post your misplays itt, learn from your mistakes, mock others'

In MIR-ONS standard, playing BG Cemerary against Goblins in game 3 of a win-and-in match, had wrecked my opponent's board with Death Cloud except for his Siege-Gang Commander and Warchief (no lands in play). I have 4 life left after his attack, 2 Swamps in play, Chrome Mox and Infest in hand and an active Cemetary with Tusker and Baloths available for recursion. I bring back a random Green creature, draw a Forest, go to play Chrome Mox and imprint the random Green creature, play Infest. Opponent laughs and when I look at what I did I Imprinted the Infest under the Mox. To make it worse the Green creature I brought back was a Baloth.

Misplay #1: playing BG Cemetery when I could have played Ravager
Misplay #2: playing BG Cemetery when hung over
Misplay #3: smoking those cones during the lunch break
Misplay #4: not simply playing the fucking Forest in my hand instead of getting cute with Chrome Mox
Misplay #4: not looking at my cards when I was so giddy laughing about the fact that I was about to win my worst matchup and get to romp through a top 8 full of good matchups with the deck everyone had (rightly?) written off that I effectively let my opponent play and activate Mindslaver on me without having the card in his deck let alone the mana to play it.

I challenge anyone to better this!

This post has been edited by Vesuvan on Jul 23 2009, 04:10 PM

misplay #5: not immediately saying "oops" and at least attempting to take it back

...that is not a misplay...

I tried that.

I tried that.

such a cheaty face

Actually, mislpay #5 should be "trash talking your opponent for the 2 minutes leading up to the worst misplay you've ever made"

This post has been edited by Vesuvan on Jul 23 2009, 04:32 PM

CHUH EAT TAY FAY SUH

gotcha!

Well as he was the one who drew my attention to the misplay it was more along the lines of "will you let me take that back?" which got another, more sarcastic, laugh and "no" in reply

you don't ask, you do

Given the degree of rules lawyering my opponent was known for, wouldn't have gotten away with it anyway.

(EDIT: names removed to protect the guilty who started to change their ways in the years since this incident)

This post has been edited by Vesuvan on Jul 23 2009, 05:05 PM

i must cover his matches more, i had no idea he was like that

(someone was giving me hell for not featuring him enough)

ahem, *points to edit*

That said, when I was last playing with physical cards he was a very good player and is worth featuring (we were first and second rated in constructed and composite in WA for about 2 years).

This post has been edited by Vesuvan on Jul 23 2009, 05:07 PM

quoting an edited post you say

This post has been edited by Aeldaar on Jul 23 2009, 05:08 PM

quoting an edited post you say

What about it? Is that a misplay?

i guess i *could* edit my post... but i don't think he reads this forum, does he? i know he's a good player, and he seems like a nice guy

AFAIK he doesn't read this forum and there's always my comment to clarify it.

Fact is, he was something of a rules lawyering jerk for some time, including at FNM events. He grew up since then and I thought it was worth cutting him some slack given that it's likely that he continued being a much more reasonable person, and yes he ended up being a pretty nice guy, since I last had contact with him about 3-4 years ago.

This post has been edited by Vesuvan on Jul 23 2009, 05:25 PM

Yeah he's a mate of mine, but have only known him for less than 3 years, so I don't know what he was like before. He's pretty awesome now though.

edit: Regardless of rules lawyering, there's no way anyone should let you take that back anyway.

This post has been edited by Weasel on Jul 23 2009, 05:22 PM

I'd say it depends. If it was something like "I'll play mox in order to Infest you" and the cards just were in the wrong places, I'd say that you should have been allowed to fix it.

I'm not suggesting he should have, even if I hadn't been trash talking about being about to win.

I guess people should trash talk less and play good magic more.

IIRC my words were "Mox, imprint and Infest for the win". Given the mistake, having put the cards in the appropriate place (part for the illegal play of putting the Baloth in the graveyard when I didn't have mana for it), the trash-talking and the opponent in question I didn't expect to be able to take it back.

This post has been edited by Vesuvan on Jul 23 2009, 05:40 PM

Is shawn the guy with the scary teeth?

You're thinking of this guy:

Pretty much the same, yes. But he's still a hilariously awesome dude.