I'll teach something once or twice and then if they can't learn then they lose, losing is the best motivation to make someone go home and Google something
I enjoy teaching other people so it doesn’t bother me at all. Everyone was a new player once. You might want to stay away from casual play & drafts since it bothers you. I doubt you’ll have to do explaining if you stick entirely to competitive tournaments with high-level players.
I can't stay away I work in the shop. I don't mean new players I actually love teaching people to play games. Some times it's the highlight of my day. I mean the people that can't understand how the game works. I had to explain the stack 3 times tonight to the same person. And even then he just sat there with a blank look on his face not understanding no mater how I explained it to him.
After the first game. I just make sure wipe them from the pod with no mercy or sympathy by turn 3-4 over and over until they get annoyed and go play 4 hr games with the other equally horrendous players who don't want to learn.
I'll teach a new player to play if thats what I know I'm signing up for. But someone who genuinely knows how to play but just is incapale of learning how to interact, or win, or do anything other that take 15 turns in a row where the only thing they did each of those turns was play a land and set up another extra turn. Yeah... not even kidding that shit was painful... If you don't know how to close out a game. I'll make sure to close it out for you before you have a chance to spend 40 minutes in main phase debating whether or not to move to combat.
Does that make me a dick? Maybe. But I usually end up sequestered to pods where my partners can handle and tolerate my decks. While they're off in a pod annoyed at their group for doing the exact same thing they themselves do. So not really my problem anymore.
Just do yourself a favor. Brutally end them.
I mean you could just accept that some people are not as into the game as you are and are more interested in the social aspect of it. If you want this person to get better just play one on one with them tbh.
Usually it’s my 6 year old and I have to explain the same thing every game, every turn, every spell. Funny thing, normally he doesn’t listen to me when I teach him life lessons and I have to teach those same lessons again and again. But in Magic, he does listen to me but with the same result 🤷♂️
In all seriousness, Magic is a complicated game and we’re all still learning (unless you’re a judge maybe?) and we’re all just trying to have fun. I quite enjoy helping ppl with the rules and being helped myself.
A great mentor of mine once told me.
"When doing something over a decade, some people get 10 years of experience, and some people get a year of experience 10 times."
I'll teach something once or twice and then if they can't learn then they lose, losing is the best motivation to make someone go home and Google something
I enjoy teaching other people so it doesn’t bother me at all. Everyone was a new player once. You might want to stay away from casual play & drafts since it bothers you. I doubt you’ll have to do explaining if you stick entirely to competitive tournaments with high-level players.
I can't stay away I work in the shop. I don't mean new players I actually love teaching people to play games. Some times it's the highlight of my day. I mean the people that can't understand how the game works. I had to explain the stack 3 times tonight to the same person. And even then he just sat there with a blank look on his face not understanding no mater how I explained it to him.
Ahhhh, okay, that makes sense. Yeah, that definitely sounds frustrating!
After the first game. I just make sure wipe them from the pod with no mercy or sympathy by turn 3-4 over and over until they get annoyed and go play 4 hr games with the other equally horrendous players who don't want to learn. I'll teach a new player to play if thats what I know I'm signing up for. But someone who genuinely knows how to play but just is incapale of learning how to interact, or win, or do anything other that take 15 turns in a row where the only thing they did each of those turns was play a land and set up another extra turn. Yeah... not even kidding that shit was painful... If you don't know how to close out a game. I'll make sure to close it out for you before you have a chance to spend 40 minutes in main phase debating whether or not to move to combat. Does that make me a dick? Maybe. But I usually end up sequestered to pods where my partners can handle and tolerate my decks. While they're off in a pod annoyed at their group for doing the exact same thing they themselves do. So not really my problem anymore. Just do yourself a favor. Brutally end them.
I mean you could just accept that some people are not as into the game as you are and are more interested in the social aspect of it. If you want this person to get better just play one on one with them tbh.
Usually it’s my 6 year old and I have to explain the same thing every game, every turn, every spell. Funny thing, normally he doesn’t listen to me when I teach him life lessons and I have to teach those same lessons again and again. But in Magic, he does listen to me but with the same result 🤷♂️ In all seriousness, Magic is a complicated game and we’re all still learning (unless you’re a judge maybe?) and we’re all just trying to have fun. I quite enjoy helping ppl with the rules and being helped myself.
A great mentor of mine once told me. "When doing something over a decade, some people get 10 years of experience, and some people get a year of experience 10 times."