Nice work Steve. Is this going to become a regular thing with Phil handling the 50+ and you, the 50-30 tournaments?
In the small to mid-size fields, Workshop decks pack such a punch in a low Workshop environment that I believe they are probably your best way of making a top 8. To clarify, New England in particular is generally control and aggro-control heavy.
I completely agree with the first part. I strongly disagree with the 2nd. Because smaller events usually have lots of underpowered decks, workshop decks can take advantage of this because of their acceleration. On the other hand, I don't think you can say any longer that NE is biased towards control. In T1, regardless of the metagame, there will always be some card selection bias (except at infinite proxy events). However, now-a-days in NE, people just play what's good, and you'll notice, the world over, that blue spells are popular. In recent months Mono U and Slaver have made this more striking. If anything, I think many regions suffered from a shortage of control/hate players to deal with combo and workshop because of their small player pools. In general, many of these metagame 'slants' are on the mend.
