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Victory Poses/Catchphrases are inappropriate
I feel like this system was simply brought over from PTCGO without thought, but the vast number of victory catchphrases in the game are inappropriate for a game that is meant to be about having fun with other, real, people.
If I were at a local IRL league night, and turned to my opponent after winning and said, "Smart players can play a poor hand well," or, "Don't be mad that you lost, be happy that I won," it's entirely likely that I would get complaints to a judge for being unsportsmanlike. I'm not sure if this is the same in other languages, but the vast majority of English-language phrases translate to being inconsiderate and rubbing the losers' face into a match that already didn't go in their favor. Half of the "reference" catchphrases are for cards that have long since rotated from Standard, so they don't even make sense as jokes.
It feels bad enough to lose, can we just move on to the next game without this extra taunting? If not a removal, at least an option to choose to always skip post-match victory screens?
