Thank you SO MUCH for taking the piss out of those players who simply can't comprehend why anyone would ever play a deck that isn't what the top Pro Tour players are using.
I don't mind losing. I'm not that great a player in the first place, so even with a top deck I'm never going to be a champion. But getting stomped, telling me my deck sucks and is awful and the only way of fixing it is to throw it in the trash and build a $300-400 netdeck like you did? No thanks. Even if I had that much money to blow on a Magic deck that
might help me win, I'd rather spend it on something else, and besides, I would rather play a deck
I actually enjoy playing.That mentality at Pro Tours and Grand Prix Events is one thing, but when it trickles down into FNM... well there's a reason I don't play competitive Magic at all anymore.
(At least, I certainly hope you're taking the piss out of them. If that's how Alex actually thinks he's lost a lot of my respect.)Matt wrote:Counter-intuitively, saying "good game" in many contexts in Magic is actually considered a real asshole thing to do.
From what I've seen, it's basically that if you say "good game" when the game wasn't remotely competitive (opponent mulligans to five, gets only one or two land out and your aggro beats them with little if any resistance, for example) you come across as a smarmy douche, which I can actually understand.
Some people do take it too far, though.