Friday FNM at my shop has a $5 entry fee, but whoever wins the pod gets $10 in store credit for winning, maximum of 2 per pod. Despite this, it’s still a casual environment because who the fuck is going to angle shoot over $20 in marked up singles.

Anyways, someone did. On Friday, we had a player a couple pods over with a fully netdecked almost fully proxied Bracket 4 eldrazi deck. Almost all of the lands, creatures, and spells were proxied. So was the commander (Ulalek). Which isn’t bad on its own, except for the fact that the rest of the table was solidly bracket 3 and he was high bracket 4. Also, he straight up didn’t know how to play the deck; he thought cascade was “less than or equal to” not “less than” and tried to cascade sire of seven into ugin.

All in all, he was simultaneously way more powerful than the rest of the pod but unable to convert that advantage due to having zero threat assessment or game IQ, and being generally stupid. I talked to some of the others in his pod as we were walking out, and they said it felt like a retarded mountain lion poorly mauling a toddler for 4 hours before finally eating it. Then, I wake up to picrel discord announcement this morning. I don’t really know what to say to this. There isn’t really a point to this story. I just fucking hate it when someone tries to go hard and jam out that they ruin FNM like this.