Oh he had no idea he did anything wrong, and showed me his hand full of bad (though effective enough here) counterspells afterwards. He was pretty notorius for his special blend of ego and stupidity around the area, but I still never thought anyone with several years of experience could possibly be *that* bad.
Not really a "bad play" per se, but same guy and still funny - when I bought the final pieces for a Kami/Rav Battle of Wits deck at the shop, he happened to be the only one around and offered to play a test match against me. This time he actually has white in his deck in addition to blue, a huge step for him. Anyway, game one I get my BoW down after he taps out for Meloku, set to win on my next upkeep. He then spend his next turn going on another one of his egotrips about how monumental his next play was going to be and the game was over now, and that I was going to have no coming back from the punishment I was about to face. Does he have enchantment destruction? Nope, he taps out for Yosei. I untap and win.
Yikes. I never brag during a game, unless it's casual with someone I know. Or maybe, MAYBE, a tournament game with a good friend who I know won't mind the playful ribbing. All bragging accomplishes is making you look like an idiot if you lose, or a jerk if you win. That said, I try to be friendly and cordial during a game, but I don't yap my head off. Just speak calmly, explain things without assuming your opponent is an idiot, or that he knows every card and combo in your deck. Be sure to make your triggers and responses known by either reminding your opponent of the triggers, or just saying "Hold on, I have a response to that". Even against the most card-flicking-est, playmat-having-est, silent-est Spikes I've ever played, a calm, relaxed, positive attitude can really make the game that much more enjoyable.
Plus, if you practice it enough, it's a pokerface. They won't know if you're in a tight spot or not when you're just moving along at a decent pace, smiling and being polite without being condescending. Throws people off, especially if they're used to "Gloating means he's winning, pissiness means he's losing!".
I usually bring a positive attitude to the game, unless the other person is a jerk. In a positive game, I always act positive when they make a great play to pull themselves out of a tight spot, because I do the exact same thing when I do it. When they are a jerk, I try to make them feel bad. Either make them ashamed of their behavior, or lower their self esteem with better insults.
Them: "u r gay"
Response: "You are illiterate."
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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.
Oh he had no idea he did anything wrong, and showed me his hand full of bad (though effective enough here) counterspells afterwards. He was pretty notorius for his special blend of ego and stupidity around the area, but I still never thought anyone with several years of experience could possibly be *that* bad.
Not really a "bad play" per se, but same guy and still funny - when I bought the final pieces for a Kami/Rav Battle of Wits deck at the shop, he happened to be the only one around and offered to play a test match against me. This time he actually has white in his deck in addition to blue, a huge step for him. Anyway, game one I get my BoW down after he taps out for Meloku, set to win on my next upkeep. He then spend his next turn going on another one of his egotrips about how monumental his next play was going to be and the game was over now, and that I was going to have no coming back from the punishment I was about to face. Does he have enchantment destruction? Nope, he taps out for Yosei. I untap and win.
I guess that goes under an epic fail of magic lol. Thats pretty darn rude thinking he's god's gift to man then losing lol. it must have been incredibly slow white deck to lose to a BoW-wow. whats even more impressive is that you made it seem that he went mono color for most of kami-rav and thoes two sets were virtually impossible to go mono color lol
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Not me today but my friend sat me down to tell me the tale of his experience. He is kinda poor and loves when I give him some of my cards and some to borrow. Today, He almost wanted to quit because of what he was told to him.
He plays alot and likes to play with me and my group. They help him as much as they can.
He was 1-4. But his 3rd game is what almost made him quit.
The guy he was playing against was using a red and black w/splash of white.
My friend was playing a blue red.
The opponent was telling him that he was too slow, not shuffling right and making his opponent make mistakes just by attacking him.
Finally he won that match but called over a judge to tell them if he might have been using cards he received from the pack he received for the prize.
I tried to find the guy to "straight" him out, but he could not be found.
After we finished today, we went to McD around the corner and game him my cards. I have two booster boxes coming my way.
When it comes to playing a game, regardless what it is, making it fun for all to play is important.
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last night at the midnight release for RoE, we were drafting right? And I'm sitting at the table, it's after the draft, I'm making my deck etc. and I open my backpack to get my sleeves and set my backpack on the OTHER side of me. about a minute later the store owner walks by, looks down and goes Who spilled the soda here? kind of upset like. I look down and my backpack is sitting in it. The guy to my left who I'd been busy talking to says, "oh that was me, I did that like 30 minutes ago." Needless to say I was pretty angry. so was the owner
later on, He's playing someone, and its game over, he's lost. The guy goes GG. he's like, no it wasn't. It was horrible etc. etc. The other guy is kind of shocked a little, and goes yes it was. and the other guy goes on a rant.
1. It was the prerelease for timespiral and I'm playing a U/B deck. My 6/6 unblockable leviathan brings my opponent down to 4 and then I pass the turn. During his turn he unmorphs his doppelganger and copies the leviathan taking me down to 5 and kills mine. I go to take my turn and I notice I had my hand in my lap so I put it up on the table. My opponent immediately flips and calls a judge over asking me to either take a game loss or stand. I'm quite shocked at this and so are all the people around me. He claims that I was cheating and attempting to slip a card into my hand as an out. I stood up showing I had nothing in my lap and I invited the judge to check under the table but the guy insisted; so, I drew my card for the turn and scooped because i didn't have an answer to the doppelganger. Then the guys makes some quip along the lines of "I would have made that call on my grandmother;" in my head I just think, "I'd hate to be your grandmother." That guy was known for being a really a-hole about rules in general.
2. About 2 weeks ago at FNM I am running a valakut ramp deck. I go 3-1 in swiss and we cut to top 8. I'm matched up against a guy who is running naya land-destruction and I simply trounce him game 1 because his deck is too slow. So SB, I bring in 4 runeblasters, 4 trace of abundance and side out some of my ramp. T4 I drop a broodbraid and hit a searing blaze w/o targets. Next turn I drop another bloodbraid and hit a ruinblaster using my open R to destroy 1 of his lands. I beat him again that game and he flips out saying if I hadn't blown up that land he would have cast X, Y and Y. I calmly show him my hand and my answers to X, Y and Z. At that he just calls my deck, "stupid luck-sack deck." In the finals of that tournament I flip another ruinblaster with a blood-braid and the guy flips out again. After the match I show the guy my deck and point out that I sided out most of what I could have cascaded into, so hitting a runiblaster wasn't that unlikely. The guys repeats what he said before and walks out of the store. He does this every week and in limited he declares that he has built the "best deck ever" and then goes 1-3 drop.
I know number 1 I shouldn't have let my hand go below the table, but seriously you have the game locked up and know I don't have an answer. Whenever I see someone do something bad I simply point it out and say "don't do it again." Today at the ROE prerelease I had a kid try to tap a creature I had already declared as a blocker and I point out that it doesn't affect the blocker. I suggest playing the spell before I can declare blockers and his father at the next table over comes over and tries to explain to me that I am wrong. I tell him what I told his son and the guy says "no, it's a fast effect." The kid then realizes and explains it to the father who sits angrily down at his table.
I don't really have many opponents that stand out because of crazy things
like others in this thread, but I've had more than my fair share of slow and late opponents. At least when the opponent is playing badly the game is progressing. I always hesitate to call them out for slow play, but I ;ve had to before.
Well, I guess there is this one kid who used to go to my FNM drafts, would open like a sack, then misplay up the wazoo with his redic cards and lose. Then, of course, go into violent cursing sprees blaming others of sacking out against him.
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Well, I guess there is this one kid who used to go to my FNM drafts, would open like a sack, then misplay up the wazoo with his redic cards and lose. Then, of course, go into violent cursing sprees blaming others of sacking out against him.
Sucks to be everyone but the kid, because they have to deal with the kid. (Luck Sacking Noob of a Kid, sorry if that was mean, but honestly I expect you to be playing good, if you misplay a lot and blame others I can't hold my respect or assist you)
Besides, I have faced nine year old kids that could pilot a white time spiral bounce deck like a pro and not be complaining.
I have faced some weird opponent's before, though I particularity dislike one kid in general. It was at a Future Sight Release Day. I was running a UG Tempo - Aggro deck, my opponent (the kid), was running a RG Aggro deck. I gave my opponent the common yet sincere words "Good Luck To You", his response for that and the rest of the game was mostly grinding his teeth and I believe the kid snarled (weird, but all people walk all sorts of life). The only time he would speak was when he was talking about phases, untapping, attacking, and such, yet with an angry tone like I was some snarling dragon that stood in front of him and his treasure (a booster pack) that he must slay. Honestly it was close on the third game as we were both below 5 Life each, and sadly I had lost.
What made it more painful was the kids sudden out burst joy, with the words being "Ha! I beat you!".
Yes it is. They have considered banning it because of how broken it is in Legacy. It allows a Reanimator deck to hard lock nearly any deck in the format, sometimes on turn one.
Yeaahhh...I'm guilty of that play, but I can never do it T1 unless I know the deck I'm up against. T2 I'd know what color I'm up against. Imagine T1 Iona, then naming the wrong color. I guess you could always beat them the old-fashioned way with a 9/9 flyer...
Yikes. I never brag during a game, unless it's casual with someone I know. Or maybe, MAYBE, a tournament game with a good friend who I know won't mind the playful ribbing. All bragging accomplishes is making you look like an idiot if you lose, or a jerk if you win. That said, I try to be friendly and cordial during a game, but I don't yap my head off. Just speak calmly, explain things without assuming your opponent is an idiot, or that he knows every card and combo in your deck. Be sure to make your triggers and responses known by either reminding your opponent of the triggers, or just saying "Hold on, I have a response to that". Even against the most card-flicking-est, playmat-having-est, silent-est Spikes I've ever played, a calm, relaxed, positive attitude can really make the game that much more enjoyable.
Plus, if you practice it enough, it's a pokerface. They won't know if you're in a tight spot or not when you're just moving along at a decent pace, smiling and being polite without being condescending. Throws people off, especially if they're used to "Gloating means he's winning, pissiness means he's losing!".
I brag during games, but only sarcastically.
For example, one time today.
My opponent, playing Zoo, is swinging for the win next turn, no matter what I can play.
So I'm like "I'm going to screw you over with this broken play..." And I windmill slam a Llanowar Elves.
Game.
2. Next turn I drop another bloodbraid and hit a ruinblaster using my open R to destroy 1 of his lands.
I think you may have just cheated. As far as I understand, you cannot kick a card that is being played off cascade, because you are not actually casting the cascaded card.
I think you may have just cheated. As far as I understand, you cannot kick a card that is being played off cascade, because you are not actually casting the cascaded card.
That's what I thought at first too, but you are casting it, you're just casting it without paying the mana cost. Since you're still costing it, you are free to kick the spell if it has a kicker cost, since that's an additional optional cost you can pay when you cast the spell; you DO cast off of cascade, you just don't pay any mana for the spell itself.
I think you may have just cheated. As far as I understand, you cannot kick a card that is being played off cascade, because you are not actually casting the cascaded card.
read a card with cascade please. It says "you may play this card without paying the mana cost". As of M10 play = cast.
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I think you may have just cheated. As far as I understand, you cannot kick a card that is being played off cascade, because you are not actually casting the cascaded card.
It's not cheating; you just need it explained, so here you go. When you cast from Cascade, you don't have to pay it's mana cost, which is in the top right corner of the card. You still can pay optional costs, like Kicker, and you have to pay additional costs, like "Sacrifice an artifact" on Shrapnel Blast or +1 with cards like Lodestone Golem.
With abilities like Lodestone, the additional mana is added on after the original cost of the card is figured out. Cost + Additions + Deductions + Cost Setters (these add or subtract from a card costs until it reaches a specific value).
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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 was a witness to an actual physical fight over MTG last week. Two players who have never liked each other were playing in the top 8 when one said something the other didn't like, the other guy did a "finger point" to the other guys chest, the other guy grabbed the others hand and boom, full on fist fight.
The table was overturned, chairs knocked over and magic cards were flying until the store owner ( who was outside at the time lol) finally came in and broke them up. The entire tournament was basically ruined, as other peoples games were beyond repairing. Basically we split top 6 prizes and those 2 players were permabanned from the store.
I have been playing MTG since 2000 and have never seen anything like this before.
At the ROE prerelease 2 weeks ago, I played a 14 year old boy. He used Staggershock on my life each turn, and before you knew it I was down to 3 life on turn 17. He was *****ing that he could win next turn with his Disaster Radius. I had 15 lands with 8 eldrazi tokens. I played Emrakul and mopped up his remaining 12 life. You should have seen his face.
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.
How did he use Staggershock each turn? Did he open six of them?
More than likely he had only 2, and a Surreal Memoir. Turn 3 Staggershock, turn 4 rebound, Surreal Memoir. Turn 5, cast Staggershock again, it rebounds again on turn 6. That's 4 instances of it for 8 damage.
Or something. I doubt he did it every turn, since the guy was still alive on turn 17.
That's an interesting topic. I've read quite a lot of really ugly experiences.
Here is mine.
I was a decent player at Yu-Gi-Oh (I had the best match of my life playing that game but that's another story) but most of my friends were playing MTG. Last year one of them decided to "force" me to play their game and bought me a prebuild deck (the one with Ascendant Evincar on the cover).
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Later on I had to leave the country for few months (studies).
How surprised I was to hear they restarted to play as soon as I wasn't around...
Anyway, MTG is fun
These people are worse than scrubs.
They didn't just tell you that your superior play was unfair. They beat you down, watched you improve, and turned right back around to call their own play, by proxy, unfair. Without, of course, acknowledging that is what they just did. That would make too much sense.
Seriously. My mind has been awakened to new imaginings of scum from Humanity.
Hey, just finished reading through this whole thread, and figured I would post my experience as well. Lots of people have been sharing fairly recent instances, but mine goes back about 8 years, I was 16 at the time and the sets legal for Standard were Invasion Block and Odyssey Block. Me and my friend had been playing there for a couple months, and I had been matched up against this younger kid of around 12-13 years old. He was a very snobby little brat, with a fully tricked out Psychatog/Upheaval deck that was pretty much the dominate control deck during that time period of Standard (think Faeries during Lorwyn or Jund pre UW Tapout). I had played him around three times up to this night, and had lost each time, I was playing a deck I designed myself and usually played to a winning record each week, BUG aggro/control with Spiritmonger, Call of the Herd, BoP, Mystic Snake, Undermine, etc. Judgement, the third set in Odyssey just come out not too long ago, and I had added a little gem to my sideboard, Seedtime.
That night, it was round 2 and I was once again matched up against Psychatog.dec, and we split the first two games and it came down to the third deciding game. The whole time he kept going on about how his deck was so much better than mine and the only reason he lost game 2 was due to mana flood (which was somewhat true but that's besides the point) so going into game 3 I opened up with birds of paradise turn 1, then laid another birds on turn 2. By this point he had just laid lands and said go. So turn 3, I laid my third land, and at this point the relevant cards I had in hand were a Call of the Herd, Spiritmonger, and *ding* Seedtime. So I went and cast Call of the Herd, and he smugly tapped UU and used a Counterspell on it. Hardly able to contain my glee and being able to punish this punk who thought his tricked out 'Tog deck was better when he probably hadn't even paid for the cards himself, I tapped my remaining 2 for the Seedtime and boy did the look on his face not disappoint. He picked up the card and read it for a moment, and then on my extra turn I laid another land and with him tapped out I cast Spiritmonger and proceeded to beat him with it, he even had to chump it with a tog at some point to stay alive. I don't think I ever beat him again after that night, but it was nice to put him in his place for once.
there's a guy at my LGS that happens to scream about maintaining game state when one guy screws up a life total and then corrects it. he scrubs out a lot, but was never really brutal to me the times I played him. granted, when he does get into baby mode, he makes the second-worst guy go "dude, calm down." that's quite the indicator.
Take your monoblack deck, then set aside 14 swamps. Add 4 Creeping Tar Pits, 4 Darkslick Shores, 4 Drowned Catacombs, and 2 Jwar isle Refuge and add 4 Jace, the Mindsculptors. Your monoblack deck is instantly better. Better yet, drop those refuges, throw in some islands and some mana leaks, and lo and behold, you're now playing a real deck. Congratulations. Welcome to the world of competitive M:TG.
there's a guy at my LGS that happens to scream about maintaining game state when one guy screws up a life total and then corrects it. he scrubs out a lot, but was never really brutal to me the times I played him. granted, when he does get into baby mode, he makes the second-worst guy go "dude, calm down." that's quite the indicator.
One easy way to remedy this is to just ask everyone to keep track of everyone's life totals.
Personally, I have a small pad of paper I got from my mother, who is a real estate agent. She has these pads, and a few leather notebook-things to hold them, to take down notes when she's looking over a house, especially during an inspection or something. She gave me one for Magic. It easily fits into my back pocket, a backpack, a Dragon's Egg, whatever. I carry that, and a pen, and even in a 6 player game, I keep up with everyone's life totals.
If you don't mind spending a little cash, you can go to OfficeMax and buy a few Steno Notebooks. They're like, 2 bucks a piece, and about the right size. They have the spiral-bind up at the top, so they can easily be used for table top gaming.
Even cheaper, if more unwieldy, just go buy a bunch of spiral notebooks. Hand one or two out to each person, along with a few pens, and ask everyone to keep track of life totals. You can still use dice for easy reference, like I do, but the notebooks help you recover if any dice get knocked over. Likewise, if you have 5 guys keeping track, and one opponent doesn't believe you have 38 life, the other guys can say "Yes he does".
Probably the worst experience with Magic is playing one my friends friend. He is arrogant, cocky, and rude. He thinks he is amazing at Magic. He announces everything, and hums suspenseful music. *Hum* I WILL... DROP A SWAMP! (He throws it on the table randomly, and it lands upside down and sideways) AND IT COMES IN UPSIDE DOWN AND TAPPED. AND I WILL USE THIS MANA... TO CAST... A VAMPIRE NOCTURNUS.
He is truely a "Terry" player, who is arrogant, and rude.
Worst opponent I've ever played against was a guy who threw his deck across the room when he lost. You could count on it to happen at least once every FNM. Most of the time he was loud, obnoxious, and smelled kinda bad.
Is there anybody you despise playing for any reason?
I dont like playing Bankai because it seems like he always build a hate deck against me. And the ones I really hate playing are the military guys that get mad when you become too strict. I had one guy get mad at me because during his second main phase he wanted to activate [CARD ]World Queller[ /CARD] ability and Consuming Vapors rebound ability and would not let him due to it being too late.
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Yikes. I never brag during a game, unless it's casual with someone I know. Or maybe, MAYBE, a tournament game with a good friend who I know won't mind the playful ribbing. All bragging accomplishes is making you look like an idiot if you lose, or a jerk if you win. That said, I try to be friendly and cordial during a game, but I don't yap my head off. Just speak calmly, explain things without assuming your opponent is an idiot, or that he knows every card and combo in your deck. Be sure to make your triggers and responses known by either reminding your opponent of the triggers, or just saying "Hold on, I have a response to that". Even against the most card-flicking-est, playmat-having-est, silent-est Spikes I've ever played, a calm, relaxed, positive attitude can really make the game that much more enjoyable.
Plus, if you practice it enough, it's a pokerface. They won't know if you're in a tight spot or not when you're just moving along at a decent pace, smiling and being polite without being condescending. Throws people off, especially if they're used to "Gloating means he's winning, pissiness means he's losing!".
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Them: "u r gay"
Response: "You are illiterate."
- To my youngest sister when she was 6.
I guess that goes under an epic fail of magic lol. Thats pretty darn rude thinking he's god's gift to man then losing lol. it must have been incredibly slow white deck to lose to a BoW-wow. whats even more impressive is that you made it seem that he went mono color for most of kami-rav and thoes two sets were virtually impossible to go mono color lol
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He plays alot and likes to play with me and my group. They help him as much as they can.
He was 1-4. But his 3rd game is what almost made him quit.
The guy he was playing against was using a red and black w/splash of white.
My friend was playing a blue red.
The opponent was telling him that he was too slow, not shuffling right and making his opponent make mistakes just by attacking him.
Finally he won that match but called over a judge to tell them if he might have been using cards he received from the pack he received for the prize.
I tried to find the guy to "straight" him out, but he could not be found.
After we finished today, we went to McD around the corner and game him my cards. I have two booster boxes coming my way.
When it comes to playing a game, regardless what it is, making it fun for all to play is important.
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later on, He's playing someone, and its game over, he's lost. The guy goes GG. he's like, no it wasn't. It was horrible etc. etc. The other guy is kind of shocked a little, and goes yes it was. and the other guy goes on a rant.
He was just a... bad person all night long.
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1. It was the prerelease for timespiral and I'm playing a U/B deck. My 6/6 unblockable leviathan brings my opponent down to 4 and then I pass the turn. During his turn he unmorphs his doppelganger and copies the leviathan taking me down to 5 and kills mine. I go to take my turn and I notice I had my hand in my lap so I put it up on the table. My opponent immediately flips and calls a judge over asking me to either take a game loss or stand. I'm quite shocked at this and so are all the people around me. He claims that I was cheating and attempting to slip a card into my hand as an out. I stood up showing I had nothing in my lap and I invited the judge to check under the table but the guy insisted; so, I drew my card for the turn and scooped because i didn't have an answer to the doppelganger. Then the guys makes some quip along the lines of "I would have made that call on my grandmother;" in my head I just think, "I'd hate to be your grandmother." That guy was known for being a really a-hole about rules in general.
2. About 2 weeks ago at FNM I am running a valakut ramp deck. I go 3-1 in swiss and we cut to top 8. I'm matched up against a guy who is running naya land-destruction and I simply trounce him game 1 because his deck is too slow. So SB, I bring in 4 runeblasters, 4 trace of abundance and side out some of my ramp. T4 I drop a broodbraid and hit a searing blaze w/o targets. Next turn I drop another bloodbraid and hit a ruinblaster using my open R to destroy 1 of his lands. I beat him again that game and he flips out saying if I hadn't blown up that land he would have cast X, Y and Y. I calmly show him my hand and my answers to X, Y and Z. At that he just calls my deck, "stupid luck-sack deck." In the finals of that tournament I flip another ruinblaster with a blood-braid and the guy flips out again. After the match I show the guy my deck and point out that I sided out most of what I could have cascaded into, so hitting a runiblaster wasn't that unlikely. The guys repeats what he said before and walks out of the store. He does this every week and in limited he declares that he has built the "best deck ever" and then goes 1-3 drop.
I know number 1 I shouldn't have let my hand go below the table, but seriously you have the game locked up and know I don't have an answer. Whenever I see someone do something bad I simply point it out and say "don't do it again." Today at the ROE prerelease I had a kid try to tap a creature I had already declared as a blocker and I point out that it doesn't affect the blocker. I suggest playing the spell before I can declare blockers and his father at the next table over comes over and tries to explain to me that I am wrong. I tell him what I told his son and the guy says "no, it's a fast effect." The kid then realizes and explains it to the father who sits angrily down at his table.
like others in this thread, but I've had more than my fair share of slow and late opponents. At least when the opponent is playing badly the game is progressing. I always hesitate to call them out for slow play, but I ;ve had to before.
Well, I guess there is this one kid who used to go to my FNM drafts, would open like a sack, then misplay up the wazoo with his redic cards and lose. Then, of course, go into violent cursing sprees blaming others of sacking out against him.
Sucks to be everyone but the kid, because they have to deal with the kid. (Luck Sacking Noob of a Kid, sorry if that was mean, but honestly I expect you to be playing good, if you misplay a lot and blame others I can't hold my respect or assist you)
Besides, I have faced nine year old kids that could pilot a white time spiral bounce deck like a pro and not be complaining.
I have faced some weird opponent's before, though I particularity dislike one kid in general. It was at a Future Sight Release Day. I was running a UG Tempo - Aggro deck, my opponent (the kid), was running a RG Aggro deck. I gave my opponent the common yet sincere words "Good Luck To You", his response for that and the rest of the game was mostly grinding his teeth and I believe the kid snarled (weird, but all people walk all sorts of life). The only time he would speak was when he was talking about phases, untapping, attacking, and such, yet with an angry tone like I was some snarling dragon that stood in front of him and his treasure (a booster pack) that he must slay. Honestly it was close on the third game as we were both below 5 Life each, and sadly I had lost.
What made it more painful was the kids sudden out burst joy, with the words being "Ha! I beat you!".
Yeaahhh...I'm guilty of that play, but I can never do it T1 unless I know the deck I'm up against. T2 I'd know what color I'm up against. Imagine T1 Iona, then naming the wrong color. I guess you could always beat them the old-fashioned way with a 9/9 flyer...
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I brag during games, but only sarcastically.
For example, one time today.
My opponent, playing Zoo, is swinging for the win next turn, no matter what I can play.
So I'm like "I'm going to screw you over with this broken play..." And I windmill slam a Llanowar Elves.
Game.
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That's what I thought at first too, but you are casting it, you're just casting it without paying the mana cost. Since you're still costing it, you are free to kick the spell if it has a kicker cost, since that's an additional optional cost you can pay when you cast the spell; you DO cast off of cascade, you just don't pay any mana for the spell itself.
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read a card with cascade please. It says "you may play this card without paying the mana cost". As of M10 play = cast.
It's not cheating; you just need it explained, so here you go. When you cast from Cascade, you don't have to pay it's mana cost, which is in the top right corner of the card. You still can pay optional costs, like Kicker, and you have to pay additional costs, like "Sacrifice an artifact" on Shrapnel Blast or +1 with cards like Lodestone Golem.
With abilities like Lodestone, the additional mana is added on after the original cost of the card is figured out. Cost + Additions + Deductions + Cost Setters (these add or subtract from a card costs until it reaches a specific value).
- To my youngest sister when she was 6.
The table was overturned, chairs knocked over and magic cards were flying until the store owner ( who was outside at the time lol) finally came in and broke them up. The entire tournament was basically ruined, as other peoples games were beyond repairing. Basically we split top 6 prizes and those 2 players were permabanned from the store.
I have been playing MTG since 2000 and have never seen anything like this before.
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- To my youngest sister when she was 6.
More than likely he had only 2, and a Surreal Memoir. Turn 3 Staggershock, turn 4 rebound, Surreal Memoir. Turn 5, cast Staggershock again, it rebounds again on turn 6. That's 4 instances of it for 8 damage.
Or something. I doubt he did it every turn, since the guy was still alive on turn 17.
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These people are worse than scrubs.
They didn't just tell you that your superior play was unfair. They beat you down, watched you improve, and turned right back around to call their own play, by proxy, unfair. Without, of course, acknowledging that is what they just did. That would make too much sense.
Seriously. My mind has been awakened to new imaginings of scum from Humanity.
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If you weren't casting a cascaded card, how would it get onto the stack? Weird stuff.
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That night, it was round 2 and I was once again matched up against Psychatog.dec, and we split the first two games and it came down to the third deciding game. The whole time he kept going on about how his deck was so much better than mine and the only reason he lost game 2 was due to mana flood (which was somewhat true but that's besides the point) so going into game 3 I opened up with birds of paradise turn 1, then laid another birds on turn 2. By this point he had just laid lands and said go. So turn 3, I laid my third land, and at this point the relevant cards I had in hand were a Call of the Herd, Spiritmonger, and *ding* Seedtime. So I went and cast Call of the Herd, and he smugly tapped UU and used a Counterspell on it. Hardly able to contain my glee and being able to punish this punk who thought his tricked out 'Tog deck was better when he probably hadn't even paid for the cards himself, I tapped my remaining 2 for the Seedtime and boy did the look on his face not disappoint. He picked up the card and read it for a moment, and then on my extra turn I laid another land and with him tapped out I cast Spiritmonger and proceeded to beat him with it, he even had to chump it with a tog at some point to stay alive. I don't think I ever beat him again after that night, but it was nice to put him in his place for once.
One easy way to remedy this is to just ask everyone to keep track of everyone's life totals.
Personally, I have a small pad of paper I got from my mother, who is a real estate agent. She has these pads, and a few leather notebook-things to hold them, to take down notes when she's looking over a house, especially during an inspection or something. She gave me one for Magic. It easily fits into my back pocket, a backpack, a Dragon's Egg, whatever. I carry that, and a pen, and even in a 6 player game, I keep up with everyone's life totals.
If you don't mind spending a little cash, you can go to OfficeMax and buy a few Steno Notebooks. They're like, 2 bucks a piece, and about the right size. They have the spiral-bind up at the top, so they can easily be used for table top gaming.
Even cheaper, if more unwieldy, just go buy a bunch of spiral notebooks. Hand one or two out to each person, along with a few pens, and ask everyone to keep track of life totals. You can still use dice for easy reference, like I do, but the notebooks help you recover if any dice get knocked over. Likewise, if you have 5 guys keeping track, and one opponent doesn't believe you have 38 life, the other guys can say "Yes he does".
The latest Comprehensive Rules are also good, and can be found here.
He is truely a "Terry" player, who is arrogant, and rude.
Worst opponent I've ever played against was a guy who threw his deck across the room when he lost. You could count on it to happen at least once every FNM. Most of the time he was loud, obnoxious, and smelled kinda bad.
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I dont like playing Bankai because it seems like he always build a hate deck against me. And the ones I really hate playing are the military guys that get mad when you become too strict. I had one guy get mad at me because during his second main phase he wanted to activate [CARD ]World Queller[ /CARD] ability and Consuming Vapors rebound ability and would not let him due to it being too late.