Seems nobody will ever put sanity and social safety over their feelings. People don't really understand the social contact anymore. They think that's for everyone else.
Heh, don't remind me. I had like $3k retail worth of cards and sold them all to an upcoming card shop owner so I could afford to eat when I was homeless. After that, wizards went and power creeped and put in the village Planeswalker cards and suddenly MTG was less strategic deck building and more "buy the expensive and have better ramp." It's full-on broken now and I wouldn't go back even if someone bankrolled it for me. The game just isn't what I used to be obsessed with anymore.
I played between 7th edition and Planar Chaos or Future Sight. Idk which one was later. Maybe some Ravnica stuff? I had a few 4th edition cards incidentally somehow.
I did similar with slivers. I never once lost a FNM, made my whole family rage quit except one of my brothers who's dad made him quit because of his anger issues. People at the shop always talked big like they could sideboard something that totally invalidates slivers but they never did. Nobody had a deck that was an all around winner. We all had some kind of gimmick and my gimmick was just better than everyone else's.
I can relate with the cute aggression.