Weird People

[wethepeople]

Favorite match EVER.  Opponent calls judge on himself.  Judge gets there he said guess what.  Judge says what.  He FARTS.  Like OMG HUGE fart.  Then he says "That'll be all Jeeves"  This was the Nemesis prerelease, so I was probably like 13 and it was my first tourney in my life.  What a start.

I can't help but wonder what the judge's reaction was.

[Titanium Dragon]

I don't know about my weirdest opponent, but to further what someone else said, I also do the MWS thing: "Ok", "Ok?", "End of turn", ect. The worst part though (and this has really annoyed some of my opponents) is I'll declare "Untap", "Upkeep", "Draw" EVERY SINGLE TURN. This drives some people nuts. I do it myself in order to avoid forgetting to pay echo and cumulative upkeep costs, as by saying upkeep I'll check my board for it. Its kind of a bit offputting that I pause for three seconds every turn to check, but it also means I have fewer cases of "Wait, during your upkeep..."

I also used to play with my lands above my creatures, which drove everyone in Tennessee I played against nuts. I've been considering switching back to it, but people were getting really pissed...

[Kowal]

People who actually say "Ee Oh Tea" sort of weird me out.
I think I made this one guy upset because I kept calling the attack phase the "Punch Phase".  So I guess I do it too.  Meh.  I need variety!

I usually refer to it as the "beat you up step"

In terms of weird opponents, I'm probably on many lists.  Though my weirdest experience was playing against Vroman in the top eight at Chicago.  I had literally chatted up every single opponent I played against on the day, and Vroman didn't say a damn word between a match in round six, or the match in top eight.  It was a little unnerving.  Still though, fun games. 

Also, Travis fucking LaPlante.  DRAW-RING.  RE-SOLVES.  He pronounces things bizarrely, and tends to say things that are nowhere near relevant or sensical.  Tons of fun to play against.

[nataz]

Also, Travis fucking LaPlante.  DRAW-RING.  RE-SOLVES.  He pronounces things bizarrely, and tends to say things that are nowhere near relevant or sensical.  Tons of fun to play against.

Oh man, after playing/talking to Travis, I find myself doing the same thing. Auto-whattie? Careful, its catching.

[vroman]

In terms of weird opponents, I'm probably on many lists.  Though my weirdest experience was playing against Vroman in the top eight at Chicago.  I had literally chatted up every single opponent I played against on the day, and Vroman didn't say a damn word between a match in round six, or the match in top eight.  It was a little unnerving.  Still though, fun games. 

this is a deliberate strategy on my part. especially against players I dont know personally. poker face, etc. I can always be friendly after the tournament.

[T00L]

I wonder if i'm on anyones list of weird opponents I know if i'm playing against a deck i find uninteresting i tend to daydream/watch matches next to me. I remember one time i was playing demonic attorney and rich was playing next to me so i was so into rich's game chris actually had to get my attention when he was trying to cast spells lol

[bomholmm]

Its hard not to notice that strategy games like magic attract people on the fringes of the mental health spectrum, and its fine when people can find something healthy and fun to do when they have those kind of problems.

What I really dislike is when people act intentionally strange, all it does is enforce the negative stigma associated with the game and makes you look immature.  If you have any interest in the future of the game and the health of the community it is in your best interests to act like a reasonable and thoughtful person.

When you sit down for a match, try not to behave in a way that would get you ignored/shunned in a conversation, kicked out of a classroom, or fired from a job.

[Machinus]

When you sit down for a match, try not to behave in a way that would get you ignored/shunned in a conversation, kicked out of a classroom, or fired from a job.

Has this message been approved by Smmenen?

Seriously though, I agree.

[Changster]

Speaking of weirdos...here's a good one...

A few weeks ago, I was at an FNM at Neutral Ground... I had built a pretty solid deck from sub-par cards and was already 3-0 for the day.  Going into the last round, I sat across from an already disgruntled-looking opponent probably about 16/17 years old.  He told me that he was 2-0-1, so that meant the other two 3-0's got paired.  Knowing that he got paired down and had no chance at winning the $50 cash prize that night, I jokingly said, "Dude... why are we playin' this?"  Apparently, that rubbed him the wrong way and he started whining about getting paired up, like it really mattered to him.

So we rolled the die, I was on the play.  The game starts off, play a land, then I suspend a Baloth, pass the turn.  On his turn, he plays a land, says go.  Second turn, I have a couple of potential plays, so I take my time, tapping, untapping my lands, thinking out loud.  All the while, not casting anything.  This accidentally annoys my opponent, so I hurry it up, drop a vanilla 2/2 and pass the turn.  On his turn, he drops a land and a creature, then passes.

Now this is when things get hairy...  After I draw my card for a few seconds, he says he made a misplay and asked to take back a play.  Me being in tournament mode, I said, I'd prefer you not.  So he gets pouty and I continue on with my turn.  I look at my hand and I have 3 creatures to choose from to play as well as a combat trick, in case I don't cast a creature this turn.  I take my time, thinking out loud mana-wise, tapping and untapping my mana... then I just decide to attack.  He starts to write down that I'm taking damage.  I ask him why, and he said that I took mana burn!  After clearing up that I had no lands tapped or mana floating, he takes the damage away. 

I eventually cast a Gaea's Anthem (all my creatures +1/+1) and pass the turn.  During his turn he plays Dead (from Dead/Gone) to do two damage to my 2/2 (now 3/3).  He proceeds to say that my dude's dead... I'm like... nope, it's still alive.  We go back and forth like this a couple more times and he starts to turn Feinstein-Red in the face.  Then he says he's going to take back the play.  I told him, I couldn't let him do that, considering it was his misplay.  He began to complain that he let me take back my "mana burn" when I tapped/untapped my lands; saying that I would have taking at least 9 points of mana burn by now.  (Bull Sh*t!!!) 

I finally decide to call over a judge and by this point, this kid looks like he's about to explode.  While explaining the situation, the kid interrupts me a few times before I get the whole story out.  Judge makes the correct ruling (my creature lives) and tells us to continue playing.  The kid then just sits there doing nothing, so I call the judge back over to enforce stalling.  By this time, the judge is about to warn us both for stalling, so I ask the kid nicely to please start playing and not waste our time.  He continues to sit there, denying that he is stalling.

After a few more minutes of silence, with a judge about to give us both warnings, he gets up and angrily says, "I concede!"  Inside, I was laughing my ass off, but good riddance.  This kid went over to a corner and started crying while explaining to his buddies what happened!  I was happy that I got the win, but by the same token I now have a bipolar hatemonger that might hunt me down someday! 

Moral of this story:  Magic brings the biggest dorks out of us, but weird monsters out of others.

I might have also developed some jedi-mindtricking skills!   

[herbig]

Like two weeks ago I went to an FNM in NYC.  I had this pretty sick monored sligh deck I've been testing and I'm 2-0-1 going into the last round and I get paired up, which doesn't matter much to me since I can still win and have a shot at the $50 prize.  I actually really need to win, since I recently lost my job and haven't been able to afford food for my cat Snuffles for like two weeks.  My last five dollars were used on getting into the tournament.  My own stomach is rumbling when I sit down across from this 24ish asian-looking dude who looks more like a stock broker than a magic player.  Oh yeah he was wearing a suit and tie too.

He immediately asks if I know who he is, which is strange to me because I've never seen this dude in my life.  When I reply that I don't he offers me a foil miscut german Grozoth to concede to him.  I consider this seriously for like 10 seconds, since this would actually complete my set of miscut german foil Grozoths, but the need to feed myself and my family outweighs this.  He seems to get really irritated when I refuse and then takes the card and tears it in half right in front of me, along with enough guru islands to hardcast the damn thing.

By this point I'm really thrown off and confused.  I roll the die and get a 19.  He looks behind my shoulder and says "holy shit, Steve Menendian's here."  I look back, obviously excited, but all I see are a bunch of very large men with red rulers measuring cannon shots for Warhammer.  When I turn around the die is on 20, which is strange because I never heard it roll, but he insists he did.  I give him the benefit of the doubt and chalk it up to bad luck.

He's on the play and takes like five minutes before playing a forest, declares that it comes into play untapped, and suspends a guy.  On my turn I play my mountain and say go.  On his turn, he drops a land, again stating that it comes into play untapped, and contemplates for awhile.  He then says he is attacking with his Baloth, which incidentally still has five counters on it.  I tell him it is still suspended, which seems to irritate him a lot, and he just plays a creature and says go.

This is actually where things got kind of sketchy.  After he draws a card for his turn, he tells me he forgot about the Suspend counters for the last two turns.  I tell him yeah, thats fine, but he keeps arguing and says he actually suspended it four turns ago.  I count his two lands and tell him thats impossible.  He then declares his Baloth as attacking, so I call a judge over.  He asks the judge if he knows who he is and when the judge says no, he yells out "I'm the fucking Legacy champion" or something like that.  He then asks to go to the bathroom and gets up and walks over to the counter.  He buys a couple of Yugioh boosters and then just walks out of the store.

Really weird guy.

[Mr. Nightmare]

What Herbig Wrote

I give it a 3/10.  You can do much better.  Stick to inventing Counterspells.

[Implacable]

I beg to differ.  That was hilarious. 

[ShamanBen]

The weirdest game I ever played was against former Drain member Angel (john lehr)

Against John Lehr, the judge was called repeatedly. He was playing oath, I TPS. Turn one he played emerald and a fbb underground sea, and I said I did not know what either card was and the judge came over. Both of those cards were in my hand. While getting the text for the cards I somehow managed to elbow the judge in the balls. He was cool about it since it was an accident.

On my turn I drew my card, and john decided to follow my antics and blow a fit that I did not declare my upkeep, judge was called, somehow got elbowed in the nuts again, I got a warning we back tracked to my upkeep and John had nothing to do and we proceeded to my draw step.

I cast time walk on turn two, John asked the judge if it could be misdirected knowing it couldnt, and did not even have misdirection (I just duressed him.) By the time I started my time walk turn we were thirty minutes into the round. I started spell counting for storm, and was using dice not paper. He kept bumping the die, and asking what the count was. Fifteen minutes later I finished resolving a desire for 19 flipping up two tendrils and he did not scoop. There were two minutes left in the round at the end of game one. I asked how long I had to sideboard, and we never started game two.

Said judge still refers to me as the guy who elbowed him in the nuts twice in one game.

[pyr0ma5ta]

Favorite match EVER.  Opponent calls judge on himself.  Judge gets there he said guess what.  Judge says what.  He FARTS.  Like OMG HUGE fart.  Then he says "That'll be all Jeeves"  This was the Nemesis prerelease, so I was probably like 13 and it was my first tourney in my life.  What a start.

Um, lol?

There's this one kid at my FNM who seriously has TS or something.  He can't shut up about anything, and it's seriously annoying.  He's a good kid, just a little slow and not all there, and I can tell he doesn't set out to piss everyone off.  Unfortunately, it just happens and he's just too loud, too talkative, and too in my face for me to handle and sometimes I just can't help but tell him to shut up.  He pipes down for about 2 minutes before it starts all over