I'm curious to see what kind of experiences all of you have had in your metas or online. I have a recent story from cockatrice, where it seems a lot of interesting experiences take place. A turn 2 null rod made the player give up, because apparently that decided the game on turn 2. I then made a new game, same player joined, couldn't find a hand that was insta win and left.
Im excited to see what funny stories all of you have
Real classy, guy. I don't let it faze me, promptly flash in Blessing of Leeches to save Mirri, then equip a Grappling Hook next turn and proceed to maul Urabrask for 10.
The game still had an exciting ending, though. Urabrask almost pulled off a comeback on his next turn with an Insurrection, but ended up one point of commander damage shy of killing me with my own general (thanks, Gratuitous Violence, you're a pal). I proceed to cast/equip Sword of Feast and Famine and swing for lethal commander damage.
All things considered, we should probably have just ignored the DoJ from the scooping player and kept playing as normal, but the FNM event was starting soon, so we just decided to finish up.
Edit: To make it worse, the scooper wasn't even DOJ-ing and scooping to get ready for the FNM event. He just hung out at the store for another 20 minutes or so before going home.
Thats pretty greasy. Wipe the board walk away; the magic players *Drops Mic*
Not going to lie, I've done this before. It was time to get in line for the pre-release, so half of us were going to quit anyway, and there was a Llanowar Elves on the board with me having a long standing tradition of not letting Llanowar elves live a full turn cycle. I've also done something similar when I was about to go get food, I Volcanic Fallout to kill a single Birds of Paradise and then joked about how I was going to Chik-fil-a for dinner. This happened a few more times, but followed with jokes about prejudice volcanoes.
The worst sportsmanship i've experienced was more with trading than actual gameplay. There was a guy that insisted on trading for my cards at a considerably lower value because they were "going down next week." The main thing was one "holier than thou" competitive guy that ridiculed everyone's card choices and plays while never playing anything but "good stuff" decks. Let's just say that with him being the only person in the group that played good stuff, I became a bit more prejudice against good stuff players than I should be.
Thats pretty greasy. Wipe the board walk away; the magic players *Drops Mic*
Not going to lie, I've done this before. It was time to get in line for the pre-release, so half of us were going to quit anyway, and there was a Llanowar Elves on the board with me having a long standing tradition of not letting Llanowar elves live a full turn cycle. I've also done something similar when I was about to go get food, I Volcanic Fallout to kill a single Birds of Paradise and then joked about how I was going to Chik-fil-a for dinner. This happened a few more times, but followed with jokes about prejudice volcanoes.
The worst sportsmanship i've experienced was more with trading than actual gameplay. There was a guy that insisted on trading for my cards at a considerably lower value because they were "going down next week." The main thing was one "holier than thou" competitive guy that ridiculed everyone's card choices and plays while never playing anything but "good stuff" decks. Let's just say that with him being the only person in the group that played good stuff, I became a bit more prejudice against good stuff players than I should be.
Your story is different though, that was done when others knew it was time to wrap it up anyways. As for trading; we had a guy in the meta who was a degenerative gambler. He used to always try to rip off kids for their value cards so he could go sell them. We got pretty wise to it quickly. He tried to rip my wife off once and I called him on it; it was met with a borderline child temper tantrum followed by him moving elsewhere.
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I created a Non- Infinite Combo Sydri, Galvanic Genius Timmy deck. The point was to cast Eldrazis and 6+ Artifact creatures with as few Wraths, Tucks and Mass bounce spells as possible. During a game, a player complained that I was getting out of hand turn ten because I had eliminated another player with a non-haste and hard cast Blightsteel Colossus the previous round. He was running a Mayael the Anima deck. I forced him to table flip (literal) when I attacked with Draco (He neglected to block with Iona, Shield of Emeria, Akroma, Angel of Wrath and Avacyn, Angel of Hope. He probably suspected a combat trick that would eliminate a creature), so I cast Tainted Strike targeting Draco for the win. Unfortunately for him, his anger damaged some of my cards. It flung and scattered another player's deck. He left without his belongings, so his belongings were sold for replacements.
Wasn't in an EDH game, but it was a non-standard format, and quite a few years ago. A group of us decided to play a massive 5 headed giant, 100 life each side of the table. There was one guy who occasionally joined our little group, but not often. He stuffed his deck with proxy power nine and his goal to ramp out a Thorn Elemental or other suitably large critter ASAP.
Well, he sat directly across from me in the 5HG, and convinced his team to push out his beloved Thorn Elemental on turn one, stood up, and did the wrestling "suck it" right in my face. I happened to be playing my terrible black/white combo deck, and we responded with a Dark Ritual pushing out a 50 life Phyrexian Processor and a 50/50 minion token on turn one. I didn't say anything, but I did grin like a Cackling Fiend. He straight up scooped, gave me the finger, and never returned to the playgroup.
About a month ago a player at my local LGS who I haven't beat in a long time lost to me in the last round, it was an Origins draft. He got mana screwed and straight ran over him with my ram roller stratus walk....he chucked his hand across the room and went and pouted outside, classy for a 30 yr old dude. Lol
Same guy rage quits all the time, he's kinda annoying to play because he's usually good and winning and when he doesn't....wah
I actually have another story from over ten years ago during mirrodin standard. I was playing this kid who's dad owns a local comic/ collectibles store, this kid sucked at magic until his dad bought all the cards he needed to be good....so flash from 1997 to 2002 or whatever and I was winning tournaments with the Arcbound Ravager deck of the time. When a Disciple of the Vault got banned I moved on an started running tron and a deck I innovated.... Anyway this kid accused me of cheating in the last round during a 6 round tournament and got all pissy with the judge and the judge took his side. It was over how some triggers were stacking, I can't really remember all the details but it had to do the chromatic sphere shrapnel blast tempo deck that really didn't have a point...anyway as the story goes, the judge was wrong on his ruling and I won and this kid *****ed and moaned and some of his friends started taking his side and they started giving me a hard time. I went off on this kid and almost kicked his butt in the store. I actually remember calling out the store owner for not controlling these prick patrons who can't handle losing. I left my deck there and told the kid to study it and told the store owner I would never come back to his amateur establishment and left behind my prize support too. That started my second hiatus in playing magic lol
I've seen and heard of the old "cast Obliterate, then concede afterward" play, as well as variants involving Pox effects. The end result is always the same—roll the spell back and play as though the player just conceded.
I don't play with him anymore, but I had a buddy that constantly cheated, and when he lost he always found reasons why that didn't involve his bad plays or decision-making.
On the cheating, it generally came down to him either drawing additional cards (usually one when he didn't think anyone was looking), or trying to be sly and glance at the top few cards of his deck and then rearrange it if he thought he could, usually on a shuffle. We didn't actually pick up on it right away, despite how obvious he was about it. The core group never really thought about it, and we always played for fun so the idea of going to such lengths to win didn't really strike any of us as something that would happen, or even something that we might do. He became somewhat notorious for always having the same set of cards getting played, and that was what made us start to notice. Sure, you often see some of the same cards, but this guy rarely ran tutors or any deck-thinning cards, yet would almost always run the same plays. Once we realized what he was doing we stopped trusting him. Kind of killed the entire thing.
The other thing he was known for was his rage-outs at losing. He would often throw tantrums when he lost, and it was usually just a "bad opening hand," nevermind that he chose to keep it. He would also look at the next five or so cards to see what he would have drawn, and as soon as he saw something that he deemed game-changing he would say "aha, see I would have won if I had just survived to this." Except you didn't. You died like five turns before that, and anyone who could survive for X numbers of turns is likely to get something game-changing. It drove me insane. He was just bad.
There's a guy in my local meta who is a huge dramaqueen. Outside the game he's a nice, friendly dude. During games though, if you so much as cast a glance his way - and it doesn't matter why - he'll give you grief for "targeting" him.
It doesn't matter if Sanguine Bond is on his board and he just tutored something with 8 mana left open. "WHY ARE YOU TARGETING ME?! ARE YOU TARGETING ME? ARE YOU?! WHATS YOUR FREAKING PROBLEM?!"
What's bad is, he's a good player who uses good decks. Mimeoplasm, Prossh, Animar, and well built. If you don't keep a close eye on him he'll win the game before you know it. He's a good winner and doesn't brag, but the most butthurt, rage-scooping sore loser I have ever met. He got steamrolled in a game last year and sold his entire magic collection off in a huff before buying it back a month later...
There's a guy in my local meta who is a huge dramaqueen. Outside the game he's a nice, friendly dude. During games though, if you so much as cast a glance his way - and it doesn't matter why - he'll give you grief for "targeting" him.
It doesn't matter if Sanguine Bond is on his board and he just tutored something with 8 mana left open. "WHY ARE YOU TARGETING ME?! ARE YOU TARGETING ME? ARE YOU?! WHATS YOUR FREAKING PROBLEM?!"
What's bad is, he's a good player who uses good decks. Mimeoplasm, Prossh, Animar, and well built. If you don't keep a close eye on him he'll win the game before you know it. He's a good winner and doesn't brag, but the most butthurt, rage-scooping sore loser I have ever met. He got steamrolled in a game last year and sold his entire magic collection off in a huff before buying it back a month later...
I just don't get some people.
I have a similar player in my group. Great person, awesome to be around, but acts like everybody has something against him if you attack him. Automatically starts complaining and plays the victim. Most ridiculous time was when he was playing his Kaalia of the Vast deck (which he has notoriously built for turn 3-5 game ending in our normally 15+ turn meta, usually involving Master of Cruelty, rakdos, the defiler or some other unfriendly early game lock-out.) And started ramping early game with sol ring and signet, and someone swung at him with a 1/1 and he got super angry and agressive about it. He was at 40 when the attack was declared.
On another note, ironically with a different group member also playing kaalia, also with rakdos, swinging into one of my friends, my friend was so pissed he picked up his deck and threw it and stormed out of the shop lol
After a weird commander argument about whether someone should draw disproportionate aggression for running Derevi, one player swiped the top half of the other's deck across the table. The other player tried to do the same, but got his wrist grabbed. Awkward arm wrestling ensued while the rest of us moved our decks out of their reach.
I think the worst sportsmanship I've ever seen was actually playing yugioh, where a kid got so frustrated that he couldn't win that he flipped a table and threw a tantrum, then proceeded to punch his mother square in the jaw when the owner called her to pick him up.
The best part was it wasn't even a little kid, the boy was mid teens. 15-16 if memory serves.
That said I have been known to be a pretty poor sport. If I don't pay conscious attention to my actions I tend to get a little childish, and have been known to get pretty salty about stupid things until it's pointed out how outrageous I'm being. Especially when people make bad plays directed at me; swords to plowsharing my Serra Advocate while your other opponent has a consecrated sphynx in play's a good way to tip me over
Worst sportsmanship I've witnessed was not MTG but at a LotR: TCG standard tournament. I beat a guy with a sub-optimal deck vs. his finely tuned popular deck that he probably assembled from a list online. He proceeds to, right after I win our match (tournament was only half over), pick up all his cards, storm out of the store without saying a word to anybody even ignoring the tournament director when he was asked if he wanted his prize support, and sold his entire collection online that very night.
Worst for me was this guy who netdecked a mono-blue Teferi lock EDH deck. Another guy donated a Celestial Dawn to him with Zedruu and the next turn I used Thada Adel to steal his Plana Portal and grab Beacon of Tomorrows - and played it. He started to lose his ***** and tried to grab our cards to destroy them before he gave up (too slow) and flipped the table. Except my fat ass was sitting on the table and his hands slipped off looking like a foolish baby.
Worst sportsmanship I've witnessed was not MTG but at a LotR: TCG standard tournament. I beat a guy with a sub-optimal deck vs. his finely tuned popular deck that he probably assembled from a list online. He proceeds to, right after I win our match (tournament was only half over), pick up all his cards, storm out of the store without saying a word to anybody even ignoring the tournament director when he was asked if he wanted his prize support, and sold his entire collection online that very night.
It's astounding how many people seem to think that if they have a top teir decklist, then they should just be winning. The people that originally designed the list will always play it better than someone who didn't, and many times people are playing those decks not knowing why certain cards are even in there or even what meta it was designed to play against.
Jeez. I'm lucky I haven't run into any violent property damaging folks. The worst I get is bad luck of the draw when the pod I roll into has 2 or more of the young 'uns that appear in the shop I frequent. As long as there's only 1 kid out of 4 he's easily tamed. If half or more the pod is kids then I can expect the game to be stalled out for an extra hour or so as said kids only read the card after the effect is confirmed to resolve, leaving in the middle of the match to get food, leaving in the middle of the match to use the bathroom, cussing no matter how many times I and the other adults tell them to stop, and interrupting important game announcements with their loud banter. At least school is starting so they only appear on some weekends now.
My brother and I were playing EDH in a LGS. Two random players, probably late 20's to early 30's, joined us for 2HG EDH. As they began to shuffle up, both explained that they played since Mirrodin. My brother and I acknowledged it and told them we started in 1993. They explained how they were competitive and tournament quality. It soon came to be that they could not compete. We had the lands and spells; most importantly, the better decks and play knowledge. After a devastating loss, they challenged us with their best decks. We won. Each yelled at one another and at my brother and I. Then they left and talked. Oddly, they were calm but suspicious on the return. They smooth talked my brother, but I was annoyed. Then I noticed one walked out of the conversation. He tried to steal our decks and backpacks. Catching this, I punched him. My brother and I were kicked out before the guy could get up or have the situation explained; in a scary calm and collected fury, I stood outside waiting, talking to people, yet waiting for one or both to come out. My brother, wanting to avoid further conflict, forced me to leave. I had steak that night.
I think the worst sportsmanship I've ever seen was actually playing yugioh, where a kid got so frustrated that he couldn't win that he flipped a table and threw a tantrum, then proceeded to punch his mother square in the jaw when the owner called her to pick him up.
The best part was it wasn't even a little kid, the boy was mid teens. 15-16 if memory serves.
That said I have been known to be a pretty poor sport. If I don't pay conscious attention to my actions I tend to get a little childish, and have been known to get pretty salty about stupid things until it's pointed out how outrageous I'm being. Especially when people make bad plays directed at me; swords to plowsharing my Serra Advocate while your other opponent has a consecrated sphynx in play's a good way to tip me over
I think the worst sportsmanship I've ever seen was actually playing yugioh, where a kid got so frustrated that he couldn't win that he flipped a table and threw a tantrum, then proceeded to punch his mother square in the jaw when the owner called her to pick him up.
The best part was it wasn't even a little kid, the boy was mid teens. 15-16 if memory serves.
That said I have been known to be a pretty poor sport. If I don't pay conscious attention to my actions I tend to get a little childish, and have been known to get pretty salty about stupid things until it's pointed out how outrageous I'm being. Especially when people make bad plays directed at me; swords to plowsharing my Serra Advocate while your other opponent has a consecrated sphynx in play's a good way to tip me over
What the hell?
oh yea. That kid was notorious for spending hundreds of his parent's dollars on net decks that he piloted like a cow on a Segway, and crying or throwing a tantrum when he inevitably lost to better players. They called him "waterworks" for the longest time for it. This was the cake though.
You had to have been there. It was beautiful in a way. It was such legit rage.
Worst sportsmanship I've witnessed was not MTG but at a LotR: TCG standard tournament. I beat a guy with a sub-optimal deck vs. his finely tuned popular deck that he probably assembled from a list online. He proceeds to, right after I win our match (tournament was only half over), pick up all his cards, storm out of the store without saying a word to anybody even ignoring the tournament director when he was asked if he wanted his prize support, and sold his entire collection online that very night.
It's astounding how many people seem to think that if they have a top teir decklist, then they should just be winning. The people that originally designed the list will always play it better than someone who didn't, and many times people are playing those decks not knowing why certain cards are even in there or even what meta it was designed to play against.
I've ran into that problem with an astounding number of Narset players. Evidently; the post was triggered from playing several Narset players in a row that clearly did not know their decks. They were completely ok with scooping multiple times until they got a hand that they could use to show me how cool the stuff in their decks were..
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I couldn't even pick a single incident from this one player who used to play at my LGS. He became downright infamous for how often he would rage quit if something happened he didn't like. I remember one incident didn't even involve a game I witness but was told about later. The poor sport (we'll call him SH) was attacking a player in a 4 person pod. Another player chose to use Maze of Ith to stop the attack from SH. SH then immediately scooped up his cards whining about the guy who was protecting other players (he later told me that he'd never play with that guy again). I also had the same guy in a pod I was in quit on like turn 3 after another player played some card he didn't like. I don't even remember the card, I just remember I destroyed it within a turn.
One game at the same LGS but without the player SH in it saw one remarkable amount of poor sportsmanship. It was a 4 person game that included players T and J. T was borrowing one of J's decks for the game. T had out Lurking Predators and J cast Prophet of Kruphix, on the Lurking Predators trigger T saw Mystic Snake which came into play and countered Prophet. J then cast another spell that turn, and on the Lurking Predators trigger T saw his own Prophet of Kruphix. J immediately scooped up his cards and quit the game, despite the fact that he was quitting because of something his OWN deck did to him.
I've ran into that problem with an astounding number of Narset players. Evidently; the post was triggered from playing several Narset players in a row that clearly did not know their decks. They were completely ok with scooping multiple times until they got a hand that they could use to show me how cool the stuff in their decks were..
I spend months repeatedly making sure a deck is resilient enough to not just have a winning hand once in every 10 games and just kinda sit there the rest of them before I go out and purchase the decklist.
My experience with bad sportsmanship was also Yugioh related. This was probably 14 years ago when there were only 3-4 total expansions in the franchise. My local LGS, which tragically closed about 10 years ago, hosted tournaments for it every Saturday and Sunday with decent prize support for the top 4-8 players. I came across this kid who got matched against me and was maybe 13 and obviously didn't know the game very well. There was a card called De-Spell that was basically a sorcery speed Naturalize where it killed continuous magic spells (artifact/enchantment equivalents). This kid thought that De-Spell was a valid counter to essentially any card I played. I was patient at first, correcting his play and telling him that he couldn't do that. He tried to do it several more times during the game where I had to tell him that he couldn't, more annoyed each time. When he tried to play his 4th copy of the card, it became apparent that he was running about 8-10 copies of this one card in his decklist, which was obviously cheating in addition to his repeated attempts to play cards improperly and out of turn. I played there a lot and the owners were a husband and wife who knew me and when I called them over, they disqualified him from the tournament. This kid with tears in his eyes starts storming around the lobby, which was quite narrow at the front of the store. His mother who I guess was hanging out there while he played tried to tell him to calm down and he shoved her into a bookshelf that was maybe 8 feet tall and nearly caused it to fall over onto her. At that point, the owners forcibly removed them from the store while I was laughing at how pathetic it all was. Ended up taking down the tournament, so I understood his frustration, but you can't just play a card in a way that it doesn't work. Some Magic players could use some card-reading lessons too. All in all, the ***** that went down in the TV show let people think that they could play the game in very not legal ways.
Nothing nearly as dramatic, but my more recent LGS, which unfortunately went out of business due to competition from ChannelFireball in San Jose (I still like them) had a clique of players that would play draft, standard, and modern every week and would consistently top 8. There were maybe 6 of them that played more often than my friends and I who would usually just play draft since we didn't like playing constructed formats and invested more heavily in EDH. The store owner knew all of us and of the three of us that played a lot, at least 2 would typically get to top 8 each week. When one of us would make it to top 4 or top 2, they would always play out the match out of blatant disrespect to us, even though we'd make top 8 quite often. When one of their buddies would make it to top 4 or top 2, they'd split the prize support with each other and not play the match at all. I always thought that was a pretty messed up thing to do, mostly because their attitude shows that they thought we were worse players than them, even though they knew who we were. Less overt, but still pretty *****ty of them.
Im excited to see what funny stories all of you have
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Real classy, guy. I don't let it faze me, promptly flash in Blessing of Leeches to save Mirri, then equip a Grappling Hook next turn and proceed to maul Urabrask for 10.
The game still had an exciting ending, though. Urabrask almost pulled off a comeback on his next turn with an Insurrection, but ended up one point of commander damage shy of killing me with my own general (thanks, Gratuitous Violence, you're a pal). I proceed to cast/equip Sword of Feast and Famine and swing for lethal commander damage.
All things considered, we should probably have just ignored the DoJ from the scooping player and kept playing as normal, but the FNM event was starting soon, so we just decided to finish up.
Edit: To make it worse, the scooper wasn't even DOJ-ing and scooping to get ready for the FNM event. He just hung out at the store for another 20 minutes or so before going home.
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Not going to lie, I've done this before. It was time to get in line for the pre-release, so half of us were going to quit anyway, and there was a Llanowar Elves on the board with me having a long standing tradition of not letting Llanowar elves live a full turn cycle. I've also done something similar when I was about to go get food, I Volcanic Fallout to kill a single Birds of Paradise and then joked about how I was going to Chik-fil-a for dinner. This happened a few more times, but followed with jokes about prejudice volcanoes.
The worst sportsmanship i've experienced was more with trading than actual gameplay. There was a guy that insisted on trading for my cards at a considerably lower value because they were "going down next week." The main thing was one "holier than thou" competitive guy that ridiculed everyone's card choices and plays while never playing anything but "good stuff" decks. Let's just say that with him being the only person in the group that played good stuff, I became a bit more prejudice against good stuff players than I should be.
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Your story is different though, that was done when others knew it was time to wrap it up anyways. As for trading; we had a guy in the meta who was a degenerative gambler. He used to always try to rip off kids for their value cards so he could go sell them. We got pretty wise to it quickly. He tried to rip my wife off once and I called him on it; it was met with a borderline child temper tantrum followed by him moving elsewhere.
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Well, he sat directly across from me in the 5HG, and convinced his team to push out his beloved Thorn Elemental on turn one, stood up, and did the wrestling "suck it" right in my face. I happened to be playing my terrible black/white combo deck, and we responded with a Dark Ritual pushing out a 50 life Phyrexian Processor and a 50/50 minion token on turn one. I didn't say anything, but I did grin like a Cackling Fiend. He straight up scooped, gave me the finger, and never returned to the playgroup.
Same guy rage quits all the time, he's kinda annoying to play because he's usually good and winning and when he doesn't....wah
On the cheating, it generally came down to him either drawing additional cards (usually one when he didn't think anyone was looking), or trying to be sly and glance at the top few cards of his deck and then rearrange it if he thought he could, usually on a shuffle. We didn't actually pick up on it right away, despite how obvious he was about it. The core group never really thought about it, and we always played for fun so the idea of going to such lengths to win didn't really strike any of us as something that would happen, or even something that we might do. He became somewhat notorious for always having the same set of cards getting played, and that was what made us start to notice. Sure, you often see some of the same cards, but this guy rarely ran tutors or any deck-thinning cards, yet would almost always run the same plays. Once we realized what he was doing we stopped trusting him. Kind of killed the entire thing.
The other thing he was known for was his rage-outs at losing. He would often throw tantrums when he lost, and it was usually just a "bad opening hand," nevermind that he chose to keep it. He would also look at the next five or so cards to see what he would have drawn, and as soon as he saw something that he deemed game-changing he would say "aha, see I would have won if I had just survived to this." Except you didn't. You died like five turns before that, and anyone who could survive for X numbers of turns is likely to get something game-changing. It drove me insane. He was just bad.
It doesn't matter if Sanguine Bond is on his board and he just tutored something with 8 mana left open. "WHY ARE YOU TARGETING ME?! ARE YOU TARGETING ME? ARE YOU?! WHATS YOUR FREAKING PROBLEM?!"
What's bad is, he's a good player who uses good decks. Mimeoplasm, Prossh, Animar, and well built. If you don't keep a close eye on him he'll win the game before you know it. He's a good winner and doesn't brag, but the most butthurt, rage-scooping sore loser I have ever met. He got steamrolled in a game last year and sold his entire magic collection off in a huff before buying it back a month later...
I just don't get some people.
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On another note, ironically with a different group member also playing kaalia, also with rakdos, swinging into one of my friends, my friend was so pissed he picked up his deck and threw it and stormed out of the shop lol
The best part was it wasn't even a little kid, the boy was mid teens. 15-16 if memory serves.
That said I have been known to be a pretty poor sport. If I don't pay conscious attention to my actions I tend to get a little childish, and have been known to get pretty salty about stupid things until it's pointed out how outrageous I'm being. Especially when people make bad plays directed at me; swords to plowsharing my Serra Advocate while your other opponent has a consecrated sphynx in play's a good way to tip me over
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It's astounding how many people seem to think that if they have a top teir decklist, then they should just be winning. The people that originally designed the list will always play it better than someone who didn't, and many times people are playing those decks not knowing why certain cards are even in there or even what meta it was designed to play against.
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You had to have been there. It was beautiful in a way. It was such legit rage.
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I've ran into that problem with an astounding number of Narset players. Evidently; the post was triggered from playing several Narset players in a row that clearly did not know their decks. They were completely ok with scooping multiple times until they got a hand that they could use to show me how cool the stuff in their decks were..
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Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
One game at the same LGS but without the player SH in it saw one remarkable amount of poor sportsmanship. It was a 4 person game that included players T and J. T was borrowing one of J's decks for the game. T had out Lurking Predators and J cast Prophet of Kruphix, on the Lurking Predators trigger T saw Mystic Snake which came into play and countered Prophet. J then cast another spell that turn, and on the Lurking Predators trigger T saw his own Prophet of Kruphix. J immediately scooped up his cards and quit the game, despite the fact that he was quitting because of something his OWN deck did to him.
Most of my decks: http://tappedout.net/users/thraashman/
I spend months repeatedly making sure a deck is resilient enough to not just have a winning hand once in every 10 games and just kinda sit there the rest of them before I go out and purchase the decklist.
My experience with bad sportsmanship was also Yugioh related. This was probably 14 years ago when there were only 3-4 total expansions in the franchise. My local LGS, which tragically closed about 10 years ago, hosted tournaments for it every Saturday and Sunday with decent prize support for the top 4-8 players. I came across this kid who got matched against me and was maybe 13 and obviously didn't know the game very well. There was a card called De-Spell that was basically a sorcery speed Naturalize where it killed continuous magic spells (artifact/enchantment equivalents). This kid thought that De-Spell was a valid counter to essentially any card I played. I was patient at first, correcting his play and telling him that he couldn't do that. He tried to do it several more times during the game where I had to tell him that he couldn't, more annoyed each time. When he tried to play his 4th copy of the card, it became apparent that he was running about 8-10 copies of this one card in his decklist, which was obviously cheating in addition to his repeated attempts to play cards improperly and out of turn. I played there a lot and the owners were a husband and wife who knew me and when I called them over, they disqualified him from the tournament. This kid with tears in his eyes starts storming around the lobby, which was quite narrow at the front of the store. His mother who I guess was hanging out there while he played tried to tell him to calm down and he shoved her into a bookshelf that was maybe 8 feet tall and nearly caused it to fall over onto her. At that point, the owners forcibly removed them from the store while I was laughing at how pathetic it all was. Ended up taking down the tournament, so I understood his frustration, but you can't just play a card in a way that it doesn't work. Some Magic players could use some card-reading lessons too. All in all, the ***** that went down in the TV show let people think that they could play the game in very not legal ways.
Nothing nearly as dramatic, but my more recent LGS, which unfortunately went out of business due to competition from ChannelFireball in San Jose (I still like them) had a clique of players that would play draft, standard, and modern every week and would consistently top 8. There were maybe 6 of them that played more often than my friends and I who would usually just play draft since we didn't like playing constructed formats and invested more heavily in EDH. The store owner knew all of us and of the three of us that played a lot, at least 2 would typically get to top 8 each week. When one of us would make it to top 4 or top 2, they would always play out the match out of blatant disrespect to us, even though we'd make top 8 quite often. When one of their buddies would make it to top 4 or top 2, they'd split the prize support with each other and not play the match at all. I always thought that was a pretty messed up thing to do, mostly because their attitude shows that they thought we were worse players than them, even though they knew who we were. Less overt, but still pretty *****ty of them.
EDH:
G[cEDH] Selvala, Heart of the StormG
URW[cEDH] Narset, the Last AirmericanURW
GWUSt. Jenara, the ArchangelGWU
UBGrimgrin, Chaos MarineUB
GOmnath, Mana BaronG
URWNarset, Justice League AmericaURW
GWUBAtraxa, Countess of CountersGWUB
GWUEstrid, Enbantress PrimeGWU