badganondorf
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It's good news that at least U.S. Nats and Worlds will have a healthy format because when Catcher is released this game is again almost unplayable for next 2 years.
That doesn't mean it wasn't an option; it means they consciously decided not to allow B&W without the rules printed in the B&W rulebooks because it would be inconvenient and violate tradition. Admittedly, to reverse the changes in rules ex post facto would be awkward and troublesome, but not as much as requiring a rotation to repair a broken format...
"I disagree, I've seen around 20 archetypes just for this rotation."
lets do a real count deck wise MD-0n
luxchomp, dialgachomp, loxchomp, vilechamp, vilegar, gyrados, scizor, regigigas, sablock/chenlock, magnezone, these are only the tier one decks(at least at some point throughout the season)
tier 2
donphan, jumpluff, vilepluff, machamp, sabledonk(black uxiedonk), kingdra, blastgatr, yanmega, viletyranitar, lostgar, mewperior,
decks that couldve seen competitve play from the past but didnt
genchamp, luxape, g deck(dialga g/palkia g), amu, palkialock, flychamp, and many more tier 2 decks
thats 27 i posted
hgson
emboar,feraligatr, yanmega, zekrom, donphan, machamp, cincino, lostgar,
8 decks
yes i didnt post the individual decks that most of these above decks can make varients of , but all will be too similar to be considered distinct. in hgs on this is common but in the above mentioned deck within md-on all are distinct decks.
dont let the hype consume you, lets all hope that this bottleneck doesnt become a single deck metagame as gardelade did after ex series was rotated.
Time to speculate about the next rotation! What do you guys think it will be? I am guessing Black and White on.
Why? We don't even have sets after Black and White.
It was sarcasm.
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A smiley face could have helped.
baby mario: The third deck wasn't Gengar. It was Vileplume. Or, even more generally, Lock. Just think about the pure number of Lock style decks that won or were considered "good" in the MD-on format.
If you really want to get general, there were probably two types of decks in the format: Donk and Lock. Was there really a third type that you can think of?
I said Gengar because my point was about how long decks based on it have been around. Gengar + Vileplume isn't even half the story when it comes to that card.
Gengar/Dusknoir, Gengar/Machamp, and Gengar/Nidoqueen were all powerful meta decks before we even got any kind of Trainer lock. Cursegar decks were tier 1 for a while before Vileplume was even released (though admittedly they had Tomb for that).
More players played G-Dos than Vilegar....Plus G-dos did better overall so it wasnt a mainly SP/Vilegr dominating.
More players played G-Dos than Vilegar....Plus G-dos did better overall so it wasnt a mainly SP/Vilegr dominating.
The number of decks you could build wasn't the problem. The problem was that hardly any of them were competitive. DP-on and MD-on was all about SP, Gengar, and Gyarados. Between them, they dominated every tournament for nearly 2 years.