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Aug 3, 2010 -- 6:09AM, Ron2112 wrote:

Need a ruling here.....

I have an Eldrazi deck, built for constructed standard that I have been tweaking out in the Casual room.  Since I've been having good luck with it, decided it was time to move to the tournament practice room, and test it out in a variety of settings.  Played a few rounds of standard and then got curious as to how the deck would fare in Extended.

So I start playing the Extended round, and the other player gets irate that he only sees cards from the current standard block popping up.  I didn't respond to any of his jabs -- primarily because I didn't think I was doing anything wrong.  And I was beating him   Eventually, he called me a "scrub" and conceded the game.

So my question is: did I do anything wrong?  My deck was legal, and while it didn't contain any cards out side the current block, it still fell within the definition of "extended."

Thanks for any input.

A lot of people in that room *want* you to netdeck.  They want to practice for a tournament.  The chances of your deck appearing in said tournament are very low.  Hence, they believe you are wasting their time.

Now, there is nothing wrong with a good Rogue deck.  To be fair, though, if you are going to play a deck in the tournament practice room that hasn't proven itself worthy in a tournament (with maybe a couple of changes, at best), you should actually warn people you are doing so.

That's the expectation of the room, IMHO.

The TP room is not the the "good decks" room and the casual room is not the "crappy decks" room. The TP is so named because people actually want to practice for tournaments in there.

Aug 3, 2010 -- 6:14AM, dangerlinto wrote:

Aug 3, 2010 -- 6:09AM, Ron2112 wrote:

Need a ruling here.....

I have an Eldrazi deck, built for constructed standard that I have been tweaking out in the Casual room.  Since I've been having good luck with it, decided it was time to move to the tournament practice room, and test it out in a variety of settings.  Played a few rounds of standard and then got curious as to how the deck would fare in Extended.

So I start playing the Extended round, and the other player gets irate that he only sees cards from the current standard block popping up.  I didn't respond to any of his jabs -- primarily because I didn't think I was doing anything wrong.  And I was beating him   Eventually, he called me a "scrub" and conceded the game.

So my question is: did I do anything wrong?  My deck was legal, and while it didn't contain any cards out side the current block, it still fell within the definition of "extended."

Thanks for any input.

A lot of people in that room *want* you to netdeck.  They want to practice for a tournament.  The chances of your deck appearing in said tournament are very low.  Hence, they believe you are wasting their time.

Now, there is nothing wrong with a good Rogue deck.  To be fair, though, if you are going to play a deck in the tournament practice room that hasn't proven itself worthy in a tournament (with maybe a couple of changes, at best), you should actually warn people you are doing so.

That's the expectation of the room, IMHO.

The TP room is not the the "good decks" room and the casual room is not the "crappy decks" room. The TP is so named because people actually want to practice for tournaments in there.

Thanks for your response.

I should point out that I'm gearing up for entering a tournament as well.  Probably not an Extended tournament, but I am trying to flush out the weaknesses of this deck.

I am curious about the phrase "proven itself worthy in a tournament."  Is the game currently now at a point where only a handful of decks socialized on the Internet are "acceptable" for tournament play?  It's probably worth repeating that I was handily beating this guy -- who clearly considered himself a "pro" -- when he threw his hissy fit.

Thanks again.

Agreed. You are wasting both your time and your opponents. If you're curious, 99.99% of the time, you will get rolled playing a std deck in ext, or classic, or whatever. I for one find it incredibly annoying when ppl do this.

When people go in that room, a lot of them want to be playing against lists similar to the ones they see winning PEs and DEs. They want to have their deck finetuned to deal with the field.

So when you play against someone in an Extended match with a standard deck, they feel like you are wasting their time, not because your deck is bad or anything like that, whoever wins, they feel like you are wasting their time because they gained very little useful experience out of it as far as tournaments go.

I for one am happy to see rogue decks which are built for the format which I am playing, as long as they are good. For instance, I was delighted with that UGr list that has been doing so well in extended when I first saw it in the tourny practice room. I actually considered building it myself.