There were three Agent builds, two Karakuri decks, a lone Dark World deck, three Rabbit Exceed builds (told you it would top, Chow and Epicake, you fuckin yellow assholes), six Tengu Plant builds, and then one Chaos deck which I actually like. Good to see Dimensional Alchemist winning, even if it was probably a fluke.
And if you pay close attention, you'll notice that not only did Konami come up with some dumbass name for Tengu Plant (synchrocentric? da fuk?), 13 of the top 16 decks ran Tour Guide at three. The three that didn't were Karakuri and the Dark World build (why).
And that's fucked.
The game is catering to the money players again, just like it was before the Duality/Warning reprint. The message here is that unless you're going to spend upwards of $500 on a deck, you're not going to win. And there are only two ways out.
1. Reprint Tour Guide.
or
2. Limit/Ban Tour Guide.
That's not to say that Tour Guide is broken. Not at all. It's good, sure. It's also semi-splashable, and it provides Chaos food for Agents and searches the deck in Dark Worlds. But the real problem is that it's near-impossible to get unless you're incredibly trade-savvy or have a lot of money to waste. How healthy is it when the top 90% of decks cost $600 at the very least? It isn't. At all. Now, I don't exactly want TGU banned, but it should be cut down to one like Stratos was back after the Perfect Circle format. Basically, it should only be consistent in a few specific decks (Fabled, Dark World, etc.) to be a healthy card for the game.
On a side note, I feel really bad for the three Rabbit Exceed players. Triple TGU, triple Rabbit and double Laggia/Dolkka. One dude ran BLS, double Veiler and triple Maxx "C". Offhand, I'd say that deck cost... about $1400. And they didn't even win.
BUT I FUCKIN TOLD YOU IT WOULD TOP.
Assholes.
/fugglor
Lol@ Johnny Nagel's Dark World deck with 1 Tour Guide.
ReplyDeleteAt first I was like "wtf does he mean" but then I remembered I didn't look at the top 32 lists... lol. There was also a typo that I've fixed, the Dark World build that made the top 16 didn't run any Tour Guide...
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ReplyDeleteWe didn't say it wasn't good, we were just saying it's overhyped and overpriced. I mean, really? 140 bucks for a crappy Rescue Cat? I'm not complaining, I made at least 10 or 20 dollars profit trading that thing off. Now look at it, it's hovering around 100 dollars now.
ReplyDeleteYou both told me the deck wouldn't top, and that the card was overhyped. And you were both wrong.
ReplyDeleteAll I said was to Chow, and that was how Rabbit is way overhyped, and he should get rid of it before the price dropped. I didn't even know that YCS Kansas was happening until the decklists came out... O.o
ReplyDeleteI didn't say it wouldn't top. Look at the OCG, Rabbit topped like crazy. Throw in TGU and there's no way it wouldn't have topped
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