Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-5996974-20130717103346/@comment-9890645-20130718115938

Phonso:

First off, I said I would re-add you, man, though you may need to drop into the chat room so I can clear room for ya.

In a perfect world, I would be able to examine every battle log and make a note of who hits and who doesn't. I try to do it often, but I can't get every one, and it's possible that the times you hit my bosses I didn't look and when you weren't around, I looked. There are a lot of times when things are moving too fast to pay perfect attention, especially when you are trying to maintain a high spot in a competitive event.

No one expects you to seed lower bosses when L8 are out, and I never said anything about not seeing your seeds.

Be advised, too, that, due to other allies I have, I wind up doing minimal seeding during the last day or so as I get a massive amount of seeds from a few big hitters with short lists. You probably weren't getting much from me late in events when you were my ally due to this.

Please understand that everything I do in this game is meant to give me some form of advantage over players with far deeper pockets than I have, as I'm competing for the same prizes they are.

I'm not trying to close off top tier by closing off my ally list, and I still maintain plenty of tier 2 allies; I'm trying to adjust the odds in my favor so that I might reach what I aspire to.

I'm sorry if this has caused you or anyone to feel badly, but, again, this isn't Facebook. It's a game, with rules, and rules have exploits that you need to manipulate. I quit competitive Magic because I was frustrated by people manipulating the tournament structure to close me out of prizes while increasing their chances. One of these people was someone I was loaning a deck to, and he didn't realize that he was colluding with other players to screw me (as I would frequently just miss out on prizes because of their scheming). So don't think I don't get where you're coming from, because I do.

To this point, I have admitted that I may have made an error based in coincidence, apologized, and extended the offer for you to return to my list. Dude, it's up to you now. Believe me when I say I harbor no hard feelings or anything towards you at all; in fact, you've been nothing but a cool dude when we have spoken.

But this is a game, not Facebook, as I keep saying. Don't get hard feelings over this. Honestly, I wish you had dropped into the chat and spoken to me personally about this, but it seems I wasn't the only one who you have issue with, so it's cool.

We have a saying in our multiplayer Magic free-for-alls: Nothing personal, just good business... Usually said to a person whose permanent you just destroyed or when you attack them. This is a game. Never take it personally...