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pox_reborn
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« on: August 08, 2004, 08:41:21 pm »

With the rise of worshop-based prison and control decks such as Fish and 4cc, Combo decks have fallen out of the spotlight.

While this is partly due to the weaknesses of Current Combo decks (Ie: Draw 7 finds their force/ Belcher is easy to disrupt), does this mean that combo decks will have to go through different innovations? Or will they need a shift in the metagame to become a solid choice once again?

Good progress does seem to be happening over on the death-long topic giving storm combo a more controlled approach while still having that ballz- to- the wallz attack on decks.

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« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2004, 09:54:09 pm »

Decline?

It may be true that the rating of Storm dependent decks such as TPS and Draw Seven has been steadily dropping in the current metagame. It may be true that the new archetype of Charbelcher Combo has seen less play.  

But Combo, in general, declining?



I don't think it is.


-One combo deck that has caught my eye lately is Dragon. It is an older archetype that, I feel, has been greatly underlooked.  After Sideboarding, it has logical answers to today's dominant "meta threats" such as Fish, 4CC, and Drain Slaver.  

As it may appear that Tendrils based decks seem to have been phasing out of the format lately, but it is second nature to see a new wave of Combo builds arise.  


---Declining?
     For the moment, maybe. However, tomorrow could be a different story.
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« Reply #2 on: August 09, 2004, 04:07:41 pm »

I definitely don't think so.
Here in Italy lots of people used to worry about the same deal when darksteel came out: was Trinisphere gonna be the death of Combo?
Wokshop-Trinisphere seemed to be an opening hand that could decide a match on its own.
This proved to be wrong.
Trinisphere can be Forced, Workshop can be Stripped, and getting three mana for a single spell (animate dead for Dragon.dec and a EOT rebuild for TPS) is all you need.
Of course, this anyway led towards more robust Combo decks, resulting in the predominance of UB TPS over UBrw, fo example (Draw7 and Belcher never really did the cut here, whit no-spoiler tournaments and a wider metagame).
In the end, Combos still win tourneys, approximately at the same rate/percentage they used to do
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