Okay, I went last night back to the store (Blue Star Games) and I wasn't there five minutes when the three new guys showed up! AWESOME!
They said, "Hi" to me first and I felt better already. They bought a bunch of Booster packs (Dissension) and then invited me to play in a multiplayer game with them, All was right in the world.
We played a game and here's a brief report:
Players:
~Cal playing "UG Simic Bounce"
~Mark playing UW Serra's Blessing/I tap your creatures control deck
~TarTar playing RB Rakdos
~Me playing,... ahem,....ubw deso-angel control, ....whatever......
ANYWAYS! I held back from slaughtering them because I wanted them to get a good feel for their decks which they had just adjusted with the new cards from the packs they just bought.
An hour later I win but they were saying it was a good game and they almost had me (I was holding a pair of Pulse of the Fields in my hand and not playing them for many turns and then when we were all really low on life I played and survived long enough to eliminate them).
Guess who walked in halfway through the game? Yup, Shark #1. But without Shark #2 around this night #1 was more settled down. Also, a fourth grade student from my school showed up with the RG Gruul pre-con deck and invited himself to play in out next MP game. Alright.
MP Game #2
~Cal (same deck)
~TarTar (same deck)
~Mark (same deck)
~Greg showed up with his "Elf" deck (Gawd, does every shop have one of these guys?)
~Shark #1 playing a Selesnya deck
~4th Grader playing RG Gruul
~Me playing the same UBW deck from last game (note: this is very rare for me to play the same deck twice in one night at this store because I always assume that my opponents will pull out an "Anti" deck to deal with mine, but in this case I figured the new guys only had one deck with them and so i thought I'd be like them and keep mine the same too.)
Before we start I turn to Shark #1 and say in a volume only loud enough for him to hear me; If you pull any of the "I'm gonna WRECK you newbies with my RARE deck" crap that I'd politic the game against him and he'd be out first for sure. He agreed to our terms/understanding.
Okay, I feel like I've redeemed myself and have leveled the field a bit. I don't hold back too much this game everyone was starting to realize that I'm the threat at the table. I play a well timed Desolation Angel WITH the KICKER after I figured out that most of the players over committed to playing their lands.
I also have artifact mana producers and plop down Ghostly Prison (the white version of Propaganda). I'm evil like that! I win but again not in a "I'm good-You suck" kind of way but more like water flowing down a drain and all of sudden you realize the waters gone (or you lost).
I talk to the three new guys and see if they'd like to try Booster Drafting next; I explain it to them and they said they'd like to try it. Shark 31 butts in and wants to know if we can another week because he can't be here that night,......
.......we'll be drafting with a bunch of new guys next week because the new guys are bringing their friends.
Thanks to everybody for listening to my 'woes', I appreciate all the comments to help me out,... even the Lace crappy ones