I've only ever encountered a few jerk players in paper magic. Online, though, is a different story. (MODO is slightly better than MWS).
I play frequently on magic league, and was in the finals of a T2 event. My deck of choice? RDW. Long story short, there were two rules disputes, both of which he lost, both of which he got warned for. Nevertheless, we went to game 3. After I won, he stated so eloquently that, "Any noob can play the red deck," etc. You get the idea. It's actually a pretty common occurance over MWS.
I went to Game Daze for a casual Magic night that they have there on Tuesday nights. Most of the players there I already sorta know since they go to another card shop that I frequent.
But there was another guy that I hadn't seen before, and he was damn cocky. My brother challenged him with a new control deck we had made (just got a playset of Force of Will) and the guy told my brother "this deck has only lost once, and it was because I was mana screwed". My brother said "ok, i'll play it." The next thirty seconds of shuffling consisted of the guy trying to intimidate my brother, but he accepted the challenge anyway. It might've sounded like the guy was sarcastic, but he was serious. My brother beat him easily (Isochron Scepter + Counterspell is pretty much gg).
Then my brother and I challenged the guy and his friend to a 2HG match. I was playing my Aluren deck and went off third turn. While I was comboing off he asked me if it was his turn yet. I told him it was the last turn of the game, and the look on his face was priceless.
He spent the next twenty minutes *****ing about how my deck was 'broken' even though it's hardly competitive in Legacy It's so much fun beating a person who thinks he's the best.
MWS aside (Seriously... you're a noob and an idiot for knowig how to play) there are a couple of people at the shop I go to that are total dicks when it comes to losing, and when they win they act like they just beat the best player in the world.... it's asinine and always makes me want to slug them... the arrogance, the insults, and the downright rudeness whenever you do something they don't like...
And yes, no incantatrix for you. Or anyone. That class makes puppies cry. Mostly because they are the former Big Bads who have been Baleful Polymorphed into said puppies. By you. Because you're an incantatrix.
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...Something tells me that even should all arcane casters in the world unite, that the Grease spell would NOT be sufficient.
I guess one of the worst ones for me was back when I first started playing, when Ravager Affinity was still Standard legal and pretty darned popular.
My opponent was overheard to make comments regarding "autowin, my opponent's a girl" and other such niceties.
I was playing BG Affinity Hate Death Cloud.
Sooo... a few Oxidize, Molder Slug, and other niceties later, I win the match.
My opponent's response?
"How cute. Did your boyfriend show you how to play that?"
The only thing that stopped me from telling him where to go was the judge standing right next to me, who promptly hit him with a nice UC penalty.
ahaha, nice. I remember getting wiped by my friend's GF while she was playing GB elves. she fantastically played around my sweepers and eventually beat me due to an untimely Promenade. the experience humbled me. from this day forth, i give my all every game i play, wtether it's agaisnt my spike friends or some 8 year old at a prerelease.
respect your opponent. learn from THEIR misplays and their good ones, too.
as for me, there's a cardshop downtown full of smug legacy players. it's like all of them are PMSking constantly at the same time. My lifelong dream is to 5-0 the weekly legacy tournaments there with a cheap deck and rub it in.
Pfft. Sorry to hear about the sexism AoK, its strange that people complain about "no girls play magic" but we have asshats (hope i can say that ) who say stuff like that and discourage females from playing.
I guess one of the worst ones for me was back when I first started playing, when Ravager Affinity was still Standard legal and pretty darned popular.
My opponent was overheard to make comments regarding "autowin, my opponent's a girl" and other such niceties.
I was playing BG Affinity Hate Death Cloud.
Sooo... a few Oxidize, Molder Slug, and other niceties later, I win the match.
My opponent's response?
"How cute. Did your boyfriend show you how to play that?"
The only thing that stopped me from telling him where to go was the judge standing right next to me, who promptly hit him with a nice UC penalty.
My personal pet peve is when your trying to combo off and your oppoient says stuff like "can i go yet?" or "hurry up and beat me". I just tell them to be quiet or conceed. lol.
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I guess one of the worst ones for me was back when I first started playing, when Ravager Affinity was still Standard legal and pretty darned popular.
My opponent was overheard to make comments regarding "autowin, my opponent's a girl" and other such niceties.
I was playing BG Affinity Hate Death Cloud.
Sooo... a few Oxidize, Molder Slug, and other niceties later, I win the match.
My opponent's response?
"How cute. Did your boyfriend show you how to play that?"
The only thing that stopped me from telling him where to go was the judge standing right next to me, who promptly hit him with a nice UC penalty.
I know a ton of girls who play Magic and when all of us would show up at the shop we used to go to a lot of the guys thought that it they learned in an attempt to impress me.... which is funny. Anyway, at one point some idiot made the snide comment that Sarah couldn't win a single match because she was a girl... she then proceeded to win every single game against everyone in the store...
fgggggrrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaah.
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY WhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhy it is so annoying when people do things like this. For example " my deck is unbeatable you should really concede now "...... er no? jerk? " hah what a lamed a ssed move was that you totally walked in to my removal spell " ........might of alara? " you are such an idiot why'd you play that when you knew I had a counter spell" .............. broodmate dragon. Honestly people usually your opponent isn't an idiot for what he does and calling him/her one makes you look like and is just plain rude
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My only really bad experience came long, long ago, would have been Unlimited/Ice Age era, and I was in a tournament against the biggest douche that hung out at our shop. Everyone knew he was as crooked as hell but could never catch him at it, and surprise surprise, he often won. Well, I was playing something red (all I remember was Manaflares, bolts, incinerate, and Jokulhaups , and some LD. He was sporting a rig with all the Moxes and a Lotus, basically what you might have considered to be a Ramp deck back then, and oh, look, he stacked his deck. And he was the most insulting ********er when you were playing too.
Well, long story short I Manaflared and he seemed to love it and was setting up for the ass stomp, but then I Jocked the field, all his Moxes, his Lotus, Elves, the whole shebang went boom, and he was pissed. I smiled and continued on, we both rebuilt, he then did a whole Winds of Change thing to make sure I wasn't stacking my deck, and then we continue. I draw another Jock and a little bit later when he built back up I Jocked the field again.
He went ape ****. He Winds of Changed me twice in a row. Why? I have no idea, he just went crackers, and then I kept cooking his fat ass, and boom, he was roasted. I made Top 4 but lost to a friend's LD deck, but my high point was kicking that ass master out of the tourney. Cheaters never prosper, biatch :D.
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I played myself once. I'm pretty much the meanest player you'll ever see
I remember once though someone tipped the table I was playing magic on because he lost to some dude. cards flew everywhere (at least 5 people playing casual/type-2 multiplayer magic on this table)
At the Planar Chaos prerelease, I was 2-1 going into round 4. I needed to win to pocket some product, and I was faced against a tall, thin dude with glasses. My deck was relatively janky (to be honest, I still hadn't learned the finer points of Sealed Deck), somehow managing to support turn 3 Groundbreakers at triple-green and turn 6 unmorphed Akromas.
I didn't think much of my opponent, since I was mostly in it to win it. I can't remember the specific match details, but in one game, he taps out on turn five to play Torchling. To be honest, I had perused the spoiler and remembered the Morphling mimic, but not all of its abilities. I asked to see it, which elicited a reply "Well, it's been in the spoiler for so long. I expected people to have memorized the abilities already."
I bit my lip and held back the snark, eventually trouncing him with a flashed Hellkite (opened a foil and a normal Hellkite as well as foil/non-foil Groundbreaker--and some wonder how I went 3-1). He mumbled some words. When I offered to shake, he just chalked it up to bad luck and walked off. I grabbed a judge and made sure to pocket my five packs.
I met a player on MWS playing a 300+ card deck that repeatedly called me a scrub, then swore and said "not gg, bg". But that's about the worst of it, I haven't had any bad experiences with paper magic.
I was playing in a pre-release for alara reborn, and the guy I was playing had the 2/1 dude that gets +1/+1 and flying when you control multi, and that was his board. It was late game, game 3 too. He passed and I took my turn, yeilded not much, so I said ok go. He then played deny reality and it cascaded into a 2/2 multi ground dude, which gave his 2/1 +1/+1 and flying. He may or may not have swung, I don't remember. So anyways, it goes to my turn, and I play an Enlisted wurm and I cascade into branching bolt and proceeded to wipe his board. He got so upset. I just smiled and was like "g0". He slave of bolas'd my 5/5 and hit me with t, I untapped played more creatures and kilt him ded. He started going on (loudly) about the probability of that happening, and how it took no skill. He said "it was like playing Hellen Keller." He then sat at the back of the store going over the scenario (very loudly) like it was absolutely unbelievable. Preetttyyyy annoying, but I was like nomnom16 points.
I played a MWS game where the guy said, "I don't care that your new to MWS, but this is too slow." Player Lost. I wasn't even taking that long, we had just started and I had to find the draw button
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I show up to FNM with a block deck just to test (block tourney the next day) and just hang out. I have no expectation to win any games. One of my opponets loudly says "Yes! he's playing block, I can't lose"
Yup.... he lost
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The difference between being funny and being annoying is how often you get punched in the face....
Played a guy who acted like if you played spells fast enough, your opponent didn't get to do anything. Tried to screw me out of all my triggers and ability to respond his spells. Then after I kept calling him on it, he told me I needed to "learn to play seriously because I can't keep babysitting you" at a pre-release. I mean, he would play two creatures at the same time and said I couldn't respond to the first one being played because the second one was played.
It was at one of the States events... my deck was jank, I called it Fat Zoo (it ran stuff like Hierarchs, Mystic Enforcers, and the like). I was doing surprisingly okay, and I believe it was round 5, me being 3-1.
My opponent was playing a more conventional version of Zoo with his little guys, which were annoying...but somehow could not stand up to my small army of 4/4+ creatures.
We went into game 3, with his attitude getting poorer by the moment. A friend of his had stopped by to watch, and I could see the guy wincing every time my opponent mumbled nasty stuff under his breath.
Well, I ended up beating him, to the usual cry of "God, your deck sucks!"
My usual reply to this is "If that's so, then why did I just win?"
He took the match slip I had just signed and ran to the judge station with it. I didn't think anything of it until pairings for the next round had been announced.
My name wasn't anywhere to be found.
I went to talk to the HJ, who informed me that I'd dropped.
Um, what?
I admit that at this point I did something very stupid- yelling "What the ****!" at the judge station in front of the head judge isn't too bright, but fortunately I didn't get anything worse than a warning and an admonition not to let my match slip out of my sight when I am the winner.
And yes, no incantatrix for you. Or anyone. That class makes puppies cry. Mostly because they are the former Big Bads who have been Baleful Polymorphed into said puppies. By you. Because you're an incantatrix.
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This is Deraxas we're talking about.
Remember, the girl that just killed an aspect of herself before literally consuming her?
Yeah, I don't see her handling a pissing match in any way other than a duel.
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Yes mistress...
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There are only so many epic, psuedonatural barbarian/blackguard half-dragon akutenshai vampire balor paragons they can throw at you, right?
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I suppose it's true. Though the logistics implied in a human/Great Wyrm Prismatic Dragon pairing makes me shudder.
...Something tells me that even should all arcane casters in the world unite, that the Grease spell would NOT be sufficient.
Big Legacy tournament @ Hollywood back in 2008. I was playing Belcher, opponent was playing some Rock variant. I drop an EtW for 10 or 12 tokens and win by turn 4. He remarks about how he flew in from Chicago to play at the tournament, and says something to the effect of "I made Belcher when I was a noob and on a budget, but now I play real decks.". Game 2, I drop a Charbelcher and activate for well over lethal damage on turn 1. He didn't say much else.
What made this funnier was that I had a few "real" decks assembled at the time and decided that I was going to play Belcher a the last minute on the way to the tournament.
I wanted to test a variant build of a burn deck I had come up with on MWS, I indicated I was doing testing on the "request for an opponent" banner. Anyways the opponent I ended up playing after noticing I was playing what he deemed an ordinary burn deck decided to extirpate on of my cards. In doing so he was able to see my Library. What he saw must not have pleased him. Cause after he stopped looking at my library he played some sort of proxy card from his hand that basically basically was named "**** Sucker" and had the rules text "Target player sucks his mothers ****!" how he came up with this particular insult I will never know. Suffice to say that he was the primary reason I vowed never to specifically state that I am testing a deck while looking for random opponents on MWS.
If only I had Misdirect or Swerve or something like that in the deck that I was playing at the time
Also, AoK, regarding your last comment... Gods that sucks... that is like the worst behavior that I have ever heard of at a Tournament. Please tell me that the Head Judge allowed you back into the tournament? Cause otherwise that would be really crappy.
And yes, no incantatrix for you. Or anyone. That class makes puppies cry. Mostly because they are the former Big Bads who have been Baleful Polymorphed into said puppies. By you. Because you're an incantatrix.
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This is Deraxas we're talking about.
Remember, the girl that just killed an aspect of herself before literally consuming her?
Yeah, I don't see her handling a pissing match in any way other than a duel.
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Yes mistress...
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There are only so many epic, psuedonatural barbarian/blackguard half-dragon akutenshai vampire balor paragons they can throw at you, right?
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I suppose it's true. Though the logistics implied in a human/Great Wyrm Prismatic Dragon pairing makes me shudder.
...Something tells me that even should all arcane casters in the world unite, that the Grease spell would NOT be sufficient.
It was at one of the States events... my deck was jank, I called it Fat Zoo (it ran stuff like Hierarchs, Mystic Enforcers, and the like). I was doing surprisingly okay, and I believe it was round 5, me being 3-1.
My opponent was playing a more conventional version of Zoo with his little guys, which were annoying...but somehow could not stand up to my small army of 4/4+ creatures.
We went into game 3, with his attitude getting poorer by the moment. A friend of his had stopped by to watch, and I could see the guy wincing every time my opponent mumbled nasty stuff under his breath.
Well, I ended up beating him, to the usual cry of "God, your deck sucks!"
My usual reply to this is "If that's so, then why did I just win?"
He took the match slip I had just signed and ran to the judge station with it. I didn't think anything of it until pairings for the next round had been announced.
My name wasn't anywhere to be found.
I went to talk to the HJ, who informed me that I'd dropped.
Um, what?
I admit that at this point I did something very stupid- yelling "What the ****!" at the judge station in front of the head judge isn't too bright, but fortunately I didn't get anything worse than a warning and an admonition not to let my match slip out of my sight when I am the winner.
The hell?
Did you let them know who your previous opponent was and what had just happened (unless I'm reading it wrong it sounds like he committed a pretty serious offense)?
Anyway, I don't have any horror stories. The horror is in the experience itself. I don't know what most people's habits are but I only play FNM once in a blue moon, and at PTQ's every chance I get while mostly playing casual.
But back to MTG, as I said, usually the horror is in the experience itself: guys who shower only every eclipse while being morbidly obese, that MTG attitude of "I'm only in to win at all costs because a fantasy card game is the only thing to validate my self-worth", and so forth. Playing against strangers is often a choir: they're often either abrasive, creepy, or both.
But it's worth it because it truly is a great game, and despite my general experience, have met some seriously cool people.
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And yes, no incantatrix for you. Or anyone. That class makes puppies cry. Mostly because they are the former Big Bads who have been Baleful Polymorphed into said puppies. By you. Because you're an incantatrix.
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This is Deraxas we're talking about.
Remember, the girl that just killed an aspect of herself before literally consuming her?
Yeah, I don't see her handling a pissing match in any way other than a duel.
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Yes mistress...
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There are only so many epic, psuedonatural barbarian/blackguard half-dragon akutenshai vampire balor paragons they can throw at you, right?
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I suppose it's true. Though the logistics implied in a human/Great Wyrm Prismatic Dragon pairing makes me shudder.
...Something tells me that even should all arcane casters in the world unite, that the Grease spell would NOT be sufficient.
I see some talk about MWS experiences. I'm sure we've all had our fair share of those.
Noob tokens.
Inane rules violations.
And then there was the guy who kept drawing cards when he thought I wasn't paying attention...
I can't say I have ever experienced the "Noob Token" but I do understand the sentiment of the Rules Violations. Additionally I fail to understand how someone can think another player on MWS would not notice that you have illegally drawn a few extra cards here or there. I mean it is very easy to spot how many cards are in your opponents hand and additionally you have the advantage of a device off on the side that tells you exactly how many cards are in each players hands at all times. So its not like they are really being sneaky.
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I play frequently on magic league, and was in the finals of a T2 event. My deck of choice? RDW. Long story short, there were two rules disputes, both of which he lost, both of which he got warned for. Nevertheless, we went to game 3. After I won, he stated so eloquently that, "Any noob can play the red deck," etc. You get the idea. It's actually a pretty common occurance over MWS.
But there was another guy that I hadn't seen before, and he was damn cocky. My brother challenged him with a new control deck we had made (just got a playset of Force of Will) and the guy told my brother "this deck has only lost once, and it was because I was mana screwed". My brother said "ok, i'll play it." The next thirty seconds of shuffling consisted of the guy trying to intimidate my brother, but he accepted the challenge anyway. It might've sounded like the guy was sarcastic, but he was serious. My brother beat him easily (Isochron Scepter + Counterspell is pretty much gg).
Then my brother and I challenged the guy and his friend to a 2HG match. I was playing my Aluren deck and went off third turn. While I was comboing off he asked me if it was his turn yet. I told him it was the last turn of the game, and the look on his face was priceless.
He spent the next twenty minutes *****ing about how my deck was 'broken' even though it's hardly competitive in Legacy It's so much fun beating a person who thinks he's the best.
My opponent was overheard to make comments regarding "autowin, my opponent's a girl" and other such niceties.
I was playing BG Affinity Hate Death Cloud.
Sooo... a few Oxidize, Molder Slug, and other niceties later, I win the match.
My opponent's response?
"How cute. Did your boyfriend show you how to play that?"
The only thing that stopped me from telling him where to go was the judge standing right next to me, who promptly hit him with a nice UC penalty.
"I am in the arcane, and the arcane is in me."
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ahaha, nice. I remember getting wiped by my friend's GF while she was playing GB elves. she fantastically played around my sweepers and eventually beat me due to an untimely Promenade. the experience humbled me. from this day forth, i give my all every game i play, wtether it's agaisnt my spike friends or some 8 year old at a prerelease.
respect your opponent. learn from THEIR misplays and their good ones, too.
as for me, there's a cardshop downtown full of smug legacy players. it's like all of them are PMSking constantly at the same time. My lifelong dream is to 5-0 the weekly legacy tournaments there with a cheap deck and rub it in.
My personal pet peve is when your trying to combo off and your oppoient says stuff like "can i go yet?" or "hurry up and beat me". I just tell them to be quiet or conceed. lol.
I know a ton of girls who play Magic and when all of us would show up at the shop we used to go to a lot of the guys thought that it they learned in an attempt to impress me.... which is funny. Anyway, at one point some idiot made the snide comment that Sarah couldn't win a single match because she was a girl... she then proceeded to win every single game against everyone in the store...
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY WhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhy it is so annoying when people do things like this. For example " my deck is unbeatable you should really concede now "...... er no? jerk? " hah what a lamed a ssed move was that you totally walked in to my removal spell " ........might of alara? " you are such an idiot why'd you play that when you knew I had a counter spell" .............. broodmate dragon. Honestly people usually your opponent isn't an idiot for what he does and calling him/her one makes you look like and is just plain rude
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ty spiderboys
Well, long story short I Manaflared and he seemed to love it and was setting up for the ass stomp, but then I Jocked the field, all his Moxes, his Lotus, Elves, the whole shebang went boom, and he was pissed. I smiled and continued on, we both rebuilt, he then did a whole Winds of Change thing to make sure I wasn't stacking my deck, and then we continue. I draw another Jock and a little bit later when he built back up I Jocked the field again.
He went ape ****. He Winds of Changed me twice in a row. Why? I have no idea, he just went crackers, and then I kept cooking his fat ass, and boom, he was roasted. I made Top 4 but lost to a friend's LD deck, but my high point was kicking that ass master out of the tourney. Cheaters never prosper, biatch :D.
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I remember once though someone tipped the table I was playing magic on because he lost to some dude. cards flew everywhere (at least 5 people playing casual/type-2 multiplayer magic on this table)
yeah...that didn't make me a happy camper.
At the Planar Chaos prerelease, I was 2-1 going into round 4. I needed to win to pocket some product, and I was faced against a tall, thin dude with glasses. My deck was relatively janky (to be honest, I still hadn't learned the finer points of Sealed Deck), somehow managing to support turn 3 Groundbreakers at triple-green and turn 6 unmorphed Akromas.
I didn't think much of my opponent, since I was mostly in it to win it. I can't remember the specific match details, but in one game, he taps out on turn five to play Torchling. To be honest, I had perused the spoiler and remembered the Morphling mimic, but not all of its abilities. I asked to see it, which elicited a reply "Well, it's been in the spoiler for so long. I expected people to have memorized the abilities already."
I bit my lip and held back the snark, eventually trouncing him with a flashed Hellkite (opened a foil and a normal Hellkite as well as foil/non-foil Groundbreaker--and some wonder how I went 3-1). He mumbled some words. When I offered to shake, he just chalked it up to bad luck and walked off. I grabbed a judge and made sure to pocket my five packs.
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Yup.... he lost
I remember when Jester's Cap was more expensive than Underground Sea
It was at one of the States events... my deck was jank, I called it Fat Zoo (it ran stuff like Hierarchs, Mystic Enforcers, and the like). I was doing surprisingly okay, and I believe it was round 5, me being 3-1.
My opponent was playing a more conventional version of Zoo with his little guys, which were annoying...but somehow could not stand up to my small army of 4/4+ creatures.
We went into game 3, with his attitude getting poorer by the moment. A friend of his had stopped by to watch, and I could see the guy wincing every time my opponent mumbled nasty stuff under his breath.
Well, I ended up beating him, to the usual cry of "God, your deck sucks!"
My usual reply to this is "If that's so, then why did I just win?"
He took the match slip I had just signed and ran to the judge station with it. I didn't think anything of it until pairings for the next round had been announced.
My name wasn't anywhere to be found.
I went to talk to the HJ, who informed me that I'd dropped.
Um, what?
I admit that at this point I did something very stupid- yelling "What the ****!" at the judge station in front of the head judge isn't too bright, but fortunately I didn't get anything worse than a warning and an admonition not to let my match slip out of my sight when I am the winner.
"I am in the arcane, and the arcane is in me."
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What made this funnier was that I had a few "real" decks assembled at the time and decided that I was going to play Belcher a the last minute on the way to the tournament.
If only I had Misdirect or Swerve or something like that in the deck that I was playing at the time
Also, AoK, regarding your last comment... Gods that sucks... that is like the worst behavior that I have ever heard of at a Tournament. Please tell me that the Head Judge allowed you back into the tournament? Cause otherwise that would be really crappy.
I deserved that much.
"I am in the arcane, and the arcane is in me."
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Deraxas, Dark Maiden of Shimia,, still oddly obsessed with a mindmage.
what did he do to the guy you were playing against? Or do you not know? Cause I would think that would be a "Tournament Fraud" penalty
The hell?
Did you let them know who your previous opponent was and what had just happened (unless I'm reading it wrong it sounds like he committed a pretty serious offense)?
Anyway, I don't have any horror stories. The horror is in the experience itself. I don't know what most people's habits are but I only play FNM once in a blue moon, and at PTQ's every chance I get while mostly playing casual.
But back to MTG, as I said, usually the horror is in the experience itself: guys who shower only every eclipse while being morbidly obese, that MTG attitude of "I'm only in to win at all costs because a fantasy card game is the only thing to validate my self-worth", and so forth. Playing against strangers is often a choir: they're often either abrasive, creepy, or both.
But it's worth it because it truly is a great game, and despite my general experience, have met some seriously cool people.
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Back on topic...
I see some talk about MWS experiences. I'm sure we've all had our fair share of those.
Noob tokens.
Inane rules violations.
And then there was the guy who kept drawing cards when he thought I wasn't paying attention...
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I can't say I have ever experienced the "Noob Token" but I do understand the sentiment of the Rules Violations. Additionally I fail to understand how someone can think another player on MWS would not notice that you have illegally drawn a few extra cards here or there. I mean it is very easy to spot how many cards are in your opponents hand and additionally you have the advantage of a device off on the side that tells you exactly how many cards are in each players hands at all times. So its not like they are really being sneaky.