I just thought of an interesting publicity stunt. Kant vs me in a 3-game tournament, he playing his favorite deck, Ramen Truk, and me playing mine, Mario, and see what happens.
IMO, the whole purpose behind the article is an attempt to discredit a particular thread and the passion shown for a deck that did well @ Nats w/o being a "secret deck" from a "known group" (insert team name). Yes, Mario is a simplistic deck. Tell us how the kricket or the solo blissey is any more "complicated"??
i'll take you on for kant if you want, since I am better with the deck than kant is. A best of 5 would more legit.
This reminds me to a certain group of people bashing about Grumpigstall.
The designer of that deck also asked those people to play against him and ALL of them lost.
No, not ALL of them lost.
And to all the ppl who say that "have you ever USED mario in a tourney?", yes, yes I have. A premier event at that! I went 2-2 :x
But why just Mario? And why Mario? If this article was made to show that there are better decks out there, why not post some examples of better decks, and disect them to show why their engines are better? This article doesn't explain anything like that, it just gives reasons why not to play Mario.
None of us are trying to be rude, and I'll take anyone criticism towards any of my comments.
Lawman said:IMO, the whole purpose behind the article is an attempt to discredit a particular thread and the passion shown for a deck that did well @ Nats w/o being a "secret deck" from a "known group" (insert team name). Yes, Mario is a simplistic deck. Tell us how the kricket or the solo blissey is any more "complicated"??
desert eagle said:Since many people are getting the impression that we are just saying this because Mario wasn’t invented by an “elite”, we want to make it clear that this is not true.
Lawman said:Its my opinion that the deck caused more problems with set up decks that "elite" players wanted to run, but kept running into "Marios" at events and the players lost to players they felt shouldnt beat them in a "regular" game. The article even says as much. T1 riolu donks FTW in the grinder. The Mario player didnt "need" 5 turn 1 wins to win the grinder...he just "got" them. No one can say they would have beaten the Mario grinder winner IF he missed the T1 donk. Who is to say the Mario player doesn't get set up too??