The Best Ways To Combat Slow Play l Unsleeved Podcast #49 l Magic: The Gathering Podcast MTG

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Overcoming slow play from an opponent can be a difficult thing to navigate during a Magic: The Gathering tournament
Cedric and Patrick discuss the ways they did so over the course of their playing days
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@EngineerfifeninerO 3 месяца назад

The best advice I have ever received. “Think about your turn on your opponent’s turn.” That has gotten me further than most would believe. Pass your knowledge checks!!! If you know, you know

@ExtraVictory 3 месяца назад

Grateful for every upload

@dajiba8291 3 месяца назад

I always found it easy to underestimate how slow you're playing yourself, so yeah learning to never take unneeded pauses is a good thing to work on. Might even be a benefit to you - lots of people get thrown or nervous when they're playing against someone they perceive to be better than them, and there's no better way to put that vibe out than playing efficiently like you always have a plan.

@VinnieMTG2024 3 месяца назад

Mono red is a good strategy too

@bane5435 3 месяца назад

It's a very UW-player thing to do to take up 80% of the match clock and then complain about the other player not playing fast enough. In my experience, at least 60% of the PTQ population play unacceptably slow. If you filter down to "Players who go to PTQs AND are playing a control deck [especially UW control specifically]", that figure jumps up significantly. As soon as I heard the part about this guy being a UW player and getting timeouts, I immediately assumed that he was taking up well beyond 50% of the clock in these games he complained about ending in draws.

@Phyrre56 3 месяца назад

If you’re drawing often at the competitive level, it is your fault. Because either 1) you can’t play your own deck fast enough to win with it at a competitive level so you chose your deck poorly and/or 2) you didn’t call a judge soon enough to observe your opponent for slow play.

@henlohenlo689 3 месяца назад

play a kite storm deck that wins on turn 2 or 3 with endless 0 cost spells then hits with the stormed burn spell. thats a good way to combat slower matches. or general combo decks that win before turn 7. plenty of combo decks exist. one of my favorites is spike feeder combos.

@mxes5938 3 месяца назад

UW players accusing others of slow play is rich

@draftmagicagain1000 Месяц назад

I take 80% of the game time. You play faster!!! 😂😂😂

@gryfyn71 3 месяца назад

the pretending to think about cards in an anathema to magic as a whole and people need to stop doing it to seem like they are a smart. A true story, from a prerelease no less. Time had been called and it was turn 3 or 4. Im watching the table next to me, player draws his card for turn, previously empty handed and rips a land. He tanks stopping to pick up his card and look at it no less than 4 separate times. It was an embarrassing sequence to watch and people who repeatedly go to time, whether at a prerelease, FNM, or an RCQ and pulling this kind of nonsense to seem smart

@dannydubs86 3 месяца назад

To be fair to that player, a prerelease is not only at the lowest REL, but it's also people's first time playing with or maybe even seeing new cards. It's tough to defend what you described at an RCQ, especially a constructed tournament where you really should know how most of the cards work. At a prerelease, though, there's a lot of new information and new interactions to process. It's entirely possible that player was trying to analyze the board state and figure out if he could win or at least not lose and "looking at the card" was not actually part of the analysis. A lot of people get into habits while they're thinking, like the common card flicking or hand shuffling a lot of players do. Lifting the card up to look at it could just be part of this player's thinking habits. I'm not saying this particular case was not an example of the issue you described. I'm just saying the specific behavior you highlighted is not necessarily an indicator of that issue. Other things may lead to your conclusion, like if the board state is not very complex, if the player has a known history of slow play, etc. But I think it's generally better to give people the benefit of the doubt, especially at Regular REL. All that said, I agree with your general point. Players do a lot of things that aren't just playing the game to try to get minor edges. I think a lot of that stuff is kind of scummy and hurts the game as a whole. Spending a bunch of time pretending to think about a play is definitely on that list.

@Snarkeroid 3 месяца назад

Sometimes i look at a card then have to look at it multiple times because i didnt register what it was.

@ujai5271 3 месяца назад

They are not describing 'looking at the cards on the battlefield 4 times', but 'looking at the one card in hand, which is a land, which they put down just to pick up again and look at to bluff it is something else... 4 times'.

@Snarkeroid 3 месяца назад

@@ujai5271 that is what i was describing also.