Always play the top deck lethal!

Ever since I started playing MTG 30 years ago, I had one toxic thing I have always done. If I already had lethal in hand, I will always play the lethal I top deck. Now, in a competitive setting this tactic can be used to try to tilt your opponent if you are in a BO3.

Somehow this habit has bled into even games like HS for me. I know it won’t help unless I play against the person again, it is just something I do.

This leads into my question for people. How much does a top deck giving lethal affect you? Does it tilt you? Do you just let it slide? Let me know.

Well…

The good thing is that experienced players are used to this.

The bad thing is that it very often tilt people who aren’t used.

Top deck lethal is too normalised if you want to be obnoxious you need to go the extra mile make a bunch of slow unnecessary plays and then kill me.

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I got stuff to do. I never slow play.

That’s my secret, Cap, i don’t get “tilted”

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This is the way.

I want you to know I could have killed you twice or three times in different and exciting ways, lol.

It’s kind of like driving a car; the only thing that ticks me off more than a slow driver in front of me, is an impatient driver behind me.

Similarly, when someone is doing the showboating “look at allllll the stuff I could have done on my turn, amounting to THIS many ways I could have killed you no matter WHAT you had done,” that’s when I concede because it’s like “man, you’re driving WAY too slow!”

But when I’m just about to get my turn and deliver the coup de grace, and I’m wondering “well, I wonder if my top deck would have let me kill them THIS way in addition to the lethal I’m showing from board” and my opponent concedes on ME? “Man, you’re way too impatient!”

“No, Scott. I have an even better idea. I’m going to place him in an easily escapable situation involving an overly elaborate and exotic death.” ~ Dr. Evil

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I always thought everyone alt tabbed away to do other stuff during their opponents turn.

So to answer the question it would be rare for me to even pay enough attention to know it happened.

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Lol even a few years ago I’d be like this is a ridiculous answer.

But no. This is me now. I’m not sure why I still play

I do the exact opposite. I think it’s more tilting for my opponent to know that I had the game locked up, than for them to think that they did well enough where I had to get lucky. I want you to know how hopeless it was.

Same here.

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You’ve normalized your low skill behavior in your mind. That’s cope. It’s like how users of [a particular recreational drug that’s legal in many but not most states] think that almost everyone else uses it too, but it’s really a tiny minority and they’re just noseblind slackers.

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Have you been using that recreational drug? I dont see how watching/not watching your opponents turn indicates skill/lack of skill.

I get your trying to insult me but please come up with something better.

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Not seeing what’s there is exactly what a lack of skill feels like.

Hmm. Am I trying to insult you? It’s a good question, actually. My answer: I don’t know, but if I am, then only as a means to a different end. What I’m trying to do is improve you.

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So if I still win a game without paying attention to my opponents turn what then? A skill flex?

Ok I guess I can understand but you have to first question my motivation for playing. Entertainment hobby. I’m not trying to get rank 1 so I’m willing to give up some games not paying attention in order to multitask. But I appreciate your concern and the attempt at my improvement through self reflection.

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Okay, so you admit it. Which is fine. I’m not your boss.

It is not my intention to create permanent offense. But I admit I have a borderline automatic instinct to troll as a rhetorical technique to make an actual point. Naturally I expect such shock value to be temporary only. It’s akin to a thought exercise.

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You imply I even notice what they top decked. Maybe I should, but I suspect it’s approximately irrelevant for actual gameplay.

Keeping track of draws and turns improves win rate.

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I’m not paying attention, unless it’s blatantly obvious, like when they’re low on cards and/or I can name each card they’re holding because of the hand history

No, I don’t think it really improves your winrate at all, in fact, it can only lower it because of tilt in cases like these

If lethal is accompanied by a well time “WOOOOOO WEEEEEEE” , then it doesn’t matter how you deliver it!

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You seem to overrate it, if you think everyone is so prejudiced about it and they get tilted. Seems like projection since I assume most players naturally don’t even notice those things.