Hi all,

I wanted to come to the source here because anytime I've posted this community has been extremely helpful and friendly.

My playgroup had a bit of a bummer experience our past two outings at a LGS. We've been going there for a while and all the regulars were friendly. Then two weeks ago my friend had a table scoop on him when he brought out his Tergrid deck, which he passed off as just random salt.

Then this week we came in to a packed house, and were being friendly and looking around for games, and no one wanted to play with us as a 4th. Someone finally said "we're casual here, and you guys play cEDH, and no one here wants to play that." We said OK and sat off to the side running 3-player. Eventually one person joined us, and we had a fun game even though he said our decks were "scary".

This left us doing some soul searching because we were all surprised. My group comes from a background of playing Standard and Modern, and we all play "anything goes, try to win as best you can" (infinites, stax, MLD, counter magic, all allowed), but none of us play established cEDH decks. The closest is probably my Anje Falk/World Gorger Dragon deck, but it's not even optimized because I kept a "horror" flavor theme to it.

We're now building some lower powered decks to bring to stores as backups, but it left us asking "ARE we cEDH players?" and we just didn't know it? Is it more our "have fun while winning at all costs" playstyle and mentality that just doesn't mesh well with casual play styles, even if we aren't running any established cEDH meta decks?

I ask because if we are playing cEDH and didn't know it, it's something I want to be up front about when playing with strangers so I can say "Hey, we're gonna play cEDH you're welcome to join us if you're into that," rather than looking like we're just into stomping people and creating hard feelings.

Thanks for any input.