1. When people complain about the power level of my deck, I am sorry I have a bigger card pool than you? Spend 100$ on random EDH staples and you should be golden.
2. People complaining that I run infinite combos. I'm sorry I would like a way to win when suddenly everyone at the table turns on me?
People who aren't paying attention to the game (flipping through trade binders, etc) and people are waiting for them to take their turn / take damage / remove the card I Vindicated, etc.
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Someone who has no clue how to use Sensei's Divining Top, and activates it constantly even though they just did it before they even got to take their next turn.
Honestly, Top does not slow down games as badly as people think it does. The problem is when you have morons who just stare at the top 3 with no idea what to do -- that's when Top slows down the game.
My pet peeve is players who don't understand being a threat makes you a target. If you first turn Burgeoning'd into a turn two Primeval Titan and Gaddock Teeg (or whatever), you forgo your right to complain that the table is picking on you.
Also, people who are clueless to what's happening on the board and the politics of the game.
Oh god, this bugs me so bad. I hate it when I realize someone is going to win on their turn unless they are stopped but nobody else figures it out. I hate being the guy that turns wambulance to try and point out the big looming obvious threats.
Also, I hate it when people take turns that span centuries. Worse yet when all they are doing is spinning their wheels. True story: Once I had a Rafiq player on the ropes with my Chainer deck (I aim at him for lethal with a Drain Life backed up by Boseju and he Timestops it) then on his turn he plays Time Stretch. Then he takes one 15 minute turn doing nothing. Then he starts his next turn, and about 20 minutes in the store owner says turn off the lights to shut down the store. Still the guy is taking his turn, but I wait it out and kill him with 20 seconds of my turn.
URGHH. Its even worse in multiplayer games. I have time to go get a bite to eat or use the bathroom every time his turn comes around.
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When people attack the person who is not the biggest threat in the game, thus ensuring the person who is will definitely win in short order. Most of all it ensures they themselves will lose.
Not paying attention to the game is a huge one of mine. Playing slowly is another. I have one friend who spends everyone else's turns texting or talking or other useless crap, and then when his turn rolls around he spends 30 seconds untapping, 2 minutes surveying the board, draws a card, spends another 2 minutes figuring out what he wants to do, a minute cracking a fetch and figuring out whether he wants the shock untapped or not, casts a spell, takes it back when it's pointed out to him that it does something he doesn't want it to, casts another spell, and then passes the turn. And that's a normal turn. God forbid he casts something like Yawgmoth's Bargain or Time Spiral. I've literally waited 15 minutes on him to do nothing more than wipe the board and draw some cards. And his threat assessment is atrocious. He once main phased a Krosan Grip on my Gilded Lotus when the Momir Vig player had out an Aluren, which then killed us all when the Vig player untapped. /facepalm
Attempting to go toe to toe with somebody who has a necropotence is cringeworthy at 20 life, let alone 40. I can't believe Yawgmoth's Bargain got banned but the 3 CMC, way easier to actually hard cast and manipulate smiling skull is kosher.
My pet peeve is players who don't understand being a threat makes you a target. If you first turn Burgeoning'd into a turn two Primeval Titan and Gaddock Teeg (or whatever), you forgo your right to complain that the table is picking on you.
Very much this, it is so irritating to hear people complain about being "hated out" by the table when they make very explosive, very powerful plays. Even more so when these plays happen earlier than normally expected.
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I guess this would apply to casual games in general, but when someone says "That's a collectors edition card. You can't use it." My friend has several collectors edition cards and I have no problem with it.
People who sneak things on and off the stack during more complicated other things; I understand EDH is a little looser with the rules but mystical tutoring when I have mill stone and I'm not paying attention because I'm trying to figure out combat math is sneaky.
White, yea the color white. I hate it so much in multiplayer. The color of justice has so many hosers and taxing cards that are asymmetrical. That and it's cornucopia of malleable sweepers make me eye roll and gun for anyone who's packing white.
Politics, not in the pointing out of threats sense, but in the "we're friends so we're not going to foil each other's game plans" sense.
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"I think EDH would be more fun for the majority of participants if players just showed eachother their decks rather than actually playing games out."
Doing other stuff while playing is fine as long as you are good at multitasking, otherwise it is a pain.
My biggest pet peeve is all the people that complain about decks or strategies being too competitive or unfun, similarly when people ban a person from playing a deck or just stop playing with that person.
My next one would be when people play slow, take really long turns, and do nothing in those turns. We have one person in my group like that and it is horrible (he made a dralnu deck and over the course of the game played 3 non-land cards)
Third is all the people who cry out for preemptive bannings every spoiler season.
2. People complaining that I run infinite combos. I'm sorry I would like a way to win when suddenly everyone at the table turns on me?
Those are my two biggest pet peeves in edh.
What are yours?
That's funny, because I really don't like when people infinite combo. It's like they choose to ignore the gamestate and just "go off." There's obviously a reason the table is turning on you (maybe the combos?)
I used to be "that guy" who ran Liliana Vess into Time Stretch into Mnemonic Wall into Time Stretch into Rite of Replication (yeah, practically 1-card combo) into win, but then I realized just how unfun it is. There are too many tutors in EDH to make the "1-of" excuse. Also, suddenly to make "optimal plays" you have to start comboing off. Also, a mono-green deck and I were fighting each other for dominance over the table (it was pretty fun), when he went Planar Portal -> Emrakul, the Aeons Torn + Erratic Portal. Frankly, winning the game through an infinite combo is stupid. Synergy, I can get behind.
I don't like people who complain about extra/long turns; if they're not and won't go infinite, relax and watch the show. Patience is a virtue, after all. And you have other players to, you know, talk to?
Decks that win the same way every time (or win using the same card every time). One thing that I used to love about EDH was that practically every game would be different.
Decks that only win by attacking with their general and decks that always win using the same combo or 1-2 card strategy are just boring, IMO. Even if they're easy to stop, I like to see something new if I play 5 games with the same deck.
1. When people complain about the power level of my deck, I am sorry I have a bigger card pool than you? Spend 100$ on random EDH staples and you should be golden.
2. People complaining that I run infinite combos. I'm sorry I would like a way to win when suddenly everyone at the table turns on me?
Those are my two biggest pet peeves in edh.
What are yours?
I have a buddy who runs Moxes, Library of Alexandria, and an Ancestral Recall in any deck that fits them. That doesn't bother me--in EDH, one extra mana or three extra cards is not the end of the world.
Unless, you know, he decides he's gonna use them to infinite combo out on the table.
I mean honestly what's the point in even sitting down to play with my deck that I spent hours creating--coming up with a uniting theme, finding fun cards and combos, putting in cards that have good synergy and are thematic--when someone is just going to combo out? Can you really not see how people who make their own decks and put time, energy and personality into them get a little upset because some genius figured out a "neat trick" that happens to lock the board down by turn 3 or 4?
Honestly, if there's one thing that bothers me more than this it's Magic players who think they are better than other players because A) they have more/better cards or B) they win a lot. Elitism should have no place in this game, and certainly not EDH.
My peeve is when your deck is designed to play casual, and your opponent hoses you by turn 4. Why did I even sit down? I would like to play with all (near all) the cards MTG has to offer, not just the standard staple combo out ultra expensive cards.
There should seriously be some kind of EDH rule where you are not allowed to damage an opponent more than the current turn. ie: If it's your turn 1, 1dmg max. When it becomes your turn 2, you can do 2 dmg max. That gives 8-9 turns to get your casual deck up and running and makes for an exciting match.
Turn 4-5 wins. I'm all for wacky insane plays, and moments you'll remember... but Storm comboing everyone at the table on turn 4 is a bit extreme. Granted, I'm not a fan of 3 hour games either... but I'd like to see what everyone's deck is about before we lose.
Honestly I can't stand long creatures stalls, or those "casual" games that drag on for hours. Realistically if it's taking so long for my next turn to come up that I feel I need to play video games on my phone to keep myself entertained, it's really just taking too long (currently I'm playing through FF7 on my phone on during long EDH games, it will be a sad day when I beat it that way). Also an EDH game should never take more than a couple hours (hell even that's boringly long). We've always had the philosophy that if the game ends quickly, we can simply play more games.
Also I disapprove of people who don't like proxies, I mean I make a point of making beautiful printed proxies, that at a distance of about a foot are nearly indistinguishable from the real thing. Yet some people just want to spend massive stacks of money on the game, and feel that I should repeat their mistake. Listen, it's fine if you wanted to spend hundreds of dollars on your stuff, more power to you, thanks for supporting the game for me, I'm very cool with these people. But if you feel like everybody else should do that too, that's your problem. My group will happily ostracize you.
As someone said earlier, people who use Obliterate, Apocalypse, etc. Just to stall the game, not to actually win it.
Emrakul. It seems like most of the decks I play against that have emrakul pretty much base their deck around casting emrakul and nothing else. I don't care if you can hardcast emrakul on turn 4, do something not completely predicatble, boring, and lame.
Minions in multiplayer matches. You know, the people who never really think for themselves, but just sit there and do the bidding of one other person the whole match.
Like many people here, I think my biggest (indeed, only) peeve is people who play LD without good reason. Sure, if you're a Jhoira deck and have an Emrakul coming down, Obliterate is a game-ender, but what the hell is the point of playing a turn 8 Armageddon with an empty hand and board? It's just annoying.
(Also, people who play Leyline of the Void when I'm using Shirei. :tongue:)
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2. People complaining that I run infinite combos. I'm sorry I would like a way to win when suddenly everyone at the table turns on me?
Those are my two biggest pet peeves in edh.
What are yours?
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Honestly, Top does not slow down games as badly as people think it does. The problem is when you have morons who just stare at the top 3 with no idea what to do -- that's when Top slows down the game.
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Also, people who are clueless to what's happening on the board and the politics of the game.
Oh god, this bugs me so bad. I hate it when I realize someone is going to win on their turn unless they are stopped but nobody else figures it out. I hate being the guy that turns wambulance to try and point out the big looming obvious threats.
Also, I hate it when people take turns that span centuries. Worse yet when all they are doing is spinning their wheels. True story: Once I had a Rafiq player on the ropes with my Chainer deck (I aim at him for lethal with a Drain Life backed up by Boseju and he Timestops it) then on his turn he plays Time Stretch. Then he takes one 15 minute turn doing nothing. Then he starts his next turn, and about 20 minutes in the store owner says turn off the lights to shut down the store. Still the guy is taking his turn, but I wait it out and kill him with 20 seconds of my turn.
URGHH. Its even worse in multiplayer games. I have time to go get a bite to eat or use the bathroom every time his turn comes around.
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Attempting to go toe to toe with somebody who has a necropotence is cringeworthy at 20 life, let alone 40. I can't believe Yawgmoth's Bargain got banned but the 3 CMC, way easier to actually hard cast and manipulate smiling skull is kosher.
Very much this, it is so irritating to hear people complain about being "hated out" by the table when they make very explosive, very powerful plays. Even more so when these plays happen earlier than normally expected.
Also, single-targetted discard.
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White, yea the color white. I hate it so much in multiplayer. The color of justice has so many hosers and taxing cards that are asymmetrical. That and it's cornucopia of malleable sweepers make me eye roll and gun for anyone who's packing white.
Politics, not in the pointing out of threats sense, but in the "we're friends so we're not going to foil each other's game plans" sense.
My biggest pet peeve is all the people that complain about decks or strategies being too competitive or unfun, similarly when people ban a person from playing a deck or just stop playing with that person.
My next one would be when people play slow, take really long turns, and do nothing in those turns. We have one person in my group like that and it is horrible (he made a dralnu deck and over the course of the game played 3 non-land cards)
Third is all the people who cry out for preemptive bannings every spoiler season.
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That's funny, because I really don't like when people infinite combo. It's like they choose to ignore the gamestate and just "go off." There's obviously a reason the table is turning on you (maybe the combos?)
I used to be "that guy" who ran Liliana Vess into Time Stretch into Mnemonic Wall into Time Stretch into Rite of Replication (yeah, practically 1-card combo) into win, but then I realized just how unfun it is. There are too many tutors in EDH to make the "1-of" excuse. Also, suddenly to make "optimal plays" you have to start comboing off. Also, a mono-green deck and I were fighting each other for dominance over the table (it was pretty fun), when he went Planar Portal -> Emrakul, the Aeons Torn + Erratic Portal. Frankly, winning the game through an infinite combo is stupid. Synergy, I can get behind.
I don't like people who complain about extra/long turns; if they're not and won't go infinite, relax and watch the show. Patience is a virtue, after all. And you have other players to, you know, talk to?
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Decks that only win by attacking with their general and decks that always win using the same combo or 1-2 card strategy are just boring, IMO. Even if they're easy to stop, I like to see something new if I play 5 games with the same deck.
I have a buddy who runs Moxes, Library of Alexandria, and an Ancestral Recall in any deck that fits them. That doesn't bother me--in EDH, one extra mana or three extra cards is not the end of the world.
Unless, you know, he decides he's gonna use them to infinite combo out on the table.
I mean honestly what's the point in even sitting down to play with my deck that I spent hours creating--coming up with a uniting theme, finding fun cards and combos, putting in cards that have good synergy and are thematic--when someone is just going to combo out? Can you really not see how people who make their own decks and put time, energy and personality into them get a little upset because some genius figured out a "neat trick" that happens to lock the board down by turn 3 or 4?
Honestly, if there's one thing that bothers me more than this it's Magic players who think they are better than other players because A) they have more/better cards or B) they win a lot. Elitism should have no place in this game, and certainly not EDH.
I hate it when people take half-hour turns with Momir Vig
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My peeve is when your deck is designed to play casual, and your opponent hoses you by turn 4. Why did I even sit down? I would like to play with all (near all) the cards MTG has to offer, not just the standard staple combo out ultra expensive cards.
There should seriously be some kind of EDH rule where you are not allowed to damage an opponent more than the current turn. ie: If it's your turn 1, 1dmg max. When it becomes your turn 2, you can do 2 dmg max. That gives 8-9 turns to get your casual deck up and running and makes for an exciting match.
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Also I disapprove of people who don't like proxies, I mean I make a point of making beautiful printed proxies, that at a distance of about a foot are nearly indistinguishable from the real thing. Yet some people just want to spend massive stacks of money on the game, and feel that I should repeat their mistake. Listen, it's fine if you wanted to spend hundreds of dollars on your stuff, more power to you, thanks for supporting the game for me, I'm very cool with these people. But if you feel like everybody else should do that too, that's your problem. My group will happily ostracize you.
As someone said earlier, people who use Obliterate, Apocalypse, etc. Just to stall the game, not to actually win it.
Emrakul. It seems like most of the decks I play against that have emrakul pretty much base their deck around casting emrakul and nothing else. I don't care if you can hardcast emrakul on turn 4, do something not completely predicatble, boring, and lame.
Minions in multiplayer matches. You know, the people who never really think for themselves, but just sit there and do the bidding of one other person the whole match.
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(Also, people who play Leyline of the Void when I'm using Shirei. :tongue:)