u/summon_pot_of_greed

In a recent game, my opponent played a theft commander deck. He yoinked our creatures once they hit the field and it was pretty annoying.

I immediately targeted him and started swinging at him with [[Elenda, The Dusk Rose]] protected by [[Lightning Greaves]] turn after turn. This eventually chipped him down since he couldn't steal more tokens than I was making. The aristocrat mechanics helped too since he was hesitant to block and give me death triggers.

Once he was sufficiently beat down he started whining that I wasn't being fair. There were other threats on the board and I should attack them.

I said, "I came here to play with my deck, not so you could play with my deck."

My opponent grumbled about it and seemed surprised that I wasn't content to sit back and let my board get pressganged into service for him.

I killed him then went on to win a few turns later after I drew a cheeky [[Sanctum Seeker]].

This made me realize I *hate* when people steal my stuff. I don't mind if you exile, murder, or pacify my stuff. But steal it? Nah, you're gone. My goal in the game now becomes "get my stuff back".

It got me wondering what mechanics or strategies trigger a disproportionate response from other players? Is there anything that immediately causes you to target a player regardless of rational threat assessment?

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Anyone else have experience with this hilarious🤪 💫phenomenon💫?

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As someone who works with contracts📃 at my day job🤢, something I find hilarious🤣 to engage💍 in from time to time 🕝is purposefully getting ‘fooled’🥴 by deceptive deals™️ and then breaking ☄️them.

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We all know 🧐the people that are constantly offering deceptive🤞 deals and then somehow expect you to follow ➡️through with their bullshit🐂💩.

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For a very common example:

Player A: I won’t attack you if you don’t kill my commander until my after my next turn. 👉👈

Player B: ok 😐🆗️

Player B: \*plays path to exile\*☻️👋

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For some reason ⁉️a decent chunk of the player base gets absolutely tickled pink♀️ when they get to engage in the above shithousery.💩🏘

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Enter me.👁👄👁👉👌💦💦💦

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After dealing with contracts📃 all day 🌅at work👨‍💻, players like Player B🅱️ tend to cause me annoyance🙄. It’s so easy😘 for me to see 🔍👀through their intentions☠️ (which they can almost never 🙅‍♀️hide behind their devious😈 smiles), that I’ve begun occasionally just going along with it to purposely fuck🦴 them over by breaking💔 it.

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As you can imagine🧠, the malding🥵 has been COPIOUS📈. They can’t stand the taste 👅of their own medicine🧑‍🔬💉. Just say, “sorry, but you clearly weren’t dealing in good faith✝️ and I will therefore excuse myself from my previously agreed to contractual✅️©️ obligations,” or something similar and watch the salt🧂, to the detriment of all nearby mollusks🐚, overflow🌊.

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I 🌟encourage🌟 you all to try it sometime🕙, maybe it will help simplify politics🤡🔫 for your group if you are unfortunate enough to have people🤮 like Player B🅱️ within it.😏

Do y'all sign your opponent's butts?

Genuine question, as this is something I started doing yesterday. Signing butts satisfied me and also marked it as mine. It made the butt special. Like someone else has this butt but only I have the one with my signature. I would practice ur signature on your own butt, and for the love of God use a normal sharpie. Other pens either don't work or smudge.

People need to stop relying on storm crow

Storm Crow is really good. Like, only a step below Mist Raven good. The only reason it's not banned or GC is because WotC have a hard on for it.

So you should not be building your entire deck based on the assumption that you have Storm Crow. You also should not be keeping hands that cause you to flounder if that Storm Crow is removed.

So so many times, I have destroyed a Storm Crow on my turn 1, and the owner has gone "well I basically lose the game now" because either they kept a really bad hand because it had Storm Crow, or they built their deck with the assumption that they'd be untapping with a 1/2 flyer turn 3. Both of which are major misplays.

TL:DR don't rely on your Storm Crow or assume it'll stick around. It's one of the most valuable early removal targets, and so you should treat it as such.