Advice!! Pleeeeeeeze!!!

[Coffee Vampire]

So I have not won a game of magic in a while. None of my decks have been working like they should be and one of my friends is making fun of me and gloating about it. I. AM. PISSED. This is just one of those situations where I just have no idea what to do! I have considered quitting magic and taking up something else, what do you guys think?

What I do is just focus on 1 deck and try to perfect it. Just build off an idea that inspires you, can win, and let's you have fun. For me in stabdard, it was junk. Now iit is mbc.

I am always and forever working on my on the house...it is just on hold for the moment while I work on standard a bit

[darkarts981]

Delver definitely wins via small pokes from various directions adding up over the turns.
Ok so we have a start on how to turn your luck around.
Next what does your teasing buddy play or claim is their best deck?

Well he runs GW Humans, and has been accused and found out of setting his hands before, and I have a small suspicion that he still might. He isn't part of the winning problem, he's just annoying.

[Dudecore]

Delver shouldn't have a problem racing that {Genesis Wave} deck. I'd consider sticking to 1 deck and learned every single nuance.

Sometimes putting your head down and sticking to a gameplan doesn't work. It requires more finesse.

[darkarts981]

Delver shouldn't have a problem racing that {Genesis Wave} deck. I'd consider sticking to 1 deck and learned every single nuance.

Sometimes putting your head down and sticking to a gameplan doesn't work. It requires more finesse.

Well I don't stick to one ganeplan. I try to learn every fine point of the deck, so that I can do something out of everything that gets thrown at me.

[Wally]

Haveing a good sideboard is important if you want to win. If you get thrown something that your deck can't cope with then you modify so it can.

If you are playing best of three like in any competition, you will need to have a good all rounded base deck, then modify with your choice of 15 cards to really deal with what your opponent is throwing at you.

Also read in the articles section about advantage. it may give you some ideas on how to play your decks more competitively.

[Tumalc]

Delver definitely wins via small pokes from various directions adding up over the turns.
Ok so we have a start on how to turn your luck around.
Next what does your teasing buddy play or claim is their best deck?

Well he runs GW Humans, and has been accused and found out of setting his hands before, and I have a small suspicion that he still might. He isn't part of the winning problem, he's just annoying.

If he is setting his hand then you are either not cutting his deck or leaving him alone with the cards.
Do you cut or shuffle his deck?

[darkarts981]

Delver definitely wins via small pokes from various directions adding up over the turns.
Ok so we have a start on how to turn your luck around.
Next what does your teasing buddy play or claim is their best deck?

Well he runs GW Humans, and has been accused and found out of setting his hands before, and I have a small suspicion that he still might. He isn't part of the winning problem, he's just annoying.

If he is setting his hand then you are either not cutting his deck or leaving him alone with the cards.
Do you cut or shuffle his deck?

Yeah, I do, he pile shuffles mostly without riffle shuffling. Which is an easy way to set hands. So I have taken to actually shuffling his deck, most people at tournaments just cut his deck though. At least people I've seen

[darkarts981]

Stop playing lots of different decks. Chose one and stick with it

Do you mean competitively? Or overall, I have 2 tourney decks that I concentrate on, and 2 just for fun that I partially designed.

[cltrn81]

Build a U/B reanimator

[Rass]

E-Z fix.

Play the lotto tonight. Pick the winning numbers. Buy all the cards you need.

[darkarts981]

I presume you're playing standard?

You say your opponent is consistently winning. Cheating aside, is his budget bigger than yours?

I love Magic and am a firm believer that the biggest factor to winning is your ability as a deckbuilder. But let's face it: the best cards are expensive. If two equally skilled players make decks but one can spend more cash, he's probably going have the edge...

No, I am playing tier 1 decks along with everyone else. And I am consustently losing to other tier 1's and many home brews or even somewhat janky decks

[Kaleo42]

No, I am playing tier 1 decks along with everyone else. And I am consustently losing to other tier 1's and many home brews or even somewhat janky decks

Now there could be a whole different issue. Maybe you don't fully understand these teir 1 decks. Don't take offense, but i know it's easy to look at a deck and say oh that deck is good, without really understanding what makes it good. If you don't understand or know all the little facets of the deck and tricks of playing it then it will never perform to expectations. For example, i kept an all land hand against an aggro humans deck last friday and won, because i know my deck through and through and knew that with my ratios and this match up i would pull what i needed.

The other possible issue is that your opponent's know how to beat teir 1 decks, >90% of the decks online are designed to counter the teir 1s in some way.

[darkarts981]

No, I am playing tier 1 decks along with everyone else. And I am consustently losing to other tier 1's and many home brews or even somewhat janky decks

Now there could be a whole different issue. Maybe you don't fully understand these teir 1 decks. Don't take offense, but i know it's easy to look at a deck and say oh that deck is good, without really understanding what makes it good. If you don't understand or know all the little facets of the deck and tricks of playing it then it will never perform to expectations. For example, i kept an all land hand against an aggro humans deck last friday and won, because i know my deck through and through and knew that with my ratios and this match up i would pull what i needed.

The other possible issue is that your opponent's know how to beat teir 1 decks, >90% of the decks online are designed to counter the teir 1s in some way.

Ok, so the first part of your post is quite possible. Most people in my meta dOnt design decks to heat tier1. They either play teir1 or they play weird gimmicky decks