I got reminded of this thread when I got automatched against this guy a couple of times recently.
I really don't like blacklisting based on stories of others, so I just accepted those, also a bit anxious to find out if these stories had any truth in them.
Two of the games were actually pretty remarkable. On both I started with a series of extreme bad luck, just kept playing, and by some miracle / misplays by opponent / luck later on, I managed to turn them around. Funny thing is that this was exactly the thing I would try to tell him ("If you run into a series of bad luck, don't just start ranting, but look for an opportunity of luck and just keep playing your best game). Except that I couldn't tell him because he doesn't really do chat, he just does ragequit.
Here I start with $5, $2, $4, $2, $4. This gets me Young Witch, nothing, Mining Village + Curse, nothing, Watchtower
Opposing Young Witch, Market Square, Caravan + Curse, Black Market, Remake.
Ugh! We both open Masquerade/Potion, but then he gets Hunting Party/Scrying Pool and on my side Masquerade misses the shufle and I'm stuck with $2 on turn 3.
Then his Scrying pool finds his only action and he can trade an estate for my copper. In the meanwhile I have a dead Golem and on turn 6 I have 3 estates, a copper and a potion.
Holy cow can games start worse? Fortunately he greens way too early and on an unlucky masquerade he selects the worst possible card (even giving away the province would be much better)
logPlaying this guy isn't the kind of fun I'm looking for in games at all, but when gems like these happen... they're just extra sweet