What cool things should you be too old for?Follow

Except that the truly creative decks were the ones built to beat the decks made by guys who thought that just stacking their deck with powerful and utility cards would allow them to win. By banning cards you actually stifle the creativity. Honestly, it was usually super easy to wipe out the guys who spent tons of money buying lotus and mox and angels and thinking their deck was unbeatable because of this. Those guys usually didn't last through the first round because they were copying what the big strategy was last time around. But the creative players moved on. Similarly, the banned list followed what was the strong combos the last time around as well. All it really did was prevent the second string guys from copying last years super-combo (and likely losing).

I load everything up in the front of the cart, then hop on the rear bar and ride it across the parking lot.

But back then, there weren't any decks that pretty much guaranteed a kill within 4 turns and none that were capable of killing on the first turn.
Without banning or limiting cards, every deck in a T1 tournament would be capable of killing on the first turn which would mean that everyone would be forced to play blue for a set of Force Of Will's just so you can stop that because that's still about the only counter you can use without having any cards in play and lets face it, everyone being forced to play blue cards ***** up creativity quite a bit.
Back when they were made the P9 weren't as strong because while they made the game/your deck a lot faster, decks weren't that fast yet. By now decks are so much faster that these cards in full sets would just result in too many turn 1 kills where one player doesn't get to do anything.


The fact that you still seem to think of Serra's Angel as a powerful card shows just how awfully outdated your knowledge is.
This is the kind of stuff people do with moxes and black lotus.
And if those cards were allowed everywhere, decks such as this one wouldn't be viable anymore because it simply can't compete with the speed that P9 cards give a deck.

And as far as creativity goes, try figuring out how this deck wins.

I've been ruminating on a Casual Despised Therapy deck, myself.


Edited, Feb 4th 2012 10:19am by Timelordwho

Timelord, what is the quote in your signature from? I really like it.

It's a common japanese poem. TLW may have got it from Shogun 2.

Roses are red
Violets are, too
Omae wa mou
Shindeiru

Speaking of I made a deal with my roomie that I would watch Naruto if he watched Gurren Laggan. He refuses to watch mech shows and I refuse to watch garbage. Naruto is just as bad as I thought it would be and he was pleasantly surprised.

I didn't get it from Shogun 2, but from background research after playing it a bit. It's a bit of zen commentary on the leadership styles of the three men who united Japan.

Because it makes you look like a spastic, helmet-wearing glue-eatewr?

I was actually going for "what is physical changes?"

Did you miss Madonna at the Superbowl? She's 53.