October Mid Range Type 1 Breakdown and Unsolicited Commentar

[luke_twigger]

http://www.starcitygames.com/php/news/expandnews.php?Article=8418

Once again it's time for me to complain. Here, we have one New England tournament, four European tournaments, and zero of anything else.

Feed me T8's!

Your analysis was lacking the UK Type1 Championships.

http://www.themanadrain.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=20244&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15

I assumed that posting a report on The Mana Drain would be sufficient. Was I supposed to have emailed it you directly?

Luke

[Phantom Tape Worm]

I have to echo zherbus' sentiments on stax:

Playing Stax is like inviting your buddy over and making him watch you play Tetris. There's absolutely no fun in it for anyone but yourself. The game is even painful to watch from an outsider's point of view.

Also, Stax is the simplest deck to just destroy people with. Workshop-Trinisphere-go doesn't exactly require any real finesse. The deck forces a control player to hold a Force of Will and even so, the deck is certainly capable of vomiting out a Welder on the same turn. It is 22.5% of the Top 8's right now and I firmly believe that if Mishra's Workshop cost $25 like it did three years ago, it would be back on the restricted list.

Stax's application for this card is by far the more effective than that of Workshop aggro since it's a lot easier to recover from a Mox-Workshop-Juggernaut than it is to recover from a Workshop-Tangle Wire. Both Workshop aggro and Stax have access to Trinisphere, which is ultimately what's been earning the wins.

Well said.

[Zherbus]

Luke, my range is generally 30-49 players. Dr Sylvan handles everything over that. I only tackle sub-30 player events if I'm short on coverage. That said, I misread the report to say there was 27 players. I definitely did miss the 48 player thing. Since it was late October, I'll include it in November's article. Sometimes I need my attention brought to a t8 list though so in the future, I'd be grateful for a heads-up PM. I just don't always have the time to disect every thread sometimes.

[luke_twigger]

Sorry Zherbus - with hindsight the tone of my initial post seems a tad harsh.

I'll contact you directly with details in future (probably in about a year after the 2005 Champs - organised Type1 is thin on the ground in the UK at present).

Looking forward to your November article, am interested to see what you make of the UK metagame.

Thanks

Luke