http://pdcmagic.com/wordpress/?p=146 Pauper Magic News and Articles Wed, 13 Mar 2013 02:40:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://pdcmagic.com/wordpress/?p=146&cpage=1#comment-460 jaknife Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:26:52 +0000 http://pdcmagic.com/wordpress/?p=146#comment-460 Thanks for the perspective Evu. I agree with your statement that the Cloak decks being played can often deal with the possibility of Enchantment removal. Otherwise, i don’t think GW or Angel Stompy would be as successful as they have been. What I was more pointing to here is that in the current TPDC fields there are a high number of decks with the ability to remove the Cloak and thus negate the positive of playing it. From the perspective of other deck strategies, I was looking at say running Mono Red in a field where lifegain is heavy, or Deep Dog in fields with heavy graveyard removal and my feeling is that once you reach a somewhat large number of decks in the field that can answer your core strategy, the playability of this strategy is signifigantly diminished and thus it is a grater risk (or rather less reward) to employ it.

]]> http://pdcmagic.com/wordpress/?p=146&cpage=1#comment-461 Evu Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:37:04 +0000 http://pdcmagic.com/wordpress/?p=146#comment-461 A fine article as usual, jaknife.
>> These decks also all feature the ability to gain life when need be and with the current Classic presence of hyper aggressive red decks this is very important. For the most part, the Red decks have been kept down in TPDC and this is likely due to the large number of decks that are capable of answering their onslaught. <<
Quoting these sentences because they bear repeating. Lately I think both Classic events (but probably TPDC more so) have been seeing a lot of Red decks that are easy enough to beat, but keep winning because people don’t adequately prepare for them. I’m guilty of this from time to time myself.
You mentioned that Cloak might be risky because there was too much enchantment removal going around. I’m not saying this is right or wrong in theory, but as one of the Cloak players in the tournament in question, the only time I ever felt like enchantment removal was a problem was when I lost the mirror match. (It might also bear mentioning that the only reason the other Cloak player didn’t appear in the Top 8 was because he disconnected and didn’t get back in time.) Enchantment removal is important against Cloak, to be sure, but at the same time, a good player will build their Cloak deck so that it doesn’t fall apart if they lose the Cloaks.

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