Everyone seems to make one of these, so here's mine. I'm just going to go over a deck by deck commentary heading in to toronto.
Dark World: The most intimidating deck of the format. With no hits, this deck has only gotten better with the disappearance of inzektors. With no more autoloss matchups, dw can cut cards like skill drain and focus on becoming faster and more consistent. Definitely a deck to watch out for, although the deck is its own worst enemy. The horrendous mirror match, death via natbeast and macro, and possibility of absolutely horrible hands make this deck a difficult one to label as "the deck:" to win this event. It should be guaranteed at least a t16 spot or two though.
Heroes: The other deck unhit by the list. This deck has even more problems than dark world in the return of cards such as thunder king to prominence. The Bubblebeat variant looks even less consistent than it was previously, the beat variant is shut down by cards like naturia beast, and with dark worlds so prominent, I expect that while this deck will be a popular choice, it will not capture more than a t32 spot or two.
Plants: The most hyped up of the returning decks. Can it reclaim its throne in toronto? My answer to this question would be no. Without gub and tengu, this deck is slower and more passive than it was even when it was phased out at the end of march 2011 format. With the dark world matchup being pretty much an automatic loss, and maxx c still just as big a problem for this deck, this seems like nothing more than hype. If any of these sneak into the t32, I will be very surprised.
Wind-ups: From my playtesting, this deck is my personal favorite to win YCS toronto. The deck has quite a bit in its favor. From the lack of bad meta matchups to the ability to otk with 2 cards, to the sheer consistency and explosiveness, this i feel, is the deck to beat. With the ability to side into dfissure, decks like plants and dark worlds simply cannot handle it. I expect this to be a major competitor.
Agents: Chaos dragons with their bosses without the consistency of chaos dragons. No thank you. Seriously though, this deck has worse dead draws than rabbit, and with the lack of good builds for the current metagame, I expect it to play a small part, if any.
Rabbit: The deck that survives everything? It does not seem to have gone too well through the loss of consistency in losing 1 rabbit and 1 tgu, so i do not expect it to compete majorly. 1-2 in t32 at best.
As you can see, my top decks is not really rounded out, so something will probably surprise me. I probably left out some decks too x.x. Obviously, decks like karakuri geargia and samurai also have a shot. I don't know how this new format will shape up, but hopefully it will be better than the last. I await YCS toronto with bated breath!
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