^ I thought of that when I was typing, actually. Lol. But the decks that ran Cessation Crystal usually didn't need Windstorm themselves... Gengar needs Unown G for the mirror >_> Very legit point for half the power using decks back then, though.
@Baby Mario: I'll agree you do have me in most of those arguments, but I'm not so sure that if Gengar weren't so popular that every deck would be running at least 1 Unown G. Maybe. In many of those cases, you simply need 1 Unown G, and many decks CAN cope with just 1 Unown G. Given the utility of Unown G and the favorable match-ups against Gengar for some decks, they might be running Unown G with or without Gengar out there. I personally wouldn't be comfortable only running 1 Unown G in a deck with so many powers on the field at a given time, such as Beedrill. In any other match-up besides Gengar, I'd be fine with just 1.
IMO, any deck anticipating the metagame needs to dedicate the most deck space to particularly their Gengar match-up if the rest of their match-ups aren't extremely unfavorable.
@Baby Mario: I'll agree you do have me in most of those arguments, but I'm not so sure that if Gengar weren't so popular that every deck would be running at least 1 Unown G. Maybe. In many of those cases, you simply need 1 Unown G, and many decks CAN cope with just 1 Unown G. Given the utility of Unown G and the favorable match-ups against Gengar for some decks, they might be running Unown G with or without Gengar out there. I personally wouldn't be comfortable only running 1 Unown G in a deck with so many powers on the field at a given time, such as Beedrill. In any other match-up besides Gengar, I'd be fine with just 1.
IMO, any deck anticipating the metagame needs to dedicate the most deck space to particularly their Gengar match-up if the rest of their match-ups aren't extremely unfavorable.