leiden 22 januari 2006, Top 8 decklists plus metabreakdown

[Dr Evil]

I'm glad to see the deck is still played, and winning (I haven't played in awhile). Why didn't this guy call it CA?

Although my deck still got most of the original CA components I was able to improve/change about 10 (could be less) cards from the original list. The true power now is life of the loam, believe me its realy realy good, a must have in any deck with bazaar. For example: where the old version had to had a bazaar or a thirst or intuition to go off, now you can simply play al life from the loam, fetching any wasted bazaar of used strip and dredge once in a will in the progress, filling the yard with very interesting goodies and eventuelly always giving you the bazaar for the win, exept for one game though when my opponent was able to counter my life from the loam several time, ussually not a problem unless he manages to do so 5 TIMES IN A ROW!

[Lunar]

while certainly different from the original build...the deck you use varies by almost ZERO cards from most of the "Cerebral Assasin" lists from over the past year...

Its still Cerebral Assasin...your argument is like saying because you change brainstorm with Impulse in a control slaver, it is no longer control slaver...

[wake_of_destruction]

This guy also met Oath. So I think we can safely say that he knew what he was doing in making the T8 and didn't really 'luck through' the rounds.

Such statements really prove how little you actually know about Fish (not meant to be offensive in any way).

You're right, I don't know an awful lot about fish. All I've ever done with the deck is test a little. Before I owned power it was always on my list of playable decks but I never did so I have no serious match-experience with it. But I wasn't trying to say anything about the Oath matchup that Fish has. I was trying to point out that you did a good job at playing and you didn't just beat scrubs all day. I personally think Oath is 'the deck to beat' in Vintage since it has a pretty good all-round strategy and loads of answers and beating it is hard enough... especially unpowered.

I totally overreacted on that statement >_>. Well, thanks. And yeah, Oath is a popular deck these days.