LORE wrote: ↑Tue Apr 20, 2021 11:26 am
Armus wrote: ↑Tue Apr 20, 2021 11:20 am
Why are you assuming people aren't prepared for it?
Simply inferring from what Niall is saying. I have no idea if they are or are not, just stating it can be worked around from my own research. For all I know, there could be zero Staging Ground decks in this event or several.
IMHO, if someone is going to Nanoprobe the Devil 4 times to keep killing the treaty, I mean...congrats, I guess. That player must be really hyper concerned about Staging Ground to build that much hate into their deck. And odds are that doing so left them open to exploitation from some other design (e.g. TNG Borg or whatever else folks have up their sleeve.) Gotta love meta choices!
I think it's more a function of the online big rats saying "Hey this is the release event, everybody is going to be playing new cards and it's all Treaties" ... I mean, sure it's probably the right move if you really want to win this thing (and from what I've heard, more than a few players do), but this ain't exactly online Masters or (not a) Worlds, and part of the "fun" of a release event is supposed to be building new decks with new cards.
But people are going to play what they're going to play.
Clearly I wasn't enough of a big rat to do my own "meta call" and roll in Aggro Borg with Dukat and Bareil as my counterparts to dismantle whichever homeworld would wreck my opponent's strategy.
Lesson learned: If you want to win online, you can only play top tier stuff... so much for trying new things...