Who's the Threat?

[sarahmichigan]

Apparently, the dynamic in which a regular MTG gaming group has a "Guy to Beat" who always gets ganged up on because his decks are so tough to beat is widespread enough that an article has been written about it:

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgcom/daily/tf46&=RSS-MTGCOM

Comments

[chimalis.livejournal.com]

I agree that chaos format allows more accurate threat-assessment, but that may just be that I'm not experienced in and don't work on perfecting the kind of team play that we often do.

I also think that past experiences with a player affect someone's threat assessment regardless of board position. I will completely cop to defaulting to you as the "the threat" when board position is neutral or close to it, because you are the only player I almost always lose to.