That One Guy Who Taps His Mana Weird | MTG  

This hurt my soul, but once I saw him riffle shuffle like that, my whole body was dragged into hell.

The moment he picked up his entire deck to draw one card I'm calling the judge, there's no way I'm gonna trust that.

'I'll set this land card face down in defence mode'

“Is that a morphed creature?” “No silly. It’s a tapped land.”

Picking the entire deck up to draw the card is so underrated. I think that was the funniest part 😂

"I've never said this before, but I don't think you can play with us anymore. Sorry."

Giving off that "You're a 3rd rate duelist, with a 4th rate deck!" Energy.

I took 1d4 psychic damage from this.

Its an actual rule that lands are closest to the player and non land cards are closest to your opponent. the exception to this rule is mana rocks that only tap for mana. those can be with your lands, but they cant be hidden underneath your lands.

I played against someone like this, not this bad, but he admitted to me that he did it to throw people off. That is what we in Magic call " a dick move."

''thats just how i play'' ''okay, well lets see what the judge thinks about that''

We were chillin' until he did the shuffle. Then he became public enemy number 1.

That "that's just how I play the game" at the end made me even more angry then the things before

This is why I support regulated zones in games not this “cards go anywhere” madness

His smirk says he’s playing a psychological game

If my opponent flips a card face down that is in play and is supposed to be revealed I’m calling a judge

Lmao that shuffle is enough to make the soul of any tcg player leave this dimension 💀

The shuffle broke my soul, the tapping broke my hope for humanity, and his graveyard broke my eyes

It's amazing how quick you can make a card game player have mental breakdown over the smallest things. Humans man.

Watching this video, the only thing coming to mind was “have you considered gun violence against your friends?”

If my group had someone tap like that or layout their board that way then we'd be having words. No one ever tapped like that but one guy did layout his board weird, library and GY in middle with permanents seemingly put at random, and we were like "no, dude you need to organize your battlefield to buy easier to read or you are out after this game".

I specifically ordered the full text Forest because it describes Tapping as turning the card 90° because a friend that occasionally sits to my left barely taps his lands 45° and makes keeping track of open mana more difficult. He’s newer and doesn’t think it’s a huge deal, but he’s also never used a control or midrange deck lol.

"I will cast Deagle if you don't leave my house right now"

Literally fell to my knees at the shuffle.

That's it. Focus this man down! He committed the sin of playing differently than us.

Also, that is such an efficient graveyard position.

Picking up the entire deck to draw a single card is such good comedy

idc about the riffle, they're his cards, but if you put the graveyard in the middle of the board u will be out of my house very quick

The millisecond where he began to shuffle like that would be followed by a rage only Vegeta could rival. 👺👺👺👺

This made me want to quit magic 🤣

I wasn't ready for that. Just bursted in laughter

Mans looked over at him and thought “This is where I die I’m sitting next to a sociopath and we’re all not making it out of this edh game alive”😂

"You put your creature in the objectively worst spot possible". Proceeds to move it to a worse spot. Silence.

he cracked his verdant catacombs but that riffle shuffle shattered my heart

I was willing to look past most of it. But when he shuffled the cards I wanted to scream in a mix of anger and fear

"That's just how I play the game, you'll just have to deal with it... " oh he'd be dealing with the slap in his face that imma bout to launch his way!

You actually don't just 'have to deal with it'. I'd refuse to play with someone doing crap like that.

The last comment is what gets me, I’d tell him he’s done and no longer playing with us. Plus if I remember correctly, Wizards put out an Official placement statement declaring where cards are to be placed

He did NOT reveal Diabolic Intent on the bottom of his deck, THEN RIFFLE 💀

I was like "I'm going to absolutely do all this to annoy my friends" then i saw him shuffle NOPE

In the words of Gretchen, "You can't sit with us"

i have a friend exactly like this, and he often forgets to draw a card at the start of his turn, no matter how many times we remind him.

This is the hardest I have ever laughed at an MTG video 😂

According to the mtg judge website you can’t have your zones like this. “From the player’s perspective, nonlands must be kept closer to the player’s opponent than lands, and no non-land cards should be between the land area and the edge of the table closest to the player.” Also your graveyard is only allowed to be non adjacent to you library if you are playing a deck centered around graveyard play and a judge specifically allows you to.

That’s called big “don’t give a fuck” energy.

The brainstorm sitting there is killing me. Magic humor generally isn't funny to me but this got actual irl laughs from me

Shoulda put the creature under the mat, and be like that's just how I play, stealthily.

NOT THE SHUFFLE I DIED OF A BROKEN HEART AFTER SEEING THAT HELLO FROM HELL

I would never play with them again, or if it was an official match I'd call a judge

Not only does the land produce mana but it also revives a retired Magic play mechanic and turns the land into a Yu-Gi-Oh card. This is awesome. It also brings in Lorcana.

I once tried to introduce my friend to magic. I let him play with my deck and then he proceeded to do that kind of shuffling. My heart stopped for a second but I was quick enough to stop him

God seeing this again 7 months later and I still hate it, that shuffle at the end puts the nail in the coffin

Those types of people I try to disqualify tbh.

when he said: "that's just how I play the game" I'll slap him so hard and say: "this is how I show my gratitude to playing with me".

Guy will pick up his entire deck three times for brainstorm, then two times to put two cards back from his hand, then again to draw for turn. Then realize they're playing clockwise.

Dude, nothing hurt worse than each individual card getting creased by the poker shuffle. I almost had a heart attack hearing it 💀💀💀

It would take me less time than the length of this video to be completely fed up with this and walk away from the table.

The “no, I guess… I guess that’s fine.” Hits home

Dont make me watch him shuffle ever again

The end to beginning loop was so seamless that I thought he played Brainstorm again.

Thats what you get when you llearned magic through a person on fiverr.

I bet that last part had everyone like "NOOOOOOO-!" as he was bending all real estate.

"Thats just how I play, you're just gonna have to deal with it" except I actually don't, because thank God there are official rules preventing stuff like this.

That’s the kind of guy who wants to shuffle your deck instead of just a regular cut

me and my friends who learned mtg just among ourselves when we go to organized play and people stare at us. The riffle shuffle though is sacreligious.

The poker shuffle with decks worth $100s or even $1000s was diabolical.

Man's is a God at the psychological warfare

'Flip that land the correct way up right now or you forfeit.' 'No it's not how you play, it's cheating, fave down cards are morphed. Flip it or leave.'

Funniest mtg skit I've seen in a sec

Him: "Bro that's just how i play..." *commits the worst shuffling sin* Me: *soul has left the chat*

I use to play mtg deck with sleeves and shuffle the deck bridge style in front of people. The pain they experience was worth it

Taps weird: Ok? Graveyard/creatures in wrong spot: Eh....? RIFFLE SHUFFLE: Please leave.

This is too accurate. "It's just for me, it makes more sense this way" 🙄

" i just thought you forgot your brinstorm there, that cannot be where your graveyard is" that shit had me dying, i was thinking that the whole time

Some of my decks are all proxy, i should totally riffle them

It's already been said but BRUH..... that f'ing shuffle made my eyes pop out my skull

I can forgive weird ways of tapping lands. What I can't forgive is people who say "tap mana".

ugh when he riffle shuffled that deck it gave me shivers

This hurts on so many levels

Raises hand: "JUDGE!"

I once played against a guy who put decorative glass stones on his lands instead of tapping them. I think he tried to confuse his opponents, but he built such a bad deck that he was stomped in the event XD

My brain is hurting and suddenly have irrational anger

This video didn't have a trigger warning because?

The bridge shuffle shuffled my soul into the shadow realm into an alternate reality and obliterated it 🙃

Bro is a straight up menace with the mind games

When he said objectively worst place to put your creature and then it was moved to an even worse place 😂

Shuffling like that should be a hate crime

Had a guy who used to play like this. He always wondered why no one wanted to play with him. Got to a point where the store we played at refused to let him enter tournaments because even judges were fed up with him

I remember this scenario happening on a few occasions. Each & every casual & multiplayer group just told one guy who does the same crap seen in the video above that he couldn't play in the group anymore bc he wasn't willing to play/arrange his cards normally & he was likely doing what he was doing to confuse people deliberately. He was stubborn & unwilling to change. Casual groups who knew his unbearable track record warned other groups to never let him play bc of these factors. Bc he never learned. And that occurred with two people this year alone, & almost a dozen in the last 5 years. There were 17 total cases of this happening in tournaments for regular or EDH inclusive pre release or launch events. The was while at my local FNM 6 weeks ago that a dude picked up his whole deck to draw a card which made me call over a judge to explain what was happening while voicing my concerns. the other dude was told by a previous judge in that same FNM event that he can hold the deck down to draw but can't pick the entire deck up as it's not technically permitted in tournaments to prevent cheating by stopping players slipping cards not directly on top of their decks into their hands. Dude was like "oohhhKAYYYYY???" like he was mildly miffed. He was told if he violates rules or strictures once more that week, he'd be reported to Wizards Play Network (WPN) & could be suspended from 5 future MTG Qualifiers &/or Grand Prix events & 20 future FNM events. He then started to place his graveyard below the lands & his creatures where the graveyard normally is & it was confusing me to no end while raising everyone's hackles. His deck was above his Lands already & that alone was getting people irritated. Regardless, once again I called a judge over. Dude was told to place his cards in their appropriate places. Dude said aloud "this is how I play, so cry about it. Stop telling me how to place or interact with my cards, you're being a complete jerk." He was disqualified from the event & suspended for life.

I knew a player who grabbed his whole deck like that while drawing, it's absolutely maddening

The creature placement after the comment got me.

I have witnessed a crime against everything that is sacred and holy

The moment he flips his lands over like that he's deliberately obscuring known game information and I would be calling a judge over so fast.

I recoiled so hard at that poker shuffle. Not only are the cards bent but half are probably upside down

I love this. Definitely gotta give this play style a test. Especially that satisfying shuffle. I have no plans to resell cards, it’s just cardboard and ink anyway.

The land flipping over hurts my brain

"That's just how I play" And then he was never seen again.

the first guy tilting it 45 degrees is a bigger pet peeve to me

GG, concede, proceed to leave the table. If I saw him again coming to my table I would just find an excuse and leave.

It eases my mind knowing that a "Clear and easily understandable boardstate" is in the rules ☺️