meta help

[skullknightz88]

Hi, a tournament is coming up soon at my local store. I am expecting Gifts, bomberman, fish, Stax and probally some random stuff. Would you recommend I go with pitch long, U/W fish, or Slaver based on this? (assuming I play all of these decks very good equally)

[Implacable]

Slaver's probably the best choice for this metagame, but only if tweaked to have a significant amount of Red Blasts postboard.  UW Fish just isn't too hot vs. Bomberman, and its matchup against Stax is nothing to write home about, assuming that the Stax player is a good one.  PitchLong is the sauce against Bomberman and Stax in my testing, but Gifts annhilates it, and Fish certainly has a good matchup against it.  CS, on the other hand, has a great match against Stax, an even match against Fish, a good match against Bomberman and an admittedly poor matchup against Gifts (hence the Red Blasts).  It's also good against randomness, because recurring Trike backed up by Drains oftentimes > their deck.