I have a guy at my LGS who I always seem to play. He has a very high pitched voice and always tells me the same story about how everyone underestimated his kithkin deck and blah blah blah he'd pull some card and win.
The problem is he gets louder and higher pitched as he tells the story then starts to get foamy in the corners of his mouth. It grosses me out and I just try to ignore it but the last time we played he started spraying foamy spit on my playmat.
Isn't magic grand?
I was going to read the whole thread but here's mine, I wanted to talk about this with someone but never got the chance.
Mine isn't a game but more 4 games.
I am a budget player, I play in a small group, we are 4. We usually are 3 together at one time and one guys (S) doesn't show up often, I might have played with him 3 times. Here is S's story. He started playing at 4 (he'd like 18) while his dad thought him cause his dad was very into magic. Now S looks like a geek. Overweight, bad haircut (I am not very... stylish but that is the only time I realised a haircut was actually bad) and grossly socially inept by my standards. His first deck I saw was his Riku EDH deck. I have a list but I was surprised to see a control Riku deck, thought it was cool. The only problem with it is that it slowed down the game a lot. I didn't think much of it but we played with J (my "best" friend among the 3, he and I are always there and the other 2 alternate essentially) and J is a slow player. I get annoyed. I am impatient, but this is a game. All of S's cards are his dad's cards, that he uses "borrows" his Riku deck was filled with cards I never saw before (I knew about them, just never played with anyone who could afford it). I was jealous of his cards xD. Then after a really long EDH game, which S ended up winning, we decided to play some casual. He has this UG money deck that has expensive cards but is IMO bad. No synergy, it's like reverse tempo. You control early game until you run out of counter then lose as you have nothing bigger than a 2/2. This makes for long unfun games. J plays slowly and S plays bad control decks that don't win unless Mimeoplasm lets him mind control his 30/30 swamp walk monstrosity. Now I played a second time where all 4 of us were there and he used Riku again. He goes after Sen Triplets (J) all game because J destroyed his Surgespanner turn 5. Yes. J lost due to S and S did nothing else. C (the 4th guy) assembled an infinite combo of Reaper King and the 3 Champion Changelings and the control deck decided to focus on killing J's Wall of Omen. That is the kind of player he is.
Now, last week J told me I'd be invited to S's house to play (S's dad would also be there and according to J, he's a "nicer" player and doesn't hold grudges for no reason.)
So we get there. I got like 8-9 EDH decks and ask someone to pick one at random. They do and I get my Tibor and Lumia "storm" deck. The deck keeps a small profile and them comboes out out of the blue. S made a mono blue Arcanis deck and S's dad has Maelstrom Archangel. I put a single River Kelpie as the 2nd creature in there but apart from that, my whole deck doesn't have a creature. I end up playing the Kelpie early game and equiping Grafted Exoskeleton to it. I only use the Exoskeleton on T&L to get rid of indestructible creatures or ones with regenerate, as I have no non damage non "destroy" removal in the deck.
So I find something funny. S's dad has a proliferate drake in the field (pay 3u, proliferate). S's dad has commented about why politics were so awesome because S was attacking J again because of the Surge Spanner of 3 weeks ago (I kinda reminded him because otherwise he'd have attacked me). He also had a huge amount of wurm tokens (like 8 6/6s) and said he'd attack someone of my choosing (making me the bad guy) if I didn't wipe the field. This is what happens: If I tell him to attack his son, I get the eternally grudging kid to target me for ever. I don't want him to swing at me, I can't block and he can't attack himself. J is the target, no? So I pick J (who complains that he is being targeted by everyone, which is true.) Then I see something funny on the field, and I say so. They ask me if it's funny haha or funny weird? I say Haha-funny. S goes like your bad, terrible jokes? (3 weeks ago, at my house I said a joke that J found hilarious but S didn't, I am now the guy with the bad terrible jokes, he had to repeat it 3 times over the course of my stay at his house.) I equip the exoskeleton to the kelpie (making him a 5/5 infect)
So I swing at his son and say, I won't swing again, but you have a proliferate card on the field. Now it's up to you ;P He answers, will someone stop him or do I have to? J swoops in to save S (probably to not be a target anymore) and S goes, that's nice of you, but I'm still targeting you, hahaha. S's dad says something about playing with infect cards in EDH is cheap and unfun. J (probably because S's dad, the oldest and player and the person with authority where we are said so) and S agree, with S adding a small hostile comment. Ok, I won't use the card anymore no biggie, I've got 99 others. A few turns later I look at my hand and realise two thing. I can combo out AND that if they think infect in EDH is bad they probably don't like combo. So I say "I think I can win now" S's dad urges me to try and wants to see if I can go through my whole deck (he said he's always wondered if that was possible in EDH) I combo out, go through my deck and win. S's dad (to my surprised) doesn't seem bothered and smiled, so I'm happy. But S seems unhappy.
I feel kinda bad and resolve to using my worse EDH deck, a aggresive Zedruu deck focused on using Aura's and then donating them for card draw.
S gets a 6 counterspell hand(which he announces, saying he'll counter everything. No one plays anything, waiting for the others to run him out of counters. Everyone ends up asking him if he'll counter their spells before casting them.) (how many did he put in there? no idea) and draws Patron Wizards and Ertai. So many counters.
S targets J again and I say to S's dad, they'll kill each other, so one of us wins, he smiles and nods xD. My deck being bad, S's dads deck gets the edge. I warn S and J, but S goes, "what can I do? I used all my good cards on J" and J replies,"it's turn 9 and I have 3 lands, and no islands" (in Mimeoplasm). Yes, S was countering ramp spells and what not, because of the Surgespanner. He was targeting the player with 3 lands and at something like 28 life (control decks aren't known for their huge damage). S's dad end up killing me after a long game (I've been typing for 40 minutes at this point, I'm a slow typer) and brought him from like 40 to 18 (I was proud of that but he assembled a sun titan + Pernicious deed for x=3 combo where my average CMC in the deck is like 2.8. and it's that high because of Sunforger and like a lot of 4 CMC isntants, my sunforger died to the deed.) And J and S are totally screwed. J finds a fifth land but is useless until the end of the game, while still being a slow player. S taps out to tutor and starts searching his library. S's dad (who goes after) says, will you do something? S says I don't know, S's dad goes well can you do it during my turn if there's nothing you can do, it goes faster? (I've been texting as I've been dead for a while now) S says or I can not say anything and annoy you guys as I take a long time to search my library for a card haha. S's dad goes you're done and starts. S's dad ends up winning.
Now we play a non EDH game because S complains they take too long. And since I don't really have a multiplayer deck I feel like using, so I use one of my mono red deck. It's my best deck with an end game, which almost always wins if it reaches it. I end up with a darksteel citadel an 2 darksteel ingot on the field, obliterate in my hand, a land in hand and two kuldotha phoenix in my graveyard. If I obliterate, I can kill the remaining players in 5 turns, not like I'm dragging the game out on purpose. I have a plan. I go through with it, they all scoop to the obliterate (I realise it's reasonable and kick myself for doing it). S's dad says something like playing LD is never right, I say it's like hard control. He says they are nothing alike. I brought this on myself and I get that I feel very bad and things become awkward. S says something about me making the game unfun.
We play one last game. I use my oldest deck I still have. Mono white aggro. I keep it as a deck to lend as I can't stand playing it. Normal Aggro bores me. I try to make myself the biggest target so I die first so I don't do something like the previous game. I text more while waiting and ponder if I should leave and S's dad says a comment about how cells and kids (I'm 19) and bad or something. He does however tell me I've made a fairly vicious white deck (it's knight deck, I had like no cards in hand by turn 5 and was top decking) then S and S's dad say they've had enough. So I'm happy I can finally leave, but J asks to stay to make trades. S's dad gets two trade binders and gives them both to J. They trade more while I wait (this time without texting) and we can finally leave.
That last game was the worse I've ever played. I tried to die ASAP just so I didn't have to play, nor make the game unfun. The deck has no non land-non land cards and nothing with flash. The most basic deck. At least they liked it. I barely talked during the whole game, the conversation died after that obliterate fiasco. I also haven't played magic since. Totally killed the game for me. I guess I'm taking a break from it, I'll be back.
most awkward game ever... hmmm
It was probably back when I started playing, I had a mirrodin equipment deck (the deck was bad, horrible mana curve and very to no synergy). Me and my friend were playing when someone shows up and asks us if we have cards for trade blablabla, then he plays with us. He was playing oath of druis against my friends life gain deck and my equipment deck.
The guy was clearly annoyed (mainly because we would snatch each card he played and read it aloud and try to understand it ("whats the upkeep?" "its before you attack dumbass") (he was losing patience by then)thne he gets kokusho out but my friend then proceeds to disenchant his oath of druids and we both start attacking him and he finally loses.
he then told us we had no business playing in a card shop took his stuff and left.
me and my friend looked at each other, shrugged and said "whats his problem?"
it wasnt awkward back then but looking back at it its pretty awkward
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.
Anyone who plays Limited Resources at any point in a multiplayer game needs a swift kick in the chest.
My playgroup is pretty casual and plays a lot of multiplayer, so if someone pulled that crap during one of our games, they'd get insta-banned. We don't play Magic so that we can sit there not playing Magic.
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.
The most recent one was at SCG des moines, I was playing esper and the guy I was playing was playing Grixis, I crush him game 1. So, we're going into game 2, I'm shuffling his deck and have my head turned --->> that way and my hands are shuffling his deck <<--- that way, just kinda watching the game next to me, then my opponent goes, "hey stop looking through my deck, it looks suspicious, like your looking through my deck". I look at him and thought he was joking around, I go "Are you kidding?", he goes "I'm not". I give back his deck, he reshuffles, gives me the deck back for me to reshuffle, I do so. I go and crush him game 2 and he still won't let it go, two other people sitting next to me, back me up, saying, how the heck can he look through your deck when his head was turned and clearly the outcome didn't change. I think he was just mad or annoyed, he didn't draw any threats or draw spells, cuz throughout all the 2 games we played, on his end there was no action. But, I gave him my honest opinion and left it at that. Game 2 was just awkward after what he did.
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Caw-Blade by Me!
Format: Standard - NPH
Location: 2011 MMS Qualifier - Minneapolis, MN (6/4)
Players: 99
Finished: 2nd Place
Was playing a 3-way multiplayer game. I'd been losing pretty badly all night, so I close my eyes and grab a random deck. Oh crap I picked my stasis deck. No Frozen Aether/Kismet, its a Ebony Owl Netsuke/Forsaken City + counterspells stasis deck. In other words, its not a good multiplayer deck, and its not a lot of fun to play against, and I remark as such. Both of them shrug and say whatever, go for it.
I go first, no Daze in hand, but a pretty good opener. Forsaken City is there, Howling Mine is there, Stasis is there, Brainstorm can dig for a Muddle the Mixture or the owl. Figure I can set up a soft lock on the game by turn 3, then keep drawing into counterspells/card draw.
One friend is playing Living Death/zombies, I can tell from his sleeves on his deck. I'm not concerned, since I play no creatures. Turn 1, he plays Putrid Imp. Brainstorm can't find a daze, and I am now playing for second place.
The other friend is playing a new deck, I haven't recognized the sleeves. t1, Putrid Imp, ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?! Discards Inkwell Leviathan. Oh. Reanimator. Now, I'm just playing to spite them, since I literally have no win-con against them if they can discard at will.
Turn 2, howling mine. I literally don't even care what they do at this point. Turn 3, stasis. Foil something I didn't like. "Come at me, you only get one attack." Turn 4, the owl shows up, and they both laugh.
One friend on turn 6 forgets to discard with the imp before his upkeep, so I do 4 damage to him. I nearly deck all of us before the reanimator gets a Sphinx of the Steel Wind past my counterspells and is able to win. After that, we unanimously agree, no more stasis in multiplayer.
Well, this is a friend's experience I heard about recently, but it definitely is in the spirit of things.
Our lgs is 3/4 year old or so, and they tried an edh tourney. I ended not going simply because I like my edh casual, but my friend goes (he helps out the store a lot). He brings Karona. They play 2 or 3 games or something, only had 9 or 10 people I think, and he kills literally everyone in the games that he is in (winning each game). But, they have achievements there to keep track of. He thought they were just for fun and didn't really track them. He got third.
My buddy and I were at an a local card shop and I had bought the Divine vs. Demonic duel decks. We sleeve up and start playing. I'm Demonic he is playing Divine. Keep in mind that he is half black, and visibly so. I stall out on lands and whatnot with a fatty in hand, he has enough to play Akroma, which he topdecks and yells: WHITE POWER!.
Side note, skinny black guy yelling white power is really funny. More so when his opponent (me) is a large white guy, in all black, combat boots and with a shaved head.
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For Lists, Click Here EDH: GW: Selvala, Let us help YOU. UB: Mirko Vosk, when outmatched cheat BW: Vish Kal, The Arbiter of Reanimation UG: Prime Speaker Zegana, the science of sorcery RB: Malfegor, Traitor's Haven UW: Daxos, Control-Fort-Tron BG: Pharika, Goddess of Stax RW: Gisela, Boros Control RG: Ruric Thar, a Primal Surge deck RU: Niv-Mizzet the Firemind, Spellslinger?!?! B:(Pauper) Mikaeus the Unhallowed R: Kurkesh, Onakke Ancient: The Power of Engineering
Wow, I got about halfway through that, then gave up and scrolled to the bottom to see if it finished with the words "fresh prince of bel-air". I was disappointed to see that it didn't.
My buddy and I were at an a local card shop and I had bought the Divine vs. Demonic duel decks. We sleeve up and start playing. I'm Demonic he is playing Divine. Keep in mind that he is half black, and visibly so. I stall out on lands and whatnot with a fatty in hand, he has enough to play Akroma, which he topdecks and yells: WHITE POWER!.
Side note, skinny black guy yelling white power is really funny. More so when his opponent (me) is a large white guy, in all black, combat boots and with a shaved head.
This made me LOL, I could just imagine.
Most awkward game I played was when my friends and I started playing, around age 13-14 during 6th edition. In one game, when we would deal damage we would slug each other in the arm. Lava Axe was horrible...
Was playing a small legacy tournament, playing Elves against Thopterbalance, G1 I lose to him going infinite with time sieve, G2, I combo out and beat his face in, so far so normal, g3 he goes first, I pull 7 cards, no lands, pitch, 6, no lands, pitch, 5, no lands, pitch, 4, no lands, pitch, 3 no lands...oh wait I shuffled in my sideboard.
Most awkward game I played was when my friends and I started playing, around age 13-14 during 6th edition. In one game, when we would deal damage we would slug each other in the arm. Lava Axe was horrible...
Made a similar drinking game rule. every 2 damage = 1 shot. That was a rough night.
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For Lists, Click Here EDH: GW: Selvala, Let us help YOU. UB: Mirko Vosk, when outmatched cheat BW: Vish Kal, The Arbiter of Reanimation UG: Prime Speaker Zegana, the science of sorcery RB: Malfegor, Traitor's Haven UW: Daxos, Control-Fort-Tron BG: Pharika, Goddess of Stax RW: Gisela, Boros Control RG: Ruric Thar, a Primal Surge deck RU: Niv-Mizzet the Firemind, Spellslinger?!?! B:(Pauper) Mikaeus the Unhallowed R: Kurkesh, Onakke Ancient: The Power of Engineering
I had just built my Niv-Mizzet EDH and was toting around my other two because I keep all of my built deck in one place (...because I'm compulsive... >_>). Anyways! It's the usual Thursday/ Friday night of going to a friend's house and playing some EDH. One of my friend's brother came, too, and he didn't have a deck, so I let him use my mono-white angels. Well, since no one really wanted to play a 5-person multi-player game, we decided on onesies for the night (one person resting/ spectating until a match was over).
Of course, I ended up playing against my angel deck for the first game that night. My friend's brother was fairly familiar with the deck since I let him borrow it when we played multiplayer a few times before. I was absolutely terrified. Being the creator of that deck, I know exactly what kind of aggro nanners it can pump out, especially against a combo deck that has almost no board presence.
I ended it quickly, before anything heinous could happen: Turn 5 Bribery for Iona, Shield of Emeria, calling white. It was absolutely awkward shutting down my own deck and it made me feel awful... :/
I was playing in a three way game with a friend who is always very generous to me when it comes to magic, and my fiance who was fairly new to the game at the time.
Very casual, I was playing GR werewolves, he was playing white weenie, and she played something else. He had just suggested that I try out some burn in my deck, and since he usually gives good advice on that sort of thing, I tried it.
As the game progressed, I got stuck at three lands. Both of them feeling bad for me, they just fought it out w/ each other. About 12 turns in, I still had three lands, and no creatures. They had been going at each other and left me alone at 2 life. She attacked him, leaving herself wide open, knocking him down to 3 life. Seeing that I had no cards in hand, he just went ahead and finished her off, and was set up to finish me next turn.
I top decked one of the 3 incinerates he had just suggested for me to put in my deck, and he proceeded to fall out of his chair. He still gives me a hard time about winning a game I had no business winning, but it was still fun
That same guy was also in a big multiplayer game once (12 people), and somebody played biorythm on turn 2... Went from 12 to 3, and the game lasted < 10 minutes.
Oh man this thread is great! Most hilarious read I've ever had on this forum for sure!
Anyway, here's my story. Get ready for a small novel...
One time 6 months or so ago I was sitting around playtesting some Legacy decks at my LGS with a couple friends at the side tables during an FNM. There were a few other people there just playing various formats casually, one of which was a LGS regular who often brings his developmentally disabled 8 year old daughter with to play casual games of magic. She's not exactly a good player by any means, but she always has fun playing various offbeat tribal decks and everyone at the LGS is nice to her so all is well in that regard.
At some point in the evening my friends who I was playtesting Legacy against decide to go to Burger King for some dinner and asked if I wanted to come along, but being a vegetarian and haven already eaten I politely declined and decided to just hang around the LGS while they were away. While they were off eating the guy with the developmentally disabled daughter came up to me and asked if I wouldn't mind playing a few games with his daughter to keep her entertained while he went off to get some food as well. I said "sure!" and sat down across the table from his daughter to play some casual games and he left to get something to eat. It was at this point that it dawned on me that I had left my backpack with almost all my decks in it in my friend's car and I only had one deck on me. It was T.E.S..
Given that I had already promised to play some games with this very excited and hopeful looking little girl I sat down and shuffled up my deck and drew my 7 cards. I really didn't know what to do at this point since I didn't want to confuse the living daylights out of this poor girl but I had to do something. First I Ponder'ed and Brainstorm'ed for a while, just hoping she'd start attacking me with creatures and kill me so I wouldn't end up having to storm out on her. She plays some lands, plays a Spore Frog, and then plays some more lands. She played a few other Frogs as well but for some reason never attacked me. No matter how long I stalled she just kept playing Frogs and giggling at the art on them. 10 minutes later little had changed, and even after I suggested she try attacking me with them she just kept durdling around with her frogs since they were "nice frogs and didn't want to attack me" while I'm sitting here with a full grip of Dark Rituals, Lions Eye Diamond, and Burning Wish. I keep trying to delay the game but now she's just looking at my strangely and wondering why I haven't played anything. At this point it's 15 minutes or so into the game and she's spent the last two turns insisting that I should do something too and I've run out of cantrips to stall with.
I cringe and do what must be done. I play out a couple Dark Ritual and a Rite of Flame, drop two Lions Eye Diamond, cast Burning Wish to tutor something from my sideboard, then crack the LEDs for 6 black mana in response to Burning Wish and discard my the last card in my hand (an Infernal Tutor) to the LEDs. Meanwhile this poor slow girl is just staring at me wide eyed and confused with absolutely no idea what I'm doing. I don't think she even knows what a sideboard is let alone a mana pool or how/why I'm casting all these spells all of a sudden and keeping track of how many I cast with a 20 sided dice. It's at this point I realize that my storm count isn't high enough to kill her with Tendrils so I have to get Ill-Gotten Gains with my Burning Wish to get back a Ritual, Lions Eye Diamond, and the Infernal Tutor that I discarded to the LED a few seconds ago. So I grab Ill-Gotten Gains and cast it, now trying to explain to her that she has to discard her hand and we both get 3 cards back from our graveyards. She reads the card for what feels like an eternity and eventually says "okay". She discards her hand and gets back a few Frogs and a forest, I get Dark Ritual, LED, and Infernal Tutor. I play them out, Infernal Tutor for Tendrils of Agony, and cast it. I remember very uncomfortably saying to her, "Tendrils of Agony you for 22?". She looks extremely confused so I try to explain to her how the spell copies itself once for each spell I cast before it this turn but she clearly has no idea what I'm talking about and keeps saying "So I lose two life and you gain two life?". After gently explaining how the card works a few more times she finally gets it (I think) and says "Oh, okay. So you win. Thanks for playing with me!" and picks up her cards.
I have never in my life felt more awkward while playing a game of Magic. I spent the whole game cringing and just wishing it would end, eventually realizing the only way that was going to happen was if I Tendrils'd a mentally handicapped 8 year old girl. Ultimately I had to do it, but I'll never live it down (especially after I told my friends about what happened later).
Innistrad-Dark Ascension draft. My less than expert opponent plays 1x Lost in the Woods and 39x Forest. I play a good GR aggro deck with no enchantment removal.
He mulligans into Lost in the Woods each game, and I manage to lose 2-1 instead of 2-0 with a turn 4 win (yes, it was that aggro).
A true torture, I begin to understand opponents pretending to fall asleep back when I played infinite-turns turbofog.
Oh man this thread is great! Most hilarious read I've ever had on this forum for sure!
Anyway, here's my story. Get ready for a small novel...
One time 6 months or so ago I was sitting around playtesting some Legacy decks at my LGS with a couple friends at the side tables during an FNM. There were a few other people there just playing various formats casually, one of which was a LGS regular who often brings his developmentally disabled 8 year old daughter with to play casual games of magic. She's not exactly a good player by any means, but she always has fun playing various offbeat tribal decks and everyone at the LGS is nice to her so all is well in that regard.
At some point in the evening my friends who I was playtesting Legacy against decide to go to Burger King for some dinner and asked if I wanted to come along, but being a vegetarian and haven already eaten I politely declined and decided to just hang around the LGS while they were away. While they were off eating the guy with the developmentally disabled daughter came up to me and asked if I wouldn't mind playing a few games with his daughter to keep her entertained while he went off to get some food as well. I said "sure!" and sat down across the table from his daughter to play some casual games and he left to get something to eat. It was at this point that it dawned on me that I had left my backpack with almost all my decks in it in my friend's car and I only had one deck on me. It was T.E.S..
Given that I had already promised to play some games with this very excited and hopeful looking little girl I sat down and shuffled up my deck and drew my 7 cards. I really didn't know what to do at this point since I didn't want to confuse the living daylights out of this poor girl but I had to do something. First I Ponder'ed and Brainstorm'ed for a while, just hoping she'd start attacking me with creatures and kill me so I wouldn't end up having to storm out on her. She plays some lands, plays a Spore Frog, and then plays some more lands. She played a few other Frogs as well but for some reason never attacked me. No matter how long I stalled she just kept playing Frogs and giggling at the art on them. 10 minutes later little had changed, and even after I suggested she try attacking me with them she just kept durdling around with her frogs since they were "nice frogs and didn't want to attack me" while I'm sitting here with a full grip of Dark Rituals, Lions Eye Diamond, and Burning Wish. I keep trying to delay the game but now she's just looking at my strangely and wondering why I haven't played anything. At this point it's 15 minutes or so into the game and she's spent the last two turns insisting that I should do something too and I've run out of cantrips to stall with.
I cringe and do what must be done. I play out a couple Dark Ritual and a Rite of Flame, drop two Lions Eye Diamond, cast Burning Wish to tutor something from my sideboard, then crack the LEDs for 6 black mana in response to Burning Wish and discard my the last card in my hand (an Infernal Tutor) to the LEDs. Meanwhile this poor slow girl is just staring at me wide eyed and confused with absolutely no idea what I'm doing. I don't think she even knows what a sideboard is let alone a mana pool or how/why I'm casting all these spells all of a sudden and keeping track of how many I cast with a 20 sided dice. It's at this point I realize that my storm count isn't high enough to kill her with Tendrils so I have to get Ill-Gotten Gains with my Burning Wish to get back a Ritual, Lions Eye Diamond, and the Infernal Tutor that I discarded to the LED a few seconds ago. So I grab Ill-Gotten Gains and cast it, now trying to explain to her that she has to discard her hand and we both get 3 cards back from our graveyards. She reads the card for what feels like an eternity and eventually says "okay". She discards her hand and gets back a few Frogs and a forest, I get Dark Ritual, LED, and Infernal Tutor. I play them out, Infernal Tutor for Tendrils of Agony, and cast it. I remember very uncomfortably saying to her, "Tendrils of Agony you for 22?". She looks extremely confused so I try to explain to her how the spell copies itself once for each spell I cast before it this turn but she clearly has no idea what I'm talking about and keeps saying "So I lose two life and you gain two life?". After gently explaining how the card works a few more times she finally gets it (I think) and says "Oh, okay. So you win. Thanks for playing with me!" and picks up her cards.
I have never in my life felt more awkward while playing a game of Magic. I spent the whole game cringing and just wishing it would end, eventually realizing the only way that was going to happen was if I Tendrils'd a mentally handicapped 8 year old girl. Ultimately I had to do it, but I'll never live it down (especially after I told my friends about what happened later).
I love this story. I work with a teen with aspbergers and he loves playing magic. He's very smart, but I've run into almost the same situation before.
My most awkward game of Magic ever was shortly after the release of Alara Reborn. I had gotten lucky in a draft at a store that was not my usual LGS and was playing Jund colors with a Sarkhan Vol and a number of other fairly decent cards. I won the first two rounds handily, and came up in the last round against a deaf man. He would indicate his actions by pointing and such, and I was doing the same. It was working out pretty well, but note the following: we were both playing Jund, and we were both using penny sleeves.
I won the first game, he won the second, and in the third game I was pretty much on the ropes -- he had a Sarkhan as well, and I was forced to play mine to knock his off the board. I was at 1 life on my draw, and he was at seven. I topdecked Vengeful Rebirth and saw the win.
I Rebirthed Deathbringer Thoctar, dealing 6 damage to my opponent, and sacrificed some creature -- don't recall what or how -- to put a counter on the Thoctar, then pinged my opponent for the final point of damage. We shook hands and I picked up my deck, then went to claim my prizes -- eight packs of Alara Reborn.
When I headed past the table where we'd been playing on my way out of leave the store, I saw my opponent waving at me, grinning, and flashing my Vengeful Rebirth at me. Thinking I'd forgotten the card I went over, thanked him, took the card and started to walk away. Suddenly there was an uproar. My opponent didn't speak at all, but other players quickly got in my way, looking upset and angry, and I was completely confused. When I turned back to my opponent he was scrawling a note on a pad of paper and handed it to me.
'I was just showing you, I ran the same card in my deck too -- you were lucky you topped it.'
Oh man this thread is great! Most hilarious read I've ever had on this forum for sure!
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I have never in my life felt more awkward while playing a game of Magic. I spent the whole game cringing and just wishing it would end, eventually realizing the only way that was going to happen was if I Tendrils'd a mentally handicapped 8 year old girl. Ultimately I had to do it, but I'll never live it down (especially after I told my friends about what happened later).
Why wouldn't you just Tendrils for 14-16 instead of throwing in an IGG loop to kill? It looks big, does a ton of damage, and explains why you haven't been playing anything (saving up for the big turn), but doesn't make her lose. Granted, the nice frogs might not have attacked anyway, forcing you to do something to finish the game, but there is a place between sitting on your hand and going full-on TES nuts. Heck, Infernal Tutor for extra cantrips or Chants, Burning Wish for sideboard cards that are only barely relevant (Deathmark on a Spore Frog? Maybe that'll get them mad!).
I have a similar awkward game: before my roomate left, we decided to play our first (and likely last) games of Magic. I had nothing even remotely casual built, and his deck was a remixed Angels and Demons precon. I had annihilated him the first game with Stoneblade, so I really wanted to have him win one to keep his spirits about the game up. The most casual thing I had was a Riku EDH list.
Unfortunately, my draw was not especially bad, and even avoiding removal and bombs, I was quickly in a position where I couldn't make it look realistic that I didn't have more plays in my hand (I had cast Praetor's Counsel as a bomb card that doesn't actually do anything on its own, and was now sitting with 20+ cards in hand).
Thankfully, he stuck an Akroma. Pro-red? That's believable! I started doing everything ineffectual I could find to lock out Akroma: Repulse, Repeal, flying blue chump-blockers, and prayed to the Magic gods that he didn't know how many cards are capable of dealing with it. I finally went in for the not-quite-there alpha strike while within one swing of Akroma. Unfortunately, a Charmbreaker Devils had brought back the Repeal, and given that he knew it was in my hand, I had to make the most ridiculously poor play ever, bouncing a blocker after blocks were declared just to get the Repeal out of my hand.
I honestly have no idea if he bought it or not, I definitely wouldn't have, but that's definitely the most hoops I've ever jumped through to throw a game, and it was a heck of an awkward feeling trying to bluff that none of the 20ish cards in my hand were relevant while looking down at most of the bombs in my deck.
Innistrad-Dark Ascension draft. My less than expert opponent plays 1x Lost in the Woods and 39x Forest. I play a good GR aggro deck with no enchantment removal.
He mulligans into Lost in the Woods each game, and I manage to lose 2-1 instead of 2-0 with a turn 4 win (yes, it was that aggro).
A true torture, I begin to understand opponents pretending to fall asleep back when I played infinite-turns turbofog.
I would LOVE to do that so much. Hell, I could make that my standard deck and do a free FNM with it.
I can't really remember having many awkward games but... I suppose I haven't had that many games outside of my regular group of people.
I remember one game... I think it was M12 release tournament. I had managed to put together a Uw control deck that was actually decent, but this game turned out just sad. The deck had something along the lines of Aether Adept x3, Cancel x2, Mana Leak x2, Negate x1, and Unsummon x1, and I drew a good majority of them early in the game. I kept my opponent from doing just about anything, left him open for attack from my Adepts, and I had a Pride Guardian with Spirit Mantle in the back as a blocker. The fact that he missed several land drops didn't help.
The game just went counter-bounce-counter-counter-bounce-bounce-counter and I felt so sorry for the guy.
There was an EDH touney at my LGS the other day and we were playing in 3 man pods...
i was running my Karador reanimator against a fairly casual Wrexial and a competitive Tariel reanimator.
game one i lose to the fact that I cant find any green mana.
game two I drop Iona and Blazing Archon in my GY turn 3 on Buried Alive.
turn 4 saw unburial rites for Iona naming black. turn five saw blazing archon and the game was pretty awkward after that... my opponents couldn't do much of anything.
Game two Tariel stole my Iona with Chainer. I stole it back, named black, dropped Divine Reckoning and proceeded to swing with the win.
Seems people don't like Iona. Was pretty awkward for a while
The problem is he gets louder and higher pitched as he tells the story then starts to get foamy in the corners of his mouth. It grosses me out and I just try to ignore it but the last time we played he started spraying foamy spit on my playmat.
Isn't magic grand?
B Lover Since '09 ~
Standard:
meh.
Modern:
Urzatron GR
Vintage:
Contol-Slaver UBR
EDH:
Drana B
Jhoira UR
Savra BG
Turned into:
Adun Oakenshield BGR
Sharuum BUW
Turned into:
Memnarch U
KiKi-Jiki R
Turned into:
Godo R
Turned into:
Aurelia RW
The Mimeoplasm UBG
Rasputin Dreamweaver UW
Turned into:
Geist of Saint Traft -French 1v1 UW
Nekusar UBR
Mine isn't a game but more 4 games.
I am a budget player, I play in a small group, we are 4. We usually are 3 together at one time and one guys (S) doesn't show up often, I might have played with him 3 times. Here is S's story. He started playing at 4 (he'd like 18) while his dad thought him cause his dad was very into magic. Now S looks like a geek. Overweight, bad haircut (I am not very... stylish but that is the only time I realised a haircut was actually bad) and grossly socially inept by my standards. His first deck I saw was his Riku EDH deck. I have a list but I was surprised to see a control Riku deck, thought it was cool. The only problem with it is that it slowed down the game a lot. I didn't think much of it but we played with J (my "best" friend among the 3, he and I are always there and the other 2 alternate essentially) and J is a slow player. I get annoyed. I am impatient, but this is a game. All of S's cards are his dad's cards, that he uses "borrows" his Riku deck was filled with cards I never saw before (I knew about them, just never played with anyone who could afford it). I was jealous of his cards xD. Then after a really long EDH game, which S ended up winning, we decided to play some casual. He has this UG money deck that has expensive cards but is IMO bad. No synergy, it's like reverse tempo. You control early game until you run out of counter then lose as you have nothing bigger than a 2/2. This makes for long unfun games. J plays slowly and S plays bad control decks that don't win unless Mimeoplasm lets him mind control his 30/30 swamp walk monstrosity. Now I played a second time where all 4 of us were there and he used Riku again. He goes after Sen Triplets (J) all game because J destroyed his Surgespanner turn 5. Yes. J lost due to S and S did nothing else. C (the 4th guy) assembled an infinite combo of Reaper King and the 3 Champion Changelings and the control deck decided to focus on killing J's Wall of Omen. That is the kind of player he is.
Now, last week J told me I'd be invited to S's house to play (S's dad would also be there and according to J, he's a "nicer" player and doesn't hold grudges for no reason.)
So we get there. I got like 8-9 EDH decks and ask someone to pick one at random. They do and I get my Tibor and Lumia "storm" deck. The deck keeps a small profile and them comboes out out of the blue. S made a mono blue Arcanis deck and S's dad has Maelstrom Archangel. I put a single River Kelpie as the 2nd creature in there but apart from that, my whole deck doesn't have a creature. I end up playing the Kelpie early game and equiping Grafted Exoskeleton to it. I only use the Exoskeleton on T&L to get rid of indestructible creatures or ones with regenerate, as I have no non damage non "destroy" removal in the deck.
So I find something funny. S's dad has a proliferate drake in the field (pay 3u, proliferate). S's dad has commented about why politics were so awesome because S was attacking J again because of the Surge Spanner of 3 weeks ago (I kinda reminded him because otherwise he'd have attacked me). He also had a huge amount of wurm tokens (like 8 6/6s) and said he'd attack someone of my choosing (making me the bad guy) if I didn't wipe the field. This is what happens: If I tell him to attack his son, I get the eternally grudging kid to target me for ever. I don't want him to swing at me, I can't block and he can't attack himself. J is the target, no? So I pick J (who complains that he is being targeted by everyone, which is true.) Then I see something funny on the field, and I say so. They ask me if it's funny haha or funny weird? I say Haha-funny. S goes like your bad, terrible jokes? (3 weeks ago, at my house I said a joke that J found hilarious but S didn't, I am now the guy with the bad terrible jokes, he had to repeat it 3 times over the course of my stay at his house.) I equip the exoskeleton to the kelpie (making him a 5/5 infect)
So I swing at his son and say, I won't swing again, but you have a proliferate card on the field. Now it's up to you ;P He answers, will someone stop him or do I have to? J swoops in to save S (probably to not be a target anymore) and S goes, that's nice of you, but I'm still targeting you, hahaha. S's dad says something about playing with infect cards in EDH is cheap and unfun. J (probably because S's dad, the oldest and player and the person with authority where we are said so) and S agree, with S adding a small hostile comment. Ok, I won't use the card anymore no biggie, I've got 99 others. A few turns later I look at my hand and realise two thing. I can combo out AND that if they think infect in EDH is bad they probably don't like combo. So I say "I think I can win now" S's dad urges me to try and wants to see if I can go through my whole deck (he said he's always wondered if that was possible in EDH) I combo out, go through my deck and win. S's dad (to my surprised) doesn't seem bothered and smiled, so I'm happy. But S seems unhappy.
I feel kinda bad and resolve to using my worse EDH deck, a aggresive Zedruu deck focused on using Aura's and then donating them for card draw.
S gets a 6 counterspell hand(which he announces, saying he'll counter everything. No one plays anything, waiting for the others to run him out of counters. Everyone ends up asking him if he'll counter their spells before casting them.) (how many did he put in there? no idea) and draws Patron Wizards and Ertai. So many counters.
S targets J again and I say to S's dad, they'll kill each other, so one of us wins, he smiles and nods xD. My deck being bad, S's dads deck gets the edge. I warn S and J, but S goes, "what can I do? I used all my good cards on J" and J replies,"it's turn 9 and I have 3 lands, and no islands" (in Mimeoplasm). Yes, S was countering ramp spells and what not, because of the Surgespanner. He was targeting the player with 3 lands and at something like 28 life (control decks aren't known for their huge damage). S's dad end up killing me after a long game (I've been typing for 40 minutes at this point, I'm a slow typer) and brought him from like 40 to 18 (I was proud of that but he assembled a sun titan + Pernicious deed for x=3 combo where my average CMC in the deck is like 2.8. and it's that high because of Sunforger and like a lot of 4 CMC isntants, my sunforger died to the deed.) And J and S are totally screwed. J finds a fifth land but is useless until the end of the game, while still being a slow player. S taps out to tutor and starts searching his library. S's dad (who goes after) says, will you do something? S says I don't know, S's dad goes well can you do it during my turn if there's nothing you can do, it goes faster? (I've been texting as I've been dead for a while now) S says or I can not say anything and annoy you guys as I take a long time to search my library for a card haha. S's dad goes you're done and starts. S's dad ends up winning.
Now we play a non EDH game because S complains they take too long. And since I don't really have a multiplayer deck I feel like using, so I use one of my mono red deck. It's my best deck with an end game, which almost always wins if it reaches it. I end up with a darksteel citadel an 2 darksteel ingot on the field, obliterate in my hand, a land in hand and two kuldotha phoenix in my graveyard. If I obliterate, I can kill the remaining players in 5 turns, not like I'm dragging the game out on purpose. I have a plan. I go through with it, they all scoop to the obliterate (I realise it's reasonable and kick myself for doing it). S's dad says something like playing LD is never right, I say it's like hard control. He says they are nothing alike. I brought this on myself and I get that I feel very bad and things become awkward. S says something about me making the game unfun.
We play one last game. I use my oldest deck I still have. Mono white aggro. I keep it as a deck to lend as I can't stand playing it. Normal Aggro bores me. I try to make myself the biggest target so I die first so I don't do something like the previous game. I text more while waiting and ponder if I should leave and S's dad says a comment about how cells and kids (I'm 19) and bad or something. He does however tell me I've made a fairly vicious white deck (it's knight deck, I had like no cards in hand by turn 5 and was top decking) then S and S's dad say they've had enough. So I'm happy I can finally leave, but J asks to stay to make trades. S's dad gets two trade binders and gives them both to J. They trade more while I wait (this time without texting) and we can finally leave.
That last game was the worse I've ever played. I tried to die ASAP just so I didn't have to play, nor make the game unfun. The deck has no non land-non land cards and nothing with flash. The most basic deck. At least they liked it. I barely talked during the whole game, the conversation died after that obliterate fiasco. I also haven't played magic since. Totally killed the game for me. I guess I'm taking a break from it, I'll be back.
I've typed for 1h10
It was probably back when I started playing, I had a mirrodin equipment deck (the deck was bad, horrible mana curve and very to no synergy). Me and my friend were playing when someone shows up and asks us if we have cards for trade blablabla, then he plays with us. He was playing oath of druis against my friends life gain deck and my equipment deck.
The guy was clearly annoyed (mainly because we would snatch each card he played and read it aloud and try to understand it ("whats the upkeep?" "its before you attack dumbass") (he was losing patience by then)thne he gets kokusho out but my friend then proceeds to disenchant his oath of druids and we both start attacking him and he finally loses.
he then told us we had no business playing in a card shop took his stuff and left.
me and my friend looked at each other, shrugged and said "whats his problem?"
it wasnt awkward back then but looking back at it its pretty awkward
http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?p=10243724#post10243724
Anyone who plays Limited Resources at any point in a multiplayer game needs a swift kick in the chest.
My playgroup is pretty casual and plays a lot of multiplayer, so if someone pulled that crap during one of our games, they'd get insta-banned. We don't play Magic so that we can sit there not playing Magic.
I lol'd so hard at this, for real.
Format: Standard - NPH
Location: 2011 MMS Qualifier - Minneapolis, MN (6/4)
Players: 99
Finished: 2nd Place
TRADE THREAD
http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=347708
I go first, no Daze in hand, but a pretty good opener. Forsaken City is there, Howling Mine is there, Stasis is there, Brainstorm can dig for a Muddle the Mixture or the owl. Figure I can set up a soft lock on the game by turn 3, then keep drawing into counterspells/card draw.
One friend is playing Living Death/zombies, I can tell from his sleeves on his deck. I'm not concerned, since I play no creatures. Turn 1, he plays Putrid Imp. Brainstorm can't find a daze, and I am now playing for second place.
The other friend is playing a new deck, I haven't recognized the sleeves. t1, Putrid Imp, ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?! Discards Inkwell Leviathan. Oh. Reanimator. Now, I'm just playing to spite them, since I literally have no win-con against them if they can discard at will.
Turn 2, howling mine. I literally don't even care what they do at this point. Turn 3, stasis. Foil something I didn't like. "Come at me, you only get one attack." Turn 4, the owl shows up, and they both laugh.
One friend on turn 6 forgets to discard with the imp before his upkeep, so I do 4 damage to him. I nearly deck all of us before the reanimator gets a Sphinx of the Steel Wind past my counterspells and is able to win. After that, we unanimously agree, no more stasis in multiplayer.
Our lgs is 3/4 year old or so, and they tried an edh tourney. I ended not going simply because I like my edh casual, but my friend goes (he helps out the store a lot). He brings Karona. They play 2 or 3 games or something, only had 9 or 10 people I think, and he kills literally everyone in the games that he is in (winning each game). But, they have achievements there to keep track of. He thought they were just for fun and didn't really track them. He got third.
Side note, skinny black guy yelling white power is really funny. More so when his opponent (me) is a large white guy, in all black, combat boots and with a shaved head.
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EDH:
GW: Selvala, Let us help YOU.
UB: Mirko Vosk, when outmatched cheat
BW: Vish Kal, The Arbiter of Reanimation
UG: Prime Speaker Zegana, the science of sorcery
RB: Malfegor, Traitor's Haven
UW: Daxos, Control-Fort-Tron
BG: Pharika, Goddess of Stax
RW: Gisela, Boros Control
RG: Ruric Thar, a Primal Surge deck
RU: Niv-Mizzet the Firemind, Spellslinger?!?!
B:(Pauper) Mikaeus the Unhallowed
R: Kurkesh, Onakke Ancient: The Power of Engineering
Wow, I got about halfway through that, then gave up and scrolled to the bottom to see if it finished with the words "fresh prince of bel-air". I was disappointed to see that it didn't.
This made me LOL, I could just imagine.
Most awkward game I played was when my friends and I started playing, around age 13-14 during 6th edition. In one game, when we would deal damage we would slug each other in the arm. Lava Axe was horrible...
Made a similar drinking game rule. every 2 damage = 1 shot. That was a rough night.
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EDH:
GW: Selvala, Let us help YOU.
UB: Mirko Vosk, when outmatched cheat
BW: Vish Kal, The Arbiter of Reanimation
UG: Prime Speaker Zegana, the science of sorcery
RB: Malfegor, Traitor's Haven
UW: Daxos, Control-Fort-Tron
BG: Pharika, Goddess of Stax
RW: Gisela, Boros Control
RG: Ruric Thar, a Primal Surge deck
RU: Niv-Mizzet the Firemind, Spellslinger?!?!
B:(Pauper) Mikaeus the Unhallowed
R: Kurkesh, Onakke Ancient: The Power of Engineering
Of course, I ended up playing against my angel deck for the first game that night. My friend's brother was fairly familiar with the deck since I let him borrow it when we played multiplayer a few times before. I was absolutely terrified. Being the creator of that deck, I know exactly what kind of aggro nanners it can pump out, especially against a combo deck that has almost no board presence.
I ended it quickly, before anything heinous could happen: Turn 5 Bribery for Iona, Shield of Emeria, calling white. It was absolutely awkward shutting down my own deck and it made me feel awful... :/
Thank you to Rivenor for this awesome banner!
Palladia-Mors of {The Spirit of EDH}
EDH
WLinvala, Queen of the AngelsW
WUThe Prison of the Grand ArbiterUW [Primer]
URNiv-Mizzet, Handcycling ComboRU
UTalrand, Drake-Slinging to VictoryU
WUGDerevi, Tactical ShufflingGUW
BCao Cao, Discard Stax of Absolute MiseryB
Very casual, I was playing GR werewolves, he was playing white weenie, and she played something else. He had just suggested that I try out some burn in my deck, and since he usually gives good advice on that sort of thing, I tried it.
As the game progressed, I got stuck at three lands. Both of them feeling bad for me, they just fought it out w/ each other. About 12 turns in, I still had three lands, and no creatures. They had been going at each other and left me alone at 2 life. She attacked him, leaving herself wide open, knocking him down to 3 life. Seeing that I had no cards in hand, he just went ahead and finished her off, and was set up to finish me next turn.
I top decked one of the 3 incinerates he had just suggested for me to put in my deck, and he proceeded to fall out of his chair. He still gives me a hard time about winning a game I had no business winning, but it was still fun
That same guy was also in a big multiplayer game once (12 people), and somebody played biorythm on turn 2... Went from 12 to 3, and the game lasted < 10 minutes.
Anyway, here's my story. Get ready for a small novel...
One time 6 months or so ago I was sitting around playtesting some Legacy decks at my LGS with a couple friends at the side tables during an FNM. There were a few other people there just playing various formats casually, one of which was a LGS regular who often brings his developmentally disabled 8 year old daughter with to play casual games of magic. She's not exactly a good player by any means, but she always has fun playing various offbeat tribal decks and everyone at the LGS is nice to her so all is well in that regard.
At some point in the evening my friends who I was playtesting Legacy against decide to go to Burger King for some dinner and asked if I wanted to come along, but being a vegetarian and haven already eaten I politely declined and decided to just hang around the LGS while they were away. While they were off eating the guy with the developmentally disabled daughter came up to me and asked if I wouldn't mind playing a few games with his daughter to keep her entertained while he went off to get some food as well. I said "sure!" and sat down across the table from his daughter to play some casual games and he left to get something to eat. It was at this point that it dawned on me that I had left my backpack with almost all my decks in it in my friend's car and I only had one deck on me. It was T.E.S..
Given that I had already promised to play some games with this very excited and hopeful looking little girl I sat down and shuffled up my deck and drew my 7 cards. I really didn't know what to do at this point since I didn't want to confuse the living daylights out of this poor girl but I had to do something. First I Ponder'ed and Brainstorm'ed for a while, just hoping she'd start attacking me with creatures and kill me so I wouldn't end up having to storm out on her. She plays some lands, plays a Spore Frog, and then plays some more lands. She played a few other Frogs as well but for some reason never attacked me. No matter how long I stalled she just kept playing Frogs and giggling at the art on them. 10 minutes later little had changed, and even after I suggested she try attacking me with them she just kept durdling around with her frogs since they were "nice frogs and didn't want to attack me" while I'm sitting here with a full grip of Dark Rituals, Lions Eye Diamond, and Burning Wish. I keep trying to delay the game but now she's just looking at my strangely and wondering why I haven't played anything. At this point it's 15 minutes or so into the game and she's spent the last two turns insisting that I should do something too and I've run out of cantrips to stall with.
I cringe and do what must be done. I play out a couple Dark Ritual and a Rite of Flame, drop two Lions Eye Diamond, cast Burning Wish to tutor something from my sideboard, then crack the LEDs for 6 black mana in response to Burning Wish and discard my the last card in my hand (an Infernal Tutor) to the LEDs. Meanwhile this poor slow girl is just staring at me wide eyed and confused with absolutely no idea what I'm doing. I don't think she even knows what a sideboard is let alone a mana pool or how/why I'm casting all these spells all of a sudden and keeping track of how many I cast with a 20 sided dice. It's at this point I realize that my storm count isn't high enough to kill her with Tendrils so I have to get Ill-Gotten Gains with my Burning Wish to get back a Ritual, Lions Eye Diamond, and the Infernal Tutor that I discarded to the LED a few seconds ago. So I grab Ill-Gotten Gains and cast it, now trying to explain to her that she has to discard her hand and we both get 3 cards back from our graveyards. She reads the card for what feels like an eternity and eventually says "okay". She discards her hand and gets back a few Frogs and a forest, I get Dark Ritual, LED, and Infernal Tutor. I play them out, Infernal Tutor for Tendrils of Agony, and cast it. I remember very uncomfortably saying to her, "Tendrils of Agony you for 22?". She looks extremely confused so I try to explain to her how the spell copies itself once for each spell I cast before it this turn but she clearly has no idea what I'm talking about and keeps saying "So I lose two life and you gain two life?". After gently explaining how the card works a few more times she finally gets it (I think) and says "Oh, okay. So you win. Thanks for playing with me!" and picks up her cards.
I have never in my life felt more awkward while playing a game of Magic. I spent the whole game cringing and just wishing it would end, eventually realizing the only way that was going to happen was if I Tendrils'd a mentally handicapped 8 year old girl. Ultimately I had to do it, but I'll never live it down (especially after I told my friends about what happened later).
He mulligans into Lost in the Woods each game, and I manage to lose 2-1 instead of 2-0 with a turn 4 win (yes, it was that aggro).
A true torture, I begin to understand opponents pretending to fall asleep back when I played infinite-turns turbofog.
I love this story. I work with a teen with aspbergers and he loves playing magic. He's very smart, but I've run into almost the same situation before.
I won the first game, he won the second, and in the third game I was pretty much on the ropes -- he had a Sarkhan as well, and I was forced to play mine to knock his off the board. I was at 1 life on my draw, and he was at seven. I topdecked Vengeful Rebirth and saw the win.
I Rebirthed Deathbringer Thoctar, dealing 6 damage to my opponent, and sacrificed some creature -- don't recall what or how -- to put a counter on the Thoctar, then pinged my opponent for the final point of damage. We shook hands and I picked up my deck, then went to claim my prizes -- eight packs of Alara Reborn.
When I headed past the table where we'd been playing on my way out of leave the store, I saw my opponent waving at me, grinning, and flashing my Vengeful Rebirth at me. Thinking I'd forgotten the card I went over, thanked him, took the card and started to walk away. Suddenly there was an uproar. My opponent didn't speak at all, but other players quickly got in my way, looking upset and angry, and I was completely confused. When I turned back to my opponent he was scrawling a note on a pad of paper and handed it to me.
'I was just showing you, I ran the same card in my deck too -- you were lucky you topped it.'
Why wouldn't you just Tendrils for 14-16 instead of throwing in an IGG loop to kill? It looks big, does a ton of damage, and explains why you haven't been playing anything (saving up for the big turn), but doesn't make her lose. Granted, the nice frogs might not have attacked anyway, forcing you to do something to finish the game, but there is a place between sitting on your hand and going full-on TES nuts. Heck, Infernal Tutor for extra cantrips or Chants, Burning Wish for sideboard cards that are only barely relevant (Deathmark on a Spore Frog? Maybe that'll get them mad!).
I have a similar awkward game: before my roomate left, we decided to play our first (and likely last) games of Magic. I had nothing even remotely casual built, and his deck was a remixed Angels and Demons precon. I had annihilated him the first game with Stoneblade, so I really wanted to have him win one to keep his spirits about the game up. The most casual thing I had was a Riku EDH list.
Unfortunately, my draw was not especially bad, and even avoiding removal and bombs, I was quickly in a position where I couldn't make it look realistic that I didn't have more plays in my hand (I had cast Praetor's Counsel as a bomb card that doesn't actually do anything on its own, and was now sitting with 20+ cards in hand).
Thankfully, he stuck an Akroma. Pro-red? That's believable! I started doing everything ineffectual I could find to lock out Akroma: Repulse, Repeal, flying blue chump-blockers, and prayed to the Magic gods that he didn't know how many cards are capable of dealing with it. I finally went in for the not-quite-there alpha strike while within one swing of Akroma. Unfortunately, a Charmbreaker Devils had brought back the Repeal, and given that he knew it was in my hand, I had to make the most ridiculously poor play ever, bouncing a blocker after blocks were declared just to get the Repeal out of my hand.
I honestly have no idea if he bought it or not, I definitely wouldn't have, but that's definitely the most hoops I've ever jumped through to throw a game, and it was a heck of an awkward feeling trying to bluff that none of the 20ish cards in my hand were relevant while looking down at most of the bombs in my deck.
Legacy:
Type 2 Metagame Analysis. For those of you who keep wondering what's the best right now.
I would LOVE to do that so much. Hell, I could make that my standard deck and do a free FNM with it.
I can't really remember having many awkward games but... I suppose I haven't had that many games outside of my regular group of people.
The game just went counter-bounce-counter-counter-bounce-bounce-counter and I felt so sorry for the guy.
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i was running my Karador reanimator against a fairly casual Wrexial and a competitive Tariel reanimator.
game one i lose to the fact that I cant find any green mana.
game two I drop Iona and Blazing Archon in my GY turn 3 on Buried Alive.
turn 4 saw unburial rites for Iona naming black. turn five saw blazing archon and the game was pretty awkward after that... my opponents couldn't do much of anything.
Game two Tariel stole my Iona with Chainer. I stole it back, named black, dropped Divine Reckoning and proceeded to swing with the win.
Seems people don't like Iona. Was pretty awkward for a while
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