Mine was a couple of weeks ago, it was at a new store for me and it was a great time other than my last round game...
It was a $5 casual night where they have a pool of packs we're playing for, very casual but fun.
So pairings go up for the last round of the night, I go to the table and waiting across from me is this kid with the reddest eyes i've ever seen and who reaked like a skunk.
I swear he must have went out to the parking lot and spent some time with Cheech and Chong between rounds, he was barely coherent and missed so many of his triggers and would laugh 30 seconds later when he realized he did (we were both 2-2 at this time, so no prizes were on the line anyways).
It was kind of funny, but very annoying at the same time, fun at home with his friends, maybe, but i paid money to play there.
Isn't that a violation of the floor rules? Or the DCI tournament rules? Not to mention illegal.
I thought the same, illegal for sure, but I don't know about anything else.
I just hope I never have to play him or anyone in such a state again.
Magic is a thinking man's game, can't really think clearly under the influence so it's not very challenging or fun for me (though it was probably very much so for him).
I'm at a TNM. On the way their, I joke around with my friend that we will be paired round 1 and it will be like an auto-win against him (he knew I wasn't be serious obviously.)
Anyway, we end up getting paired for round 1 and he beats me in game 1 with his Predator Ooze list. I beat him in the following games with my Spirit Delver Budget list.
However, it was only awkward later when I found out I got 2nd in the tourney (getting 6 packs), but it I hadn't lost to him game 1 I would have gotten first (8 packs).
Magic is a thinking man's game, can't really think clearly under the influence so it's not very challenging or fun for me (though it was probably very much so for him).
Although I would never go anywhere in public w/o some Visine + body spray, you would be surprised at the number of us who play MtG (And do very well too i might add) while enjoying these types of substances. I can think just fine under those circumstances, i dont see it as a hinderance at all. But i would never disrepect a LGS or another player by making it so painfully obvious to all those around me, sorry for your bad experience, that sounds even worse than sitting next to a loud, stinky neckbeard lol.
Isn't that a violation of the floor rules? Or the DCI tournament rules? Not to mention illegal.
They can kick him out or request that he stops enjoying his substances at the store. It is a business after all. If it bothers another patron, the owners have every right to ask him to leave.
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"If you don't wear your seatbelt, the police will shoot you in the head."
- 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.
Don't get me wrong. I have no problem with smoking a little now and then.;)
But if the person smoking is a lightweight, they have no business showing up to a FNM like that. Same thing as being drunk in public. I do that stuff at home in private, not at my LGS.
The problem now was that although we tried to play normally, it was so awkaward because he/she was unsure about my reaction and how to react, and I was unsure and very unconcentrated because I had thoughts swirling through my head whether I had been rude (without intention) or whether I should say anything (but what, "what is your gender?, not really)
Not-sure-if-Fry.jpg meets Socially-awkward-penguin.jpg! Love that awkwardness is international too.
Probably my most awkward game was when I was really looking to become a judge (doing so is pretty difficult in my area apparently, so I've since stopped looking), and my opponent beat me with his vampire list curving turn 2 bloodcrazed neonate, turn 3 captivating vampire, turn 4 bloodline keeper.
My friends will never let me live that down.
Actually, the more I think about it, the more the most awkward games I've played have been about rules "disputes". My "mill mono color decks" grindstone deck, my "give a guy (what is now) vigilance and make him unblockable to swing for infinite damage" deck...
my favorite was my first FMN, where I showed up with a crappy 120ish card casual list that was DEFINITELY not Type II (Yes, this was back in Masques/Invasion) list. My opponent was nice enough to give me a precon he had before the round started. It was the GW one with the art for Kavu Chameleon on the cover. Went 2-2 (how do you like them apples). If you're reading this man, Thank you.
I arrived early for a legacy tournament and was making my decklist, sideboard, that sort of thing when a kid watching me comes up to ask if we could play.
Sure, no prob.
Turns out his deck was a complete mishmash of green cards. He had 3 different sleeves for his deck, because he couldn't afford to buy new ones. He had PLAINS in an all green deck... because he didn't have enough forests.
Just for me. I felt like a bully. Store owner (a nationals ranked player) was snickering the entire time, likely at the forced smile I plastered on my face. Kid had a blast, though, so it wasn't time wasted.
This was at one of my LGS around the time NPHwas released and I remember sitting down across from a really pretty girl, and I was thinking `holy crap this must be my lucky day!`. So, she's playing her home brew Infect deck while I'm playing MBC. We're talking casually through out the game and I'm a natural flirt, so I start flirting with her and making stupid comments like her sleeves bring out the color of her eyes and she's the best smelling person to ever enter this card shop. Well, after she gets wind mill slammed by a field full of Obliterator's two games in a row I offer her my hand to shake and she smiles at someone behind me. I then turn around and see a really pissed off looking dude about twice my size standing there with his arms crossed. Turns out it was her husband and he had been sitting directly behind me the entire time at the other table. My chair was literally touching his and yeah, he wasn't happy. I laughed and told him I was sorry and complimented him on his hot wife and then proceeded to play him next round and wind mill slam his Infect deck.
Fun times.
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Mhjames: mtgsalvation: I DON'T SEE HOW THIS CARD IS GOOD. I KNOW PATRICK CHAPIN USED IT AND WENT 8-0, BUT THAT WAS A SMALL TOURNAMENT. THE CARD IS TOO SLOW. YOU NEED TO MAKE SURE THE OPPONENT HAS A SPELL IN THE GRAVEYARD
This thread is pretty funny. I mean, the kid was so high he missed his triggers, so what? Free win for you. Don't see the awkwardness, unless you MADE it awkward. Being under the influence of the "devil's grass" isn't really taboo, atleast not anymore. Mayeb he should have come prepared with some visine and spray to atleast be courtious to others that are not as 4/20 friendly. Either way, the only REALLY awkward game I had is when I won and my opponent got so mad I thought he was going to legitimately fight me... over a card game.
Was at FNM first round I got off the Shape Anew Blightsteel combo off both rounds T4 the exact same way (Coast,Ponder,Island, Leak, Plains, Blade Splicer, Island, Shape Anew). Opponent was scratching his head as he had managed to play virtually nothing both games.
Before I begin this story I should say that I love and enjoy the company of magic players of all stripes: there are the ones that are very well adjusted, dress snappy and get all kinds of dates. There are the average Joes. There are the mega nerds who are entirely comfortable being who they are.
Then there is the couple my 2hg friend and I were paired against: guy and a girl, romantically involved and most definitely from the outer fringes of the mega nerd crowd, as in exceptionally socially awkward.
We started the game, and from turn one our opponents were bickering testily with one another. At first the bickering was mildly grating. But as it became increasingly evident our opponents were going to lose game one it got louder.
Him: "Will you PLEASE consult with me before declaring attackers?!"
Her: "Yeah maybe if you tell me what you want me to do and treat me with some dignity! Why are you being so mean?!"
Things were really getting awkward. My partner and I just sat still, looking straight at our hand of cards. We didn't want to look at one another, knowing we would both lose it.
Game one ended with:
"Don't be dumb, it isn't hard to order blockers properly"
She responded by bursting into tears.
Game two started once she regained her composure. A dispute arose over stacking of activated abilities, and our male opponent called for a judge.
Her: "WHY do you have to make a big deal about this, just let it go!"
Him: "We came here to play, and since we're here we should play to win. Do you not want to be here?"
Her: "Well I wanted to go to the amusement park today but instead you dragged me here!"
A pause, then a look of relief and genuine understanding came across his face: "awwwww honey! It must be that time of the month for you, isn't it?"
He reached out and embraced her. They hugged for a long time, then he got up to find the judge.
She turned to us and said, "I'm really sorry about him, he can be emotional sometimes"
Mhjames: mtgsalvation: I DON'T SEE HOW THIS CARD IS GOOD. I KNOW PATRICK CHAPIN USED IT AND WENT 8-0, BUT THAT WAS A SMALL TOURNAMENT. THE CARD IS TOO SLOW. YOU NEED TO MAKE SURE THE OPPONENT HAS A SPELL IN THE GRAVEYARD
Mine was a couple of weeks ago, it was at a new store for me and it was a great time other than my last round game...
It was a $5 casual night where they have a pool of packs we're playing for, very casual but fun.
So pairings go up for the last round of the night, I go to the table and waiting across from me is this kid with the reddest eyes i've ever seen and who reaked like a skunk.
I swear he must have went out to the parking lot and spent some time with Cheech and Chong between rounds, he was barely coherent and missed so many of his triggers and would laugh 30 seconds later when he realized he did (we were both 2-2 at this time, so no prizes were on the line anyways).
It was kind of funny, but very annoying at the same time, fun at home with his friends, maybe, but i paid money to play there.
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When I first started playing at my regular shop years ago there was a guy very similar who would spend stalling amounts of time to do anything because he would constantly show up high. The worse thing was he seemed to play better stoned. When he finally left the shop we were all very happy to not have to deal with him any longer. We all hated his brother too cause he would take commons, uncommons and sometimes even rares and black magic marker them for proxies. A lot of us were like dude that's what basic lands are for.
Back in shards of alara block, I was playing at a ptq with Sygg Jund, and I was playing against the newer Baneslayer Makeshift Mannequin Build of jund. And I swear, the guy refused to talk, and stared directly into my soul for the entire 25 minutes, I dont think he took his eyes off me except for when he put his head at a 90 degree angle to figure out his mana. Most awkward game I've ever played, still talk about it a lot, think of ways to make his plan backfire. (p.s I lost, that deck was soo goood)
This was at one of my LGS around the time NPHwas released and I remember sitting down across from a really pretty girl, and I was thinking `holy crap this must be my lucky day!`. So, she's playing her home brew Infect deck while I'm playing MBC. We're talking casually through out the game and I'm a natural flirt, so I start flirting with her and making stupid comments like her sleeves bring out the color of her eyes and she's the best smelling person to ever enter this card shop. Well, after she gets wind mill slammed by a field full of Obliterator's two games in a row I offer her my hand to shake and she smiles at someone behind me. I then turn around and see a really pissed off looking dude about twice my size standing there with his arms crossed. Turns out it was her husband and he had been sitting directly behind me the entire time at the other table. My chair was literally touching his and yeah, he wasn't happy. I laughed and told him I was sorry and complimented him on his hot wife and then proceeded to play him next round and wind mill slam his Infect deck.
Fun times.
Lol, yeah, that's pretty damn awkward.
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Format: Standard - NPH
Location: 2011 MMS Qualifier - Minneapolis, MN (6/4)
Players: 99
Finished: 2nd Place
I once farted during the final match for prizes at an FNM. It was a tense moment, everything was quiet, control vs control, I was about to mana leak, thought about it.. and farted. Then mana leaked.
I once farted during the final match for prizes at an FNM. It was a tense moment, everything was quiet, control vs control, I was about to mana leak, thought about it.. and farted. Then mana leaked.
your avatar made it much better to laugh at
also, my most awkward games are against new players who don't know that they just died...
"You're on 6"
"Ok"
"You just let 6 damage go through"
"Ok" Proceeds to untap draw and start his/her next turn ಠ_ಠ
GP:SLC, round 7... me and a local friend both get paired up together sitting at 4-2. Most miserable and intense match I've ever played. Esper Spirits (me) against U/W Delver. It's a match neither of us wanted to win, but simultaneously couldn't lose.
I wound up pulling out the win in game three just as time was called after three of the most challenging games I have played in a LONG time. I expected matches like that to try and get to day two after starting 3-2, but I hated doing it against a friend. I signed the results slip mentally drained and had to find a way to reset my brain for the next match in no time flat.
1) I was running late for a draft, so I called ahead and asked a friend if he could stall until I got there. He was very cool about it, and made everyone wait for like 20 minutes for me. I was so thankful, because I'm not sure if anyone else at the store would have done that for me. I was really excited about the draft that night, too.
Of course, my friend and I get paired up round 1 and I crush him. I felt pretty bad the whole match. He worked so hard to help me out, and then he got eliminated almost immediately thanks to it. That was one of my least favorite wins ever.
2) Someone thought it would be funny to play Limited Resources on turn 2 in an 8 player game. Six players were stuck on a single land for the rest of that dreadful game. One of the reasons I hate multiplayer games. Side note: the elf player was pretty happy.
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It was a $5 casual night where they have a pool of packs we're playing for, very casual but fun.
So pairings go up for the last round of the night, I go to the table and waiting across from me is this kid with the reddest eyes i've ever seen and who reaked like a skunk.
I swear he must have went out to the parking lot and spent some time with Cheech and Chong between rounds, he was barely coherent and missed so many of his triggers and would laugh 30 seconds later when he realized he did (we were both 2-2 at this time, so no prizes were on the line anyways).
It was kind of funny, but very annoying at the same time, fun at home with his friends, maybe, but i paid money to play there.
Share your stories.
Isn't that a violation of the floor rules? Or the DCI tournament rules? Not to mention illegal.
We play our opponent's and both win...only to find out, I gave him my seat number and I sat down where he was supposed to.
Being honest, we reported it and our opponent's got wins because they were seated correctly.
Now I always make sure he gets his own seating assignments
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WG A Toast to Life GW ~~ WU Favorable Virtue UW
I thought the same, illegal for sure, but I don't know about anything else.
I just hope I never have to play him or anyone in such a state again.
Magic is a thinking man's game, can't really think clearly under the influence so it's not very challenging or fun for me (though it was probably very much so for him).
Anyway, we end up getting paired for round 1 and he beats me in game 1 with his Predator Ooze list. I beat him in the following games with my Spirit Delver Budget list.
However, it was only awkward later when I found out I got 2nd in the tourney (getting 6 packs), but it I hadn't lost to him game 1 I would have gotten first (8 packs).
Although I would never go anywhere in public w/o some Visine + body spray, you would be surprised at the number of us who play MtG (And do very well too i might add) while enjoying these types of substances. I can think just fine under those circumstances, i dont see it as a hinderance at all. But i would never disrepect a LGS or another player by making it so painfully obvious to all those around me, sorry for your bad experience, that sounds even worse than sitting next to a loud, stinky neckbeard lol.
They can kick him out or request that he stops enjoying his substances at the store. It is a business after all. If it bothers another patron, the owners have every right to ask him to leave.
- To my youngest sister when she was 6.
But if the person smoking is a lightweight, they have no business showing up to a FNM like that. Same thing as being drunk in public. I do that stuff at home in private, not at my LGS.
Not-sure-if-Fry.jpg meets Socially-awkward-penguin.jpg! Love that awkwardness is international too.
Probably my most awkward game was when I was really looking to become a judge (doing so is pretty difficult in my area apparently, so I've since stopped looking), and my opponent beat me with his vampire list curving turn 2 bloodcrazed neonate, turn 3 captivating vampire, turn 4 bloodline keeper.
My friends will never let me live that down.
Actually, the more I think about it, the more the most awkward games I've played have been about rules "disputes". My "mill mono color decks" grindstone deck, my "give a guy (what is now) vigilance and make him unblockable to swing for infinite damage" deck...
my favorite was my first FMN, where I showed up with a crappy 120ish card casual list that was DEFINITELY not Type II (Yes, this was back in Masques/Invasion) list. My opponent was nice enough to give me a precon he had before the round started. It was the GW one with the art for Kavu Chameleon on the cover. Went 2-2 (how do you like them apples). If you're reading this man, Thank you.
Sure, no prob.
Turns out his deck was a complete mishmash of green cards. He had 3 different sleeves for his deck, because he couldn't afford to buy new ones. He had PLAINS in an all green deck... because he didn't have enough forests.
Just for me. I felt like a bully. Store owner (a nationals ranked player) was snickering the entire time, likely at the forced smile I plastered on my face. Kid had a blast, though, so it wasn't time wasted.
"Sometimes, the situation is outracing a threat, sometimes it's ignoring it, and sometimes it involves sideboarding in 4x Hope//Pray." --Doug Linn
Fun times.
By: ol MISAKA lo
Cockatrice: Infallible
Standard:
GBWAggressive Junk TokensGBW
"Some convictions are so strong that the world must break to accommodate them."
Before I begin this story I should say that I love and enjoy the company of magic players of all stripes: there are the ones that are very well adjusted, dress snappy and get all kinds of dates. There are the average Joes. There are the mega nerds who are entirely comfortable being who they are.
Then there is the couple my 2hg friend and I were paired against: guy and a girl, romantically involved and most definitely from the outer fringes of the mega nerd crowd, as in exceptionally socially awkward.
We started the game, and from turn one our opponents were bickering testily with one another. At first the bickering was mildly grating. But as it became increasingly evident our opponents were going to lose game one it got louder.
Him: "Will you PLEASE consult with me before declaring attackers?!"
Her: "Yeah maybe if you tell me what you want me to do and treat me with some dignity! Why are you being so mean?!"
Things were really getting awkward. My partner and I just sat still, looking straight at our hand of cards. We didn't want to look at one another, knowing we would both lose it.
Game one ended with:
"Don't be dumb, it isn't hard to order blockers properly"
She responded by bursting into tears.
Game two started once she regained her composure. A dispute arose over stacking of activated abilities, and our male opponent called for a judge.
Her: "WHY do you have to make a big deal about this, just let it go!"
Him: "We came here to play, and since we're here we should play to win. Do you not want to be here?"
Her: "Well I wanted to go to the amusement park today but instead you dragged me here!"
A pause, then a look of relief and genuine understanding came across his face: "awwwww honey! It must be that time of the month for you, isn't it?"
He reached out and embraced her. They hugged for a long time, then he got up to find the judge.
She turned to us and said, "I'm really sorry about him, he can be emotional sometimes"
All we could muster in reply was "that's fine".
UBW Sharuum
BR Olivia Voldaren
UR Jhoira
URG Riku
U Vendilion Clique
Aaaaawwwkwaaaaarrrrrd...
EVOLVE ALL THE THINGS!!!
By: ol MISAKA lo
Cockatrice: Infallible
When I first started playing at my regular shop years ago there was a guy very similar who would spend stalling amounts of time to do anything because he would constantly show up high. The worse thing was he seemed to play better stoned. When he finally left the shop we were all very happy to not have to deal with him any longer. We all hated his brother too cause he would take commons, uncommons and sometimes even rares and black magic marker them for proxies. A lot of us were like dude that's what basic lands are for.
Lol, yeah, that's pretty damn awkward.
Format: Standard - NPH
Location: 2011 MMS Qualifier - Minneapolis, MN (6/4)
Players: 99
Finished: 2nd Place
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your avatar made it much better to laugh at
also, my most awkward games are against new players who don't know that they just died...
"You're on 6"
"Ok"
"You just let 6 damage go through"
"Ok" Proceeds to untap draw and start his/her next turn ಠ_ಠ
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Modern:
W Soulsisters
Legacy :
BUG BUG 'creature less' Control
I wound up pulling out the win in game three just as time was called after three of the most challenging games I have played in a LONG time. I expected matches like that to try and get to day two after starting 3-2, but I hated doing it against a friend. I signed the results slip mentally drained and had to find a way to reset my brain for the next match in no time flat.
1) I was running late for a draft, so I called ahead and asked a friend if he could stall until I got there. He was very cool about it, and made everyone wait for like 20 minutes for me. I was so thankful, because I'm not sure if anyone else at the store would have done that for me. I was really excited about the draft that night, too.
Of course, my friend and I get paired up round 1 and I crush him. I felt pretty bad the whole match. He worked so hard to help me out, and then he got eliminated almost immediately thanks to it. That was one of my least favorite wins ever.
2) Someone thought it would be funny to play Limited Resources on turn 2 in an 8 player game. Six players were stuck on a single land for the rest of that dreadful game. One of the reasons I hate multiplayer games. Side note: the elf player was pretty happy.