Losing to bad players and bad decks

[Kerz]

Face it: we all have done it at one point or another. Sometimes, your deck shits out, or you mulligan to 4, and the like. What I want to know is: what are your personal horror stories about losing to bad players/decks?

Here's one of my own:

GAT vs. Hatred

Kerz: LoA, go.
Guy: Swamp, Duress, go.
Kerz: Sea, go.
Guy: Swamp, 2/1 Shadow guy, go.
Kerz: Trop, Night's Whisper, go.
Guy: Swing with shadow guy, cast Hatred for 16.
Kerz: IN response, Brainstorm. *scoop up cards*

Control Slaver vs. Sui (bad deck, actually a good player with no t1 cards)

Kerz: Volcanic, Welder, go.
Sui Guy: Wasteland, Lotus, Dark Rit, Flesh Reaver, Flesh Reaver
Kerz: Island, Mox, go. (I had kept a hand that was second turn Tinker --> Plat)
Sui Guy: Strip Mine, Swing
Kerz: Sea, go.
Sui Guy: Wasteland, Swing

And it was over from there.

[Jacob Orlove]

Game 2, I comment that I hope to get colored mana in my opening hand this game. He says "no, I hope you don't". And then, I get an opening hand of waste, 6 useless spells. I mulligan into 6 spells, and then into factory and 4 bad spells (bad spells being stuff like boa), and then I mulligan into factory and 3 bad spells. I mull again into Boa, Sapphire, Trop, but he duresses the Sapphire, and I see no additional land. He combos out a few turns later, once he finds a Buried Alive.

[CF]

I lost a game to Skulking Ghost.dec last year when I was playing keeper..

but what comes to mind here is my string of limited losses against one of the most annoying and least skilled players I know of. He never plays correctly, but wins on mana problems -all the time- even though he never shuffles my deck. It's like a curse. Once, he played a round 7 Hundroog as his first spell. I died 5 turns later with 6/6 mountains in play, 7 white cards in hand and nothing but discarded white cards in the grave. I played 11 Plains, and a variety of red spells and morphs.

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Chris

[Methuselahn]

This one guy/kid (I can say kid because it is clear that I am at least 8 years older than him) decides to play t1 for the first time in like a year.  He brings a powerless, counter-sliver deck w/o FoW!!wtf!!!.  I end up beating him during the swiss.  I end up seeing him again in the finals during the monthly, small UNLIMITED PROXY tourny.  Show and Tell shits out on me hardcore.  He swarms me good with fliers despite me having a Future Sight in play for 2+ turns.  sick.  

That's right, a powerless sliver deck w/o FoW wins an unlimited proxy tourny.  To boot, I never saw a Plowshare either.  

[Kerz]

Another time.. in Hadley...

My opponent is on the play. He casts Land, Ritual, Hymn nabbing my FoW and Swords to Plowshares, Black Lotus, Mox Jet, Spiritmonger. I couldn't find my second STP in time, and lost.

In Cape Cod..

I'm playing against Crater Hellion (who is admittedly terrible) with MonoB Dragon. I play first, and keep a mediocre hand.

Kerz: Sea, go.
Crater: Unmask.
Kerz: Respond with Brainstorm, hiding my FoW on the top.
Crater: Take your Swords (or something), Cast Lotus, Mana Crypt, Swamp, Buried Alive (Dragon Dragon Laquatus), Necromancy.

[FireFall26]

I am playing hulk vs sui.  He goes ritual hymn I FoW he goes ritual Negator. Next turn waste, waste, null rod.  My only black mana to cast tog was a  jet,

[Grand Inquisitor]

(this whole thread)

Lose a match where you Yawgwill five times in three games against Random Miser and then come talk to me.

[Jacob Orlove]

Oh, here's another one. I'm with WTF again. My opponent is playing some artifact monstrosity, and manages to get down chalice @ 2, trinisphere, damping matrix, and TWO platinum angels (out of the 4 MD).

[bebe]

Try losing a finals to a type 2 Zombie deck while playing Dragon powered. Ouch. it was his first Type 1 tournament to boot and he beat a Tog, Dragon, Landstill and Madness deck.

[Dr. Sylvan]

Lose a match where you Yawgwill five times in three games against Random Miser and then come talk to me.

You may have lost that match, but you won this thread. Consider it a consolation prize.

[rozetta]

Some complete wank once asks me if I want a game of Type 1 and I accept. I'm playing 5cControl. He has a deck with 4 Gorilla Shaman, 4 REB, 4 Pyroblast, 4 Price of Progress and random other sligh crap like bolts, pups, etc. That's when I stopped playing control decks once and for all.

[Toad]

I once played Long at a FNM against some old guy. A friend of mine had faced him the round before and told me he was running a baaad mono red deck.

Game 1. He opens up with "Mountain, go". My opening hand consisted in 1 LED, 2 Dark Ritual, 1 City of Brass, 1 Mox Jet, 1 Mox Ruby, 1 Timetwister. I drop my artifacts, tap the Jet for B, cast the rituals for BBBBB, cast Timetwister with the City of Brass, float UUU from the LED. He goes REB. MAINDECK REB. I burn for 6 or so and keep topdecking shit while he's beating me with Ball Lightnings and Viashino Sandstalker while throwing some Flame Burst at me. Sooooooo good.

And I lost my last tourney finals in Paris against a mono brown aggro deck with TNT while holding 3 Artifact Mutation and 1 Naturalize in hand. I never get that green mana I needed to saproling0wn him.

[Hi-Val]

Playing against that same Hatred guy that Kerz faced, with me using Dragon, I went:

Him: Stone-Throwing Devils, go
Me: Bazaar, Mox. Pitch out Dragon. Get ready to animate for the win next turn. Go.
Him: Rit, Rit, Hatred, GG.

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[Triple_S]

Losing to bad players and bad decks...thats something that only Mean Deck does right?  And then you do funny business with the match slip?

[wuaffiliate]

LOLOLOLOZZZZZz

[The Atog Lord]

This one is sort of the reverse of losing to a bad player; the bad player lost to himself.

I decide to play a game for fun against a 12-year-old at the local store in Norwood. Before we begin, my opponent says, "can we play speed magic?", or something like that. I ask what this is. My opponent informs me that in this format, you can play as many land as you want each turn and you draw back up to seven cards each draw step.

I roll my eyes and agree -- it seemed easier than telling him how doing so interfered with the fundamental resource-management game which Magic is.

He wins the roll and elects to play.

So, he opens by playing five land and a Forbidden Crypt. (He thought he could play it "on" me).

gg.