Have you ever had a situation where your opponent RAGES during the game or immediately after you beat him? I haven't had this happen before until this weekend. I was doing a Friday Night Magic draft at my local game store and was 3-0. In the finals game to determine who went 4-0 and won the tournament, I was playing a guy that was apparently a pro tour champion (I Googled him afterwards and confirmed he is legit). He had a really good blue/white weenie deck of almost nothing but fliers. My deck was a sort of red/white aggro hybrid with a few late game things mixed in.
He dominated me in game one until I blew him out with a Settle the Wreckage to exile his board. I was down to nine life and he attacked with five fliers for a total of eleven damage. Settle the Wreckage took care of them all and then I was able to kill him in two turns thanks to crack back. The extra lands didn't even help him because he already had something like seven or eight and no cards in hand. He threw his cards down angerly screaming "You have SETTLE THE WRECKAGE?! No wonder you won all your games then. That's how you won huh?"
Game two was more close. We traded a lot of creatures back and forth. I had him down to two life and I was at six. I had no creatures on board, Settle the Wreckage in hand, and that's it. He had Siren Stormtamer on board, and no cards in hand. I drew Unfriendly Fire - lethal damage in this situation. I knew though that if I played it he could sacrifice the Stormtamer to just counter it. I passed the turn and hoped he attacked with Stormtamer because...why wouldn't he?
Then again he knows I have Settle the Wreckage in my deck and I pass turn with two cards in hand and six untapped lands. Kind of fishy huh?
He attacked anyway. I Settled the Wreckage and he didn't seem too shocked by it. He played another creature, which I honestly don't even know what it was because I was already thinking about killing him next turn with Unfriendly Fire.
I draw. He preempts me, "Got Unfriendly Fire or something huh?"
I hadn't played it in game one so he was purely speculating at this point. I place Unfriendly Fire on the board. "Four to you?" I say.
He slammed the table with his hand and yells, "Of course of you have that! Of course! Ridiculous! You have both that and Settle the Wreckage in hand. Exactly what you needed! That is utterly ridiculous!"
"Good game," I say.
"Yeah right!" he yells back.
He is violently scooping up all his cards and now muttering to himself about how it's okay he lost and he will just get his packs and leave. He got up and starts walking toward the front of the store, which in our store the play area is in a separate back room. I truly think he might just try to report he won since he is on tilt so I follow him up there to go report. He kept muttering to himself all the while he is walking up front, seemingly going over each turn from the game and what he thinks he could have done differently while also wildly gesticulating with his arms like a shopping bag lady on the streets predicting the end times.
He is violently scooping up all his cards and now muttering to himself about how it's okay he lost and he will just get his packs and leave. He got up and starts walking toward the front of the store, which in our store the play area is in a separate back room. I truly think he might just try to report he won since he is on tilt so I follow him up there to go report. He kept muttering to himself all the while he is walking up front, seemingly going over each turn from the game and what he thinks he could have done differently while also wildly gesticulating with his arms like a shopping bag lady on the streets predicting the end times.
He reported he lost and then left the store. I was amazed at how upset he was over a 20-man FNM draft. You would have expected such a well-known and talented player wouldn't really care about dinky FNM drafts anymore. Does it really matter if he went 3-1 or 4-0? Both are respectable records and the difference in prizing was only two packs - a pack per win and then two extra for 4-0. It's not as if a booster box were on the line or something!
Perhaps next time I will just have to show him this:
Perhaps next time I will just have to show him this:
My winning deck list below (without card links because I am lazy)
Creatures (17)
1x Kinjalli's Caller
1x Rigging Runner
1x Bishop's Soldier
2x Tilonalli's Knight
1x Kinjalli's Sunwing
1x Captain Lannery Storm
1x Territorial Hammerskull
2x Frenzied Raptor
2x Thrash of Raptors
1x Pterodon Knight
1x Storm Fleet Arsonist
1x Glorifier of Dusk
2x Sun-Crowned Hunters
Spells (7)
2x Vampire's Zeal
1x Slash of Talons
1x Firecannon Blast
1x Settle the Wreckage
1x Unfriendly Fire
1x Bright Reprisal
Land (16)
1x Unknown Shores
9x Mountain
6x Plains
