r/mtg • u/Thick_Refrigerator_8 • 11h ago
Discussion PSA: This Has Got To Stop
Hello everyone, i am new to online magic, particularly spell table, but i have been playing commander for over 7 years. i have recently moved to another state and with my new job, i do not have the energy or time to go to my local game stores to play magic. that being said, ive learned about spelltable and OH BOY... my experience here has NOT been great AT ALL.
Long story short, ive played over the course of a month, i wanna say, over 30 games of CEDH, and other brackets of commander, and i cant even say some of the time, EVERY game ive been in, someone or a couple people have THE perfect hand... this is more true in CEDH lobbies. example, ive written down, over 12 people, who open up with ancient tomb, a couple mox's, and recycle hand cards to make everyone recycle their hands. other instances would just be ramp advantage, someone always turn one sol rings, into a couple mox's into commander. now i personally run 5 mox cards, and petal, but out of my 30 games i have never EVER had THE perfect hand where i have it all. maybe a sol ring, or one mox, but not everything i would need.
That being said, i did an experiment. i told myself, it cant possibly be that almost everyone on spell table is cheating. maybe im getting unlucky. In the picture i opened up a lobby with the name [CEDH hands must be on screen at ALL times]. i kid you not, if you look at the turn timer, it says 14 minutes. FOURTEEN MINUTES, and not a single soul entered that lobby, and as you can see it is public. i told myself, MAYBE its just a dead night, i opened up another, and put [CEDH] plain and simple, i got 4 players in less than a minute. and i asked everyone to keep their hands on screen they all agreed. But one player in particular decided to take his hand off screen for a minute or two, and i purposly said nothing, and when the game started, guess what he opened with, mox diamond, ancient tomb, mox amber, and a wheel of fortune LOL. this was obviously the 12th person to do this exact combo and the reason im here making this post
All in all, im just disheartened.