Raging Magic: The Gathering Players Caught In The Wild

[@NikachuMTG]

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[@ToastbackWhale]

“What’s the point of me being in the tournament, to give everyone else wins?” In my experience, yes. Exactly that.

[@Bad_Gazpacho]

Bro, that's way too real.

[@frasert8779]

“That’s true, but it wins the game against really bad players” 😂 best part

[@camerons6028]

I once played a blood moon on turn 3, my opponent (they where on u/w contoll), countered it, but I cast ricochet trap, targeting their counter spell. They called the judge. Then they got up and walked away. R.D.W

[@blair2251]

I dont believe you can use Ricochet Trap to make Counterspell target itself, as a spell on the stack cant target itself, but you can use Ricochet to have the Counterspell target the Ricochet. Would've ended the same way, but its weird the judge wouldve made that play legal.

[@dangusmedia]

@@blair2251 so this confused the crud outta me for a bit. Looked into it and you can change the target to Ricochet Trap. You can't make a spell target itself while it is on the stack. To quote from a forum: "If you cast Ricochet Trap targeting a spell that targets a spell on the stack (like Cancel does, for example), you can't change that spell's target to itself. You can, however, change that spell's target to Ricochet Trap. If you do, that spell will be countered when it tries to resolve because Ricochet Trap will have left the stack by then."

[@camerons6028]

So, when you cast any "redirect" spell, there are 2 parts. The first part is you have to target the spell you want to redirect and the second part is where it gets redirected to. In this case I cast the trap, targeting the counter spell, then redirected the counter spell to target the trap. Yes a counter spell can not target itself. But you still have to target a spell that gets redirected.

[@seanzegremlinsaltlord]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 That's what we call, A Salty Player!

[@kaszael]

so you got the IRL version of "[PlayerName] disconnected". Hilarious.

[@latinojackson9694]

To be fair, Omnath does have every answer in their deck so it might not be pay to win but they do start with a massive advantage game 1

[@clayvision]

Im a poker player, Alot of these have the same energy as "online poker is rigged"

[@bobbyhanson346]

"You only won because of the river!" Yep, that's how the game works.

[@themadgamer4571]

Magic is pay to win until a 25 cent card stops my $200+ field from winning.

[@genocider5868]

Thank God Arena doesn't have chat with opponents

[@KnicKnac]

Sadly had emotes for some reason

[@R3N3GADEMUFFIN]

Yes I like my silent opponents. Lol

[@henkdachief]

? this is gold i have a whole folder with salty rage comments

[@genocider5868]

@@henkdachief some people take salty messages as funny, but someone else would feel really shitty after being told how "unskillful" or bad they are just because they got lucky or smth. I mean mostly younger players but also people that just care too much about other people's, even stragner's opinion. Overall, telling someone to go f*ck themselves just because they won is a very toxic behaviour and isn't always just funny

[@IsaiahBuchanan175]

Wish it did

[@LastFractionZero]

3:20 ahh yes, green's one weakness; it's total lack of enchantment removal...

[@jedediahgordon4064]

WTF you talking about, thats literally what greens strongest things are

[@LastFractionZero]

​@@jedediahgordon4064 You must be trolling. I refuse to believe you failed to grasp such blatantly obvious sarcasm.

[@Sardalias]

"What's the point of entering the tournament, to gift everyone else wins?" Dammit! You figured out my play!

[@corey2232]

Ah, online anonymity! Really brings out the best in people! I still remember some guy messaging me for hours after a game (not MTG) spamming insults, racial slurs, death threats, saying he's on his way to my house, etc. Which I just left up so my friends & I could laugh at, as the guy descended into insanity 😂

[@GeneticResearch]

But this online behavior is better because that shows how specific people are realy are. In real life they act their role, hide how they really are, but then try to influence you negatively in various ways so that you for example lose your job, are expelled from a group, get arrested or they hindered you in your future plans that you cant evolve yourself. People should always show how they really are, then you know which ones need to be avoid and you have much more peace in your life.

[@pablogarin]

I had a similar situation: I was playing a Goblins deck with goblin king and blood moon as part of my win con... my opponent was playing Gates... I played mountain, skirk prospector on turn one, he played just a gate, turn 2 I play mountain, sac the prospector, played blood moon, the guy literally pushed the table to stand up, grabbed his land and his deck and stormed off... I couldn't stop laughing... probably because I avoid confrontation and I'm always nervous while playing magic with strangers, so I think it was a nervous laugh xD

[@BaldurtheImpious]

what a weird stream, very short and extremely well choreographed, 10/10 will watch again!

[@xWhackoJacko]

My favorite rage story: FNM. Standard. I don't remember the block, but Mono Black was a big deal at the time and I had swapped my Mono Red Devotion with a buddies black for some lulz. Turn 4 rolls around, and I'm contemplating a thoughtseize or to just drop Desecration Demon while my opponent was tapped out. I tap a single swamp, and hesitate (not purposefully but I did), and my opponent just throws his hand at me. ...i write it all down, select nothing, and give them back. He goes "what did you pick with Thoughtseize?". I go, "I never cast Thoughtseize", tapped the other 3 mana, and slammed Desecration Demon. He rages, calls a judge, and the judge basically laughs at him. He storms off, and I couldn't help but cackle like a madman once he left the store. He was a notorious limited/sealed cheater at the store too, so it felt extra good to body him in the DUMBEST way possible.

[@GGaemer]

Im honestly impressed with how unique your video/video ideas are! Huge fan!! Keep it up man!

[@NikachuMTG]

Thanks!

[@Meitti]

If its a P2W game, why is he accusing his opponent for doing something wrong? Clearly when the game is P2W, the fault lies in the game designer, not the player.

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

First time I've heard an Omnath player referred to as the hero.

[@Jiiinxyyy]

I mean this game is totally pay to win. The dude was a sore loser but more money does mean you win more. You still have to be skillful and know how to build and pilot your deck, but you can't just win off a precon deck against a deck with no money restrictions unless they brick hard or something.

[@stanclark8824]

exactly! a pay to win skill game. true skill can beat the pay to win decks, but they have to have a crafty deck specifically made to beat it or other pay to win decks. it won't be easy at all, but it will be entertaining and stand a better chance than any run of the mill deck. poor people money won't cut it. The player with the PTW deck bricking would be a dream, but if both players brick...they both suck haha

[@spockhozzer7207]

Yeah. "Getting good" requires upgrading your card base to deck build. Literally every CCG is based around this.

[@Xoulrath_]

The reality is that the meta, once established, is easily taken advantage of. It can most certainly be done on a budget. No, you won't win with a Pioneer Challenger deck against a Modern 5C Yornath. However, you can build an inexpensive deck that is strong against it. At that point, yes, the money difference can still be huge, but skill factors in a lot more.

[@spockhozzer7207]

@@Xoulrath_ format plays a huge role as well. if we're making dream decks digitally with no cost to obtain cards, it's about deck building, reactive play and some luck. If we're playing with physical cards or digital cards which must be purchased, then the skills are much the same but restricted by the collection of the individual. I frequently would make common-only decks to test against new builds and had some formidable ones. A strategically planned deck filled with expensive mythics will be tough to beat but not impossible. I think the guy who was being quoted in the video was being a sore loser, but he's coming from a place of truth

[@Xoulrath_]

@@spockhozzer7207 well stated. There is no doubt that money matters. A lot of cards have less expensive options available, but they usually come with some drawback or other, which is why they are the budget options and not the best. Leyline Binding versus Path to Exile is a perfect example. If you can afford the mana base and the new shiny removal, Binding is universes better than Path. But you can play Path in a mono White budget aggro deck. The biggest threats in most decks still tend to be creatures. So Path does its job, even if you are ramping your opponent, and losing the additional flexibility that Binding gives. Then you've got cards like Ragavan, where replacements simply don't exist. There are cards that make Treasure Tokens. There are cards that have Dash. There are cards that steal opponents' cards and let you cast them, and there are plenty of one drop 2/1s around. But the Monke is the only card that does it all, and that comes with a price. As you point out, if money were no object (whether on MTGO or in paper) then I'd be running a playset of Raga and W6 for my 5C homebrew, because they are the best at what they do, and there are similar cards but no direct replacements, even with severe drawbacks, at any price. Since that isn't reality, I've got to get creative, which helps me when assessing new cards and designing for metas.

[@killianmichael8880]

"now you know how graveyard decks feel" that hit me hard, I'm a zombie deck main, and I have had to stop graveyard spam because of the easy answers white has to it. standard was rough last rotation for swamp honestly, now swamp has ot made.

[@DUxMORTEM]

Just throwing this out there but substitute Jeff Bezos with Post Malone and he is kinda correct. In the end any deck can beat any deck on any given Sunday but for the most part MTG is pay to heavily increase your chances at winning. But certainly not something worth raging like this about it.

[@stanclark8824]

Yeah, card games are not worth it. if they have to get that mad and accuse others of cheating because they suck, they need to revaluate their lives and their life choices hahaha

[@danikahicks2210]

Having a set of 75 rectangular paper cards cost 1800$ is a travesty. Not having access to playing pieces in a digital game due to the *expense of a digital playing piece* is also a travesty. Just... fucking mind-blowing. They're digital assets. They're losslessly reproducible for every instance of play. The system is broken, and was broken on first principles. Really wasn't a hack tho. Just the lie of digital scarcity.

[@brianhelmick1105]

There was a turn 1 modern win and we dont get an elaboration on it?

[@ApollousasBear]

MTG player: *gets floodgated* YGO player: heh, first time?

[@returningwhisper]

"yeah you were pretty free, should have fetched a basic" HAHAHA

[@griffinflyer77]

$1,800 deck? I’d be mad too.

[@Blu_Moon_Owl]

I unironically love see Confounding Conundrum on the opponent’s field, mainly because if I’m using a landfall deck it just helps makes sure I have land in hand.

[@JohnELSmith]

CC to a LF deck is like a xmas present xD

[@Blu_Moon_Owl]

@@JohnELSmith yeah it is!

[@ggpt9641]

"Field of the Dead triggers.*

[@Blu_Moon_Owl]

@@ggpt9641 screw field of dead but also yes

[@tribert1]

RIP charrmm, name left open

[@RealNoGear]

7:36. If I’m the clown the you must be the entire circus… I honestly didn’t realize that you can actually rage over a game of MTG. 😂Thanks for the good laugh! Would love to see more of these videos!

[@nicholasgilvin6396]

As much as I love MTG we do have a very toxic fan base. Kinda makes me happy MTGA doesn’t let you chat. It would be this bad. These videos have me cracking up though. A lot of “cheaters” lol.

[@vesstig]

The thing I love about MTG is that it has all of these different social interactions that most people would never think about.

[@breawycker]

Every time someone asks why Arena doesn't have text chat, I'm sending them this

[@klutzmtg2310]

This is why we need a chat feature on Arena. I love the toxicity. Makes for great content.

[@wesleywyndam-pryce5305]

then you're part of the problem, with humanity not just magic.

[@tcsmagicbox]

😂

[@quinnquitars]

@@wesleywyndam-pryce5305 🤓

[@bigbootyjudy6124]

@@quinnquitars Apparently if you enjoy toxicity and watching people rage and throw temper tantrums, you're automatically part of THE MAIN PROBLEM WITH HUMANITY AND SOCIETY. LOL at Wesley. Instead of those people realizing that they should stop doing whatever causes them to become so toxic and angry while focusing on themselves and looking inward, we're just supposed to allow those people the freedom to be titty babies, and we should act like nothing is going on.

[@wicked-cheeseburger]

​@@wesleywyndam-pryce5305 Salt in online games isn't the problem with humanity lmao

[@FanPhys]

This is a reminder why Arena will never have a chat option. There is only the spicy "oops" to spam at your leisure.

[@stanclark8824]

hahaha thankfully! 😂🤣 but it would be entertaining to watch the chat there! 😁

[@54m0h7]

Ah the classic "If I did win it means you're a cheater", cause you know you'd win 100% of your games if everyone just stopped cheating.

[@stanclark8824]

it is like the players in Yu-Gi-Oh. they claim cheating, even though they suck and the most expensive decks win a lot, but that's because the play against people that suck at both games. the losers will claim cheating no matter what if they don't win one game hahaha so dumb. the fact that people actually cheat in these games is even worse!

[@mcbescheiden725]

Magnus Carlsen is the only one who is allowed to be like that

[@thetimebinder]

Doesn't that mean the accuser is also only winning because they themselves cheat?

[@romain3135]

i disagree with the first take. Yeah the dude could chill a bit, but getting good is often not enough if you don't have the same power level of deck

[@VT_8297]

when blood moon is in play, you can use treasure and/or cards that let you not pay the mana cost (e.g. omniscience

[@ccggenius]

I see no problem with asking for a scoop into top 8, as long as you don't press the issue. Of course, thinking about that led to a train of thought where you're in a draft and ask your round 1 opponent to scoop you into top 8, hoping he's so blazed out of his gourd he doesn't realize there are only 8 people in a pod.

[@vanesslifeygo]

Gosh, this is way worse than DuelingBook.

[@TheLuminousCleric]

It IS a pay to win game. If you want to play with every card, like me. :D I just want to play with proxies, not spend this much money. So I just stopped playing. I just watch gameplay now.

[@bobfranklin2572]

ide be in prison if someone thoughtseize'd me four times 🤣

[@Playingwithproxies]

So you’d be one of the guys in this video

[@josephiroth89]

Maybe it's better that Arena doesn't have chat. More fun to trigger people with stickers.

[@seanzegremlinsaltlord]

I think my favorite part is when the prison deck's opponent just wanted to talk shit, and instead of conceding, he opts to waste more of his own time just by talking shit. I saw a game of King a few days ago at my LGS, and one of the King's teammates couldn't do anything (due to Zur's Weirding being on the assassin's team board state), so instead of conceding, he just complained the rest of the game. As me(a spectator seeing this) as well as the other player's even said to him, just concede! Nope, more complaining!

[@11epicnoob]

Okay, the doctor Ligma one felt like two friends joking around

[@charlesroper6179]

hey nikachu, username uncensored at 6:31

[@NikachuMTG]

Oops, I did my best.

[@jessehuxley2947]

How does confounding work against titan? Can’t they still tap for mana on the stack/activate an ability before returning a land?

[@54m0h7]

The lands enter tapped, and even if they have an Amulet of Vigor out the Amulet will trigger first, then the Confounding, so Confounding resolves first. I think the card is pretty decent. At worst it's 2 mana to draw a card (when it enters), and then they can't ramp at all. Even if they aren't playing Landfall it's still playable, and against Landfall it just shuts them down.

[@evilsheepmaster1744]

They can, but the win condition for a lot of Primeval Titan decks is to get Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle to deal a gross amount of damage by Scapeshift-ing all of their lands, and to reach the win faster, use Titan to get a bunch of lands in play quickly. Confounding not only stops them from getting a bunch of lands out quickly, but also let's the opponent bounce Valakut for trying to go quickly, and turns their Scapeshifts into one-sided Armageddons, killing the viability of the deck.

[@jessehuxley2947]

@@54m0h7 oh ok , thankyou

[@John--3-16]

Hi I enjoy your videos you are pretty entertaining and have giving me lots of info I wouldn't have known and is wondering will you be making more video of people cheating and even getting away with it plus some getting caught those are pretty interesting too? 😅🤟🏾

[@NikachuMTG]

Yes.

[@John--3-16]

@@NikachuMTG Yay thank for responding I can't wait 😄🤟🏾

[@FelipeNaranja]

A villain's name got revealed at 6:17, and it turned out to be a charming one.

[@burningpapersun1]

You need to open an asmr channel where you're just cursing the whole time.

[@DarkAngel-jo8ix]

2:35 “SARKHAN THESE NUTS I’M DRAGON ACROSS YOUR FACE!!!” -Vol the mad dragonspeaker, probably

[@magiccardmaster9921]

Alternative title niakchu having to censor out half the conservations

[@marekchlubna3566]

If i Attack with two Syr Faren, the Hendehammer Is it means they Are both have a Infinite demage?

[@germ4bass]

I love those land pictures on the basic land cards especially the planes.

[@rass2point096]

Haven't played MTG in a decade. YT decided I needed to find this channel so here I am... 6 videos later.

[@NikachuMTG]

Welcome back!

[@logicalinsanity]

This is why Arena needs chat

[@tcsmagicbox]

My life philosophy for Magic is this: If it's legal, it's legit.

[@MR_ii_5150]

LMFAO The graveyard deck comment got me

[@dolanpls3330]

Bro that deck was over $1000, I constructed a turn 0 win for a third of the price, and a turn one for $30. MTG is not expensive unless you make it. Or unless you play Arena.

[@lukaszumtobel3800]

One time my opponent scooped up after Turn 2 and chewed me out for using "Surgical Extraction" ONCE.

[@dr.tre90]

The "turn 1 win" villain was right though, turn 1 wins are completely unfair.

[@wesleywyndam-pryce5305]

but so what? magic has a heavy rng element to it.

[@dr.tre90]

@@wesleywyndam-pryce5305 a what?

[@geraldposter1496]

I dont see how you can get angry when you lose with a hyper focused deck. The strength of a deck like that is if it's not against something that can disrupt it, it's extremely consistent and will likely win. But if you can disrupt even a tiny part of it, the entire thing falls apart. So you basically gamble that you'll face more you can beat than can beat you. By the by, if you build a deck like that, maybe consider maindecking a card that can stop something that counters you hard? That way you don't have to lose game one before side boarding it in? Or don't, and accept the L like an adult.

[@gossamerglenn6714]

As a dredge player I know the feeling but I’ll admit gy hate is more universal than conundrum lol so I could see losing control… but again Titan is a bad matchup for dredge so how dare he lose his cool!!!! I would never!!!

[@jeanmichelbambi2563]

Just yesterday, I was playing Arena in Explorer, matched a control abzan player, turn 1 he puts down a triome, I go to my turn, I was playing Rakdos sacrifice, I put down a swamp, play duress, I didn't even get to see the cards in his hands and he instantly concedes, he had three removal spells and three lands

[@Luna19912]

While yes, skill is definitely important, I would disagree that that it's the only thing that matters. Money Pile specifically has a good match-up against almost every deck in the metagame other than tron, and just about any deck below $700 doesn't really have a chance of winning any major tournaments. It's not entirely pay to win, but pay to win definitely is a factor

[@Xoulrath_]

The funny thing about meta decks is that they are built with the meta in mind. The current top meta decks tend to be pricier specifically because the cards in them are in high demand during that time. In addition, a lot of those cards are staples that are always in demand, thus keeping those prices high. That doesn't mean that there aren't a ton of viable options to make an anti-meta deck that is easily capable of winning, while also being inexpensive. A good example would be Leyline Binding being used by any deck that can easily get Domain at the moment. The easy, but more expensive option is pretty obviously something like Blood Moon, but that can be out of some players price range, especially for 3-4 of them. Magus of the Moon is another viable option, even with it being easier to remove since it's a creature. Currently the prices for the least expensive versions of the Mountain loving cards are about the same. But there was a while prior to 4C Yornath where Magus was as low as a few bucks, and a good bit cheaper for a playset than Blood Moon. So digging even deeper for another budget option, Field of Ruin playsets can be found for about one dollar for the most recent regular frame card. A single Field targeting a Triome can wreck an opponent's ability to use Binding. The point is that there are almost always answers at almost every price level. Sure, the more expensive cards tend to be better for whatever more often than not. However, it doesn't mean that there aren't options. Playing with cards that aren't quite as powerful, but still do the job, still allows budget decks to compete. It's also a great way to get better at the game, because you do sometimes have to work a bit harder to edge out your opponent with the budget option.

[@Luna19912]

@@Xoulrath_ I agree, there are definitely budget options that can still be playable or even good, but they don't really compare to the best of the best. It's definitely possible to win against tier 2 decks with budget decks, but tier 1? Good luck

[@Xoulrath_]

@@Luna19912 I mean, I do it all the time. I almost never play strictly meta decks. I tend to homebrew since it's literally half of my enjoyment with the game; the other half being getting good with the decks that I make. Even my G Tron deck, while sharing a chassis with most other G Tron decks, is a world apart from them, and is designed with whatever the current meta is. There is no doubt that the best cards help win games. It's why they're considered the best cards and why they command the big bucks (obviously lol). I'd be lying if I said that I don't want to try a playset of Ragavan and W6 in my 5C homebrew. But I just can't justify that much money for 8 pieces of cardboard. I've never been able to justify excessive costs for cards at any point during the time that I've played this game. If I were a millionaire then sure, but I'm just a regular dude with regular dude money haha. So once cards go past $50 a piece, I just have to figure out how to get creative. Even at that price point I realize how lucky I am to be able to afford that much for paper stock for a game. Since I love building decks, specifically competitive decks, and I make a lot of them and do have a budget, I have to scour card lists to find what options I have. It's in doing that that I've seen just how many options there are to build good decks at reasonable prices, and not use more than a handful of expensive meta cards, if any at all. I like to share my experiences when I can, because I see a lot of players mention wanting to play a typically pricey format like Modern. I don't want them to not even bother trying out the format because they get deterred by cost before even sleeving up a deck.

[@Luna19912]

@@Xoulrath_ I'm the same way, I love building and innovating decks and I try to play in local tournaments whenever I can. It's just kind of annoying when someone brings in their $2000 money pile or murktide list to a tournament filled with brews and budget decks. When that happens, it seems like nobody else gets to have a good time

[@jimhopkins3972]

@@Xoulrath_ Not strictly true. W&6, Solitude, Fury, Rags, T3f, and efficient mana bases were just as expensive before Money Piles was a thing (more in the case of T3f and W&6).

[@bradj9545]

Just like how a set of power 9 doesn’t automatically equal a vintage tourney win….

[@maraxis5311]

Great video! 😂😂😂

[@daveautzen9089]

I was playing in a tourney at Gen Con, 1995 or 1996. Not any huge cash prize or anything, but maybe a booster box. Played an opponent when we were at the “win the match 2-0, advance to next round” Swiss round. He won the first game, and asked me if I would concede so he could go on. I told him he had to win again. I sideboarded effectively, and won. He sulked all the way to the judges table.

[@brandonbarrett1774]

Getting called a hacker or cheater is the ultimate compliment from ragers lol

[@metalteuffel2484]

Honestly I've seen some expensive decks lose to low cost red goblin/other beat down decks. They're hoping to draw the stuff they need to win, meanwhile their life points are steadily going down and by the time they get that card, it's too little too late

[@Dorion37]

I one time had someone rage at me for playing sol ring in 1v1 commander on mtgo, they called me a hacker because they said that sol ring is banned in 1v1 commander and didnt believe me when I explained to them that the 1v1 commander format on MTGO is not the same as the 1v1 duel commander format where sol ring is banned.

[@_karrigan1037]

keep on posting buds im always waiting for ur latest upload. hoping 3 vids a week

[@avwholesomegamer]

Homie from 3:28 really goes off for a half hour? I mean, have you ever been THAT mad?? Lmao

[@Poke-billy]

Yo you just got me back into magic. I'm going to make a deck and it will be named in your honor!

[@NikachuMTG]

Welcome back!

[@Poke-billy]

Seems the best way to get back in with out breaking the bank is palper.

[@Poke-billy]

What is your favorite all time pouper finishing move?

[@johnnycaralta]

Pay to win is a real problem in every TCG. This dude has the definitions of hero and villain backwards.

[@Darth_Fader9888]

Ill say mtg isnt pay to win on release of a set in standard, but by competative tournament time, you generally see the big budget decks at the finals. You will never see a budget deck winning big money.

[@trutherx3440]

man i played magic 2014 on my ipad and there was a option using the mic. I played the most underrated deck (RW Bushido Samurai) and my opponent the landfall eldrazi deck. Long Story short i beat him with the only 2 cards in the deck that had a board wipe (Myojin of Cleansing Fire)... top deck and he was laughing his ass off how much luck i had during the entire 40min game. I am still hearing it. And i killed him with a 2/1 common empty board on his side.... We are not always karen cucks sometimes it is really fun. But i fully understand the emote system in mtg arena.

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

Samurais, nice. Haven't heard about them in a while.

[@Rogerdin13]

pure entertainment, thanks xD

[@phoboskittym8500]

My friend has a deck he uses that cost 1100 bucks for him to build, his girlfriend also has some 800.00+ decks too, and i have trashed them both with decks that at most cost me 150.00 bucks to put together... The art of deck building is seperate from actually playing a game, the more cards you know about the more options you have. A better understanding of the rules gives you an edge over any player and their deck.

[@PokeBattlerJaze]

Not gonna lie, if someone Thoughtseized me 4 times, I would tilt too.

[@tychoMX]

Old school made a player just shake his head - lucky draw, 2 dark rituals and a Mind Twist. He still played on, and because I was (am) a pretty lousy player and had no other good cards on hand (a rack and a specter, but that thing was bolted afterward) the game dragged on for a good long time afterwards.

[@drew8235]

I'll never forgot going to FNM one time. Guy I was playing shut me out with a Blood Moon. Was tragic, but I couldn't be bothered to be frustrated because I was just so focused on how disgusting and disheveled he was, gross nails, severe body odor, no card sleeves even... never went back lol.

[@MageSkeleton]

i will say, WoTC gave us some really interesting mana rocks that players really don't care for but do "do the job" such as Sol Talisman, Mox Tantilite, and Lotus Bloom. Fun Fact, using Mystic Forge, or Bolas's Citadel should any of those three cards be on top of your library you can cast it right into play from the top of your library.

[@gamemisters]

what website are they playing on?

[@NikachuMTG]

Magic Online, also known as MTGO

[@kingginger3335]

How does bloodmoon work with fetch lands?

[@NikachuMTG]

Blood moon shuts them off. But you can use fetches to get basics before a Blood Moon is played.

[@kingginger3335]

@NikachuMTG that's what I was thinking but thank you for the clarification

[@jaafarmhasan8713]

1:34 what's the deck??? 😍😍

[@clintcook8691]

"it's either get fucked by the shuffle or get fucked by the most expensive cards

[@madfox7777]

this is the type of thing i say when i i get tilted on the odd occasion, BUT I don't send a message about it, I just concede and message GG's ( like a f***ing adult). Some people just have no chill.

[@jeremyedmondson5549]

Im not gonna lie i was at a local tournament a few years back and this guy was notorious for spending 1000$'s of dollars just to win the weekly tournaments on fridays for the 100% in-store credits, he wasn't a whale by anymeans lol.

[@cas126]

I wouldnt say it was raging player, but I was winning at the last pre-release and two friends of my opponent came over to our table and hovered uncomfortably close in eyeshot of my hand. I immediatly sensed what was happening after the strange body language of all 3 of them, put my cards down, and told them if they could give me some space. The reasoning why it felt obvious what they were up to was because they came from tables behind my opponent, but decided to come around on the other side, of the 6 tables put together that made my row, to "spectate". They apologized, though it sounded a bit annoyed and my opponent fidgeted. I ended up beating him due to a misplay on his part. He had me, but I feel he wouldve played differently had his friends tipped him off I had nothing.

[@Warpcaller]

Second story: the most well adjusted MtG player

[@NateDynamite]

I'll take "Why chat doesn't need to be added to Arena" for 200, Alex.

[@donnovanash2334]

I almost had a seizure when I saw the blood moon, too much pain playing a newly created fc Deck only to immediately get locked t3-4

[@LezbionestHere]

If I win, it was all me. If I lose, they were cheating. A common gamer mindset

[@chriscarrozza1820]

He needs to show the names. The villains need to be called out so they learn not to flame

[@captainskyhawkfpv2367]

You guys Should check out Gods Unchained its like magic and the cards are tradable and you can sell them as well. Its a really good game and its free to start playing.

[@austingalvan625]

I run main board blood moon in any deck i play red in...even 3 or more colors....because i play enough basics to not care and it pisses people off.... it's great

[@simonetozzi7912]

Confounding Conundrum was best 🤣🤣

[@ToxicGamer-ui7fs]

There are deck styles I refuse to play against. I have no problem quitting and finding a new opponent. If you 1st turn look at my hand, or within the first 3 turns. I quit. Discard decks are terrible and are only fun for the user. Mill decks are another style I won't play against. Being milled out by turn 4 is B.S .

[@Nexuxs]

Ngl, Magic the Gathering is a game that can make you feel utterly miserable, as if your opponent is a super chad who's deck is miles better than yours, when often its just bad luck

[@wolfrunner700]

If MtG was really a play to win game everyone would want a black lotus in their deck. I have won multiple high school tournaments and some actually tournaments here in Oklahoma and most of my decks rarely had uncommons let alone anything higher. If I got the right card set up I would have the game won in turn three.

[@tylermiller6532]

We will always hate 1 swing decks but will revel in glory when we use a 1 swing deck

[@tehsavage]

"PAY TO WIN" Bro I consistently 4-0'd my local meta with Sultai Narfi Snow lmao. I went up against ONLY tiered decks. It's all about the pilot. .....and a surprise Sin Prodder doesn't hurt.