How to handle cross-game grudges?
I’m looking for advice on how to handle a situation I’ve run into recently.
I built a control deck around [[Vren, the Relentless]] — light on rat tribal, heavy on removal to feed Vren. It’s strong, and I get that people don’t enjoy sitting across from a deck that stops them from keeping creatures. So when I notice the table isn’t having fun, I switch to something more casual and less interactive.
The issue: even after I switch, the table keeps focusing me down — not because of my current deck, but to “punish” me for having played the previous one. In one game, I even said, “This feels pretty petty,” and they admitted it was. That feels backwards to me.
I switched off the deck you didn’t enjoy, and now you’re incentivizing me to go back to it, because I’m getting targeted either way.
Has anyone else dealt with this kind of cross-game grudge? Do you just accept it, talk it out, or find a new group?