So I just got back from the first spring battle roads. I was playing sabledonk. This is how it went:
Round 1 vs something (I think vilegar)
He opened Uxie. I opened Sableye and I donked.
Round 2 vs Game Over
He opened Dialga. I opened Crobat G and an Uxie. He went first. This was a strange matchup and actually went to time. I got a sableye with a SP dark and expert belt active and KO’d his stream of Jirachi. I think he had some of his critical cards prized and I didn’t roll double tails. I won on time with 5 prize cards drawn.
Round 3 vs Machamp
I opened sableye. He opened double spiritomb. He won.
Round 4 vs sabledonk
I opened sableye and he didn’t. I donked.
Finals Top 2
I played the same sabledonk deck. I didn’t get a turn for the whole match.
Game one:
Neither of us start sableye but he wins the coin flip and he is just burning through cards. I scoop.
Game two:
I choose to go first. He starts sableye I don’t. He wins.
I think finals took all of 15 minutes.
I know that this “tournament report” really isn’t all that grand, but I feel that is shows a little about what the format will be like without a mid-season rotation to HGSS-on. I mean I can’t even write an engaging tournament report because nothing exciting and worth writing about happened.
I think there were only 2 sabledonk decks and they both pretty much ran the whole tournament. I am not writing that to be arrogant. Let me clarify. After round 3 I was 2-1 with one more round to go. I think the other sabledonk deck was also 2-1. Three or four of the top players (tier one if you will) dropped when they heard that both sabledonks were 2-1. Has any other deck caused players to drop simply because they didn’t even want to chance going against it?
My opinion of sabledonk is that sableye is the only true broken card in the MD-BW format. Sure decks abuse Uxie, Crobat G, and Poketurns and while those cards are powerful they pale in comparison to the power that is now sableye. Sableye actually removes a lot of the element of chance that your opponent even gets a turn. That coupled with an attack that can do 40, 50, or 70 for one energy is insanely good. Sableye is nothing like the hype Gengar Prime and lost world got.
The only reason I played sabledonk is to hopefully sway P!P to make the HGSS-on rotation official.
Round 1 vs something (I think vilegar)
He opened Uxie. I opened Sableye and I donked.
Round 2 vs Game Over
He opened Dialga. I opened Crobat G and an Uxie. He went first. This was a strange matchup and actually went to time. I got a sableye with a SP dark and expert belt active and KO’d his stream of Jirachi. I think he had some of his critical cards prized and I didn’t roll double tails. I won on time with 5 prize cards drawn.
Round 3 vs Machamp
I opened sableye. He opened double spiritomb. He won.
Round 4 vs sabledonk
I opened sableye and he didn’t. I donked.
Finals Top 2
I played the same sabledonk deck. I didn’t get a turn for the whole match.
Game one:
Neither of us start sableye but he wins the coin flip and he is just burning through cards. I scoop.
Game two:
I choose to go first. He starts sableye I don’t. He wins.
I think finals took all of 15 minutes.
I know that this “tournament report” really isn’t all that grand, but I feel that is shows a little about what the format will be like without a mid-season rotation to HGSS-on. I mean I can’t even write an engaging tournament report because nothing exciting and worth writing about happened.
I think there were only 2 sabledonk decks and they both pretty much ran the whole tournament. I am not writing that to be arrogant. Let me clarify. After round 3 I was 2-1 with one more round to go. I think the other sabledonk deck was also 2-1. Three or four of the top players (tier one if you will) dropped when they heard that both sabledonks were 2-1. Has any other deck caused players to drop simply because they didn’t even want to chance going against it?
My opinion of sabledonk is that sableye is the only true broken card in the MD-BW format. Sure decks abuse Uxie, Crobat G, and Poketurns and while those cards are powerful they pale in comparison to the power that is now sableye. Sableye actually removes a lot of the element of chance that your opponent even gets a turn. That coupled with an attack that can do 40, 50, or 70 for one energy is insanely good. Sableye is nothing like the hype Gengar Prime and lost world got.
The only reason I played sabledonk is to hopefully sway P!P to make the HGSS-on rotation official.