saw him in the shop.
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He played B/U Fairies. I don't really need to say more....
Seriously, though, I think the worst I ever played against was in a Journey into Nyx pre-release. He cast Deicide on my Athreos, God of Passage which was fine an all, but then, I kid you not, he took ten minutes going through the 35 cards or so in my library, and made a list of everything in my deck. I couldn't even get a judge to get him to speed it up. I get it, you have the right to look through the deck for other Athreoses, but seriously, making a list and wasting everyone's time is just being egregious.
Hah! This same situation is in the IPG and judge wiki as examples of slow play. Not sure why a judge didn't come but don't let someone do that to you again.
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He gets so mad when I kill or counter anything of his, but my standard deck is UB control that is all it does. (my modern decks well they just win before he can cast anything)
Refuses to have less than 80 cards in his deck no matter how much I explain that he should have 60.
Yeah, there is such a thing as slowplay. Ten minutes is way too much. There's a video out there of a match where a pro searches an opponents library and categorizes the whole thing in 90 seconds (might have been 60) to figure out what was sideboarded in and out. I'm pretty sure it's in the wizards "best of" archive.
This was actually done to figure out what the opponent had in his hand, FYI. Mimeofacture lets you see the opponent's library, but not their hand.
My worst was at Born of The Gods Gameday, also a win a box for first place and around half a box for second. I offer to split packs and play for the mat. My opponent says he will split packs only if I give him the mat. So we decide to play it out. He then proceeds to sit down and use the playmat we are playing for. I was on G/r devo and he was on U/w control. I very quickly take game one and then in a grind match involving 3 Mistcutter Hydras played one at a time until he is forced to wrath I finally tale game 2.
At this point he grabs the mat by the edge and throws it at me with his cards still on it and storms out of the store leaving his girlfriend to pick them up and apologize for his behavior. He even came back in to shout at the store owner that he would take store credit for his packs before going back out to his car.
Man, why was the dude so salty? The Game Day mat for Born of the Gods doesn't even look good.
I'm surprised the chump has a girlfriend - throwing ragefits over a card game doesn't exactly scream "boyfriend material."
The problem with defining this format by what is "fun" is that everyone seems to define fun as what they don't lose to. If you keep losing to easily answered cards, that means you should improve your deck. If you don't want to improve your deck, then you should come to peace with the idea that you are going to lose because you chose to not interact with better strategies.
My worst was at Born of The Gods Gameday, also a win a box for first place and around half a box for second. I offer to split packs and play for the mat. My opponent says he will split packs only if I give him the mat. So we decide to play it out. He then proceeds to sit down and use the playmat we are playing for. I was on G/r devo and he was on U/w control. I very quickly take game one and then in a grind match involving 3 Mistcutter Hydras played one at a time until he is forced to wrath I finally tale game 2.
At this point he grabs the mat by the edge and throws it at me with his cards still on it and storms out of the store leaving his girlfriend to pick them up and apologize for his behavior. He even came back in to shout at the store owner that he would take store credit for his packs before going back out to his car.
Man, why was the dude so salty? The Game Day mat for Born of the Gods doesn't even look good.
I'm surprised the chump has a girlfriend - throwing ragefits over a card game doesn't exactly scream "boyfriend material."
I actually forgot about the guy who started showing up and demanding that we give him cards to fill out his standard deck. He even asked the shop if he could borrow cards from the case, which they flatly denied. He then turns out to have a pretty hot girlfriend but proceeds to start screaming at her in the shop and then later in the parking lot. He came back a few times and then never came back again. What a weirdo and domestic violence is never cool.
We had cops show up and arrest a guy because right before our event he went into a target, filled a shopping cart with fat packs and boosters, and ran out the front door. They got the whole thing including his plates on camera.
Word got around quick and most stores in town have banned him now too.
Man, why was the dude so salty? The Game Day mat for Born of the Gods doesn't even look good.
I'm surprised the chump has a girlfriend - throwing ragefits over a card game doesn't exactly scream "boyfriend material."
Oh, if you think THAT'S bad, have I got a great one from the Pokemon TCG for you. Yeah I know, not Magic, but this is just too hilarious.
I was at a Cities (4th tier, below States which are below Regionals which are below Nationals) and there was one guy, often played in tournaments as well. Typical Braggart with a bigger mouth than actual skill, never won anything big but usually did okayish. Also clocked in at 6'4 and 200+ lbs. So this tournament, he comes in with his girlfriend, a dainty girl and a real joy to be around, for whom its her first tournament. He taught her the game, and she gave it a try.
After the third round, I notice he was going 2-1 and she 0-3, and didn't think much of it, and went to the bathroom. In the corridor, I saw the two...
She was standing against a wall, with him towering over her. "IF YOU HAD PLAYED BEBE'S SEARCH AT THAT POINT YOU WOULD'VE BEEN ABLE TO FETCH YOUR GARDEVOIR SO YOU COULD RARE CANDY TO IT AND LOCK DOWN HIS POKEPOWERS, WHY DIDNT YOU DO THAT LIKE I TAUGHT YOU?"
Seriously, he was going off the chain. I thought about stepping in but she solved it herself; he dumped her right there and thrown his deck (in the box, mind you) at him, paced over to the TO to explain she dropped, and left for home.
That...well...I still have no words, 7 years after the fact.
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Guy ended up getting 3-5 for trafficking stolen property, possession of stolen property, and various related charges.
3-5 years? Wow. That's what you get for armed robbery/attempted manslaughter here. Poor guy probably can't even better his life anymore since 3-5 years of criminal influence and buttraping (he's a magic player) in prison will take him out for life probably.
You know he probably got maybe 6 months in Jail, the rest suspended right?. Newspaper doesn't put that out. It just says "3-5 years". Anyhow. The guy deserved it. Its not like he was in a hard spot and just stole the one time. People were always accusing him of stealing. Never could catch him on camera, he would come in at random times and spend large amounts of cash so we didn't ban just on accusations. But I have a sneaking suspicion he was a professional thief. He never had a regular job, yet always had large amounts of cash to spend.
I had an unpleasant experience with <snip> at my second pre-release. This was Conflux, back when SCG would have big pre-releases at large venues for lots of people. This doesn't come up because of all that recent stuff with him, I've never liked the guy because of this encounter. Maybe I'm being petty, I don't know.
I get seeded against him maybe like second round. He takes me down in game one, no big. While we're shuffling up some guy wanders over to talk to him and asks how the round is going and he says "Just won game one, about to win game two."
Really rubbed me the wrong way, especially as a newer player. It wasn't like he was just goofing around or trying to banter, he was totally serious I wasn't involved in the conversation at all and ever since I've just assumed he's an ********.
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Seriously, though, I think the worst I ever played against was in a Journey into Nyx pre-release. He cast Deicide on my Athreos, God of Passage which was fine an all, but then, I kid you not, he took ten minutes going through the 35 cards or so in my library, and made a list of everything in my deck. I couldn't even get a judge to get him to speed it up. I get it, you have the right to look through the deck for other Athreoses, but seriously, making a list and wasting everyone's time is just being egregious.
While doing this at a pre-release and writing down every single card is a little...intense for that environment, it is perfectly reasonable to, when resolving a card like deicide, to at least write down all the bombs/tricks your opponent has so you know what you might be facing. Also, if it was really 10 minutes (which I imagine is an exaggeration), you should be mad at the judge for not enforcing the slow play rules.
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I'll admit, I'm easily offended, though I wouldn't consider either of the previous two big deals nowadays, other than just finding the woman's policy on cuts really really silly. I feel like the latter two were both just way out of line though.
Lol. What is even the concern here? It seems more like you're just mad that you got some bad draws and shifted the anger to your opponent. And why would you ever mull to 2?
This one is pretty bad, I'd probably just call a judge. I can understand helping someone to learn the game, but I can't waste my time retreading through every single card interaction, both for myself and for him. I'm not here to babysit, I'm here to play a reasonable game of Magic against a competent opponent. If you don't understand how to play your own deck you deserve the game loss for slow play or too many errors.
The worst would be a cheater who turned out to have a fake DCI number. Who cheats at Gameday, I ask. He wasn't rude but he was a blatant cheater and liar and therefore the worst MTG opponent I've played. He was banned from the shop but I'm sure he just moved it down the road with another fake #. When I say fake, I mean it was a real DCI # with a fake name attached to it.
The rudest might be a guy who started causing a scene because someone Thoughtseize'd him and started writing down his hand. He declared that this was an egregious breach of the rules and threatened to contact Wizards and DCI to get the store's ability to host tournaments revoked. It was just so weird to see someone ranting and raving when they were so wrong.
Meanest would be a guy who punched someone in the face after a match. He was banned.
It's a triggered ability that affects the game in a non-visible way so he won't have to say something until the trigger has a visible effect on the game-state.
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It seems like if he didn't mull, you had the lethal Grapeshot to his face anyway. So you had him either way.
I agree. There is no reason to mull to 2 cards. I haven't even mulled past 5 cards in probably 3-4 years of solid Magic playing (and I've played some Glass Cannon decks). I think at 4 cards with 0 land, I'd probably usually keep unless I seriously felt that there was a 3 that could beat my opponent. There is nearly a 100% chance that it can't.
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Norin the Wary, Grimgrin, Adun Oakenshield (taking forever to build)(dead format for me)I was teaching Magic to a friend at the mall with some boosters I opened up. Comes this guy drops his damn bag on our playing surface and asks if we want to play. I put his bag on the floor and politely ask him to leave. He then proceeds to put down his FRF gameday mat saying: "I win a lot of my Magic games, do you even play in tournaments?". I told him yes I do and point to the GP Kyoto mat he dropped his bag on, he scoffs saying that it doesn't prove if I won or placed. I explain to him AGAIN that I'm trying to teach my friend magic and I'm not looking to play. The guy just keeps bragging and saying I'm no fun and scared. My friend is about to leave then I say: "Ok if I play and beat you will you go away?" The guy agrees.
I only have my Legacy Reanimator deck on me so I play with that. He's playing some...modern/standard deck I'm not sure what it was but obviously I curb stomp him. He then goes "it's not fair that deck uses cards I've never heard of." I tell him to piss off and kick his bag other way, going back to teaching my friend Magic. His whining and yelling actually attracted the attention of mall security and witnesses basically backed up our course of events and he was asked to leave.
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I like this story more than I should. Best part being "it's not fair that deck uses cards I've never heard of."
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I'm way better than I was before, but damn I get salty sometimes... mostly against burn (modern).
Anyway: I'm always working hard to keep it cool and not to lose my own cool. I know it sucks big time when Your opponent is salty, rude or just not nice when the game is not going is way.
I'm sorry and I repent for the times I was salty and had bad sportsmanship. Even tho its ''just a game'', the kid in me just won't hear it. And he's an a**hole.
Poor guy the wall-puncher was playing against was so shaken up over it afterwards, and rightfully so, that I didn't see him return for at least 4 months. Wall-puncher still goes to the shop to this day.
Visiting friends in their city, we go to a Legacy tournament. First time in the shop. Everything is super smooth but that guy whining everywhere about everyone. Fine, I mean, every shop has its dummies. Of course I get this guy round three. And that's when he said it:
''What the **** man, you paid hundreds for your Volcanic Islands, but you chose THIS copy of Brainstorm? What the ****... Not to insult you or anything, but your Brainstorms are ugly as ***** man, ******* christ...''
....yeah.
We had this guy named john. Always got the right card for the right moment. Gets caught pulling cards out from under his leg. He is banned from the store. Couple weeks later he is at another store selling "his" collection. We had phoned that store letting them know about a stolen collection.
This guy was trying to pawn off this hand made dice chain mail dice bag as his own. Only one person could have rightfully owned said bag.
Guy ended up getting 3-5 for trafficking stolen property, possession of stolen property, and various related charges.
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Hah! This same situation is in the IPG and judge wiki as examples of slow play. Not sure why a judge didn't come but don't let someone do that to you again.
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It really sucks.
He gets so mad when I kill or counter anything of his, but my standard deck is UB control that is all it does. (my modern decks well they just win before he can cast anything)
Refuses to have less than 80 cards in his deck no matter how much I explain that he should have 60.
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GB Glissa, the traitor: Army of Cans
UW Dragonlord Ojutai: Dragonlord NOjutai
UWGDerevi, Empyrial Tactician "you cannot fight the storm"
R Zirilan of the claw. The solution to every problem is dragons
UB Etrata, the Silencer Cloning assassination
Peasant cube: Cards I own
Man, why was the dude so salty? The Game Day mat for Born of the Gods doesn't even look good.
I'm surprised the chump has a girlfriend - throwing ragefits over a card game doesn't exactly scream "boyfriend material."
I actually forgot about the guy who started showing up and demanding that we give him cards to fill out his standard deck. He even asked the shop if he could borrow cards from the case, which they flatly denied. He then turns out to have a pretty hot girlfriend but proceeds to start screaming at her in the shop and then later in the parking lot. He came back a few times and then never came back again. What a weirdo and domestic violence is never cool.
Word got around quick and most stores in town have banned him now too.
Oh, if you think THAT'S bad, have I got a great one from the Pokemon TCG for you. Yeah I know, not Magic, but this is just too hilarious.
I was at a Cities (4th tier, below States which are below Regionals which are below Nationals) and there was one guy, often played in tournaments as well. Typical Braggart with a bigger mouth than actual skill, never won anything big but usually did okayish. Also clocked in at 6'4 and 200+ lbs. So this tournament, he comes in with his girlfriend, a dainty girl and a real joy to be around, for whom its her first tournament. He taught her the game, and she gave it a try.
After the third round, I notice he was going 2-1 and she 0-3, and didn't think much of it, and went to the bathroom. In the corridor, I saw the two...
She was standing against a wall, with him towering over her. "IF YOU HAD PLAYED BEBE'S SEARCH AT THAT POINT YOU WOULD'VE BEEN ABLE TO FETCH YOUR GARDEVOIR SO YOU COULD RARE CANDY TO IT AND LOCK DOWN HIS POKEPOWERS, WHY DIDNT YOU DO THAT LIKE I TAUGHT YOU?"
Seriously, he was going off the chain. I thought about stepping in but she solved it herself; he dumped her right there and thrown his deck (in the box, mind you) at him, paced over to the TO to explain she dropped, and left for home.
That...well...I still have no words, 7 years after the fact.
Chandra, Torch of Defiance - Oops! All Chandras.
Prime Speaker Zegana - Draw for Power.
Pir & Toothy - Counterpalooza.
Arcades, the Strategist - Another Brick in the Wall.
Zacama, Primal Calamity - Calamity of Double Mana.
Edgar Markov - Vampires Don't Die.
Child of Alara - Dreamcrusher.
You know he probably got maybe 6 months in Jail, the rest suspended right?. Newspaper doesn't put that out. It just says "3-5 years". Anyhow. The guy deserved it. Its not like he was in a hard spot and just stole the one time. People were always accusing him of stealing. Never could catch him on camera, he would come in at random times and spend large amounts of cash so we didn't ban just on accusations. But I have a sneaking suspicion he was a professional thief. He never had a regular job, yet always had large amounts of cash to spend.
BEEEES!
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I get seeded against him maybe like second round. He takes me down in game one, no big. While we're shuffling up some guy wanders over to talk to him and asks how the round is going and he says "Just won game one, about to win game two."
Really rubbed me the wrong way, especially as a newer player. It wasn't like he was just goofing around or trying to banter, he was totally serious I wasn't involved in the conversation at all and ever since I've just assumed he's an ********.
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