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Eternal Formats / Miscellaneous / Shuffling In T1...
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on: March 27, 2004, 07:11:59 pm
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In Québec and Ontario, some people play in toploaders.
Even if they make deck manipulation harder, they are not as bad as they look.
I play with those even if only half of my power is in mint condition. Toploaders also ensures me my bent Library and my Scrap Lotus won't crap in any opponent hand while they riffle shuffle.
The thing is, people who just shuffle to annoy you won't do it if you play in toploaders. The others will simply pile shuffle your deck and it will be ok, since you'll always show them you randomize ennough before they put their hands on your deck. That way, you don't look like a dick that says: "Try to shuffle my deck if you can".
I have never been worring about people cheating, I'm just worring about people trying to annoy the others by being hard on their deck, a thing that I have seen way too often. Furthermore, while I play in hard sleeves, all my attention goes to the game.
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Eternal Formats / Miscellaneous / Tier breakdown
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on: March 05, 2004, 11:43:42 pm
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@ Smmenen
I'd like to adress a question about the tier brakdonw you made.
While arguing against the restriction of Workshop, people used to bring the following argument : Workshops decks are inconsistents as hell.
I'm not claiming to restrict Workshop if a Tier 1 deck plays it here, I simply want to ask how an inconsistent deck could be a Tier 1 deck.
For example, in the Prison V. Aggro-Control V. Aggro part of your article, you talk about the importance of a proper combination of mana and lock spells in the opening hand, which to me means the importance of luck in certain matchups.
How can Prison be a Tier One deck if it is normal to justify yourself losing a match by saying "I got an improper combination of mana and lock spells on my first and second hand, and 5 cards gave me not ennough thread to lock my opponent." I'd never play such a deck in a tournament...
I haven't played against Prison a lot since Trinisphere came out, thus I can't calculate the influence of this card in the deck. It's clearly a thread, but does it really solve the consistency issue ennough to make it a tier one deck?
Luc
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