Does is bother anyone else....

[Kaalia with haste]

I rarely get to finish a game now. I've been working for about 6 months to complete my artifact deck and from using iMTG, in about a week I'll have a completed (casual) deck.

My brother and a few friends refuse to play against me when I use it because they say they have nothing to counter it with. They don't buy cards to make their decks better. So any time I try to play against them, they are sluggish and make moves that would make it easy to beat them. (Ie: attacking with no mana avaliable against an 11/11 with a 2/2.) It makes me not even want to play with them. I made a great deck (in my eyes), but so far, it was for nothing because I play with the same people most of the time. It's as if they give up before trying.

Do you have a list?

[Avodroc13]

I rarely get to finish a game now. I've been working for about 6 months to complete my artifact deck and from using iMTG, in about a week I'll have a completed (casual) deck.

My brother and a few friends refuse to play against me when I use it because they say they have nothing to counter it with. They don't buy cards to make their decks better. So any time I try to play against them, they are sluggish and make moves that would make it easy to beat them. (Ie: attacking with no mana avaliable against an 11/11 with a 2/2.) It makes me not even want to play with them. I made a great deck (in my eyes), but so far, it was for nothing because I play with the same people most of the time. It's as if they give up before trying.

Do you have a list?

A list of what's in the deck? I can compile one when I get home. Where do I post it?

[Kaylesh]

I rarely get to finish a game now. I've been working for about 6 months to complete my artifact deck and from using iMTG, in about a week I'll have a completed (casual) deck.

My brother and a few friends refuse to play against me when I use it because they say they have nothing to counter it with. They don't buy cards to make their decks better. So any time I try to play against them, they are sluggish and make moves that would make it easy to beat them. (Ie: attacking with no mana avaliable against an 11/11 with a 2/2.) It makes me not even want to play with them. I made a great deck (in my eyes), but so far, it was for nothing because I play with the same people most of the time. It's as if they give up before trying.

Sounds like you're outgrowing them, play wise speaking. Had the same thing happen to me. A friend came over for some tabletop, he came slinging with an angel deck with 4 (yeah four!) {avacyn, angel of hope} and a mill deck that when up to speed milled 15 cards per turn consistently for four turns. My janky casuals didn't stand a chance.
He was clearly in another league. I chose to up my game somewhat, partially due to a very lucky M15 prerelease in which I made a pretty sturdy {G}{B} deck. Now, I try to balance decks while playing casual to keep the fun in.
But I can understand it's hard when you actually made an effort to build a strong deck and wind up not playing it because it's overpowered vs the Precon decks of your opponents.
Maybe you can find some other people to play with at your LGS?

[Avodroc13]

I rarely get to finish a game now. I've been working for about 6 months to complete my artifact deck and from using iMTG, in about a week I'll have a completed (casual) deck.

My brother and a few friends refuse to play against me when I use it because they say they have nothing to counter it with. They don't buy cards to make their decks better. So any time I try to play against them, they are sluggish and make moves that would make it easy to beat them. (Ie: attacking with no mana avaliable against an 11/11 with a 2/2.) It makes me not even want to play with them. I made a great deck (in my eyes), but so far, it was for nothing because I play with the same people most of the time. It's as if they give up before trying.

Sounds like you're outgrowing them, play wise speaking. Had the same thing happen to me. A friend came over for some tabletop, he came slinging with an angel deck with 4 (yeah four!) {avacyn, angel of hope} and a mill deck that when up to speed milled 15 cards per turn consistently for four turns. My janky casuals didn't stand a chance.
He was clearly in another league. I chose to up my game somewhat, partially due to a very lucky M15 prerelease in which I made a pretty sturdy {G}{B} deck. Now, I try to balance decks while playing casual to keep the fun in.
But I can understand it's hard when you actually made an effort to build a strong deck and wind up not playing it because it's overpowered vs the Precon decks of your opponents.
Maybe you can find some other people to play with at your LGS?

The closest lgs is 180 miles away. XD

[Kaylesh]

The closest lgs is 180 miles away. XD

Oops. That is quite a ways away...
Alternative would be to have them learn from their mistakes, in a kind way to improve their play. Likewise, my wife likes magic, but as soon as there's more then 5 or so creatures involved in a combat, she'll get confused. So I help her with that. Or when she does something incredibly stupid like bounce my {siege rhino}, I tell her why that wasn't the best move.
However, with limited access to a card pool to improve on their decks, that part could be problematic, if you have a deck consisting of commons vs a 3-figure deck, even the worst magic player might win pilot in the 3-figure vs the world champion piloting the commons.
(Ok, let's make it a deck consisting of nothing but homelands commons).

[LinkCelestrial]

I had kinda the opposite problem. We always played multiplayer and Extort/Mono Black Devotion reigned supreme. So, after much annoyance with stupid high life totals destroying my various burn decks, I built a mono black devotion deck to rule them all with {Erebos, God of the Dead}. I forced a meta shift. And now I'm always public enemy no 1.