Recently moved into a new area and joined up with the magic group in town, watched a few games to get a rough idea on power level. Sit down to a pod and am very open about the fact the deck I was using (cleric tribal) was 100% proxies. Everyone agrees it's fine and so we roll into the game everything is fine until like turn 6 when I drop a [[Smothering tithe]]. One of the players well call Dave, said "oh I didn't know you where proxying this kind of stuff".

I asked what he meant and in his opinion smothering tithe is to powerful for community out here and then suddenly everything I play is an issue.

Finish the game up and Dave ending up winning by a landslide made the comment "can't even keep up with proxies". Told him I'll play one of my decks with real cards if he wants but warned him it's pretty much a Cedh deck.

I proceed to walk through the pod in 4 turns. To which I got a "you got a lucky draw" Walk through them again at which point he got up and went to another pod and I went back to playing my proxied clerics.

Then heard him talking shit behind me about how I'm a pub stomper and not fun to play against.

Edit: I proxy decks that are lower power because I'll get bored of them in a few months and don't want to throw hundreds of dollars at something that I'll move on from.

Edit 2: OK after reading a good chunk of the comments 2 things.

I'll wear the fact I probably didn't handle the situation properly and will work on that.

Also saw people saying I should ask to borrow decks this was my first time meeting these people. I'm not going to just rock up and ask to be handed a deck.