My gripe is that it portrays all of those decks as being equally viable.  If it's labelled a list of decks that see play in type 1, that's fine.  It's labelled "Decks to Beat" though, and some of them aren't important matchups whatsoever.  It needs some tier divisions, at least.  

And 5/3 is on there, labelled "stacker."

Eh, there isn't skill in getting turn one trinisphere and winning, but there is skill in building your deck and keeping a hand that doesn't lose when that happens.  Like steve is talking about in his Mana Stability thread, you've got to either deny the trinisphere, win before it hits, or play a manabase that doesn't bend over to it.  Preferably more than one of those things.  

And even with trinis, combo still does well.  I don't want to have to go back to sphere of resistance to save myself

I really like the idea of the "Decks to Beat" list, but it does need to be trimmed down.  This list is going to be most useful to a new player, and therefore you'd want to avoid overwhelming them.  Honestly, do you really need to proxy up U/G Madness in your test gauntlet?  Or affinity?  Shave those off and play some more games vs. oath or 5/3 instead, that'd be much more helpful.  Perhaps Pete could throw some tier divisions in there.  People thinking there are 7 equally viable control decks is not helpful.

Also, people are talking about 5/3 all the time but it's labelled wrong:  
Stacker
by Corey Canfield
4th place, 2004-10-23 Star City P9 II Richmond

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I don't care about the tag.  But I do think it isn't needed.  Is anyone going to think regrowth and timetwister if they just see "Doomsday" instead of "Meandeck Doomsday?"  And there haven't exactly been a ton of oath lists with spikes in top 8's recently...  The arguement that Meandeck <> denotes a specific version doesn't hold much water when there's only one version thats viable.

Congrats to all the t8'ers.  Unfortunately both myself and diaonic scrubbed out, but it was still an amazing event.  Was worth going just to see chicago and eat some amazing pizza and play t4 with Samite Healer, Aaron and the meandeck crew after the main event.

I was that fourth spot in T4.  Had to get some team NH representin' in there.

Despite the turnout, it was a lot of fun.  Samite Healer came down and hung out for a while and I was able to get revenge on Orlove for beating Diaonic in SCG2.

I think the $5 was the con's rules, not something the TO came up with.  Hopefully if he does another it won't be in a con.  And giving away even a pearl for only $220-$250 means he still didn't make any money

Thanks for the report.