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You should point this out to your viewers, so they can understand that it takes skill, and experience to pilot Workshop decks optimally. For example I assume that, Clan Magic Eternal, read the article but didn't pick up on the problems with the sequencing. I guess BUG players have even less than "the 4-5 brain cells it requires to play", (Clan Magic Eternal words not mine) ........................ Welcome to shops.
Haha seriously? My statement was less an indictment on the individual skill of stax pilots but more a pointed reference to the fact the deck has so much power these petty percentage points you reference mean less than experience with almost any other archetype would.
First - your reference to fishing for a misstep is moot unless you believe they have a misstep and a force of will - not the hand you referenced. The deck has *one* misstep target. Playing it off the Workshop or the Crypt is completely irrelevant in regards to misstep - a blue player would be an absolute fool not to use it.
Furthermore, two separate pilots from this past Sunday night's DE played against my good buddy Cronin (who was playing stax - as more of a troll than anything). The misplays we witnessed were beyond astounding, and the same dumb move was made by BOTH pilots. The truly ironic part? One went 4-0!
Play one (which both players made) was blindly attacking into a mishra's factory with a Lodestone while there was an active Crucible of Worlds on our side. Really? It didn't bother Mr. 4-0 Who went on to topdeck some wacky singleton big monsters.
The play of the guy in our 2-1 match for money though... that was something special. I personally witnessed him play out the typical "Turn one Lodestone - Rawr" with Multiple mox + Workshop play. We kept a sub-par hand (to say the least) which led with a turn one factory into a Mana Vault into a Crucible(Love Josh.... he didn't play Trini for some reason main deck either hahaha). The opponent untaps, and puts a metamorph on the stack. Josh and I both freak out and cringe - thinking he would do what anyone who understood the Stax mirror would do: Copy the Crucible of Worlds. Instead, he went on to surprise me with perhaps one of the sillier plays I have seen lately and copied his Lodestone instead. And you guessed it, he evenetually lost the metamorph to a Factory.
The next card he played? Strip Mine. Go figure... Shops players. Maybe not you, but they are out there, everywhere.
