Commander Pet Peeves | EDHRECast 220 

I hate it when a player doesn't tap their permanents a recognizeable 90 degrees. Even a full 45 is acceptable, but a friend of mine likes to tap items like 10°. It's a little difficult to have to memorize which cards he was touching on his turns because he refuses to tap properly. I'm proud to say I am good at remembering those things though.

In response to the archenemy conversation: I think being a DM has prepared me to be the villain and actively encourage the rest of the table to remove my threats and band together to kill me.

My pet peeve is a Disorganized battlefield. Like if it’s way out of whack. Or if you don’t resolve your triggers out loud or in at least somewhat of the correct order. I just want to know what’s going on and it can be hard, especially on spelltable

I relate to the distracted player immediately. When we're all at my mother's house playing edh, my brother will usually also literally walk away from the table to play a video game on the TV in the next room between his turns.

My biggest pet peeve is that you guys only do one of these a week😭

My biggest pet peeve is other players trying to play my turn for me... You don't know my strategy, you don't know my hand, you don't know what I consider to be a threat or not. Stop trying to tell me how I should play.

A pet peeve I have is when a player plays a spell and proceeds with the card's ETB not giving somebody a chance to respond. "Okay, so I'll play sad golemn." He then picks up his deck to start searching for his land. Granted, it may be VERY rare somebody counters a sad golemn, but at least just PAUSE to see if there are any response. Maybe I'm being too picky. :)

I think a pet peeve that bothers me is when someone complains and focuses on a colors weakness’s, rather than find a colors strengthens and playing into that. I feel the color identity exists to bring out personality to your decks, so show off your colors!

BIG agree on the threat assessment/archenemy section. Holy shit is that THEEEEEE biggest issue with my group. Politics gets a little TOO abused in avoiding that title.

Players using Islands can be annoying, we know this about ourselves. But we serve a role and we often don’t get the 3-seconds of space needed to simply say, “I’m going to think about responding to the card you just played.” One (out of many) appropriate things we all can do when Islands are untapped is to play spells by saying, “I’m going to attempt to cast such-and-such. Is there any response” instead of rushing into the next piece of your crushing, game-winning combo 😂

I hate it when people take long turns without doing stuff so when theres gonna be another 45 minutes of me doing nothing I'll distract myself otherwise it's not bearable

As some one who enjoys interactive games, my pet peeve is people who get salty over single target removal/counterspells. Part of edh for me is trying to execute my game plan but also defending myself from other people's, gotta have an offense and a defense.

My biggest pet peeve is people who wait until the last minute to do something that doesn't matter, and take up time for no reason. I get it with certain things you want to wait till the last minute so you have all of the information you need, but bro it's turn one just crack your evolving wilds, don't wait until the last person's end step before your turn.

I personally love Goad. I have a goad deck built myself that I play from time to time (Kitt Kanto). It really helps in games where all people seem to want to do is play solo and just build up massive stall boards. It doesn't stop play and actually forces interaction.

My pet peeve. My current main group are all family and friends that are all in daily or near daily contact with each other and are all 20+ years younger than me. Consequently they often engage in conversations that revolve around their lives while on their turns. This often turns a 2 hour game into a 3 hour game which can and does often lead to no second game that night or a shortened game because someone has to leave. I mean I understand we're all gathering together to have fun and enjoy each other's company, but seriously I came to have fun playing the game. And I'm not saying you can't talk about other stuff, I literally love all these people. I want to know everything about all of them, but I'm there to have fun playing this game we've all spent hours and hours building these decks. You can still talk about that stuff just not on your turn or to the person who's turn it is. I mean plus the not paying attention to the game.

My biggest pet peeve is past game memory. When someone is considered the arch enemy when someone else is about to go off and win the game

A flip side when people don’t say they are the threat is that you don’t always know what’s in their hand or deck. Someone getting a a few strong pieces onto a board can look threatening when they have no follow through. I was playing Bane the other week, and people were creating this shadow boogeyman where I was pulling all these combo pieces when they killed my creatures and they opted for cars draw instead of cheating things into play… I pulled straight lands, and since I could only play a land per turn I have a full grip of cards. Which ALSO scared them. I was seen as a threat with a 2/2 chupacabra and my commander on the board and 3 islands, 2 plains, a swamp and a Bojuka Bog in my hand.

I don't mind finicky decks or combo decks, but I want to see exactly the interactions/synergies/etc going on, mana payments, and more. In my experience, intentionally or unintentionally, players with these kinds of decks tend to not keep track of things very well, and tend to play faster than they should. In fact, they often just don't have the mana or other resources to pull off whatever they're trying to do. Casual or not, if we're going to watch someone play solitaire for 15 minutes, I'm a stickler for honesty. Assuming they do have their win or nutso interaction, being walked through it will also give me an idea of where I can interact in the synergy chain to stop them, in future games. Could give me ideas for my own decks too.

There is a player in my LGS who likes to comment on everyone's play like "Hmm, why are you casting that? Interesting." or "I wouldn't do that if I were you." It always grinds my gears cuz it makes me doubt my own play. Sometimes I wish I can tell him if he would rather play my deck instead.

49:00 I recently played a boros ramp/landfall deck that blew my mind (and we got absolutely destroyed).. It revolved mostly around using the graveyard with fetches and crucible of worlds, but also recurring lands with sun titan, emeria shepherd, sevinnes reclamation etc, retriggering landfall with a personal pet card ruin ghost,. and winning with the landfall token makers like nesting dragon, retreat to emeria, felidar retreat. It was pure joy to see all those cool interactions.

I had a recent game that featured three of the pet peeves you listed: the archenemy wouldn't admit they were the archenemy (despite me sitting on a quarter of my starting life total because of the archenemy, and being completely at the mercy of their next 1-2 turns of combat, I was labelled the archenemy by them and the other players just agreed because I was doing slightly better than they were at building a board presence to try to defend myself), the archenemy made a deal with the other two players that he wouldn't attack them with his massive unblockable creatures, and that he'd focus down on me if the other players didn't attack him (he had single-handedly already knocked me down to a quarter of my life total, himself hadn't lost a single point of life or resource the entire game, and had been bullying everyone else at the table for the games duration), and one of the other players was almost completely absent as they were trading with another person outside the game the entire time (they had no idea what was going on in game - they spent their turns passing, then saying "wait sorry I forgot to play land for turn" and passing again). Of course, I was first to lose, very shortly after the mistake of a deal was agreed upon by the other players that were behind in the game, and consequently the archenemy won by taking those two out with the same strategy. It was painful to watch, but I sat through and observed it because it was a learning experience that taught me what happens when I get frantically frustrated at the kind of situation I was put in when I was still in the game. Maybe I could have at least turned the other player who wasn't absent onto the archenemy had I just been more calm.

Absolutely loved this weeks intro! Great conversation as always.

My biggest pet peeve is random people commenting on the game. And by random people I mean non players. I totally get dipping in and asking someone what has been happening if you are curious. But actively telling people they should remove this or that or commenting on why are you playing this or that.

About deals my pet peeves would be if someone make deals that last longer then one turn. Cause that means at least two turns dont do something against someone that could become a problem depending ofc on how you make the deal. Each round things changes alot, so dont do deals that last long!

My pod has a player who will often wipe the board seemingly without a plan to come back and it gets a little annoying. We had a game last ~2.5 hours last week because they kept destroying/exiling everything, including their own board. They didn’t win, and as far as I could tell, they just had board wipes in hand and mana to play them. I go back and forth on whether it’s a salt-worthy play style. On the one hand, don’t keep dragging the game out just because you drew board wipes and don’t have anything else to do on a turn. Ties into respecting people’s time. But on the other hand, there’s always the chance of drawing into or already having something that enables a comeback. They don’t win games often so the latter doesn’t seem to be the case. I’ve just started loading my decks up with more protection and answers than most people probably need in their metas lol.

Mine is when other players play theft decks and are super rough with my cards…

One pet peeve of mine is when you talk about power level and someone straight up lies about it. Very recently played a game where the rest of the pod was around a 2 6’s and 1 7 power and someone brought out a “precon” and related it was just a precon with a “few extra cards.” It ended up being a well upgraded version of it with 25 swapped out “power cards” for the deck. It was at least an 8. The game ended up taking almost an hour and a half but was a clear victory for them through the whole game. It was a straight waste of time and was not fun. Love the discussions and the videos! It’s a pleasure to listen to and I enjoy the various topics and different views.

My pet peeve is the fallacy of hitting the player with most life points for no other reason. You don’t have enough information to know who you should attack based on Life Points. -Some decks use their HP as a resource more than others and so I’d attack them as a rule no matter if another player is at 40. -Gaining 1 life off of a tapped land should not make you the target of an attack all of a sudden. Vice versa if you shocked or fetched a land. -If there is a Bloodchief ascension or a similar effect, then you should not hit anybody else at the board so you don’t give a free win. It is the laziest form of playing the game and I don’t play twice in pods that do this.

The last person that said "get good" in response to me and my group wanting to play casual, I busted out my cEDH Urza, Lord High Artificer deck and beat him 3 different times all between turns 0-3. He wanted to play casual for the rest of the night after that.

Personal EDH Pet Peeve: Making a game decision by rolling a die (such as who to attack), and then tries to deflect consequences by blaming the dice. Dude, the dice were your method of decision making - but it was still your decision to make, and the consequences are yours to own.

my biggest pet peeve is battle field organisation and library shuffling. (do it properly) On the other hand all my green decks end up with 20+ lands that I fail to organize while trying to play fast at the same time.

My biggest pet peeves are mostly my own actions: I keep bad hands; I shuffle poorly so mana screw and floods are semi-common; between turns I often lay my hand down so miss opportunities for instants - chiefly countermagic; I build poorly - I refuse cards based on art and cost, as well as proxies, so my decks are falling behind the rest of the groups; when it's not my turn, it's time to pee or grab food/drink. BUT I know all these things, which helps mitigate them for me. They make for bad games for others though, because curb-stomping isn't fun for the stomper or the stompee. Pet peeves caused by other players boil down to mismatched decks in the pod. Initial conversations can help, but definitions are subjective outside of being honest about how a deck likely wins and at what turn it can do so if left alone - topics opponents, especially randoms, are unlikely to share.

I've only just started the pod so I apologise if they cover this in the episode BUT for me the biggest annoyance in commander is people not putting things in the top row creatures, middle row artifacts/enchantments, bottom row lands layout. Stuff like people throwing mana rocks into the bottom row with their lands really irks me. Like, I totally follow the logic but the amount of times I'm blowing up artifacts and pick something only to find out that a player had a Sol Ring I could've exploded or infinite hand size that I could've removed. It is very frustrating and I feel like a real pedant asking people to separate their mana rocks and lands. Even just a separate blob of mana rocks on that bottom row is enough, just enough that when I look at your board I can see it and it isn't stacked/hidden behind a load of land cards. Same with enchantment creatures moving them from top to middle or middle to top when they become/stop being creatures. I totally understand when you have more creatures than space and get that sometimes you don't have a choice but to spill over but at least make it clear. Keeping a board tidy/organised isn't just for your ease, its also so everyone else can see what's on your board and it frustrates me when people don't account for that. That was a bit of a rant, apparently this really bothers me aha!

THANK you for saying that bit about Boros. I really don't get why folks were calling out the colour pair as if any other non-green one was any different in regards to ramp. Heck, outside of dorks, you can pretty much ramp just as fast as green from mana rocks.

Those dad jokes keep me coming back and now even commenting 👍 love yall

I once built a coin flip deck that was supplemented with chaos cards. My play group would do a dumbmander night where we would build unconventional silly decks. I don't remember the names of the cards, but my deck put the game in the worst state with the chaos cards. 1. When a player cast a spell, they discarded that spell and cast a top deck (basically random spell). 2. Hive Mind - I think. Every body got copy of that random spell. 3. Grip of Chaos - Targets of spells were chosen randomly. We played it through, and got out of a loop with a board wipe that relied on winning a coin flip. It makes a good story, but it was so unfun after just a round at the table. Game played it self and all decisions were taken away. I took all of those card out of the deck after that.

"Boros is bad at ramp" feels like a fun band name.

I don't really play much stax, but I do play a Thantis, the Warweaver (all creatures attack every turn) with a ton of goad spells and effects. I always warn everyone that that's what the deck does. Usually I'll go in as the arch-enemy at turn 1, but it's still usually a fun game. Up front honesty is key in a casual game. My LGS does have a couple of players that play competitive formats and go into casual Commander games with a hyper-competitive attitude even when playing lower power decks. I do actively try to win most games, but I'm happy if my decks just play as designed. The competitive guys don't understand not being ruthless at all times. I try to avoid those pods, but sometimes I can't if I want to play.

I remember watching a game recently where by turn 6 or 7 one player had doubling season, Nissa who shakes the world, 35ish lands from the Nissa ult, and 6 (really good) cards left in hand; he was INSISTENT that he wasn't the archenemy when everyone else was still developing. I wasn't even playing that game but I got peeved regardless lol

The people I play with (myself included) are often prone to feeling bad for teaming up against the biggest threat. So whenever I feel myself becoming that threat, I always announce it. Like “okay guys, I’ve just become the biggest threat at the table and if you don’t do something about it, I’m winning in x turns. Please do something about it”. Just to let them know I don’t care if they stop me, but if they don’t, they are on a clock

18:06 Ahhh so this episode was actually just an excuse for an intervention...

The last commander game day I had with friends, I tried a new way of managing Smothering Tithe by saying during their turn when they drew their card, "I'm making a treasure unless you pay to stop me." It felt less annoying than asking, "did you pay...", and my friends liked that approach much better.

I LOVE to play the heel

With being honest about the threat I will be semi honest. I will point out my scariest piece when someone is looking around the table with removal but I will also point out the worst thing the other players have as equally valid targets. They then get defensive which inflates how much of a problem that thing is so they normally don't pick my thing out of the 2 options presented.

My biggest pet peeve is people apologizing for the cards they put in their own deck, doing the thing they put them in there for. Like a friend of mine put Emrakul in his deck since he planned on ramping out and casting huge Eldrazi to close out games. But when he cast Emrakul and took my turn for me, all he did was apologize for taking my turn and for any bad thing he did to my board. Like bro, you knew what that card was going to do when you cast it. The worst part is that he ruined his own night because of it and I had no issue with my turn being controlled since I was the obvious Archenemy at the time

My biggest pet peeve is what I term “80% players” - people who want to be perceived as casual, friendly players, but they are secretly spiky. They build their decks to seem innocuous enough, but are ultimately running card synergies that are frustrating to play against and cause loss of agency - often this is Bant flicker decks where they cannot be wrathed, or decks running an unusually high density of counter spells for a deck that isn’t pure control. This type of player will often even disclose that their deck is a slightly higher power level, but not how powerful the deck truly is (say a 6 at a table of 5s, which is really a 7) but the reason this bothers me so much is because this kind of player is trying to have the best of all worlds and the downside of none: to be perceived as a friendly casual player but also to have a disproportionately high win rate. There’s something about this closely curated form of dishonesty that really gets to me. If they want to pay strong 7s and 8s, do that, but don’t lock or blow out people playing precons/3-5s.

One of my biggest pet peeves is kind of an inversion of the archenemy. I don’t like it when a player is ganged up on simply because they are seen as a “better” player. Just because someone has been playing for a longer time, they don’t always have great games. Kicking them while they’re down or ganging up on them when they are just doing fine (no where near running away in as an archenemy) or even poorly that game feels bad.

12:45 >>Trying

My pet peeve is when players concede in a way that gives another player an advantage. It's polite to concede at sorcery speed

@6:59 just untap your permeants and take an extra turn quietly. Bringing out the binder is giving your opponent a free timewalk IMO

Top 3 pet peeves for me in mtg: 1.) ppl who pubstomp and have no care for power discrepancy/disrespect others time for enjoyment/run fast mana and dockside in casual and ruin games. 2.) ppl who dont pay attention then stop the game/distract from the game/on their phone/try to tell you how to play your turn. 3.) ppl who dont read cards/take 10 min turns/combo off each game/slow play to add nothing to advance the game. Basically i just want fun, casual, immersive, edh where everyone does something to add to the game and the game actually lasts more than 6 or 7 turns. Also playing more cards that dont see play over staples is one of my goals when deck building and appreciate others who do so too.

Re: Archenemy, I have a Child of Alara deck that makes me the archenemy at my LGS when I bring it out. I accept it as part of playing the deck, and have taken this into account when adding/cutting cards.

Those puns were clean as a thistle

My pet peeve is that people tend to believe that you cant do anything about power creep. It is possible to tune down your decks. It is possible to run your pet 3 mana rock instead of Arcane Signet.

The pet peeve I have for magic is when a player makes an irrational move without any forethought. Using removal on a commander because "You can bring it back", or targeting someone when theres a larger threat. Yes, youre free to assess threats the way you want to, but when im screwed over, just because you can, even when theres something better you can do, then my fun in the games been killed.

Played a game last week, where one player got decently ahead with Miirym and could have killed a player with 2 Scourge of Valkas triggering but instead killed off creatures so the gsme could go on longer. Nothing inherently wrong with enjoying the game, but man we couldve played 2 games if he just killed one of the players that turn and swung at the others. Not super frustrating, I just dont get to play as much and wanted to try new decks.

29:50 nice duscussion guys and definitly agree with matt there

My pet peeve is I'm new at the game and can't find people in my area to play with with any degree of reliability so I don't have the experience to develop (or even cause lmao) legitimate pet peeves 😭

17:10 I built a Derevi nostalgia deck with no cards newer then 2014 and deliberately no stacksy or combo cards. It still wins by tapping down all opponent's lands each run...

One of my pet peeves is not really with any type of player, just the game in general. To do things properly, after every little play you should go round the table in priority order all confirming whether or not you have a response, can you imagine how tedious that would be? Yet, as you pointed out in one of your other casts, priority order is really important. Usually player's do the opposite of that and the pace of a game can be too fast. Even if I've thought about what I want to do in response to other things, I feel like if I blink, or think about my strategy for a second, I've missed something that I might want to respond to, I've just learned I have to be really on it. Though if things are moving too fast I know I can always ask people to slow down. Leaving a small pause after a play is probably a good middle-ground.

On the note of not respecting others time: One of the things that our group does is if one player is playing at a much higher power level than the rest is, when they win we say "Congrats. You win." and then continue playing the game without them. As in, life totals are whatever they were before their massive attack for lethal on everyone was, or before their infinite combo on turn five went off, or whatever other silly thing they did. We will then just continue playing with the three of us for "second". If they have 0 respect for our time then we have 0 respect for theirs. If they have to sit around for 45 more minutes twiddling their thumbs while the rest of us have fun then so be it. The lesson gets learned very quickly.

One that I have is people conceding before the game is really over. I don't mean "let me play with infinite mana for an hour" I mean there's still a full table in the game, I'm attacking them down to

About commander reputations, my friend and I have Najeela and Kenrith respectively and both have made or are planning to make budget decks for them, having no idea that just seeing them in the command zone strikes fear into everyone in the pod. XD I was just thinking I would make a couple warriors

I’ll be that guy and say that infinite combos are one of my biggest pet peeves. I get that many of them happened accidentally over the years, but it’s odd to me that essentially breaking the game is not only widely accepted but seemingly encouraged by certain reprints and new cards with huge combo potential. Combos can be really difficult to interact with unless you build your decks a certain way, and I find that makes them not fun to play against.

When opponent has the tools to win on the spot, but just extends the game leaving the rest of the table suffer for a few turns.

We've played a game of "everyone pick your most annoying deck". Kambal, Consul of Allocation vs Ruric Thar, the Unbowed vs Zo-Zu the Punisher vs Michiko Konda, Truth Seeker. It was a blast because we had the expectation it would be a nightmare of a game.

Being honest with yourself and your playgroup is really important. I'd been noticing that people really didn't like it when my Mishra, Eminent One deck won with Gonti's Aether Heart. They'd always told me that they were okay with it, but their body language seemed to say the opposite. I recently came back from a few months' break, during which I'd upgraded my deck. It quickly became apparent that my deck was pulling off the Aether Heart win much quicker and much more consistently. This time, I asked everyone to be 100% honest with me: is this combo a little too much, and does it feel bad when I win this way? Most said yes - it's too easy, it's anticlimactic, and it ends so many games on the spot when they're just starting to kick off, around turn 4 or 5. The deck runs the Aetherflux Reservoir combo, but that at least feels like a proper conclusion to the game!

My pet peeve is players who base their entire strategy around one thing, then get irrationally angry when that one thing get's stopped, thus stopping them from winning the game everyone else is trying to win. Crazy, It's like we want to play magic, and magic is a game of interaction.

Dana sporting the Detroit Tigers hat! Woo-hoo!

Finally someone else who genuinely uses "persnicity" and "strife" in casual conversation. Ty

A person i used to play with hates high synergy decks, so any tribal deck, oh also disruption based decks, oh and decks that go face early, oh and drain decks, and aristocrats, and combo decks... As they play over powered custom cards and uncards

Can we get another unsung commander episode? I'd love to hear you guy's input on Circu, Dimir Lobotomist. (My fav commander)

Had a game with me along for the ride most game. With 3 players left I wanted the Voltron player that was winning the game compared to the token generator. Little did the token generator know I had Memnarch (SP)

When someone taps one of my cards with their fingernail I wanna punch them in the face.

Green is so good that I consider it "easy mode" so I purposely build n play decks that don't have green in it as a challenge and I mean when u can do green things with non green decks, it's a satisfying feeling.

The Background Hardy Outlander seems potentially really good in an OG Multani deck with tons of Trample anthems, nothing would be quite as funny as having that Background out (yeah, it'll be in the 99) alongside Pathbreaker Ibex or maybe Overwhelming Stampede, Multani starting at 20 Power is going to be pretty absurd if you can give another creature so much power. The 'power level' thing is awkward, because there is a lot of subjectivity in those ratings, and up to a point your Commander can be weak and your 99 can have enough synergy/power to get by with something like the Piper played solo, but I think most such decks want two or three colours, but these are fun skill polishing decks to build IMHO. My point btw is that I have some decks that are designed to 'fly under the radar' to a high degree, playing objectively weak Commanders yet having enough raw power/synergy in the 99 to make the decks surprisingly hard to deal with. One of them runs quite a few wipes/big removal effects, as well as Chaos type effects, a bit of land destruction (hate on Azorius, but especially Blue decks using counters), but it's also loaded down with chaff cards that are high in flavour, and the Commander is not one anyone would think is pushed, it's one of the weakest ever printed, so my solution at this point is to make sure I mention that the deck features some salty stuff, but isn't overly powerful in any traditional sense, so it's appropriate for a mid-power or Casual game. I probably should make a small sideboard incase I need to board out certain cards (Omen of Fire could be funny the first two times, and get less amusing the 3rd time to the Azorius player).

29:13 my man 🤝 31:10 that's actually a tenet of good script writing. Don't info dump on the audience via exposition from a side character. Just ask those little questions between characters that elude to a backstory. Have a character pause when someone else says something poignant. They don't even have to reply, but the audience knows that character is holding back, which tells you more about them than some ham fisted dialogue spelling it out for the audience.

I play a lot of combat tricks, so when I attack multiple people and one player does their math before all blockers are declared everywhere. I basically have to reveal I was going to do a trick by saying "hold on I need to see how everything is declared" or something like that.

Hey it's not my fault the blue player took 27 minutes for his 3rd round turn and I got lost in a movie in the mean time. 10 minutes doesn't even cover his untap, upkeep, and draw. My pet peeves: Mill decks, stax decks, blue decks et al

Yeah, i built a dimir deck that would return permanents to owner's hand and then discard them. I pullled it apart, because no one enjoyed being blocked from playing 🤐

Sometimes when I’m in the lead in a game and someone asks, “what’s the problem on the board?” I deflect unintentionally because I’m afraid of what another player has on their board, and that emotional reaction makes me feel like opponent’s boards are more threatening than mine.

Sometimes bad deals are also done because not every one knows each commander and each card from the history of magic so accessing strategic value of ones action isn`t easy. Hate it when people bitch and moan about stax and counterspells and what not but all their deck do is put a two piece combo on the field and win. 'It`s only fun when my combo goes off, not when yours'

People who are told that the goal is to pick something weaker so we can be closer in power level. Then they build Meren and crank the card quality. The other two decks are edgar and yawgmoth cranked to max lol

100 percent with Dana on dumb deals. Happens all the time and just bunges up the game.

I built Slogurk when that card came out and it was very much a "oops sorry about that". I put together walk the aeons turns combo two games and the third game I had a 23/23 Slogurk smacking people to death

My #1 is stacking all your lands into one pile. Makes me feel like you're actively trying to cheat with how many lands you (don't) have.

My two biggest pet peeves in EDH after playing over a decade are: The player who takes too long turns/dont know how to play there deck. (Unless this is your first playthrough) The second is the Stax player who scoops because their bored or the get stax piece/combos countered or destroyed.

When people don’t think about their turn during others turns/ someone plays Sensei’s Divining Top in a casual game. I think i’d rather do my taxes

in reference to the survival of the fittest is it bad for me to play them? I have two from my childhood so I don't see anything wrong with it.

Fortunately it doesn't come up much because my friends and I are adults, but I hate people who try to concede as a game action. Like, you didn't find some secret tech dude, you just walked off with an entire bowl of free samples.

I build a deck and play it until it succesfully goes off once or maybe twice if it was really fun. Then I either give it to someone, or I take it apart and make a new one. I've never gotten grief for any of my mean decks, because everyone knows it's only going to be a problem once from me. The also know I hate using the same cards in every single card just because it's a staple in that colour, so the decks are usually a bit under powered.

My biggest peeve is when people don't respect your time. It goes beyond the gameplay, deals or decisions made in the game, and it's disrespectful on a more personal level. I once had a game with 1 guy that was pretty new and another guy that is really nice, but then half way through the game they both get up and go to the store counter and the nice guy is showing him cards that would be good for him to get. I get you're being nice and all, but wait until the game is over.

Is Dana from Michigan? I see the Detroit Tigers hat... If so if you are in the Lansing/Jackson/Mason/Charlotte neck of the woods let's meet up for some games!

My pet peeve: When people have the win and they hold it for an in response moment to take away someone else doing something cool at the table

I have 2 pet peeve’s 1) people who do not tap mana correctly ie tapping a command tower to pay mana that a basic could have been tapped for. And 2) people who roll a dice for decisions, if you are going to do things that force you to make a choice, then make the choice and live with the consequences, especially if that choice causes a different player to win.

I can relate to the loss of game agency. My all-creature Umori companion deck is lots of fun until opponent puts overwhelming splendor on me. T_T

Question for the community: In my playgroup we have one player that always forgets his triggers and remembers them after a turn or two. Most of the time if it's not a massive advantage (ex: he forgot to draw a card) or something along those lines we let him do it but when it's something more meaningful we tell him too bad. This is one of my biggest pet peeve in my playgroup and I'm not the only one thinking like this. What would you guys do in this situation? We try to help him by telling him some of his triggers but he still misses alot. (He's not a new player and has been playing for a year or 2)

My biggest peeve is trying to do your triggers WAAAY after they triggered. Like, two turns ago. Sorry, you missed it 🤷

old man yells at cloud energies

The table can work together to minimize the effect of goad and they should....