The shop I play at does a Monday night T1 proxy tournament. This was a while back, and I was playing some Onslaught-era elf deck because I had no idea how to play in T1.
Now everyone there was surprised that there were so many new players that night. My friends and I regularly drafted there but it was summer so we thought we'd try the T1 for once.
There were also some other new players, one of whom being some 12 year old with a clearly borrowed deck. Out of the 7 new players (myself included) none of us were equipped to deal with anything in T1.
So we quickly lost round one, and round two I'm up against the 12 year old. I'm off to a decent start (Llan elves, priest, Timberwatch and then Ambush Commander), but he's being an ******* the whole match. "Priest is broken, that's gay", etc.
I'm about to swing in for lethal damage because the only thing on his board is a Spiritmonger. My Coat of Arms has sealed the deal as far as I'm concerned.
I turn my guys sideways and ask him if there's anything he can do. Smirking like he has some kind of clever trick, he puts his spiritmonger up to my elves one by one, tapping mana to indicate that he's regenerating after each blocker.
I inform him that that's not how it works, and I have to call the TO over (it's not sanctioned, and he's effectively head judge too). The kid is being extremely petulant, yelling that 'That's not how I play the game.'
He ends up picking up my deck and throwing it across the room. I was livid at the time, but looking back it was absolutely ****ing hilarious.
Mine was also at PT hollywood 2008, PTQ side event tho. Its third round me/him 2-0. Its game 1 with me playing block faeries against his block mono black...Its late in the game and I double check with him about his life total, becuase we both have bitterblossoms, he has a different number than me and I realize I didn't record the last one. Either way call the judges and 20 minutes later we get a decision that math dictates to be correct. Becuase of the corrected life he loses 3 turns later, the judge sat down to finish watching over our match becuase the kid was getting heated over the decision not in his favor. We shuffle up and game 2 goes. Me turn 2 BB and on his turn 4 he plays a redcap and I play a scion to counter the damage at token, untap and drop a second scion which he imediatly yells at the judge sitting next to him that I am cheating...the judge tells him to keep quiet about that and finish the match, remember the judges took over 20 minutes to decide the ruling. At the end the head judge calls me over and says the kid came to him also to say that I cheated and the judge that was watching says he watched the whole match and watched me shuffle. He said I had nothing to worry about just avoid the guy cause he got a UC for it.
It was just so odd for me, I had never heard some one at the PTQ just scream out your cheating...
I will play what wins, not what is convenient. Personal preference is nothing, The win is all that matters. I will netdeck at every opportunity, but I will not let that stifle my creativity. Style points do not appear on tournament reports. A good deck with an incompetent pilot is nothing more than a dressed up match win. I will crush my opponent mercilessly, and expect no less from him. Victory is its own reward, The prize is just a bonus.
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Here's a little thing that went down on MODO. It's probably the worst, and oddest interaction i've ever had. (paper mtg i never had a problem)
2:16 OPPONENT (name removed): yeah you would need to play Blazing Archon to win a gme of macig, join the ranks of bandwagoning
rare requiring formula following losers LOL
yes, that's a direct copy paste from my word document of funny and interesting MTGO chat clippings
I also had another one prior to that where someone actually accused me of cheating on MTGO and hacking the system. He called me a few choice words, and I reported him. He eventually got a suspension after WoTc checked it all out, and after i gave them a screen shot.
First day of me playing MODO. I built the LOR Block Faeries deck to test block(Obviously). Best part about 2.5 was the way it screwed you if you didnt know what you were doing. So when I play my first match against a guy I still have my "phase skipping" thing still on so im missing being able to play stuff on his upkeep and stuff. I have no clue whats going on exactly and im typing "Why cant I play my Mistbind Clique during your upkeep its not giving me the chance to" I get the "Wow you are a noob not going to waste my time". Ok sorry I didnt know the in's and out's of MODO.
Couple of weeks later I meet the guy in a 8 man(I have obviously learned how to use MODO better). Spank him silly with Faeries. He got pretty upset and I just type "Noob huh?" Greatness
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When I first started playing, and had only just gotten a grasp on the rules, I entered a local store's tournament.
I wasn't aware of the entirety of the tournament rules (namely: best 2 out of 3). I had a close first match and lost once. My opponent tried to convince me that I now had to leave since I had lost my first match.
The store owner caught me on my way out, explained that I could still play at least one more match and I came back only to have the same opponent curse and insult me through a win and another loss.
I didn't go for another competitive event for about a year after that. Really ruined me on the game initially.
My experience involves an ALA/ALA/ALA draft and a kid who never ceased to be rude and obnoxious the whole night.
During the draft itself, he agonized over every pick of every pack (swearing occasionally) as if the world would end if he chose the "incorrect" card. He was one of those players who shuffled the cards in the booster before passing it to the next drafter; however, he also did this while looking at the cards. Combined with the fact that he was taking forever, this got annoying in a quirky sort of way. To make matters worse, his hands were dirty and disgustingly greasy. Thus, every card in the draft got greasy. (Greasetouch)
That annoyance was silly and minor, but it was only the beginning. I had to play against him in the second round of the draft tournament.
While he enjoyed the "strategy" behind shuffling the cards during the draft, he didn't seem to consider shuffling important when it came to the actual game. Soon after I started shuffling my deck, he held out his hand and shouted "Cut!" before I had even put it on the table. To cut, he grumbled, slowly peeled the top few cards of my deck face-down, and put them on the bottom. Clearly, through some sleight of hand, I must have stacked the deck- but he foiled my plans.
My deck was Esper colors and his was Black/Green/White. Turn two, I played Tidehollow Sculler and took his Elspeth, Knight-Errant, pissing him off and making him swear. Turn three, he played a Sculler of his own, took an Oblivion Ring or something, and made fun of me for having Cancel in my hand. Later on, he got his Elspeth back thanks to his maindecked Naturalize; he played Elspeth, I Canceled it, and he got furious. I went on to win that game.
Before the second match, he shuffled and cut like a normal person.
In the second match, he destroyed me; I kept a two-land hand with good cards but never drew a third land. The game would've been over quickly, but it was suspensefully drawn-out; in the middle of the match, he got a phone call from his buddy. He didn't say "excuse me" or "sorry, let me take this call" or anything to that effect; he didn't nod at me, motion to me, or even tell his friend he was playing MTG. They talked for about 5 minutes with him completely ignoring my presence. I'm a very patient, non-assertive person; I foolishly tried to convince myself that somehow his call was important when clearly it wasn't. It would have been a good time to be rude back to him but I shyly didn't.
Before the third match, I politely offered for him to cut after I was done shuffling. He grumbled, rolled his eyes, and said he didn't want to cut.
The third match was one of those give-and-take, down-to-the-wire kind of games. It would've been filled with laughs and memories if it had been against a friend, but this guy's attitude really ruined the whole experience and made it considerably less fun. Whenever he was winning, he was very cocky; whenever he was losing, he was melodramatic. I stayed pretty silent throughout the game; he had trouble holding back comments about every play... that is, until he started exchanging text-messages with a friend, pausing the game for distracting moments of deafening silence with no interaction. This was starting to test my patience considerably, and I really regret, in retrospect, doing nothing about it. I'm not sure whether I was shy to assert myself or just so fed up that I didn't care. Anyway, I won the game; I honestly can't think of another game of Magic I wanted to win more than this one.
But get this. As soon as I won, he turned around to the lady who kept score on the computer and simply said, "2-1." I made sure to add that I was the one who won the round. He scooped up his cards, grumbled, dropped from the tournament, and left the building.
Thankfully, I don't think I've ever dealt with anyone nearly as bad as this. This was frustrating at the time, but looking back it's pretty funny! I chuckled quite a bit while writing this.
Back at the Alara Reborn pre-release, I had built a great Naya deck. I had Borderposts, a Wooly Thoctar, 2 Druid of the Anima, Realm Razer, Retaliator Grifin, and a bunch of other bombs. I was doing great in this tournament. I was currently 2-0. I went to play another person who was 2-0 and we played. Game 1 I won by a long shot. He had nothing to do about it and turn 3 Wooly Thoctar just hurt him bad. He started claiming I was cheating and I just told him that I was just there to have some fun.
Angry, he just went to his side board and told me that I shouldn't mess with him (he used slightly more colorful language that that.) Game 2 was a blow out in his favor and he acted like he was better than anyone else there. Game 3 went the same way and he just wouldn't shut up over it.
After that I played someone else who I knew. He was 1-2 and even if he beat me, he couldn't make it to the Top 4. I told him this and asked him if he could just concede so I was able to keep going. He told me to sit down and play him. I was able to wipe the floor with him going 2-0.
Next was an annoying person I know. Whenever he wins, he says that you suck and that he is great. When he loses, he complains about using net decks and says that people who build them are losers with no life who can't play.
I played him game one and he didn't draw his mountain until turn 8 or 9 and he just scooped when I played a Thoctar. Game 2 he was yelling at me because I didn't tell him what a card did. I asked if he would like to see it when it came into play and he told me to hurry up so he could go. I won and he was angry.
I ended up splitting for 1st with the guy that beat me when I was at 2-0. He went undefeated. I graciously accepted my prize while he yelled at the TO about not being able to get cash or credit instead of the packs that he had won. I was happy walking away with somewhere around 9 packs of Reborn.
you know...this is such a shame. I know there are retards everywhere that can make any experience unpleasent, but i have to say that MagiTards are a particular breed.
In my area we have this guy everyone calls Angry Dave. Angry Dave tends to be loud, obnoxious and huh..i guess narcissistic.
He hates losing to "bad decks" and will be quite vocal about it. I asked him why he was so angry and he bluntly replied "because growing up i was beaten, made fun of and disliked. I get to feel superior at magic."
hmmmm. ok Angry Dave. Im gonna go over there now.
Do not use "retard" in a derogatory context like this.
You might want to give this more time so that way you can see if your feelings persist. If they do, they return to play with a -1/-1 counter and you gain 2 life.
This was during an eventide prerelease. One of my friend's and I decided to do a single elimination draft. Due to me being pretty new to the game, and the set included, I'm not really sure how to draft at all. I eventually end up with a mill deck (yes... with sluices and millfolk.) Somehow I get paired against my friend first round so I'm like okay, and I somehow win with my deck (milled him one game).
Second round I play against some guy, and he gets all made when he's almost about to lose the round to me due to mill. He kind of get's really choked and is like cursing at me because he's not topdecking the answer he needs to win. The guy starts to act like a dick and keeps calling me on things like, oh, you forgot to untap your land at the beginning of your turn, you don't get to untap it. Being new to the game I'm like whatever. He's down to his last few cards, about five so I think I've got this in the bag. Of course, eventually he wins because my deck is indeed crap so I don't complain, but still he could've been much nicer.
Sometimes if I'm losing due to some awesome play my opponent is making like milling all my fixing away with a Mind Funeral, I don't mind since it was pretty tech and magic is meant to be fun.
So many people saying they haven't had bad paper Magic experiences... so lucky. I thought it was inevitable. For one, I only play MWS with people I know. I'm not brave enough to play strangers due to stories heard. I only did it once, and the guy wasn't rude, he just quit after I said I didn't know how to do something well.
There's this guy who plays often at my local cardshop... He's not too rude or anything, but I HATE playing against him just because he's a little deaf and my voice is naturally low. He's also a Spike and I'm a Timmy... I'm glad to let him win 2-0 just so the match can be over. He's actually quite nice and we get along well while not playing, though.
It was at one of the States events... my deck was jank, I called it Fat Zoo (it ran stuff like Hierarchs, Mystic Enforcers, and the like). I was doing surprisingly okay, and I believe it was round 5, me being 3-1.
My opponent was playing a more conventional version of Zoo with his little guys, which were annoying...but somehow could not stand up to my small army of 4/4+ creatures.
We went into game 3, with his attitude getting poorer by the moment. A friend of his had stopped by to watch, and I could see the guy wincing every time my opponent mumbled nasty stuff under his breath.
Well, I ended up beating him, to the usual cry of "God, your deck sucks!"
My usual reply to this is "If that's so, then why did I just win?"
He took the match slip I had just signed and ran to the judge station with it. I didn't think anything of it until pairings for the next round had been announced.
My name wasn't anywhere to be found.
I went to talk to the HJ, who informed me that I'd dropped.
Um, what?
I admit that at this point I did something very stupid- yelling "What the ****!" at the judge station in front of the head judge isn't too bright, but fortunately I didn't get anything worse than a warning and an admonition not to let my match slip out of my sight when I am the winner.
And THAT's why I always try to check the pairings slip after I win, no matter how nice my opponent is. I expect others to do the same. I don't even leave my cards unattended with my best of friends. It's a habit that I think everyone should follow.
This story isnt about playing someone (initially), but I think it's still pretty relevent.
I've been playing since late Mirrodin block, but I don't play very much non-casual magic, and I found that when I went to FNMs, the people there could be pretty prickly. One of the first times I went to an FNM, during time sprial block, I saw a casual game where a girl who looked pretty new to the game was being beat up on in a match (Before the actual drafting started). I walked up and quietly mentioned that she could use a card in her hand to stop a certain creature. What I hadn't noticed was that the spell was green and the creature had pro-green. The guy next to her (who looked and sounded like the biggest combination of dork and jerk imaginable) turned out to be her BF and started calling me a noob when he pointed out my mistake, and then told me I could get kicked out of the store for interfering in matches. I asked if it was any kind of official match and he said "No, but it could have been." I apologised and left them alone.
A few months later I show up for triple lorwyn, clumsily draft B/R goblins and end up matched with the same guy from before. He starts beating me down pretty bad in the first match, and realises from what I'm playing that I'm not a great drafter and he's getting cocky. He's nearly got me beaten, and he's got two creatures down, to my single Hornet Harrasser. I cast Hostility and swing, being blocked by his first creature. Next turn I cast fodder launch, sac the Harrasser, killing his creature with it's effect, cast Tarfire on him and then swing for 27. The guy says good game very nicely, stands up from his chair, bends over and mimes taking something very large up the rear.
The next game he won pretty easily, and the third came down to the same situation as the first, except that he topdecked a Shriekmaw and took out the Hostility before I could Fodder Launch, and then killed me. The match was intense and we got on really well after that. I can't remember his name and I haven't seen him in over a year, but he and his GF turned out to be really nice, and I'd love to see them again.
Typing this out made me smile a little bit :). Better start budgeting to go back for more FNM to see if they still go.
PS: I realise now having read this again that it has little/no relevence to the topic since I ended up befriending the guy...woops.
We couldn't find the guy... otherwise he probably WOULD have gotten something rather more severe than a slap on the wrist.
Back on topic...
I see some talk about MWS experiences. I'm sure we've all had our fair share of those.
Noob tokens.
Inane rules violations.
I was playing Vile Horror just about a week ago and my opponent was adamant in thinking that his Hunted Horror tokens were his even though I technically own them. He disconnected before I could link him to the Comprehensive Rules.
I feel awful for Isamaru. He builds an amazingly innovative deck that abuses one of the lesser known rules in the game and the majority of players still don't seem to understand that even though I gave you tokens, I'm still the owner of them.
It doesn't surprise me then that Wizards removes the old token ownership rule in their rules changes for M10.
Noob tokens... well I rarely get those things. I was once called a "froob" a few years ago though multiple times by some stupid player >_>
PTQ in Edison during Lorwyn Block Constructed. We were in the 1-2 bracket, and he was playing a horrible build of kithkin (i was rocking a fulminator toast deck, though it was fairly lacking for the event as well). It went to game 3, and there was a bunch of time left in the round, so I ended up getting VERY ahead (with an oona in play and I think a Reveillark, obviously smooth sailing from there) so I figured what the heck and proceeded to mill him to death as opposed to just killing him. He wasn't happy. It almost got to the point where I thought that he was going to hit me.
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The worst is the people that complain about netdecking after losing. Sorry your bad Druid deck lost. Go complain to your friends about my deck, because I don't need to hear it. Just shut up and sign the match slip, seriously.
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The worst is the people that complain about netdecking after losing. Sorry your bad Druid deck lost. Go complain to your friends about my deck, because I don't need to hear it. Just shut up and sign the match slip, seriously.
I know. I beat someone with R/W Kithkin and they start complaining about how it takes no skill to play netdecks. We play another round and he beat me with some Jank Homebrew Treefolk deck. He starts gloating about it. Whenever I start beating this guy with anything, he starts to whine. Every time, which is often.
I haven't run into a lot of rude people because I don't play very much competitive Magic. There was a guy at a prerelease one time who, when I took a second mulligan and accidentally drew 6 cards was screaming "Judge!" before I had a chance to realize my mistake and put one back - I hadn't actually looked at the cards yet. They made me take a third mulligan down to 4. Needless to say I lost that game. Sure it was an error on my part but I hadn't seen any of the cards yet and this was a freaking PRERELEASE not a PTQ.
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you know...this is such a shame. I know there are retards everywhere that can make any experience unpleasent, but i have to say that MagiTards are a particular breed.
In my area we have this guy everyone calls Angry Dave. Angry Dave tends to be loud, obnoxious and huh..i guess narcissistic.
He hates losing to "bad decks" and will be quite vocal about it. I asked him why he was so angry and he bluntly replied "because growing up i was beaten, made fun of and disliked. I get to feel superior at magic."
+ Juan.
This game attracts a special breed of nerd and it ain't pretty.
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Dredge, Evo-Chord, U/G Faeries, Living End, Something New
It's worse etiquette to get annoyed at your opponent for following the letter of the rules than to follow the letter of the rules.
There are also degrees of enforcement of rules. It'd be one thing if I actually looked at the cards before he freaked out but they were all still face down in my hand and I was actually in the process of putting the extra card back on top when he started screaming. Prereleases are supposed to be the most casual and relaxed tournament environment which is why it's the ONLY tournament format I play in and this guy totally sucked all the fun out of that experience.
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"...because without beer, things do not seem to go as well."
There's this guy at my college who always flips out whenever we play him and we make a play that completely cripples his game plans such as PtE'ing his most important creature or nailing him with a cheap combo. Or better yet playing the classic control deck against him because an aggro player like him HATES control. It's even gotten to the point where he throws his decks against the wall when they repeatedly lose alot and to the point where he yells and picks fights with anyone who pisses him off during a game. Much to the point where they put him in his place and he starts to pout for a few minutes and then just walk off. He's a real nutcase and he's been talking about bringing a gun or a knife to school soon, but we never really take him seriously.
He's a real nutcase and he's been talking about bringing a gun or a knife to school soon, but we never really take him seriously.
Hm, how many news stories have I read with quotes from a crazy kid's friends exactly like this?
And then they always have, "If only we had gotten him help"
Hm, how many news stories have I read with quotes from a crazy kid's friends exactly like this?
And then they always have, "If only we had gotten him help"
Seriously, do something.
Nah, I believe he's been confronted by a few people and hasn't played any Magic recently. Plus he hasn't done anything crazy in awhile.
It was the Alara Reborn prerelease. A bunch of people from school decided to show up, (annoying because it makes there be more people, but really none of them are even remotely competitive..) and then there's this one person. He disputes EVERYTHING. As you'll find out later, in his world, the stack didn't exist.
So yeah. Round two I was paired up with him. (He lost game 1 (shocking.) and so did I. (actually I lost to an 8 year old. But he's the coolest 8 year old I've ever met. :P)) Eventually, I had him pretty badly messed up. I had my wall of creatures out, he had little whatevers out that didn't really make much difference to me. He played so slowly that we were about half an hour in, and we hadn't finished our first game, which was by no means a stall war. So yeah. I go to attack with a little creature with first strike or something, I forget exactly, but anyways, I decided I would bounce it back to my hand after it dealt damage. But of course, that didn't work in his world, as I said. Most of the people around us were done playing, so they were watching us because they saw how inefficiently the game was running. (sigh..) So yeah, I try to explain that you can bounce attackers back bla bla bla and his only response was "..No...." and a twisted face syndrome thing. Then I explained it again, and his response was the same. Then the guy who won Regionals in our area explained it to him. "..No...." he says. Then we call over the JUDGE. THE JUDGE. Hencely named judge explains to him about the rules. The kid thinks it over for a minute, but.. "..No....". And he denys the judge. So the judge explains it again. He says the same thing. By this point, the judge is getting kind of angry, and it had been 15 minutes since something happened. The judge just called the match in my favor. Thank god. <.<
Conflux prerelease, my first prerelease (or formal event, for that matter), had only been playing Magic for a maybe a month, so I was very inexperienced. It's a small thing, but it stuck out to me then and it sticks out to me now. I was being attacked into with a Rockslide Elemental and I had several saproling tokens. I asked if blocking with two Saprolings would be enough to kill it. He responded by telling me that he wasn't going to tell me how to play the game, so I, flustered a bit, stupidly just blocked with two. I then learned what happened
Everyone up to that point had helped me out as a new player; when I asked questions, they explained. I didn't think prereleases were meant to be that serious.
What really sucks is I would've won if it weren't for that ever-growing Rockslide that I could've killed. Which means I would've had a 4th win. At my first prerelease.
Why would your opponent tell you what the correct play was going to be? And you even said yourself that if the Rock Elemental was dead, you would've won that game. It's like throwing the match away.
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Now everyone there was surprised that there were so many new players that night. My friends and I regularly drafted there but it was summer so we thought we'd try the T1 for once.
There were also some other new players, one of whom being some 12 year old with a clearly borrowed deck. Out of the 7 new players (myself included) none of us were equipped to deal with anything in T1.
So we quickly lost round one, and round two I'm up against the 12 year old. I'm off to a decent start (Llan elves, priest, Timberwatch and then Ambush Commander), but he's being an ******* the whole match. "Priest is broken, that's gay", etc.
I'm about to swing in for lethal damage because the only thing on his board is a Spiritmonger. My Coat of Arms has sealed the deal as far as I'm concerned.
I turn my guys sideways and ask him if there's anything he can do. Smirking like he has some kind of clever trick, he puts his spiritmonger up to my elves one by one, tapping mana to indicate that he's regenerating after each blocker.
I inform him that that's not how it works, and I have to call the TO over (it's not sanctioned, and he's effectively head judge too). The kid is being extremely petulant, yelling that 'That's not how I play the game.'
He ends up picking up my deck and throwing it across the room. I was livid at the time, but looking back it was absolutely ****ing hilarious.
UGR Intet, the Dreamer
B Korlash, Heir to Blackblade
WUBRG Sliver Overlord
W Rune-Tail, Kitsune Ascendant
It was just so odd for me, I had never heard some one at the PTQ just scream out your cheating...
Personal preference is nothing, The win is all that matters.
I will netdeck at every opportunity, but I will not let that stifle my creativity.
Style points do not appear on tournament reports.
A good deck with an incompetent pilot is nothing more than a dressed up match win.
I will crush my opponent mercilessly, and expect no less from him.
Victory is its own reward, The prize is just a bonus.
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2:16 OPPONENT (name removed): yeah you would need to play Blazing Archon to win a gme of macig, join the ranks of bandwagoning
rare requiring formula following losers LOL
yes, that's a direct copy paste from my word document of funny and interesting MTGO chat clippings
I also had another one prior to that where someone actually accused me of cheating on MTGO and hacking the system. He called me a few choice words, and I reported him. He eventually got a suspension after WoTc checked it all out, and after i gave them a screen shot.
Couple of weeks later I meet the guy in a 8 man(I have obviously learned how to use MODO better). Spank him silly with Faeries. He got pretty upset and I just type "Noob huh?" Greatness
I wasn't aware of the entirety of the tournament rules (namely: best 2 out of 3). I had a close first match and lost once. My opponent tried to convince me that I now had to leave since I had lost my first match.
The store owner caught me on my way out, explained that I could still play at least one more match and I came back only to have the same opponent curse and insult me through a win and another loss.
I didn't go for another competitive event for about a year after that. Really ruined me on the game initially.
During the draft itself, he agonized over every pick of every pack (swearing occasionally) as if the world would end if he chose the "incorrect" card. He was one of those players who shuffled the cards in the booster before passing it to the next drafter; however, he also did this while looking at the cards. Combined with the fact that he was taking forever, this got annoying in a quirky sort of way. To make matters worse, his hands were dirty and disgustingly greasy. Thus, every card in the draft got greasy. (Greasetouch)
That annoyance was silly and minor, but it was only the beginning. I had to play against him in the second round of the draft tournament.
While he enjoyed the "strategy" behind shuffling the cards during the draft, he didn't seem to consider shuffling important when it came to the actual game. Soon after I started shuffling my deck, he held out his hand and shouted "Cut!" before I had even put it on the table. To cut, he grumbled, slowly peeled the top few cards of my deck face-down, and put them on the bottom. Clearly, through some sleight of hand, I must have stacked the deck- but he foiled my plans.
My deck was Esper colors and his was Black/Green/White. Turn two, I played Tidehollow Sculler and took his Elspeth, Knight-Errant, pissing him off and making him swear. Turn three, he played a Sculler of his own, took an Oblivion Ring or something, and made fun of me for having Cancel in my hand. Later on, he got his Elspeth back thanks to his maindecked Naturalize; he played Elspeth, I Canceled it, and he got furious. I went on to win that game.
Before the second match, he shuffled and cut like a normal person.
In the second match, he destroyed me; I kept a two-land hand with good cards but never drew a third land. The game would've been over quickly, but it was suspensefully drawn-out; in the middle of the match, he got a phone call from his buddy. He didn't say "excuse me" or "sorry, let me take this call" or anything to that effect; he didn't nod at me, motion to me, or even tell his friend he was playing MTG. They talked for about 5 minutes with him completely ignoring my presence. I'm a very patient, non-assertive person; I foolishly tried to convince myself that somehow his call was important when clearly it wasn't. It would have been a good time to be rude back to him but I shyly didn't.
Before the third match, I politely offered for him to cut after I was done shuffling. He grumbled, rolled his eyes, and said he didn't want to cut.
The third match was one of those give-and-take, down-to-the-wire kind of games. It would've been filled with laughs and memories if it had been against a friend, but this guy's attitude really ruined the whole experience and made it considerably less fun. Whenever he was winning, he was very cocky; whenever he was losing, he was melodramatic. I stayed pretty silent throughout the game; he had trouble holding back comments about every play... that is, until he started exchanging text-messages with a friend, pausing the game for distracting moments of deafening silence with no interaction. This was starting to test my patience considerably, and I really regret, in retrospect, doing nothing about it. I'm not sure whether I was shy to assert myself or just so fed up that I didn't care. Anyway, I won the game; I honestly can't think of another game of Magic I wanted to win more than this one.
But get this. As soon as I won, he turned around to the lady who kept score on the computer and simply said, "2-1." I made sure to add that I was the one who won the round. He scooped up his cards, grumbled, dropped from the tournament, and left the building.
Thankfully, I don't think I've ever dealt with anyone nearly as bad as this. This was frustrating at the time, but looking back it's pretty funny! I chuckled quite a bit while writing this.
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Back at the Alara Reborn pre-release, I had built a great Naya deck. I had Borderposts, a Wooly Thoctar, 2 Druid of the Anima, Realm Razer, Retaliator Grifin, and a bunch of other bombs. I was doing great in this tournament. I was currently 2-0. I went to play another person who was 2-0 and we played. Game 1 I won by a long shot. He had nothing to do about it and turn 3 Wooly Thoctar just hurt him bad. He started claiming I was cheating and I just told him that I was just there to have some fun.
Angry, he just went to his side board and told me that I shouldn't mess with him (he used slightly more colorful language that that.) Game 2 was a blow out in his favor and he acted like he was better than anyone else there. Game 3 went the same way and he just wouldn't shut up over it.
After that I played someone else who I knew. He was 1-2 and even if he beat me, he couldn't make it to the Top 4. I told him this and asked him if he could just concede so I was able to keep going. He told me to sit down and play him. I was able to wipe the floor with him going 2-0.
Next was an annoying person I know. Whenever he wins, he says that you suck and that he is great. When he loses, he complains about using net decks and says that people who build them are losers with no life who can't play.
I played him game one and he didn't draw his mountain until turn 8 or 9 and he just scooped when I played a Thoctar. Game 2 he was yelling at me because I didn't tell him what a card did. I asked if he would like to see it when it came into play and he told me to hurry up so he could go. I won and he was angry.
I ended up splitting for 1st with the guy that beat me when I was at 2-0. He went undefeated. I graciously accepted my prize while he yelled at the TO about not being able to get cash or credit instead of the packs that he had won. I was happy walking away with somewhere around 9 packs of Reborn.
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Second round I play against some guy, and he gets all made when he's almost about to lose the round to me due to mill. He kind of get's really choked and is like cursing at me because he's not topdecking the answer he needs to win. The guy starts to act like a dick and keeps calling me on things like, oh, you forgot to untap your land at the beginning of your turn, you don't get to untap it. Being new to the game I'm like whatever. He's down to his last few cards, about five so I think I've got this in the bag. Of course, eventually he wins because my deck is indeed crap so I don't complain, but still he could've been much nicer.
Sometimes if I'm losing due to some awesome play my opponent is making like milling all my fixing away with a Mind Funeral, I don't mind since it was pretty tech and magic is meant to be fun.
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There's this guy who plays often at my local cardshop... He's not too rude or anything, but I HATE playing against him just because he's a little deaf and my voice is naturally low. He's also a Spike and I'm a Timmy... I'm glad to let him win 2-0 just so the match can be over. He's actually quite nice and we get along well while not playing, though.
And THAT's why I always try to check the pairings slip after I win, no matter how nice my opponent is. I expect others to do the same. I don't even leave my cards unattended with my best of friends. It's a habit that I think everyone should follow.
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I've been playing since late Mirrodin block, but I don't play very much non-casual magic, and I found that when I went to FNMs, the people there could be pretty prickly. One of the first times I went to an FNM, during time sprial block, I saw a casual game where a girl who looked pretty new to the game was being beat up on in a match (Before the actual drafting started). I walked up and quietly mentioned that she could use a card in her hand to stop a certain creature. What I hadn't noticed was that the spell was green and the creature had pro-green. The guy next to her (who looked and sounded like the biggest combination of dork and jerk imaginable) turned out to be her BF and started calling me a noob when he pointed out my mistake, and then told me I could get kicked out of the store for interfering in matches. I asked if it was any kind of official match and he said "No, but it could have been." I apologised and left them alone.
A few months later I show up for triple lorwyn, clumsily draft B/R goblins and end up matched with the same guy from before. He starts beating me down pretty bad in the first match, and realises from what I'm playing that I'm not a great drafter and he's getting cocky. He's nearly got me beaten, and he's got two creatures down, to my single Hornet Harrasser. I cast Hostility and swing, being blocked by his first creature. Next turn I cast fodder launch, sac the Harrasser, killing his creature with it's effect, cast Tarfire on him and then swing for 27. The guy says good game very nicely, stands up from his chair, bends over and mimes taking something very large up the rear.
The next game he won pretty easily, and the third came down to the same situation as the first, except that he topdecked a Shriekmaw and took out the Hostility before I could Fodder Launch, and then killed me. The match was intense and we got on really well after that. I can't remember his name and I haven't seen him in over a year, but he and his GF turned out to be really nice, and I'd love to see them again.
Typing this out made me smile a little bit :). Better start budgeting to go back for more FNM to see if they still go.
PS: I realise now having read this again that it has little/no relevence to the topic since I ended up befriending the guy...woops.
I was playing Vile Horror just about a week ago and my opponent was adamant in thinking that his Hunted Horror tokens were his even though I technically own them. He disconnected before I could link him to the Comprehensive Rules.
I feel awful for Isamaru. He builds an amazingly innovative deck that abuses one of the lesser known rules in the game and the majority of players still don't seem to understand that even though I gave you tokens, I'm still the owner of them.
It doesn't surprise me then that Wizards removes the old token ownership rule in their rules changes for M10.
Noob tokens... well I rarely get those things. I was once called a "froob" a few years ago though multiple times by some stupid player >_>
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I know. I beat someone with R/W Kithkin and they start complaining about how it takes no skill to play netdecks. We play another round and he beat me with some Jank Homebrew Treefolk deck. He starts gloating about it. Whenever I start beating this guy with anything, he starts to whine. Every time, which is often.
He told me off for playing Affinity in the Casual room.
Except I wasn't playing Affinity, I was playing a budget B/W Clerics deck and Disciple happens to be a black Cleric.
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I think he was saying how he went against a very "picky" opponent.
Ruleshark would be the term, would it not?
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Hm, how many news stories have I read with quotes from a crazy kid's friends exactly like this?
And then they always have, "If only we had gotten him help"
Seriously, do something.
Nah, I believe he's been confronted by a few people and hasn't played any Magic recently. Plus he hasn't done anything crazy in awhile.
So yeah. Round two I was paired up with him. (He lost game 1 (shocking.) and so did I. (actually I lost to an 8 year old. But he's the coolest 8 year old I've ever met. :P)) Eventually, I had him pretty badly messed up. I had my wall of creatures out, he had little whatevers out that didn't really make much difference to me. He played so slowly that we were about half an hour in, and we hadn't finished our first game, which was by no means a stall war. So yeah. I go to attack with a little creature with first strike or something, I forget exactly, but anyways, I decided I would bounce it back to my hand after it dealt damage. But of course, that didn't work in his world, as I said. Most of the people around us were done playing, so they were watching us because they saw how inefficiently the game was running. (sigh..) So yeah, I try to explain that you can bounce attackers back bla bla bla and his only response was "..No...." and a twisted face syndrome thing. Then I explained it again, and his response was the same. Then the guy who won Regionals in our area explained it to him. "..No...." he says. Then we call over the JUDGE. THE JUDGE. Hencely named judge explains to him about the rules. The kid thinks it over for a minute, but.. "..No....". And he denys the judge. So the judge explains it again. He says the same thing. By this point, the judge is getting kind of angry, and it had been 15 minutes since something happened. The judge just called the match in my favor. Thank god. <.<
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Why would your opponent tell you what the correct play was going to be? And you even said yourself that if the Rock Elemental was dead, you would've won that game. It's like throwing the match away.