I won't lie-- sometimes I'm that person. Hell, that even happened at FNM tonight. I mulliganed at the start of a round and accidentally drew 7 again. My opponent saw and all I said was "ah, sorry. Kinda spaced out there for a second. My mistake." He simply let me re-mulligan.
The difference here is that I didn't try to start a fight over my own damned mistake. Magic is, at its core, a complex game of rules. It's only natural to do a misplay now and again-- everyone does it and I typically give everyone one strike if they do likewise for me, as long as the strike isn't extremely obvious cheating.
I dunno how I feel about midnight prereleases, now that this is my third one. The LGS is hot and crowded with tons of unfamiliar people, many of whom are very socially inept or downright rude... at midnight and beyond, no less. You have to construct a deck with limited resources and if you don't get anything fairly synergistic, you don't stand a chance against people who drew nothing but solid gold. I actually completely reconstructed my deck from white/red to white/blue between Match 1 and Match 2 because the deck simply did not perform. And you KNOW that's desperation at work, because blue in Kaladesh is AWFUL. But I basically had to make the deck run around Dovin Baan, because once he's down, you can grind the game to a halt and slowly control it. The only reason I went 3-2 is because I played against a lot of tired, inexperienced players who made lots of misplays and I exploited those more with my own bluffs than with the quality of my cards. Otherwise, my deck was hot garbage and did not deserve to win anything. Compound that with how tired I am right now and how honestly irritated I am with the people I had to deal with and I have to wonder if it's worth it. I love getting prerelease packs and getting the fancy-shmancy promos and testing my MtG skills in Limited, but it still boils so much down to luck when I'm much more adjusted to Constructed, where decks are meant to run like clockwork. (So while I'm annoyed, I'm proud of myself for having a positive win ratio.) But I can't say I enjoy the rest of it-- the packed store, the rude players, the late-night grind... honestly, unless Aether Revolt is *amazing* I'll probably just pop in at midnight, grab my pack, and go home.
However, my tip for anyone playing prerelease draft: If you have good green cards, RUN THEM. Green is absolutely busted in Kaladesh Limited and probably Constructed too. The guy who won that night is an acquaintance of mine and his deck was Green with splashes of red and blue and he went completely undefeated. My green set was sadly terrible, while my White was fairly good and my red and blue were passable. Black is pretty bad in Kaladesh, possibly as bad as Blue.
