I remember a few. One was this toolbox that was the only person in our tournament scene to have the P9, and he made sure everybody knew it. If you had the misfortune of playing him, he and his little lackey that followed him around everywhere would mock you and generally make the game no fun. The exception to this rule was if you were a good player, in which case he was all Mr. Serious McFrownscowl. He eventually got a perma-ban from our tournaments when he jumped across a table at another player.
The guy that was the most hated in our playgroup, I am sad to say, existed because I was the one that taught him Magic. Before this he had been playing in Saturday night Pokemon tournaments against 6-10 year old kids (he was 18), and since he had a job and the money to do so, he built decks that none of them could ever hope to beat. So, naturally, soon after learning Magic he started amassing an enormous collection of cards, and heaven help you if you wanted to trade with him because each of those cards was worth everything in your binder, plus your firstborn child. Last I heard he got burned on an E-bay deal for a set of P9 (back when you could get them for ~$200, and a lotus for ~$400) and sold off his cards. To this day, some 10 years later, my friend and I still refer to him as "the D-bag."
lol at beating up on 8 year olds!!! He should have quit that game before he was twice as old as the players. But you cant blame youself for creating a "monster," couldn't expect he'd become the ultraspike that thought he was pro material. The "my cards are twice as expensive as yours" guys are kinda annoying every so often that seems to happens, generally i just laugh at em and try to do the same thing back to them.
him-"yeah ill trade my steppe lynx for your tarmogoyf...its atleast an
me- "how bout my full art basicl land for 3 baneslayers...afterall theyre crap"
it usually solves the problem pretty quick. I mainly see these people during big pre-releases. but those dont happen very much anymore though.
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If you see someone playing a control deck, the following strategy is considered acceptable: 1) Slowly reach upward 2) Grab your opponent firmly by the throat 3) Squeeze 4) ???? 5) Profit...and a fountain of red Kool Aid!!!
Happened to my brother right after Alara Reborn came out. Seems like everyone who wants to rip on people comes out of the woodwork then. He traded a Meddling Mage (when they were $20) for a pair of Memory Erosions. Luckily, on that day, the bad karma I had amassed from ripping him off of his foil Charizard (waaaaayyy back in the day) transferred over to whoever got the mage.
As a side note, don't ever give him a bad trade. You'll regret it later.
Well, back in the old days, there was this rather enormous wad of feces that would trundle along with multiple binders of goodies, that he assured us, were not for trade. I questioned why he brought them along in the first place, since almost every other week he would lose it and go berserk, pointing out people he suspected had stolen it. He was not the coolest person to play with, either, since he went into ragemode if you were about to win / won / touched (made a motion towards from a foot away) his cards in any shape, form, or fashion.
Everyone knows that good luck and good game are such insincere terms that any man who does not connect his right hook with the offender's jaw on the very utterance of such a phrase is no man I would consider as such.
So, I was going to this shop, and the round 1/FINAL opponent had/was the worst temper/net-deck/attitude/rule whore. Eventually there was a play that made ME look good at the expense of him, and he flipped the table/spewed curses/attempted physical violence. I then proceeded to pull out a .45 and shot him/make him look bad AGAIN. He left the FNM/PTQ and never came back.
I'd say the framework that I just posted accounts for 80-90% of these stories. Seems like a great way to encourage other people to continue to play magic. I'm not saying that it's your fault; the person undoubtedly instigated it. But you guys can be much more civil than that.
I'm firmly convinced it's because the people who play this game use the game as their sole outlet of competition. Play more sports, even if it's casually. I wouldn't even blame the Spikes, because rules should be upheld. It's just the attitudes of these hypercompetitive people, who come to this thread saying whoooo look at this guy, isn't he an ☺☺☺☺☺☺☺? when really they are portrayed negatively.
I've had very good experiences at FNM. Between people wishing you good luck on later rounds, letting you retake moves/clarify rules, and just joking and talking with the opponent during shuffling. Try it sometime.
One guy in particular, in New York State, gets props. Draft Shard/CFX/ALA guy casts bloodbraid into a dregscape zombie. I cast lapse of certainty, but cast it at the bloodbraid instead of the zombie. He clarifies that cascade will STILL trigger, then lets me cast it on the Dregscape. I won that game, but he won the match, so I could care less about that.
Actually OT - worst guy - So, I was going to this shop, and the round 3 opponent had the worst temper,attitude, and was a rule whore. Eventually there was a play that made ME look good at the expense of him (Terastadon-->18pt of power on board), and he spewed curses. Overall, he wasn't a bad guy, just a little hyper competitive. Also, overweight.
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Everyone knows that good luck and good game are such insincere terms that any man who does not connect his right hook with the offender's jaw on the very utterance of such a phrase is no man I would consider as such.
Even better: Untap, attack, draw during second main, untap the land they missed, play a sorcery during your upkeep. It always works.
Oi, that. Yeah. We got quite a few new people other than our 'regulars' last week, since a friend of mine decided to TO a sanctioned Type 2 tourney. Nothing big, the prizes were a few packs of WWK, 5 bucks to enter. I was the head judge, and I had to sit down with THREE different kids, ages 10-17, and explain to them why all of their Kamigawa and Mirrodin cards weren't legal for the tournament. Then a friend of mine helped them cut their now 200 card (down from 300+) decks into 60 card decks, which was nice of him. I also got called on a guy who was proxying, because he thought 'this was a casual tournament, I thought it was okay'. I also had to explain to two kids who were playing each other why "regenerate" does not mean "put a dead card from your graveyard back onto the battlefield".
I'm all for helping people learn the game, but it's a lot harder when they insist that you're wrong.
Overall, he wasn't a bad guy, just a little hyper competitive. Also, overweight.
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I hate people who look down on younger players(not 10 or 11, I mean 15 or 16) as worse. I've seen quite a few, including one who used sarcasm in EVERYTHING. He scooped after two missed mana drops in the early game, and I, trying to be sympathetic, asked, "Mana screw?"
He responded, "No, I had all the lands I wanted, I just didn't want to play them," and rolled his eyes condescendingly.
He's stopped coming to our store. He was a pretty bad player. Netdecked 5 color control when it became "cool" and 0-3'd/1-2'd most tournaments.
I hate people who look down on younger players(not 10 or 11, I mean 15 or 16) as worse.
Last T2 FNM I lost pretty hard to an 11-12 y.o. kid playing U/W allies while I was piloting a 4xBSA deck. (It was awesome.) Some of them kids know what's goin' on.
I can never quite figure how to act around the people who get angry (not even directed at anyone) when they have mana problems. Alternatively, not sure what to do when someone plays Diabolic Servitude in EDH and then quits when people start targetting him to get rid of it... I really don't seem to encounter people who are rude, just angry.
Last T2 FNM I lost pretty hard to an 11-12 y.o. kid playing U/W allies while I was piloting a 4xBSA deck. (It was awesome.) Some of them kids know what's goin' on.
I don't underestimate them anyway. I was stating that, although it's somewhat understandable if you underestimate a 10 year old, it's completely irrational to underestimate a 15-16 yr old.
I would just say don't underestimate people in general. I got whooped by a 13 year old the other day because I wasn't really paying attention, thinking I had the game in the bag.
OT- The rudest opponents I've had are people who don't care what you do. I once played a game where a guy was solving a rubix cube on my turns, totally oblivious to my moves. Also, at the WWK prerelease, I played a guy who would flash me his wincon before the game started. It wasn't so much rude as annoying.
However, in today's culture of Justin Bieber, Jersey Shore, and Twilight, where every song on the radio, every program on television and every site on the internet is just another monument to the pinnacle of human stupidity, it's certainly not the worst thing that people could be watching.
The one that comes to mind for me wasn't actually a bad player, as my opponent was a decent guy, but the judge.
It was an extended tournament about eight years back. I was playing blue control. Four Faerie Convlaves were the closest things I had to creatures, my (theoretical) kill was Grindstone. My opponent was playing white weenie centering around Serra Avatar, which made it rather difficult to mill him into defeat.
The first game was a drawn out affair where I eventually pecked him to death with the conclave. In the second game, he kept continually drawing the avatars, and I was running out of tricks to keep it at bay. It was just a matter of time, so I was quite relieved when the judge called time.
Up to that point, whenever it went to the time limit, the judge had always ended the games right there. However, this time he walked over, looked at us, and told us we could finish the game. About ten minutes later, he finally defeated me, taking the round to 1-1.
I was rather annoyed that my win had become a draw, but then I got more bad news. The judge decided we should have a third game, and first damage or loss of life would end the bout. Great, if I tried to Force of Will one of his weenies, my game was over. If the weenie hit the board, it would be several turns before I could do anything about it, and my game was over.
I got very lucky though, got a first turn conclave, and he didn't draw any low casting cost creatures. He actually seemed happy that I won, I suspect he thought the rulings were a little off as well.
The strange part is, as far as I know, the judge had nothing against me. We usually got along fairly well, so I don't know what was up with him that day.
I would just say don't underestimate people in general. I got whooped by a 13 year old the other day because I wasn't really paying attention, thinking I had the game in the bag.
Some of us kids know what we're doing.
I had this one guy I played with a few times (casually), and it was really annoying because he kept "accidentally" cheating. Drawing an extra card when I wasn't looking (or so he thought) was really annoying. I pulled out my mill deck and nipped that puppy in the bud, though. The other one was when he searched his library, he'd drop his cards, start picking them up and drop one into his hand, claiming it had "already been there" and it had just "gotten seperated from the other cards".
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About 8 years ago I think, I was playing Extended Red Deck Wins in a tourney vs a regular at the store who was playing Tog. After beating him pretty quickly, I said GG and held my hand out for him to shake. He slapped it away and went on a 15 minute rant , berating me saying that the only reason I am doing that is because I won and how people only say "GG" when they win ...blah blah.
The guy was known for being a somewhat rude jerk, but I had never seen anything like this. For some reason the TO thought it didn't warrant a DQ or even a warning (he was a frequent buyer of tons of magic product, probably had something to do with it) and he pretty much ruined the rest of my night. Keep in mind at the time I was 16 or so at the time and was just starting to play competitive magic, this guy was a 40 year old acting like a child.
You should do that before the game starts, or else the idiots think you are being a jerk. "Have a good game" at the beginning is sometimes better than "Good game" at the end, because sometimes the latter is followed by "☺☺☺☺ you".
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- To my youngest sister when she was 6.
Everyone knows that good luck and good game are such insincere terms that any man who does not connect his right hook with the offender's jaw on the very utterance of such a phrase is no man I would consider as such.
You should do that before the game starts, or else the idiots think you are being a jerk. "Have a good game" at the beginning is sometimes better than "Good game" at the end, because sometimes the latter is followed by "☺☺☺☺ you".
No, his opponent should grow up and not act like a 6 year old.
I haven't had any super-bad experiences per se, but there has been a few games where my opponent just sits there sulking as their newest rogue creation gets trounced, and then refuses to say anything afterwards. Even if I try some friendly chatter, these guys just zone out and get up without saying a word, aside from groaning and swearing at their draws. My other friends call these guys joy-sucks, and it totally ruins the entire game. FNM is supposed to be a casual tournament, don't act like it's the end of the world....
Why would "good game" be considered rude, especially since I mean it. I normally say "good luck" before the game anyway, I am pretty sure I said it way back then as well.
Yeah, it was a pretty one sided game, but he fought hard to win and it didn't work out, I said " good game " because, in my opinion , he did play a good game. I deserve to get berated for 15 minutes because of it?
The rudest opponent I ever encountered was at the 2HG Coldsnap prerelease. Our opponent played Dark Depths, and snickered about how "ridiculous" it would be if he managed to beat us with Marit Lage. The game ended up stalling for much longer than we had hoped for, and he ended up getting the token into play. He promptly pulls the gigantic Coke cup he is drinking out of and places it on the battlefield to represent Marit Lage. He "attacked" with the cup by aggressively placing it near our decks, with way too much enthusiasm. Each turn he attacked he exclaimed loudly how "he couldn't believe these guys were going to lose to Marit Lage" and how "pitiful it was that they couldnt even stop my coke cup Marit Lage." It pains me to say that we didn't draw the bounce in our decks, and ended up losing. He ends up calling his friends over and saying "THESE GUYS JUST LOST TO OUR MARIT LAGE! I CANT BELIEVE THEY ACTUALLY LOST! ITS SO PITIFUL!" and proceeds to giggle in a high pitched nasally tone for a good few seconds while we wait with our hands outstretched, to concede with a friendly handshake, until he finally stopped cackling.
Electrohead, you're a man above me, that's for sure. I just started playing a few months ago, but I come from a totally different environment than most people who play Magic, and if someone went off on me like that I'd literally attack them and probably get banned from playing any more. I've never had anyone do anything remotely insane like that.
LOL yeah. I was kinda tempted but I figured him making a fool out of himself in front of 25 or so players/shoppers would be good enough. A lot of people lost respect for him after that , he started coming less and less and eventually disappeared.
Why would "good game" be considered rude, especially since I mean it. I normally say "good luck" before the game anyway, I am pretty sure I said it way back then as well.
Never rude when you say "Good Game", or "Good luck", unless you say it to mock them which I haven't seen anyone do yet.
Saying GG after a actual tense game, and when the other person gives you a smug look and reacts "No, it wasn't..."
That's rude, on their part atleast.
Anyway, I got another one: At one of the stores a long while ago, I played a Team Draft with the regulars. I normally never do Team Drafts but one of my good friends was there plus a couple others. So I decided to do so because I had nothing else to do.
Anyway, It was a Shadowmoor * 3 draft, we get our decks and we play. The second matchup was against this guy: A year younger then I at the time (17 ~ 18.), kind of loud in general, and he's always in the Pro scene along with the rest of the regulars in the shop. This guy has always had a reputation of being called "Kid" by the regulars because he is the youngest of the group, though still respected by them. Anyway, I beat him on Game 1 and he gets very fussy, telling his friends around the table how much it sucks how he lost his first match-up and his first game on my match up.
So Game 2 I quickly beat him down with cards while he sat there mana screwed and was continuing to make loud remarks such as:
"I swear, if I lose this game I'm quitting Magic forever." "Come on, what the &%$# is this?!" "Yeah Yeah, Whatever."
So I eventually get him down to 8, and I have a Battlegate Mimic and a Medicine Runner out on the field, and I just killed his only creature with a Puncture Blast. I have Giantbaiting in hand and he was tapped out, at that time was when he said "I swear, I lose this game I'm quitting Magic forever"... Play Giantbainting Conspired, Swing for 8, and this guy STORMED out of his seat and left the store entirely. Leaving behind his deck, his dice, and a couple of deck boxes with decks inside...
People were very confused about it, and we all didn't really have a lot to say about it, some people thought it was funny.
I thought it was just awkward of me to trigger that event, because all I was doing was playing a game, not expecting that big of a scene.
The rudest opponent I ever encountered was at the 2HG Coldsnap prerelease. Our opponent played Dark Depths, and snickered about how "ridiculous" it would be if he managed to beat us with Marit Lage. The game ended up stalling for much longer than we had hoped for, and he ended up getting the token into play. He promptly pulls the gigantic Coke cup he is drinking out of and places it on the battlefield to represent Marit Lage. He "attacked" with the cup by aggressively placing it near our decks, with way too much enthusiasm. Each turn he attacked he exclaimed loudly how "he couldn't believe these guys were going to lose to Marit Lage" and how "pitiful it was that they couldnt even stop my coke cup Marit Lage." It pains me to say that we didn't draw the bounce in our decks, and ended up losing. He ends up calling his friends over and saying "THESE GUYS JUST LOST TO OUR MARIT LAGE! I CANT BELIEVE THEY ACTUALLY LOST! ITS SO PITIFUL!" and proceeds to giggle in a high pitched nasally tone for a good few seconds while we wait with our hands outstretched, to concede with a friendly handshake, until he finally stopped cackling.
Wow, as soon as I read about him using the coke cup as a token I was so scared that the story was going to end with him spilling coke all over your cards in an overzealous "marit lage rampage"!
Good thing that didn't happen.
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The guy that was the most hated in our playgroup, I am sad to say, existed because I was the one that taught him Magic. Before this he had been playing in Saturday night Pokemon tournaments against 6-10 year old kids (he was 18), and since he had a job and the money to do so, he built decks that none of them could ever hope to beat. So, naturally, soon after learning Magic he started amassing an enormous collection of cards, and heaven help you if you wanted to trade with him because each of those cards was worth everything in your binder, plus your firstborn child. Last I heard he got burned on an E-bay deal for a set of P9 (back when you could get them for ~$200, and a lotus for ~$400) and sold off his cards. To this day, some 10 years later, my friend and I still refer to him as "the D-bag."
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him-"yeah ill trade my steppe lynx for your tarmogoyf...its atleast an
me- "how bout my full art basicl land for 3 baneslayers...afterall theyre crap"
it usually solves the problem pretty quick. I mainly see these people during big pre-releases. but those dont happen very much anymore though.
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As a side note, don't ever give him a bad trade. You'll regret it later.
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It is far worse when they say "Okay", then argue with you that their creature still deals damage.
- To my youngest sister when she was 6.
I'd say the framework that I just posted accounts for 80-90% of these stories. Seems like a great way to encourage other people to continue to play magic. I'm not saying that it's your fault; the person undoubtedly instigated it. But you guys can be much more civil than that.
I'm firmly convinced it's because the people who play this game use the game as their sole outlet of competition. Play more sports, even if it's casually. I wouldn't even blame the Spikes, because rules should be upheld. It's just the attitudes of these hypercompetitive people, who come to this thread saying whoooo look at this guy, isn't he an ☺☺☺☺☺☺☺? when really they are portrayed negatively.
I've had very good experiences at FNM. Between people wishing you good luck on later rounds, letting you retake moves/clarify rules, and just joking and talking with the opponent during shuffling. Try it sometime.
One guy in particular, in New York State, gets props. Draft Shard/CFX/ALA guy casts bloodbraid into a dregscape zombie. I cast lapse of certainty, but cast it at the bloodbraid instead of the zombie. He clarifies that cascade will STILL trigger, then lets me cast it on the Dregscape. I won that game, but he won the match, so I could care less about that.
Actually OT - worst guy - So, I was going to this shop, and the round 3 opponent had the worst temper,attitude, and was a rule whore. Eventually there was a play that made ME look good at the expense of him (Terastadon-->18pt of power on board), and he spewed curses. Overall, he wasn't a bad guy, just a little hyper competitive. Also, overweight.
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- To my youngest sister when she was 6.
Oi, that. Yeah. We got quite a few new people other than our 'regulars' last week, since a friend of mine decided to TO a sanctioned Type 2 tourney. Nothing big, the prizes were a few packs of WWK, 5 bucks to enter. I was the head judge, and I had to sit down with THREE different kids, ages 10-17, and explain to them why all of their Kamigawa and Mirrodin cards weren't legal for the tournament. Then a friend of mine helped them cut their now 200 card (down from 300+) decks into 60 card decks, which was nice of him. I also got called on a guy who was proxying, because he thought 'this was a casual tournament, I thought it was okay'. I also had to explain to two kids who were playing each other why "regenerate" does not mean "put a dead card from your graveyard back onto the battlefield".
I'm all for helping people learn the game, but it's a lot harder when they insist that you're wrong.
The latest Comprehensive Rules are also good, and can be found here.
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I hate people who look down on younger players(not 10 or 11, I mean 15 or 16) as worse. I've seen quite a few, including one who used sarcasm in EVERYTHING. He scooped after two missed mana drops in the early game, and I, trying to be sympathetic, asked, "Mana screw?"
He responded, "No, I had all the lands I wanted, I just didn't want to play them," and rolled his eyes condescendingly.
He's stopped coming to our store. He was a pretty bad player. Netdecked 5 color control when it became "cool" and 0-3'd/1-2'd most tournaments.
Last T2 FNM I lost pretty hard to an 11-12 y.o. kid playing U/W allies while I was piloting a 4xBSA deck. (It was awesome.) Some of them kids know what's goin' on.
I can never quite figure how to act around the people who get angry (not even directed at anyone) when they have mana problems. Alternatively, not sure what to do when someone plays Diabolic Servitude in EDH and then quits when people start targetting him to get rid of it... I really don't seem to encounter people who are rude, just angry.
I don't underestimate them anyway. I was stating that, although it's somewhat understandable if you underestimate a 10 year old, it's completely irrational to underestimate a 15-16 yr old.
OT- The rudest opponents I've had are people who don't care what you do. I once played a game where a guy was solving a rubix cube on my turns, totally oblivious to my moves. Also, at the WWK prerelease, I played a guy who would flash me his wincon before the game started. It wasn't so much rude as annoying.
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It was an extended tournament about eight years back. I was playing blue control. Four Faerie Convlaves were the closest things I had to creatures, my (theoretical) kill was Grindstone. My opponent was playing white weenie centering around Serra Avatar, which made it rather difficult to mill him into defeat.
The first game was a drawn out affair where I eventually pecked him to death with the conclave. In the second game, he kept continually drawing the avatars, and I was running out of tricks to keep it at bay. It was just a matter of time, so I was quite relieved when the judge called time.
Up to that point, whenever it went to the time limit, the judge had always ended the games right there. However, this time he walked over, looked at us, and told us we could finish the game. About ten minutes later, he finally defeated me, taking the round to 1-1.
I was rather annoyed that my win had become a draw, but then I got more bad news. The judge decided we should have a third game, and first damage or loss of life would end the bout. Great, if I tried to Force of Will one of his weenies, my game was over. If the weenie hit the board, it would be several turns before I could do anything about it, and my game was over.
I got very lucky though, got a first turn conclave, and he didn't draw any low casting cost creatures. He actually seemed happy that I won, I suspect he thought the rulings were a little off as well.
The strange part is, as far as I know, the judge had nothing against me. We usually got along fairly well, so I don't know what was up with him that day.
Some of us kids know what we're doing.
I had this one guy I played with a few times (casually), and it was really annoying because he kept "accidentally" cheating. Drawing an extra card when I wasn't looking (or so he thought) was really annoying. I pulled out my mill deck and nipped that puppy in the bud, though. The other one was when he searched his library, he'd drop his cards, start picking them up and drop one into his hand, claiming it had "already been there" and it had just "gotten seperated from the other cards".
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About 8 years ago I think, I was playing Extended Red Deck Wins in a tourney vs a regular at the store who was playing Tog. After beating him pretty quickly, I said GG and held my hand out for him to shake. He slapped it away and went on a 15 minute rant , berating me saying that the only reason I am doing that is because I won and how people only say "GG" when they win ...blah blah.
The guy was known for being a somewhat rude jerk, but I had never seen anything like this. For some reason the TO thought it didn't warrant a DQ or even a warning (he was a frequent buyer of tons of magic product, probably had something to do with it) and he pretty much ruined the rest of my night. Keep in mind at the time I was 16 or so at the time and was just starting to play competitive magic, this guy was a 40 year old acting like a child.
Pretty bad experience.
- To my youngest sister when she was 6.
No, his opponent should grow up and not act like a 6 year old.
I haven't had any super-bad experiences per se, but there has been a few games where my opponent just sits there sulking as their newest rogue creation gets trounced, and then refuses to say anything afterwards. Even if I try some friendly chatter, these guys just zone out and get up without saying a word, aside from groaning and swearing at their draws. My other friends call these guys joy-sucks, and it totally ruins the entire game. FNM is supposed to be a casual tournament, don't act like it's the end of the world....
Yeah, it was a pretty one sided game, but he fought hard to win and it didn't work out, I said " good game " because, in my opinion , he did play a good game. I deserve to get berated for 15 minutes because of it?
Never rude when you say "Good Game", or "Good luck", unless you say it to mock them which I haven't seen anyone do yet.
Saying GG after a actual tense game, and when the other person gives you a smug look and reacts "No, it wasn't..."
That's rude, on their part atleast.
Anyway, I got another one: At one of the stores a long while ago, I played a Team Draft with the regulars. I normally never do Team Drafts but one of my good friends was there plus a couple others. So I decided to do so because I had nothing else to do.
Anyway, It was a Shadowmoor * 3 draft, we get our decks and we play. The second matchup was against this guy: A year younger then I at the time (17 ~ 18.), kind of loud in general, and he's always in the Pro scene along with the rest of the regulars in the shop. This guy has always had a reputation of being called "Kid" by the regulars because he is the youngest of the group, though still respected by them. Anyway, I beat him on Game 1 and he gets very fussy, telling his friends around the table how much it sucks how he lost his first match-up and his first game on my match up.
So Game 2 I quickly beat him down with cards while he sat there mana screwed and was continuing to make loud remarks such as:
"I swear, if I lose this game I'm quitting Magic forever."
"Come on, what the &%$# is this?!"
"Yeah Yeah, Whatever."
So I eventually get him down to 8, and I have a Battlegate Mimic and a Medicine Runner out on the field, and I just killed his only creature with a Puncture Blast. I have Giantbaiting in hand and he was tapped out, at that time was when he said "I swear, I lose this game I'm quitting Magic forever"... Play Giantbainting Conspired, Swing for 8, and this guy STORMED out of his seat and left the store entirely. Leaving behind his deck, his dice, and a couple of deck boxes with decks inside...
People were very confused about it, and we all didn't really have a lot to say about it, some people thought it was funny.
I thought it was just awkward of me to trigger that event, because all I was doing was playing a game, not expecting that big of a scene.
Wow, as soon as I read about him using the coke cup as a token I was so scared that the story was going to end with him spilling coke all over your cards in an overzealous "marit lage rampage"!
Good thing that didn't happen.