This is a story of the, by far, most awesome thing I have ever witnessed at a Magic tourney. Among other remarkable things, there was a fair bit of the awkward, so it is entirely fitting to the thread.
One Saturday in the summer of 2001 my extended group of friends took a trip to a more cultured cinema downtown, to catch some obscure artsy flick of no particular importance. Just down the street from the theater was a hobby store that held Standard tournaments on the day so, with the intention of bringing some of my more dilettantish friends further into the Magic fold, I suggested that they participate in their very first Magic tournament before we would view the movie. Most of the uninitiated balked, but a one them, foolish and headstrong B., was interested. Those wanting to play now formed a majority, so it would be our party at the shop - some us of competing; others of us puttering around the shop bumping into things.
Now, let me tell you about B. in regards to Magic. He was green (as in inexperienced, not the colour). A pulsating neon green that would dazzle the eyes and leave your head sore. That man has tapped cards in his hand, I am sure. Let me tell you the perils of underestimating your opponent, though. His round one opponent, having had already mentally ticked off the "V" after trouncing B. and the rebel deck we lent him in game one, acquiesced to B.'s ignorant and off-the-wall request to switch decks mid-round. Enter the new deck, antipodal in every way: mercenaries. Finished my round (bad players, we all know, are slow) I was privileged to witness the overture of this misbegotten game in its full glory. This opponent, secure in his lofty position as an actual good Magic player, took no pains to hide his thoughts from etching themselves onto his face,
"Oh, Mercenaries",
it was clear that he thought,
"they're even worse then rebels. This should go even smoother".
But never let it be forgotten that it is pride that comes before the fall. Those of you unfortunate enough to have ever contested a ham-fisted button-masher in a fighting game know that, if nothing else, you must keep pace with mindless, misdirected aggression. Fail to so, and fall. That was precisely the fate of that poor opponent. He was ousted by creature spam, though it was never sure that B. knew what a t symbol was. In the final, grinding turns of game 3, that doomed opponent was one that could not even be looked upon, such was his despair. And awkwardness.
I read this 4 times and still have no clue as to what you are trying to say...
Game 3 for round 4 at fnm last week. Win and I'm in top 8, lose and I depend on tiebreakers.
I'm playing RDW
Opening hand 6 spells and a rootbound crag, mulligan
Opening hand 5 3-4 drops and a rootbound crag, mulligan
Opening hand 4 lands and an incenrate, mulligan
Opening hand no lands, what the hell I can't mull to three.
I don't draw a land till turn 6-7
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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.
You are a fantastic human being.
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My most awkward game was actually plaid via OCTGN with my sister in law who I was teaching to play. She's playing kind of slow, only one spell per turn, even though she has a ton of lands in play (3 forest, 4 mountains, 2 plains) but keeps trying to play Talara's Battalion and I keep saying you need to play another green spell first.
And she says, "but I don't have any other green spells" (she had 5 cards in her hand).
So I ask "Oh hand full of land then?"
"Yeah lands and spells that are the wrong color," she replies.
"How many colors are you playing?" I ask.
"Five. Why?"
At this point I take a look at her deck past turn 10 she still had 371 cards in her deck. It's at this point I realize she wasn't listening very well when I taught her about deck construction, she had just spent 3 days finding every card she thought she liked and putting it in her monstrous 5 color deck.
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Another pretty awkward game I played was all my fault. I had convinced several of my family members (about half were still pretty new to the game) to play an all Unglued/Unhinged game. All of the jokes flew over the less experienced players heads (they were too busy trying to figure out what the cards meant), the game went agonizingly slow, and I finally showed my Dad how to kill us all (that is to say put us out of our misery) next turn.
I read this 4 times and still have no clue as to what you are trying to say...
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I was going to see a movie with some of my friends, and convinced them to play at a nearby magic shop.
One of my very inexperienced friends borrowed a rebel deck and lost in game one round one. Then he switched to a Mercenary deck (which was a strictly worse deck) and beat his rightfully confident, more experienced opponent... Two times in a row.
I imagine the opponent was about as frustrated as someone getting beat in a fighting game (like Mortal Kombat or Soul Caliber) by a person who just presses random buttons.
I will admit, it was me being the scumbag in this one
I'm playing against a younger kid, he's maybe 14/15, really nice, but I just found him incredibly annoying, and didn't like the sound of his voice.
Anyway, we're playing limited (3x INN i think) and I stomp him game one, he got completely screwed and stood no chance. After the game, he goes "good game" and tries to shake my hand. I give him a weird look and say, "no, you don't shake between games" his face them becomes very sad and he says, "oh... okay"
then we start shuffling for game two, and i ask him, "I assume you're going to draw?" without thinking, he says yes. we draw our 7 and he tries to go first. i remind him he said he was going to draw, he didn't see my trick and tries to get out of it. Luckily, both players who were sitting next to us heard what i said, one of them goes, "he [me] is an ass, but you did technically agree to draw, so you have to do that"
needless to say, i crushed him game 2 as well.
Yeah, you're definately an *******. If the kid wants to shake your hand, why would you deny him that? And then you trick a kid to get a win at what I'm guessing is an FNM? You're the kind of guy who we'd purposely shark in a trade just out of principle.
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.
At my college we have 3 main groups of magic players, the really good jerks, the bad people in the corner and the people from the art building. I started playing around conflux and after a month I really wanted to get better at deck construction but I played with the people in the corner. So one day I just hopped over to the table with the really good jerks and started to ask questions and read articles about the game. I start to improve and the first deck I was proud of, a squillspike combo, and then I return to my old group to test my skills. I decimate them with ease and notice they never understood the rules, it was awkward to destroy the guy that taught me how to play without a lot of effort.
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
I've had that happen before. Very awkward way to win. Few weeks ago, I ultimate'd Tamiyo with a Pillar of Flame in Hand... went like this:
"You're at how many life?"
"Uh.. 16"
"Okay, I have 10 untapped red sources. Pillar of flame for the win?"
"Okay, down to 14. My turn?"
Also awkward is the dreamcrush play. Like this, also a few weeks ago:
*Opponent draws, grins, windmill slams a card*
"Oblivion Ring your Olivia Voldaren"
"Okay, I'll doom blade my Olivia. Your oblivion ring hits your other oblivion ring, bringing my Grave Titan back. You're hand is empty. I win next turn?"
"Takebacks?"
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Legacy - RUG Delver RUG - Maverick GW - SI BG
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I've had that happen before. Very awkward way to win. Few weeks ago, I ultimate'd Tamiyo with a Pillar of Flame in Hand... went like this:
"You're at how many life?"
"Uh.. 16"
"Okay, I have 10 untapped red sources. Pillar of flame for the win?"
"Okay, down to 14. My turn?"
Also awkward is the dreamcrush play. Like this, also a few weeks ago:
*Opponent draws, grins, windmill slams a card*
"Oblivion Ring your Olivia Voldaren"
"Okay, I'll doom blade my Olivia. Your oblivion ring hits your other oblivion ring, bringing my Grave Titan back. You're hand is empty. I win next turn?"
"Takebacks?"
I suck. So very glad I deleted the RTFC mini-rant i had in my post initially. Poor card choice in my post. Go for the throat then I guess.
@below: yeah, im just mashing out posts. I wasn't gonna go through the whole play-by-play. That led to the Doom Blade mistake also. Either way, when someone casts Oblivion Ring, 90% of the time they state the target when it's played. People shortcut O-Ring all the time.
Modern - RUG Delver RUG - Splinter Twin UR - Jund BRG
Legacy - RUG Delver RUG - Maverick GW - SI BG
Foreigning out SI, currently 33/75. The only thing better than a T1 kill is doing it with cards no one has ever heard of and/or can't read. If anyone has any of the usual pieces, PM me. I'm willing to buy/trade.
I've had that happen before. Very awkward way to win. Few weeks ago, I ultimate'd Tamiyo with a Pillar of Flame in Hand... went like this:
"You're at how many life?"
"Uh.. 16"
"Okay, I have 10 untapped red sources. Pillar of flame for the win?"
"Okay, down to 14. My turn?"
Also awkward is the dreamcrush play. Like this, also a few weeks ago:
*Opponent draws, grins, windmill slams a card*
"Oblivion Ring your Olivia Voldaren"
"Okay, I'll doom blade my Olivia. Your oblivion ring hits your other oblivion ring, bringing my Grave Titan back. You're hand is empty. I win next turn?"
"Takebacks?"
Besides the doomblade thing already mentioned, you would have to "kill" olivia in response to the casting of o ring or you couldnt just make him o ring his own o ring. Once you let him select the target of o ring you cant change it. I assume you just short cut this typing it out but it something a lot of people mix up.
Besides the doomblade thing already mentioned, you would have to "kill" olivia in response to the casting of o ring or you couldnt just make him o ring his own o ring. Once you let him select the target of o ring you cant change it. I assume you just short cut this typing it out but it something a lot of people mix up.
I think the idea is that his opponent didn't give him the window to respond. Technically, his opponent should have announced casting Oblivion Ring without a target, then waited for responses. If he simply laid it down (as "windmill slam" suggests), announcing the target immediately, he has to give TheLatvian the option to respond.
I will admit, it was me being the scumbag in this one
I'm playing against a younger kid, he's maybe 14/15, really nice, but I just found him incredibly annoying, and didn't like the sound of his voice.
Anyway, we're playing limited (3x INN i think) and I stomp him game one, he got completely screwed and stood no chance. After the game, he goes "good game" and tries to shake my hand. I give him a weird look and say, "no, you don't shake between games" his face them becomes very sad and he says, "oh... okay"
then we start shuffling for game two, and i ask him, "I assume you're going to draw?" without thinking, he says yes. we draw our 7 and he tries to go first. i remind him he said he was going to draw, he didn't see my trick and tries to get out of it. Luckily, both players who were sitting next to us heard what i said, one of them goes, "he [me] is an ass, but you did technically agree to draw, so you have to do that"
needless to say, i crushed him game 2 as well.
Wow, you sound like an enormous prick.
I feel bad for anyone unlucky enough to get paired with you.
I was playing in a Modern PTQ with UW Tron and after beating my friend's Jund in R1 found myself in the forsaken wastes of the 1-3 bracket. I sit down across my opponent who looks fairly new and get strarted.
Game one, my opponent lays out some swamps before playing Rakdos Carnarium while I do my Tron thing. I see the opportunity and cast Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre and blow up the bounceland. I'm pretty sure I have this in the bag, when he untaps and plays Geth's Verdict. I pause and read the card and shuffle my Ulamog away - I certainly wasn't expecting that trick. Eventually, I get a Gifts Ungiven and poop out an Elesh Norn, killing off some bloodghasts or something. After some damage, Norn also falls prey to a Geth's Verdict. After some more digging I eventually set up the Mindslaver lock (I have to very carefully explain that's he's hard locked out after taking a few turns).
We move onto game 2, whereupon he hits more lands and makes Vampire Nocturnus which I promptly path before crushing him with Iona, Shield of Emeria (against his almost mono-black deck) followed up by Emrakul. At least that one was over quickly.
It was a shame because he was obviously trying to have fun with a homebrew but there was no way such a deck could possibly compete (from what I saw, it was mostly black with a red splash for inferno titan, half of vampire tribal, grave titans and not enough lands). Worst of all, he'd lost to a lot of Tron decks and looked thoroughly miserable. His unorthodox card choices certainly made me work for it.
Stranger still, all through the this, the game next to us was a fully-tooled Aggro Loam deck totally crushing a Battle Of Wits deck. I certainly applaud the latter for trying; the 1-3 bracket is a surreal place.
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Another story, at an Innistrad sealed PTQ. At some point, the pairings go up and I can't find my name: the system has apparently dropped me, but I'm at 3-1 or something and obviously don't want to drop. They pair me up against the bye: he doesn't mind, he just want to play.
So I sit down across 'that guy' that keeps playing after he should have dropped and is really bad. Game one was so awkward. He gets down T2 Vampire Interloper and enchants it T3 with Skeletal Grimace. This one guy proceeds to beat me down and down while I can only watch in horror as I draw no blockers or removal that gets through the regeneration. Eventually, I am down to 1 life and draw for my last turn. It is Mikaeus the Lunarch, who doesn't block flyers. Desperately searching for a way out, I call a judge over to check a play. Cast Mikaeus for X=0, he dies and AT LAST activates morbid for my Skirsdag high priest. A Blocker at long last! I manage to stabilise and eventually beat him down with more 5/5s, but by god it was tense.
At my college we have 3 main groups of magic players, the really good jerks, the bad people in the corner and the people from the art building. I started playing around conflux and after a month I really wanted to get better at deck construction but I played with the people in the corner. So one day I just hopped over to the table with the really good jerks and started to ask questions and read articles about the game. I start to improve and the first deck I was proud of, a squillspike combo, and then I return to my old group to test my skills. I decimate them with ease and notice they never understood the rules, it was awkward to destroy the guy that taught me how to play without a lot of effort.
Yeah, beating the guy that you learned the game with and gave you your first deck without much effort is rough. I did this recently and couldn't lose against his newest all X casting red burn spells deck he built that dominated the people he plays with now. awkward to say the least.
With all do respect, your statements reek of extreme ignorance on several levels.
For starters, the player might have a medical condition allowing for a legal exemption which is common in several states and countries.
Secondly, "Magic is a thinking man's game" isn't only politically incorrect, it's borderline sexist. While most players are in fact male, Magic is a thinking PERSON's game and your statement devalues a woman's ability to play and presumes they're less capable of critical thinking which obviously isn't reality.
Third... Hoping that you never have to play with someone in such a state is illogical and contradicts your own conclusions if you honestly believe your other assumptive statement. Despite the seemingly lesser challenge, you would probably have a considerable strategic advantage playing against someone under the influence, hence such a match-up should be desirable and favorable, assuming that you're looking to increase your win to loss ratio.
Lastly... Some of the best chess, go, poker, magic, and risk players I know are people who play under various influences, as are many of the world's best critical thinkers, philosophers, authors, musicians, business owners, and politicians. Making a blanket statement suggesting that anyone who's under the influence of a particular substance is incapable of thinking is a totally inaccurate generalization, and doesn't take into account each person's individual chemical physiology, default brain ability, and tolerance to certain substances.
Out of respect for the opposition and the fact that younger teenagers may be playing at various events, I personally wouldn't consider sitting down for a game drunk or under the influence of anything else, but I have no objection whatsoever if another player does so if that's what makes them feel more comfortable or enjoy the game more. As a matter of fact, I find it much more offensive when someone sits down across from me right after having a cigarette because I find the smell of tobacco overpowering. And even so, I never complain. I see it as an opportunity to reminisce about the time when I was a smoker and say things to encourage my opponent to make the right decision and quit their expensive habit, often using the convincing argument that if they quit after losing the game they'll have so much more money to spend on cards so they can actually beat my deck(s) the next time
Lighten up. Sheesh.
Anyway, lots of awkward moments, but here's a few...
Once played a very young kid at FNM, probably around 10. His buddies were there as well as his dad, I guess to chaperone. It was a particularly under-attended night so it was laid back. So this kid opens up with a Mogg Fanatic (not standard-legal at the time) and next turn continues to play creatures that very much weren't standard-legal. I told him about his deck not being legal but told him it was not a big deal being just an FNM and that I'd help him after our game make it T2-legal. He was pumped about it. So then I play Merfolk Looter from the Exodus printing (legal at the time). The kid flipped out. He called his friends and dad over and said I was cheating because my Looter (with the old frame) must have been too old to play legally. I tried over and over again to explain to him, his buddies and his dad that you can play any printing of a card as long as it's legal in the format you're playing. Plus then I had to call him out in front of the entire store that HIS ENTIRE DECK wasn't legal and this was all after I offered to help him tweak it. His dad didn't seem to care either way and told his son to just play. But his dad watched me the entire rest of our match. That was awkward as I didn't hold back at all and stomped him in no time flat. Otherwise I'd have gone easier on him so he'd have had a better time. TL;DR - 10 year old with an illegal deck flipped out on me for playing legal cards...dad watches intently.
During a ZEN/ZEN/WWK draft, a dad brought his young son along. Before the draft, I heard the dad tell his son over and over again that if he saw a Jace, Persecutor or Stoneforge Mystic to pick it before anything else. So the seating areas are announced and I'm to the left of this kid. We start and the kid passes his pack to me. I'm going through the pack, get to the rare which was nothing worth picking. Then I see there's a foil - an Abyssal Persecutor foil! I ask the kid if he's sure he made the right pick and handed the pack back to him to make sure. He looks through again and says "yep, I'm good." I shrug and pick the Persey. I felt bad, almost like taking candy from a baby...but then I didn't feel that bad like 8 picks later as the same kid was caught taking two picks from the same pack. It wasn't an innocent mistake, he knew how to draft and was being sneaky. The awkward part about that was the guy calling this kid out was sitting next to this kid's dad who looked like a tough mo fo...the kind of dude you wouldn't want to piss off. It was quiet in there for a while. TL;DR - Stole (foil) candy from a cheating baby.
I used to work with two other guys who we'd play Magic with over our lunch break. One of the guys was suspected of being a liar not only about MTG but just about anything. We all played at our LGS in our town. But my liar co-worker always claimed that on Sundays he'd drive over the border into Maryland and play at a larger store that was known for its high competitive level (think it was called Legends). He was just an average player but would somehow always end up winning the Sunday standard tourneys at a place known for it's high level of play. Obviously my other coworker and I were skeptical about these claims all the while fully knowing it's possible he was lying about even playing there in the first place. So at one of our Wednesday night magics, a new crew of about 6 guys showed up. These guys, myself and my two buddies from work were all chatting it up before the tourney and trading. One of the guys happens to mention they're from Maryland and usually play at Legends. I point to my buddy from work and say "oh yeah, that's cool, this guy here just got first place there last Sunday." All banter stops abruptly and one of the guys, very confused, softly says "what? I won last weekend AND the weekend before that." I myself am confused for roughly a nano-second...until I realize who I'm talking about: the sheepish-looking guy cowering out of the conversation. Facepalm...awwwwwwkward. TL;DR - Lying coworker caught lying; could have made 6 new friends.
I was playing 7-land Belcher during Mirrodin/Champions standard. I was at an FNM and was paired against a kid. I felt really bad when, for the first time, my deck was able to combo out on turn 3. The kid seemed to have no idea what I was doing, even though I was explaining each step. The worse part is me flipping over those card, while counting, and then looking at the kid and saying, "That's 22 point of damage to you" and he looking up with wet eyes asking, "So I'm dead?" I don't think he played anything but land that game. I felt like a douche.
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Stop calling me names and start making me breakfast!
I think I had one draft playing against a 15 yrs old, it was game 3 my start was:
t1, Wingcrafter.
t2, Wandering Wolf, soulbound them, swing for 1 in the air.
t3, I somehow draws a Blessing of Nature, I miracle it and gives +4 counters to my wingcrafter and wolf, then I use a Timbleland Guide to give the wolf 1 more counter, then I swing 8 in the air.
t4, he is now at 3 life and he calls those are *** plays, I want to help him to make his deck better, he refuse to listen to me and just scoop and drop.
I think I had one draft playing against a 15 yrs old, it was game 3 my start was:
t1, Wingcrafter.
t2, Wandering Wolf, soulbound them, swing for 1 in the air.
t3, I somehow draws a Blessing of Nature, I miracle it and gives +4 counters to my wingcrafter and wolf, then I use a Timbleland Guide to give the wolf 1 more counter, then I swing 8 in the air.
t4, he is now at 3 life and he calls those are *** plays, I want to help him to make his deck better, he refuse to listen to me and just scoop and drop.
To be fair, I might be a bit prickly if that happened to me too, but my anger would go towards the format in general and not my opponent.
I will admit, it was me being the scumbag in this one
I'm playing against a younger kid, he's maybe 14/15, really nice, but I just found him incredibly annoying, and didn't like the sound of his voice.
Anyway, we're playing limited (3x INN i think) and I stomp him game one, he got completely screwed and stood no chance. After the game, he goes "good game" and tries to shake my hand. I give him a weird look and say, "no, you don't shake between games" his face them becomes very sad and he says, "oh... okay"
then we start shuffling for game two, and i ask him, "I assume you're going to draw?" without thinking, he says yes. we draw our 7 and he tries to go first. i remind him he said he was going to draw, he didn't see my trick and tries to get out of it. Luckily, both players who were sitting next to us heard what i said, one of them goes, "he [me] is an ass, but you did technically agree to draw, so you have to do that"
needless to say, i crushed him game 2 as well.
You do know if it wasn't REL:Competitive and he called a judge he would get to go first and you'd get a warning, right?
So last summer my LGS decided to start hosting small legacy events, largely due to my urging as it was my new favorite competitive magic activity. I had asked around and many people seemed to be excited at the idea. There is a private college near by with a lot of well to dos that could afford the format if they wanted to so I thought it would be reasonably competitive. For the first tournament I had to choose between playing TES and UWr Landstill, as they were my only competitive legacy decks at the time. I decided to play TES. In the first match I was pitted against a dude named Bill who sat down at the table and immediately started talking to me about how he was excited to play his deck for the first time and that he hadn't been to a tournament in years. He was playing some home brew mono green ramp deck. I only know this because I asked after the game. we rolled to see who would go first and I won. I proceeded to combo off on turn 1 to tendrils of agony with a storm count of 13. He watches me do this the whole way through with a look of curiosity and after I play Tendrils and stop he says "That's it? all that for me to lose 2 life and you to gain 2?"
The poor guy came to a legacy event not even knowing what the storm mechanic does.
I tried to explain to him that I had won and how it worked, and he refused to believe me and even after I had him read the card again, I had to call our judge to explain it to him that I was indeed correct and that he had lost the game. He was pretty embarrassed by this even though I had tried to be polite and not condescending. He conceded game 2 because he didn't think he had a chance to win at all, and barring extremely poor luck on my part, he was probably right. It turned out that there were a few other people that brought some competitive decks to that event but he was not one of them. A word of warning to the casual magic player. casual and legacy are most definitely NOT the same thing. I like playing legacy, but I feel like a bully when I bring a $1000 competitive deck and get paired against the dude with a casual bear tribal deck. Nothing against the bears, I just play legacy for the excitement, complexity, and power level, and the bears, well, they aren't gonna hold up.
The rest of the tournament went fine, as my opponents mostly either had fairly strong decks, I faced scepter/chant, rock, a few homebrew aggro decks that weren't too terrible, and burn. but man was that first match pretty awkward.
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"The smallest seed of regret can bloom into redemption."
Secondly, "Magic is a thinking man's game" isn't only politically incorrect, it's borderline sexist. While most players are in fact male, Magic is a thinking PERSON's game and your statement devalues a woman's ability to play and presumes they're less capable of critical thinking which obviously isn't reality.
...Are you serious?
"A thinking man's game" is a very common phrase outside of Magic, wherein the word "man" refers to a human, not specifically a male.
I swear, you must have broken some track and field records while jumping to that conclusion.
The problem with defining this format by what is "fun" is that everyone seems to define fun as what they don't lose to. If you keep losing to easily answered cards, that means you should improve your deck. If you don't want to improve your deck, then you should come to peace with the idea that you are going to lose because you chose to not interact with better strategies.
A few weeks ago I was playing Casual 2HG. My team mate and I were playing MBA (Me Vamps, Him Rogues) Against MB Combo-Control and U/W noob.deck. Turn 1 my team goes first, we each play a land and creature then pass. Opposing team played land. We untapped and I dropped a swamp and 2 Bad Moon off of a dark ritual. Opp team, land go. Our turn again another dark ritual gave me a Kalastria Highborn and Bloodghast and my teammate dropped more 1/1 dorks. The MBC-C player told his team mate: "We scoop here, there is nothing either of us can do at this point." I felt kinda awkward playing a Legacy-casual deck in that group.
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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.
Thats is the epitome of epicness. Flirt and own hot girl at magic. Defeat angry husband afterward.
I played a guy in a Legacy tournament a few weeks back, and he just didn't make eye contact with me at all. We had a full-on conversation and discussed the game and all, but he didn't make eye contact. He'd either be watching his buddy play next to us or just look off around the store or to the judge, or to the land station for the drafts. It was just, awkward.
Not awkward really but I'll share the story because its really interesting.
A couple months ago at an FNM the store wasn't using assigned tables so people were just looking up opponents name and finding that player.
I find my opponent, we play and I end up winning. I report the match.
A few minutes later, judge finds me and tells me I played the wrong opponent. Asks me who I played. I point the guy out.
Turns out there are two players with the exact same first and last name.
I think they ended up giving the one guy a bye so he wasn't punished for the mixup.
And regarding Duke_Shambles story, yes, unfortunately a tribal bears deck usually does not hold up at a Legacy tournament. Unless they are hate bears.
I read this 4 times and still have no clue as to what you are trying to say...
I'm playing RDW
Opening hand 6 spells and a rootbound crag, mulligan
Opening hand 5 3-4 drops and a rootbound crag, mulligan
Opening hand 4 lands and an incenrate, mulligan
Opening hand no lands, what the hell I can't mull to three.
I don't draw a land till turn 6-7
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My most awkward game was actually plaid via OCTGN with my sister in law who I was teaching to play. She's playing kind of slow, only one spell per turn, even though she has a ton of lands in play (3 forest, 4 mountains, 2 plains) but keeps trying to play Talara's Battalion and I keep saying you need to play another green spell first.
And she says, "but I don't have any other green spells" (she had 5 cards in her hand).
So I ask "Oh hand full of land then?"
"Yeah lands and spells that are the wrong color," she replies.
"How many colors are you playing?" I ask.
"Five. Why?"
At this point I take a look at her deck past turn 10 she still had 371 cards in her deck. It's at this point I realize she wasn't listening very well when I taught her about deck construction, she had just spent 3 days finding every card she thought she liked and putting it in her monstrous 5 color deck.
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Another pretty awkward game I played was all my fault. I had convinced several of my family members (about half were still pretty new to the game) to play an all Unglued/Unhinged game. All of the jokes flew over the less experienced players heads (they were too busy trying to figure out what the cards meant), the game went agonizingly slow, and I finally showed my Dad how to kill us all (that is to say put us out of our misery) next turn.
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Translation:
I was going to see a movie with some of my friends, and convinced them to play at a nearby magic shop.
One of my very inexperienced friends borrowed a rebel deck and lost in game one round one. Then he switched to a Mercenary deck (which was a strictly worse deck) and beat his rightfully confident, more experienced opponent... Two times in a row.
I imagine the opponent was about as frustrated as someone getting beat in a fighting game (like Mortal Kombat or Soul Caliber) by a person who just presses random buttons.
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Yeah, you're definately an *******. If the kid wants to shake your hand, why would you deny him that? And then you trick a kid to get a win at what I'm guessing is an FNM? You're the kind of guy who we'd purposely shark in a trade just out of principle.
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I've had that happen before. Very awkward way to win. Few weeks ago, I ultimate'd Tamiyo with a Pillar of Flame in Hand... went like this:
"You're at how many life?"
"Uh.. 16"
"Okay, I have 10 untapped red sources. Pillar of flame for the win?"
"Okay, down to 14. My turn?"
Also awkward is the dreamcrush play. Like this, also a few weeks ago:
*Opponent draws, grins, windmill slams a card*
"Oblivion Ring your Olivia Voldaren"
"Okay, I'll doom blade my Olivia. Your oblivion ring hits your other oblivion ring, bringing my Grave Titan back. You're hand is empty. I win next turn?"
"Takebacks?"
Legacy - RUG Delver RUG - Maverick GW - SI BG
Foreigning out SI, currently 33/75. The only thing better than a T1 kill is doing it with cards no one has ever heard of and/or can't read. If anyone has any of the usual pieces, PM me. I'm willing to buy/trade.
Erm. Doom Blade can't take Olivia Voldaren, she's black. LOL.
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I suck. So very glad I deleted the RTFC mini-rant i had in my post initially. Poor card choice in my post. Go for the throat then I guess.
@below: yeah, im just mashing out posts. I wasn't gonna go through the whole play-by-play. That led to the Doom Blade mistake also. Either way, when someone casts Oblivion Ring, 90% of the time they state the target when it's played. People shortcut O-Ring all the time.
Legacy - RUG Delver RUG - Maverick GW - SI BG
Foreigning out SI, currently 33/75. The only thing better than a T1 kill is doing it with cards no one has ever heard of and/or can't read. If anyone has any of the usual pieces, PM me. I'm willing to buy/trade.
Besides the doomblade thing already mentioned, you would have to "kill" olivia in response to the casting of o ring or you couldnt just make him o ring his own o ring. Once you let him select the target of o ring you cant change it. I assume you just short cut this typing it out but it something a lot of people mix up.
I think the idea is that his opponent didn't give him the window to respond. Technically, his opponent should have announced casting Oblivion Ring without a target, then waited for responses. If he simply laid it down (as "windmill slam" suggests), announcing the target immediately, he has to give TheLatvian the option to respond.
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Wow, you sound like an enormous prick.
I feel bad for anyone unlucky enough to get paired with you.
Game one, my opponent lays out some swamps before playing Rakdos Carnarium while I do my Tron thing. I see the opportunity and cast Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre and blow up the bounceland. I'm pretty sure I have this in the bag, when he untaps and plays Geth's Verdict. I pause and read the card and shuffle my Ulamog away - I certainly wasn't expecting that trick. Eventually, I get a Gifts Ungiven and poop out an Elesh Norn, killing off some bloodghasts or something. After some damage, Norn also falls prey to a Geth's Verdict. After some more digging I eventually set up the Mindslaver lock (I have to very carefully explain that's he's hard locked out after taking a few turns).
We move onto game 2, whereupon he hits more lands and makes Vampire Nocturnus which I promptly path before crushing him with Iona, Shield of Emeria (against his almost mono-black deck) followed up by Emrakul. At least that one was over quickly.
It was a shame because he was obviously trying to have fun with a homebrew but there was no way such a deck could possibly compete (from what I saw, it was mostly black with a red splash for inferno titan, half of vampire tribal, grave titans and not enough lands). Worst of all, he'd lost to a lot of Tron decks and looked thoroughly miserable. His unorthodox card choices certainly made me work for it.
Stranger still, all through the this, the game next to us was a fully-tooled Aggro Loam deck totally crushing a Battle Of Wits deck. I certainly applaud the latter for trying; the 1-3 bracket is a surreal place.
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Another story, at an Innistrad sealed PTQ. At some point, the pairings go up and I can't find my name: the system has apparently dropped me, but I'm at 3-1 or something and obviously don't want to drop. They pair me up against the bye: he doesn't mind, he just want to play.
So I sit down across 'that guy' that keeps playing after he should have dropped and is really bad. Game one was so awkward. He gets down T2 Vampire Interloper and enchants it T3 with Skeletal Grimace. This one guy proceeds to beat me down and down while I can only watch in horror as I draw no blockers or removal that gets through the regeneration. Eventually, I am down to 1 life and draw for my last turn. It is Mikaeus the Lunarch, who doesn't block flyers. Desperately searching for a way out, I call a judge over to check a play. Cast Mikaeus for X=0, he dies and AT LAST activates morbid for my Skirsdag high priest. A Blocker at long last! I manage to stabilise and eventually beat him down with more 5/5s, but by god it was tense.
Yeah, beating the guy that you learned the game with and gave you your first deck without much effort is rough. I did this recently and couldn't lose against his newest all X casting red burn spells deck he built that dominated the people he plays with now. awkward to say the least.
Lighten up. Sheesh.
Anyway, lots of awkward moments, but here's a few...
Once played a very young kid at FNM, probably around 10. His buddies were there as well as his dad, I guess to chaperone. It was a particularly under-attended night so it was laid back. So this kid opens up with a Mogg Fanatic (not standard-legal at the time) and next turn continues to play creatures that very much weren't standard-legal. I told him about his deck not being legal but told him it was not a big deal being just an FNM and that I'd help him after our game make it T2-legal. He was pumped about it. So then I play Merfolk Looter from the Exodus printing (legal at the time). The kid flipped out. He called his friends and dad over and said I was cheating because my Looter (with the old frame) must have been too old to play legally. I tried over and over again to explain to him, his buddies and his dad that you can play any printing of a card as long as it's legal in the format you're playing. Plus then I had to call him out in front of the entire store that HIS ENTIRE DECK wasn't legal and this was all after I offered to help him tweak it. His dad didn't seem to care either way and told his son to just play. But his dad watched me the entire rest of our match. That was awkward as I didn't hold back at all and stomped him in no time flat. Otherwise I'd have gone easier on him so he'd have had a better time.
TL;DR - 10 year old with an illegal deck flipped out on me for playing legal cards...dad watches intently.
During a ZEN/ZEN/WWK draft, a dad brought his young son along. Before the draft, I heard the dad tell his son over and over again that if he saw a Jace, Persecutor or Stoneforge Mystic to pick it before anything else. So the seating areas are announced and I'm to the left of this kid. We start and the kid passes his pack to me. I'm going through the pack, get to the rare which was nothing worth picking. Then I see there's a foil - an Abyssal Persecutor foil! I ask the kid if he's sure he made the right pick and handed the pack back to him to make sure. He looks through again and says "yep, I'm good." I shrug and pick the Persey. I felt bad, almost like taking candy from a baby...but then I didn't feel that bad like 8 picks later as the same kid was caught taking two picks from the same pack. It wasn't an innocent mistake, he knew how to draft and was being sneaky. The awkward part about that was the guy calling this kid out was sitting next to this kid's dad who looked like a tough mo fo...the kind of dude you wouldn't want to piss off. It was quiet in there for a while.
TL;DR - Stole (foil) candy from a cheating baby.
I used to work with two other guys who we'd play Magic with over our lunch break. One of the guys was suspected of being a liar not only about MTG but just about anything. We all played at our LGS in our town. But my liar co-worker always claimed that on Sundays he'd drive over the border into Maryland and play at a larger store that was known for its high competitive level (think it was called Legends). He was just an average player but would somehow always end up winning the Sunday standard tourneys at a place known for it's high level of play. Obviously my other coworker and I were skeptical about these claims all the while fully knowing it's possible he was lying about even playing there in the first place. So at one of our Wednesday night magics, a new crew of about 6 guys showed up. These guys, myself and my two buddies from work were all chatting it up before the tourney and trading. One of the guys happens to mention they're from Maryland and usually play at Legends. I point to my buddy from work and say "oh yeah, that's cool, this guy here just got first place there last Sunday." All banter stops abruptly and one of the guys, very confused, softly says "what? I won last weekend AND the weekend before that." I myself am confused for roughly a nano-second...until I realize who I'm talking about: the sheepish-looking guy cowering out of the conversation. Facepalm...awwwwwwkward.
TL;DR - Lying coworker caught lying; could have made 6 new friends.
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I think I had one draft playing against a 15 yrs old, it was game 3 my start was:
t1, Wingcrafter.
t2, Wandering Wolf, soulbound them, swing for 1 in the air.
t3, I somehow draws a Blessing of Nature, I miracle it and gives +4 counters to my wingcrafter and wolf, then I use a Timbleland Guide to give the wolf 1 more counter, then I swing 8 in the air.
t4, he is now at 3 life and he calls those are *** plays, I want to help him to make his deck better, he refuse to listen to me and just scoop and drop.
EDH: Xenagos, God of Revels.
To be fair, I might be a bit prickly if that happened to me too, but my anger would go towards the format in general and not my opponent.
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I draft and play EDH. If a Standard player can't understand who a card is for, it's probably for me.
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You do know if it wasn't REL:Competitive and he called a judge he would get to go first and you'd get a warning, right?
The poor guy came to a legacy event not even knowing what the storm mechanic does.
I tried to explain to him that I had won and how it worked, and he refused to believe me and even after I had him read the card again, I had to call our judge to explain it to him that I was indeed correct and that he had lost the game. He was pretty embarrassed by this even though I had tried to be polite and not condescending. He conceded game 2 because he didn't think he had a chance to win at all, and barring extremely poor luck on my part, he was probably right. It turned out that there were a few other people that brought some competitive decks to that event but he was not one of them. A word of warning to the casual magic player. casual and legacy are most definitely NOT the same thing. I like playing legacy, but I feel like a bully when I bring a $1000 competitive deck and get paired against the dude with a casual bear tribal deck. Nothing against the bears, I just play legacy for the excitement, complexity, and power level, and the bears, well, they aren't gonna hold up.
The rest of the tournament went fine, as my opponents mostly either had fairly strong decks, I faced scepter/chant, rock, a few homebrew aggro decks that weren't too terrible, and burn. but man was that first match pretty awkward.
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...Are you serious?
"A thinking man's game" is a very common phrase outside of Magic, wherein the word "man" refers to a human, not specifically a male.
I swear, you must have broken some track and field records while jumping to that conclusion.
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RB: Malfegor, Traitor's Haven
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BG: Pharika, Goddess of Stax
RW: Gisela, Boros Control
RG: Ruric Thar, a Primal Surge deck
RU: Niv-Mizzet the Firemind, Spellslinger?!?!
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R: Kurkesh, Onakke Ancient: The Power of Engineering
Thats is the epitome of epicness. Flirt and own hot girl at magic. Defeat angry husband afterward.
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A couple months ago at an FNM the store wasn't using assigned tables so people were just looking up opponents name and finding that player.
I find my opponent, we play and I end up winning. I report the match.
A few minutes later, judge finds me and tells me I played the wrong opponent. Asks me who I played. I point the guy out.
Turns out there are two players with the exact same first and last name.
I think they ended up giving the one guy a bye so he wasn't punished for the mixup.
And regarding Duke_Shambles story, yes, unfortunately a tribal bears deck usually does not hold up at a Legacy tournament. Unless they are hate bears.