Killer Joe
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Last night two of my longtime friends came over to play Magic. Both are very good players and have beaten me time & again so I don't think I'm anything special against them...BUT...
Most of the night they teamed up against me even when they could have each other eliminated. If I told you that I was killing them and destroying all their stuff or milling them or whatever I would be inclined to agree that yes, they needed to team up to eliminate me every game where I was doing that to them....but I wasn't, I wasn't showing aggression towards either of them the whole night but I WAS protecting myself. I was playing cards like; Ghostly Prison, Wall of Denial, Witchbane Orb, Briar Patch, Wall of Omens, Drift of Phantasms, ya know, stuff to protect oneself.
I "get it" we play Magic to win and I'm no different and neither are they but SPORTSMANSHIP, where's the sportsmanship in teaming up against another player like this? I wached a lot of the Steeler vs Giants game last night because AFTER they'd eliminate me quickly they would drag on against each other because they used all of their killing resources against me and then played "Drop a Land, go" game.
The last game of the night was the last straw, I played a turn 1 Sensei's Diving Top and bam, they were playing discard decks and I got hit by 2 Traumatizes, The second one I didn't even count the cards, I simple put half of my deck in my graveyard and when my friend looked at me I said, "What, more?" and so I put another half of what I had left of my library into my graveyard. I had maybe 8 turns in that game in which I played ZERO aggression cards save one Kraken's Eye (IDK how but it kills your opponent in a few turns apparently).
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Most of the night they teamed up against me even when they could have each other eliminated. If I told you that I was killing them and destroying all their stuff or milling them or whatever I would be inclined to agree that yes, they needed to team up to eliminate me every game where I was doing that to them....but I wasn't, I wasn't showing aggression towards either of them the whole night but I WAS protecting myself. I was playing cards like; Ghostly Prison, Wall of Denial, Witchbane Orb, Briar Patch, Wall of Omens, Drift of Phantasms, ya know, stuff to protect oneself.
I "get it" we play Magic to win and I'm no different and neither are they but SPORTSMANSHIP, where's the sportsmanship in teaming up against another player like this? I wached a lot of the Steeler vs Giants game last night because AFTER they'd eliminate me quickly they would drag on against each other because they used all of their killing resources against me and then played "Drop a Land, go" game.
The last game of the night was the last straw, I played a turn 1 Sensei's Diving Top and bam, they were playing discard decks and I got hit by 2 Traumatizes, The second one I didn't even count the cards, I simple put half of my deck in my graveyard and when my friend looked at me I said, "What, more?" and so I put another half of what I had left of my library into my graveyard. I had maybe 8 turns in that game in which I played ZERO aggression cards save one Kraken's Eye (IDK how but it kills your opponent in a few turns apparently).
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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