I feel like that's something the Limited forum needs, similar to the unconstructive bragging thread and the pwned thread.
I just lost a Swiss Draft match to what I can only describe as God-Favored General Combo. In Game 1, it was General + Cavalry Pegasus (+ Cast into Darkness on my fliers + I didn't draw any of my 8 removal spells until it was too late). By the time I drew removal for the Pegasus, he had 6 Soldiers and could just recklessly aggro me out.
In Game 2, it was General + Harvestguard Alseids. The tokens are enchantments you see, so once that first hit gets in, there's no blocking and killing the General as long as he keeps making tokens. Again, I was unlucky to draw a grip of all creatures instead of removal and by the time I did draw into Fall of the Hammer, he had 4 tokens. OK, not a big deal...that is a manageable hole to get out of. He untapped and went for another all out Aggro attack, and when I blocked he dropped...Dictate of Erebos.
Oh great, as if I wasn't tilting enough, you finished me off with an annoying bomb rare that's impossible to play around.
To top it all off, someone dropped so now I'm sitting out a bye but I have to sit here and wait for Round 3. My morning is just ruined. (Yes I know I get a free pack, but that's not the point, I want to play.)
I've noticed a lot more round one drops since V4. Right now, I've got a bye in round 1. With the extended round time, I might as well go mow the lawn before round 2.
I had the third or fourth best deck at the m15 prerelease, but since I didn't get paired against any noobs, I lost round three to the best deck and then got paired up round four against the next best. I went 2-2, and both players I beat went 3-1.
Mine is also from the prerelease:
I opened a solid convoke deck with nutty explosive hands. Round 2 I'm paired against the guy with the best pool (Yisan, spirit bonds, several on color bombs) and get stomped. Round 3 I'm paired up against the other guy who went undefeated, (R/B, lots of removal and evasion and he was also a very good player) and lose a close game. Go on to stomp through the next two rounds with just ridiculous hands ending 4-2. The top 8 players all draw out the last round so they all have 4-1-1 and 5-1. Pay out was to top 8.
i'll join in, too, 'cause i'm still thinking about how sad it is that i got terrible draws with my good deck. (3 Frost Linxs, 2 Peel from Reality, 1 Lightning Strike, 4 [!] Welkin Terns, for example, plus sundry fliers and fatties).
i had so many outs but could not find them. first game i could not find an out to turn 2 Goblin Rabblemaster, and second game was drawn out while i was flooded -- and only drew a single welkin tern later in the game, which got shot out of the sky --, while my opponent got his Soul of New Phyrexia out, and a pinger (via some aura) that dealt 4 damage to any target. a frost linx, any bounce, could have helped, but i only got land.)
how i hate variance sometimes!!
Private Mod Note
():
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
----------------------------
Goblins have poor impulse control. Don't click this link!!
some of my favourite flavour text:
Wayward Soul "no home no heart no hope"
—Stronghold graffito
Raging Goblin He raged at the world, at his family, at his life. But mostly he just raged.
So I was on my period AND I didn't sleep well because my cat had a tummy ache and then I go on MTGO and this guy has the nerve to attack me with Welkin Tern when I had no flyers? The nerve!!! I mean can't he just let me win the game already?? Why does he have to use his cards given under the parameters of deck construction and luck to beat my cards given under the parameters of deck construction and luck by following the Magic game rules? How insensitive! It was the anniversary of my grandmother's death too!
Alright, I'll try to communicate the same message without trolling.
Basically, I think "venting" is significantly more unconstructive than bragging. There's no shame in celebrating a win and it gives something for others to be inspired by or to compete for, for the same reason we give trophies to people who win a lot or achieve outstanding accomplishments. What does venting accomplish? There are already more than enough people on MTGO, MWS, Cockatrice, etc. who complain about losing. Magic already has an unfortunate negative reputation of emotionally-stunted kids who flip card tables, call each other "noobs", are anal-retentive about calling judges over because of lack of basic conflict resolution skills, and just a general omnipresence of sour attitudes and poor social behaviour. I love playing Magic, but I don't always love playing against the people who play Magic because of that. I understand the need for critical discussion about legitimate issues that could be fixed (e.g. bad attitudes of players online, secondary market prices, bugs in the beta client, card design in new sets) but I don't see the purpose in people venting just because they lost a game or didn't make a top 8. Enough people already whine on MTGO or flip card tables or whatever. IMO a thread like this just encourages yet whining that the game is already too flooded with.
For every person that won a tight game, there's someone who lost one. For every person that stomped someone, someone else got stomped. For every person that made top 8, plenty more just narrowly missed it. This is the nature of the game. All players that have played enough games have experienced variance, loss to mana screw, opponent drawing a god hand, loss to mana flood, opponent having all the bombs, opponent just outplaying you. All players that have made top 8s have at some point just narrowly missed top8s due to tiebreakers, a bad round pairing or an unlucky loss. That's the nature of competitive Magic. That's also the nature of any sport or any other form of competition. When you play a zero sum game, sometimes you lose. You just keep playing, learning from your mistakes and try to win more.
So why do we need a thread for everyone to complain about it? I'm not saying that anyone who has posted here so far has been inappropriately whining. But it seems like having this thread will just be a magnet for even more online whining that neither MTG nor the internet really need more of.
You talk about sour attitude and poor social behavior. Yet you're the one joining a conversation you could have ignored, to interfere and let everyone know you've decided this conversation should end. And you kept at it, even after being admonished by a Moderator. What could be more sour and antisocial than that?
To your points, venting is a common form of stress relief. In appropriate doses, it's therapeutic. It helps relieve internal pressure from a difficult situation, putting us in a healthier mindset to face future challenges. Emotional validation -- the act of someone else confirming the validity of your feelings -- helps rebuild lost confidence. Even more powerfully, sharing feelings can help us find better solutions. Maybe what you're venting about is not the real problem, or maybe you're looking at it the wrong way. If you keep it bottled up, you can never get a second opinion.
I do agree that excessive complaining can have negative outcomes as well. It can blind you to solutions, by spending too much time rehashing the problem. Over time, the repeated act of complaining can make someone's mindset negative or angry at the world. And if you're venting to the wrong person, you might be putting too much strain on them.
However, the same could be said about being overly optimistic. Always looking on the bright side can impede learning. Negative feelings can be strong positive motivators too.
But above all, you have no right to tell other people how they should process their emotions. Especially since ignoring this discussion, if it's not to your liking, is so unbelievably easy to do.
No, I pretty much agree with FTW. Having a thread dedicated to this topic legitimizes attitudes that are not productive or worthwhile on any level, and which actively saps everyone's enthusiasm for the game to do it.
The only argument for having a thread like this I can see is that it'll keep the whiners out of other threads, but being honest, I don't think it'd even do that.
(Please note that I'm not saying complaining in general is bad. I'm just against having a place to whine about variance and losing. Complaining about things that are actual problems is fantastic.)
but the thing is, complaining about variance /can/ be productive and worthwhile. i now feel better about my disappointment at my good deck -- and all the anticipation of it being good -- not doign well, now that i've vented a little bit. i'm now ready to move on and look forward to my next FNM.. .
Private Mod Note
():
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
----------------------------
Goblins have poor impulse control. Don't click this link!!
some of my favourite flavour text:
Wayward Soul "no home no heart no hope"
—Stronghold graffito
Raging Goblin He raged at the world, at his family, at his life. But mostly he just raged.
No, I pretty much agree with FTW. Having a thread dedicated to this topic legitimizes attitudes that are not productive or worthwhile on any level, and which actively saps everyone's enthusiasm for the game to do it.
Here's what I don't understand -- why do you care? If you personally don't feel the need to vent, don't. Why are you opposed to other people participating in an activity that makes them feel better? Why are you the arbiter of feelings and what is or is not "worthwhile" to other people? Who decides that some things are "actual problems" and some things are not?
If your concern is that it promotes specific feelings within the player base whom you have to interact with -- I have news for you, people don't feel bad because they vent, they vent because they feel bad. Forcing them to bottle up those emotions will not make them go away, not in a healthy way that will produced a more positive and balanced opponent for you to interact with.
I agree that one thread on a board can't really be toxic to the community, but I'm also wary of how useful a purely venting thread can be, given the attitudes people invariably have when feeling the need to scream at a screen through text.
With that said, I think if the idea were warped a bit into a grounding exercise, it could be both cathartic and productive. Why not make the thread something to the effect of, "Post your frustrations, and we'll talk you off the cliff" kind of thing, where people in both camps can come with rage complaints or serious frustrations, and others can try to temper the response somehow and offer a counter-anecdote or something similar to mitigate the upset the poster is feeling. I know this sounds like, well, the purpose of the whole forum, but having a place to quickly drop a story that ticked you off might be nice, especially if you can come back with a cooler head to find reasonable, measured responses.
It'd take some moderation and would require that everyone play along and not stoke the flames, but it might be more accepted and useful that way.
Private Mod Note
():
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
Providing a plethora of pompous and pedantic postings here since 2009.
:dance:Fact or Fiction of the [Limited] Clan:dance:
Signalling is like farting: it's a natural thing that helps people avoid being where you are, and if you try to do it deliberately, things turn to crap fast.
Quote from Hardened »
I hereby found the American Chapter of the Zealots of Semantics. All glory to The Curmudgeon.
No, I pretty much agree with FTW. Having a thread dedicated to this topic legitimizes attitudes that are not productive or worthwhile on any level, and which actively saps everyone's enthusiasm for the game to do it.
Here's what I don't understand -- why do you care? If you personally don't feel the need to vent, don't. Why are you opposed to other people participating in an activity that makes them feel better? Why are you the arbiter of feelings and what is or is not "worthwhile" to other people? Who decides that some things are "actual problems" and some things are not?
If your concern is that it promotes specific feelings within the player base whom you have to interact with -- I have news for you, people don't feel bad because they vent, they vent because they feel bad. Forcing them to bottle up those emotions will not make them go away, not in a healthy way that will produced a more positive and balanced opponent for you to interact with.
I don't expect anyone to bottle those feelings up, that's the thing. Everywhere I go, there's someone who feels like venting, and what it amounts to is taking out their bad feelings on the rest of the community. If you want to vent, you have plenty of places to do it already. What good does it do to have a dedicated place for it, other than to unsubtly suggest to people that whining and dumping on other people is something that should be okay? Because news flash: it isn't.
If your concern is that it promotes specific feelings within the player base whom you have to interact with -- I have news for you, people don't feel bad because they vent, they vent because they feel bad. Forcing them to bottle up those emotions will not make them go away, not in a healthy way that will produced a more positive and balanced opponent for you to interact with.
Not at all. More the converse. Venting TO other people or a community spreads negativity to OTHER people. I understand that venting can be cathartic for the venter, but why not just vent to yourself in a private journal? Or to a friend IRL? What does venting to an anonymous internet community accomplish? It seems like the difference between having a bowel movement and having a bowel movement on other people (namely strangers you are not responsible to). It also reinforces the idea that it's OK for people to whine on the internet and encourages more people to do so or for people to do it more often.
Anyway, as for who decides what is acceptable, it looks like the Mods will. They've done a really good job of keeping MTGS clean compared to most sites and I hope make a decision that keeps up with that tradition either way.
What good does it do to have a dedicated place for it, other than to unsubtly suggest to people that whining and dumping on other people is something that should be okay? Because news flash: it isn't.
but it is okay, if you're talking to a sympathetic friend [or therapist]!
i know i do sometimes get annoyed by all the negative vibes (at an in-real-life gaming store) when someone starts spouting how angry they are that they lost to mana screw etc. but it's only feels like negative vibes to me because i'm not in the mood to hear it.
that's why i think a dedicated venting thread can be helpful -- no one has to enter into it if they aren't in a mood to be a sympathetic listener.
i actually like a dedicated venting thread also for the reason that it sends a message that if you're going to complain /outside/ of that thread, then you should be prepared for objective feedback (about probabilities or possible different play opportunities that would make you a better player, etc), but that within the venting thread, it's about letting off steam first and foremost [-- ie you can't listen to good ideas if you're full of emotion and just need someone to be a sympathetic listener].
Private Mod Note
():
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
----------------------------
Goblins have poor impulse control. Don't click this link!!
some of my favourite flavour text:
Wayward Soul "no home no heart no hope"
—Stronghold graffito
Raging Goblin He raged at the world, at his family, at his life. But mostly he just raged.
I think it is a bad idea to create a thread that is, by definition, negative. It may not be a big deal for users, but asking we mods to determine what is flaming/trolling/spamming in a thread that is by definition unproductive sounds like a big headache.
My suggestion? Since this would have almost exclusively been MTGO stories (unless you're so unliked in your LGS that no one is willing to hear you out,) come vent in the clan chat room! I'd love to see more interest in keeping the clan active.
Also, you can post in the PWND thread some of these stories; i.e., "just got whupped by God-Favored General/Calvary Pegasus.dek!" Ultimately, I don't think a thread griping about flood/screw, server lag, and bad-card-wins.dek is beneficial to the community.
Private Mod Note
():
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
My helpy helpdesk of helpfulness.
My Decks: EDH: Sygg, River Cutthroat , Road to Scion
Grimgrin, Corpseborn Modern: Polytokes IRL: Progenitus Polymorph , Goblins
ARGH! I couldn't find my second blue... I was 11/7 islands swamps and I just drew swamp after swamp.. until it was too late for me to stop the aggro and I died to lava axe off the top... if I had that second blue for encrust + aetherspouts + (peel from reality + frost lynx) a bunch of turns earlier my Soul of innstrad would of cleaned up my opponent but instead I had to use all my mana to recur frost lynx to just not die (until the axe).
still not as bad as winning a game with lots of white removal only to have opponent play stormbreath dragon and kill me.
Likewise, I agree with Hardened. In my experience,and not just on MtGS, but other forums, a venting thread either becomes a spam or flame thread, or it degenerates the entire discussion into a pissing match.
That's cool, I understand the Mod decision. Thanks for considering the idea.
To anyone else, if you want to vent, feel free to PM me.
To address a couple of FTW's questions above...Why not vent to someone IRL? Mostly because I have exactly one close IRL friend who plays competitive MTG and would understand, and I generally play more than he does so I feel like I would be burdening this one person with all my bad beat stories. A lot of folks don't have a large community of other MTG friends IRL. And also I don't consider this board "anonymous strangers." Many people here I've been chatting with for almost a decade. I "talk" with them more than my distant relatives.
ARGH! I couldn't find my second blue... I was 11/7 islands swamps and I just drew swamp after swamp.. until it was too late for me to stop the aggro and I died to lava axe off the top... if I had that second blue for encrust + aetherspouts + (peel from reality + frost lynx) a bunch of turns earlier my Soul of innstrad would of cleaned up my opponent but instead I had to use all my mana to recur frost lynx to just not die (until the axe).
still not as bad as winning a game with lots of white removal only to have opponent play stormbreath dragon and kill me.
oh man, sometimes drawing the wrong colour land over and over again doesn't bother me, but at other times, it is just so *tilting*! almost like your deck is mocking you!
yeah, it's variance and stuff, but it still feels maddening when you have a reasonable split of lands.
Private Mod Note
():
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
----------------------------
Goblins have poor impulse control. Don't click this link!!
some of my favourite flavour text:
Wayward Soul "no home no heart no hope"
—Stronghold graffito
Raging Goblin He raged at the world, at his family, at his life. But mostly he just raged.
You really just need to embrace the rage. I keep a small colony of hamsters next to my computer and every time I lose a match to mana screw I throw one against the wall.
Well, as long as we have this here, I might as well use it; hey, Wotc, why did you pick new-client week to run TWO $25 draft formats, Holiday Cube aaaand a prerelease?
Private Mod Note
():
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
My helpy helpdesk of helpfulness.
My Decks: EDH: Sygg, River Cutthroat , Road to Scion
Grimgrin, Corpseborn Modern: Polytokes IRL: Progenitus Polymorph , Goblins
My guess? They wanted to switch to V4 before M15 came out so they wouldn't have to expend the manpower to support M15 in V3. Then they ran two popular formats to keep people playing during the transition.
I just lost a Swiss Draft match to what I can only describe as God-Favored General Combo. In Game 1, it was General + Cavalry Pegasus (+ Cast into Darkness on my fliers + I didn't draw any of my 8 removal spells until it was too late). By the time I drew removal for the Pegasus, he had 6 Soldiers and could just recklessly aggro me out.
In Game 2, it was General + Harvestguard Alseids. The tokens are enchantments you see, so once that first hit gets in, there's no blocking and killing the General as long as he keeps making tokens. Again, I was unlucky to draw a grip of all creatures instead of removal and by the time I did draw into Fall of the Hammer, he had 4 tokens. OK, not a big deal...that is a manageable hole to get out of. He untapped and went for another all out Aggro attack, and when I blocked he dropped...Dictate of Erebos.
Oh great, as if I wasn't tilting enough, you finished me off with an annoying bomb rare that's impossible to play around.
To top it all off, someone dropped so now I'm sitting out a bye but I have to sit here and wait for Round 3. My morning is just ruined. (Yes I know I get a free pack, but that's not the point, I want to play.)
I want to throw my computer right out the window.
Oh well.
I opened a solid convoke deck with nutty explosive hands. Round 2 I'm paired against the guy with the best pool (Yisan, spirit bonds, several on color bombs) and get stomped. Round 3 I'm paired up against the other guy who went undefeated, (R/B, lots of removal and evasion and he was also a very good player) and lose a close game. Go on to stomp through the next two rounds with just ridiculous hands ending 4-2. The top 8 players all draw out the last round so they all have 4-1-1 and 5-1. Pay out was to top 8.
i had so many outs but could not find them. first game i could not find an out to turn 2 Goblin Rabblemaster, and second game was drawn out while i was flooded -- and only drew a single welkin tern later in the game, which got shot out of the sky --, while my opponent got his Soul of New Phyrexia out, and a pinger (via some aura) that dealt 4 damage to any target. a frost linx, any bounce, could have helped, but i only got land.)
how i hate variance sometimes!!
Goblins have poor impulse control. Don't click this link!!
some of my favourite flavour text:
Wayward Soul
"no home no heart no hope"
—Stronghold graffito
Raging Goblin
He raged at the world, at his family, at his life. But mostly he just raged.
Please do not troll posters. - Rai
Basically, I think "venting" is significantly more unconstructive than bragging. There's no shame in celebrating a win and it gives something for others to be inspired by or to compete for, for the same reason we give trophies to people who win a lot or achieve outstanding accomplishments. What does venting accomplish? There are already more than enough people on MTGO, MWS, Cockatrice, etc. who complain about losing. Magic already has an unfortunate negative reputation of emotionally-stunted kids who flip card tables, call each other "noobs", are anal-retentive about calling judges over because of lack of basic conflict resolution skills, and just a general omnipresence of sour attitudes and poor social behaviour. I love playing Magic, but I don't always love playing against the people who play Magic because of that. I understand the need for critical discussion about legitimate issues that could be fixed (e.g. bad attitudes of players online, secondary market prices, bugs in the beta client, card design in new sets) but I don't see the purpose in people venting just because they lost a game or didn't make a top 8. Enough people already whine on MTGO or flip card tables or whatever. IMO a thread like this just encourages yet whining that the game is already too flooded with.
For every person that won a tight game, there's someone who lost one. For every person that stomped someone, someone else got stomped. For every person that made top 8, plenty more just narrowly missed it. This is the nature of the game. All players that have played enough games have experienced variance, loss to mana screw, opponent drawing a god hand, loss to mana flood, opponent having all the bombs, opponent just outplaying you. All players that have made top 8s have at some point just narrowly missed top8s due to tiebreakers, a bad round pairing or an unlucky loss. That's the nature of competitive Magic. That's also the nature of any sport or any other form of competition. When you play a zero sum game, sometimes you lose. You just keep playing, learning from your mistakes and try to win more.
So why do we need a thread for everyone to complain about it? I'm not saying that anyone who has posted here so far has been inappropriately whining. But it seems like having this thread will just be a magnet for even more online whining that neither MTG nor the internet really need more of.
To your points, venting is a common form of stress relief. In appropriate doses, it's therapeutic. It helps relieve internal pressure from a difficult situation, putting us in a healthier mindset to face future challenges. Emotional validation -- the act of someone else confirming the validity of your feelings -- helps rebuild lost confidence. Even more powerfully, sharing feelings can help us find better solutions. Maybe what you're venting about is not the real problem, or maybe you're looking at it the wrong way. If you keep it bottled up, you can never get a second opinion.
I do agree that excessive complaining can have negative outcomes as well. It can blind you to solutions, by spending too much time rehashing the problem. Over time, the repeated act of complaining can make someone's mindset negative or angry at the world. And if you're venting to the wrong person, you might be putting too much strain on them.
However, the same could be said about being overly optimistic. Always looking on the bright side can impede learning. Negative feelings can be strong positive motivators too.
But above all, you have no right to tell other people how they should process their emotions. Especially since ignoring this discussion, if it's not to your liking, is so unbelievably easy to do.
The only argument for having a thread like this I can see is that it'll keep the whiners out of other threads, but being honest, I don't think it'd even do that.
(Please note that I'm not saying complaining in general is bad. I'm just against having a place to whine about variance and losing. Complaining about things that are actual problems is fantastic.)
Goblins have poor impulse control. Don't click this link!!
some of my favourite flavour text:
Wayward Soul
"no home no heart no hope"
—Stronghold graffito
Raging Goblin
He raged at the world, at his family, at his life. But mostly he just raged.
Here's what I don't understand -- why do you care? If you personally don't feel the need to vent, don't. Why are you opposed to other people participating in an activity that makes them feel better? Why are you the arbiter of feelings and what is or is not "worthwhile" to other people? Who decides that some things are "actual problems" and some things are not?
If your concern is that it promotes specific feelings within the player base whom you have to interact with -- I have news for you, people don't feel bad because they vent, they vent because they feel bad. Forcing them to bottle up those emotions will not make them go away, not in a healthy way that will produced a more positive and balanced opponent for you to interact with.
With that said, I think if the idea were warped a bit into a grounding exercise, it could be both cathartic and productive. Why not make the thread something to the effect of, "Post your frustrations, and we'll talk you off the cliff" kind of thing, where people in both camps can come with rage complaints or serious frustrations, and others can try to temper the response somehow and offer a counter-anecdote or something similar to mitigate the upset the poster is feeling. I know this sounds like, well, the purpose of the whole forum, but having a place to quickly drop a story that ticked you off might be nice, especially if you can come back with a cooler head to find reasonable, measured responses.
It'd take some moderation and would require that everyone play along and not stoke the flames, but it might be more accepted and useful that way.
:dance:Fact or Fiction of the [Limited] Clan:dance:
I don't expect anyone to bottle those feelings up, that's the thing. Everywhere I go, there's someone who feels like venting, and what it amounts to is taking out their bad feelings on the rest of the community. If you want to vent, you have plenty of places to do it already. What good does it do to have a dedicated place for it, other than to unsubtly suggest to people that whining and dumping on other people is something that should be okay? Because news flash: it isn't.
Not at all. More the converse. Venting TO other people or a community spreads negativity to OTHER people. I understand that venting can be cathartic for the venter, but why not just vent to yourself in a private journal? Or to a friend IRL? What does venting to an anonymous internet community accomplish? It seems like the difference between having a bowel movement and having a bowel movement on other people (namely strangers you are not responsible to). It also reinforces the idea that it's OK for people to whine on the internet and encourages more people to do so or for people to do it more often.
Anyway, as for who decides what is acceptable, it looks like the Mods will. They've done a really good job of keeping MTGS clean compared to most sites and I hope make a decision that keeps up with that tradition either way.
but it is okay, if you're talking to a sympathetic friend [or therapist]!
i know i do sometimes get annoyed by all the negative vibes (at an in-real-life gaming store) when someone starts spouting how angry they are that they lost to mana screw etc. but it's only feels like negative vibes to me because i'm not in the mood to hear it.
that's why i think a dedicated venting thread can be helpful -- no one has to enter into it if they aren't in a mood to be a sympathetic listener.
i actually like a dedicated venting thread also for the reason that it sends a message that if you're going to complain /outside/ of that thread, then you should be prepared for objective feedback (about probabilities or possible different play opportunities that would make you a better player, etc), but that within the venting thread, it's about letting off steam first and foremost [-- ie you can't listen to good ideas if you're full of emotion and just need someone to be a sympathetic listener].
Goblins have poor impulse control. Don't click this link!!
some of my favourite flavour text:
Wayward Soul
"no home no heart no hope"
—Stronghold graffito
Raging Goblin
He raged at the world, at his family, at his life. But mostly he just raged.
My suggestion? Since this would have almost exclusively been MTGO stories (unless you're so unliked in your LGS that no one is willing to hear you out,) come vent in the clan chat room! I'd love to see more interest in keeping the clan active.
Also, you can post in the PWND thread some of these stories; i.e., "just got whupped by God-Favored General/Calvary Pegasus.dek!" Ultimately, I don't think a thread griping about flood/screw, server lag, and bad-card-wins.dek is beneficial to the community.
My Decks:
EDH: Sygg, River Cutthroat , Road to Scion
Grimgrin, Corpseborn
Modern: Polytokes
IRL: Progenitus Polymorph , Goblins
Just a friendly reminder that I will drive this car off a bridge
ARGH! I couldn't find my second blue... I was 11/7 islands swamps and I just drew swamp after swamp.. until it was too late for me to stop the aggro and I died to lava axe off the top... if I had that second blue for encrust + aetherspouts + (peel from reality + frost lynx) a bunch of turns earlier my Soul of innstrad would of cleaned up my opponent but instead I had to use all my mana to recur frost lynx to just not die (until the axe).
still not as bad as winning a game with lots of white removal only to have opponent play stormbreath dragon and kill me.
Pioneer:UR Pheonix
Modern:U Mono U Tron
EDH
GB Glissa, the traitor: Army of Cans
UW Dragonlord Ojutai: Dragonlord NOjutai
UWGDerevi, Empyrial Tactician "you cannot fight the storm"
R Zirilan of the claw. The solution to every problem is dragons
UB Etrata, the Silencer Cloning assassination
Peasant cube: Cards I own
To anyone else, if you want to vent, feel free to PM me.
To address a couple of FTW's questions above...Why not vent to someone IRL? Mostly because I have exactly one close IRL friend who plays competitive MTG and would understand, and I generally play more than he does so I feel like I would be burdening this one person with all my bad beat stories. A lot of folks don't have a large community of other MTG friends IRL. And also I don't consider this board "anonymous strangers." Many people here I've been chatting with for almost a decade. I "talk" with them more than my distant relatives.
oh man, sometimes drawing the wrong colour land over and over again doesn't bother me, but at other times, it is just so *tilting*! almost like your deck is mocking you!
yeah, it's variance and stuff, but it still feels maddening when you have a reasonable split of lands.
Goblins have poor impulse control. Don't click this link!!
some of my favourite flavour text:
Wayward Soul
"no home no heart no hope"
—Stronghold graffito
Raging Goblin
He raged at the world, at his family, at his life. But mostly he just raged.
Game 3 of the finals of GP Milan (Dezani vs Bohny) was decided by the same combo. Perhaps that makes you feel better.
My Decks:
EDH: Sygg, River Cutthroat , Road to Scion
Grimgrin, Corpseborn
Modern: Polytokes
IRL: Progenitus Polymorph , Goblins
Just a friendly reminder that I will drive this car off a bridge
Goblins have poor impulse control. Don't click this link!!
some of my favourite flavour text:
Wayward Soul
"no home no heart no hope"
—Stronghold graffito
Raging Goblin
He raged at the world, at his family, at his life. But mostly he just raged.