Don’t you just love the guys who speak for”us?” Doesn’t it make you feel snug and secure at night knowing that you don’t need to express your opinion – heck, you don’t even really need to think – when there’s people out there who speak for Most of Us. And apparently, we all think Onslaught sucks. Or do we?
Now, my first impulse when looking over the Onslaught spoiler and casually observing the available Goblins was,”Nice try, Wizards, but…” But Steven’s deck made me take another look. I may not be King of Beatdown, but it seems to me that a red goblin deck can really dish out some major damage.
So Worlds has passed us a few weeks into the PT: Houston qualifying season, and we now get the benefit of seeing what the Pros felt were the best decks in the format. Can we take a look at the stats and try to feel out why – and where W/G did well?
I pretty much scrap the idea of trying to work on Recoup D’Evil, just because I don’t have the time it looks like I will need to make this deck work. My phone rings and it’s Kevin Davis – a local player who asks me about the deck.”Have you given up on it?” “Yeah, pretty much,” I say.”Don’t,” he replies. “We’ve made some improvements.”
Right before the tournament, I ended up swapping the Piannas with Lt. Kirtars in my WW/g deck… And was darn glad I did, since Kamikaze Kirtar was gobbling up Wild Mongrels all day long. I’ve also come to the conclusion that Glory is insane and that any white-based deck should run four of them.
It occurred to me that a white weenie deck, with a splash of green for beef and tricks, might be what the doc ordered – something fast enough to punish slower developing decks, with enough flexibility to handle a wide variety of decks. And I came in second with it at my first OBC tourney.
Kibler got it right when he mentioned that there are only three”playable” Wishes – Living, Cunning, and Burning. What are the approaches to using them in OBC?
The development of OBC post-Judgement is moving along expected paths: Monoblack remains unchanged, Blue/green is morphing into Quiet Roar, monogreen gets a radical overhaul with Judgement goodies, and everyone’s trying to put together a Green/white deck. What else is there?
I couldn’t help but hope that Judgment would make up for that neglect in spades, giving us white cards on par with the black Renaissance in Torment – and man, what a letdown. So what would I have done?
This past weekend, I finally got the chance to log in some matches and get a feel for the overall strength of the new monogreen in OBC I was generally impressed by its performance… And to no one’s surprise, Phantom Centaur is a hoss.
“Clearly, green’s too good if the dominant deck is Psychatog.” – Brian Epstein, Star City’s mailing list
Bennie attended the Central Championships – the ccgprime.com-sponsored Midwest tournament where Type 2 and OBC met head-to-head. So how did Bennie do?
Everyone knows that monogreen is dead in OBC, at least for now – I mean, Finkel and the OMSes played it and died horribly, right? But if you look closer at the results and some of the subtle difference between green decks, you may find a healthy deck waiting for a Judgement infusion.
The way I figure it, my system of handing out slots for Regionals depending on the attendance, it would add only ten or twenty more people. Is that broken?
You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed with your wife and eggs. Everyone loves you, you pound out 10,000 words a week, you’re a legend among geeks. You’ve got 3-5 tournament records for as long as tournaments exist.
