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1  Eternal Formats / Miscellaneous / Re: Worse Than Fish 3.0 on: May 23, 2005, 03:50:34 pm
First of, congratulations on your high finish.

Don't forget to congrat SWK.   Wink
2  Eternal Formats / Global Vintage Tournament Reports and Results / [Report] How I won a Ruby at SCG Power 9 Richmond on: January 24, 2005, 08:40:50 am
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Jay was one of the nicest people I played all day and I was glad to see him go on to take second place. Great job.


Thanks, much appreciated.

Our second game was one of the best and closest games of the day for me.  It was quite the challenge working around the two meddlers.

Good job in a field full of workshops.
3  Eternal Formats / Miscellaneous / Nine New SCG P9 Tournaments in 2005 on: December 03, 2004, 09:25:00 am
This is GREAT news!  Anyone who can make it to these should, to show their support for serious type 1.  They are well run and there is some great competition present.

Thanks Pete!
4  Eternal Formats / Miscellaneous / Starcity Games II: Richmond Revisited T8 Coverage on: October 27, 2004, 12:39:09 pm
You know, I didn't even realize that I took that time walk until this morning when I read the match coverage!  Nobody said anything about it to me, I'm just glad it didn't affect the outcome of the match.

Thanks for the props, Sauce.  Even though I won three of my four matches vs md oath, none of them were easy.  You guys came well prepared.

I can't wait for the next SCG in Richmond, much thanks Pete.
5  Eternal Formats / Miscellaneous / With the Star City P9 tournament behind us, what lies ahead? on: July 19, 2004, 10:44:45 am
Well, to address the question posed by this thread, I think the future holds much Fish, 4C Control, 7/10 and Man Show variants, and then everything else.  

Fish is more difficult deck to play *well* than most people realize.  The deck only carries itself so far.  People are not going to just goldfish the deck for a week and go t8 with it, due do its subtle complexities, its many different play options, and the increasing amount of hate that its recent success will generate.

4C Control will do well because it uses very powerful cards that are answers to most decks and most good control players have been playing this archetype for years.

The workshop decks will do well because they can be so broken and a lot of decks just fold up to their first two turns.  The weakness of these decks is their inconsistency.  Fish and control are more consistent than the workshop decks and will therefore do better on average over 8 rounds of swiss.

I played a version of 7/10 at SCG and placed 18th. (6-2)  I feel that the deck can be made more consistent with some tuning and can become a good bet to t8 in more and more tourneys.  I lost to a good player playing skullclamp/psychatog with main deck artifact removal.  I couldn't keep a trinisphere on the board and eventually he drew so many cards that he overwhelmed me.  The other loss was to Fish and I kept sketchy hands both games.  Not that my hands cost me the game, but in hindsight I felt that I was not aggressive enough all day with regard to mulligans.

The other decks not mentioned here will surely have some t8s because a good player playing a deck that they have played for a long time will usually beat a lesser player regardless of the deck.
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