During opponent's main 1
*taps mountain "Can I bolt you?"
"Sure"
"Well, I don't want to, but since you passed priority, it is now the combat step"
If I had something I wanted to do in my Main One you better believe I'd call a judge on that assertion and I'm 99.9% sure they'd rule in my favor. I definitely would not consider that a mind game. To me a mind game is when my opponent is trying to read info from me from non-game source and I'm providing false info. They're the type of things that don't even work on new players because new players are just oblivious.
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Had an opponent, some pro, at an old GP do this to me:
Reanimator vs Rock, I have Hermit Druid and a giant Sutured Ghoul in play. He cast Diabolical Edict and points the Edict at the fatty (which he needs to kill to survive), saying "I'll Edict that guy". Didn't work, but I actually put my hand on the Ghoul before catching myself and choosing the Druid instead, so it was close. Maybe in round 10 instead of 5 that play works.
Similarly I had a situation where at a regionals playing Rakdos back when Kamigawa and Rav were in Standard... my opponent managed to get 6 or 8 Jitte counters up and I was about to die but he is at 4 and has had to use Jitte counters for life for a few turns now. I draw my card... Flames of the Blood Hand... so I sigh put it in my hand that I was slowly building up... "swing with my dudes?" He makes some blocks and uses a counter for life gain which would end up keeping him at 4 or less... "response to the Jitte counters, Char?" now I can only assume that he thought this was my only play or he got nervous because this makes him decide he now has to use all of his Jitte counters instead of just 1.... so with all of his Jitte life on the stack "Flames of the Blood Hand you lose". All he had to do was only use as many counters as necessary per action and he would have been fine.
Unless he explicitly announced that he was putting them all on the stack at once, it should've been assumed (due to standard shortcuts) that he was letting each resolve before activating the next.
It's the good old, "'pump my shade for 4...', 'Shock it in response.'" scenario.
During opponent's main 1
*taps mountain "Can I bolt you?"
"Sure"
"Well, I don't want to, but since you passed priority, it is now the combat step"
Yeah, that that doesn't work.
If you ask for priority and do nothing with it, your opponent just gets it back. This is covered my the MTR:
A player may not request priority and take no action with it. If a player decides he or she does not wish to do anything, the request is nullified and priority is returned to the player that originally had it.
If I had something I wanted to do in my Main One you better believe I'd call a judge on that assertion and I'm 99.9% sure they'd rule in my favor. I definitely would not consider that a mind game. To me a mind game is when my opponent is trying to read info from me from non-game source and I'm providing false info. They're the type of things that don't even work on new players because new players are just oblivious.
Yeah, no.
A judge will likely rule that there was miscommunication at the very least, you being unsportsmanlike at worst if you press it.
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True, but I still laughed.
Reanimator vs Rock, I have Hermit Druid and a giant Sutured Ghoul in play. He cast Diabolical Edict and points the Edict at the fatty (which he needs to kill to survive), saying "I'll Edict that guy". Didn't work, but I actually put my hand on the Ghoul before catching myself and choosing the Druid instead, so it was close. Maybe in round 10 instead of 5 that play works.
Unless he explicitly announced that he was putting them all on the stack at once, it should've been assumed (due to standard shortcuts) that he was letting each resolve before activating the next.
It's the good old, "'pump my shade for 4...', 'Shock it in response.'" scenario.
Yeah, that that doesn't work.
If you ask for priority and do nothing with it, your opponent just gets it back. This is covered my the MTR: