This draft pod had a couple of named players; Tom Martell and Eric Froehlich. It was largely populated by players like me, who had rattled off three wins towards the end of day 1 to salvage an even record, and our tiebreakers were all horrible. I kicked off the draft with a Bonds of Faith, and I then got passed a Gavony Township, and decided to jump right into G/W Aggro, the best archetype. I kept to that for the next couple of picks, and took a Villagers of Estwald to tell everyone around me that I was green, and you should all keep out. Unfortunately for me, my neighbor to my immediate right did the same for the next pick, and suddenly I found myself forced out of G/W. I got a full eight solid playable B/R cards towards the end of the pack, and it looked like I completely abandoned the picks I had made, but red got cut in pack two, so I had to make an awkward white-black deck splashing green for the Township. I didn't keep the deck, but this was roughly how it looked:
As you can see, it is not very good. Bad mana, the creatures aren't very powerful, and terrible cards flourish. The most realistic result with this deck would be 1-2.
Round 7: Daniel Rodriguez (ESP)
This was an incredibly frustrating match. I mulligan and have a bad draw in game one, but I still nearly win, despite him having a lethal Brimstone Volley, as he targeted my Bitterheart Witch with it instead of me, when I was sitting comfy at two life. Next game I mulligan to five, and am properly tilted; if I lose to the guy who decide to kill my creature instead of me I won't be happy. But thanks to an array of misplays on his part, I manage to win that game. Things are looking up, as I would surely be the favorite to win a game three. But it wasn't meant to be, his Gatstaf Shepherd eventually killed me after I could deal with the Somberwald Spider that halted my army of Vampire Interlopers.
1-2, 3-4 total. I knew that if I couldn't win this round, there was little hope for my deck. I hoped to win one more match, but I knew that the 0-3 was a definite possibility.
Round 8: Eric Froehlich (USA)
Froehlich's deck was a slow U/R/g Burning Vengeance-deck, and I basically couldn't deal with his Sturmgeist in games 1 and 3. His deck didn't seem very good, but neither did mine, and he had slightly better draws than I did (in game 1 I drew one spell after keeping). I probably would have won game 1 still if I hadn't fetched swamp with my Traveler's Amulet. My hand was plains, Gavony Township and all black cards. I gave it a couple of turns before I shrugged and found the swamp I needed, but after that I drew like five swamps in a row, and that Township would probably have been the difference in the game.
1-2, 3-5 total. Both of my teammates were winning, though, so it wasn't all bad. My hopes at this point were that I could be carried by my teammates to a decent finish, maybe top 8 in the team standings if we were lucky. Kristoffer was now inside the top 8 on the individual standings, which was very sick (it was his first Pro Tour).
Round 9: Tom Martell (USA)
We both keep seven (heh), and I quickly crush him with Vampire Interlopers and the 2/2 bat guy along with a Tribute to Hunger on his Chapel Geist. In game 2, he starts beating me down with spirits (Midnight Haunting, Lantern Spirit and Battleground Geist), and I figure out that the only way I can win is if I topdeck Victim of Night to go with the Bitterheart Witch in my hand, or Curse of Death's Hold. I topdeck Victim of Night the last possible turn (I was staring down seven damage, and I was at seven), and play Bitterheart Witch, and go for it in his upkeep. It worked, and from there it was easy to win.
2-0, 4-5 total. After the match, I was posting twitter updates for the Norwegians who wanted to follow us, and noticed that Martell had posted a tweet about the match also, where he claimed to have mulliganed to five and stuff when he had in fact not mulliganed even once during the match, and that he had some creatures in play in game two that he clearly hadn't. I was surprised and disappointed that a named player like him felt the need to make up bad beat-stories to excuse his losses, and I replied with this tweet:
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@semisober You didn't mull to 5, and you had 3 creatures with 1 toughness =/ I still got lucky though.
He didn't answer me, but I overheard him telling his story again to friends of his while also adding that I «made fun of him on Twitter» or ran the «Twitter rub-ins». I fully expect him to make some kind of retaliation if he is to write a tournament report, because I lost my respect for the guy right there when he couldn't handle a loss (he also didn't handshake), and wouldn't talk to my face about it afterwards.
Anyway, time for the second draft, may it be better than the first!
Draft two
At my table were three players I recognized: Gaudenis Vidugiris (whom I'd already beat a couple of times at GPs/PTs), Antoine Maugard (I won against him in Philly), and Yann Massicard. The draft was very painful, as I was once again ended up in black-white. My first four picks were (in order) Dearly Departed, Elite Inquisitor, Midnight Haunting, Midnight Haunting, but after that there were only black cards. I disregarded some late blue signal as I was already heavy white-black, but boy was blue open on this table. It was extremely painful – Civilized Scholars went 7th and Undead Alchemist was still in the pack with THREE cards left. I don't know when I should have jumped into blue though, I was already so heavy white-black... But I knew one thing, if my opponent played an island, I couldn't win. Their deck would be way too broken.
My deck had some good synergy though, so I was hoping to lose to the blue player while winning the other two matches.
I was winning the first game pretty handily, but then he played Divine Reckoning, and he even had Lumberknot in play, so I was suddenly losing pretty hard. He did give me a topdeck when he made a bad attack (he had the win on board if he sent with everybody), but I didn't draw the game-winning removalspell that would have cleared his blocker and let my 5/5 demon get through. Game two was much less close, as I stumbled and he filled the board with (pretty large) men.
0-2, 4-6 total.
Round 11: Chin Yao Han (TWN)
In game one, I had Skirsdag High Priest, and he didn't deal with it. Or with other words: I crushed. I was winning game two, but then he played Demonmail Hauberk and Traitorous Instinct on my 7/6 Thraben Militia (which I had anticipated, so I had made sure to not die to it). He was still a few points away, and he had no creatures on the table while I was beating him down, but he topdecked Brimstone Volley to finish me off. I had Dearly Departed and Falkenrath Noble in game 3, and he couldn't answer the 5/5.
2-1, 5-6 total.
Round 12: Adrian Saredo (ARG)
Adrian played a lot of islands and swamps in game one, but couldn't really deal with my creatures, nor did he play many of his own, so I won very easily. Why the game was so easy I found out in game two, when my sideboarded Night Terrors revealed green cards sitting in his hand. He had Dead Weight, Murder of Crows, Skaab Goliath, Spidery Grasp and Curse of Death's Hold with Stitcher's Apprentice and a couple of islands in play. I took the Crows, and began «operation kill him before he Curses me». I succeeded, as his manabase seemed sketchy at best, and my removalspell in response to his Spidery Grasp was a complete blowout.
2-0, 6-6 total. Another day of mediocrity, but at least my teammates were doing okay. Kristoffer lost four in a row, but was still on 7-5, while Andreas did nothing but win all day, including with the weirdest limited deck seen all day. I don't remember exactly what it contained, but I could give some quick facts: It had five creatures, where Sturmgeist was the only one that could actually kill an opponent through damage (his two Selhoff Occultist contributed to a few decking wins, though). He had four Rolling Temblors. He was playing every color but white. He went infinite with Make a Wish (he had one Make a Wish and one removalspell in the yard, played another Make a Wish to get them back, killed a creature, played Make a Wish, repeat). He milled himself out with Forbidden Alchemies and Occultist only to keep returning the best cards with Memory's Journey and Make a Wish picking up Memory's Journey. Sample opening hand: Claustrophobia, Sensory Deprivation, Tribute to Hunger, Make a Wish, Make a Wish, Mountain, Mountain. Respect. So yeah, he was 7-5 as well, and we were now 12th in the team standings. Time for the next day (here)!
Interesting about Tom Martell. I've never met him before even though I've met or known many pro players, living in Southern California and before in Northern CA. He must have been pretty frustrated at that time, but it's no excuse.
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Interesting about Tom Martell. I've never met him before even though I've met or known many pro players, living in Southern California and before in Northern CA. He must have been pretty frustrated at that time, but it's no excuse.
Being frustrated about a loss is completely okay and understandable. I just went a little when he made up stuff about the match.
I'm sure Martell is usually a good guy, though. Most people are.
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Wow, I really hope Martell offers an explanation or apology. Everyone tells 'big-fish' stories to their friends, but he went too far in a number of ways here, and he comes off looking very insecure and unprofessional for it. I hope he reads all of this and makes amends, because that's all unacceptable.
He went infinite with Make a Wish (he had one Make a Wish and one removalspell in the yard, played another Make a Wish to get them back, killed a creature, played Make a Wish, repeat).
That's brilliant! I can just imagine the opponent's reaction: "What is this?! I'm playing at Worlds and I'm about to lose to double maindeck Make a Wish!"
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I don't remember exactly what it contained, but I could give some quick facts: It had five creatures, where Sturmgeist was the only one that could actually kill an opponent through damage (his two Selhoff Occultist contributed to a few decking wins, though). He had four Rolling Temblors. He was playing every color but white. He went infinite with Make a Wish (he had one Make a Wish and one removalspell in the yard, played another Make a Wish to get them back, killed a creature, played Make a Wish, repeat). He milled himself out with Forbidden Alchemies and Occultist only to keep returning the best cards with Memory's Journey and Make a Wish picking up Memory's Journey. Sample opening hand: Claustrophobia, Sensory Deprivation, Tribute to Hunger, Make a Wish, Make a Wish, Mountain, Mountain. Respect.
Any chance he did a report of his draft and deck?
I would love to see his pics and read his thought process.
Was just linked to this thread and I wanted to respond.
I'm sorry you've taken this brief encounter so personally. Normally I am happy to chat with my opponents after rounds, whether I win or lose. I try very hard to be a courteous and friendly opponent. In this case, I agree that I did not behave in a friendly way. I was extremely frustrated at the time. I had just 0-3'd a draft with a very reasonable deck after having a horrific day 1. I was coming off of two straight limited GPs where I went 1-5 and 2-4 on day 2 to get 0 pro points between them. I was playing in a tournament that I needed to top100 to level up so I was focused on the event and I took that loss pretty hard.
At the same time, I wasn't rude to you. I didn't make disparaging comments about you, your deck or your play. I didn't take my frustration out on you verbally by complaining about you getting lucky. I didn't refuse to shake hands with you. I lost, I signed the slip silently and I walked outside to try and clear my head for the second draft.
I agree that I could have been friendlier and in most cases I would have been. But I'm not sure what exactly you wanted me to say to your face afterwards.
Also, my exact tweet was "Mulled to 5 game 1 and then opponent victim of nighted his bitterheart witch when I had 5 1 toughness creatures and was attacking for lethal"
I don't see why you are taking such offense at this tweet; again, it isn't disparaging you, saying you played badly, or anything of that nature. It isn't trying to "excuse my losses".
The point of my tweet was not to provide a historical archive; it was to vent my frustration and clear my head for the next round. You may be correct that I didn't mulligan to 5 game 1; I am pretty sure that I did but that entire draft was a blur of everything going wrong. I remember the actual games perfectly but the opening hands are fuzzy. If I had instead said "Flooded horrifically and played 1 spell game 1; [....]"? Is that really a substantively different tweet? I am trying to convey information in as few words as possible.
As for game 2, that is completely factually accurate account of the match. And even if I only had 4 1 toughness guys, how does that change the story at all? My point was that I lost to a black curse by having all 1 toughness guys.
I play a lot of rounds of magic at a lot of tournament. I invest a lot of myself in the game and sometimes I'm going to have a bad moment or two where I am frustrated. I take my role as an ambassador of the game and a quasi-public figure very seriously and I get a lot of pleasure from meeting people at events. I am honestly very sorry that you interacted with me at a moment where I wasn't my best, but I would ask that you empathize a little with the situation and understand that if at my worst I silently leave a match that I just lost and exaggerate a bad beat story slightly as I try to de-tilt, I don't deserve to have my entire nature called into question in a public forum.
I could understand your frustration completely. Once again, I just got very disappointed when I accidentally read what I saw as an excuse for losing while being invulnerable to criticism (since usually when you mull to five and lose, there is very little you can do). I thought that because of the random nature of the game, it wouldn't be necessary to do that kind of stuff. However, if you just remembered the game incorrectly, that's another story. That was my initial understanding of the situation too, but I expected some kind of reply (online or in person) if it was the case. But you were too annoyed at the time to do that, and I understand.
Also, this was never about me personally. I was just disappointed at your behavior, as a named pro and someone people reading coverage (and indeed Twitter updates) look up to. I'm glad you offered an explanation, and I'm also sorry that I passed judgment based on your mood after 0-3ing a draft in a tournament where you needed to place in order to level up, and sorry for having made a big deal out of it.
Additionally, if you had made disparaging comments about my deck, that would have been completely deserved, as my deck was a total mess.
Hopefully we'll square off at the X-1 table or something next time, and the spirits will be higher
I don't deserve to have my entire nature called into question in a public forum.
I believe that Sene just wanted to set the record straight, as I have never seen him conduct himself in any type of malicious manner. In fact, he's one of the best players (and mods) on this site. If you took offense at his post, I believe your feelings are misplaced; as you stated, it was you who tweeted the wrong game state. I'm glad this is resolved and both parties have amicably come to a resolution.
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Draft one
This draft pod had a couple of named players; Tom Martell and Eric Froehlich. It was largely populated by players like me, who had rattled off three wins towards the end of day 1 to salvage an even record, and our tiebreakers were all horrible. I kicked off the draft with a Bonds of Faith, and I then got passed a Gavony Township, and decided to jump right into G/W Aggro, the best archetype. I kept to that for the next couple of picks, and took a Villagers of Estwald to tell everyone around me that I was green, and you should all keep out. Unfortunately for me, my neighbor to my immediate right did the same for the next pick, and suddenly I found myself forced out of G/W. I got a full eight solid playable B/R cards towards the end of the pack, and it looked like I completely abandoned the picks I had made, but red got cut in pack two, so I had to make an awkward white-black deck splashing green for the Township. I didn't keep the deck, but this was roughly how it looked:
1 Gavony Township
1 Forest
1 Isolated Chapel
6 Plains
8 Swamp
Creatures (15)
1 Bitterheart Witch
1 Elder Cathar
1 Stormkirk Patrol
3 Vampire Interloper
1 Village Cannibals
1 Silverchase Fox
1 Avacynian Priest
1 Mentor of the Meek
1 Markov Patrician
1 Screeching Bat
1 Walking Corpse
1 Typhoid Rats
1 Morkrut Banshee
1 Curse of Death's Hold
2 Bonds of Faith
1 Victim of Night
1 Tribute to Hunger
1 Traveler's Amulet
1 Unburial Rites
1 Silver-Inlaid Dagger
1 Manor Skeleton
1 Night Terrors
1 Brain Weevils
As you can see, it is not very good. Bad mana, the creatures aren't very powerful, and terrible cards flourish. The most realistic result with this deck would be 1-2.
Round 7: Daniel Rodriguez (ESP)
This was an incredibly frustrating match. I mulligan and have a bad draw in game one, but I still nearly win, despite him having a lethal Brimstone Volley, as he targeted my Bitterheart Witch with it instead of me, when I was sitting comfy at two life. Next game I mulligan to five, and am properly tilted; if I lose to the guy who decide to kill my creature instead of me I won't be happy. But thanks to an array of misplays on his part, I manage to win that game. Things are looking up, as I would surely be the favorite to win a game three. But it wasn't meant to be, his Gatstaf Shepherd eventually killed me after I could deal with the Somberwald Spider that halted my army of Vampire Interlopers.
1-2, 3-4 total. I knew that if I couldn't win this round, there was little hope for my deck. I hoped to win one more match, but I knew that the 0-3 was a definite possibility.
Round 8: Eric Froehlich (USA)
Froehlich's deck was a slow U/R/g Burning Vengeance-deck, and I basically couldn't deal with his Sturmgeist in games 1 and 3. His deck didn't seem very good, but neither did mine, and he had slightly better draws than I did (in game 1 I drew one spell after keeping). I probably would have won game 1 still if I hadn't fetched swamp with my Traveler's Amulet. My hand was plains, Gavony Township and all black cards. I gave it a couple of turns before I shrugged and found the swamp I needed, but after that I drew like five swamps in a row, and that Township would probably have been the difference in the game.
1-2, 3-5 total. Both of my teammates were winning, though, so it wasn't all bad. My hopes at this point were that I could be carried by my teammates to a decent finish, maybe top 8 in the team standings if we were lucky. Kristoffer was now inside the top 8 on the individual standings, which was very sick (it was his first Pro Tour).
Round 9: Tom Martell (USA)
We both keep seven (heh), and I quickly crush him with Vampire Interlopers and the 2/2 bat guy along with a Tribute to Hunger on his Chapel Geist. In game 2, he starts beating me down with spirits (Midnight Haunting, Lantern Spirit and Battleground Geist), and I figure out that the only way I can win is if I topdeck Victim of Night to go with the Bitterheart Witch in my hand, or Curse of Death's Hold. I topdeck Victim of Night the last possible turn (I was staring down seven damage, and I was at seven), and play Bitterheart Witch, and go for it in his upkeep. It worked, and from there it was easy to win.
2-0, 4-5 total. After the match, I was posting twitter updates for the Norwegians who wanted to follow us, and noticed that Martell had posted a tweet about the match also, where he claimed to have mulliganed to five and stuff when he had in fact not mulliganed even once during the match, and that he had some creatures in play in game two that he clearly hadn't. I was surprised and disappointed that a named player like him felt the need to make up bad beat-stories to excuse his losses, and I replied with this tweet:
He didn't answer me, but I overheard him telling his story again to friends of his while also adding that I «made fun of him on Twitter» or ran the «Twitter rub-ins». I fully expect him to make some kind of retaliation if he is to write a tournament report, because I lost my respect for the guy right there when he couldn't handle a loss (he also didn't handshake), and wouldn't talk to my face about it afterwards.
Anyway, time for the second draft, may it be better than the first!
Draft two
At my table were three players I recognized: Gaudenis Vidugiris (whom I'd already beat a couple of times at GPs/PTs), Antoine Maugard (I won against him in Philly), and Yann Massicard. The draft was very painful, as I was once again ended up in black-white. My first four picks were (in order) Dearly Departed, Elite Inquisitor, Midnight Haunting, Midnight Haunting, but after that there were only black cards. I disregarded some late blue signal as I was already heavy white-black, but boy was blue open on this table. It was extremely painful – Civilized Scholars went 7th and Undead Alchemist was still in the pack with THREE cards left. I don't know when I should have jumped into blue though, I was already so heavy white-black... But I knew one thing, if my opponent played an island, I couldn't win. Their deck would be way too broken.
My deck had some good synergy though, so I was hoping to lose to the blue player while winning the other two matches.
8 Plains
9 Swamp
Creatures (15)
1 Elite Inquisitor
1 Dearly Departed
2 Thraben Sentry
1 Vampire Interloper
1 Disciple of Griselbrand
1 Avacynian Priest
1 Mausoleum Guard
1 Elder Cathar
1 Fiend Hunter
1 Voiceless Spirit
1 Falkenrath Noble
1 Skirsdag High Priest
2 Walking Corpse
2 Corpse Lunge
1 Bonds of Faith
1 Altar's Reap
2 Midnight Haunting
1 Dead Weight
1 Victim of Night
1 Typhoid Rats
2 Shimmering Grotto
1 Gavony Township
2 Stromkirk Patrol
1 Night Terrors
Round 10: Emmanuel Ramirez Sanchez (MEX)
I was winning the first game pretty handily, but then he played Divine Reckoning, and he even had Lumberknot in play, so I was suddenly losing pretty hard. He did give me a topdeck when he made a bad attack (he had the win on board if he sent with everybody), but I didn't draw the game-winning removalspell that would have cleared his blocker and let my 5/5 demon get through. Game two was much less close, as I stumbled and he filled the board with (pretty large) men.
0-2, 4-6 total.
Round 11: Chin Yao Han (TWN)
In game one, I had Skirsdag High Priest, and he didn't deal with it. Or with other words: I crushed. I was winning game two, but then he played Demonmail Hauberk and Traitorous Instinct on my 7/6 Thraben Militia (which I had anticipated, so I had made sure to not die to it). He was still a few points away, and he had no creatures on the table while I was beating him down, but he topdecked Brimstone Volley to finish me off. I had Dearly Departed and Falkenrath Noble in game 3, and he couldn't answer the 5/5.
2-1, 5-6 total.
Round 12: Adrian Saredo (ARG)
Adrian played a lot of islands and swamps in game one, but couldn't really deal with my creatures, nor did he play many of his own, so I won very easily. Why the game was so easy I found out in game two, when my sideboarded Night Terrors revealed green cards sitting in his hand. He had Dead Weight, Murder of Crows, Skaab Goliath, Spidery Grasp and Curse of Death's Hold with Stitcher's Apprentice and a couple of islands in play. I took the Crows, and began «operation kill him before he Curses me». I succeeded, as his manabase seemed sketchy at best, and my removalspell in response to his Spidery Grasp was a complete blowout.
2-0, 6-6 total. Another day of mediocrity, but at least my teammates were doing okay. Kristoffer lost four in a row, but was still on 7-5, while Andreas did nothing but win all day, including with the weirdest limited deck seen all day. I don't remember exactly what it contained, but I could give some quick facts: It had five creatures, where Sturmgeist was the only one that could actually kill an opponent through damage (his two Selhoff Occultist contributed to a few decking wins, though). He had four Rolling Temblors. He was playing every color but white. He went infinite with Make a Wish (he had one Make a Wish and one removalspell in the yard, played another Make a Wish to get them back, killed a creature, played Make a Wish, repeat). He milled himself out with Forbidden Alchemies and Occultist only to keep returning the best cards with Memory's Journey and Make a Wish picking up Memory's Journey. Sample opening hand: Claustrophobia, Sensory Deprivation, Tribute to Hunger, Make a Wish, Make a Wish, Mountain, Mountain. Respect. So yeah, he was 7-5 as well, and we were now 12th in the team standings. Time for the next day (here)!
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Interesting about Tom Martell. I've never met him before even though I've met or known many pro players, living in Southern California and before in Northern CA. He must have been pretty frustrated at that time, but it's no excuse.
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Norin the Wary, Grimgrin, Adun Oakenshield (taking forever to build)(dead format for me)Being frustrated about a loss is completely okay and understandable. I just went a little when he made up stuff about the match.
I'm sure Martell is usually a good guy, though. Most people are.
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I can only imagine he must have felt ashamed or smth? I do not understand that, since he demonstrates weekly on CFB that he has no idea how to draft.
That's brilliant! I can just imagine the opponent's reaction: "What is this?! I'm playing at Worlds and I'm about to lose to double maindeck Make a Wish!"
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Any chance he did a report of his draft and deck?
I would love to see his pics and read his thought process.
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I beat him 2-1 , he didn't even shake hand. i lost respect of him this day.
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I also don't see the big deal about not shaking hands after matches. Personally, I'm a germophobe. I never offer handshakes, and I never take them.
didn't shake hand after , neither any smiler or gg ...
Saying to LSV how i was lucky to beat him bla bla !
I was happy to beat him more then when i win againts some other pro
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I'm sorry you've taken this brief encounter so personally. Normally I am happy to chat with my opponents after rounds, whether I win or lose. I try very hard to be a courteous and friendly opponent. In this case, I agree that I did not behave in a friendly way. I was extremely frustrated at the time. I had just 0-3'd a draft with a very reasonable deck after having a horrific day 1. I was coming off of two straight limited GPs where I went 1-5 and 2-4 on day 2 to get 0 pro points between them. I was playing in a tournament that I needed to top100 to level up so I was focused on the event and I took that loss pretty hard.
At the same time, I wasn't rude to you. I didn't make disparaging comments about you, your deck or your play. I didn't take my frustration out on you verbally by complaining about you getting lucky. I didn't refuse to shake hands with you. I lost, I signed the slip silently and I walked outside to try and clear my head for the second draft.
I agree that I could have been friendlier and in most cases I would have been. But I'm not sure what exactly you wanted me to say to your face afterwards.
Also, my exact tweet was "Mulled to 5 game 1 and then opponent victim of nighted his bitterheart witch when I had 5 1 toughness creatures and was attacking for lethal"
I don't see why you are taking such offense at this tweet; again, it isn't disparaging you, saying you played badly, or anything of that nature. It isn't trying to "excuse my losses".
The point of my tweet was not to provide a historical archive; it was to vent my frustration and clear my head for the next round. You may be correct that I didn't mulligan to 5 game 1; I am pretty sure that I did but that entire draft was a blur of everything going wrong. I remember the actual games perfectly but the opening hands are fuzzy. If I had instead said "Flooded horrifically and played 1 spell game 1; [....]"? Is that really a substantively different tweet? I am trying to convey information in as few words as possible.
As for game 2, that is completely factually accurate account of the match. And even if I only had 4 1 toughness guys, how does that change the story at all? My point was that I lost to a black curse by having all 1 toughness guys.
I play a lot of rounds of magic at a lot of tournament. I invest a lot of myself in the game and sometimes I'm going to have a bad moment or two where I am frustrated. I take my role as an ambassador of the game and a quasi-public figure very seriously and I get a lot of pleasure from meeting people at events. I am honestly very sorry that you interacted with me at a moment where I wasn't my best, but I would ask that you empathize a little with the situation and understand that if at my worst I silently leave a match that I just lost and exaggerate a bad beat story slightly as I try to de-tilt, I don't deserve to have my entire nature called into question in a public forum.
Cheers,
Tom
I could understand your frustration completely. Once again, I just got very disappointed when I accidentally read what I saw as an excuse for losing while being invulnerable to criticism (since usually when you mull to five and lose, there is very little you can do). I thought that because of the random nature of the game, it wouldn't be necessary to do that kind of stuff. However, if you just remembered the game incorrectly, that's another story. That was my initial understanding of the situation too, but I expected some kind of reply (online or in person) if it was the case. But you were too annoyed at the time to do that, and I understand.
Also, this was never about me personally. I was just disappointed at your behavior, as a named pro and someone people reading coverage (and indeed Twitter updates) look up to. I'm glad you offered an explanation, and I'm also sorry that I passed judgment based on your mood after 0-3ing a draft in a tournament where you needed to place in order to level up, and sorry for having made a big deal out of it.
Additionally, if you had made disparaging comments about my deck, that would have been completely deserved, as my deck was a total mess.
Hopefully we'll square off at the X-1 table or something next time, and the spirits will be higher
I believe that Sene just wanted to set the record straight, as I have never seen him conduct himself in any type of malicious manner. In fact, he's one of the best players (and mods) on this site. If you took offense at his post, I believe your feelings are misplaced; as you stated, it was you who tweeted the wrong game state. I'm glad this is resolved and both parties have amicably come to a resolution.