Ah, the good ol' days. I always felt that Red Elemental Blast should make a comeback. But in general, when someone who isn't playing a control deck and starts acting like they're playing a control deck, it just always makes me roll my eyes.
3. Messy lands. Your lands should be arranged in a way so that I can see them, not placed in one sloppy pile. Otherwise I will reach over to separate them and look at them (and you have no right to complain about this). Also, you should tap your lands completely (90 degrees), not just tilt them 10 degrees from vertical. If you don't tap your lands fully I will assume that you are doing it to cheat, because that is very common.
Nothing there says that the forests and swamps must be in separate lines, or that you have to be able to see every one, only that it must be clear which ones are enchanted, which ones are tapped, and so on.
You will reach over to separate them? Really? Nothing in the rules state that I must arrange my battlefield to suit you, only that I must answer questions as to the state if asked. You do not have the right to rearrange it.
Comprehensive Rules:
400.5. The order of objects in a library, in a graveyard, or on the stack can't be changed except when effects or rules allow it. The same is true for objects arranged in face-down piles in other zones. Other objects in other zones can be arranged however their owners wish, although who controls those objects, whether they're tapped or flipped, and what other objects are attached to them must remain clear to all players.
And, I will probably get upset if you just reach across and start to rearrange things, and will definitely call a judge.
As to the tapping, I will admit, I often tap about 45 degrees rather than 90. If you ask about it, I will tap it further to satisfy you, but it is rarely in question that I have tapped it. I am not trying to misrepresent anything, just to save space a bit.
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Standard: WBRG Aggro-Reanimator Humans GRBW
Modern: UR Twinning RU G Venus Fly Trap G U Artifacts Aggro U
4. If you prefer to play off-the-wall, homebrew decks, that's fine. But please don't be condecsending toward me for beating you with Delverblade. I don't want to hear about how you would have won if I hadn't netdecked, or if I hadn't been running my playset of Snapcasters. I'm a serious player, and I don't need to be talked down to because I don't build a super-original B/R Curses deck.
3. Please be gentle with my cards. I don't mind you picking them up to read them, but please treat my belongings with respect.
2. You soda/coffee/arizona tea/whatever does not belong on the playing table where there might be $2000 in cardboard at any given time. I haven't had any casualities yet, but I've seen them happen. If you get coffee stains on cards, the results will not be pretty.
1. This is my biggest issue: Do not touch my binder without asking me first. My LGS is mostly a bunch of regulars whom I trust, but I don't take chances with theft. It has happened. I don't know how many times I've told little kids to keep their paws off my binder unless I give them permission to look in it.
But he´s right, that why we 3 guys who played magic in school stopped playing in there.
Because no matter where and when you played there would always be one guy walking by who would feel the need to tell everybody nearby (=speaking very loud) "Oh look they are playing Pokemo/Look some yugioh kiddies/Why do you play baby games at 17 " and so on, just to get some laughs from other guy.
There is no fun in playing if you here somebody talking stupid stuff about you, every other minute.
And in school you can´t even do anything, especially when they are from classes below you.
Sounds very unfortunate good sir. I have to agree that I hate when people who don't know a darn about what's going on come over and start commenting but this doesn't happen to my group very often. Granted, you guys only had 3 in your group and my group would range from 6-10 people, but we played on a daily bases in high school. And nobody mocked us because we were the largest people in the school, and I don't mean just fat. We could f*** your day up if you messed with us.
#1 - People who typing losing, loosing.
#2 - Everything else just falls under being considerate.
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Do not touch my binder without asking me first. My LGS is mostly a bunch of regulars whom I trust, but I don't take chances with theft. It has happened. I don't know how many times I've told little kids to keep their paws off my binder unless I give them permission to look in it.
That's sad to hear. I hate when little kids come into our shop which is pretty much as you described, mostly a bunch of regulars whom I trust. But we've never had any theft because, thankfully, everyone at our shop does know what manners are and they know how to use them. It doesn't matter if we all know each other, we still ask to look at binders.
4. If you prefer to play off-the-wall, homebrew decks, that's fine. But please don't be condecsending toward me for beating you with Delverblade. I don't want to hear about how you would have won if I hadn't netdecked, or if I hadn't been running my playset of Snapcasters. I'm a serious player, and I don't need to be talked down to because I don't build a super-original B/R Curses deck.
My thoughts on that? Play whatever deck you want to play. If you win, you win, if I win, I win. If you win and I don't like that, I will build a deck to beat you next time. If I win and you don't like that, then build a deck that can beat mine. That is what this game is about.
I have this one guy in our local group that, just about every time he gets beat, cries about "Internet Combos"...whatever that means. He doesn't even know what "netdeck" means, but cries about it. He just hated it when my Reanimator Deck pulled a combo of Leyline of the Void, Buried Alive, and then Living Deathed my graveyard into play and his battlefield into exile. But had absolutely no problem at all when his Green Landfall Overrun deck won. Basically, if he wins, it is skill, if anyone else wins, it is "internet combos".
I don't like to play him, and usually don't.
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Standard: WBRG Aggro-Reanimator Humans GRBW
Modern: UR Twinning RU G Venus Fly Trap G U Artifacts Aggro U
But he´s right, that why we 3 guys who played magic in school stopped playing in there.
Because no matter where and when you played there would always be one guy walking by who would feel the need to tell everybody nearby (=speaking very loud) "Oh look they are playing Pokemo/Look some yugioh kiddies/Why do you play baby games at 17 " and so on, just to get some laughs from other guy.
There is no fun in playing if you here somebody talking stupid stuff about you, every other minute.
And in school you can´t even do anything, especially when they are from classes below you.
I play at Mcdonalds and a group of "ghetto" kids is always bothering me and my group. It just gets to be more bothersome than its worth. My comment about getting what they deserved was because I'm willing to bet that a large majority of them will end up dead, in prison or have 4+ kids with 3+ Fathers/Mothers. Its a sickening thing to watch these kids not realize that the way there acting is not good.... but I digress.
(My group also gets overlooked to the 30 min. time limit because we have not once caused any trouble in 5 years.)
1. Talking about which art has the hottest women and what they would do to them.
2. Talking about how awesome dragons, and especially their dragon deck, are/is.
3. Talking about specific cards/matches as if they're a political pundant/sports announcer, who knows everything about everything ever.
4. Being sexist and/or racist.
5. Being socially inept and awkward.
My thoughts on that? Play whatever deck you want to play. If you win, you win, if I win, I win. If you win and I don't like that, I will build a deck to beat you next time. If I win and you don't like that, then build a deck that can beat mine. That is what this game is about.
I have this one guy in our local group that, just about every time he gets beat, cries about "Internet Combos"...whatever that means. He doesn't even know what "netdeck" means, but cries about it. He just hated it when my Reanimator Deck pulled a combo of Leyline of the Void, Buried Alive, and then Living Deathed my graveyard into play and his battlefield into exile. But had absolutely no problem at all when his Green Landfall Overrun deck won. Basically, if he wins, it is skill, if anyone else wins, it is "internet combos".
I don't like to play him, and usually don't.
I agree. And if you beat me, then I congradulate you. No matter what deck you're playing. It's just courtesy. I don't bash the deck that beat me. That just doesn't makes any sense, and isn't fair to my opponent.
2-spaz hand shuffling Brian kibler invented this because he's afraid of social interaction. Seriously, say you meet ANYONE worth a salt. You tell them you play magic; no big deal, right? WRONG. If they saw you on camera shuffling your hand like you were sharpening knives, they're going to stay away from you.
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Lies. I've been doing that with my hand since I started playing in 1994 and I've been doing that with regular playing cards since before then. Kibler did not invent ADHD
Lies. I've been doing that with my hand since I started playing in 1994 and I've been doing that with regular playing cards since before then. Kibler did not invent ADHD
This!
He wasn't even on my radar when I started playing sleeved CCGs and started my nervous tick.
At least I don't blurt out cuss words! Oh wait... I've done that too.
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My thoughts on that? Play whatever deck you want to play. If you win, you win, if I win, I win. If you win and I don't like that, I will build a deck to beat you next time. If I win and you don't like that, then build a deck that can beat mine. That is what this game is about.
I have this one guy in our local group that, just about every time he gets beat, cries about "Internet Combos"...whatever that means. He doesn't even know what "netdeck" means, but cries about it. He just hated it when my Reanimator Deck pulled a combo of Leyline of the Void, Buried Alive, and then Living Deathed my graveyard into play and his battlefield into exile. But had absolutely no problem at all when his Green Landfall Overrun deck won. Basically, if he wins, it is skill, if anyone else wins, it is "internet combos".
I don't like to play him, and usually don't.
This makes me want to yell "Internet Combos" at random tonight...
My List:
5. Trades, conversations, purchases, texting and general carrying on during a match. - Though I am myself guilty of the texting thing, but only with my wife since our games go so late that I do keep my phone on, but I do keep them short.
4. Trash talking with people you don't know. -The guys who all know each other at my local store trash talk each other but we are friends, new people who do it is just annoying.
3. The "I beat you with my wallet" Guy - The guy that brags about how much each card costs and how much the deck cost. Our local version plays a Zur Commander Deck and can't help but brag about how it cost a couple grand.
2. People who don't know to keep there hands to them selves. - This one has been covered a bunch
1. The "I am better then you because I play _______" guy - I play a lot more Commander then anything else, and there are a couple of "pro" players who only trash talk any one who doesn't play their format, what ever it might be.
When someone plays a card and i don't know what it does, I'll usually say "i"m gonna read this real quick" and then I'll pick it up and start reading.
Usually, about 3 words in, they start describing what the card does. I can read, and it's going to take much less time for me to just ignore you and read it myself. I don't need your interpretation of what this card does.
Also, complaining about netdecks. People play magic for different reasons. Just because i don't like building decks from scratch doesn't mean i don't want to have fun, and my definition of fun might be different than yours. If you don't like the deck I'm playing, you don't need to tell me about it. Just look forward to your next match.
Nothing there says that the forests and swamps must be in separate lines, or that you have to be able to see every one, only that it must be clear which ones are enchanted, which ones are tapped, and so on.
You will reach over to separate them? Really? Nothing in the rules state that I must arrange my battlefield to suit you, only that I must answer questions as to the state if asked. You do not have the right to rearrange it.
I don't have the right to rearrange it, but I do have the right to look. To clarify, I will put them back in the same way I found them, but I will separate them enough to look at them if I want to. And next turn, I will look at them again if I need to know how many of them are Swamps and how many are Forests or whatever, and I have forgotten (which is highly likely).
As to the tapping, I will admit, I often tap about 45 degrees rather than 90. If you ask about it, I will tap it further to satisfy you, but it is rarely in question that I have tapped it. I am not trying to misrepresent anything, just to save space a bit.
45 degrees is about the threshold below which I start to get annoyed (by which I mean 45 degrees is usually okay). People who keep their cards very neatly organized can get away with a little less tapping (as little as 30 degrees). People with messy boards can't even get away with 60 degrees sometimes.
Oh, I Also hate when I use my commander decks (sans commander) in a casual game and my group gets pissy "oh, its commander, of course you'll win"...
Im sorry, but no..... My pride and joy deck is a slow as hell deck. Maybe if you swung at me, you'd win.....
Heh... I always had an issue where the only time I was ever able to play COmmander was at a large event, where it's hella competitive and full of fast kill decks with pros who are killing time between matches. So I tweaked my deck to be faster and more brutal against fast wins... and I felt like a champion of casual EDH players for doing so... beating pros with crappy cards! Then I step into a casual EDH group and can't stop myself from building decks filled with permission and combos... the "casual champion" suddenly becomes "that douche at the table with the turn 5-6 kill."
I thought that was the whole point of tournaments -- to see who can be the most optimal.
Which is why I don't play tournaments, cause its the same unoriginal people playing the same deck they read online in the same manner the article they read told them to. I am a complete EDH whore playing everything from Scion to Rubinia to Sek'Kuar.
I feel like tournaments give the unoriginal people something to do with the same paintbrush the artists are using. But that is a whole other discussion.
PS Props to the original people like Shouta Yasooka who play well and do something different from the pack.
Which is why I don't play tournaments, cause its the same unoriginal people playing the same deck they read online in the same manner the article they read told them to. I am a complete EDH whore playing everything from Scion to Rubinia to Sek'Kuar.
I feel like tournaments give the unoriginal people something to do with the same paintbrush the artists are using. But that is a whole other discussion.
PS Props to the original people like Shouta Yasooka who play well and do something different from the pack.
deckbuilding is less than half of MTG. It's much easier to build a rogue deck than it is to pilot a netdeck to victory. I'm saying this as a dedicated deckbuilder
zer0faults: you can play your original deck at the tournament too so..i dont get it. Obviously there are original decks at tournaments as you mentioned yasooka..
Nothing there says that the forests and swamps must be in separate lines, or that you have to be able to see every one, only that it must be clear which ones are enchanted, which ones are tapped, and so on.
Comprehensive Rules:
400.5. The order of objects in a library, in a graveyard, or on the stack can't be changed except when effects or rules allow it. The same is true for objects arranged in face-down piles in other zones. Other objects in other zones can be arranged however their owners wish, although who controls those objects, whether they're tapped or flipped, and what other objects are attached to them must remain clear to all players.
I'm sorry but in what world can i see if a land is tapped or not if your stacking you cards on top of each other. I don't have x-ray vision. You can't fully stack cards.
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Calling someone a Commie is flaming and must be stopped, but turning the word Conservative into a loaded pejorative and using it over and over again is perfectly acceptable.
5. Greasy food and/or drink on the table. Don't touch my cards with your pizza hands. Don't put your Mountain Dew next to my deck.
4. Netdecking. I am more impressed by a novel creation that top-8s than by someone who uses a pro-players decklist as a shopping list and wins. Yes, I know it still takes a lot of skill to pilot such a beast but deck-building is half the game and in those terms you're just standing on the shoulders of giants.
3. Players not adequately letting me know when they are finished with their turn. They give me a blank stare and expect me to magically know that they are done. That or they have developed a system with their friends where when they are done with their turn they tip their hat or do a special dance or whatever and I have to figure out what it means.
2. Poor hygiene & social skills. These seem to go hand in hand. I'm sure it is different in different areas but in my local scene there are a lot of seriously dysfunctional 18-35 year old guys who play and hang out at the shops. There are loads of folks in other demographics who also play but they have been weirded out, offended, or otherwise put off and avoid the big public gaming centers. I frequent more than one playgroup consisting of females tired of the comments and gawking, older guys tired of the drama and antics, and so on.
1. My number one thing people need to stop doing is being jerks. People who brag excessively about their decks. People who make fun of other people's decks. People who cheat. Sore Losers. &c. Be patient. Be nice. Remember, Magic is a social activity.
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Ah, the good ol' days. I always felt that Red Elemental Blast should make a comeback. But in general, when someone who isn't playing a control deck and starts acting like they're playing a control deck, it just always makes me roll my eyes.
Nothing there says that the forests and swamps must be in separate lines, or that you have to be able to see every one, only that it must be clear which ones are enchanted, which ones are tapped, and so on.
You will reach over to separate them? Really? Nothing in the rules state that I must arrange my battlefield to suit you, only that I must answer questions as to the state if asked. You do not have the right to rearrange it.
And, I will probably get upset if you just reach across and start to rearrange things, and will definitely call a judge.
As to the tapping, I will admit, I often tap about 45 degrees rather than 90. If you ask about it, I will tap it further to satisfy you, but it is rarely in question that I have tapped it. I am not trying to misrepresent anything, just to save space a bit.
Standard:
WBRG Aggro-Reanimator Humans GRBW
Modern:
UR Twinning RU
G Venus Fly Trap G
U Artifacts Aggro U
Legacy:
B Reanimator B
WU Stoneblade UW
EDH
WBGGhave, Guru of SporesGBW
URGRiku of the Two ReflectionsGRU
WUBRGScion of the Ur-DragonGRBUW
Casual
Far too many to list
4. If you prefer to play off-the-wall, homebrew decks, that's fine. But please don't be condecsending toward me for beating you with Delverblade. I don't want to hear about how you would have won if I hadn't netdecked, or if I hadn't been running my playset of Snapcasters. I'm a serious player, and I don't need to be talked down to because I don't build a super-original B/R Curses deck.
3. Please be gentle with my cards. I don't mind you picking them up to read them, but please treat my belongings with respect.
2. You soda/coffee/arizona tea/whatever does not belong on the playing table where there might be $2000 in cardboard at any given time. I haven't had any casualities yet, but I've seen them happen. If you get coffee stains on cards, the results will not be pretty.
1. This is my biggest issue: Do not touch my binder without asking me first. My LGS is mostly a bunch of regulars whom I trust, but I don't take chances with theft. It has happened. I don't know how many times I've told little kids to keep their paws off my binder unless I give them permission to look in it.
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WU Delverblade
WRG Kibler Pod
WB Lingering Tokens
0 Myr!
Modern:
WUB Esper Delver
Commander:
WUB Zur the Enchanter
Horde Magic:
BB Zombie Apocalypse
Plains.
Needs more Hexproof. No exceptions.
Sounds very unfortunate good sir. I have to agree that I hate when people who don't know a darn about what's going on come over and start commenting but this doesn't happen to my group very often. Granted, you guys only had 3 in your group and my group would range from 6-10 people, but we played on a daily bases in high school. And nobody mocked us because we were the largest people in the school, and I don't mean just fat. We could f*** your day up if you messed with us.
#2 - Everything else just falls under being considerate.
That's sad to hear. I hate when little kids come into our shop which is pretty much as you described, mostly a bunch of regulars whom I trust. But we've never had any theft because, thankfully, everyone at our shop does know what manners are and they know how to use them. It doesn't matter if we all know each other, we still ask to look at binders.
My thoughts on that? Play whatever deck you want to play. If you win, you win, if I win, I win. If you win and I don't like that, I will build a deck to beat you next time. If I win and you don't like that, then build a deck that can beat mine. That is what this game is about.
I have this one guy in our local group that, just about every time he gets beat, cries about "Internet Combos"...whatever that means. He doesn't even know what "netdeck" means, but cries about it. He just hated it when my Reanimator Deck pulled a combo of Leyline of the Void, Buried Alive, and then Living Deathed my graveyard into play and his battlefield into exile. But had absolutely no problem at all when his Green Landfall Overrun deck won. Basically, if he wins, it is skill, if anyone else wins, it is "internet combos".
I don't like to play him, and usually don't.
Standard:
WBRG Aggro-Reanimator Humans GRBW
Modern:
UR Twinning RU
G Venus Fly Trap G
U Artifacts Aggro U
Legacy:
B Reanimator B
WU Stoneblade UW
EDH
WBGGhave, Guru of SporesGBW
URGRiku of the Two ReflectionsGRU
WUBRGScion of the Ur-DragonGRBUW
Casual
Far too many to list
No....
I play at Mcdonalds and a group of "ghetto" kids is always bothering me and my group. It just gets to be more bothersome than its worth. My comment about getting what they deserved was because I'm willing to bet that a large majority of them will end up dead, in prison or have 4+ kids with 3+ Fathers/Mothers. Its a sickening thing to watch these kids not realize that the way there acting is not good.... but I digress.
(My group also gets overlooked to the 30 min. time limit because we have not once caused any trouble in 5 years.)
540 Peasant cube- Gold EditionSomething SpicyEDH Decks:
B Toshiro Umezawa B
W Mikaeus, the Lunarch W
G Azusa, Lost but Seeking G
UB Grimgrin, Corpse-Born BU
BGU The Mimeoplasm UGB
GUW Rubinia Soulsinger WUG
GRB Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper BRG
1. Talking about which art has the hottest women and what they would do to them.
2. Talking about how awesome dragons, and especially their dragon deck, are/is.
3. Talking about specific cards/matches as if they're a political pundant/sports announcer, who knows everything about everything ever.
4. Being sexist and/or racist.
5. Being socially inept and awkward.
I agree. And if you beat me, then I congradulate you. No matter what deck you're playing. It's just courtesy. I don't bash the deck that beat me. That just doesn't makes any sense, and isn't fair to my opponent.
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WU Delverblade
WRG Kibler Pod
WB Lingering Tokens
0 Myr!
Modern:
WUB Esper Delver
Commander:
WUB Zur the Enchanter
Horde Magic:
BB Zombie Apocalypse
Plains.
Needs more Hexproof. No exceptions.
Lies. I've been doing that with my hand since I started playing in 1994 and I've been doing that with regular playing cards since before then. Kibler did not invent ADHD
Standard:
GU Prophet
Legacy:
WBU Shared Fate
Trades
This!
He wasn't even on my radar when I started playing sleeved CCGs and started my nervous tick.
At least I don't blurt out cuss words! Oh wait... I've done that too.
Currently Playing:
Standard:
Nothing, the format Bores me!
Legacy:
RBurn (Made on the Cheap!)R
RGBelcherRG
WSoldier StompyW
BReanimatorB
EDH:
BUGRWSliver OverlordWRGUB
BGeth, Lord of the VaultB
This makes me want to yell "Internet Combos" at random tonight...
My List:
5. Trades, conversations, purchases, texting and general carrying on during a match. - Though I am myself guilty of the texting thing, but only with my wife since our games go so late that I do keep my phone on, but I do keep them short.
4. Trash talking with people you don't know. -The guys who all know each other at my local store trash talk each other but we are friends, new people who do it is just annoying.
3. The "I beat you with my wallet" Guy - The guy that brags about how much each card costs and how much the deck cost. Our local version plays a Zur Commander Deck and can't help but brag about how it cost a couple grand.
2. People who don't know to keep there hands to them selves. - This one has been covered a bunch
1. The "I am better then you because I play _______" guy - I play a lot more Commander then anything else, and there are a couple of "pro" players who only trash talk any one who doesn't play their format, what ever it might be.
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Usually, about 3 words in, they start describing what the card does. I can read, and it's going to take much less time for me to just ignore you and read it myself. I don't need your interpretation of what this card does.
Also, complaining about netdecks. People play magic for different reasons. Just because i don't like building decks from scratch doesn't mean i don't want to have fun, and my definition of fun might be different than yours. If you don't like the deck I'm playing, you don't need to tell me about it. Just look forward to your next match.
Im sorry, but no..... My pride and joy deck is a slow as hell deck. Maybe if you swung at me, you'd win.....
540 Peasant cube- Gold EditionSomething Spicy45 degrees is about the threshold below which I start to get annoyed (by which I mean 45 degrees is usually okay). People who keep their cards very neatly organized can get away with a little less tapping (as little as 30 degrees). People with messy boards can't even get away with 60 degrees sometimes.
Heh... I always had an issue where the only time I was ever able to play COmmander was at a large event, where it's hella competitive and full of fast kill decks with pros who are killing time between matches. So I tweaked my deck to be faster and more brutal against fast wins... and I felt like a champion of casual EDH players for doing so... beating pros with crappy cards! Then I step into a casual EDH group and can't stop myself from building decks filled with permission and combos... the "casual champion" suddenly becomes "that douche at the table with the turn 5-6 kill."
I thought that was the whole point of tournaments -- to see who can be the most optimal.
Which is why I don't play tournaments, cause its the same unoriginal people playing the same deck they read online in the same manner the article they read told them to. I am a complete EDH whore playing everything from Scion to Rubinia to Sek'Kuar.
I feel like tournaments give the unoriginal people something to do with the same paintbrush the artists are using. But that is a whole other discussion.
PS Props to the original people like Shouta Yasooka who play well and do something different from the pack.
EDH Decks:
B Toshiro Umezawa B
W Mikaeus, the Lunarch W
G Azusa, Lost but Seeking G
UB Grimgrin, Corpse-Born BU
BGU The Mimeoplasm UGB
GUW Rubinia Soulsinger WUG
GRB Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper BRG
deckbuilding is less than half of MTG. It's much easier to build a rogue deck than it is to pilot a netdeck to victory. I'm saying this as a dedicated deckbuilder
Standard:
GU Prophet
Legacy:
WBU Shared Fate
Trades
I'm sorry but in what world can i see if a land is tapped or not if your stacking you cards on top of each other. I don't have x-ray vision. You can't fully stack cards.
Flame infraction. - Blinking Spirit
Calling someone a Commie is flaming and must be stopped, but turning the word Conservative into a loaded pejorative and using it over and over again is perfectly acceptable.
4. Netdecking. I am more impressed by a novel creation that top-8s than by someone who uses a pro-players decklist as a shopping list and wins. Yes, I know it still takes a lot of skill to pilot such a beast but deck-building is half the game and in those terms you're just standing on the shoulders of giants.
3. Players not adequately letting me know when they are finished with their turn. They give me a blank stare and expect me to magically know that they are done. That or they have developed a system with their friends where when they are done with their turn they tip their hat or do a special dance or whatever and I have to figure out what it means.
2. Poor hygiene & social skills. These seem to go hand in hand. I'm sure it is different in different areas but in my local scene there are a lot of seriously dysfunctional 18-35 year old guys who play and hang out at the shops. There are loads of folks in other demographics who also play but they have been weirded out, offended, or otherwise put off and avoid the big public gaming centers. I frequent more than one playgroup consisting of females tired of the comments and gawking, older guys tired of the drama and antics, and so on.
1. My number one thing people need to stop doing is being jerks. People who brag excessively about their decks. People who make fun of other people's decks. People who cheat. Sore Losers. &c. Be patient. Be nice. Remember, Magic is a social activity.
Every English card ever printed: 99.02%
Arabian Nights through Lorwyn: Complete
Alpha: 94.2% Beta: 95.0%
Unlimited through M10: Complete