I am now a full adict to x wing. Six months ago I played 95% of my games at home and very casual. Now only 50%... the adrenaline rush of flying competitive vs unknown players fills me. my favourite style of play is at home with my friends, but broading my experience at the LGS, X Wing is very popular. I am surprised about the % of highly competive people, not only a game. The prestige to be recogniced as a top player is important. So I am very carefull and precise inmy playing. Just in case, no proxy there ( one of my friends gave me two IA cards, no LGS play on his likes.

Yesterday I played AGAINST ( Not play with, play against ) a very macho 19-20 years old player. We played 100% legal, by the book, my 4 novice T 70 against Deci + Whisper. I was very lucky to win by narrow margin, his cloacked ship.failed rolling greens. Not a victory gained by skill play, sheer luck.

After the game he told me that he did not like my game style. My 8 Tie swarm is pre wave 2, he told me, and x wing is about sinergies and evolution. The 8 Tie swarm is "old". On the other hand, I played with four IA upgrades. Only people "with spare money" can fly these way, so it is a unfair advantage.

And the worst thing is that I recomend people to proxy, and when I play LGS style I do not proxy. He invest money in original upgrades, and gets angry when somebody display a proxied card.

This kind of people is a minority, but not an irrelevant number. Another guy agreed with him. Only one, but two in 8 persons is not an irrelevant number.

Profesionalism, in casual play, killed MTG in my area many years ago. Diferent views. Not pleasant.

I don't like fighting Bro-bots or mirror matches, but if i gotta i gotta. As for only people with spare money...

A: I think that's BS, you can only play a hobby game with spare money.

B: The Emperor and C3PO say hi.

It doesn't really matter if he doesn't like your play style, so long as YOU like it.

There's nothing wrong with flying TIE Swarms - they're not "old", they're "classic". There's nothing wrong with four Blue Squadron Novice Pilots either. They're perfectly legal builds, and if it's what you want to fly, then go for it.

Don't let people make you feel bad for using lists that you like. Decimator + Whisper isn't exactly a brand new build either.

Perhaps the issue is that some people, a minority as said before, at least in my area, plays 100% competitive even in casual plays. I strongly think that there are levels of play in x wing. And that the 100/6 is only one of them. But some people only wants tournament style...boooohhhh

And, to be fair, this guy usually try varied squads, the Deci + Whisper is one of his favourites, but is the only player I know that fly with Scum Hwk. I will try to be educated and perhaps, with time, the ice will melt

Some people can't enjoy a game unless they win. My first wife was highly competitive. A 4.0 in a dual major bachelor's degree, 3.85 in her master's and 4.0 going into 14+ hours of her PHD. She relished the fact that she routinely beat a math major while taking statistics. She was an education major.

It got very cold in our place when I would beat her in scrabble. I could tell a story about her getting a 'B' in a test while going for her master's but without the string of expletives that she used, it just wouldn't be funny. That's pretty much the only time I heard her swear in 10 years.

Sorry, I digressed. As I stated, some people don't enjoy a game unless they win and if they don't win, they won't like your play style, the squad you flew or the way you parted your hair. They will find a way to minimise your victory. Don't let it bother you. Fly what you like. Fly it honest and fly casual.

It's funny when some players, on a LGS casual night, refuse to play against a list that contains proxied cards...

I mean, in tournaments their opponent will own them cards so they should just be happy to practice and prepare against these lists on casual night. proxied or not.

As I said before, profesionalisn killed MTG in my area. Never a MTG fan, buying blindly...not to me. But I owned to quite basic but funny decks, one about green creatures of the wild, and a interrupt deck. I didn't never buy expansions, second hand from a friend who played more expensive way.

People say x wing is too costly...jajaja. 25 years ago the Bkack Lotus was about 20.000 pesetas... About 120 euros 25 years ago. One card. We were students, not rich families... To try new decks proxy is a must. But a significant number if players were deep in the game. They expended good money, and wanted it to weight. So fewer and fewer played played with proxies against them. There were two kind of players, old dogs with good cards, and new players AKA cannon fodder.

So the number if players reduced...wise people sold their decks...and 3 or 4 guys remained as The Bosses...but no more local tournaments. Later, people started playing limited games. No black Lotus

The forgot this is a game. And a game needs...gamers

I was an old MTG judge - I eventually just got bored with the game (usually my case - I was a TO back then: too much TO-ing and not enough play gets you bored) - moved to L5R then Warhammer etc etc for a bit. There is still a small MTG scene here locally, mostly competitive tournaments, older guys who still have their type 1 stuff, a few friends who draft every so often; and a bunch of young ex-colleagues - one of which who tried to start a card shop in this day and age.

I'd say MTG's success killed itself - became too big and pro, attacted the attention of a big company who bought it out and is happy to keep it churning out at a money spinner.