I had been debating on putting this up after I had started reading some of the posts here and I left the page, but I decided to return and put my own story up here.
My fiancé and I have only been playing Magic a little over 2 years (2 years plus almost 1 month) we both had come to Magic from playing Yugioh after running into one of my old classmates from High School.
The group seemed like a nice bunch of players, except for this one guy named Brandon, once I got my Red/Black Dragon Commander/EDH Deck going after I played with it he would always be putting it down on how bad it was and this was when I was starting in 2015, I tried not to let it go to my head, then I saw him again after I had done some updating to my deck, he didn't even seem to care what I might have updated/changed his words pretty much were to me "It doesn't matter you need to do a major revamp of your deck."
As I sit here writing this and thinking back on those days I am thinking why couldn't he have just said "here let me see your deck and I can give you suggestions on what to add, remove, update, and the likes." Instead of just seemingly bashing my deck.
He disappeared for quite some time if I'm right on what he told me last Saturday he was spending more time with his girlfriend (or rather now ex-girlfriend) and working. I had updated my deck since the last time I had seen him and he didn't bash my deck, but as I was trying to get some board state to protect myself from being attacked he would comment at me that I should be attacking, it was worse when we were playing a thing called Kingdom EDH which was a new thing I had never heard of; being that I was the King (Emperor whatever) he kept again saying I should be attacking it was like I was trying to get the board state to protect myself and my life even with my Commander Dragonlord Kolaghan having haste and giving all my creatures haste.
There was a guy who played briefly with a casual group of players, myself included, who would frequently play what he called his, "thief deck." It was a deck that sometimes switched control of permanents frequently, using things like Avarice Totem (frequently combo'd with Bronze Bombshell), and more often outright gained control of other players's permanents a la Annex, Dominating Licid, Control Magic, and many more based around that theme.
It was often extremely difficult to get the cards back from him at the end of any given hand. As annoying as the deck was, we eventually realized that the goal of the deck wasn't to win hands, but rather to actually steal cards. Eventually he was told he couldn't play that deck anymore, and after he was caught stealing even after the deck was banned, there was a physical altercation and he was cast out from the group forever more. What a dickbag.
Had a guy like that at an LGS in North Shore yonkers ago. It's been a while so the details are a bit hazy. The group was super tight knight and we took care of everyone, watched each other's binders, called out cheaters, etc. Awesome playgroup that I miss.
But I digress, there was this one really young kid that played with a rather jank burn deck. His one prize possession, and most expensive card, was a white border miscut Shivan Dragon. I can't remember what set, Revised? Unlimited? Maybe even 4th? Nothing later though, Ice Age was still in full swing.
Mid way through the games, one of my friends started getting into it with his opponent claiming a Shivan his opponent just played belonged to someone else. The miscut was easily recognizable. At the same time, the owner was was asking people about his Shivan since he couldn't find it.
The thief tried to claim it was given to him. Why would a kid give someone their only Shivan? The only 5/5 flyer in his deck, his pride and joy, and his most expensive? So he tried to change tack and claimed it was traded to him. What was the trade? He couldn't say. We found he basically used Animate Dead to steal the card.
The group forced him to return the Shivan then literally threw him out of the store.
So there he was, a 13 year old playing a thopter creation deck. I was playing my budget infect deck, i know, i know infect blah blah, but some times its fun to play. So my friend had just lost to this guy and told me to go play him. So i did and it started off ok, i had him up to seven infect about by turn 2. Then crap went down, he play some token creator that made about 6 thopter tokens i asked to read the card since it was some standard card and i dont really play standard that much and then he said no, it took me back a Little bit but it was a casual match and i really didnt care that much. The game dragged on with him treating me like crap, he play about 10 more thopters. Thats when i decided to play a Apostle's Blessing on a Ichorclaw Myr and named artifacts protection then swung with the Mry. He tried to block with his Thopter tokens and i said he couldn't due to The Apostle's Blessing effect. he pressed that he could still block but damage wouldnt apply i called over my friend and he sided with me. The kid started yelling at me for cheating and then packed up his cards and left. We havent see him since.
P.S i dont know if tokens need to be tagged
I don't have too many recent horror stories. The regulars at my LGS are mostly pretty good people, and so is my kitchen table group. But there are a couple of twenty-something guys who show up now and then at FNM that can be a little d___ish, and one of them gave me an amusing story to tell last night.
My older daughter (10 y.o.) has been playing casually for a few years now, and I've started taking her to FNMs with the Soul Sisters deck I made her for her birthday. Last night, she got paired with one of the aforementioned jerks in round 1. My own opponent is wheelchair-bound, and we have a special table set aside for him, so I wasn't able to be as close to her as I might have liked. It didn't bother me too much, though, because the two players that wound up next to my daughter and the jerk are pretty cool, and their table was right in the middle of things where the judge wouldn't have much trouble keeping half an eye on it.
When he sees who his opponent is, the jerk turns to his friend and says "Hope she doesn't cry when I crush her." They start playing, he sees what she's running, and makes a comment about what a noobish deck Soul Sisters is. The two players next to him tell him to be nice. Then loses game 1, gets all surly, and shuts up until I hear the following exchange:
Him: "Don't forget to put a counter on Ajani's Pridemate"
Her: "I'm not forgetting, I'm not putting a counter on him."
Him: "But you have to."
Her: "No I don't, the ability says 'may.'"
Him: "But how are you going to win if you don't?"
Her: "By attacking with a 4/4 Ajani's Pridemate, a Soul Warden, and a Soul's Attendant while you're at five life, have no creatures, and an Ensnaring Bridge with four cards in your hand." *taps*
He picked up his cards and walked away, complaining to everyone in earshot that he would have won if that noob had been playing her pathetic deck right. Meanwhile, she turned to study the game next to her.
When I finished my match (lost 2-1 to the better player; frankly, I'm proud of the one win) I went over to her table and asked how she did. She told me that her opponent was kinda mean, but she didn't think he knew how to play. LOL!!!
At this point, I thought he'd gotten what he deserved in losing to the noob with the lousy deck, but I got paired with him in round 2 and knew I wanted to get a shot in. I asked the judge to keep an eye on my game because I wasn't sure I could control myself after the way he treated my daughter (I have to admit, this was a lie on my part, I just had a sneaking suspicion he'd try to pull what he eventually did and wanted a witness). We shook hands, sat down, and as we were shuffling, I asked him, in a perfectly civil, sunny manner, how my daughter did. He went white as a sheet and mumbled something I couldn't make out.
I'm usually not very talkative during a game, but this time I made an exception. I went on at length about how proud she was of her Soul Sisters deck, how she'd picked it out herself and changed it to work just the way she wanted, how she'd been playing for years and begged me to take her to FNM, how thrilled she was to be here. He was sweating bullets and fumbling his cards by the time I comboed off in game 1. In game 2, he made several obvious misplays that I cheerfully let him take back, but I still handily trounced him for a second 2-0 match win over the jerk for Team Mister M and Kid, offering my hand and a "good game."
He actually tried to tell the judge I had threatened him, but the judge wasn't having it. He told him that if me talking about my kid made him feel threatened, maybe he should have been nicer to her. Maybe the next time he plays a kid, he'll be a better ambassador for the game.
ACtually, i don´t think that story makes you look too good. Your daugther handled herself and her opponent pretty well. I would think that is good enough. Instead you "wanted a shot in".
By this, you devalued her good hadling of the situation with your need to protect her. You change your usual behaviour just to get at him, and enjoy your success with it.
While i agree that this guy way a jerk, i belive you are a jerk and a bully, too.
Nice example you set for your daughter.
You may have a point, but seeing a twenty-plus-year-old man treating a kid like that, especially my kid, is one of the quickest ways to set me off. Besides, what did I actually do? I shook his hand, asked him how his previous round went, gushed about my kid, and let him take back a Nature's Claim on a redundant Everflowing Chalice when he had just watched me tutor for half of my two-artifact combo. My behavior made him uncomfortable because of his knowledge that he had done something wrong. Had he treated her decently, or been an autistic with limited social skills, he would have found me, at best, friendly or, at worst, mildly annoying. But he chose to be an a__ and knew it, and that's why he was uncomfortable. Besides, with a little stronger conscience, the guy would have gone to my daughter after the match to apologize, rather than to the judge to gripe.
Hard to gauge actions when they occur online, but on MTGO last night I was piloting my latest Riku Temur build against an Oloro player in a 1v1 match.
I was off to a slow start, missed 2 land drops and was just behind. He Counterspelled one of my ramp spells, then hit Riku with Arcane Denial. Finally, I stabilized, down to 20 life and had a few counters of my own to protect my own pieces. So I go to cast Woodland Bellower, he’s tapped out and goes Pact of Negation. I condescended it for X=1 so it fizzles, grab Rec. Sage to kill one of his rocks. He untaps, casts Tamiyo Moon Sage, which I hit with my own Arcane Denial, and... he scoops and messages me “Your decks all counters, that’s super boring and your a loser”. Shocked would have been an understatement. I tried joining a game with my Sisay deck(no counters), and he blocks me.
[...] just as I was when a player with minimal board presence countered my wipe in the face of a third player with overwhelming board presence.
Oh THAT is a VERY special kind of stupid. I really get frustrated if someone does something completely illogical which does nothing but hand the game to someone else. Bonus points if they get salty over the game's end result. It is okay if you know what you are doing and you are just screwing with everybody, BUT: There is this kind of player who absolutely can not be persuaded to make the right play, even if you explain in every detail the board state and why what they are about to do will lose them the game. No chance. They are resistant to diplomacy and advice. However, when asked afterwards why they did certain things, a reply I often get is something along the lines of: "Otherwise I wouldn't have played anything that turn." These people seem unable to process the complexity of multiplayer Magic and are content with playing lands and whatever spells they can cast that turn. I am not sure whether to admire them for their ability to just enjoy the game or to be grumpy about them ruining multiplayer dynamics with their erratic behaviour. I like to joke and fool around during games and these players will find themselves at the receiving end more often than the rest, though I try to be a good sport, politely explain things and let everybody have a good time. One time however there was somebody SO GODDAMN STUPID that I think I went a little to far with my poking and prodding, but he didn't seem to mind. In fact he was actually really hard to get rid of. He followed me all the way to the bus station, babbling all kinds of nonsense. Stockholm Syndrome? I don't know, but I am glad he didn't take my joking in a bad way.
And by the way, there are some disabled people with whom I play Magic regularly and at times it is very obvious that others are not taking them seriously, but you know what? While they can be a bit weird at times, they have their multiplayer diplomacy nailed. Someone looking down on disabled people while being a complete retard is a special kind of lovely.
I'm a lot of the same way, honestly. I honestly can't stand getting screwed over in multiplayer EDH when someone had absolutely no good reason to, and hand the game to someone else.
Two examples that got me steamed
- I dropped Gisela while playing my Depala deck. Swung with my demolition stomper and a few other vehicles at a Darien player to swing him out. Guy next to me killed Gisela for the LOLZ (he could have just as easily killed her after the attack). GUy takes 26 damage instead of 52, has about 20 life left, gets 26 soliders with cathar's crusade in play, and kills everyone his next turn. I asked the guy why he did that, and he just shrugged.
- Drop an Island Sanctuary on turn 2. Guy immediately blows it up, completely ignoring the Sevala player. Sure enough, Sevala player ramps up using enchantments. But nope, that flipping Island Sanctuary needed to go ASAP.
I play lantern as my pet deck, so I usually get a lot of obnoxious opponents. The one that mostly stands out for me was against a Bogles player (basically a bye for lantern most of the time). Beat him in 2, after having to struggle to pull them out thanks to maindeck leylines. Some super janky plays got me there in the end. Bogles player was visibly unhappy, and halfway through game 2 just picked up his cards and said he'd rather just give me the round so he'd have time for a smoke before the next round, then dropped this little gem "You should play a deck that requires some amount of skill to play". From a bogles player. I have nothing against the deck, it's one of my side chick decks. But the deck takes little to no brainpower to pilot most of the time.
ACtually, i don´t think that story makes you look too good. Your daugther handled herself and her opponent pretty well. I would think that is good enough. Instead you "wanted a shot in".
By this, you devalued her good hadling of the situation with your need to protect her. You change your usual behaviour just to get at him, and enjoy your success with it.
While i agree that this guy way a jerk, i belive you are a jerk and a bully, too.
Nice example you set for your daughter.
You may have a point, but seeing a twenty-plus-year-old man treating a kid like that, especially my kid, is one of the quickest ways to set me off. Besides, what did I actually do? I shook his hand, asked him how his previous round went, gushed about my kid, and let him take back a Nature's Claim on a redundant Everflowing Chalice when he had just watched me tutor for half of my two-artifact combo. My behavior made him uncomfortable because of his knowledge that he had done something wrong. Had he treated her decently, or been an autistic with limited social skills, he would have found me, at best, friendly or, at worst, mildly annoying. But he chose to be an a__ and knew it, and that's why he was uncomfortable. Besides, with a little stronger conscience, the guy would have gone to my daughter after the match to apologize, rather than to the judge to gripe.
I think you handled this just fine. Your daughter did well. Sounds like the other player was on lantern? That kind of guy gives us a bad name.
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Standard: GR Pummeler
Modern: Mono-Red Control, Lantern Control, Eldrazi Taxes, Skred Infect
Pauper: Affinity
EDH: Gaddock Teeg Kithkin Tribal, Meren
Legacy: 8 Rack, Omnitell (Both in progress)
At the portland GP, I'm doing side events, 2 sealed events saturday to prep for the sealed PTQ on sunday (where I made it to the semifinals after getting #1 in sealed, woot woot). First sealed I crack what looks like a solid RB splash G (for vraska and the RG uncommon dino) pool but ends up doing quite badly. After a win match one and a loss to my gf match 2, I have a close loss match 3 to hostage taker, then get paired against an older guy who doesn't seem to know what he's doing for the last round. But I flood out and he keeps drawing 5 drops forever, and I end up losing in 3. He's very annoying to play against, constantly complaining about the volume of announcements and wanting to read every card I play, but I try to stay civil and play professionally. I'm unhappy at the result but try to shrug it off going into the next sealed event.
My next sealed pool looks even sweeter, RB splash W for vona, and I win the first round easily, and the next round very narrowly against a skilled opponent. Then I go into round 3, and I'm surprised to see that I'm playing the same older gentleman. I try to be cordial, and the games go pretty quickly with him getting mana screwed and also having a weak deck and mine being quite good. He comments after game 1 that my deck looks similar to my previous one, and I agree that it's a bit similar being base BR with some of the same frequently-played commons and think nothing of it (no overlapping rares btw, maybe 1-2 overlapping uncommons). I finish beating him and then start dicking around on my phone, realizing a few minutes later that he forgot to sign the match slip. I see him near the event center, so I head over there with the match slip and say "Hey, you forgot to sign the match slip."
"Oh, I'm not signing that," he says.
"Uhhhh...why not?" I ask.
"Your deck was too similar," he says. At this point I notice he's talking to a judge.
Turns out he thinks I...took my 1-3 deck and reused (parts of?) it in the second sealed? I guess? It's really not clear what he thought I was doing tbh. All he'd really say was that he thought my deck was too similar to the last one. Why he thinks it's impossible that I could have tillonali's knight twice in a row I'm not exactly clear. But he adamantly refuses to sign the match slip, apparently thinking I cheated somehow. One of the other judges asks to see my deck, and I happily present both entire pools, with both decks sleeved, zero cards missing, and zero extra cards (and witnesses, though it never came to that). The guy still refuses to sign. To make it even funnier, he keeps saying that "he's never complained like this before" as if this is such an obvious and egregious case that he was practically forced to say something. SEVERAL of the SAME commons in TWO pools? Clearly impossible without cheating. Finally the judges shrug and sign the slip for him, and I turn the damn thing in.
Pretty sure that's the first time I've been accused of cheating in 15 years of playing mtg. What's doubly funny is that he only saw one (and the weakest one) of my sweet rares. If he'd known I was packing multiple bombs I imagine he'd have accused me of bringing cards in from outside as well. And god forbid he'd seen my sealed pool at the PTQ, where I ripped a foil vona, sanctum seeker, ruin raider, and practically every good vampire in the set. That kind of luck is only possible with black magic.
Ended up being an awesome weekend, between the 3-0-1 for me and my gf at that sealed event, plus going 7-0-1 in sealed at the PTQ, we walked away with 2 sets of SDCC promo planeswalkers and a fistful of playmats. And one amusing anecdote.
My fiancé and I have only been playing Magic a little over 2 years (2 years plus almost 1 month) we both had come to Magic from playing Yugioh after running into one of my old classmates from High School.
The group seemed like a nice bunch of players, except for this one guy named Brandon, once I got my Red/Black Dragon Commander/EDH Deck going after I played with it he would always be putting it down on how bad it was and this was when I was starting in 2015, I tried not to let it go to my head, then I saw him again after I had done some updating to my deck, he didn't even seem to care what I might have updated/changed his words pretty much were to me "It doesn't matter you need to do a major revamp of your deck."
As I sit here writing this and thinking back on those days I am thinking why couldn't he have just said "here let me see your deck and I can give you suggestions on what to add, remove, update, and the likes." Instead of just seemingly bashing my deck.
He disappeared for quite some time if I'm right on what he told me last Saturday he was spending more time with his girlfriend (or rather now ex-girlfriend) and working. I had updated my deck since the last time I had seen him and he didn't bash my deck, but as I was trying to get some board state to protect myself from being attacked he would comment at me that I should be attacking, it was worse when we were playing a thing called Kingdom EDH which was a new thing I had never heard of; being that I was the King (Emperor whatever) he kept again saying I should be attacking it was like I was trying to get the board state to protect myself and my life even with my Commander Dragonlord Kolaghan having haste and giving all my creatures haste.
Had a guy like that at an LGS in North Shore yonkers ago. It's been a while so the details are a bit hazy. The group was super tight knight and we took care of everyone, watched each other's binders, called out cheaters, etc. Awesome playgroup that I miss.
But I digress, there was this one really young kid that played with a rather jank burn deck. His one prize possession, and most expensive card, was a white border miscut Shivan Dragon. I can't remember what set, Revised? Unlimited? Maybe even 4th? Nothing later though, Ice Age was still in full swing.
Mid way through the games, one of my friends started getting into it with his opponent claiming a Shivan his opponent just played belonged to someone else. The miscut was easily recognizable. At the same time, the owner was was asking people about his Shivan since he couldn't find it.
The thief tried to claim it was given to him. Why would a kid give someone their only Shivan? The only 5/5 flyer in his deck, his pride and joy, and his most expensive? So he tried to change tack and claimed it was traded to him. What was the trade? He couldn't say. We found he basically used Animate Dead to steal the card.
The group forced him to return the Shivan then literally threw him out of the store.
P.S i dont know if tokens need to be tagged
My older daughter (10 y.o.) has been playing casually for a few years now, and I've started taking her to FNMs with the Soul Sisters deck I made her for her birthday. Last night, she got paired with one of the aforementioned jerks in round 1. My own opponent is wheelchair-bound, and we have a special table set aside for him, so I wasn't able to be as close to her as I might have liked. It didn't bother me too much, though, because the two players that wound up next to my daughter and the jerk are pretty cool, and their table was right in the middle of things where the judge wouldn't have much trouble keeping half an eye on it.
When he sees who his opponent is, the jerk turns to his friend and says "Hope she doesn't cry when I crush her." They start playing, he sees what she's running, and makes a comment about what a noobish deck Soul Sisters is. The two players next to him tell him to be nice. Then loses game 1, gets all surly, and shuts up until I hear the following exchange:
Him: "Don't forget to put a counter on Ajani's Pridemate"
Her: "I'm not forgetting, I'm not putting a counter on him."
Him: "But you have to."
Her: "No I don't, the ability says 'may.'"
Him: "But how are you going to win if you don't?"
Her: "By attacking with a 4/4 Ajani's Pridemate, a Soul Warden, and a Soul's Attendant while you're at five life, have no creatures, and an Ensnaring Bridge with four cards in your hand." *taps*
He picked up his cards and walked away, complaining to everyone in earshot that he would have won if that noob had been playing her pathetic deck right. Meanwhile, she turned to study the game next to her.
When I finished my match (lost 2-1 to the better player; frankly, I'm proud of the one win) I went over to her table and asked how she did. She told me that her opponent was kinda mean, but she didn't think he knew how to play. LOL!!!
At this point, I thought he'd gotten what he deserved in losing to the noob with the lousy deck, but I got paired with him in round 2 and knew I wanted to get a shot in. I asked the judge to keep an eye on my game because I wasn't sure I could control myself after the way he treated my daughter (I have to admit, this was a lie on my part, I just had a sneaking suspicion he'd try to pull what he eventually did and wanted a witness). We shook hands, sat down, and as we were shuffling, I asked him, in a perfectly civil, sunny manner, how my daughter did. He went white as a sheet and mumbled something I couldn't make out.
I'm usually not very talkative during a game, but this time I made an exception. I went on at length about how proud she was of her Soul Sisters deck, how she'd picked it out herself and changed it to work just the way she wanted, how she'd been playing for years and begged me to take her to FNM, how thrilled she was to be here. He was sweating bullets and fumbling his cards by the time I comboed off in game 1. In game 2, he made several obvious misplays that I cheerfully let him take back, but I still handily trounced him for a second 2-0 match win over the jerk for Team Mister M and Kid, offering my hand and a "good game."
He actually tried to tell the judge I had threatened him, but the judge wasn't having it. He told him that if me talking about my kid made him feel threatened, maybe he should have been nicer to her. Maybe the next time he plays a kid, he'll be a better ambassador for the game.
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You may have a point, but seeing a twenty-plus-year-old man treating a kid like that, especially my kid, is one of the quickest ways to set me off. Besides, what did I actually do? I shook his hand, asked him how his previous round went, gushed about my kid, and let him take back a Nature's Claim on a redundant Everflowing Chalice when he had just watched me tutor for half of my two-artifact combo. My behavior made him uncomfortable because of his knowledge that he had done something wrong. Had he treated her decently, or been an autistic with limited social skills, he would have found me, at best, friendly or, at worst, mildly annoying. But he chose to be an a__ and knew it, and that's why he was uncomfortable. Besides, with a little stronger conscience, the guy would have gone to my daughter after the match to apologize, rather than to the judge to gripe.
RWU
GUB
WBR
URG
BGW
I was off to a slow start, missed 2 land drops and was just behind. He Counterspelled one of my ramp spells, then hit Riku with Arcane Denial. Finally, I stabilized, down to 20 life and had a few counters of my own to protect my own pieces. So I go to cast Woodland Bellower, he’s tapped out and goes Pact of Negation. I condescended it for X=1 so it fizzles, grab Rec. Sage to kill one of his rocks. He untaps, casts Tamiyo Moon Sage, which I hit with my own Arcane Denial, and... he scoops and messages me “Your decks all counters, that’s super boring and your a loser”. Shocked would have been an understatement. I tried joining a game with my Sisay deck(no counters), and he blocks me.
Like, what??
I'm a lot of the same way, honestly. I honestly can't stand getting screwed over in multiplayer EDH when someone had absolutely no good reason to, and hand the game to someone else.
Two examples that got me steamed
- I dropped Gisela while playing my Depala deck. Swung with my demolition stomper and a few other vehicles at a Darien player to swing him out. Guy next to me killed Gisela for the LOLZ (he could have just as easily killed her after the attack). GUy takes 26 damage instead of 52, has about 20 life left, gets 26 soliders with cathar's crusade in play, and kills everyone his next turn. I asked the guy why he did that, and he just shrugged.
- Drop an Island Sanctuary on turn 2. Guy immediately blows it up, completely ignoring the Sevala player. Sure enough, Sevala player ramps up using enchantments. But nope, that flipping Island Sanctuary needed to go ASAP.
Revenue mostly.
I think you handled this just fine. Your daughter did well. Sounds like the other player was on lantern? That kind of guy gives us a bad name.
Modern: Mono-Red Control, Lantern Control, Eldrazi Taxes, Skred Infect
Pauper: Affinity
EDH: Gaddock Teeg Kithkin Tribal, Meren
Legacy: 8 Rack, Omnitell (Both in progress)
At the portland GP, I'm doing side events, 2 sealed events saturday to prep for the sealed PTQ on sunday (where I made it to the semifinals after getting #1 in sealed, woot woot). First sealed I crack what looks like a solid RB splash G (for vraska and the RG uncommon dino) pool but ends up doing quite badly. After a win match one and a loss to my gf match 2, I have a close loss match 3 to hostage taker, then get paired against an older guy who doesn't seem to know what he's doing for the last round. But I flood out and he keeps drawing 5 drops forever, and I end up losing in 3. He's very annoying to play against, constantly complaining about the volume of announcements and wanting to read every card I play, but I try to stay civil and play professionally. I'm unhappy at the result but try to shrug it off going into the next sealed event.
My next sealed pool looks even sweeter, RB splash W for vona, and I win the first round easily, and the next round very narrowly against a skilled opponent. Then I go into round 3, and I'm surprised to see that I'm playing the same older gentleman. I try to be cordial, and the games go pretty quickly with him getting mana screwed and also having a weak deck and mine being quite good. He comments after game 1 that my deck looks similar to my previous one, and I agree that it's a bit similar being base BR with some of the same frequently-played commons and think nothing of it (no overlapping rares btw, maybe 1-2 overlapping uncommons). I finish beating him and then start dicking around on my phone, realizing a few minutes later that he forgot to sign the match slip. I see him near the event center, so I head over there with the match slip and say "Hey, you forgot to sign the match slip."
"Oh, I'm not signing that," he says.
"Uhhhh...why not?" I ask.
"Your deck was too similar," he says. At this point I notice he's talking to a judge.
Turns out he thinks I...took my 1-3 deck and reused (parts of?) it in the second sealed? I guess? It's really not clear what he thought I was doing tbh. All he'd really say was that he thought my deck was too similar to the last one. Why he thinks it's impossible that I could have tillonali's knight twice in a row I'm not exactly clear. But he adamantly refuses to sign the match slip, apparently thinking I cheated somehow. One of the other judges asks to see my deck, and I happily present both entire pools, with both decks sleeved, zero cards missing, and zero extra cards (and witnesses, though it never came to that). The guy still refuses to sign. To make it even funnier, he keeps saying that "he's never complained like this before" as if this is such an obvious and egregious case that he was practically forced to say something. SEVERAL of the SAME commons in TWO pools? Clearly impossible without cheating. Finally the judges shrug and sign the slip for him, and I turn the damn thing in.
Pretty sure that's the first time I've been accused of cheating in 15 years of playing mtg. What's doubly funny is that he only saw one (and the weakest one) of my sweet rares. If he'd known I was packing multiple bombs I imagine he'd have accused me of bringing cards in from outside as well. And god forbid he'd seen my sealed pool at the PTQ, where I ripped a foil vona, sanctum seeker, ruin raider, and practically every good vampire in the set. That kind of luck is only possible with black magic.
Ended up being an awesome weekend, between the 3-0-1 for me and my gf at that sealed event, plus going 7-0-1 in sealed at the PTQ, we walked away with 2 sets of SDCC promo planeswalkers and a fistful of playmats. And one amusing anecdote.
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Phelddagrif - Zirilan
EDH
Thrasios+Bruse - Pang - Sasaya - Wydwen - Feather - Rona - Toshiro - Sylvia+Khorvath - Geth - QMarchesa - Firesong - Athreos - Arixmethes - Isperia - Etali - Silas+Sidar - Saskia - Virtus+Gorm - Kynaios - Naban - Aryel - Mizzix - Kazuul - Tymna+Kraum - Sidar+Tymna - Ayli - Gwendlyn - Phelddagrif 4 - Liliana - Kaervek - Phelddagrif 3 - Mairsil - Scarab - Child - Phenax - Shirei - Thada - Depala - Circu - Kytheon - GrenzoHR - Phelddagrif - Reyhan+Kraum - Toshiro - Varolz - Nin - Ojutai - Tasigur - Zedruu - Uril - Edric - Wort - Zurgo - Nahiri - Grenzo - Kozilek - Yisan - Ink-Treader - Yisan - Brago - Sidisi - Toshiro - Alexi - Sygg - Brimaz - Sek'Kuar - Marchesa - Vish Kal - Iroas - Phelddagrif - Ephara - Derevi - Glissa - Wanderer - Saffi - Melek - Xiahou Dun - Lazav - Lin Sivvi - Zirilan - Glissa
PDH - Drake - Graverobber - Izzet GM - Tallowisp - Symbiote Brawl - Feather - Ugin - Jace - Scarab - Angrath - Vraska - Kumena Oathbreaker - Wrenn&6