Lol

I haven't posted in a long time as I've only dipped in now and again due to work but talking of bad manners, it isn't if it's against the AI and you're bored.
This was me testing the limits of Nighthawk's counter deck. It took a while to count up the damage so I went and made myself a cup of tea while I was waiting

There are few things in life that are guaranteed to happen every year but this thread is one.

My gaming time is limited so why bothering to show utter-resilience to my opponent if in my hands I have no answer to the board? Save mine & opponent time just conceding is polite and an in-game feature

Pretty. But why so low power/toughness ? Which limits were you testing ?




[edit] how lazy of me, my "Token artifact planeswalker - gideon" didn't join in on the attack...

You certainly seem to have a lot of free time on your hands. Well done!

I surprised it didn't crash the client...

so was I - that's why I stopped around 40 tokens, all I really needed was 14-15 cultivators, but the combo involved Greenwardens and thus I ended up with that result.

I could easily have continued another 20 turns and have gotten loads more - but since the game stops @ 9999/9999 and -9999 life, it seemed pointless. And the client has a tendency to crash when attacking with too many creatures. There's nearly 400.000 dmg on the board in that screenshot, but if those limits weren't there, I could have gotten many billions of damage.

Ok, I sometimes pursue things that are ridiculous and irrelevant. But I'm just a flawed family man who constantly find new ways to ignore my child and girlfriend and what better way than turning virtual cards sideways and feeling like a warrior ? You know what I mean, right ? Right ?

FML

I know exactly what you mean. If only wives/girlfriends could understand too...

If only spouses could be made to play Magic, then they'd understand. Surely there must be a website dedicated to brainwashing wives into Magic Duels.

True story: last week, I came home one day to find that my son (7) had begun to teach my wife and one of his sisters (5) how to play Magic the Gathering! He's already on the fast track!

Nice!

I enjoy building some off the wall decks and have tried to include my wife with the choices I am making but this is usually met with a face that expresses a mix of confusion and pain.

I can usually get her involved somehow with the games I like but not this one.

On the actual op subject. I will never understand people that quit after I remove a creature or something countered on turn 3-4. The game has just started.

I will concede when the game could be won but the player wants to play a bunch of extra bs. This is especially true vs planeswalker decks when they could swing and win but instead want to + them all first. No dude I'm out. If I am especially in an annoyed mood I will quit if they play anything 1st main phase that isn't relevant to the dead on board turn.

Well in their defense it's always good to reach out to all your options so you have a bigger chance to play around a spell your opponent might have; especially if lethal is on board.

If it's relevant to that turn sure that's a good play. So haste creatures, sorcery buffs or sorcery direct damage that's fine I fault no one for that unless I'm tapped out or no cards in hand then you are still wasting my time.

1st main dead on board douche plays:
Creatures without haste and no ability that changes board state or buff.
Casting PWs with no ability to change the board that turn especially if it taps them out.
Using pw abilities that have no effect, like lilly last hope +1 with no opposing creatures or even worse using -2 gy recursion and cast a creature that has no effect on the turn.
Do nothing this turn enchants. Enchants that sac to remove a creature or always watching is excluded because they can change the board.
Playing instant card draw 1st main or life gain / life link especially instants on 1st main when they are way ahead. If I make a triksy play you can cast in response.

I could go on and on, so many plays that make me say "why would you do that?". All that annoys me highly and is a waste of time. I will hang in a game until the bitter end unless I feel like you are toying with me, it's insulting at that point.

Did you play out these games? Maybe they had a bad hand that depended on that card to be amazing.

I'd consider autoquitting if my opponent plussed lili to kill my wharf infiltrator and I had removal spells, gisas biddings an haunted dead and lands in hand

Could be an opponent is running some kind of "Cast X Colour or Colour Spells in Versus Battles" quest, too. I wouldn't fault them for that.

To the op:
If I have no board state, a handful of mana, maybe 5 or 6 on the board and draw another one I'm out.
If I have no board state and draw no mana for 5 or 6 turns I'm out.
If my opponent is guaranteed lethal but starts getting cute and emptying their hand I'm out.

Since xbone still loves to pair 40s with 1s, I've started conceding instead of attacking for lethal if I'm playing against a D card deck and opp sticks around to the end. Feel like they deserve some gold bonus for sticking around that long vs decks with such a drastic difference in card power levels. Unless I'm trying to complete a challenge that cares about the win and it's my last game of the night; still gotta get mine sometimes.

People can concede for whatever reason they please, but personally I have some respect for folks that stick it out.

Yeah, If I play a level 10 or less, whatever, I'll play it. But if I win and then I am paired with them again, I just insta-quit.

And if I'm testing a deck and I match with a level 1, I'll just quit, since it isn't really testing anything.

Why didn't I carry on? My girlfriend and child wouldn't let me ignore them anymore although in truth I really wanted that cup of tea.

I feel like if I was picky about my opps rank, I'd never be able to play online. I suspect it's related to my standard hours of play, but I see something like 75% low rank and 25% higher rank (like 25-40). When I can squeeze in games on the weekends earlier hours I get matched up with higher % of higher ranked players but my weekday late night play sees All The R1s!, like it's n00b-o'clock. Idk how much of my flicker challenge videos you watched, but that legit supports what I'm saying. IIRC, I played all 7 or 8 decks 3 games each on the ladder and only about 3 of the games were vs R30-40. It's kinda crazy.