I played at one of the local Store Championships yesterday. The format was Standard Constructed. As per my usual, I brought a home brew. It is a deck I have been working on in one form or another for over 8 months. I know the deck fairly well, even though it did go through a major transition after Innistrad and Zendikar rotated it has only gotten more aggressive.Anyways, there was a light turnout at the event. Really bad snow and crappy roads cut the number of attendees down. There were only 9 players when it kicked off.My first opponent was on Approach of the Second Sun . My deck is an Aggro/Control, so speed and removal are what it is about. My first game the deck showed itself poorly. Second game it came out like gangbusters. Third game my deck was trying to do its thing, but my opponent had every answer and kept me from keeping control of the battlefield until he got his second Approach cast. This whole time he came across to me as friendly and yet a bit haughty.So as only one person failed to make the top 8, that person was not me. First round of the top 8 and I get paired up with this guy again. He was quite happy with that pairing, and I was too. See my deck if it goes well, can take out the Approach deck far more often than it loses to it. Plus, after having lost to him in the first round, I had lots to time to think how I would have side-boarded differently. This time I had a plan.My deck went off, and handed him a turn 5 kill in the first game. He derided his own deck for not showing well. Second game was more grindy, but my better side-board choices had a big impact on how smoothly my deck went, and I won the second game as well. Well timed tricks plus a fake-out at the very end, and the game was mine. He started going off."I guess I should have held my Negate for that second spell instead of stopping your Lightning Strike ." (fake out) "Hindsight is 20/20." This was a true and friendly comment. It ended here."So you don't have a single Censor , or Negate , or counter spell of any kind and you are playing BLUE?" (Repeat that sentence out loud with your best Sheldon Cooper voice.)I told him that there were some in the beginning but as this is really an aggro deck, counter spells did not help it meet its objective and eventually they were all removed.He didn't say too much more after that, but his face got redder and the packing of his stuff got angrier. Spending 5 games of magic playing against a Blue deck, and working around counter spells that did not exist might do that to someone I guess, especially if they considered themselves a much better magic player. He just got knocked out of the event by an old guy who doesn't play competitive magic who is playing some ridiculous U/R Aggro/Control deck that does not even have COUNTER SPELLS!!!After his buddy's game was over, they were deriding me, my deck, my card choices, and my luck, while being plenty loud enough so that I could hear it all. Perilous Voyage ?? Man, that must be super double secret tech!!!""Oh, and of all the times he could have cast it, he happened to hit my Search for Azcanta just right and kept me off my last lands to start Approach. I had two in my hand so it was game over."Yeah, and the two cards I Scryed, helped me put my game in place to win in 2 turns. Plus I fed him 8 points of damage..... Sure, that card is stupid, no one plays it. What a rube I am....That kind of behavior has been around Magic since the beginning. I have dealt with that through the years when I was playing. In some ways, it is very satisfying to me that I can tilt them like that. In other ways, I find that this type of attitude and behavior is asinine. First off Magic is a game. There is a winner, and a loser in each match. Second, as long as you are going to assume you are the better player, and approach the game that way, you are putting yourself at a disadvantage.I will admit, I took advantage of this person feeling like he was entitled to win, assuming he was a better player, with the better deck, and I am just a scrub. A scrub who acted like he did have counters, and played basic pattern Magic (always playing land first, and casting spells during first main phase) until it was time to not do so.He just got duped, but he is going to go off on me instead.Sad part is, he is likely not going to learn anything from what happened in that event. He already has his excuses, and his cronies backed them up.As an older guy, I like to help others grow and learn. I have played magic on and off since Beta left the shelf. Over the years I have taught many folks how to play Magic. I know this game. I might not be Pro Tour level competitive, but I believe I could be if I dedicated myself to attain that.I am not going to try to explain anything when a person chooses to behave like that.When a friend asked me if I got there, I nodded and said (rather loudly....) " Yup. Payback!"** Last edit to remove lines that were not appropriate to the message.