Brum
12/6/2010 6:43:00 PM
On Dec 6, 5:07 pm, Peter D Bakija <p...@lightlink.com> wrote:
> On Dec 6, 10:28 am, librarian <aucti...@superfuncards.com> wrote:
>
> > 51 players Peter. And so very little combat in this deck. Maybe the
> > combat players at the tourney just beat each other up instead of focusing
> > on their goals of winning. And no stealth. In LA, the intercept, even
> > casual intercept would just kill you.
>
> I think this goes back to what I was saying last week--looking at the
> decks that do well in Europe, you see a lot of very focused decks that
> have not much, if any, combat. Which means that they tend to either
> not sit next to combat and do well, or sit next to combat and get
> crushed, and then not be the deck that shows up as a winner.
>
> This deck does have 7/70 S:CE cards and then the Ashurs to recycle as
> needed, however.
>
> That being said, I suspect that given the general state of decks I see
> winning a lot in Europe, there probably aren't that many combat decks
> doing the rounds?
>
> -Peter
Would you say that in the US, there might be a focused combat deck
every other table?
If so, it is the same as I've seen in Europe.
The difference is our tournaments are bigger and the decks that do
well are focused, due to the environment of having so many players.
A combat deck doesn't do enough VP's to reach the Final.
Many times what happens is that the decks without much combat defense
can reach cross-table to harm the Rusher first. And many times the
Rusher needs to go backwards allot. Or else a bleed of 6 plus
deflected bleeds will kill him or at least stop him from having more
then one minion.
Another decision people make is this: if I'm up against focused
combat, S:CE is not enough, therefore I'll drop those slots and fill
with cards that make me win in all cases, except when up against
combat.
In big tournaments it works. In small tournaments it can go horribly
wrong.
Tiago